Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 112, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1932 — Page 2

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VETERANS ARE DEFEATED BY VOTE REVOLT

Depression Chief Motive for General Unseating of Lawmakers. I BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Pre* Start Corr-pondanl ♦Copyright. 1932. bv United Press! WASHINGTON. Sept. 19,-One of the most sweeping revolts by American voters in history has occurred in the primaries this year, unseating veterans who have ruled here for years, a survey of these elimination contests disclosed today. With three primaries still to come —those in New York, Wisconsin and Massachusetts this week—a total of forty-one house members and four senators have been denied a place in the seventy-third congress, which assembles a year from December. In addition, fifteen house members are retiring voluntarily. Five others aspired to the senate. three winning the nomination of their parties, two being rejected. One senator, Harry B. Hawes <Dem.. Mo.), likewise, decided to withdraw. General resentment against the ins' engendered by the depression is considered responsible for many of the changes, M hough prohibition and nepotism practices have caused trouble. Voters Are Restless In some cases, peculiar local issues have been responsible. The voter this year has proved restless and unpredictable. When the veteran Representative Charles R. Crisp went down to dele. . in the Georgia senatorial primaries this week before the youthfur Governor Richard B. Russell, another vacancy was opened in the council of house leaders, where ambition for the topmost honors has thwarted just when they seemed within grasp. Representative Willis C. Hawdey, Oregon Republican, former chairman of the important ways and means committee, co-author of thp Smoot-Hawley tariff act, will be among these. So will Representative John Q. Tilspn (Conn.), formerly Republican floor leader who, deprived at the last session of this post, has decided to leave politics. Only Representative Bertrand Snell (N. Y.), Republican floor leader, remains of the once powerful Republican triumvirate composed of the late Speaker Nicholas Longworth. Tilson and himself.

Veterans Are Out Among other veteran and picturesque house figures who have been retired by the primaries are C. William Ramseyer (Rep.. la.), one of the farm bloc leaders; Carl Chindblom (Rep., 111.), veteran on the ways and mekns committee; William E. Hull <Rep., 111.), one of the "wet” leaders; James G. Strong (Rep., Kan.); Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen (Dem., Fla.), daughter of the late William Jennings Bryan; John E. Nllson (Rep., Me.); William F. Stevenson and Fred H. Dominick (8. C.); Edwin L. Davis, who was chairman of the merchant marine committee. Among the younger house leaders who retired were Phil B. Swing (Rep., Cal.), house sponsor of the giant Boulder dam project; Butler B. Hare (Dem., S. C.), who was chairman of the insular affairs committee and Royal Johnson (Rep., S. D.r, former chairman of the World war veterans’ committee. In the senatorial primaries, the voters removed Smith W. Brookhart, Iowa; Samuel Shortridge. California; Cameron Morrison. North Carolina, and Edgar B. Broussard. Louisiana. G. 0. P. ‘SYMPATHY’ FOR AL IS UNDER FIRE “Crocodile Tears" Draw Ire of Tumulty in Campaign Statesment, B’l Scrippt-Hoicnrd Srwspaprr Alliance NEWARK. N. J„ Sept. 19.—Democrats were warned here to beware of "Republicans bearing gifts” and to disregard atterhpts to capitalize A1 Smith, by Joseph F. Tumulty, former secretary to Woodrow Wilson. "Can Democrats ' ever forget the campaign of 1928?” he asked. "Republican greed for votes knew' no bounds. Nothing personal to A1 Smith was left untouched in that unlovely campaign. "And today, with crocodile tears, they cunningly see£ to alienate Smith's friends from support of Roosevelt by raising him aloft on their shoulders, praising and exulting him to the skies. Be not led astray." Tumulty continued. “Had iSmith been nominated, these same Republicans would now be engaged in the same slimv work of 1928, of destroying Smith, of pouring their poisonous gases of religious bigotry and intolerance upon him." H. ArFENTON, VETERAN CITY ATTORNEY. DEAD Funeral Services to Be Held at Home Wednesday. Harry A. Fenton. Indianapolis attorney for more than thirty years, died Saturday night in Methodist hospital. He had been ill for some time and had been in the hospital about a week. Mr. Fenton, who was 56. was a partner in the law firm of Fenton, Steers, Beasley A: Klee. He was born in Oxford. 0., and was a member of the Broadway M. E. church. Ancient Landmarks lodge, F. <fc A. M„ Sigma Chi fraternity. Indiana State Bar Association and Indianapolis Bar Association. Funeral'services will be held at 9 Wednesday in the home, 2440 Park avenue. Burial will be In Oxford. Utility Seeks to Quit Failure of the city of Jasonyille to pay water bills since Jan. 1 is cited as cause of a petition for abandonment filed today with the public service commission by the Jasonville Water Company. City .Man Dies Suddenly Edward Hollenberg. 62. died suddeniv of heart disease Sunday night at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Warren Clore. 36 Union street. Grocery Is Robbed Loot of $25 was obtained py two armed bandits who held up the grocery of F A. Schcettle at 601 Stevens street Saturday night.

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Sam Ajamie Grocer Shot Down by Bandits; Negroes Identified as Robber Pair. Struck by a bullet a Negro fired in a hold-up attempt, Sam Ajamie. 42. of 1239 Tecumsem street, father of six children, Is dead today. Two .Negroes, who, Saturday night, tried to rob Ajamie in a grocery he and his brother oper- ; ate at 1468 Roosevelt avenue are under arrest, and both have been identified, police assert. The grocer, his brother Rodger and Joseph Trad. 1444 Roosevelt avenue, were in the store when the Negroes entered. They asked for some fish, but without waiting for a rfeply, both drew’ revolvers and commanded the three men to raise their hands. Th° men obeyed. One of the Negroes advanced toward Sam Ajamie and fired. The bullet struck the grocer near the heart. Despite thP mortal wound, Ajamie disarmed and grappled with the Negro who shot him, and fired at them as' they fled, but missed. He died shortly afterward in the admitting room of the city hospital. The Negroes held are Jeff Phillips, 30. of 308 Smith street, identified, police say, by Rodger Ajamie and Trad as the man who fired, and Henry Robinson, 32. of 1909 Boulevard place. Tlip brother and Trad picked the two Negroes held from seven in a group which they viewed at police headquarters. Sam Ajamie was born in Syria, emigrated to the United States when a young man. and came directly to Indianapolis. He and his brother had operated the grocery at the Roosevelt avenue address for more than twenty years. The grocer was a member of the Knights of Columbus and a director of the Syrian-American Brothhood. He leaves his widow. Ruby; six children. Corrine. 18; Fanny,* 16; Phillip. 15; Martha, 14; Marie, 11, and Fred Joe 4. Besides the brother, Rodger, there are thrpe sisters. Miss Martha Ajamie, Indianapolis; Mt\s. Hagiy Nahis, Kan, Africa and Mrs. Zareefe Freije. living in Syria. Funeral services will be held at 9 Tuesday morning at St. Philip Neri church. Burial will be in Holy Crass cemetery’. NABBED IN ROBBERY Four Caught by Police at Scenes of Crime. Four men were arrested following robberies Sunday before they had time to leave the pdpmises or dispose of their loot, police reported. A police radio squad dispatched to a Standard grocery store at Twentysecond street and College avenue found Sterling Parham Jr.. 22, of 1262 Earhart street, and Harold Leak. 20, of 2852 Paris avenue, hiding in the basement of the store. According to police, the men also admitted attempting to breaking in the Haag pharmacy in an adjoining building. Parham had $7.78 and a man's ring in his possession, police said, and admitted taking the money and ring from the store. They will be questioned in connection with other north side robberies, police said. At the Rawson pharmacy. 1102 North Illinois street, Norman Hill. 34, of Paducah. Ky., and Edward Russell, 30. of 900 Cedar street, were caught as they ran from ihc rear door of the store. Two bushel baskets had been filled with eig*3rets, police said. Both men were charged with burglarv.

Two Held for Quiz in Series of Purse Thefts!

More Than $252 Is Loot of Robbers in City Over Week-End. Two Negroes are in custody today on charges of robbery and vagracy following a series of purse robberies and thefts during the week-end. Those held are Sam Johnson. 32, of 409 West North street, and Jame* Warner. 700 Roanoke street. They were arrested after a purse containing $3 been snatched from Lucinda Bailey. 48. Negro, 1014 Fayette street, who was robbed at St. Clair and West streets. Mrs. Margaret Bartlett, 5444 College avenue, was the heaviest loser. As she was putting her automobile in a garage at her home Saturday night, a man with a hat pulled low over his face snatched her purse, which contained $l6O. Valuable papers were contained in a purse snatched from Miss Bessie Burries. 217 McLean place, at Eleventh and Missouri streets. The thief was a Negro, she told police. Two guests at a bridge party at the heme of G. H. Ford. 2281 North Illinois street, were victims of purse thieves. Mrs. C. A. Richey, 3145 North Illinois street, lost S4O and Miss Eunice Reed, 3626 Creston drive, S2O„

GOTHAM'S NEW MAYOR CUTTING CITY EXPENSES McKee Loses No Time in i Swinging Into Action; Prestige Grows. BY OTIS PEABODY SWIFT t niicd Pi-ms Stiff Correspondent NEW YORK. Sept. 19 —Squarei jawed Joseph V. McKee has made political history in the fifteen days he has been mayor of New York. Up to Bept.' 2 he had been known only as a self-effacing, efficient young fellow who occasionaly pinchhit for an absent mayor. Jimmy ; Walker, in receiving some celebrity, 1 and made a smooth, pleasant job | of the reception. But since that date, with WalkI er's resignation, he has become a ! national figure, not only as mayor ;of New York but as a i>otential ’ Democratic force. McKee took office on a Friday, rode to work Saturday in the subway, started that work in his shirt ; sleeves, pledged a budget cut and a general economy program. Announced Survey Over the first week-end he an- ! nounced a city-wide survey on un- ! employment relief, and by midweek ; had gained his full stride. He cut his own salary from $40,000 to $25,000 annually, similarly slash- . ing the pay of his aids a total of $2,000,000, arranged for anew cjty loan of from $10,000,000 to $15,000,000 from bankers at a lowered interest rate, and abolished what he called the printing monopoly’’ by awarding a ballot contract at $60.000 less than alderman had favored. He started the second week-end Iby astounding 7.000 Communists who marched on city hall, first by receiving their delegates almost eagerly, and second by answering their arguments so logically and devastatingly that they were left almost speechless. Then Ex-Mayor Walker sailed .'or Italy, and it was widely reported that Tammany leaders had urged him not to attempt to run for office this fall. McKee began his second week in office by discharging Thomas V. Dwyer, commissioner of public markets. Dwyer, he said, had failed to present a plan to rr\ake the Bronx j terminal market, a collosal municipal yhite elephant, self supporting. The ill-fated market now is to be closed on McKee’s order. McCooey Drops in By Wednesday of last w’eek, John H. McCooey, Democratic boss of Brooklyn, had dropped in at city hall for, a “friendly visit" with the determined Scotsman. McKee later admitted cheerfully that the question of patronage had been discussed The next move came in his survey of the 1,800 automobiles owned by the city, and an order for the elimination of all pleasure vehicles — (six limousines w r ere attached to his own office alone)—at an estimated annual saving of $1,000,000. Among the cars to be retired was the $25,090 Duesenberg tow’n car w ? hich Mayor Walker used on state occasions. Public doubts w r ere raised w r hen McKee attacked the slot machine! racket, sponsoring a series of raids, j arrests and confiscations of the seductive gambling paraphernalia. Many though those defiance of closely organi?>ed racketeers would injure his growing political strength. But the raids have continued, and McKee's prestige grows. Visiting celebrities receive short shrift now’ —a warm, courteous but! brief greeting, with neither a parade nor a pompous reception. Still riding the subway, still work- ! ing in shirt sleeves, and still planning new budgets cuts, Mayor McKee is too busy for such elaborate affairs. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING IS FATAL TO GIRL, 17 Greenshurgh High School Student Dies in Hospital Here. Ten days after an accidental shooting in Greensburg, Ind„ Miss Isabelle Bailey. 17. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I. R. Bailey, and a mem ber of the Greensburg high school senior class, died Sunday in Methodist hospital. According to Dr. J. E. Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, death was due | to septicemia and meningitis, com- j plications of the wound from a re- i volver accidently discharged by Paul j Martin, son of a Greensburg gnin- j ister. in company with a girl friend. I Miss Margaret Hamilton, the Bailey | girl went to the Martin home. While ! Miss Hamilton played in the yard with a pet dog. Martin and Miss i Bailey went into the house. Martin is said to have picked up ! a loaded. revolver and engaged in | a scuffle with the girl, during which j the gun was discharged. N

The purses were lying on a bed beside a window and the thief took' a chair from the front porch to reach the window. The emptied purses were found on the chair. Two purses were stolen from the home of Mrs. Frank Mohler. 1837 North Alabama street. One. owned by Mrs. Homer Hinkle. 701 West Thirty-second street, contained *4. A *6 purse containing a white gold compact valued at sl2 was stolen from Mrs. Ernest Hinkle. 5156 Manlove avenue. A stick was used to pull them from a bed to an open window. Pulling covering of a .bed toward a window, a thief obtained a purse containing $7 at the home of Mrs. Josephine Smith. 607 East Twentyeighth street. Freight Truck Permit Sought Petition to operate a freight trucking line between Indianapolis and Bedford, has been received by the commission from the Bloomington Merchant Trucking Company, Inc., of Bloomington. Ind.

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G. A. R. Veterans Pay Last Visit to Lincoln’s Tomb

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led by the commander-in-chief, Samuel P. Town (fop), the Grand Army of the Republic will visit Abraham Lincoln’s tomb (above), and then ,pav tribute to Major Benjamin F. Stephenson (below), who founded the organization.

Encampments of Civil War Survivors Soon Will Be Events of Past. Hu XF. A Service SPRINGFIELD. 111., Sept. 19. Sixty-seven years after the last shot was fired in the war between the states, the thin blue line of surviving members of the Grand Army of the Republic is gathered in Springfield to pay its last tribute to Abraham Lincoln, w'ar President and commander-in-chief. These heroes of yesterday, now grayed and bent with age, conducted impressive ceremonies at Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge cemetery as the feature event of the opening day of the annual encamppient of the G. A. R. here, which will continue through Friday. This may not be their last encampment—for the veterans insist they will hold encampments as long as they are able to travel—but probably it will be their farewell visit to Lincoln’s grave., since it is very unlikely that Springfield ever wiil be the scene of another of their meetings. Among principal speakers on their program will be Commander-in-Chief Samuel P. Town of Philadelphia, and Governor Louis L. Emmerson of Illinois. The latter will make an address at Lincoln's tomb. ON Friday, the final day of the encampment, the veterans will be taken to the tomb of Major Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the G. A. R„ who is buried about thirty-five miles from Springfield. A memorial service will be held at the cemetery. It was Major Stephenson, a former surgeon in the Fourteenth Illinois infantry, who founded the G. A. R. by establishing the first post at Decatur, 111., April 6. 1866. Scon a second post was established in Springfield, and in November of that year the first national encampment was held at Indianapolis. Though the old veterans are in no mood to quit, many believe that this year's encampment may be the last, for the thin blue line is fading fast. OPEN ADVERTISING QUIZ Grand Jury Probes Alleged Labor Ad Racket. Investigation of alleged activities of John T. Sullivan, 2326 Novland avenue, in promoting fake advertising in nonexistent labor publications, was started today by the Marion county grand jury with several witnesses being called. Sullivan was arrested Friday on charges brought by the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company. He was released under $2,500 bond until appearance before Municipal Judge William H. Shaeffer, Sept. 27. on charges of forgery and vagrancy.

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PLAN PUSHMQBILE RACE Event Scheduled for Municipal Airport Saturday. Announcement of a pushmobile race to be held at the municipal airport, Saturday night, has been made by Earl Northern, following i race Saturday at the Coleman park track on West Michigan street. Raymond Calhoun, piloting the car entered by the Polar Ice and Fuel Company, won last week’s race with Albert M. Webb, second, and Alex Toph, third. The race w’as sponsored by the Tibbs avenue and Eagle Creek Civic League.

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DEMOCRAT VOTE TO DECIDE FATE OF LAFOLLETTE Phil, G. 0. P. Rivals Openly Solicit Enemy Party for Primary Aid. BY WILLARD R. SMITH V'nitsd rrrss Staff Corruoondfnt MADISON, Wis., Sept. 19.—Wisconsin voters enter their primary election Tuesday with leaders of both Republican factions counting upon the aid of Democrats to win. Governor Philip F. La Follette and his campaigners have been soliciting the Democrat vote openly. His regular Republican opponents hope for success if the Democrats | deserts La Follette and flock into i the rejuvenated state Democratic i party. v The Democratic leaders are counting heavily upon the support ! of the defeated Republican faction in the November general election. This situation applies to the state | ticket. La Follette forces are anti- | Hoqver and regarded as certain j supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt | in the national campaign. Party Is Reorganized During the three decades of La Follette supremacy in Wisconsin, the Democratic party practically disintegrated and its votes were recorded in the columns of the La Follette progressive faction of the Republican party. Now the Democrats are playing an important part in the primaries for the first time in many years. With three candidates for Governor and similar contests for other state offices within their party. Democratic leaders hope to bring back the thousands of deserters who have been voting for La Toilette. x Former Geovernor Walter J. Kohler, widely known plumbing manufacturer, whom La Follette defeated in 1930, has led a comeback campaign for the regular Republican ticket. Editor Enlivens Campaign John B. Chappie, young newspaper editor and regular candidate against Senator John J. Blaine of the La Follette faction, has enlivened the campaign with his fight against what he terms “the La Follette Racket." La Follette defeated Kohler by 127.000 votes in the 1930 primary. Should that many, or more, votes switch to the Democratic party on Tuesday, the 35-year-old Governor would face a difficult situation. Realizing this, the Progressives have campaigned hard to get out a record vote with the hope that rural areas would swell his totals and possibly overcome Democratic deflections.

Costly Prank Charged with hurling a brick through a window of a lunch wagon and drunkenness. Victor Stewart, 40. of 899 South Missouri street, today faced 104 days on the state farm, following hearing before Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron. Pleading guilty to the charge of drunkenness. Stewart was fined $lO and costs, and sentenced to thirty days on the farm. The arresting officer. Charles Viles, reminded Cameron that Stewart also was accused of malicious destruction of property in connection with shatteiing a window Sunday in the lunch wagon at White river and West Washington street. When John Hill. 354 Beauty avenue, testified the window was valued at $22. Cameron fined Stewart $44 and costs. Without money to pay the fines. Stewart indicated he would “work out" the fine and costs at the customary late of $1 a day.

PARLEY ENDED BY B'NAI B'RITH Ohio Speaker Pleads for Death of Bigotry. “Fostering interest in good citizenship is the greatest possible contribution which the Jewish race can make to the nation's well-being,” said Richard Gutstadt of Cincinnati. speaking Sunday night at a B'nai B'rith banquet in the Lincoln. Approximately 400 members of the organization ana their guests attended the banquet, which was the closing session of the annual B'nai B’rith state convention. “By continuing our work in citizenship. wc engender good will, and dispel any worries the Jew may have because of anti-Semitic thought. Bigotry and bitterness, both of them destructive to the best of American thought, will be smashed if we continue this work.” Gutstadt declared. Isadore Feibelman of the Indianapolis lodge, was toastmaster at the banquet. A dance followed the speeches. At the Sunday afternoon session in Kirshbaum center, Morris D. Cohen of Terre Haute was named to succeed Harry N. Levin also of Terre Haute, as president of the state organization. Drama School Classes Set Weekly drama school classes, to be held each Thursday Right at the Sutherland Presbyterian church, beginning. Sept, 29. will be under the direction of C. Norman Green, according to announcement by Florizel A. Pfleiderer, pastor.

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TWO KILLED IN TRAFFIC SPILLS OVER WEEK-END . . County Death Toll Reaches 62: Pedestrian Steps Into Auto’s Path. Traffic accidents in and near Indianapolis during the week-end caused death of two persons. The traffic death toll In Marion county since Jan. 1 had reached sixty-two today with the fatal injury Sunday of Milton Jackson. 50, Negro. 945 Locke street, who was struck by an automobile driven by Frank Brown, 26. of 4240 Baltimore avenue, at Twenty-fourth street and Martindale avenue. Witnesses told police 3 that Jackson, intent on \J reaching a street car, stepped directly in front of the automobile. Brown was not held. Mrs. Bonnie G. Wilson. 18. Greenfield. was the secono person to die in an automobile accident, which caused serious injury of a downtown druggist and a Princeton dentist. In another accident here, a policema a incurred a broken back. Killed Near Greenfield Mrs Wilson was killed four miles northwest of Greenfield Sunday night when an automobile driven by Dr. Virgil Key, Princeton dentist, in which she was a pasenger collided with one driven by Ferd A. Mueller, 31, of 5363 Carrollton avenue, a druggist at 318 North Meridian street. * \ Mueller and Dr. Key, suffering pom internal injuries, are in St. Francis hospital hero. Less serious injuries were incurred by Mrs. Ethel Mueller, wife of the druggist: David F. Wilson, husband of the dead woman, and Mrs. Vera Campbell, her. foster mother. The Muellers were returning to Indianapolis after attending celebration of the fortieth wedding anniversary of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lindstaedt. Policeman Seriously Hurt i A policeman, Charles Icenogle, 51. of 3420 East Twenty-fifth street, suffered a broken back when a police car skidded on w r et pavement at Troy avenue and Shelby street and stopped in a deep hole in a vacant lot. In the car with Icenogle was a fellow? patrolman. Peter J. Mause, who was driving. He escaped injury. After being swerved to avoid collision with another automobile, the police car skidded 100 feet before plunging over the curbing into the vacant lot, Objects appear colored only because they reflect only one color, while absoring the rest.