Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 131, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1932 — Page 1

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Pditne 7 imf*— WHY. may I ask. should the Indianapolis Real Estate board raise such a row about keeping the tax rale at, $1.50 when our bonded indebtedness, expended largely on county roads and eity streets, was spent at the insistence of these same real estate men 1 Kessler boulevard is an example. This white elephant is costing the taxpayers more than half a million dollars and was put through because of their influence. They insisted on new roads through pet subdivisions, with the result that the tax rate must be high to pay for these bonds at maturity. I have no sympathy for a man or group of me n who dig a hole, fall into it, and then expect someone else to get them out. FAIR PLAY, B B B Krlitor 'limit — AFTER all the advertisement given the home loan banks, I wonder if if will aid those who have their life savings now tied up. More than a year ago I made application for withdrawal of my deposit in one of our prominent building and loan associations and was assured I could get it in ninetj days. But I have been unable to fret my money and it seems to be frozen tighter than ever. However, when the home loan plan became reality, I thought I would get relief. But I was told a few days ago by one of the building and loan staff that thp home loan bank would not be of any help to depositors who want their savings. He said further that I w'ould not. be able to get my deposits until such funds are made available by money paid into the association for loans, which, due to unemployment, is a slow and uncertain process. Since The Times has not driven any bargain in this campaign, and does not try to color the news, why not take up this issue, to help depositors, with frozen savings? A TIMES READER. * a Kililnr Timet—--1 NEVER read anything I approved so much in m.v life as an article on the front page of The Times Oct. 5. Harrow' is a lawyer, but he also is a. good preacher. “Nobody is so cruel as a so-called good person. The self righteous—how righteous are they is for a higher judge.” I differ from him concerning the thief. Parents should teach their children to keep the Ten Commandments, then they will have faith that God will supply their daily needs. The prosperous person does not have much pity for the unfortunate, because he never has known want. I believe that is the reason the banks are failing and people w'ho put their faith in money are losing. ART BLADEN. 4234 Baltimore avenue. BUB Fill lor Timet — IN recent days there have appeared in loeal papers article and pictures of married w'omen fighting for the right of wives in the business w'orld. In times like these, when the whole world Is seeking cures for the depression, it seems that it w'ould be a better plan to start a real fight against employment of married women who have husbands physically able to w'ork. especially in our public jobs. Our courthouse, stalehouse and city hall offices are full of married women and in mast cases their husbands have jobs. The department stores, are full of them; so are office buildings. Hundreds of young girls are graduated from Teachers' college each year and are unable to get jobs, because our high school and grade schools are filled w r ith married teachers who have husbands working every day. This also is true in thp office of the school board. Every married woman on salary Is taking it aw r av from a man or unmarried w'oman who needs it. The exceptions are too small to mention. These married women who w'ork offer many thin excuses, but, the best reason is that they either married a lemon or they hate the smell of bread and milk. * NOT AN OLD MAID. n n u Editor Time* — I THINK every ex-service man in Indiana should oppase re-elec-tion of James E. Watson to the * senate. It was Watson who followed the order of President Hoover all veterans' legislation in the last session. Watson was responsible for defeat of the bonus bill. He killed the widows and orphans' pension bill and other much-needed measures. No veteran true to the cause of his comrades can support Watson or Hoover. Watson now is trying to cover up. He even forced his way into the Spanish-American Wa- Veterans, as an honorary member. probably through promotion wor . by someone interested in getting a political appointment for himself. This does not represent the sentiment of th? organization as a whole. Watson, however, surely is using it to try to fool other veterans' groups. If Watson thinks he is fooling any one he should attend the veterans' rally at Muncie next Saturday night. Ten thousand will meet there and adopt resolutions that will be anything but praise for Watson and Hoover. GEORGE D. REESE. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 34 10 a. m 44 7a. m 35 11 a. m 45 8 a m 38 12 <noon>.. 46 9 a. m 41 1 p. m 49

The Indianapolis Times Fair, not so cold tonight, with frost probable; Wednesday partly cloudy and somewhat warmer.

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GREECE FREES INSULL; ORDER POLICE GUARD Transferred to Hotel, but Watch on Movements Is Decreed. FEARED NEAR COLLAPSE U. S. Asks for Extradition, but Athens Demands Documentary Proof. BY ANTHONY KEDRAS I nitprl Pres* Staff Correspondent ATHENS, Greece. Oct. 11—Samuel Insull was ordered released from arrest today and was transferred to ' the best hotel in Athens from police headquarters. It was ordered that he not be detained further but should be watched by police, however, until the United States consulate furnished the authorities wdth documentary proot of the charges against him in Chicago. Efforts of Cook county, Illinois, to bring the aged utilities magnate back there for trial on charges of embezzlement developed into a dramatic contest between Insull and the United States authorities. The Greek government is in a somewhat uncomfortable position, in the middle—anxious to co-oper-ate w'ith the United States, but at the same time not to infringe Insull's rights under international law.

Arrest Appears Debatable Instill was taken to the Hotel Petit Palace, where he can direct the efforts of his counsel to obtain his release. The United States, which has formally asked his extradition, will have to prove its case in the Greek courts. Extradition papers, it was estimated, could not arrive here before two weeks, at the earliest. The right of Greece to hold Insull under international law appeared debatable, but the authorities were anxious to co-operate with United States officials and offered them every opportunity to make Insull's arrest legal. Police Are Cautioned The interior minister received a telephone call today from Premier Eloutheros Venizelos. who is resting at a spa at Loutraki, asking whether there was tangible evidence of Instills culpability, or whether official and judicial persecution might enter into the case. In accordance with Greek laws, the minister said, the police are entitled to detain, arrest and deport a suspicious alien. Press reports of Insull’s sea and aerial travels in Europe, he said, and his sudden disappearance made him suspicious. Otherwise, he continued. Insull's travels are inexplicable for a man of his age. Insull will be 73 on Nov. 11. Officials Are Confident American legation officials said they were confident Greece will extradite Insull willingly, and that unimportant legal impediments will be overcome easily, due to the friendly disposition of the Greek government. It is feared, poiice said, that the utilities magnate who fled from his Paris hotel to Turin and then to Athens by train and seaplane, after his indictment in Chicago, might collapse before he is returned to the United States to face embezzlement charges. Earlier, several famous persons had attempted to persuade Premier Venizelos and other government officials to intervene In Insull's behalf. It was argued that Insull's papers were in order and that police had no right to hold him. Officials at that time declined to act. Seeks Lawyers’ Aid Insull sought the advice of the best known criminal lawyers in Athens. Tsoukalas and Ladas. He was optimistic regarding the final result of the charges against him. Insull was arrested at the request of the legation on cabled instructions from Washington. He had been detained by police, acting on their own initiative. Worn out by his dramatic six-dav flight across Italy to Greece by land, sea and air, Insull was undergoing a tremendous emotional strain when a United Press correspondent visited him at police headquarters. He indicated an intense hatred for newspapers. He had a special room. The ms. - ager of the American Express Con. pany was allowed to furnish him a bed and other necessities. The tragic figure, alone in a strange land, seemed more the tourist-pro-fessor who had lost his way than the head of a utilities empire whose arrest became internationally important. "I Am Destitute” He was nervous and irritable. ”1 only learned from newspapers that Chicago authorities were interested in me.” Insull said. He insisted that the crash of his utilities interest was a matter for the civil courts to handle. ‘‘The difficulties were due entirely to the world economic depression.” he said. "I personally was rendered destitute.” Insull's strenuous six-day flight flight from Paris to Athens was remarkable. considering his age and the state of his health. It was understood that he was planning to continue to the near east when he was detained here. Samuel Insull Jr. and his mother remained at the Lincoln hotel in Paris, wnere they secluded themselves as much as possible.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, OCT. 11, 1932

‘Give Us Home, Not More Evictions, 7 Says Hooverville

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ACI OUT PRISON ‘DEATH SCENE' Perjury Charge Upheld in ‘Sweat Box’ Trial. By 1 n i Irii Prr*t JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 11.A dfense witness in the trial of two Florida prison camp guards, charged with murdering Arthur Maillefert, youthful convict, today corrobrated a major state charge alleging subordination of perjury by a state witness. James Birmingham, the witness, replying to direct questions of defense counsel as to whether Bob Blake, a convict state witness, tried to get him to testify falsely that Maillefert committed suicide, said: "Yes, he asked me to testify that Jersey < Maillefert's nickname) signaled Snider (another convict) that he was going to commit suicide, but I refused.” The defense witnesses w'ere called after the state's picture of the “murder” had been re-enacted for the jury and the victim's mother. The state closed its case against the two men. George W. Courson and Solomon Higginbotham, Monday night, wit hthe dramatic scene. A convict demonstrated his conception of how' Maillefert died in a "sweat box.” Earlier, the jury had been taken to the Sunbeam prison camp, where Maillefert died, to inspect the "sw'eat box.”

SON OF NOTED FINANCIER . DIES; SUICIDE, SAY POLICE

By tniled Prrtt CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—Sewell L. Avery Jr., son of the noted financier, was overcome by gas today in the family's Gold Coast apartment, and died while an inhalator squad was attempting to revive him. Police Lieutenant John Gary, • after interviewing members of the family, announced a belief that young Avery had committed suicide while despondent. Young Avery suffered a nervous breakdown recently, and was afflicted with a heart ailment, the police were told., He was 31. and an official of the United States Gypsum Company, of which his father is president. The elder Avery also is chairman of the

GIRL ‘VICTIM’ APPEARS AFTER MURDER CONFESSION

By I nitrd Prttt* LOS ANGELES. Oct. 11.—The purported story of a young interloper that he killed a 20-vear-old Indiana girl after she resisted hue amorous advances puzzled police today with the appearance of the "victim” to deny she was dead. The girl, identifying herself as Mildred Scheidler of La Porte, Ind.. branded as fantastic the asserted story of Arthur Metcalf, 19. that he had killed her near Needles. Cal., while they were hitchhiking across the continent. Metcalf, whose home is in Union Mills, ’ind.. was arrested Friday at Fresno. Cal., after he had gone to the home of Miss Scheidler s

Upper Left—The straying shambles of the city of evicted ones, Hooverville. Upper Right—The home of the town’s unofficial mayor. Joe Baxter. Lower Left—Mrs. Stella De Weese carrying water from the condemned pump for us? in her home. City officials say the water is laden wdth bacteria. Mrs. De Weese came to the town of unemployed in July. A babe cuddled near her at nights. The baby died from illness contracted w'hile in the shanty home. Low'er Center—Toasting his feet over the combination cook stove and heater keeps Russell Shackelford, 6. from feeling fall’s chill. Clothing bars him from attending school. 4 Lower Right—Danger of disease lurks in this condemned pump, city officials say. But the daughter of the tow'n's mayor. Esther Baxter, 12, is getting her dad a pail full despite the ban. ‘‘/GUARANTEE us a home that we'll not be evicted from or moved out of, and w'e'll leave our shanties.” Hooverville. squatter village of the homeless on White river, today ar.sw-ered in this fashion, th? plan of Indianapolis officials and social welfare agencies to evacuate their homes by Nov. 1. Practically every shanty-owner in the impoverished settlement sub-j scribed to this plea following a house-to-house canvass made by The Times.

The canvass, made followung a meeting of welfare officials in the offices of the Community Fund, Monday afternoon, showed the unemployed and their families did not object to being placed in more habitable dwellings, but desired merely the assurance that “w'e won't be moved from pillar to past, or evicted again by property owmers w'ho w'ant to rent their houses w'hen spring comes.” B B B PROTESTS to the evacuation w'ere registered by two women carrying babies at the office of Governor Harry G. Leslie, Monday. Desire to keep that w'hich they have built and can call their own, wdthout attachments or evictions, is the Hooverville resident's idea of his poverty and plight. "Why, I've lived in worse houses than this little shack built by my son,” declared Mrs. Mary Shackleford. a w'idow 7 , and one of the pro-

board and president of Montgomery Ward fc Cos. Gary found several curious circumstances. These, however, did not alter his opinion, he said, that young Avery had committed suicide. “Two gas leads run to the gas burner in the fireplace, feeding tw T o sections,” Gary said. “One of these had been disconnected, but was warm. Young Avery apparently leaned over in his chair, turned out this burner, then fell on it. “He had cuts on his left eye and right jaw. there was a mark beside his nose and his mouth had been burned. He probably leaned over the gas, became unconscious and fell.” Avery was attired in a dressing gown, worn over his underwear.

mother, Mrs. Wanda Srheidler, and presented himself as her long-lost son. Orville. Mrs. Scehidler, who had not seen her son in sixteen years, became suspicious, she said, and Orville later was located at Rome City. Ind. Fresno police said Metcalf confessed an infatuation for his feminine traveling ''ompanion. At Needles, police quoted him. he made love to her. and when she spurned-him. he clubbed her to death and disposed of her body. San Bernardino county authorities were instituting a search for the 41 'body.” when the self-styled Miss Scheidler walked into police station here Monday night and announced she was nto dead.

testants against the wholesale "moving day.” “But we're not going to put any more w'eatherboarding up until we see what they do about moving us. All w'e want is to be permitted to stay in one place, to live as best we can and without being continually on the go.” B B B THE plans outlined at Monday's meeting of welfare officials for the evacuation is to give preference to families having children in the official “eviction.” Owners of homes will be sought to let their property to welfare organizations for payment of taxes, it is said. Mrs. Rhoda Morro’- of the Family Welfare Society, expressed t)he belief that little difficulty w'ould be encountered in obtaining consent of Hooverville inhabitants for the removal to other homes. Approximately thirty-five houses will be needed to care for the evacuated colony. The finding of bacteria in a well sunk by residents of the colony, plight of several women about to become mothers, and general housing conditions in the river bank village started the evacuation conferences of city and welfare officials. But despite the report of city officials that the Hooverville town (Turn to Page 12)

FATHER SLAYS INFANT Dashes Baby Daughter to Death During Quarrel With Wife, By Iti itni Pres* OKEMAH. Okla.. Oct. 11.—A young father who killed his baby daughter because of domestic differences with his wife, is sought. H. A. Hall. 22-year-old farmer, tore his 6 months old daughter from her mother's arms Sunday night and dashed the child's head against the ground, witnesses said. The farmer then fled.

“T LOST my job in La Porte. A and told Metcalf I wanted to go home,” she told a police matron. “He promised to help me to get to Fresno and we started out.” Along the way. she said, they p.cked up another hitchhiker. George Redden. 20, who came with them to Needles two weeks ago where they separated, she and Redden coming to Los Angeles and Metcalf announcing he was returning home. She said Metcalf never molested her on their junket from La Porte, during which they represented themselves as half-brother and sister.

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JAPANESE WAR IN MANCHURIA i Launch Widespread Drive to Rout Irregulars. By tinted Press TSITSIHAR. Manchuria, Oct. 11. | —Japanese troops launched a con--1 certed drive on a wide front today against roving bands of irregulars whose depredations in recent weeks have caused the loss of numerous Japanese lives in recent weeks. Reports received here said Japanese forces had repulsed 300 guerillas attacking Hailun, killing 100 of the attackers. Japanese casualties w'ere announced as seven. Another Japanese detachment defeated 500 Longswords, killing forty-six, in a skirmish south of Hailungfu. Advices from Mukden said Japanese troops concentrated there for a campaign of extermination , against the estimated 30,000 irreg- | ulars roaming over the eastern area of Mukden province had sw'ung into action on a wdde front. General Nobuyoshi Muto. commander of Japanese troops in Manchukuo and ambassador to the j foundling republic, announced that a W'ide-spread campaign would be ! carried on to exterminate the belligerent forces that have been embarrassing the Manchukuoan government by their attacks. Civil War Veteran Dies ELKHART, Ind., Oct. 11. —James S. Rice, 83. who served as musician | in a New' York company during the Civil war. died here today. The widow. Mrs. Sarah Rice, and two daughters, survive.

JIM REED RIPS HOOVER IN DES MOINES SPEECH

BY GENE GILLETTE United Press Siaff Correspondent DES MOINES. la., Oct. 11.— low'a's corn belt was in the forefront of the 1932 political battlefield today as voters considered the fiery Democratic counter-attack made by former Senator James A. Reed to President Herbert Hoover's initial campaign address here last week. Reed's speech, devoted largely to President Hoover's record on agriculture, and citing the Republican party's “prosperity” pledges of the 1928 campaign, was a study in contrasts. The vitriolic Missourian, an oldtime foe of the President, labeled

He became homesick at Needles, she said, and asked Redden to acompany her to Fresno so he could return to Indiana. Police here* said they were convinced the girl was Miss Sheidler. They said she was able to account for all her clothes. They planned to communicate with Fresno police in an effort to explain bloodstained clothes found in Metcalf s possession. The girl was accompanied to police stahen by Redden who said she had been staying at his mother's home since their arrival in Los Angeles. Neither was detained.

Former Head of College Is Slain; Thought Suicide By t iiiteri Press WASHINGTON. Pa.. Oct. lithe body of Dr. S. S. Baker, who resigned the presidency of Washington and Jefferson college more than a year ago after a student strike, was found in a. field near here today. There w r as a bullet w'ound in the left temple. Washington county authorities reported he had shot himself. Dr. Baker resigned from the college presidency in May. 1931. because of illness. He had been president of Washington and Jefferson from 1922 until 1931.

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Bv I nitrrt Press Electric output of the Associated Gas and Electric System in the w'eek ended Oct. 1 was reported the highest since last March, w'ith a total of 50,016.603 kilowatt hours. Retail business in the United States during September showed a more than seasonal increase, according to department store sales, the federal reserve board reported. Recent upturn in (he clothing market has brought marked improvement in business conditions in the textile, rayon and knitting centers of New England, Tennessee, Pennsylvania and other parts cf the country, R. R Williams, vice-president of S. S. Kresge Company, said.

Mr. Hoover's declaration that the country at one time was within two weeks of being forced off the gold standard as "absolutely untrue.'’ Quoting Mr. Hoover's declaration regarding the heavy foreign withdrawals of gold balances from the United States and the hoarding of American citizens themselves, Reed asserted there was not a newspaper in the country, which did not publish information on hoarding and withdrawals day by day as they occurred. “We never were/within 52.700 - 000.000 of the lawful suspension of gold payments,” Reed said in answer to the President’s statement that the gold standard was threatened. He was bitter in criticism of Mr. Hoover's arraignment of the Democratic public works construction program as “pork barrel legislation.” k "Regardless of the merits or demerits of that measure,” said Reed, “if the Garner bill is a pork barrel bill’ then Mr. Hoover is in lard up to his eyes. He charged the President had advocated huge expenditures for public works several times and said that “if I had any criticism to pass upon Jack Garner it would be that he ever, even for a moment, followed the lead of Herbert C. Hoover." Reed blamed the administration in part for the Insull utilities failure, and declared strict enforcement of the anti-trust laws would have prevented the collapse and resultant loss to investors.

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LEVY SLASH MAY SHORTEN ! SCHOOL TERM County Adjustment Board’s Action May Cut Two Months Off Year. TRIM RATE TO $2.82 X Educational System Bears Brunt of 'Compromise’ ,on Taxes. Necessity of shortening the school year two months, today confronted school officials as result of the cflunty adjustment board's action Monday night in reducing the total tax levy in Center township from $3.12 to $2.82. This action, which now seems almost inevitable, will result in giving Indianapolis an education system comparable with the old-fash-ioned country schools, officials said. The school city received the brunt of the budget reduction when the adjustment, group agreed. late Monday night, to cut 16.7 cents from the school city tax rate. 4 cents from the civil city and a quarter of a cent frem the county. Compromising their differences, after a seven-day deadlock, the board sliced the Center rate from $3.12 to $2.82. and reduced rates of other governmental units accordingly. New Rates to Be Appealed The $2.82 Center levy includes; Civil city. $1.26. compared with $1.30 proposed, by city officials; school city, 92 cents compared to $1,087 fixed by the school board; township, .08 ; cent; county, 41 cents, compared to 41.25 proposed by the county council, and state. 15 cents. The state levy is fixed by law. The new rates probably will be i appealed to the state tax board by | tax-reduction association, it was | said. ! Action of the adjustment board | leaves the school board with the problem of where to prune 16.7 cents from the levy, or another SBBO,OOO from the budget. The school board already had cut $857,000 from the budget, making a total budget cut of $1,737,000. The adjustment board has no authority, under the law', to make specific budget cuts, but only to reduce the total of the levy and to i make suggestions as to where the ; cut may bp allocated in the budget. Face ‘‘lmpossible Situation" Thus, the suggestion that 10 cents of the 16.7 cents cut be accounted for by wiping out the sinking fund payment, is not binding on the school board. Russell Willson, school board president, said the county board's fiction leaves the school city facing an “impassible situation,” the brunt iof which must be borne bv the school children of the city. Willson said school officials have not had time thoroughly to go into the situation created by the heavy school levy slash. “To cut SBBO,OOO from the budget, already heavily reduced,” he said, “simply means either reducing the school term two months or more, or else lowering the standards. Personally, I feel it would be better to operate only eight months on a higher standard. Sullivan to Call Parley “Either w r ay, the Indianapolis schools will be far less efficient and Indianapolis childre nwill suffer. “Certain adjustment board members could appreciate problems of their own budget, that of the county, and they cut it only a quarter of 1 cent. The city administration also is Democratic, and was cut only 4 cents, whereas the nonpartisan school city received the brunt.” Action to reduce departmental appropriations of the civil city the necessary 4 cents will not be taken until after a conference of city officials. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan was expected to call a general conference of department heads late this afternoon or Wednesday. Emergency Is Declared The tax adjustment board's compromise came when Nicholas H. Noyes. Eli Lilly & Cos. treasurer, who had insisted on a $2.80 rate, agreed to a 2-cent increase to meet demands of four other board members. This gave Charles A. Grossart. county auditor, and Councilmen Walter C. Boetcher. Edward A. Resener and John Newhouse the fifth vote necesary to declare an emergency and raise the rate above the $1.50 tax limit. Leo K. Fesler and Albert E. Uhl, who sough' enforcement of the $1.50 levy, voted against the $2.82 rate.

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