Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 October 1932 — Page 3

OCT. 22, 1933_

Progress? No! The Hooverville Man Stands Where Java Man Stood Back Toward Dawn of Time. Editor Times— I WENT out recently to see Hooverville. I was moved partly through curiosity, and because I fancied I had good news for its people. Hooverville is the latest addition to the city of Indianapolis. It consists of a cluster of unsightly huts and shacks, strung along the banks of White river. Its denizens are one and all the victims of the most dreadful of all social diseases. Theirs is the plague of poverty—of dire, bitter, hopeless, degrading poverty. Figuratively, Hooverville is a festering sore—a malignant cancer on the fair breast of Indianapolis. Morally, It is a disgrace to our civilization. nun I WENT into a hovel (scarce fit for a beast) a rudely improvised shelter of rough lumber, rusty tin, pieces of rotten carpet, old rags, and miscellaneous refuse material. It protruded from the side of the river bank like an ugly wart. I found a man inside, sitting on the bare ground, his knees drawn up to meet his chin. He was so tattered, unkempt, disheveled, with such wild eyes and hair and beard that he reminded me of Pithecanthropus brooding in his prehistoric cave. Pithecanthropus, according to our anthropologists, lived a few million years ago in Java. He was a lazy, improvident fellow, addicted to lounging in caves during the rainy season, instead of working and earning a living for himself and his family. '“Good morning, friend,” I said cheerily. “Excuse this intrusion, but I have a message of good cheer for you and your neighbors from President Hoover. Let me read it.” I unfolded the Sunday Star and read in a loud voice and with appropriate feeling and unction the following excerpt from President Hoover's late address at Cleveland: Th ire should be no fears or apprehension at any deserving American fireside that starvation or cold will creep within their doors to menace the families and loved ones over the forthcoming winter.

a a a AS I read, I glanced toward the door. But there was no door. Just a piece of old carpet hung from the lintel, serving as a curtain. As for the man, he appeared dazed for a moment. Then he roused and let forth a string of oaths. "If you don’t get out of here,” he roared, "by the blank blankety blank, I’ll knock your head off, by blank, I will.” And he menaced me with a murderous look, truly Pithecanthropic. He then got up and I then got out. I next tried it on an old woman. She was boiling something like garbage in a rusty iron pot, over a stick fire before the door of her tattered tent. She was cross and vixenish, and interrupted me when I said “Hoover.” “Look here. We want no Hoover round here, she cried. “Go away from me, man, or I’ll call the police.” ana PLAINLY that was no thoroughfare. I tried it again and again, but the opiate did not work. Its soothing effect was nill. My enthusiasm abated, my confidence deflated. “It was ever thus,” I reflected as I shook the Hooverville dust from my heels. And I thought of “The Gracchi,” and the ungrateful mobs of ancient Rome. No, the Hoover panacea didn’t; work. And, like most Hoover expedients, it never will work. You can't warm naked people with platitudes. Blankets clearly are indicated. You can’t feed the hungry with preachments. A homily is no substitute for hominy, nor truisms for vitamins. a a a Hooverville gives the lie to the Hoover - Hamilton economic theory, that if the government will help the rich their prosperity will, perforce, overflow or .seep through to the common man below, and every one will be happy. Yes, Hooverville (the G. O. P. prosperity addition to the city of Indianapolis) gives the lie with vehement and tragic emphasis to the Hamilton-Hoover philosophy of government. It is a melancholy thought this. It makes one despair of political humanity. Two million years of progress intervene between Pithecanthropus and the man in the Hooverville hut. And yet the man in the year of our Lord 1932 is economically no farther advanced than his ancestor of the Stone Age. Over both, eqpnomic. insecurity and starvation ever impend—yes, ever precariously hang—like the dread sword of Damocles. THOMAS D. M’GEE. 3749 Central avenue.

GUNMAN ROBS WOMAN Operator of Restaurant Loses $lB at Foint of Pistol. Halted by an armed bahdit after closing her restaurant at Rural and New York streets ljite Friday night, Miss Shirley Baxton, 39 Eastern avenue, was robbed of $lB, she reported to police. ★ Safety for Savings Fletcher American NATIONAL BANK Southeast Corner of Market and eenmvlvant* The Strong Old Bank of Indiana The Indiana National Bank of Indianapolis mug N< '" I tMt t Maahinctea Si t SIW IV a shine ton Si

TEACHERS END STATE PARLEY, HEAD FOR HOME Hear Dr. Charles A. Beard, Famed Historian, on Closing Program. Thousands of Indiana school teachers were en route home today following close of the annual Indiana State Teachers’ Association convention Friday night with a general session at Cadle tabernacle. Speakers on the closing program were Allen D. Albert, Chicago, former Rotary International president and assistant to the Chicago world’s fair commission president, and Dr. Charles A. Beard, noted historian. Present day conditions in Japan were discussed by Albert, who said "war between the United States and Japan would be long drawn out and it would hamper America financially for 100 years and wreck utterly the financial system of Japan.” Facing “ Deadly Antithesis “Technology, as a force in freeing men from the shackles of toil, now stands on the brink of its power,” said Dr. Beard. “It is not yet emancipating man, but it is offering emancipation. Civilization faces the deadly antithesis of the possibility of plenty on one hand and the actuality of hunger, poverty and want on the other.” High point of the convention was reached with election of Robert Hougham, Franklin, Johnson county superintendent, as the 1933 president, at the Friday morning business session, and address by Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary of the interior, Friday afternoon. Warning that in this time of stress, parents should feel called upon to make as great sacrifices for future of their children as did pioneer fathers and mothers, was sounded by Dr. Wilbur. Senator Is Speaker Changes on the map brought about during the last half century were outlined by Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who preceded Dr. Wilbur at the tabernacle. A second general session was held Friday afternoon at the Murat theater, where Dr. Francis Kirkham, New York, Child Welfare Association director, discussed child welfare work, and educational trends in Europe were discussed by Dr. Thomas Alexander, Columbia university professor. Invitation to hold the 1933 state convention at Chicago during the world fair was not brought up at the convention business meeting, but probably will be acted on at the executive committee meeting in January.

105 GALLONS OF WHISKY SEIZED / Still Also Taken in Raid on City Home. Police dry raiders under Sergeant John Eisenhut Friday seized 105 gallons of corn whisky, a 75-gallon-a-day still and seventeen barrels of mash, and arrested Frank Oliva, 37, of 1017 North Warman avenue. Oliva, who police said was tending the still, ran and hid under a bed when the officers entered. All but a small amount of the whisky, saved for evidence, was destroyed and the case turned over to federal authorities. KOREANS TURN AGAINST JAPAN IN MANCHURIAN Vanquished People Imported to Help Hold Territory Prove Menace. By Scripps-Howard Neuspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Ten thousand Koreans now are fighting the Japanese in Manchuria, according to a cable received today by Dr. Syngman Rhee, who, in 1910, was elected president of the "Korean republic.” Dr. Rhee is chairman of the Korean commission in the United States. "The Japanese have encouraged Koreans to settle in Manchuria,” Dr| Rhee said, “in order to help consolidate their claims to that territory. Having annexed Korea, Japan has thus sought to use the Korean people to help annex still more territory.

"But, instead of helping Japan, most Koreans are working or fighting against her.”

CHANGE POST’S NAME Aviation Legion Move to Honor Late Major Richard F. Taylor. The name of Aviation post, No. 171, American Legion, composed of officers and enlisted men of the Indiana national guard and the organized reserves, has been changed to Major Richard F. Taylor post, No. 171. Major Taylor died last month from injuries suffered in a plane crash. He was the founder and first commander of the post.

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Man Without a Country

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Unless the United States or Canada relents, Omar Lemieux will spend the rest of his life in jail at St. Joseph, Mo. Immigration laws of the two nations have made him a “man without a country.” Lemieux had been working in the United States for twenty-three years when he was arrested last April as an alien and held for deportation. His two daughters had been born here, however, so they couldn’t be deported with him. Canada added a further complication by refusing to admit the family even if it left here voluntarily. Lemieux still is in jail, waiting for the United States to decide what it will do. His family has been dependent on charity during his six months in prison. Here is the Lemieux family, reunited on a visit to the prison.

Day's Political Roundup

Anderson to Honor Jim By Lnited Press ANDERSON, Ind., Oct. 22. Flaming torches, live elephants and a huge parade will feature a political rally here Nov. 2 in celebration of Senator James E. Watson’s sixtyeighth birthday. In the heat of his campaign for re-election, Indiana’s only Republican ever to attain leadership of the senate refused to consider his birthday a holiday and will address the rally at night. Plans are being made to broadcast the speech, and delegations are expected in Anderson from Rushville, Tipton, Marion, Wabash, Noblesville, Elwood, Muncie, Greenfield, Kokomo, Indianapolis and other communities.

Hiner Speaks Tonight Ward B. Hiner, National party candidate for Governor, will speak at a mass meeting tonight in Beech Grove. His subject will be “Solution of the Tax Problem.” Indiana to Hear Curtis By Times Special CHICAGO, Oct. 22.—Two speaking engagements have been arranged for Vice-President Charles Curtis in Indiana for the first two days of November, it was announced today by C. W. Ramsoyer, director of the speakers’ bureau, Republican national committee. The Vice-President will address a meeting in Sheridan on Nov. 1, and on the following day will speak in Richn.ond. Hurley in Bloomington Patrick J. Hurley, secretary of war, will appear Tuesday night in Bloomington as the principal speaker in TYesident Hoover’s campaign next week in Indiana, it is announced by A. N. Bobbitt, chairman of the Republican state speakers’ bureau. Senator Daniel O. Hastings of Delaware, keynote speaker at the Republican state convention, will speak Tuesday night in Elwood and Wednesday night in Kendallville. Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota will speak Ncv. 3, 4 and 5. He probably will speak in the northern part of the state.

Gone, but Not Forgotten Automobiles reported to police as stolen be lone to: Rafamand Van Camp. 4801 Michigan road. Chrysler coach, from Nineteenth and Alabama streets. James Moody, 778*2 Indiana avenue. Hudson coach. 61-257. from Market and Alabama streets. Walker Marshall. Worthington. Ind.. Chevrolet coach. 203-430. from Illinois and New York streets. Paul A. Hayworth. 2126 Woodlawn avenue. Ford roadster. 73-340, from Prospect and Harlan streets. Louis J. Walter. 2454 Ashland avenue. Ford Tudor. 35-471. from North and Noble streets. BACK HOME AGAIN Stolen automobiles recovered bv police belong to: John Niggle. 3122 Roosevelt avenue. Chrysler sedan, found at Trov avenue and East street. Mrs. George Killian. 230 East Vermont street. Chevrolet coach, found at Thirteenth and Bellefontaine streets.

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Hoffman Hits Tax Action Refusal of Democratic county officials to “adhere either to the letter or the spirit of the $1.50 tax limit law,” was charged Friday night by J. Clyde Hoffman, state senator, in an address at 2361 NorU* LaSalle street. “The tax payers in this county want lower taxes,” Hoffman said. “These officials have failed to respond to your demand. Only one Marion county .official voluntarily reduced his own salary, and he happened to be a Republican judge.” He referred to Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin. Hoffman asserted that Democratic members of the lower house blocked action to lower the income of the county treasurer. The treasurer, he said, received more than SIOO,OOO in fees and costs in 1931 in addition to more than $71,000 for assistants.

SUICIDE VERDICT IN WOMAN’S FIRE DEATH Saturated Clothing With Kerosene, Lighted It, Coroner Holds. Verdict of suicide by fire was returned Friday by Dr. John Wyttenbach, deputy coroner, in the torch death of Mrs. Edna Lines, 39, Lawrence, who died Thursday night in Robert Long hospital. Dr. Wyttenbach said evidence revealed Mrs. Lines saturated her clothing with kerosene and lighted it, after locking all doors and windows of her home. THIEVES’ AUTO IS HELD Merchant Policeman Routs Men Trying to Enter Southport Store. An automobile used by two thieves, who fled after being routed by a merchant policeman while attempting to break into the B. A. Tex general store at Southport early today, is held by deputy sheriffs. Lawrence Roeder, merchant policeman, surprised the two men as they were cutting a hole in the store’s rear door. A machine that counts grains of sand has been deviseji for scientific uses, by a geologist.

FOURTH CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST. INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA Announces a Free Lecture on Christian Science By Judge Frederick C. Hill , C. S. of Clinton, Illinois Member of The Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts CABLE TABERNACLE, Monday Evening, at 8:00 O'clock * October 21>th, 1932 The Public Is Cordially Invited to Attend

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0. K. PROJECTS OF ST. RAILWAY * State Commission Approves Plans for City.

All petitions presented by Indianapolis Railways, Inc., received public service commission approval at the weekly commission conference Friday afternoon. They included permission to operate the trackless trolley lines, now being installed; issuance of $377,159 in long term notes to finance purchase of fifteen new trolley busses and twenty-five new street cars, and approval of lower contracts between the company and the Public Service Company of Indiana. Approval of abandonment of the Shadeland avenue bus line extension also was given. The line was operated at a loss by the Peoples Motor Coach Company, street car company subsidiary. It will be discontined Oct. 31. DEATH CLAIMS FRANK H. SEAY

Prominent in Candy Trade for Many Years. Frank H. Seay, 5927 Broadway, prominent in the candy business in Indiana, died Friday in Methodist hospital following an operation. Mr. Seay was for many years connected with the Nichols Candy Company, and was in the candy jobbing business. He was in the army during the Spanish-American war and during the Philippine insurrection. He was a member of Broad Ripple lodge, F. & A. M., and of De Molay commandery, Knights Templar. Funeral services will be held Monday in Kregelo & Bailey funeral home, followed by burial in Crown Hill cemetery. Friends may see the body in the funeral parlors Sunday afternoon and night. 2 HURT IN CRASHES Woman, 80, Is Injured in ‘Accident. Traffic accidents today had resulted in injury of two persons, according to police. When a car driven by Mrs. lona Pruner, 34, of 1922 Fletcher avenue, struck a street car at Randolph street and Lexington avenue, Thursday, Mrs. Anna Crail, 80, of 1940 Lexington avenue, passenger i nthe auto, was cut severely on the left hand and arm. She was treated at city hospital. Harold Cosma, 8, of 301 Bethel avenue, suffered internal injuries and face lacerations when a truck driven by his father, Mitchell Cosma, struck a railroad bridge abutment on Emerson avenue south of Washington street.

TEACHERS’ COLLEGE ON BUTLER CAMPUS SEEN New Education Building to Be Erected in Memory of Eliza A. - Blaker. Anew Teachers’ college on the Butler university campus was announced as a project of the future by Dr. Walter S. Athearn, president, Friday night, at a dinner in the Claypool commemorating ths fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of Blaker Teachers’ college, now Butler college of education. The new education building will be erected in memory of Eliza A. Blaker, founder* of the school, Dr. Athearn said. C. E. CONGER ELECTED \ Heads Building and Loan League of State; Parley Ends. Charles E.- Conger was elected president of the Building and Loan Leagus of Indiana, Friday afternoon, in the final session of the league’s annual convention in the Lincoln. Mark L. Dickinson was elected vice-president, and Leo F. Welch, second vice-president. George E. Ogden will continue as executive secretary and James E. Pierce as treasurer.

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Looking Toward Stardom

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From a Brooklyn church club came two young women to Broadway a few years ago. One was named Ruby Stevens; the other Ruth Fallow's. Good movie fans Will recall that Ruby Stevens became Stanwyck, and was grabbed up by Hollywood and starred. Meanwhile, Ruth Fallows (shown above) was slowly climbing toward the top; went from the Follies to the legitimate stage; trouped in stock, and now gets her first real break in "Rendezvous.”

Public Works Needs Here to Provide Jobs Studied

R. F. C. Funds to Be Sought for Self-Liquidation Local Projects. First steps toward making federal reconstruction finance funds available for self-liquidating public works as part of the program for unemployment relief through actual jobs were taken here today. It was announced that a survey has begun, in co-operation with the city plan commission, to determine what projects are possible under the plan. The survey w r as suggested at a meeting of the Marion county subcommittee of the state committee, formed by Governor Harry G. Leslie to foster such a program. A. H. Worsham is secretary of the sub-committee, and the chairman has not yet been chosen. First meeting was held at the Y. W. C. A., Friday noon, and Senator C. Oliver Holmes, Gary, state chairman, addressed the group. Among the possible projects suggested for survey were street and boulevard developments, sanitary

FT. WAYNE SCHOOLS CAPTURE PRESS PRIZES Get Three Awards for Publications in Division 1 of Contest. By United Press , FRANKLIN, Ind., Oct. 22.—Three Ft. Wayne schools won all prizes in Division 1, for schools of 1,000 or more, in the annual awards of the Indiana High School Press Association, for excellence in school publications, announced at the association convention here. The Spotlight, published at Central high sohool, won first place; the Northerner of North Side high was second, and the South Side Times of South Side high was third. Other first place awards in the newspaper ratings were: Division 2, the Columbus high school Triangle; Division 3, the Connersville Clarion; Division 4, the Paoli Poalite, and Division 5, the Woodrow Wilson World, Terre Haute.

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district building, grade separations and construction lot overheads. Holmes explained that the money can be borrowed outright at 3 per cent for ten years, and the Reconstretion Finance Corporation is ready to take over a securities issue on self-liquidating projects running as much as twenty years. Another meeting will be held at the Y. W. C. A. Wednesday.

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DAUGHTER WINS ESTATEMTTLE Springsteen Will Declared Invalid by Court. Fight of a daughter to set aside a will, providing her only with income from her father's $40,000 estate, ended Friday night when Hancock county circuit court declared invalid the will of Robert E. Springsteen, former Indianapolis postmaster. This decision makes it possible for the daughter, Mrs. Helen Springsteen Ott of Coral Gables, Fla., to get possession of the estate which the will would have held in trust, giving her only the income. Sixty Indianapolis persons testified for the defense at the trial, taken to Hancock county on change of venue from Marion county* The jury held Springsteen was of unsound mind when he signed the will. Springsteen, former postmaster and city councilman, died March 2, 1931.

SALES TAX FOR CITY OF BALTIMORE SOUGHT Merchants Will Fight Move at Special Legislative Session. B\) Scripps-Hotcard Xctcspapcr Alliancm BALTIMORE, Oct. 22.—Governor Albert Ritchie, in response to the urgent demand of Mayor Howard Jackson of this city, has agreed to convene the Maryland legislature in special session next month to consider a 2 per cent sales tax for the city of Baltimore. Jackson estimates that the tax will yield $6,000,000. the amount needed to bridge the gap between anticipated ordinary revenues and contemplated expenditures for the next fiscal year. Baltimore merchants are expected to oppose the sales tax, on the ground that it u r ould tend to make prices higher in the city than in other nearby communities, with the result that Baltimore would lose business. American shoe polish is being sold in seventy foreign countries.

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