Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 248, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1933 — Page 1
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MAYOR CERMAK IS AT DEATH’S DOOR, PHYSICIAN ADMITS Chicago Chief Has‘Only ‘One Chance in Ten to Live,’ Says Son-in-Law; Heart is Weakening, Lungs Congested. OXYGEN BEING USED IN BATTLE Corridors Near Hospital Room Are Guarded Closely; Orders Are Issued by Doctors to Stop All Intruding Noises. BY E. W. LEWIS United Prr*R Staff Correspondent MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 24.—Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago, victim of a bullet from the gun of Giuseppi Zangara, would-be assassin of President-Elect Roosevelt, was reported near death today. The mayor's condition, complicated by colitis and a hypostatic lung condition, the forerunner of pneumonia, has become rapidly worse in the last forty-eight hours, and this morning Dr. Frank .Jirka gave him “one chance in ten to
live.” His staff of physiciansJ which includes heart and lungspecialists, performed valiant- j ]y to stimulate his resistance during the manifest crisis. Oxygen was used to assist his | weakened heart action. Shortly after noon. State Senator ! Richey Graham, of Illinois, the mayor's son-in-law, conferred in strict privacy with Cermak for fifteen minutes. Even doctors and nurses were excluded from the sick room. Earlier, Cermak had slept. Dr. Karl Meyer, leaving his room, was ; asked specifically whether pneu-j monia had set in. "I examined his lungs thoroughly,” | he replied, “and he has no pneumonia." Corridors Are Guarded The corridors near the mayor's room were closely guarded, and or- i ders were issued to stop all intruding noises. Dr. Jirka is the mayor's son-in- t law. He was first to reveal that i Cermak was slipping rapidly. Dr. Frederick Tice issued the following bulletin at 10:30 a. m.: “Mayor Cermak had a restless night. The colitis continues to cause him discomfort and distress. His heart action is only fair and at times causes much anxiety. How- | ever, his circulation is well sus- j tained and the congestion of lungs has become much less and practi- I rally disappeared. Comparatively | his condition is considered satisfactory. but he is not yet out of dan- ; ger.” • Dr. J. W. Snyder, one of the con- j suit ants, said he considered Cermak’s chances to live as “better than one out of ten." Daughters at Bedside Dr. Tice said the mayor's temperature was 98. pulse 120 and respiration 30. He, too. thought Cermak had no better than a l-to-10 chance to survive. Father Sidney J. Morris of Chicago. Cermak's friend, arrived at the hospital before noon and planned to remain all day. The mayor's three daughters were allowed at the bedside at 11:30 >.m. It was the first time in several days they had been allowed to see him. They came out crying. Mrs. Frank Jirka said the mayor said to them, “I'm all right. I'm fighting hard." Joseph Cermak and Mrs. John Kallal, the mayor's brother and sister. visited him for a few minutes. "I am trying." the mayor told them. Occasional moans came from the sick room. ‘IMPOLITE'—IT COSTS HIM 10 DAYS IN JAIL I Know You,' Says Judge, ‘You Got Sore When I Turned You Down.’ If Clifford Grigsby. 25. “city," had been more polite he'd probably not be in jail today. Haled before Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. Grigsby heard police testify he had been seen soliciting money on downtown streets. Gruff of voice. Grigsby denied the charge, as Sheaffer studied his face. "Why,” said Sheaffer, “I know you. You're the fellow who asked me for a dime the other day and got sore because I wouldn't give it to you." Grigsby said nothing wher Sheaffer fined him $lO and cos on a vagrancy charge, ordering a jail term on failure to pay the fine. JIG-SAW HELPING U. S. 10 Per Cent Tax Must Be Paid on All Puzzles, Collector Told. Jig-saw puzzle addicts, victims of t+ie latest craze sweeping the nation. are doing their bit to help the government meet its bills, it was announced today by E. E. Neal, internal revenue collector. Neal said he has received a governmental bulletin pointing out that a 10 per cent tax. based on the manufacturers' selling price, must be paid for all jig-saw puzzles except those of fifty pieces or less, which are presumed to be designed for children. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 44 10 a. m 52 7a. m 44 11 a. m 53 Aa. m 47 12 tnoon).. 55 9 a. m 50 1 p. m 57
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WORK TO BALK JUDD HANGING Legislation to Be Asked in Arizona Assembly to Save Woman. By 1 nited Press PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 24.—Legislation to prevent the hanging of Winnie Ruth Judd, convicted “trunk murderer," probably will be asked in the lower house of the Arizona legislature today by Representative G. L. Christian of Phoenix, one of six representatives who heard her firsthand story of self-defense last Sunday. Mrs. Judd is under sentence to die April 14 for killing her friend, Agnes Ann Leroi, although the state board of pardons and a paroles has scheduled a meeting March 6 to hear her petition for commutation of sentence. Representative Christian said he would present Mrs. Judd's case today in a speech of personal privilege. Representative Ray Bennett, Yuma, added he probably would present a resolution asking the legislature to suggest Mrs. Judd's clemency plea be granted by the pardon board. TEMPERATURE DROP FORECAST FOR CITY ’Rain Scheduled for Saturday Night, Says Bureau. Although mild temperatures prevailed in the city and state today, unseasonable spring weather gave indication of breaking by Saturday or Sunday, the weather bureau forecast. Tonight will be cloudy, with unsettled weather Saturday, the bureau predicted. Rain is scheduled for Saturday night, when the mercury will fall. An area of unsettled weather has originated in the west, where balmy weather has been enjoyed in irr>t states east of the Pacific. Southerly breezes which covered most of the area will be replaced by north winds bringing the temperature drop, it was forecast. M'NUTT SIGNS BANK BILL Begins at Once to Fxercise Powers of Dictatorship in State. Governor Paul V. McNutt today | signed the new banking control bill and began at once to exercise the powers of dictatorship given to 1 the new state banking commission. The bill provides for anew commission of five members, but pending appointment by the Governor. McNutt will exercise control. I IT’S COL. RUDY VALLEE Maine Title Also Gives Crooner Right to YVear Resplendent Uniform. By I'nitrd Pros AUGUSTA. Me.. Feb. 24.—Rudy Vallee, Maine-born radio crooner, has been made a colonel on the stan of Governor Louis J. Brann. The honor not only gives him the military title, but also the right to wear a resplendent uniform and to carry a sword.
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1,000 FEET IN AIR, FLIER IS SLAINBYPUPIL Crazed Youth Lands Plane, Then Ends Own Life With Bullet. SECRET HATE IS HINTED Other Probers Say Student’s Mind Was Weakened by Disease. By l nitcd Press SAN BENITO, Tex., Feb. 24. The slaying of an airplane instructor as he manipulated his ship a thousand feet above the earth and the suicide of his 21-year-old student passenger was reconstructed by officials today. Some said the shooting of Lehman Nelson, 33, teacher in a private flying school, by Erin McCall, who killed himself, was cold-blooded murder. Others said McCall’s mind gave way from a disease he contracted some weeks ago. The youth, son of a prominent San Benito family, went to the airport Thursday night for his usual flying lesson. Those who saw the takeoff did not see a pistol which McCall carried. Story Told by Farmers Nelson, as usual, occupied the front cockpit of the plane, which had dual controls. Behind him sat McCall. Swiftly gaining altitude, the plane headed over the open country. A little later it passed directly above the home of George Whitsel, a farmer. Whitsel. standing in his yard, saw Nelson's head hanging apparently lifeless over the edge of the cockpit. he told authorities. The plane flew on, steadily losing altitude. Tnree miles away it swooped lowover another farm house. Hear Piercing Scream Occupants heard a piercing scream, they said, and a moment later, at terrific speed, the ship landed on a nearby field. Nosing over almost as the wheels touched, the plane was wrecked. Witnesses saw McCall, apparently unhurt, leap from the rear cockpit, run like mad for some fifty yards, (Turn to Page Twenty-four) cubTnrevolt ON. IS REPORT Communication Lines Cut, Bombs Are Hurled at Havana. By J tilled Pres* HAVANA. Feb. 24.—Bombings in Havana early today, and disruption of communication lines between the capital and principal cities on the island, led to entirely unconfirmed reports that a revolutionary movement had started against the Cuban government of President Gerardo Machado. The possibility wa s seen that rebels might have arranged for moral effect to start an attempt against the government today, the anniversary of the "Grito de Libertad.” the cry for freedom w-hich started the revolt against Spam in 1895. A small bomb exploded near the monument on the Malecon. Havanas beautiful seaport drive, dedicated to the victims of the battleship Maine disaster. The ship was blown up in Havana harbor in 1898. A dance at the Centro Astrurano, a Spanish society here, was broken up by the explosion of several small bombs. There was no damake in the explosion of the small bomb near the Maine monument. The .telephone company was repairing the cut lines rapidly today. Officials said the cuts were made with machetes at fiive different points in the island, clearly indicating an organized plot. •OLD M’KINLEY’ DEAD Coach Horse at Inauguration of President Is Gone. Pii United Pee*s FORT LYON, Colo., Feb. 24 —Old Frank has passed to the Valhalla of loyal horses. Frank dropped dead at 34. Recently he had been called “Old McKinley,” and the story of his part as coach horse for the presidential inauguration when President Mc’Cinley assumed office had become legendary. Fe was pensioned 15 years ago, and sent here to spend the balance of his life in leisure.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1933
JAPANESE START ADVANCES ON JEHOL; DELEGATES QUIT LEAGUE
Lockerbie Street to Lose Famed Riley Home Relics
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The James Whitcomb Riley Home at 528 Lockerbie Street.
Chance That Led Poet to Beloved Neighborhood to Bring Memorial’s Dismantling. BY HELEN LINDSAY. first led me to Lockerbie street. Chance has brought me many gifts. Chance has signally contributed to my salvation.” —James Whitcomb Riley. Chance, which James Whitcomb Riley thanked.for an introduction to his beloved “Lockerbie street,” is to rob Indianapolis and Indiana of one of the finest memorials to the Hoosier poet. With the almost complete dismantling of the Riley Memorial Home, which will occur in April, when Miss Katie Kindell, caretaker of the home for more than fifty years, moves into her own home, the Riley home will lose much of its charm.
Receipts from the home have decreased sc greatly in the last year, according to officials of the association, that it is impossible to keep a paid caretaker. Miss Kindell is the owner of all the furniture in the home, with the exception of that of the library, Riley’s bedroom and the dining room. st tt a 'T'HE home was bought by William Fortune, friend of Riley, in 1917, in the year following Riley’s death. It later came into the possession of the Riley Memorial Association, with Miss Kindell in charge. The house was built in 1872 byJohn R. Nickum, who came to Indianapolis from Madison, Ind. Among the mementoes of the house is a flag which draped the carriage of General William T. Sherman, a friend of Nickum. Upon Nickum's death, the house passed into the hands of his daughter, Mrs. Magdalene Holstein, wife of Major Charles L. Holstein. Major Holstein and Riley became acquainted when the poet was living at the Denison hotel. When Riley expressed his dissatisfaction with h:s lonely hotel life Major Holstein invited him to become a member of his household, and in the early nineties Riley went to Lockerbie street to live. tt tt tt TT was in the home on Lockerbie street that Riley entertained many well-known people. Among them were Bliss Carmen, General Lew Wallace, Robert Burdette, Joel Chandler Harris, Meredith Nicholson, Henry Van Dyke. Frank L. Stanton, Charles Major, George Ade, and the late Thomas A. Edison. When on lecture tours, Riley wrote letters to Mr. and Mrs. Holstein, expressing homesickness for the house on Lockerbie street. One of his best known poems it the one entitled “Lockerbie Street,” in which he said: Oh. my Lockerbie street! You are fair to be seen— Be it noon of the day. or the rare and serene Afternoon of the night—you are one to my heart. And I love you afcove all the phrases of art. For no language could frame and no lips could repeat My rhyme-hvunted raptures of Lockerbie street. nun RILEy suffered the final stroke of paralysis which caused his death July 22. 1916, at his Lockerbie street home. Miss Kindell will leave the home the first of April, taking with her furnishings of all but three rooms. She will offer these for sale. E A STERN PASTOR H ERE Dr. Charles E. Jefferson to Talk at Ministers' Meeting. Dr. Charles E. Jeffepson of New York, will be the speaker at the March meeting of the Indianapolis Ministers' Association, which will be held Wednesday in the Roberts Park M. E. church. Dr. Jefferson is honorary minister of Broadway Tabernacle, the oldest Congregational church in New York city. J*
SALES TAX TO BE LAW SOON House and Senate Concur in Amendments; Time Limit Stricken. The administration sales and income tax revenue bill, calculated to j raise $14,000,000 annually, probably | will become law by tonight, as the j house and senate today concurred in amendments, chief among which i was elimination of a provisions for j expiration of the act April 30. 1935. ! Concurrence of the house was a tame affair, with only Republicans and scattered Democrats joining Representative H. H. Evans, minority floor leader, in objecting to elimination of the limitation clause. Evans voiced the feelings of the hoi<se opposition when he pointed out that the revenue bill is an emergency measure and should have an expiration date. Twelve senators made a back-to-the-wall fight in the upper house, j centering their attack on recessions from the limitation and prior contracts amendments. “You are killing the goose that/ lays the golden egg,” Senator Leo X. Smith (Dem., Indianapolis) in fighting to exempt from taxation all contracts entered into prior to May 1, when the law becomes operative. He was joined by Senator Thurman A. Gottschalk <Dem.. Berne) in arguing that unless such contracts are exempt, hundreds of property owners now operating under leases will be ruined. CABINET TO BE NAMED Roosevelt to Announce Rest of Aids Early Next Week. By United Press HYDE PARK, N. Y.. Feb. 24. President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt will announce the remainder of his cabinet the first of next week, he said today.
Capital Sees Van Nuys as New Champion of Tax-Burdened Men of Farm and City
BY WALKER STONE Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—“ My party right or wrong.” is the homely political philosophy that carried Republican Leader Jim Watson through forty years of public life, and which ended in the most crushing defeat ever administered a member of the United States senate. But, “Mv party must be right” are the watchwords of Frederick Van Nuys. the man who beat Watson by 218.000 votes, and who will take the Watson seat in the senate March 4. In his first Washington interview, Senator-Elect Van Nuys today voiced opinions calculated to align him with the liberal bloc in the senate. And he spoke without waiting to see whether the incoming Democratic administration will lean toward conservatism or liberalism. The new Inrii>s ,c>nf<tr>r
INDIANA WILL SPEED REPEAL CONVENTION Bill Will Be Passed Today: McNutt Expected to Issue Call at Once. Indiana may be the first state to act on repeal of the eightentii amendment, if administration plans are carried out, it w'as learned today. ' Senator Jacob Weiss iDem., Indianapolis), announced that the bill calling for a convention of 200 delegates is to be passed late today under suspension of the rules. The house then will approve the measure and it will await the signature of Governor Paul V. McNutt. It provides that the convention be called within four months, but it is understood that McNutt will issue the call immediately. Delegates will be chosen on their stand as being wet or dry. Bone Dry Repeal Near Indiana's stringent dry law will be on its last legs today if plans of Governor Paul V. McNutt and his advisers to rush the Wright repeal bill and the beer control and tax measure through the senate arc carrried out. Both bills have passed the lower house and will be up for final vote in the senate today. A conference committee of the two houses will be appointed to rconcile conflicting amendments and the two bills then sent to McNutt for executive approval. Allowing senators more leew-ay fhan has been usual when administration bills were under consideration, a number of them submitted a heavy barrrage of amendments. Both the drys and the draught beer senators sniped around the edges, but could make no lasting impressions. Would Curb Beer Czar Senator James B. Brewster (Dem., Corydon), who has been acting independently of the administration during most of the session, pried off the lid by offering an amendment establishing a four-member commission to have power over the beer czar. “It is our duty to curb the autocratic power of one man by setting up a commission of at least four citizens who will have final responsibility,” Brewster argued. This attempt to change the bill was voted down speedily, along with an amendment offered by Senator Thollie W. Druley iDem., Boston), who wanted the budget committee to have some jurisdiction over beer control expenses. Senator L. L. Shull ißep.. Sharpsville), acting for the minority senators, evoked much laughter and (Turn to Page Eleven) Tax Appraisal Bill Killed Bill which provided tax appraisal of real estate annually instead of each four years and for employment of five full time deputy assessors for Center township, Marion county, was killed today in the house of representatives.
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/ ers himself a champion of "the man who has had no representative in court’—the man on the farm, the j man in the street, the man in debt, the man who is burdened with taxes. "We must revise our system so that the man on the farm can raise his crops at a profit, can keep his farm, can buy the things he needs. “We must provide work for the man on the street, restore him to his place in society. “We must lift the stifling burdens of debt. "We mtist slash government expenses. I can not see how any man who ran on the Democratic platform in November can do otherwise than vote to cut the running expenses to the bone.'* Some kind of mometary inflation I is favored by Van Nuys. “I have no pet inflatioft plan.” he j said, "but certaiijdy we should find '--***•' r\f —' our pnr-
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Nipponese Walk Out of Geneva Assembly When Manchuria Report Is Voted; ‘Not Coming Back.’ 40,000 TROOPS ATTACK CHAO YANG Invaders Use Infantry, Artillery Tanks and Planes in Effort to Break Chinese Hold on Border. BY STEWART BROWN l niled Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Feb. 24.—The Japanese delegation to the League of Nations walked out of the league assembly meeting today after the assembly adopted the report and recommendations for settlement of the Manchurian dispute. Japanese Delegate Yusoke Matsuoka told the assembly Japan could .no longer co-operate with the league. The assembly vote was 42 to 1, with one absentention. Matsuoka asked if the Japanese delegation’s action in leaving the assembly meant his government’s withdrawal from the league, answered:
BRAKEMAN DIES BENEATH TRAIN Scene of Tragedy Is at Kentucky Avenue and Belt Railway. Chester Stout, 50. of West Newton, brakeman for the Indianapolis Union Railway Company, was killed instantly today when he fell beneath wheels of a freight train at Kentucky avenue and the Belt railroad. Stout hopped from a moving train to throw a switch and had stepped backward on to another track when he was struck. His body was severed. Witnesses said the train which struck Stout was moving backward, pushing a cut of cars. Engineer was Christ Tacke, 62, of 2133 Madison avenue. Robert Luken, 46. off 244 North Illinois street, conductor on the train from which Stout hopped, said he shouted a warning to Stout, but apparently was not heard. The body was sent to city morgue. THOMAS WALSH IS TO BE MARRIED Likely Attorney-General to Wed Cuban Widow. By United Press HAVANA. Feb. 24.—Senora Nieves Perez Chaumont de Truffin, widow of a wealthy Cuban business man, will be married soon to Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana, prospective attorney-general in the Roosevelt cabinet. The wedding will be held at the American embassy here. Senora Truffin. who is socially prominent here and in Washington, told the United Press the date has not been set. Senator Walsh arrived by airplane from Miami today. Senora Truffin’s husband, Refino Truffin, died in 1928. He was prominent in the Cuban sugar industry. Senora Truffin has long been in close contact with political and society affairs in Havana and in Washington. She is an old friend of Senator Walsh. FUDGE SCALDS BABY One-l'ear-Old Girl Pulls Plate; Treated for Head and Arms Burns. Pulling a plate of hot fudge over her, 1-year-old Anna Mae Culver, daughter of Mrs. Edna Culver, 258 North Richland avenue, was burned today. Mrs. Culver told police the fudge had been poureed to cool, when ihe baby, in a walker, toddled to the table and grabbed the edge of the given for head and arm burns.
rency so that prices can be restored to normal and maintained on an even keel. ‘The dollar of today costs too much in labor and goods, and it is impossible for farmers and little business men to pay off the debts they contracted when dollars were cheap.” “Higher and still higher tariffs,” has been the lifelong battle cry of Watson. “Let us have a sane tariff policy and regain our world markets,” says Van Nuys. "The Government should not interfere too much with business,” has been Jim Watson s attitude towards public utilities. “We must curb the power trust; we must have no more Insull debacles,” says Van Nuys. Swashbuckling “Sunny Jim” is giving up his seat to one who is mild-mannered, soft-spoken, to one who appears to be a student rather a politician.
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“We are not coming back.’* Matsuoka later announced the delegation's withdrawal from the league as the first step in breaking relations with Geneva. Two years is required to make withdrawal final. Japan will be held responsible for fulfillment of her international obligations during that time. The Japanese delegation left the hall while a translator interpreted Matsuoka s speech. In the galleries some spectators hissed, while others applauded. Matsuoka, usually typifying the placid oriental diplomat, was nervous before he began his speech, and abandoned the text before he finished. He shouted from the rostrum: “Japan will oppose any attempt at international control of Manchuria. It does not mean that we defy you, because Manchuria belongs to us by right. “Read your history. We recovered Manchuria from Russia. We made it what it is today.” Japanese Attack Chaoyang BY RANDALL GOULD United Press Staff Correspondent PEIPING, China, Feb. 24.—Chinese troops, stubbornly contesting every foot of ground against a Japanes derive into the province of Jehol, formed new lines at Chaoyang today after a long battle in which casualties on both sides were reported heavy. Chaoyang is thirty miles from Peipaio. near the eastern border of Jehol, where the fighting centered. The Chinese denied they had been defeated, claiming they had made a strategic withdrawal to consolidate their lines. The retreat left the Japanese controlling the short stretch of railway from Peipaio to Nanling, where fighting especially was severe. Thirty thousand Japanese and 10,000 Mauchoukuoan troops were reported used in the drive on Chaoyang. The Japanese were making a determined onslaught on Chaoyang with artillery, tanks and airplanes, and esiring to reach Linyuan, to the southwest, which controls the northern auto road leading to Chingth, the capital. The Japanese denied their main offensive had started, saying that the so-called ultimatum to Nanking merely was a warning without a time limit. Negotiate With Russia BY MILES W. VAUGHN L’nitrd Press Stiff Correspondent TOKIO. Feb. 24 —Japan started tentative negotiations with Russia today for maintaining order along the Russian-Manzhoukuoan border while Japanese delegates withdrew from the League of Nations at Geneva. A foreign office spokesman said Japan sought an agreement with Russia, including local pledges to maintain order on the border. The government prefers such an understanding to a nonaggression pact with the Soviets, the spokesman said, since it would be less formal. The announcement followed reports of possible Japanese-Russian rapprochement after Japan's withdrawal from the league. Start General Advance By C nited Press TUNGLIAO, Manchura, Feb. 24. A general advance against Chinese troops defending the Jehol province was indicated today when advices told of a sustained movement of Manchoukuoan troops. A vanguard of the cavalry commanded by General Wang YunChing fought a raging blizzard to arrive at a sector in the 250-mile front held by the Japanese. Its exact position was not known. Other Manchoukuoan forces were advancing. They were under the command of General Chang HaiPeng. head of the Manchoukuo “peace preservation army” and recently named governor of Jehol. The troops were harried by extreme cold. The blizzard piled more than a foot of snow on the bleak landscape. Progress of the march was slowed accordingly but reports indicated an early cohesion with Japanese forces for a sustained drive against the Chinese defendeif.