Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 262, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1933 — Page 1

‘BEER AT ONCE?’ IS ROOSEVELT EDICT

FEDERAL RESERVE KEY BANKS OPEN; HOARDING BARRED Roosevelt Pledges Nation That ‘We Will Not Have Another Epidemic of Failures.’ GENERAL REOPENING TO BE RUSHED State Institutions to Follow Lead of National Banks, Under Same Careful Check on Soundness. fC'ity Bank Situation on Page Two) BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 13.—Banks began to reopen for normal business today, with a pledge to the nation from President Roosevelt that “we will not have another epidemic of bank failures.” Banks licensed by the treasury were permitted to open today in the twelve key financial centers—the cities in which federal reserve banks are located. Tuesday and Wednesday the reopening will be extended throughout the country.

President Roosevelt, in a! public statement Sunday night calling upon the nation to “unite in banishing fear,” promised that the reopened banks “will meet all needs.” The lid remains damped tight on release of funds for hoarding. By order of Secretary of Treasury William H. Woodin, withdrawals of j deposits are limited to the funds needed for normal business and necessary personal expenditures. Hoarding Is Banned “First duty of banks reopening under the license of the secretary of the treasury for performance of their usual functions is to see that the primary needs of the people for the necessaries of life and normal business undertakings are met,” Woodin announced. “Accordingly, withdrawals for hoarding have been prohibited and the secretary of the treasury rules that until more normal conditions have been established, transfers of funds by banks or their customers will be limited to necessary purposes.” New York. Boston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Richmond, St. Louis, Kansas City, Dallas, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis and San Francisco are the twelve cities in which licensed banks were permitted to resume business today. Fitness Is Passed On Treasury and federal reserve officials passed on the fitness of federal reserve member banks in these cities to reopen. State authorities were certifying state banks. Private banks, such as J. P. Morgan fc Cos., which are not members of the reserve system, or under the immediate supervision of any state authority, also were permitted to reopen today, unless prohib.ted by state restrictions. Secretary Woodin further authorized the following institutions to reopen this morning: All federal reserve banks and their branches, federal land banks, federal intermediate credit banks, joint stock land banks, federal home loan banks, regional agricultural credit corporations and Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Tuesday certified banks in about 250 cities in which there are organized clearing houses may resume business. ‘On Wednesday, banks in all other cities and towns will reopen as fast as federal and state officials certify their soundness and relax present state restrictions. Ample Time Given The reopening was placed on this gradual basis to afford ample time for distribution of the new federal reserve bank notes, which the bureau of engraving here is turning out at the rate of $30,000,000 a day. It also gives the 10.000 state banks which are not members of the federal reserve bank system more time to join the system or obtain ample funds from member banks and other agencies. "I know that many people are worrying about state manks not members of the federal reserve system.” President Roosevelt said. “These banks can and will receive assistance from member banks and from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. "These state banks are following the same course as the national banks, except that they get their licenses to resume business from the state au'hdrities. and these authorities have been asked by the secretary of the treasury to permit their good banks uo open up on the same schedule as the national banks. Has Confidence in States “I am confident that the state banking departments will be as careful as the national government in the policy relating to the opening of banks and will follow the same broad policy.” Mr. Roosevelt again emphasized that “if your bank does not open the first day you are by no means justified in believing that it will not open. A bank that opens on one of the subtuquent days is in exactly (Turn to Page Three)

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy with showtrs tonight, followed by generally fair Tuesday; colder late tonight and Tuesday; lowest temperature tonight above freezing.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 262

Banks Reopen in 12 Federal Reserve Areas

• By United Press Headed by the New York federal reserve district, in which fifty-two member banks were open for business today, nearly all the twelve reserve districts reported a majority of bank institutions operating today as usual. Conditions in the twelve cities were: New York—Fifty-two member banks and twenty-four nonmember banks open. Chicago—Fifteen national and seventeen state banks open. Cleveland—Three member banks open for all business; two open for restricted business; four state banks open. Philadelphia—Twenty-one member banks and twenty-nine nonmember banks open. Boston—Eleven member banks and eight nonmembers open. Kansas City—Twenty-four banks open. Dallas—Five member banks and six nonmember banks open. San Francisco—Five national and six state banks open. St. Louis—Eighteen member banks and two nonmembers open. Atlanta—Four member banks open. Richmond—Four member banks and seven nonmembers open. Minneapolis—Niue member banks and eight state banks open. ENVOYS’ NAMES ARE SENT TO U,S,SENATE Ambassadors to 3 Nations Proposed by President. II !' l nited Press WASHINGTON. March 13. President Franklin D. Roosevelt today sent to the senate the names of Robert Bingham of Kentucky to be ambassador to Great Britain; Josephus Daniels of North Carolina to be ambassador to Mexico and Jesse Isidor Straus of New York to i be ambassador to France. Mr. Roosevelt also sent to the i senate the name of Eugene O. Sykes lof Mississippi to be a member of the federal radio commission. Sykes was reappointed. Baby Cuts Head In Fall Falling out. of a cradle today. Geraldine Murry, nihe-months-oid daughter of Mrs. Ira Murry, 526 South Alabama street, received a severe cut on the head. The infant is in city hospital.

‘Scientific’ Hen Stealers Seize Maps Spotting Chicken Houses Over Wide ' Region; Dogs Listed; Two Held.

THERE are chicken thief suspects and chicken thief suspects, but Captain Matt Leach of the state police has discovered a couple of alleged post-graduate practitioners of the ancient and dishonorable profession who tise maps designating such detailed data as "roads, high fences, deep ditches and dangerous dogs.” Held in jail at Delphi are Floyd Erickson. 38. and Ralph Bending. 35. both of Indianapolis, on a technical charge of possession of liquor.

Found in their possession when they were arrested by patrolman Paul Euel were six pages of ordinary tablet paper in which were detailed maps of terrritory embra<jpd by White. Carrol, Cass. Fulton and Howard counties. Also each prisoner possessed a keycase containing master keys which, Leach said, would open any Yale lock, and skeleton keys of the type used by p<\ss key burglars. The maps spotted" every farrnhcuse prospect in the five counties, listed the mileage between

Memory Trap Dry Agent Fools Legger; Takes Over Liquor and ‘Prisoner.’

FAILURE to remember his cus- | tomers' faces today resulted in Herbert Schaffer, 1029 South Senate avenue, facing federal grand j jury investigation on liquor viola- ; tion charges. Schaffer was met in the eleva- ; tor of a downtown office building, [ carrying an innocent-looking brief case, by a federal dry agent. The agent greeted Schaffer and asked: “How many have you with you | this time?” ‘‘Just five pints this time,” Schaffer replied, according to the agent. “Don't bother to take them on upstairs, I will just take them here,” the agent said, and Schaffer unsuspectingly handed over the contraband whisky and was arrested. ECONOMY BILL BATTLE IS ON Senate Beats Down Move for Sidetracking of Roosevelt Plan. Illt United Press WASHINGTON. March 13.—The senate today beat down a back bench rebellion against the administration’s plan to reduce veterans’ compensation and federal pay rolls. As Chairman Harison of the finance committee brought the $500,000,000 economy bill before the senate, Senator McCarron (Dem., Nev.) moved to sidetrack it by having it referred to the judiciary com- 1 mittee. A viva voce vote howled McCarron’s proposal into tempoi’ary discard, but the gray-haired, burly westerner shouted from his rear-row seat that he wanted a division on the question. The test came, on a proposal by Chairman Harrison of the finance committee that the freshman senator’s motion be tabled. Harrison’s motion won, 60 to 20. The bitter fight opened with a flood of telegraphic protest and praise sweeping the senate. Thousands of messages were received by senators today, many warning that a vote for the Roosevelt program would be political suicide. Final passage of the bill seems certain, however, with leaders of both parties backing it. Support of the program by a ’’substantial majority of the Republican senate minority appeared virtually assured today after a party conference. If the leaders are able to count a two-thirds majority for the bill they probably will limit debate. Senator Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.) has prepared an address which will take several hours to deliver, setting forth his opposition to reduction of veteran benefits. Senator Huey Long (Dem., La.) also expects to talk. The final senate vote is expected to show a larger majority for the administration plan than that in the house:. In recent years the senate has refused several times to accede to the demands of veterans when the house has yielded. The proposed federal pay cuts is rousing little opposition. DRY LAWS OFF BOOKS Illinois Prohibition Legislation Is Abolished by Signing. />’n United Press SPRINGFIELD, 111., March 13. Governor Henry Horner signed two bills today abolishing all Illinois prohibition legislation. The bills, signed at 11:24 a. m., became effective immediately. One j repealed the search and seizure act and the other the state prohibition | law. MAKE BEST OF THINGS Thieves Find Nothing in Apartment; Mix Some Highballs. Thieves mixed themselves several I "highballs" early today after ; breaking into an apartment occu- ' pied by Miss Vivian Rice of 1242 ! College avenue, according to a re--1 port to police. Nothing was stolen.

small towns and crossroads and contained several notations of "bad dog." In addition, there were notations of several X's and Os. believed by Leach to be a code, and an "expense accounts" listing such items as gasoline and food. Both men denied ownership of the maps, saying the maps already were in their "junker” car when they bought it in Indianapolis for sls. However. Leach said handwriting on the maps corresponded with samples of the suspects.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1933

LOSS IS NEAR $60,000,000 IN COAST QUAKE Severe Settling Tremors Spread Fear Through Stricken Area. FATALITY LIST AT 135 Rehabalitation Problem Is Made More Acute by Banking Crisis. BY FRANK BARTHOLOMEW United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, March 13.—Increasing intensity of ‘‘settling tremors” spread fear through southern California's earthquake-stricken area today. Counting its dead at 135 and estimating its property damage possibly as high as $60,000,000. the section was disturbed by heavy recurrent shocks. A temblor at 5:15 a. m. was the strongest since the original 5:55 p. m jolt Friday. The new lass figure was almost ten times the initial estimates of damage sustained by Long Beach, Compton, Huntington Park, Las Angeles and other cities within the shaken area. Quakes Are Continuing 4 The problem of rehabilitation was the more acute because of the national financial crisis, and the fact that southern California at the moment was unable to help itself through open banking channels. The rank and file of citizenry in the damaged towns viewed with renewed alarm the apparently increasing intensity of the ‘‘settling quakes.” Thus far. siesmologists estimated, more than 1,000 separate ‘‘settling quakes” have rolled northward across the Los Angeles-Long BeachSan Pedro triangle, but the people believe the intensity has increased over the week-end. Minot- temblors occur almost hourly, but of late the graph has been punctuated by heavy, jolting shocks. Danger Believed Past Despite popular fear that the temblors were increasing intensity, Dr H. O. Wood of the Carnegie institute at Pasadena and other eminent seismologists said the affected area merely was sustaining the normal settling quakes which eventually will die out. Damage estimates were compiled by the United Press today from the following sources: LONG BEACH—Charles S. Henderson, reconstruction dictator, wired Governor James Rolph at Sacramento asking the legislature immediately to appropriate $500,000 for emergency food supplies. D. W. Pontius, president of the Pacific Electric Railway and mem- \ ber of the Governor’s disaster-relief ! committee, estimated property damage at $25,000,000. Later, HenderI son said current estimates ‘‘rand to $50,000,000.” Appeal to R. F. C. Board of education telegraphed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation an appeal for a million-dol-lar loan to rebuild the school sysj tern alone. Appeal denied. Long Beach Press-Telegram sur- ; veyed the suburban area and esti- ! mated the additional damage at j $10,800,000. A conservative average of the | total, drawn from the above sources. I would be about $40,000,000. Other estimates and sources from which the United Press obtained the figures. HUNTINGTON PARK—S2,SOO,OOO. Stephen F. O'Donnell, publisher of the Signal. COMPTON 'Practically Wiped Out)—$2,000,000. Civic and police authorities. LOS ANGELES—SI2,OOO,OOO. Based ! on resolution before board of superi visors asking 610,000.000 R. F. C. { loan to rebuld courthouse and I estimated damage of $2,000,000 to | public school system. Latter estimate i by board of education. SANTA ANA—S7SO,OOO. Authorj itier, ask R. F. C. loan in that amount. HUNTINGTON BEACH—SSOO,OOO. | Elementary schools valued at a half i million was practically demolished. Wilmington, Watts. Garden Grove and other '’ommunities reported a total estimate of $1,000,000 damages. Total of available estimates to date—ssß,ooo,ooo. Encamped Out of Doors A survey of the east side residential district of Long Beach in- : dicated 85 per cent of the homes j had sustained visible exterior damI age. ranging from caved-in roofs and shifted foundations to total demolition. * Almost without exception the residential community was encamped out of doors, on front lawns and parkings. Cots, bedding and stoves ! salvaged in cautious forays into the homes, were visible on lawns and | between palm trees everywhere. The medical situation throughout the area was well in hand, Dr. Charles Decker. Los Angeles city health officer, appointed co-ordina-tor for the quake zone, said today. Dr. Decker said there was no epidemic of any kind in Long Beach or surrounding territory. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 54 10 a. m 60 7 a. m..... 56 11 a. m 60 | Ba. m 60 12 <noon).. 57 ‘ 9a. m 60 Ip. m 61

Jobless Man Gives Skin to Save Life of Girl, 10

Upper—James Strode, jobless, telling his wife good-by at their B|lraig||g!L' jdß home today shortly before he / *4® submitted to a skin-grafting operation to save the life of a 10- ■B- - girl at the city hospital. ■' r --’ Lower—Strode and his smiling,

Upper—James Strode, jobless, telling his wife good-by at their home today shortly before he submitted to a skin-grafting operation to save the life of a 10-year-old girl at the city hospital. Lower—Strode and his smiling, freckled face.

Carpenter Gives Up Chance for Work So He Can Aid Child. Throwing aside his first opportunity in eight months to earn money, James Strode, 32, of 2602 East Washington street, unemployed carpenter, this afternoon was wheeled into a city hospital operating room and gave three square inches of his skin to save the life of Kathleen Carroll, 10, of 504 Dorman street. “I’m glad to do it for the little girl if it’ll give her a chance,” said Strode as he and his freckles smiled at hospital attaches. Just a lew hours before the skingrafting began at 1 p. m., Strode was offered his first bit of employment in the last eight months*. Patrolman John Moriarity wanted a kitchen cabinet built in his home. Strode couldn’t take the job. He’ll Get His Job But brother officers of Moriarity, who works a night shift and could not be reached, assert that Strode will have his job when he's well again. The grafting was performed under local anesthetics. Skin from Strode’s leg was transferred to the breast of the child. The entire operation consumed but twenty minutes. The girl was burned recently at her home when her clothing caught fire from a stove. Good-naturedly. Strode laughed at the fact that “three square inches of his freckled skin” was being transfered to the child. “They won’t find much skin that hasn’t freckles or tattoos,” he said, as he rolled up a sleeve and bared an arm which had been seared by the electric needle of tatooers during his sojourn in the navy in the World war. One of 50 Applicants But the freckled skin of Strode will not make any difference to Kathleen, for she, too, is freckled. The freckles, doctors, said, however, had nothing to do with the rare type of blood necessary before the grafting could be accomplished. Strode was one of fifty applicants who proffered their skin at the city hospital and underwent a series of blood tests as doctors sought to find a blood compatible with Kathleen’s and would successfully terminate the skin-grafting. “I saw the request for aid in a paper. My wife showed it to me. We have no children and we discussed helping the child. Then I w r ent to the hospital and volunteered.” he said. “It’s a little thing to do. I didn't realize so much fuss would be made over it." Strode declared shortly before he was taken to the operating room. LICENSE DEADLINE SET Drivers Must File Applications Before April 1, Is Ruling. Motorists must obtain their 1933 driver's licenses by April 1, Frank Finney, new* chief of the state auto license department, announced today. Finney said printing of the licenses will be started at once and that drivers may operate on a receipt if the license is not ready by the deadline. Under the emergency law passed by the legislature, the licenses will cost 50 cents each.

Contest Prizes Winner of the $lO first prize in The Times Roosevelt cabinet contest is Miss Delia Keegan, 731 West New York street. Second prize of $7.50 was awarded K. E. Stout, 700 Architects and Builders’ building; third prize of $5 goes to Thomas J. White, 240 Hendricks Place, and fourth prize, $2.50, to Mrs. Isabel Cooke, 3061 Central avenue. Checks will be mailed as soon as possible. The judges’ decisions are final.

FORMER HOOVER ASSISTANT DEAD French Strother Is Victim of Pneumonia; Was Magazine Editor. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 13. French Strother, 49, former magazine editor and administrative assistant to ex-President Hoover, died of pneumonia today. Except for an interval of nine months in 1931, Strother was a member of the White House secretariat throughout Hoover's term. He did research work for the President and assisted in preparation of state papers and addresses. He helped organize the White House conferences on child health and home building. Before coming here, he had been managing editor and associate of World's Work magazine for thirteen years. FIX ZANGARA'S DEATH WEEK OFJARCH 20 Slayer of Mayor Cermak to Pay in Chair. By United Press TALLAHASSEE. Fla., March 13. Dave Sholtz today signed the warrant for the execution of Giuseppi Zangara. confessed slayer of Mayor Anton J. Cermak of Chicago in an attempt to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt, and set the date for some time during the week of March 20. Zangara will be put to death in the electric chair at the state prison at Raiford. The day and hour of execution must be set by Superintendent L. F. Chapman of the state prison. DAVIS TO GO TO GENEVA American Disarmament Delegate Will Sail This Week. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 13.—Norman H. Davis, American delegate to the w*orld disarmament conference, plans to sail for Geneva to resume his work before the end of this week, it was learned today at the state department.

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IMMEDIATE ACTION IS CALLED FOR IN SURPRISE MESSAGE Manufacture and Sale Sought, to Boost Government Revenues in Campaign to Balance Budget. PASSAGE TO BE RUSHED IN HOUSE Ways and Means Committee Will Meet Tuesday to Report Type of Legislation Urged by President. BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press Stall Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 13.—President Roosevelt, in a surprise move that startled even his closest friends, today sent a message to congress calling for immediate modification of the Volstead act to permit manufacture and sale of beer. In the most brief message he has submitted to the legislators, Mr. Roosevelt asked for immediate action in carrying out one of his foremost pledges to the nation. He asked that manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages be permitted to bolster revenues of government. The message follows: “I recommend to congress the passage of legislation for immediate modification of the Volstead act, to legalize manufacture and sale of beer and other beverages of such alcoholic content as is permissible under the Constitution and to provide through, manufacture and sale, by substantial taxes, proper and much needed revenue for the government. “I deem action at this time to be of the highest importance.”

KIDNAPED CHILD RETURNED HOME Charges Against 11 Are Dropped When Girl Is Brought Back Safe. Rij United Press RENSSELAER. Ind., March 13. Patricia Pearl Tripp. 4, was returned to the home of her foster parents Sunday after being held by kidnapers since Nov. 20. The child was found by her grand uncle, August Johnson, Hebron farmer, who was released from jail at Gary upon his promise to return her. Charges against eleven other persons held in connection with the kidnaping were dismissed by Prosecutor Robert G. Estil of Lake county when Patricia’s safety was assured. He said the kidnaping apparently was the outgrowth of a family fight over custody of Patricia, whose parents died two years ago. Johnson was granted custody of the girl, but the case was taken to court and she was awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Hamlin Smith of Rensselaer who adopted her. A roughly dressed, foreign-looking man snatched < Patricia from the Smith farm house after gaining entrance upon the pretext of buying eggs. RAINS TO PRECEDE TEMPERATURE DROP Fair Weather Tuesday, Is Prediction. Showers today and tonight will precede a slight temperature drop and fair weather Tuesday, according to a weather bureau forecast. After a week-end of balmy weather, an unsettled area moved across the central west, bringing thunderstorms and heavy showers This condition was to continue today and possibly tonight, the bureau predicted. Highest temperature Sunday was 56 at 4 p. m., 4 degrees lower than the thermometer reading of 60 early today.

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Speaker Rainey said that beer legislation would be expedited in the house. The ways and means committee was being organized to handle the legislation and was expected to meet Tuesday to report immediately whatever type of legislation the President desires. The Speaker added that Immediately after securing the necessary committee report, the beer bill will be jammed through the house. Senate Majority Leader Joseph T. Robinson told the United Press that he planned to bring a modification bill before the senate immediately after the pending economy bill is disposed of and pass it promptly, in accordance with the President’s request for prompt action. Will Raise Millions The request for immediate action on beer caught congress by surprise. Leaders regarded it as a part of the President's complete program. They assumed that the call for action now was to supplement the $500,000,000 economy program, which was taken up today by the senate,! to assure balancing of the budget' now. The beer bill, it is estimated, will raise between $150,000,000 and S2OO - 000.000. The house passed a straight beer bill last session, authorizing an alcoholic content of 3.2 per cent. The senate failed to act on a beer-wine bill legalizing malt and vinous liquors of not more than 3.05 per cent adcohol. Cheered by House The problem of balancing the budget has come prominently to the front because of the necessity of refunding some $600,000,000 in treasury bonds March 15. The treasury has announced short-term issues, at the high rates of 4 and 4’, per cent, to meet this financial problem. Reading of the message in the senate passed without immediate floor discussion. When the President's message was read to the house, the clerk con- ! stantly waft interrupted by bursts of cheers and applause from both the membership and the galleries. Speaker Rainey was obliged constantly to rap for order, so the brief message might be heard in its entirety. BOARD OF TRADE MAY BE REOPENED FRIDAY Chicago Directors Expect to Await Banking Resumption. By United Bruns CHICAGO, March 13.—The Chicago Board of Trade may reopen “Thursday or Friday, probably Friday,” an official of the exchange said today. No meeting of the directors has been called to consider the date of reopening, it was said, but sentiment at a meeting Sunday indicated that a majority of the directors felt it advisable to wait for complete reopening of banks. BOY’S LEG IS SEVERED Falls Under Wheels of Freight Train; in Critical Condition. Edward Taylor, 12, of 532 North Belmont avenue, is in a critical condition today at city hospital after he suffered loss of his left leg when he fell beneath wheels of a freight train in the 2600 block West Michigan street, Sunday. Elmer Critton, 254 North Tremont avenue, conductor on the train, said eight cars passed across the boy’s body. The lad is a son of Mrs. Curtis Nanse.