Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 270, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 March 1933 — Page 3

MARCH 22, 1933

WAR FLAME IN EUROPE FANNED BY HITLERITES Norman Davis Sails Tonight to Be U.' S. Eyes and Ears in Crisis. (Continued From Page One) armament conference, now moribund. He will speed up the coming world monetary and economic conference. . He will dig into the war debt situation and he will give European statesmen the lowdown on what America really thinks about the same. Will Make Self Useful . In fact, he will be the administration’s eyes, ears, mouthpiece, and reporter at large in the dangerously topsy-turvy Europe to which the United States admittedly is bound irretrievably, whether Americans like it or not. In that Europe he will make himself generally useful with this country's larger interests in view. On the eve of Ambassador Davis’ sailing, latest reports received here are that the danger of a new r conflict in Europe, far from being overestimated, hardly can be exaggerated. This information came from distinguished sources just returned from the scene. Little was expected from the Mac Donald-Mussolini-Daladier conversations, it w f as added, because, with Hitler in the saddle in Germany, anything can happen. It is understood that MacDonald carried a warning from Great Britain that she would withdraw from all connection with the continent and let it stew *in its own juice if it continued its mad race toward war. t No Assurance of Support MacDonald left Paris with no assurance that France would support the four-power peace treaty proposed by Premier Mussolini of Italy to end the danger of imminent international misunderstandings. But he did have an understanding with Premier Edouard Daladier that France would consent to enlarge the conversations over the four-power pact, and would consent to.a review of the whole European situation. The powers which would be involved in the treaty as proposed by Mussolini are Italy, France, England and Germany. F. l>bi Asks for Help Action toward investigation of outrages against Jews in Germany was taken af era delegation representing the American Jewish congress asked Under-secietary of Stale Phillips to look into the antiJewish activities of the Hitlerites. The delegation was headed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York City. In talking with Phillips, however, Wise and his companions urged the state department get beyond mere protection of American nationals. They asked that the United States, for broad humanitarian considerations, act to protect Jews generally from persecution in Germany. Wise declared that many German intellectual leaders were in hiding, fearful of Hitler and his Nazis. * The fiery Fascist chancellor, with the support of aged President Paul von Hindenburg in a field marshal’s uniform, and of former Crown Prince Wilhelm, Tuesday dominated ceremonies in which monarchism through a stirring day was rampant. Reichstag Backs Hitler The newly elected reichstag, after a preliminary meeting in the garrison church at Potsdam, where the bones of Frederick the Great lie, met late Tuesday afternoon in the Krall opera house here, opposite the burned reichstag building. The legislators, soon to be stripped of all but the vestige of legislative power in favor of Chancellor Hitler, immediately re-elected his righthand man, Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Nazi leader, as their speaker. Goering. concluding a dramatic speech, turned toward Hitler ks the Nazi and Nationalist deputies arose, and said: -The reichstag majority and the best elements solemnly pledge their support to you in your formidable task.” Hitler, in a uniform of his storm troops corps, sat in the front Nazi benches in the capacity as a reichstag deputy for the first time in his career.

STATE MANUFACTURER 4 IS DEAD OF OLD AGE John n. Coppes, 82, Is Taken at Home in Nappanee. fill l ime* S/n i iol NAPPANEE. Ind.. March 22. John D. Coppes, 82. vice-president and secretary of the Coppes Bros. Zook Company, manufacturers of kitchen cabinets, died today at his home of ailments due to old ape. Mr. Coppes had been engaged in business for fifty-seven years and was one of the first settlers of this town. Early in life he was active in the saw and flour mill industries. He leaves his widow and two sons. Irvin and Marvin. Funeral services will be held at 2 Friday afternoon at the home. EXONERATED BY JURY Illinois Man Found Not Guilty of Embezzling SIOO. Richard F. Van Alstyne of Lake Park. 111. was found not guilty on a charge of embezzlement by a criminal court jury early Tuesday night. He was charged with appropriating SIOO belonging to the National Regulator Company. Clyde C Karrer. special judge, presided. Albert Stump and Lloyd Claycombe. attorneys for the company, prosecuted the case after their appointment by Herbert E. Wilson, prosecutor, as deputies. Harry Gause. former deputy prosecutor, defended Van Alstyne. Cashier Named Conservator fiii L nitr4 fin n GOSHEN, Ind. March 22. Claude E. Cornell, cashier of the City National bank for twenty years, has been appointed conservator of the institution by the currency controller at Washington.

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DROP FIOn’T ON SKSP-VOTE LAW State C. 0. P. Committee Not to Contest Statute; Meet in April. Abandoning plans to contest the “skip-election" law, passed by the 1933 legislature, the Republican state committee Tuesday authorized Don B. Irwin, its new chairman, to appoint a committee to revise the rules for holding municipal elections next year. With postponement of elections one year, the question arises whether city committees organized this year will operate next year, or whether the entire election machinery should be placed in the hands of the county committees. The rules Committee named by Irwin includes: Ewing Emison, Vincennes, Seventh district chairman; Edmund J. Freund, Valparaiso, Second district chairman; Schuyler A. Haas, Indianapolis, Twelfth district chairman; John W. Scott, Gary, First district chairman; Miss Carrie Korff, Evansville, Eighth district vice-chairman, and Mrs. Lulu Fitch, Muncie, Tenth district vice-chair-man. Next meeting of the state committee will be held here April 29, second day of the Republican Editorial Association spring meeting, at which Ogden L. Mills, former treasury secretary, will be the speaker. LAWYER HELD ON JOB FRAUD CHARGE Accused of Taking SIOO for Fireman Post Promise. Arrest of L. Lawrence Gilliland, an attorney, on a false pretense charge, was made Tuesday night at his home, 1935 North Alabama street. It is alleged he obtained SIOO on a promise that he could obtain a fire department appointment for Fred Volk. 1824 Mansfield avenue. Warrant for the arrest was signed by Volk, who said he did not obtain an appointment. Gilliland, who is at liberty under bond, refuses to comment on the case. Motorist Held as Drunken Driver Charge of drunken driving resulted in arrest of Alex Scott, 54. of 1617 North Capitol avenue, after the i automobile he was driving collided with a truck driven by Harold Watson, 28, of 1945 North Keystone avenue, at Noble and Michigan streets. , No one was injured.

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Broadway Little Theater to Present Dramas Tonight at Brookside. LEISVRE HOI R CLI B TONIGHT Brookside I’ark rommunilv house. J. T. V. Hill community house. Khodius Park community house. Till RSDAY Crispus Attucks hish school. FRIDAY Christian Park community house. Fletcher Place community house. j Ft. Wayne and Walnut Club. Municipal Gardens community house. Nebraska Cropsey Club. School 22, at 1251 South Illinois street. Oak Hill Club. School 38. at 2030 Winter avenue. School 5. at 612 West Washington street. i School 16. at 1102 West Market street. School 26. at 1301 Fast Sixteenth street. School 31. Keliv and Bovd streets. Michigan and Noble Club. School 31. at 2125 Fast Twenty-fifth Leisure Hour club members are asked to submit suggestions for the type of programs they desire, according to Dwight Ritter, manager. Musical programs, safety programs, plays, games and recreational ideas now are available.

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Dodging the camera kept five of the six suspects in the machine gun murder of Police Sergeant Lester Jones busy in police headquarters at Covington, Ky., Tuesday afternoon. Upper—Ducking their heads and holding hands in front of their faces, the suspects attempted to prevent a camera record of their appearance in police headquarters. At the left Mary Phillips, a sweetheart of one of the suspects, doged behind one of the prisoners. At the extreme right is a Covington detective who aided

National Crisis Is Facing Education, Says Stetson

•Issue Is One of Real and Bogus Economy,’ He Tells Kivvanis. Education is faced by a national crisis due to a situation arising from the depression, asserted Paul C. Stetson, city schools superintendent and president of the National Education Association department of superintendence, in an address today at a Kiwanis Club luncheon in the Columbia Club.

The Broadway Little Theater, under the direction of Robert Louis Oberreich, will present three oneact plays tonight at the Brookside Park community house. Appearing in the casts will be George Hoagland Jr.. Harry Thomas. Mary Frances Hoagland, Jessie Keller. Martha Davis, John Thurston. Glenn Johnson. Musical numbers i will be given between the plays by ! the Hoosier Fiddlers Three, Thomas Wikoff. Irvin Noblitt and Ruleigh Green and songs by Mildred Rhude. ! A safety program, under direction of Sergeant Frank Owen, will be given at Rhodius park community I house tonight. The program will ! include a play, with a cast composed of Billy Schrolucke. Charlotte . Marie Grossicupf. Dick Niles. Hazel Jane Abraham and Donald Pine; iccordion numbers by Herschell Brittenbaeh: songs by Lydia and Irwin McCray; dances by Frack Ristoff: songs by Dorothy French; old-time music by Orvil Teeter and James Weaver, and guitar music and songs by Morrell Raymer. A surprise program has been ar- , ranged for the J. T. V. Hill comi munity house tonight.

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n the gang roundup Monday afternoon. Center—Deputy Sheriff John Riegler, Kentcn county, Kentucky, with the 90-mile-an-hour Buick, identified as stolen in Indianapolis. Thompson w r as arrested w'hen the car crashed through a culvert covering near the gang’s headquarters, Erlanger, Ky. Lower—Here is the arsenal, comprised of the machine gun police said killed Jones, two sawedoff shotguns, an automatic riffle and tw r o revolvers taken from the gang. The license plates for Illinois and Ohio were found in the suspects’ possession.

Stetson declared schools are closed in 4,500 districts in the country, “depriving 200.000 boys and girls of educational advantages." “So drastic have been the reductions in school budgets that the issue no longer is one of economy and extravagance, but of real and bogus economy,” he continued. He cited as examples of curtailment cos educational expense, the elimination of night schools in many cities and reductions in teachers’ salaries ranging from 12 to 43 per cent in one-fourth of the cities of the nation and of 2 to 13 per cent in half the cities. "Vicious propaganda, which to oui discredit we have not effectively combated, has been directed against the schools,” Stetson declared. In connection with his subject, "The Recovery of Education," Stetson discussed object of the national association's commission on the emergency in education, which will meet in Chicago. March 30. The commission, he said, will continue a program of regional conferences. the gathering of data and study of various plans being used to put schools back on a normal basis.

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MONEY MOTIVE RULED OUT IN BRUTAL CRIME Insurance Theory Untenable Says Coroner Probing Evans Tragedy. Theory that Charles D. Evans, carpenter-contractor, killed his wife, Ellen Josephine, with insurance as a motive was declared untenable toMarion county coroner, day by Dr. William E. Arbuckle, Arbuckle said examination of the effects of both husband and wife revealed Mrs. Evans carried 5350 insurance on herself with Evans as the beneficiary. Administrators for the estates of both were appointed today with Paul- Rochford, Mrs. Evans’ attorney, acting for John D. Bain, attorney, and Benjamin F. Evans, a brother, representing the husband. Benjamin Evans concurred in the opinion of police that motive for the murder was the thirty-two-year-old history of marital discord between the couple. He said his brother and Mrs. Evans had quarreled since their wedding day and that Mrs. Evans’ action in filing for a divorce decree and alimony probably was the direct motive for the crime. Papers found in a metal box in one of Evans vacant houses did not contain deeds to his seventeen pieces of property, Arbuckle said today. Administrators began a search for them with nothing to direct them. A search of the Evans’ home at 1321 Congress avenue did not reveal the documents and as far as is known, Evans did not have a safety deposit box. Ownership of the automobile used in the murder and suicide has been traced to Mrs. Love M. Lawrence, 725 North Delaware street. Apt. 6. Mrs. Lawrence told detectives she has been renting a garage owned by Evans, since last September, and had no knowledge of the fact that he had taken her car and used it to transport his wife’s dismembered was discovered and Evans killed himself. License plates on the car Evans was using had been taken from his wife’s car. . Funeral services w r ere to be neld at 9 this morning for Mrs. Evans at Holy Angeles Catholic church, of which she was a member. Burial was to be in Holy Cross cemetery. Services and burial for Evans will be held at Norwood, O.

0, S, TO PRESS MITCHELL CASE Noted N. Y. Banker Is Under Arrest on Federal Charge. (Continued From Page One) Liberty bonds, and $4,503.78 director’s fees. Lawful deductions amount to $184,299.91, according to government statisticians. Mitchell’s arrest was announced in Washington by Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings, who had conferred during the day with President Roosevelt on the general situation surrounding invesfigation and possible prosecutions of bankers. Mitchell was escorted by United States Marshal Raymond J. Mulligan to the chambers of Federal Judge Alfred C. Coxe, who set March 29 for the arraignment—a conventional delay to give the grand jury time to consider the case. Mitchell was released under SIO,OOO bond. Mitchell resigned from the chairmanship of National City bank and affiliates after revelation of the income tax maneuver and various bank operations in the Washington committee hearings. Mitchell had been one of the chief executives of National City for more than fifteen years, and president or chairman for twelve years. He was regarded as one of the keenest financiers of the boom years. The New York county grand jury returned an indictment Tuesday against Horace C. Sylvester Jr., vice-president of the National City Company, one of the affiliates formerly headed by Mitchell, charging third-degree forgery in connection with a. SIO,OOO loan.

DANCE MASTERS HERE Fourth Annual Six-State Meeting to Be Held in City April 9. Fourth annual six-state joint meeting sponsored by the Dancing Masters of America and the Chicago Association will be held Sunday, April 9, at the Antlers. Leading dance authorities of the middle west will attend. Sessions will be held throughout the day anci at night. Louis Stockman, head of the Stockman dance studio, 1543 North Illinois street, is state supervisor for the meeting. Dance to Be Given The dance to be given at St, Ann’s hall, in Mars Hill, Thursday. March 23, will be under the direction of a committee of which Albert Blaschke is chairman. If you have a vacant room. HERE S A TIP: A room for rent ad costs only 2 cents a word in The Times and it will get results, too.

Junior Polo Teams in Semi-Final Play Tonight

Ray Weiper (left), 11, of 4333 College avenue, goal tender, and Robert (Peanuts) Bcrling, 13, of 4353 College avenue, second rtish on the Black Peppers junior roller polo team, which will battle the East Side Ramblers in one of the semi-final games of The Times junior tournament at Tomlinson hall at 6 tonight.

Weiper and Berling are wearing two of the sets of eight jersey sweaters given by the Em-Roe sporting good company as prizes in the tournament. In the other semifinal tilt tonight at 6:30, the Holy Cross Flashes will tangle with the Squeeks. The two winners will battle for the championship Sunday afternoon at 1:45 as a curtain raiser to the Indianapolis professional polo game. The Times tournament has been in progress during the last tw-o w T eeks, with fourteen starting teams and the action in the games between the juvenile skaters has been sensational. Inability of some entrants to obtain suitable skates to play on the hall floor was no obstacle, as the Riverside skating rink provided ; ample skates to outfit two teams for ! every game. Ray Weiper is pic- j tured above wearing a pair of home- j made shin guards, mono- j gramed with B. P. for Black Peppers. Main prizes for the tourney are j donated by the Kingston Products Company of Kokomo, manufacturers of high-grade skates. Members

GEORGE. A. RYAN IS TAKEN BY DEATH Horseman and Fair World Editor Pneumonia Victim. George A. Ryan, 65, editor of the J Horseman and Fair World, died Monday night in his home, 1635 i Central avenue, after a brief attack of pneumonia. Funeral services will be held at; 3:30 Thursday in the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, 25 West Fall Creek boulevard. Cremation will follow. Mr. Ryan was born in Waltham, Mass., and served as a sports writer on the Boston Globe during his early manhood. He then became editor of the Chicago Horseman, a position he held until 1907 when he became editor of the Horseman and Fair World. He served in that position until 1917 when he accepted the post of editor of the Crawfordsville Review. He returned as editor of Horseman and Fair World in 1927. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. Mabel Ryan and a sister. Miss Laura Mabel Ryan of Santa Barbara, Cal.: DIRECTORS ARE CUT Central Indiana Power Slices List From Nine to Seven. Stockholders of the Central Indi- ' ana Power Company at the annual meeting today changed the bylaws to reduce the number of directors from nine to seven and re-elected as directors John N. Shannahan, Lucius B. Andrus, Edwin J. Booth, Laurence K. Callahan, Morse DellPlain, Harold S. Patton and Bernard P. Shearon. Drys Map Fight on Repeal. Prohibitionists of Hendricks county are completing organization for the coming constitutional convention on the wet and dry question. A committee has been appointed to draw up a permanent organization and a mass meeting for the entire county will be held at Plainfield Friday night.

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See Back Page! Trustee’s Sale Entire SIO,OOO Stock of WALK-OVER BOOT SHOP Bloomington, Indiana! Bought and Offered for Sale at About 25c on the Dollar by BLOCK'S

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NO BEER FOR POOR INDIANA UNTIL JUNE 1 License Operations Brings Delay. Excise Chief Lets Out. (Continued From Page One) looking forward to getting beer on April 7. the first day national legisI lation becomes a law. Similar are the expectations of Gus H. Brewer. Since the only’ | difference between near-beer and \ real beer is palatability and alcohol, ' all that is necessary is not to dealI coholize the beer to make it near- ; beer. Many breweries stopped their deI alsoholizing weeks ago in cxpecta- ! tion of supplying thirsty hordes on j April 7. The BerghofT Brewing Company, Ft. Wayne, one of the oldest of pre-prohibition breweries, is one of these. B. A. Poelhuis. general manager, said today his company wil have 15.000 to 20,000 barrels of beer ready by April 7 and could put out “real beer tomorrow, if permitted.” June 1 is not an arbitrary date, I Fry expalined after enumerating the difficulties in the way providing beer April 7 when it generally is expected. "It's possible we may be able to j shave the time a littie,” he ex- | license machinery gets well under ; plained. “Once the setting up of the | way. we may find that Indiana can have beer by May 15.” Governor Paul V. McNutt had pledged there w'ould be no delay. Last week when the excise director had not yet been named because of difficulty in geting the man he wanted for the place, McNutt said ! delay in naming the “beer czar” j would not “hold up the Indiana end ‘ if brew is legalized,” as it has been.