Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1933 — Page 1

FLOOD CRACKS WARFLEIGH LEVEE

NATION-WIDE FARM STRIKE IS POSTPONED Holiday Leaders to Await Results of Roosevelt’s Legislation. PROTESTS ARE HEARD Milk War in Wisconsin Ordered Despite Action of Reno and Aids. BY WILLIAM E. lIALLBERG ! nttfd Prrss Staff Correspondent ST. PAUL. Minn.. May 13.- The national farm strike has been postponed indefinitely by leaders of the movement, but from the ranks ci | the strike organization came inutterings of dissatisfaction today. In Wisconsin, a milk strike, second in three months, was ordered despite the postponement of the national movement. Elsewhere in the midwest members of the national farm holiday association attacked action of their leaders in abandoning strike plans until the results of President Roosevelt's farm legislation became evident. Milo Reno, picturesque chief of the Holiday association, and fourteen directors will meet within two weeks to survey effects of the new farm bill. If they decide results do not meet standards predicted by the President. anew strike date will be set, and the embargo carried out as planned originally. Olson's I’lea Wins Support The meeting will be held in Des Moines, headquarters of the association. Reno, who came here Friday for the conference with leaders of three other states, which resulted in canceling of the strike, left for Des Moines on a midnight train. "We have in no way retreated from our fundamental demand for guarantee of production costs for the farmer,” Reno said. He explained the strike was postponed "out of respect for our chief executive and regard for the opinion that public sentiment is in favor of giving the administration an opportunity to fulfill its promises.” A dramatic move by Governor Floyd Olson of Minnesota just before he submitted to an operation for appendicitis snapped the last opposition to strike postponement. Governor Olson dictated a message from his hospital bed, urging suspension of the strike. Two days ago he returned from Washington, where he conferred with President Roosevelt and received a promise that the administration would urge financial companies to be lenient with farm mort gages. Seek to Avoid Bloodshed Governor Olson revealed that Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace had told him he favored a “fair exchange clause” under which price of wheat and other commodities would be increased to equal in buying power corresponding units cf industrial production. Wallace told Olson, the Governor laid. that, he hoped to set the price of wheat at 94 cents a bushel, and raise other commodities correspondingly. In his plea for suspension of the Strike, Governor Olson pointed out that bloodshed, and perhaps death, probably would attend the embargo. A point set out by Governor Olson which carried much weight with Rono and the others was that the strike, f started now. would do much to destroy favorable farm sentiment built tip in the east during the last few weeks. BULLET FIRED THROUGH ROOF: FLIER IS SOUGHT Aerial Gunman Hunted by Police After Shooting Investigation. Police todnv were seeking an aerial gunman who is believed to have fired a bullet Friday night through the roof of the home of Muss Emma King, 2118 North Talbot street. • Miss King showed police a .38ca liber bullet on her dresser with a corresponding hole in the roof above. A short time before. Miss King heard a plane flying overhead, and believes the pilot fired the shot. TRIES TO END HIS LIFE City Man. Brooding Over Estrangement With Wile. Fails in Suicide. Brooding over estrangement from his wife. Otis Whitelev, 39. of 1069 West Thirty-first street, unsuccessfully attempted suicide Friday night by slashing his wrists with a razor blade. Times Index Book a Day 11 Classified 9-10 Comics 11 Crosword Puzzle 7 Curious World 3 Editorial 4 Financial 7 Heywood Broun 4 Hickman Theater Reviews 6 Radio 3 Serial Story 11 Sports 12 Talburt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 7 Woman's Page 5

The Indianapolis Times Mostly cloudy tonight and Sunday; somewhat cooler tonight

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 2

LEAPS TO DEATH

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Choosing death over life without her married dentist-employer. Miss Rpbeeca Roche, above, leaped from the twenty-third floor of a Chicago building. Her suicide followed a. conference with Dr. M. M. Restell and his wife during which the girl was told her love affair with the dentist must end. GANDHI WEAK, CONDITION GOOD No Complications Arise From Fast, Assert Five Doctors. /?(/ I nitril Pi ffM POONA, India, May 13.—Five physicians examined Mahatma M. K. Gandhi today and found his physical condition comparatively good. They issued -the following bulletin : “Gandhi slept eleven hours during the last 24 hours. Nausea still is present hut is not troublesome. Gandhi is weak, but there are no complications. His blood pressure is inclined to rise, and he was advised to avoid exertion.” The doctors examined the little independence leader in the marble palace of a disciple where he entered the fifth day of his projected twenty-first day fast in behalf of India's untouchables. BUS OFFICIAL MISSING Police Asked to Search for City Man, Bivision Chief. Indianapolis police have been asked to search for E. P. Gustafson, 35, of 20 North Kitley avenue, who last was seen in Terre Haute where he had gone on business. Gustafson is division superintendent for Great Eastern Stages, Inc., and left Monday to make collections at various stations. OVERCOME BY FUMES Youth Is Revived by Police Initiator Rescue Squad. Woody Burtch, 20, of 2002 North Capitol avenue, was revived by the police emergency rescue squad initiator Friday afternoon when he was overcome by gasoline fumes at the Polar Ice Cream Company, 3347 Madison avenue. Burtch was working in a closed pit washing machinery with gasoline.

Whose Little Dog Is This? ■‘’'•Y-./jw :Yf |§r ■ -si Wsmgtffl r ? PW Him I f mJ 9HS im ■■■ ■■ - |w Maybe it'll be yours. Read Monday's Times for details.

U. $. ORDERS ON NEW BANK ARE DUE HERE Arrival of Instructions to Pave Way for Speedy Organization. MUCH STOCK PLEDGED American National Public Subscription to Reach $1,800,000. Final instructions from Washington on details of organization of the new American National bank, to take over assets of the Fletcher American National bank, were expected to be received today by the new bank’s organization committee. Receipt of the details will permit the committee to print and mail notices to depositors, and also blanks for approval of stockholders and shareholders on the plan of freeing immediately 50 per cent of restricted balances and "freezing” temporarily the other half. At the same time, stock subscription blanks for the new bank will be printed and distributed. Common Stock Pledged Under the plan, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will assume a $1,800,000 preferred stock issue in the new bank and loan it .$1,200,000. while the bank must obtain public subscriptions for $1,800,000 common stock. Although subscription blanks have not been available, a substantial portion of the common stock has been pledged by local citizens. The remaining half of restricted deposits in the old bank will be secured by $10,670,000 in non-liquid assets which will be liquidated by a conservator to be named as soon as details of the plan have been completed. Safe, Sane Distribution Deposits in the Fletcher American bank since Feb. 27, will continue to be available to depositors at any time, and will be taken over by the new bank when it is opened. Approval of the plan for the new bank is contained in a statement issued by William Storen, state treasurer. “The establishment of the new institution will be absolutely a safe and sane banking connection,” he said, “and I hope that the outstate banks who were correspondents of the old bank will lend every cooperation to the new American National bank.”

How the Market Opened

BY ELMER C. WALZER United Press Financial Editor NEW YORK, May 13. Stocks opened irregularly in a fractional range in lighter volume than in the two preceding sessions and held steady in the early trading. Oil shares again were in demand. Continental rose to anew 1933 high at 12 ’ 4 , up \ on a block 0 f shares. American Telephone opened at 107 up • 2 point on 1,000 shares and held near that level in the early trading. Western Union eased 14 to 42 while International Telephone was off 3 b at 13 %. Auburn Automobile was a feature of the early dealings. It rose 34 points to 5T\. General Motors opened down U at 24 4 on 2.000 shares. Chrysler eased fractionally to 194. Commercial Investment Tru s t rose a point to 34. anew high for j the year on a block of 3,000 shares. ! Buying was in response to the i acquisition of the Ford Motor Car j company's interest in the Universal Credit Corporation. Steel common opened at 484, off •4, and then moved toward 49. American Can. Du Pont, International Harvester, New York Central. Atchison, North American, Case, Bethlehem Steel, Radio. International Nickel, and Westinghouse Electric made small declines at the outset. PRISON DENTIST FIRED Dismissed From State Post for Selling Tobacco to Inmates. By I Hitcl Press MICHIGAN CITY. Ind., May 13. Dr. J. C. Sawyer, dentist at the state prison for twenty-five years, was dismissed Friday for selling tobacco to inmates. The dismissal was ordered by Warden Walter H. Daly after one of the prisoners protested he had been charged $1 by Dr. Sawyer for a package of cigarets. and 50 cents for plug tobacco.

McNutts Life Story Starts Monday in The Times

'T'HEY say he's got a one-way ticket to the White House. i 1 Some call him the Hoosier Hitler, some the leader of the Khaki Shirts, and many liken him to the man he met in Italv on an American Legion trip—Mussolini. Want to read about him? Then get the first installment. Monday, in The Indianapolis Times of a series of six stories on the life, aims, and personality of Governor Paul V. McNutt. That visit with Mussolini will be related during the series. McNutt, the man of many character facets, will be turned for you from cradle days to “crowning'' as Indiana's Governor. , >. r

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933

FACES EVOLUTION TRIAL

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Anew row over man’s remote ancestry is brewing in Youngwood, Pa., where George B. Hein (above), 32-year-old high school instructor, has demanded a hearing on charges that he taught evolution. Many pupils took his side, like the pair of sophomores (below), tacking their protest to a telephone pole.

PEIPING READY FORJNVASION Feverish Preparations for Japanese Attack Are Made. BY HERBERT R. EKINS United Press Staff Correscondent PEIPING, May 13.—The Japanese aircraft carrier Kamoi arrived off Tientsin today as Chinese and Japanese troops continued sanguinary warfare north of Peiping. The arrival of the Kamoi, reported in Tientsin dispatches, was confirmed by the naval attache of the Japanese legation. The arrival of the carrier served to strengthen general belief that Japan intended to occupy Peiping and Tientsin, the two major cities of northern China, immediately. Japanese army airplanes have been active, over Peiping, dropping propaganda leaflets and reconnoitering. Chinese wounded were being evacuated from local military hospitals and sent south to safety. Peiping was under strict martial law as reports from the battle front near Miyuan indicated heavy fighting. Chinese said they had halted the Japanese advance along the Mandarin highway. Another Japanese column was reported to have halted at Luanchow, northeast of Tientsin. Foreign military observers thought this column was waiting to advance on Tientsin, and had halted until arrival of the carrier bearing cooperative naval aircraft. The Peiping garrison prepared feverishly for attack, strengthening fortifications and testing armament. An anti-aircraft gun on the north gate exploded today while undergoing tests. An officer and a soldier were killed. NO DRIVERS’ LICENSE CAMPAIGN IS PLANNED Motorists Who Do Not Have Permits to Be Asked to Report. No drive on new drivers’ license will be made by state police, it was announced today by Captain Matt Leach. The deadline for purchase of such license was Thursday, and any one halted without one will be asked to report, Leach said.

IN CONGRESS TODAY

By United Press SENATE In recess until Monday. Conferees meet to complete report on Muscle Shoals bill. Banking committee resumes study of Glass Banking reform bill. HOUSE In recess until Monday. Banking committee meets on Steagall banking reform bill. Judiciary committee considers bankruptcy bill.

PRESIDENT NOT TO SEEK WAR DEBTSPOWER Congress Not to Be Asked for Authority to Revise or Compromise. DEFAULTS FACE U. S. Roosevelt and Hull Turn Down French Proposal for Moratorium. BY WILLIAM F. KIRBY United Press Staff Correspondent (Convrieht. 1933. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, May 13.—Democratic leaders of house and senate have been advised by the highest administration sources that President Roosevelt has abandoned all intention of seeking congressional authority to revise or compromise the war debts. This information was interpreted today by party chieftains as also foreclosing all possibility that the chief executive might seek power to grant a moratorium on Europe's $140,000,000 June 15 payments as a trading point in the forthcoming world ecoomic conference. Great Britain, among other nations, has made no provision in its budget for the June payment. The United States, therefore, apparently must face wholesale defaults unless there is an unexpected change in this country's attitude. Word on Capitol hill of the administration's decision coincided with a rebuff of anew French proposal. Ambassador Andre De Laboulaye of France discussed the June payment with both Mr. Roosevelt and State Secretary Cordell Hull Friday night. It was learned that France offered to pay the $20,000,000 defaulted last December if the United States would grant a moratorium on the money due next month. Recalling that Great Britain paid what was due last December without compensating promises of future concessions, Mr. Roosevelt feels that it would be unfair to give Paris what was denied to London. WAGNER BILL IS SIGNED Relief Measure “Challenge” to States, Asserts Roosevelt. Bji T'nitcd' Press WASHINGTON, May 13.—President Roosevelt, in signing the Wagner $500,000,000 unemployed relief bill Friday, said he considered the measure "a challenge” to state and communities to “stimulate their own efforts to provide for their own citizens in need.” MOTHERS’ SERVICE SET Reservations Made for 5,000 at Tabernacle on Sunday. Reservations have been made for 5.000 mothers to attend the special Mother's Day service Sunday, which will open a series of evangelistic meetings at the Cadle Tabernacle. The meetings are to be conducted by Mel Trotter, head of more than 100 missions throughout the United States.

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CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE. May 13. —Constant Wife from the Dixianna Clyde Van Dusen stables looks like the best thing on the card today in the running of the Bashford Manor stakes, as'i furlong event for 2-year-olds. Van has a nice stable of 2-year-olds and while Angon Bridge looks very ripe I look for the Van Dusen colt to be out in front when the finish line is crossed.

The old stake hoss, Cathop, is parading to the post in the fifth and I’m saying he's a winnah. In the second race On Sir figures to make every past a winner; Leaflet ought to graduate out of the maiden ranks in the first. Right out of the stable comes the info that they will turn Ed Lark loose in the nightcap and they are expecting a nice price on the old boy. Roscoe Goose will trot Missie up before the judges in the fourth. At Pimlico, where the argument is to be settled as to who won the Kentucky Derby, Head Play figures as the best thing of the day. Broker's Tip is reported ailing and might not start, unless the colonel is kidding. Today’s Selections At Churchill Downs—1. Leaflet, Betty Rejoice, Thomasville. 2. Mannerism, Meteoric, Lucille Wright.

You'll visit his gubernatorial mansion on Fall Creek boulevard, see him at work in his office, in the army cantonment during the war.’ and on the night in 1917 when Cupid's lance supplanted the army bayonet and machine gun. Schoolday and political fights will be unwound for you. The series will be illustrated with striking photos of the Governor at various phases of his life. You'll have from Monday through Saturday to decide the question: j "Is this man on his way to the White House?" His enemies say. “No!" His friends say, "Absolutely, yes!" What do you think? Read and decide!

WHITE RIVER POUNDS HOLES IN DIKE, AS SCORES OF MEN WORK TO BLOCK TORRENTS

1,000 Sandbags Placed on Barrier; North Central Residential District, Beyond Canal, Threatened. FAMILIES START FLEEING HOMES Ravenswood in Peril; Bridges May Go Down; Violent Storm Adds to Damage in City. Emrichsville bridge was reported crumbling at 10 this morning. Raging White river, swollen by several days’ rains, today broke through numerous places in the Warfleigh levee, threatening to flood the entire north-central residential district north of the canal. With more than 1,000 sandbags placed on the levee since early today, workmen and police called for more help when the water broke through at Park avenue. Several persons already had left their homes, and one family was removed from a marooned bungalow by police.

The flooded condition, augmented by heavy rains and a wind storm at 2 this morning, had spread to serious stages in West Indianapolis, and northeast sections of the city, including Ravenswood. Nearly 200 men are fighting the flood waters. Others are clearing away the debris of the storm which raged in the city for nearly two hours, causing injury of six persons, leveling trees, bringing down electric and telephone poles and wires and smashing windows. Police Are Swamped Police headquarters was swamped with more than sixty calls during the storm, ranging from automobile accidents to aid for two mothers who gave birth to babies. Police reported White river rising at the rate of about three inches an hour, sufficient to inundate the entire district. The river at Warfleigh is within three feet of the top of the levee. Raymond street, west of the river, was carrying nearly a foot of water, and residents in the West Indianapolis Ik glands feared the stream would break from its banks. It was estimated to be only a foot from the overflow point this morning. Highest in 15 Y r ears Ravenswood and the territory in the vicinity of Seventy-fifth street and Keystone avenue was under water Friday and the waters rase rapidly today. Residents said the river was the highest in fifteen years and was rising rapidly. A crew of fifty is fighting the flood at the Illinois street bridge over White river and twenty-five at Pogues run and New York street. Ten other crews are being held in

3. On Sir, Tela, Village Vamp. 4. Missie, Oswego Princess, High Diver. 5. Cathop, Sazerac, Isaiah. 6. Constant Wife. Angon Bridge, Speedy Skippy. 7. Calome, Royal Sport, Scarlet Brigade 8. Ed Lark, Trek. Comstockerv. Best—Constant Wife. At Pimlico—1. No selections. 2. Risnuer, Surety, Westley's Lad. 3. Liberty Oaks. Pee-dee-quee. Teuton. 4. Towee, Brave and Bold. Gay Party. 5. Pair-by-Pair, Good Advice, Rehoboth. 6. Head Play, De Valera, Broker's Tip. 7. Snobful. Ladfield. Butter Beans. 8. Garlic, Bub McFarland. Syriac. Best—Head Play.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at PostofTice, Indianapolis

readiness for emergency service. Firemen pumped water from the basement of St. Vincent's hospital early today, as Fall creek reached a high mark and left its banks at low points. At the Tenth street gauge on White river, the stage is 16.9, while the flood mark in 18. Stage of 19 to 20 feet is expected, the highest in several years, according to J. H. Armington meteorologist of the local weather bureau. Rains Over Wide Area A flood of “moderately severe” proportions was forecast by the weather bureau as waters moved downstream in the White and Wabash rivers. The rain early today fell in a belt extending north from Vincennes to Terre Haute, thence northeast across the state to the Ohio line. Little damage was reported except in Indianapolis and Kokomo, in the latter city, twelve garages were wrecked, trees and wires blown down. Rainfall ranged from lti to two inches. Greencastle had 2.20 inches and Farmland 2.28. The Wabash river at Terre Haute is rising and is expected to reach a stage of 22 or 23 feet. Flood mark is 16. Flood warnings have been sent by the bureau to all points on the lower stretches of the White and Wabash rivers. Poles Blown Down Twenty-five poles of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company were leveled and live wires down in streets at many points. Little damage was suffered by lines of the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, and service on the Indiana railroad was practically normal. Indianapolis Railways encountered its most serious trouble at. Michigan street and White river, where sections of asphalt paving were washed on the tracks. A tree which was blown down blocked street car traffic for a short time at Fourteenth street and Columbia avenue. Those injured in the local storm were: Oren D. Oldaker. 60, severe on forehead and right ear, incurred when window was blown in while he slept in his home at 2509 Southeastern avenue. Hurt in Nightmare Walter Eicholtz, 30, of 918 North Alabama street, gash on right arm, which he pushed through window while in a nightmare. Vern Shewman, 21, of 1345 Oliver avenue, dazed when automobile in which he was riding. w r as struck by lightning in the 2100 block Carson avenue. Shewman's brother, James, and Clarence May, Ft. Harrison, riding with him escaped injury. They could not find Vern after the bolt struck. He wandered into the home of C. H. S. Colbert, R. R. I. Box 21. and broke a window. Three men w-ere injured slightly when a taxicab in which they were riding was damaged by a falling tree. Those hurt were the driver James Williams. 24. of 2515 Shriver avenue; Robert Benson, 23. of 1939 Highland avenue, and Charles Fuqua, 22. of 405 West Thirteenth street. All suffered cuts from broken glass. Irvin Jacobs. 30. of 342 South Temple avenue, escaped injury when his automobile struck a telephone pole in the 3600 block East Michigan street, while the storm was raging. He was arrested on a charge of drunken driving. Fart of the Coffin golf course is under water and the South Grove course is menaced. The Riverside course also is threatened, as water covers the road which bounds it on the east and north. Water is undermining an approach to the Emrichsville bridge.

EXTRA PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Flood Babies Two Are Born During Height of Storm in County. TWO babies were bom this morning while the storm was at j its height. In Ravenswood, near Ssventyfifth street and Keystone avenue, a baby boy was born to Mrs. David Nickerson in a home almost surrounded by water. Police aided in removing mother and baby today to i the home of relatives at 4929 ShelI don street. The other baby, a daughter, was born to Mrs. Beulah Bunce, 1068 West McCarty street, after police had aided a doctor in reaching the house over a water-covered route. Father of the baby. Samuel Bunce. died seven months ago. There are | two other children in the family, : Florence and Hazel, i Dr. Myron M. Hipskind of the city hospital was hurrying to the Bunce home in his automobile when jit became stalled in the rain. Police j provided a car, and Dr. Hipskind reached the Bunce home at 2:30 a. m. REVIVAL BILL STILL FAR FROM COMPLETE Roosevelt to Spend WeekEnd Studying Matter. r.fi Srripps-ffnirnrit \ r\cspnprr Alliance WASHINGTON, May 13.—The administration’s program for industrial legislation still is far from completion, in spite of optimistic reports of progress by those working on the bill. It is uncertain now wheiher the public works measure will wait for the more complicated legislation on production, price, wage and hour control, or will be sent to congress by itself next Monday or Tuesday. It is possible also that the administration may turn its attention once more, to the thirty-hour week measure which passed the senate, and has been reported in altered form in the house, using this as a starting point for its own program, rather than the bill being written by the unofficial Wagner committee. President Roosevelt will spend most of the week-end studying the matter. HOGS REACH $4.80~1N FIRM EARLY DEALINGS Cattle and (alt Trade Steady on Light Receipts. Another 20-cent advance, a regulai feature of the past few sessions j at the city yards, took place in hogs this morning. The gain was felt in all classes. The bulk of sales, on i 160 to 300 pound weights, ranged from $4.75 to an early top of $4 80 Weights of 300 pounds up sold for $4.60 to $4.70; 120 to 160 pounds j $4.20 to $4.50 Porker receipts were estimated at 2,000 Holdovers were 241 ' Cattle trade was nominally steady on light receipts of 50. Vealers were unchanged at $6 down. Calf re- ! ceipts were 100. Not enough sheep were on hand |to make a market. Bulk of sales made late Friday ranged between •56.25 and 56.50. Receipts today were ICO. Hog prices followed the last three days advance at Chicago, with pracj tically all classes active to around j 10 to 15 cents higher than Friday's j average. Bulk prices were unobtainable in the early part of the session. Top price advanced to 54.90. Re- | ceipts were estimated at 10.000, including 9.000 direct; holdovers. , 1.000. Cattle receipts numbered ! 1.000; calves, 200. market strong. Sheep receipts 3.000; market strong. bindT rob aged man Forced to Reveal Hiding Place of Money; S3 Is Stolen. Binding and gagging Enoch Hazel, ! 76, of 3341 Carson avenue, two gunmen robbed him of $3 Friday night : after forcing him to reveal the j hiding place of his money. He said : the bandits overlooked $35 in the hiding place. Fires Two Shots at Burglar Awakened by a noise. Johtl E Moon, who resides in the rear of his i restaurant at 807 North Delaware street, fired two shots early today at a burglar. Moon does not know whether either bullet took effect, he told police Awarded 54.000 for Injuries Verdict of $4 000 for injuries she ! received in an automobile accident was given Georgia New, Negro, by a superior court three jury Friday. The judgment is against John Lewis as result of an accident at Senate j avenue and West Eleventh street, Dec. 18, 1932. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 65 8 a. m 66 7 a. m 66 9 a. m 67 10 a. m..... 67