Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1933 — Page 1

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FLOODS AND COLD WEATHER CAUSE HUGE FARM LOSS ‘Pocket District’ in Southern Indiana in Greatest Danger, With River and Creeks Falling Here. MANY FORCED TO FLEE HOMES Break in Levee Halted Near Sunshine Gardens; Eighty-Sixth Street Bridge Is Saved by Workers. High water and cold have caused Marion county farmers a loss of $2,500,000, it was estimated today by Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent, on the basis of information gathered as the flood waters receded in this vicinity, only to menace Evansville and other points in the pocket section of Indiana. White river has fallen 1.6 feet at the West street gauge since Monday. Stage today at the Sixty-fourth street bridge was 9.1 feet, a drop of four feet since Saturday. Fall creek, al the Illinois street bridge, had dropped more than two feet today.

Crest of the Wabash river j flood passed Terre Haute Monday nijfht, causing l about bOO families to leave their homes. Fifteen families abandoned homes at Clinton. Water covers several sections in the Indianapolis flood area today, ' hut further damage danger is re- j mote, as streams are falling. No j rain is forecast and skies are scheduled to clear. Most effort late Monday and during the night was directed at stopping a break in a levee to prevent flooding of Sunshine Gardens by backwater from White river and to saving the Eighty-sixth street bridge over the river. Deputy sheriffs Monday removed j families from River Park and other flooded suburbs. Roads Are Damaged Crews working under direction of Bruce Short, county surveyor, and Herbert Bloemker, county road su- I pervisor, won their fight against the | water at both points. Damage to roads in the county is estimated at $25,000. Discussing Marion county farm damage, Abbott explained that it would have been greater had not cold weather prevented extensive seeding. Acreage will be 15 to 20 per cent less, Abbott estimated, with the total in oats down to 3,000 acres. Planting season is past, but he advised that farmers who still wish to try for a crop should seed alfalfa with oats. Plowing completed is only 35 per rent of normal, slowing planting of corn. The farm agent advises planting of early maturing corn to offset the lateness of seeding. Peach Yield Abbott forecasts yields of cherries and apples at about normal, but the peach yield will be small. Only damage to fruit would be delay in spraying, due to rainfall. Except in extremely low sections, pastures are expected to be good. For the fifth time this year the southern Indiana pocket area faces flood menace as the Ohio river rises and the Wabash, White and Patoka rivers flood crests move southward. At Evansville the Wabash has been above its flood stage of sixteen feet several days, and is expected to reach twenty-four feet. Road conditions in flood areas were described today as follows, in a state highway department bulletin : Road 37. open between Paoli and English; 54. covered by seven inches of water at Elliston, with no further rise expected; 57. closed at Newburg; 58. open between Elnora and Sandborn. closed between Bedford and the Martin county line. Roads Are Covered Water covers road 62 between Evansville and Boonville; 64. open from Huntingburg to Birdseye; 67, open from Spencer to Wonhington; 161. dosed between 62 and 66: 164. covered by water between Jasper and Cclestine. and 450. closed from Bcdfoid to the Martin county line. Itate-wide survey of flood condifit ns has been completed, it was announced by Elmer F. Straub, adju-tant-general of the national guard, but so far it has not been necessary to extend aid, except at Lafayette. where forty persons are being sheltered in the armory. Those being cared for are residents of a section known as a "box car" colony on th? banks of the W’abash river. City officials are considering action to force two local gravel films to remove obstructions from the White river channel at Raymond street. Dumping Called Harmful Works board members who made tours of the flooded areas since Saturday morning criticised the companies for dumping gravel at this point, increasing the flood threat. They said the city attorney's office, several months ago. had bee directed to bring about rejv of the blockade, but nothnad been done. Mavor Reginald H. Sullivan conferred with city hall officers Monday afternoon and today was expected to order steps taken. Within the last three years the city blasted the river channel, changing the stream s course to prevent further flood menace. Two boys ‘Sunday lost their lives at the place, considered one of the most dangerous flood spots in the county.

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 4

Treasure Lost

Rain Hides Gems, Buried by Thieves, So Well They Can’t Find Them.

IF you see the hordes of persons, armed with shovels, descending on Pogue's Run near Tenth street, don't get the idea they've, been assigned to dig anew channel or anything like that. The chances are that they will be searching for the S3OO worth of buried jewelry stolen from Mrs. Thomas Whallon, 2614 Brookside avenue, and hidden so well the alleged thieves can't find the cache. Three members of what detectives term the east side burglary gang today were arraigned in municipal court four, before Judge William H. Sheaffer, and bound to the Marion county grand jury under bond of $2,000 each, on charges of larceny and burglary. They are Albert Playfoot, 2321 Riverside avenue, and Paul Chappie, 1932 Commerce avenue, who are alleged to have confessed, and Louis Neal. 2639 Brookside avenue, Technical high senior, who maintains his innocence. Neal, implicated by Playfoot, today charged detectives "shoved a pen in his hand and demanded he sign a confession.” He said he hurled the pen against the wall at detective headquarters and repeated his claim of innocence. Whallon, veteran attorney and former city judge, today was a witness for the first time in more than thirty years of practice. His lifetime has been devoted to the law, but he never had been called on to give testimony. Admitting complicity in several burglaries including that at the Whallon home, Playfoot took detectives to the vicinity of Tenth street and Pogue's Run to recover the buried jewelry. Rain had washed away identifying marks and they were unable to find it. Mortgage Moratorium Held Void By I nilrd Pratt MINNEAPOLIS. May 16.—District Judge Arthur Selver ruled today that the Minnesota mortgage moratorium law violates the United States and the Minnesota constitutions. Ti’ es Index Page Book a D' 13 Bridge 8 Broun 6 Classified 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World ll Dietz on Science • 12 Editorial 6 Financial n Hickman Theater Reviews 9 Lippmann's Column 5 McNutt Life Story 7 Radio 5 Serial Story 13 Sports io Talburt Cartoon 6 Vital Statistics 11 Woman's Page 8

Walter Lippmann Joins Times Staff of Writers A famed philosopher, economist, and authority on world affairs today joins The Times staff of special writers. The column, "Today and Tomorrow," by Walter Lippman, editor and author, appears on Page 5 and hereafter will be a daily feature.

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Lippmann Among the more famous of his books are A Preface to Politics, A Preface to Morals, Public Opinion. The Phantom Republic. The United Stated in World Affairs. Liberty and the News, Drift and Mastery, and Men of Destiny. Mr. Lippmann makes his bow to Times readers on Page 5 today.

HOPE GROWING FOR BANK TO PAYIN FULL Fletcher-American Assets Far Exceed Depositor Liability, Is Claim. WAIVERS BEING SIGNED Action Is Under Way to Form Institution Backed by R. F. C. Hope of Fletcher American National bank depositors that eventually they will receive 100 cents on the dollar of their deposits was encouraged today by statement of bank officials that the bank’s assets greatly exceed its depositor liability. It was explained by the committee forming the new American National bank, to take over assets of the old bank, that even if only 58 | cents on the dollar is realized from i non-liquid assets, depositors still will receive their full deposits, in time. As soon as the reorganization plan is completed, with the signing of waivers by depositors and shareholders, and with sale of $1,800,000 in common stock, 50 per cent of the impounded deposits will be made available. Stockholders May Share The remaining 50 per cent, representing approximately $5,500,000 in deposits, will be paid after liquidation of nearly $11,000,000 in nonliquid assets and repayment of a sl.2oo,ooCkjgovernment loan. These segregated, or non-liquid assets, which will be given the Reconstruction Finance Corporation as security for its loan, represent loans to business and commercial houses, as well as interests in verious properties, values of which probably will be enhanced as business conditions improve. When both the R. F. C. and depositors have been paid in full with 3 per cent interest, stockholders of the old bank will share in the balance. Reorganization committee members were gratified with the number of consent and waiver agreements signed and turned in by depositors Monday, and by the sub- 1 scriptions for stock. Waivers Being Signed Sale of the stock is required by the R. F. C. to match the $1,800,000 preferred stock issue for which it has subscribed. It was announced today that bank officials would be on hand until 6 each night to help make out the necessary blanks. Persons may enter by the side door on Pennsylvania street. Bank officials from a southern Indiana city Were among those who arrived early Monday to sign waivers. They also signed a stock purchase agreement.

DEFUALT FACED ON POOR RELIEF NOTES County Council Will Act to Issue New Bonds. With the county facing default on approximately $250,000 of poor relief notes which were due Monj day, the county council today conj sidered an emergency measure to preserve the county's credit. The council will act Wednesday | on an ordinance to issue new bonds jto note-holder's in exchange for j relief notes. Commissioners ini formed councilmen that note-hold-ers had agreed to the plan. Due to insufficient tax collections i and uncertainty as to amount of J spring tax delinquencies, the ; county will be able to pay off less than half of a $400,000 poor relief | issue due this month. The refunding method will be employed for remainder of the notes. Under the plan, the county will issue not more than $250,000 worth of bonds, at 6 per cent interest, maturing in nineteen semi-an-nual periods, beginning Mav 15, 1934. Pickpocket Gets 569 From Purse Mrs. Elliott Thompson, 4626 College avenue, carried her purse iight--1 ly under her arm Monday while she | shopped at downtown stores. However. a pickpocket succeeded in ! opening the purse and abstracting J an inner coin purse which held $69.

It is doubtful if any writer in the country has won greater fame in his special field than has Lippmann. Now with the New York HeraldTribune, his writings circulate all over the United States and in many European and South American countries. Lippmann's Ibng record of accomplishment includes service as assistant to the secretary of war in 1917; secretary of the organization directed by Col. E. M. House to prepare data for the peace conference; captain in the United States military intelligence service: associate editor of the New Republic and editor of the New York World. He is a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Fair tonight and Wednesday; slightly warmer Wednesday.

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1933

ROOSEVELT ASKS ALL NATIONS TO PLEDGE AGAINST SENDING ANY TROOPS OVER FRONTIERS

Lid’s Off; Straw Lids On

ill ”rHrTOtiffCTli fwlßjHw Ijjjpp v mir' Miss Elizabeth K. Davis Here is the season’s best forecaster of the passing of rains and floods. Today fa day late) the straw hat season was officially on and. although but few appeared on the streets, the sun debut was sufficient to make wearing of a straw not too ridiculous. Miss Elizabeth K. Davis. 309 East Fall creek boulevard, turned to mannish styles and a mirror in L. Strauss & Cos., to don anew sailor.

QUAKE ROCKS FRISCOJIEQION District for 100 Miles Is Shaken: Oakland Is Hardest Hit. BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW t'nited Press Staff Correspondent SAN FRANCISCO, May 16.—The San Francisco peninsula and the surrounding area for a hundred miles was rocked by a sharp earthquake at dawn today. The temblor occurred at 3:46 a. m., and lasted approximately forty-five seconds. No damage was reported, although the city came to life at once. Telephone service was temporarily interrupted as girls left the switchboards. Market, street and other principal thoroughfares were filled with taxicabs rushing between hotels. Stockton, ninety miles east, reported a sharp shock, as did Sacramento, 100 miles northeast. Petaluma, fory miles north, said the quake was severe. Vallejo, at the north end of San Francisco bay. reported to the United Press that three separate temblors were felt. In the Oakland office of the telephone company all automatic clocks were stopped. Early reports indicated that the earthquake was felt most severely in the east bay section, comprising Oakland. Alameda. Hayward. Berkeley, Richmond and Martinez. In the United Press relay at San Francisco, located on the fourth floor of a newspaper building, lighting fixtures swayed sharply through the first quake and a "following shock.” but the transmission equipment did not go out of commission.

“Daughter’s Caller" Is Thief A man admitted to the home of ’ Miss Della Raney, 718 East Thirtyfourth street, Monday night when he ! told her mother he had an appointment with the daughter, stole $3. I according to a report to police. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 55 10 a. m 63 i 7a. m 57 11 a. m 64 Ba. m 59 12 (noom.. 65 9 a. m 61 1 p. m 67 Today's Short Storv A cozy room in a private home on the north side belonging to Mrs. A. LeSaullier was vacant. Desiring to find a gentleman as a tenant, she j called RI. 5551 and placed an ad under the room for rent column. A gentlemen rented the room Sunday. Here is the ad containing twelve words that brought speedy results: PENN 1347 N —Cozy room, near bath, ouiet home, reasonable gentleman. LI--883?. TWO CENTS A WORD—You can find a tenant for your spare room at a cost of only 2 cents a word with a Times Room ad. Call RI. 555’ or come to Want Ad Headi quarters, 214 West Maryland street.

Jug Barter

Wants Liquor: Trade Suit of Clothes for Each of Sixteen Bottles.

Lewis b. leadley, 104 south Hawthorne Lane, wanted liquor, but didn’t have any money. However, Leadley had heard of the barter system which has become so popular in these depression days and. according to police, figured out a. way to get liquor without money. Leadley is charged with grand larceny and burglary in the theft from the P. J. Clark & Sons tailor shop, 17 North Pennsylvania street, of clothing which he is alleged to have exchanged for liquor on the basis of one suit of tailormade clothing for one jug. Employed in the shop until last Friday, Leadley was held for police Monday night by two employes who lay in wait for him. He admitted exchanging sixteen suits for liquor during the last four days, detectives say. ‘Several suits were recovered at pawnshops.

FOREST WORKERS TO CAMPS SUNDAY Training of First ‘Army’ at Camp Knox to End. Indiana's forest soldiers will begin their offensive on the depression Sunday. May 21. when two units being reconditioned at Camp Knox, Ky„ will embark in trucks for the Clark county forest. They will be stationed a mile north of Henryville, and in the Monroe countystate preserve, ten miles south of Martinsville. Four officers and 200 men will go to the Clark county woods, and eight officers and 400 men into the Mon-roe-Morgan county preserve. Harry Thomas, superintendent of the Monroe-Morgan forest, will be at the camp south of Martinsville, and C. W. Guernsey will direct the rehabilitation in Clark county. Fred Hoke, director of the state unemployment commission. announced arrangements have been made to send 2.400 more men from Indiana into the civilian conservation camp at Camp Knox. Ky„ the first contingent of 1.200 to leave Friday. BARBERS SET HOURS North Side Association Votes to Open at 8, Close at 7. Resolutions opening barber shops at 8 a. m. and closing at 7 p. m., daily, except Saturday, when the closing hour is to be 9 p. m., were adopted Monday night at a meeting of seventy-five members of the North Side Barbers’ Association. The association will meet next Monday night in the Uptown barber shop, Forty-second street and College avenue. Shirley Hunsaker is chairman of the group, and Virgil Hamm, vice-chairman.

World Will Know Where to Put Responsibility If One Strong Country Refuses, President Says in Message to 54 Rulers. NO DIRECT MENTION MADE OF GERMANY * —— U. S. Executive Seizes Leadership of War-Threatened Globe in Effort to Mobilize All Peoples in Drive for Peace. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Pres* Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, May 16. —President Roosevelt seized the leadership of a war-threatened world today and, in a message cabled directly to the rulers of fifty-four countries, summoned all nations to pledge themselves to send no armed forces whatsoever across their frontiers. He warned that if any strong nation refuses, the civilized world will know where to place the blame. “I urge that no nation assume such a responsibility,” he said. Raising his powerful voice above the rumbling war drums of Europe, the President sent his sharp imperative call for peace in the form of an open uncoded message addressed to all the sovereigns of the world, and through them to their respective peoples.

Asa first step. President Roosevelt urged the nations to accept the disarmament plan proposed by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald at the world disarmament conference. That would reduce offensive weapons, and set up a system of consultation to bring the powers together when peace is menaced. While this is being done, he pro-

ROOSEVELT BAN ON SALES TAX President Refuses to Back Plan to Put New Burden on Small Consumer. BY RI'TH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, May 16.—President Roosevelt's refusal to sponsor a sales tax as a means of financing carrying charges for nis public works bond issue probably has stopped this year's drive to burden the small consumer with federal expenses. A general sales tax was recommended to the President by the committee representing government, employers and employes which drafted the public works-industrial rehabilitation bill. However, congressional leaders announced after a two-hour conference at the White House that the recommendation would not be transmitted by the President. Instead, a number of possible taxes will be suggested in the message accompanying the bill, and the bill itself will leave blank all tax provisions, in order that congress may make its own choice in the matter. President Roosevelt will send message and bill to congress Wednesday, under present plans. It may take congress some time to decide on a tax which will yield $220,000,000 a year to carry the new program. A tax on patent royalties may be among those suggested by the President. Lady Cynthia Mosley Dies By I nited Press LONDON, May 16.—Lady Cynthia Mosley, wife of Sir Oswald Mosley, wealthy Fascist leader, and herself a politician of note, died today.

Girls? Pooh!

Hearts went pit-a-pat when the tall, handsome lad from Martinsville strode across the campus at Indiana U. But for Paul V. McNutt girls were only a minor incident. Studies came first and then his interest in student activities. Some called him “grind,” but barbs aimed at him bounced harmlessly off his armor. He ranked high in his classes, but still found time to play a prominent part in all other phases of school life. Then came graduation, "the proudest day of his mother’s life.” And then his first case after he hung out his shingle as a lawyer. Turn to Page Seven for the second big installment of Governor Paul V. McNutt's life story-

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posed that no country should increase its existing armaments.

Then came his emergency armistice proposal in the fallowing words: “That all the nations of the world should enter into a solemn and definite pact of non-aggression; that they solemnly should reaffirm the obligation they have assumed to limit and reduce their armaments and, provided these obligations faithfully are executed by all signatory powers, individually agree that they will send no armed forces of whatsoever nature across their frontiers. “Common sense points out that if any stronger nation refuses to join with genuine sincerity in these concerted efforts for political and economic peace, the one at Geneva and the other at London, progress can be obstructed and ultimately blocked. Fixing of Responsibility "In such event the civilized world, seeking both forms of peace, will know where the responsibility for failure lies. "I urge that no nation assume such a responsibility, and that all the nations joined in these great conferences translate their professed policies into one action.” The President plans to send a copy of his message to foreign nations to congress today for its information, it w'as learned at the White House. The message was addressed to fifty-four sovereigns including Russia. The message to Russia was addressed to ‘‘President Michail Kalinin, All Union Central Executive committee, Moscow', Russia.” This is the first time an American President has communicated directly with the Soviet authorities; it w'as taken to be significant of the President's desire to mobilize the entire W'orld in his gigantic drive for peace. No Direct Mention of Germany It was thought destined to be a historic utterance—notice to the w'orld that the United States has assumed her share of responsibility in the strife-torn family of nations. No direct mention of Germany was made. But the utterance was timed on the eve of Chancellor Hitler's statement to the reichstag on Wednesday which the world is awaiting with tense apprehension lest it reopen the issue which threw the world into the most deadly war of history nearly twenty years ago. His message was an appeal for the success of both the world economic conference and the Geneva disarmament conference. With such high hopes of recovery hanging on the economic conference, Mr. Roosevelt saw it menaced by the tense feeling between Germany and her old enemies. Addresses World's Rulers For the first time in history, so far as observers here recalled, the President of the United States directly addressed the rulers of the entire world and pleaded with them for common action to save civilization. Mr. Roosevelt did so in the "profound hope” that they would answer his call. The President called attention to the conferences for disarmament and economic restoration, the one now meeting at Geneva, the other soon to convene at London. "The happiness, the prosperity, and the very lives of the men, women and children who inhabit the whole world are bound up in the decisions which their governments will make in the near future,” he warned. Why Nations Bear Arms

Recalling the failure of the disarmament conference to achieve anything in its eighteen months of bickering, Mr. Roosevelt warned: “Confused policies still clash dangerously. Our duty lies in the di-

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rection of bringing practical results through concerted action based upon the greatest good to the greatest number.

“Before the imperative call of this great duty,’’ he said, “petty obstacles must be swept away and petty aims forgotten.” Nations arm for two reasons, Mr. Roosevelt said. A few wnsh to gain the territories of their neighbors. But the great majorities arm because they are afraid of invasion. “There is justification for this fear.” he said. “Modern weapons of offense are vastly stronger than modern weapons of defense. “If all nations will agree wholly to eliminate from possession and use the weapons which make possible a successful attack, defenses automatically will become impregnable and the frontiers and independence of every nation wall become secure.”

Urges Immediate Reduction

Mr. Roosevelt said that the ultimate object of the disarmament conference was to eliminate all offensive weapons. But pending that future goal, he proposed the immediate reduction of some of these weapons and the elimination of "many others." The President then outlined this sweeping program. 1. To take, at once, the first definite step toward this objective, as broadly outlined in the MacDonald plan. 2. To agree upon a time and procedure for taking the following steps: 3. To agree that while the first and following steps are being taken, no nation shall increase its existing armament over and above the limitations of treaty obligations. Action Is Demanded ‘‘But the peace of the world,” he added, "must be assured during the whole period of disarmament and I, therefore, propose a fourth step concurrent with and w'holly dependent upon the faithful fulfillment of these three proposals and subject to existing treaty rights: “That all the nations of the world should enter into a solemn and definite pact of nonaggression; that they solemnly should reaffirm the obligations they have assumed to limit and reduce their armaments, and, provided these obligations faithfully are executed by all signatory powers, individually agree that they will send no armed force of whatsoever nature across their frontiers.” A single strong nation, the President pointed out, may wreck this program, and added significantly: "I urge that no nation assume such a responsibility, and that all the nations joined in these great conferences and economic; translate their professed policies into action. Message Shatters Precedent "This,” he said, “is the way to political and economic peace. "I trust that your government will join in the fulfillment of these hopes.” Today marks the second time within a year than an American President has thrown the weight of the United States suddenly and dramatically behind an effort to rescue the fagging disarmament conference. Almost exactly a year ago, President Hoover, without warning, sent the disarmament conference a proposal for the reduction of armies and navies by one-third. Italy accepted at once and other powers indicated a willingness to study the plan. But it perished in the maze of committees and talks at Geneva. Mr. Roosevelt’s action in the disarmament sphere was, as it has been in domestic matters, dramatic and precedent shattering. Instead of making his proposal directly to the disarmament conference, the routine way, he appealed over the heads of the Gevena diplomats directly to the rulers of the world.