Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1933 — Page 1

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BACKING OF LABOR GIVEN ROOSEVELT JOB RELIEF PLAN

President Green* Is Willing to Support Sales Tax to Help Program. SEES AID TO MILLIONS Proposed Legislation Held Great Forward Step on Road to Recovery. By f Hit'll Press WASHINGTON, May 19. —The powerful support of organized labor, speaking through President William R. Green of the American Federation of Labor, today was thrown behind President Roosevelt’s re - employment program. Green proposed a modified form of sales tax. increases in income taxes, and a three-fourths cent additional gasoline tax to raise the $220,000,000 revenues necessary. Green estimated the public worksindustrial control bill would put 6,000.000 men back to work. Labor, Green said, extends to the proposed legislation “its full, complete, and hearty indorsement.’’ Legislation Is Lauded 'lt is,” he added, "the most outstanding, advanced, and forwardlooking legislation designed to promote economic recovery that thus far has been proposed.” Green suggested re-enacting the terms of the tamous La GuardiaNorris anti-injunction act preventing "yellow dog" contracts. In addition, he expressed confidence that the bill would lead to national adoption of the six-hour day and the five-day week through industrial agreements approved by the federal government. "This proposed legislation marks a very definite step forward in industrial stabilization, rationaliza--1 and "economic planning,” Breen said. "The bill appropriately is termed an industrial recovery measure. Ordinarily, Green said, labor would be opposed to a sales tax, but to provide funds to "drain the pools of unemployed” he personally would support the measure. Safeguards Are Wanted Green added that safeguards should be thrown around the sales levy to make certain that it automatically would be repealed whenever the fund§ for unemployment relief were needed no longer. He suggested that repeal of the eighteenth amendment, which he termed "probable." would provide revenues to take the place of the sales tax. Senator Robert Wagner <Dcm„ N. Y.), co-author of the bill, asserted that the vast public industry control measure had as its basic object “re-employment.” The committee expected to complete its consideration by Monday. House leaders predicted that the essential business control and public works section would not be altered from the original White House draft. Only the tax section remains undecided. BOYS RUN AWAY WITH CIRCUS: ONE IS SHOT Four Cincinnati Lads Held Here; Await Word from Parents. Four Cincinnati boys, three 13 and one 12, are in the juvenile detention home today awaiting word from their parents, as the last chapter of running away with "the circus." Three shots were taken from a leg of one of the boys, struck wfrpn a shotgun was fired. When the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus left Cincinnati Wednesday for Indianapolis, the boys went with it. They are Robert Brown. 13. who was wounded: William Malone and George Simpson, each 13, and Elwood Waller, 12. After being chased off the circus lot Thursday night, the boys are said to have attempted to purloin a railroad hand car for a return trip to Cincinnati. The Brown boy was shot when C. F. Lawrence. Big Four railroad tower man at Beech Grove, fired when he heard the hand car as it was moved. He captured all the boys. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 63 10 a. m 69 7 a. m 64 11 a. m 74 Ba. m 63 12 moon'.. 79 9 a. m 66 1 p. m 80 Times Index Page Book Nook 17 Bridge 9 Broun Column 18 Classified 28 Comics 29 Crossword Puzzle 26 Curious Wortt 10 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 18 Financial 26 r<ckman Theater Reviews 19 Lipniann Column 13 McNutt’s Life Story 22 Money—a Picture History 16 Radio 23 Serial Story.. 29 Sports 24-25 Talburt Cartoon 18 Vital Statistics 26 Woman’s Pages 14-15

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 7

BACKS ROOSEVELT

William Ft. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor. who today backed President Roosevelt's job relief program.

MINE PICKETS ROUTED BY CAS Women and Children Flee With Men in Clash at Illinois Pit. Bu t nitrd Press FARMINGTON. 111.. May 19. Children and women carrying babies were among 450 mine pickets routed by tear gas bombs hurled today by Sheriff C C. Prickett and fifty deputies on the highway leading to the National mine at Middlegrove. The pickets hooted when ordered to disperse. Sheriff Prickett ordered the gas bombs thrown. Asa cloud of choking gas floated down the road, the picket ranks broke and men. women and children struggled through fences and fled over adjacent fields. The clash was another in the long series of mine disturbances occasioned by factional strife between rival unions. United Mine Workers of America are employed at the National mine. The pickets were members of or sympathizers with the Progressive Miners of America. After the pickets were routed, deputies escorted workers to the mine shaft. •GOLF BAG GANGSTER’ IS HELD IN CHICAGO Man Who Aided Jake (he Barber in Hunt for Son Faces Gun Charge. By I nitrd Press CHICAGO. May 19.—Sam Hunt, the "golf-bag gangster,” who was called upon by John (Jake the Barber) Factor to aid in the hunt for the recent abductors of his son. was held today as the next nominee in State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney's campaign of prosecuting hoodlums on gun-toting charges. Hunt was arrested with a companion and police said they saw him take a gun from his pocket and discard it. Four well-known gangsters already have been sentenced to a year in jail and fined S3OO in the drive.

Lippmann on Air Saturday Walter Lippman, distinguished columnist and noted author of works on political economy, who joined The Times staff of special writers this week, will speak over the WABC-Columbia. network from Cleveland Saturday from 12:15 to 12:45 p. m.. Indianapolis time. He is known throughout the country for his syndicated articles and books and is regarded as one of America's shrewdest interpreters of current events. His remarks from Cleveland will originate at the Chamber of Commerce, where he will speak before the Associated Harvard Clubs. Hundreds of Times readers are voicing their pleasure that Lippmann now is writing for this newspaper. Here is a sample: Editor Times: That Walter Lippmann'r articles are to appear, regularly in The Times is good news. If there is a more intelligent commentator on national news. I have not discovered him. I am particularly happy that I now ma f advise a friend in Now York City that he need no longer clip these articles from a New York paper for my benefit. The Times is to be congratulated. ALEX VONNEGUT.

RAILWAY BILL AIMS TO SAVE MILLION JOBS Federal Guarantee to End Unemployment Threat Is Considered. VOTE MAY COME TODAY Pay Rolls Would Be ‘Frozen’ as of May, to Prevent Further Layoffs. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press St?.ff Correspondent WASHINGTON. May 19. Federal guarantee of jobs for 1,000.000 railway employes listed on May pay rolls has been agreed upon ten- j tatively by the senate interstate i commerce committee, in an amendment to the administration railway i bill. The committee probably will j vote finally today on its draft of the bill. The unprecedented guarantee is 1 calculated to safeguard the liveli- 1 hood of from 50,000 to 300.000 rail-, way workers whose jobs were said to be jeopardized by projected economies and consolidations. Chairman C. C. Dill of the senate committee predicted that the bill, as amended, would satisfy congress. But stiff opposition and lengthy debate are certain. Reasonable, Says Congress Former Chairman Couzens said the bill was reasonable and in fairly vision is expected to overcome opgood shap a . The job guarantee proposition which developed after Donald Richberg, Chicago lawyer, appeared in behalf of the brotherhoods with an estimate of the number of men who might be dismissed if no protection were given. The United Press obtained the text of the labor amendment. It provides: L “Freezing” of railway employment at the number on the pay rolls in May, 1933; prohibition against depriving any worker of his job or reducing his compensation in carrying out provisions of the bill. 2. Authority to permit accumulation of vacancies caused by death, resignation, and retirement until employes have been reduced approximately 5 per cent—so.ooo to 60,000 persons. Boards to Be Formed 3. Creation of regional boards to adjust, between railway executives and employes, any differences aris- ; ing from exercise of authority granted by the bill. 4. Mandatory compensation by carriers for property losses and j other expenses incurred by employes hy reason of transfer from one locality to another. 5. Carriers in trusteeship, receiv- ‘ ership, or under control of a judge, as well as privately managed carriers. shall oe subject to the March 3. 1933. bankruptcy act. Couzens explained that "freezing” of railway employment at May. 1933, levels would reduce expected economies, but said that was preferable to wholesale dismissals that would increase unemployment.

PERU AND COLOMBIA DISPUTE NEAR END Geneva Believes Settlement Is ‘Almost Certain.’ Ku T'nitfd Press GENEVA. May 19.—Imminent settlement of the unofficial war of Peru and Colombia over the Amazon river port of Letticia was believed “almost certain” by the League of Nations today. The league secretariat received a communication from the Peruvian government offering to evacuate Leticia provided Colombia simultaneously evacuated Guepi. The Colombian league delegation immediately accepted the offer. FIG HT FLOOD P E RILO N WABASH AT VINCENNES Four Weak Spots on Levee Cause Anxiety at Southern State City. By f nited Ptrs* VINCENNES. Ind.. May 19.—City employes and volunteers piled sandbags against four weak spots in the Wabash river levee today in an effort to hold back flood waters which have threatened to inundate pans of the city and a large section of Knox county larm land. Crest of the flood is expected to be reached by Saturday. A section of the levee threatened to break south of Vincennes last night. More than seventy-five men worked frantically to avert the danger. Today’s Short Storv If you need an article and do not know where it can be purchased, follow the example of Mr. Byrne of the Victory Cleaners. ‘ Needing a vault door and frame he inserted a twelve-word want Tid in The Times. The ad required only one day's insertion to find the desired articles and the cost was only 33 cents for the following ad: STEEL vault door and fratno. Approximatrlv 6xß ft. Call CH-6161 after 6:30 p. m. IMMEDIATE RESULTS Use a Times Want Ad for quick action at lowest cost in city. Three cents a word Phone RI. 5551. or come to Want Ad Headquarters, 214 West Maryland sUfeet.

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1933

GERMANS ACCEPT BRITISH ARMS SLASH PROPOSAL AT GENEVA

Bank Bandits Terrorize Town With Bullet Pain Two Robbers and Pair of Women Companions Get $2,500 Loot in Minnesota Raid. By United Press , OKABENA, Minn., May 19.—Machine gun bullets spread terror through this town today when two robbers and their women companions made a spectacular escape after making prisoners of five men and two children and robbing the First State bank of approximately $2,500.

Buildings, aulcmiblcs and streets for a distance of six blocks were scarred with bullets, after the bandits had opened fire with two submachine guns while speeding in an almost circular course around the business district. A school bus, filled with children, was threatened by the gunfire*as the bandits sped south from Okabena and outdistanced pursuit

Pass to Heaven Georgia Governor Gives Credentials to Aged Negro Woman.

3jt ( nitrd Press Atlanta. May 19.—Told by her preacher that she could not get to heaven without a passport from Governor Eugene Talmadge, an aged Negro woman called at the Governor’s office Thursday for her credentials. Tom Linder, executive secretary to the Governor, said he provided the required letter of introduction.

LULL FORECAST IN CHINESE WAR Concession of Sovereignty to Manchoukuo May Be Truce Condition. Bv United Press Two significant developments in the unofficial but sanguinary war of Japan against China today supported earlier rumors that a truce conceding the sovereignty of Manchoukuo had been arranged. In Tokyo, a government spokesman indicated that Japan would predicate her acceptance of President Roosevelt’s proposal upon recognition by the United States and the world powers of the Great Wall os the southern boundary of Manchoukuo. This seemed to indicate an expectation that the Japanese would withdraw from China proper to the Great Wall, instead of advancing on Pieping and Tientsin. • In Peiping, the Japanese legation announced that the Japanese advance had been halted and an area of China proper, the approximate size of New Jersey, would be occupied, pending "assurances.” The announcement emphasized that the opposing armies had taken up new positions twenty miles from Feiping in an orderly fashion without fighting. GAS MOLES IN PARK Treatment to Get Rid of Pests Proves a Suceesss in Kansas City. By United Press KANSAS CITY. Mo.. May 19Moles at Swope park, said by superintendent Walter E. Lister, to have lone considerable damage, received j treatment of carbon disulphide gas. The gas was pumped into the mole tunnels and "worked splendidly," Lister said.

Well Guarded Federal Troops to Watch Greatest Portrait Ever Painted in Ur S.

By United Press CHICAGO, May 19. Federal troops will escort a piece of canvas arriving for the Century of Progress exhibition ten days from today. Trustees of the art institute where it will be displayed will await it on the steps. And the picture is James A. McNeill Whistler's "Portrait of My Mother.” said to be the greatest and most famous portrait ever painted by an American. It has been loaned for the fair by the Louvre in Paris.

News From the Front? Here It Comes to You

WHAT'S the news from the front? You didn't know there was any war or any front? Well, there is, and the front is right here in Indiana, close enough so you could reach there in a few hours’ ride. It’s the front line of the war against depression, the trenches held by Indiana's own army battling to bring back at least better times, if not prosperity all at once. It's located down in the forestry camps, established as a result of the vision of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, organized to help the needy, bring back the self-respect of young men who have tramped the streets for weary months, looking vainly for jobs.

after a chase of spur and one-half miles. One of the bandits is believed to have been wounded by the pistol fire of August Hez, hardware merchant, whp began shooting as the gunmen fled through the rear door of the bank, after looting it and locking up employes and customers.

TRUCE IGNORED IN MILK STRIKE Peace Agreement Reached, but Shot Is Fired at Guard Truck. BY WILLIAM F. MaoILRATH I'l‘iN Press Str.ff Correspondent MADISON, Wis., May 19. Milk was spilled and shots were fired in the Wisconsin milk strike today, despite a peace pact agreed to by state officials and strike leaders. Leaders of both factions hoped the display of violence today was a result of ignorance of the truce. At Waukesha, where a shot was fired at a truck carrying twenty-five national guardsmen, deputies were told by the highway pickets that they had no official word of the truce, and “you can't believe what you read in the paper.” Near Elkhorn, two loads of milk were dumped on the highways by pickets who refused to observe the truce. Sheriff O’Brien ordered immediate arrest of all active pickets. A few hours before Wisconsin's warlike milk strike apparently had come to a dramatic close while a cordon of heavily-armed militiamen stood guard over state officials as they reached an agreement with an arbitration committee of the state milk pool. The guard was thrown about the east wing of the capitol, and in the chambers of Governor Albert C. Schmedeman, after lines of the (Turn to Page Nineteen) DRASTIC ROOSEVELT OIL BILL IS READY Sweeping Measure to Be Given Congress Today. LCoDvrisht. 1933. bv United Press) WASHINGTON. May 19. A sweeping administration measure designed to end depression in the oil industry by delegating to Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes full power to regulate production, imports and prices will be sent to congress today by President Roosevelt. The drastic measure, drafted by interior department officials after a series of conferences with state Governors and major and independent oil producers, will contain the following provisions: 1. Authority for Ickes to regulate production and imports. 2. Fixing of maximum and minimum prices. 3. Regulation of all drilling. 4. Steps to prevent further illegal transportation in interstate commerce of oil produced illicitly. 5. Correction of pipe line abuses. HUMAN BONES FOUND NEAR POWER PLANT ..Disinterred by Flood Waters, Discovered on City Farm. Bones believed parts of a number of human skeletons are being studied today by authorities following discovery Thursday on the William Haueisen farm near the Harding street plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Disinterred by flood waters of White river, the bones were found by three fishermen, Berry and James Hemmings, both of 2121 South Meridian street, and Nathaniel Ludlow, 216 West Raymond street, who called .deputy sheriffs. The officers were informed by William H. Shotts, tenant on the farm, that his father-in-law, I. W. Lamper, dug up bones of Indians on the land half a century ago.

GLASS REJECTS GUARANTEE OF ALL DEPOSITS Treasury Plan for U. S. Protection in Crjsis Turned Dovyn. Bp ( nitrd Press WASHINGTON, May 19. Members of the senate banking* and currency committee said today that the treasury has submitted to them a plan for "immediate guarantee” of banks deposits in the United States during , the period of the financial emergency. Senator Carter Glass (Dem.. Va.) told the United Press that his subcommittee had "unanimously rejected” the treasury proposal. Chairman Duncan U. Fletcher of the banking and currency committee said the plan envisaged Recon- i struction Finance Corporation loans ! up to 100 per cent of the deposit liability of any insured banks. Hamper Bill. Is Charged A member of the committee told the United Press that all banks, including state banks, which are not members of the federal reserve system. w'ould be embraced in the treasury plan. Submission of the treasury plan as the senate was about, to begin debate of the Glass bank reform bill caused several of Senator Glass' colleagues to suggest to him that the administration actually was seeking to hamper progress of his legislation. The Glass bill provides for limited insurance of bank deposits effective July 1, 1934. Leaders May Surrender Democratic leaders realize that there is tremendous house and senate enthusiasm for immediate insurance of guarantee of bank deposits and the new treasury proposal may represent a partial surrender to such sentiment. Glass’ attitude gave emphasis to the opinion expressed by some of j his colleagues that the administraU tion was out of sympathy with the j Glass bill in general. DANGEROUS FILmIsT FOUND IN' STATEHOUSE “Ten Miles” of Fire Menace Removed From Basement of Building. Nearly ten miles of highly explosive X-Ray photographic film has been removed from storage in basements of the state house and annex, it was revealed today at fire inspection bureau headquarters Joseph Scherer, bureau inspector, | who found the film and aided in disposing of it. is off duty suffering i from poisoning incurred in han- j dling it. Part of the film was found in j quarters of the conservation depart- ! ment and the remainder in quarters of the health department. In all j there was 50,000 feet. The film is the same kind which ! exploded a few years ago in a j clinical hospital at Cleveland, 0., j causing heavy loss of life and prop- ! erty damage.

It’s Utopia! Tear Up No Downtown Streets Until After Race, Is Edict. INDIANAPOLIS is living in a Utopia. Today the city works board directed Wilbur Winship, street commissioner, not to tsar up aiiy streets until after the speedway race. It has been a long time since residents can remember downtown streets not being torn up before the race or state fair.

Petting Party Bandit Gang Suspects Are Captured

Three shots were fired and six men arrested Thursday night after a married couple was accosted in an automobile parked in Big Elm park southwest of the city, from where deputy sheriffs say they have received numerous complaints of "petting party” holdups. The couple was Leo Herenroether, 29, and his wife, Elzora. 33, of 618 Orange street. Although unarmed,

You’ll want to know how the plan is working; how your friend or neighbor or relative is faring in this great new project. Just so you could get this information. The Times sent Arch Steinel, Times staff writer, to Camp Knox and the forestry camps in Clark. Monroe, and Morgan counties. He tells the story of how the boys are coming out of Camp Knox, where they received their preliminary training, eager to start work in the forests—how- they're feeling fine and fit, eating well, sleeping well, and with morale improved a thousand per cent. You'll enjoy this series and you can read the first story in The Times Monday. *

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FALLS FROM ROOF

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Robert Hewitt Despite a fall Thursday trom the porch roof of his home to a concrete walk, Robert Hewitt, 3, of 42 East Raymond street, was compelled to remain in city hospital only a few hours to receive treatment for head injuries. Today he is at home, playing with a toy automobile, and with a little less interest in the nest building activities of two birds in a tree near the porch, which led to the fall. Robert and a brother, Richard, 5, have watched the nest job for several days. Robert was sent to an upstairs room Thursday for his afternoon nap, but he was more interested in what the birds were doing than in sleep and crawled out a window to the porch roof for a oetter view.

SPEEDER. 16, IS GIVEN TEN DAYS Jail Terms to Be Handed Violators, Threat of Judge Sheaffer. Reminding motorists that jail terms can be imposed with fines on speeding charges. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer sent a 16-year-old boy to jail for ten days Thursday. The boy is Robert J. Kelleher, 16. of 122 West Twentieth street, said by police to have driven an automobile fifty-six miles an hour on North Illinois street Wednesday night. He pleaded guilty. In 1930, Kelleher was arrested on a charge of driving through a safety zone and the following year on a charge of failing to stop at a preferential street. "People have got the idea they can come in here on a speeding charge, get a small fine and that’s all there is to it,” Sheaffer said. "But days can be added, and I’m going to do it in some of these speeding cases.” SWATS HIT-RUNNERS Salt Lake City Judge Assesses 20 Days as Minimum Penalty. By f. nited Press * SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. May 19. —Hit-and-run drivers may expect no mercy from Police Judge M. J. Bronson who has announced that twenty days in jail shall be the minimum sentence for offenses of this sort, regardless of whether the accident resulted in injury.

Hergenroether captured one of the six, William McMahan, 33, of 2903 Brill road, swinging the captives body to a position where it would shield him from bullets. Hergenroether told deputy sheriffs that the six men surrounded the car and one approached with the request : "Gimme a cigaret.” “I have none,” Hergenroether re(Turn to Page Twenty-seven)

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Support Given to Plan Urged by Roosevelt for World. CONFERENCE AT STAKE Effort to Cut Military Forces of Globe May Be Decided This Week. By United Pres* MOSCOW. May 19. Michael Kalinin, president of the Soviet Union, sent a message to President Roosevelt today expressing Russia’s willingness to co-oper-ate in efforts for “political and economic peace.” He outlined the Soviet proposals for universal disarmament and economic nonaggression. BY STEWART BROWN l-nited Press Sti'ff Correspondent GENEVA, May 19.—The world arms conference took a definite step forward today when Germany accepted the British disarmament plan which President Roosevelt urged all nations to adopt in his message to the world. Rudolph Nadolny, German delegate, acting on Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s instructions, announced his country’s acceptance after Arthur Henderson, president of the conference. had appealed vehemently to Germany and other nations to withdraw their amendments, which were deadlocking the conference. Atmosphere Is Tense The general commission of the conference convened this afternoon in a tense atmosphere, with its "leaders expressing the view that the crisis had arrived, and the next few days would mean peace or war for the world. Norman H. Davis, President Roosevelt's special ambassador, had told the United Press before entering the hall: "This is the most critical week of the conference. Either it blows up in our faces next week or we will be on the way to success.” The proceedings opened wiith the reading of President Roosevelt's message to the world. On the basis of Mr. Roosevelt’s message and Chancellor Hitler's speech, Henderson appealed to the delegations to withdraw their amendments. “The conference can not continue indefinitely,” he said. "What we do in the next few days may be decisive.” Appeals to Delegates He appealed to the delegates for a definite decision before the world econcmic conference. "Armaments create the very danger they are designed to avoid,” he said. "I ask you to consider your imperative call to agree.” In accepting the MacDonald convention, Nadolny said Germany did so. not only as a basis for discussion, but “as the base of a future convention.” “We reserve application of the principles of Chancellor Hitler’s speech for later discussion,” Nadolny said. "The Germans continue to demand disarmament of heavilyarmed states and equality.” Germany’s "new attitude” soon will be felt, Nadolny said. "Now' you have further proof of Germany's moderation,” he continued. “We hope other states will bring a contribution.” Then he glared at Ftene Massigli. French delegate. Direct Plea to Franc* Henderson had made a direct appeal to France to join the agreement when he said, “we are anxiously waiting for other nations to accept the MacDonald convention.” President Roosevelt’s appeal, he said, "should enable the majority to withdraw their amendments and proceed with the definite adoption of a draft convention.” He characterized Hitler’s speech as “a reasoned 'statement of Germany’s case” and as a "friendly appeal” to obtain arms equality by the disarmament of others. Nadolny characterized the Roosevelt message as "that other great manifestation of peace which preceded ours." The commission adjourned until Saturday, when it will start the real debate on the British convention. Henderson warned the delegates that they have only nineteen working days before the world economic conference. EGGS SURVIVE TORNADO Acme Wrecked, but Dozens of Hens’ Product on Table Are Unbroken. Bn United Pres* TEXARKANA, Ark.. May 19 —Although a tornado demolished the farm home of George Davis, fifteen miles north of here, the twister did not injure a table in the kitchen upon which Davis had placed a dozen eggs. When he explored the wreckage he found the eggs unbroken. \