Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1933 — Page 1

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MAJORITY FOR REPEAL NEAR 250,000

RECORDS FALL AGAIN AS HEAT RETAINS GRIP One of Warmest Nights on Record Spent by City Residents. 77 DEGREES IS LOWEST High Water Makes Beach Openings Impossible; Sidewalks Burst. Hourly Temperatures Midnight .. 81 7 a. m 79 1 a. m 80 8 a. in 86 2 a. m 79 9 a. m 88 3 a. m 79 10 a. m 90 4a. in 76 11 a. m 91 5 a. m 77 12 (noon).. 93 6 a. m 78 1 p. m 95 Temperaluro of 95 at 1 today made the hottest .Tune 7 on record, the previous high mark having been 92 m 1896. Anew high for June 6 was set Tuesday at 95.8. One of the hottest nights on rec-. ord was spent by Indianapolis residents, and the coolest point since Tuesday afternoon's record temperature was 77 at 5 this morning. The mercury climbed rapidly today, a rise of ten degrees having been recorded in three hours from 6 lo 9 a. m. In the next three hours, there was a rise of five degrees. No break is forecast in the next twenty-four hours. Two prostrations have been recorded, schools were closed at noon and will open only for morning sessions the remainder of the week, and the heat caused bursting of sidewalks at three points. Keep Beaches Closed Tlie prostration victims were Will Mat lies, 45, of 92C South Senate avenue, who collapsed while walking at Morris and Chadwick streets, and Timothy Dugan, 36, of 270 North Richland street, stricken while at work in the P. <V B j foundry South Pennsylvania street?'"'* City officials vainly sought to afford residents relief today. Investigation by H. W. Middlesworth, eity recreation director, at the Warfleigh beach, showed that the beach still is under water as a result of recent high water and the severe storm Monday night. At McClure beach. Twenty-sixth street and White river, scores of children and adults were wading and swimming. Middlesworth said t hat they will be ousted. He said there was no possibility that park pools could be opened before June 15. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health director, issued his rules for tlie summer, the major points being “Don't worry, don't fret and don't complain so much about the lieat," Morgan said the best advice is to avoid excessive eating and drinking. Avoid Uncooked Foods “Do just the same as if the temperature was 50 instead of above 90. Morgan advised. He warned that care should be used with infants and children and urged the proper refrigeration of their foods. “It is well to avoid uncooked foods ami vegetables for children during hot weather. One to three tepid baths should be given daily and they should be clothed lightly, he .said. Heat burst sidewalks in the block West Sixteenth, 2900 block North Delaware street, and 300 block North Keystone avenue. Asphalt paving of streets was softened. Reports were made to the state highway commission that heat had caused paving to burst at Speedway City on Road 31. south, just outside the limits of Indianapolis. DELAY TYPO CONVENTION This Year’s Session Put Off Until 1934 by Vote of Members. Postponement ol the International Typographical Union's convention, to have been held at Chicago this year., until 1934. is announced today by national officer.^ Vote of membership for postponement was 30,832, with 15,993 against. The convention will be held at Chicago in September. 1934. Rear Admiral Killed by Train BERKHAMSTED. England. June 7. Rear Admiral Arthur Hale Smith-Dorrien, 77, was found dead by the side of a railway track here. He apparently was killed by a train, Times Index Page Block Cartoon 4 Book a Day 15 Bridge 7 Broun Column 4 Classified 14 Comics . 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 4 Financial •• 13 Hickman Theater Reviews 7 Lippmann Column ■ • 11 Obituaries 11 Racing—Big Business 11 Radio 1* School i te 10 Serial StOi., 15 Sports ' 12 Vital Statistics 13 Womans Page 6 Vote in County 3 Woman s Page 6

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight and probably Thursday; not much change in temperature..

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 23

Hot, Are You.-' Then Try Something Like This!

Heat . . . soaring mercury . . . scorching pavements . . . school is out ... water, shade and cool drinks. So goes the life of the Indianapolis resident today V\ hether he be at the tender age of 8 months or a grandparent. The Times photographer caught four different types of heat vie-

MATTERN RACES ON INTO SIBERIA Believed to Have Landed Plane at Chita. 1,700 Miles From Omsk. By 1 'vital Press MOSCOW, June 7.—Soviet officials felt today that it was most likely Jimmy Mattern had ianded his air plane in China, Siberia, 1,700 miles from Omsk. News of his arrival, however, may be long delayed. Urgent telegrams from China often are delayed ten to twenty hours before reaching Moscow. News of Mattern being sighted over Novo-Sibirks was telephoned to the United Press bureau here. The telephone line ends at NovoSioersk. Officials of the airdrome there told the United Press that weather conditions were good, and there was every reason to believe the flight was proceeding smoothly. Mattern was flying so high when sighted over Novo-Sibirks he barely was visible. Novo-Sibirks is approximately 400 miles east of Omsk. Assassin Ends Own Life By I viti tl Press LIMA, Peru, June 7. Filomeno Saco, one of the alleged accomplices of the assassin of President Luis M. Sanchez Cerro. committed suicide in his penitentiary cell today.

McNutt Voices Joy Over Prohibition Law Defeat Governor Paul V. McNutt, whose 1933 legislature delivered-the first crushing defeat to the drys in repeal of the Wright bone dry law, today is happy over the wet victory in county and state.

Meanwhile, L. E. York, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, predicted the wet victory would tighten the’ state's dry lines and said he expects the 1935 legislature to carry a preponderance of prohibition sentiment. “The election Tuesday was a distinct indication that Indiana has chosen the new deal,” McNutt said, ' The people of Indiana demonstrated that they believe they are capable of governing themselves without the influence of the federal government. “They have decided that state control is the proper rule. I am glad of the results." York said he believed the dry forces made a remarkable showing in view of the fact that brewers and distillers were able to supply sufficient funds to maintain antidry workers. "The wets also had the support of the state and national administrations, together with local and state election machinery,” he said. “The vote shows clearly that the next congressional delegation from Indiana will be changed materially and that the drvs can elect the next state legislature. “Thousands of people in mdus-

tims and their methods of relief when the mercury was above 90. Upper Left—Here you are, folks, let's see some of you do this. Refreshing cool water in a washtub and Robert Paul Shane, 8 months, 1561 Roosevelt avenue, make a great combination. Upper Right—Not forgetting their pal, Jerry, Rae Joan and

Probers Ask Senate for Morgan Tax Quiz Power Resolution is Drafted Seeking Authority to Delve Into Partner’s Stock Deals. BY LYLE C. WILSON I‘nited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. June 7.—The senate banking subcommittee charged with the J. P. Morgan investigation today drafted a resolution empowering it to go into stock transactions of Morgan partners as they are involved in income taxes.

TOLL OF DEATHS IS TAKEN BY STORM Western New York, Ontario Province Damaged. By Vnited Press BUFFALO. N. Y.. June 7 A severe wind and rain storm struck western New York state and Ontario province of Canada today, causing an undetermined number of deaths and a heavy toll of injured and property damage. At Winona and Milton, public school buildins collapsed, trapping more than forty-five pupils. Several were said to be seriously injured.

trial districts voted wet under the delusion that liquor would bring back prosperity. ' Thousands of others were deceived with the argument that revenue from liquor would relieve them from an income tax.”

Pall of Gloom Hangs Over Dry Headquarters

BY BASIL GALLAGHER Timps Staff Writer '■pHE ghost of a tight-lipped old -*■ man. familiarly pictured in plug hat and frock coat, was laid today in a dingy office in the Board of Trade building. Without benefit of clergy and with only a handful of mourners, the old gentleman who has haunted Indianapolis a'nd the rest of the nation for twelve years was interred by the voters of Indiana after an overwhelming wet vote. In the office of the allied dry forces, three women and two men formed the mourning group. The chief priest of the dry cult, Harvey Hartsock, led the requiem. V

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1933

. Betty Wheeler take to the creek t in Biookside park. | Lower Left—With school over for the rest of the hot day, teachers and their friends gather for cool drinks under the shade at Brookside. They are, left to right, Miss Edna Shaw, R. R. 17, Box 81; Mrs. Ferris F. King. 1736 Ludlow avenue: Mrs. Ruth Petrie, 2830 evenne ,nd M'->

Chairman Duncan U. Fletcher announced he would introduce the resolution in the senate today. So effective was the challenge of John W. Davis, Morgan lawyer and 1924 Democratic presidential candidate, that the committee decided at a secret session to seek further authority from the senate. Meantime, Senator Arthur Robinson (Rep., Ind.) charged on the floor that efforts are being made to “whitewash” the Morgan inquiry. He demanded a full investigation of the company’s income tax returns. “If the Morgans have been guilty of tax irregularities, let them pay the penalty,” he snapped. Checked once again in the income tax inquiry, Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, delved further into financial operations through which the Van Sweringen brothers of Cleveland built up their gigantic railroad empire. From the still reluctant elder brother, O. P. Van Sweringen, he disclosed that the Van Sweringens borrowed $75,000,000 from J. P. Morgan and Cleveland banks during acquisition of three of their railroad properties, the Chesapeake & Ohio, the Erie, and the Pere Marquette. Pecora still was unable to find any cash outlay by the Cleveland railroad magnates in buying up railroads. He obtained only meager information about some of the loans--3.2 DENIED TO INDIANS Ickes Bans Sale of Brew to Residents of Reservations. By Vnited Press WASHINGTON, June 7.—lnterior Secretary Harold L. Ickes has decreed that Indians living on government reservations may not cool parched throats with 3.2 beer.

I Tall and grayheaded, he gazed I sadly across Monument circle as the funeral procession—a line of hoot- | mg automobiles from wet headquarters—filed by the window. At his elbow a telephone bell jangled. A brisk young man answered. "Yes, dry headquarters. What's that? First precinct, thirteenth ward. How many? 540 wet to 54 dry. Oh! - ’ Hartsock sighed and the faithful women echoed his sadness. More precinct returns came in over the phone. a a a 1 GUESS we re licked,” Hartsock conceded, “but this isn't th I end. It s good for the drys to get,

Adelaide McCarty, principal of School 81. Lower Right—Are those fairways hot? Here's S. O. Harrell of Bloomington, under the umbrella he carried for his son Bob for eighteen holes of the Indianapolis District Golf Association tourney at the Indianapolis Country - Tuesday afternoon.

GERMANS AGREE TO PEACE PACT Accept Four-Power Treaty; France Eliminates Arms Equality Clause. Ry Vnited Press ROME. June 7.—Germany’s acceptance of the draft of Premier Benito Mussolini's ten-year treaty was announced today, and it was said that the pact would be initialled here late tonight or Thursday morning. The treaty would bind Great Britain. France, Germany, and Italy, European leading powers, to keep peace for ten years. Arms Clause Eliminated (Coovright, 1933. by United Press) PARIS, June 7.—A1l pledges to Germany of armament equality were eliminated from the proposed four-power pact before the French cabinet agreed to its terms, the United States learned today in obtaining an official summary of its six articles. The pact makes reservations against revision of European frontiers as established by the Versailles treaty. Armament equality and frontier revision are two major objectives of German foreign policy. Premier Edouard Daladier was understood to feel that the pact offered no danger to any power, and that its chief virtue would be to clear the atmosphere of suppressed hostility and suspicion. KIDNAPED BABY FOUND 6-Weeks-Old Child. Missing Seven Days, Is Discovered Alive. By Vnited Press CINCINNATI. 0.. June 7.—Pansy Sneed, brown-eyed, six-weeks-old girl who was abducted from her river-front home here a week ago, today was found alive. The infant was found in possession of Mrs. Virginia Rogers, 31, who, after first stubbornly maintaining the child was her’s, confessed abducting the infant.

on the offensive once in awhile.” The mourners amused themselves. “I could drink about fifteen glasses of iced tea,” said Hartsock, releasing his inhibitions. Three policemen entered. A sergeant, red-faced and jovial, explained that they had been detailed to dry headquarters by the chief. “Are they afraid the wets will egg us?" one of the ladies asked. “I guess were not worth egging tonight,” said a lugubrious dry. 808 ONE of the women asked the cops if they had voted. They chorused a “yes,” but didn't volunteer how. “Well, one good thing has hap- <

VOTE OUTCOME AROUSES HOPE FOR KEG BEER McNutt Is Expected to Drop Opposition, With Repeal ‘ln the Bag.’ ACTION UP TO COURT State Supreme Tribunal Can Hasten Relief for Thirsty Ones. With Indiana voting overwhelmingly for eighteenth amendment repeal, the state today has the possibility of draught beer close at hand. Governor Paul V. McNutt has stated that he had no objections :o draught beer except that he believed its sale in the state would jeopardize repeal ol the prohibition amendment. Now, with the law erased from the books, as far as Indiana is concerned, supporters of draught beer are expected to press their demands for the keg variety. This would be cheaper than the bottled beer necessary under the present beer control act. The plea that beer in any form would return the saloon to the street corners has faded and, with the decisive victory of the wets, such a protest to draught beer probably would be shoved aside as trivial Court Can Act The way is open for draught beer in a decision by the state supreme court in the case of John E. Tenkley, East Chicago councilman. Tenkley, several weeks ago. sold 3.2 beer on tap. Before the beer control act was passed. Tenkley sold near beer on tap and this now is barred. To insure his sale of the 3.2 on tap, Tenkley obtained a temporary restraining order in Crown Point to prevent interference by authorities. The order was issued by E. Miles Norton, judge prj tern of the superior court. Protecting the beer act, the state stepped into the picture and obtained a writ of prohibition, preventing Norton from granting Tenkley a permanent writ for sale of the beer. The supreme court now has the case under advisement and has the privilege of ruling on constitutionality of the beer act. Could Block Sale However, if the supreme court i should issue a permanent writ of prohibition against Norton it would block the sale of draught beer, temporarily at least. Draught beer sale would be permitted automatically if | the high court did not issue the permanent writ. In event of the latter, it is possible that the same action might be repeated in other counties, but. with the high court's ruling conceding the right to sell .ap brew, further contest would be futile. If the supreme court blocks th& sale of draught beer, McNutt, with his attitude of refusing to block the sale, could call a special session of the legislature to amend the present law. Should the judiciary fail to rule in the matter. McNutt will not call a special session for draught beer only, he said today. “It's not that important,” the Governor commented, and then added: “Just bide your time.” Would Help Popularity With his power diminished but slightly, and the overwhelming sentiment, enactment of draught beer provision should be a mere formality. McNutt, too. would find favor with thousands in the state if he called the session with the guarantee of draught beer approval. The complaint has been made and echoed in every part of the state that bottled beer is too expensive for the ordinary citizen and that its sale has deteriorated into a political racket at high prices. ACTRESS "SERIOUSLY ILL Edwina Booth in Critical Condition, Mother Reports. Bft 7'nitrrl Pn ss HOLLYWOOD, June 7.—Edwina Booth, film player, suffering from over-exposure in the sun, was reported in a serious condition today by her mother, Mrs. J. L. Woodruff. Miss Booth contracted the illness three years ago during a lengthy location trip to Africa for filming of "Trader Horn.” She has been bedridden for eighteen months and has made little progress, her mother said.

pened today,” said a woman worker, in an obvious effort to brighten things up, “the papers say the heat wave is breaking.” “Ha, ha I” guffawed the sergeant, “that's good. I'll vote for that.” A dead silence greeted his effort at humor. The telephone rang consistently; dry field workers turning in discouraging reports. The brisk young man at the phone tola them in a kindly way that it wasn't any use; the cause was lost. The drys decided to close up. Outside newsboys supplied the funeral chant. “Extra!” they cried. “Wets carry state 3 to 1.” V

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ANTI-SALOON YOKE THROWN OFF BY INDIANA VOTERS Margin Is Almost 2 to 1, With Heavy Balloting the Rule in All Sections of Hoosier State. MARION COUNTY GOES 3 TO 1 248 Delegates Elected by Wets to Convention Scheduled at Capitol on June 26; Only 81 Drys. Alter years under the yoke of tlie Anti-Saloon league, Indiana today is the tenth state to express at the polls its animosity to prohibition, voting Tuesday by nearly a 2 to 1 majority to ratify the twenty-first amendment to the Constitution. With all but forty-two of the state's 3,691 precincts tabulated, the popular vote for repeal stands at 549,776 to 303,016 against. Vote from untabulated precincts will not affect the delegate distribution.

Marion county joined other populous centers by votingmore than 3 to 1 for prohibition repeal on a popular vote of 89,947 for ratification to 26,721 against. So sweeping was the wet victory that 248 of a possible 329 delegates are pledged to vote for ratification when the constitutional convention is held here at the statehouse June 26. Os the 248 delegates pledged for repeal. Marion county's bloc is fortytwo, the largest county delegation. From the time that first reports were received from northern counties, the result of Tuesday’s election never was in doubt. Wets Sweep Industrial Areas Industrial centers provided the votes which placed Indiana on record as being opposed to prohibition for the first time since 1917, when the legislature voted a ban on intoxicating liquors. Vanderburg county led the repealists’ victory march by piling up a majority of 12 to 1. Lake county voted more than 8 to 1 for repeal. The margin in LaPorte county was 6 to 1; Vigo, 5 to 1; Allen, 5 to 1; St. Joseph, more than 3 to 1, and Marion, 3 to 1. These counties alone were allotted 120 of the 329 delegates. The repeal election law provided that each county should have one delegate, plus one for each 10,000 population. Unusual significance had been attached to the Indiana election because it was the first state voting on repeal in which the outcome seemed to be in doubt. Drys Fought Hard Prohibition forces of the nation made their first • serious campaign here. i The trend toward liberalism in Indiana had its inception a year ago, when state conventions of both Republican and Democratic parties adopted planks in favor of abolishing the drastic Wright law, state liquor enforcement act. The law was wiped off the statute books in March by the Democraticcontrolled legislature, at the instigation of Governor Paul V. McNutt. A few days later the same legislature set up machinery to permit the sale of 3.2 per cent beer. Under the Wright law, a person whose breath even smelled of liquor could be convicted on testimony of the arresting officer. The repeal election showed that anti-prohibition sentiment had penetrated the rural communities, but not enough to elect repeal candidates.

Several Stay Dry It was the smaller counties which reduced the huge margin given repeal by urban centers, although the vote often was close. Among those running true to form and balloting against repeal were Clinton, Harrison, Huntington, Jefferson, Kosciusko, Lawrence, Marshall, Monroe, Pike. Putnam, Scott, Wabash. Wells and V/hitley. Counties voting for repeal other than those embracing metropolitan areas included Bartholomew', Blackford. Clay, Dearborn, Miami, Ohio, Parke, Porter, Posey, Shelby, Tippecanoe, Warrick and Grant. Wayne county repudiated its favorite son by voting 8,298 to 5,632 for repeal. It is the home of Earl Crawford, Milton. Speaker of the house in the 1933 legislature and one of the state’s mast militant prohibitionists. He spent many days stumping the state on behalf of the antirepeal forces during the pre-election campaign. As Speaker he signed both the Wright repeal law and the beer control bill. Vote About 60 Per Cent Voting was about 60 per cent of normal, with more than 800,000 ballots cast. The season’s worse heat wave, which sent temperatures to new high records Tuesday, kept many away from the polls. Farmers voted in greater numbers than expected. Heavy rains m many places on election eve enabled them to leave their cultivators and corn planters long enough to visit the polls. Among the first countiesuto vote

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Following is a list of Indiana counties, showing how they voted in Tuesday’s repeal election and the number of delegates each will send to the state constitutional convention June 26. —For Repeal— Adams, 2; Allen, 15; Bartholomew 2; Benton, 1; Blackford. 1; Brown, 1; Cass, 3; Clark, 3; Clay, 3; Crawford, 1; Dearborn, 2; Decatur, 2; DeKalb, 2; Delaware, 7; Dubois 1; Elkhart 7; Fayette, 2: Floyd, 3; Fountain, 2; Franklin, 1; Grant, 5; How’ard, 5; Jackson, 2; Jasper, 1; Jay,2; Jennings, 1; Knox, 4; Lake, 26; Laporte, 6; Madison, 8; Marion, 42; Martin, 1; Miami, 3; Morgan, 2; Newton, I; Noble, 2; Ohio, 1; Parke, 2; Perry, 2; Porter, 2; Posey, 2; Pulaski, 1; Randolph, 2; Ripley, 2; Rush, 2; Shelby, 2; Spencer, 2; Stark, 1; Steuben, 1; St. Joseph, 16; Sullivan, 3; Tippecanoe, 5; Vanderburg. 11; Vermilion, 2; Vigo 10; 2; Wayne, 5; White, 2. Against Repeal Boone, 2; Carroll, 2; Clinton, 3; Daviess, 3; Fulton. 2; Gibson. 3; Greene. 3; Hamilton.'2; Hancock. 2; Harrison, 2; Hendricks, 2; Henry, 4; Huntington, 3; Jefferson, 2; Johnson, 2; Kosciusko, 3; La Grange, 1; Lawrence, 4; Marshall, 3; Monroe, 4; Montgomery, 3; Orange, 2; Owen, 1; Pike, 2; Putnam, 2; Scott, 1; Switzerland, 1; Tipton, 2; Union, 1; Wabash, 3; Warren, 1; Washington, 2; Wells, 2; Whitley, 2.

against repeal was Monroe, home of Governor McNutt. Daviess provided an upset by joining the prohibition ranks. it was evident a few hours after the polls opened that Marion county would pile up a tremendous vote for repeal, the size of the total vote was surprising to many, v:ho did not believe the issue would attract 50 per cent of the normal vote. In the Fifth precinct of the Sixth ward, the repealists blanked the drys, turning in a vote of 204 for ratification. That precinct, located near Camp Sullivan, was the first to report officially to the canvassing board. Both the far and near north side communities returned a landslide victory for repeal. The south side went for repeal by an even larger margin, the drys obtaining less than a half dozen votes in some precincts. One of the heaviest repeal votes was cast in Woodruff Place, Twentyninth precinct of the Ninth ward, where 379 votes were cast for ratification and 159 against. Irvington Is Dry Bulwark Irvington and several rural communities formed the bulwark of what little strength the drys were able to show', although repealists carried the Second precinct of Franklin township, a rural section, by two votes. First precinct of the Sixth ward, containing a large number of apartment houses and hotels, ”oted 180 to 15 against prohibition. Beech Grove was another section to voice heavily its opposition to the dry law. Containing a large population of railroad workers, the community had cast 225 votes by noon and this total was increased after 4u30 when many rail workers left the shops. Credit to Women Leo M. Rappaport, chairman of the executive committee of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, issued a statement today in which he credited a large share of the sweeping repeal victory to the efforts of Indiana women. “In my opinion, sound thinking on the part of the women and the*r determination to correct an obvious evil had more to do with the outcome than any other single factor."