Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1933 — Page 1

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RELIEF FROM HEAT FRIDAY IS PROMISED Mercury by Noon as High as on Wednesday When 98 Was Top Mark. SIX DEATHS IN STATE Coolest Level in Last 24 Hours 75 Degrees at 5 This Morning. Hourly Trmperaturrs a. m 77 10 a. m 90 7a. m 80 11 a. m 92 Ram 85 12 <noon>.. 93 9 a. m 87 1 p. m 94 Hope for a break Friday in the record setting heat wave was oftored today b\ the local United States ■weather bureau. However, the temperature at noon today had reached 93, the same as < n Wednesday, when anew 1933 inch of 98 was set at 3:15 p. m. Six deaths: and eight prostrations occurred in Indiana Wednesday ns the mercury reached 98, anew June 7 high mark. Four persons were o: owned, one in Indianapolis, and h f 'at caused two deaths. Forecast of thunder storms by or during Friday and "somewhat cooler ’ was the news today from the weather bureau. Thp temperature of 98 at 3:15 Wednesday afternoon not only was anew June 7 record, but also the hottest day so far in 1933, and only 2 degrees under the all-time June record of 100 recorded in 1995. Anew June f> mark was set. Tuesday with a temperature of fit,B. 75 at 5 This Morning The coolest point since the 98 iriark Wednesday afternoon was 75 at 5 this morning. At the same hour Wednesday, the temperature was 77. Heat caused street paving to burst £t nine places today, seven in the city and two in Broad Ripple. The breaks here were Ninth and Chester streets, 604 East Twelfth street; 322 North Denny street; 3050 North Illinois; Eric and Alabama streets; 2216 West Michigan street, and 30 South Pennsylvania street. The Indianapolis drowning victim was Donald Ellcnburg, 14, Negro, 713 West North street, who died in a pit of the Indiana Gravel Cos., near Fourteenth and Collins streets. He fell from a raft into water twelve feet deep. Companions of the boy on a swimming party recovered the body. Efforts to revive the boy were made bv police and fire department, squads. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy coroner, made an investigation. Ollier State Brownings Richard Ellenburg, the victim's blind father, told police he did not know the son was away from home. Others drowned were: Edward J. Burke, 14. Brazil, in Walton lake, Terre Haute, and Harry Bouelden, 50. fisherman, nho drowned in the Wabash river flt Terre Haute. Ray Burton, 25. Los Angeles, Cal., b dance orchestra director, died v lulc swimming in Lake Maxinknekec. Heat prostration caused death of Ananias Culp, 50, East Chicago fucel mill worker, and James Houston, 67, farmer near Terre Haute, who was stricken while plowing Prostrated by Heat In Indianapolis two persons were prostrated by heat. Phillip Carroll, 28, of 535 East New York, became unconscious while eating supper. I illian Martin. 30, Negro, 324 Wes*' fourteenth street, collapsed while walking in the 200 block West Fourteenth street. Others prostrated were Miss Mary Hutton. Williamsport, who incurred n fracture of a wrist when she fell; Walter Bruner, farmer near Columbus, stricken while plowing; Harry Russell, John Lemon and Ms. Dora McCord, all of Anderson, Mrs. McCord having been stricken while carrying her child in her arms, and Edward C. Fries, 52. Columbia City, overcome while in Ft. Wayne. Rochester was the hottest place in Indiana Wednesday, with a temperature of 103, while at Vincennes the readng was 102. Average for the state was 99, and the lowest temperature reported was 72. Cambridge City was the coolest kpot early today, with a temperature rs 66. JUDGE* $ TIRE RU IN ED: LETS OFFENDER OFF Tuts Personal Feelings Aside and Suspends Fine on Youth. Clyde C. Karrer, judge pro tern, in municipal court, put his personal feelings aside today in the best judicial manner, not swayed by the fact that broken glass in a street cost him $8 for an automobile tire. Robert Williams, 19. of 359 West Thirty-second street, was in court on a charge of throwing glass in a street. He was fined SI and casts, but all was suspended by Karrer, who mentiond his $8 experience. Times Index Book a Day 19 Bridge 7 Broun Column 12 Classified 18 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 17 Curious World 16 Dietz on Science 16 Editorial 12 Financial 17 Hickman Theater Reviews 16 Lippmann Column 16 Racing—Big Business 20 Radio 10 Serial Story' 19 Sports 14-15 Talburt Cartoon 12 Vital Statistics 17 Womans Page 6-7

The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy tonight, probably followed by thunderstorms" Friday; somewhat cooler Friday.

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Let’s take a look at the cooler side of this thing called heat. There are hundreds of people in Indianapolis who daily, despite the broiling sun, work in cool and frigid temperatures. Upper left—Zero! That’s the workaday temperature of D. Bowman, employe of Kingan <fc Company, in the cold storage room of the plant. Garbed in a couple of

COMPROMISE ON VETERANS NEAR Dangerous House Revolt to Be Curbed, Leaders’ Latest Report. Hy I nilril Pres , WASHINGTON, June B.—Substantial compromises on the part of the President on his veterans’ economy program appeared likely today to curb a dangerous house revolt against the economies. Majority Leader Byrns announced, after a meeting of the house Democratic steering committee, that he believed a. veterans’ program acceptable to both the President and the House soldiers bloc would lie achieved at a White House conference today. ’ The Democratic leader said the basis of the agreement would be "a substantial recession" on the part of the White House in the controversial matter of the “presumptive” disability allowances. Byrns said under present arrangements World war veterans, who were presumed to be suffering from war incurred disabilities but who were unable to definitely prove the connection, would be retained on the pension rolls.

Flying Mollisons Crack Up in Start of Ocean Hop

BY HARRY L. PERCY Vnitrd I’rcss StaTT Correspondent CROYDON AIRDROME. LONDON. June B.—Wrecked on the attempted take-off of their transAtlantic flight, the flying Mollisons ordered immediate repairs on their plane today, and planned a fresh start as soon as possible. James Mollison and his wife, the former Amy Johnson, both escaped injury when their heavily laden plane, the Seafarer, struck a bump on the runway and nosed over, badly damaged, early today. Mrs. Mollison. holder of many distance records and one of the world's foremost women fliers, seemed stunned by the dramatic ending of the adventure. Her husband James, who successfully negotiated the dangerous eastwest passage of the Atlantic alone last year, shrugged philosophically and inspected the damage. No accurate estimate could be given of the time necessary for repairs. The Mollinsons had hoped to fly westward to New York, rest there not more than twenty-four hours, then fly east to Aleppo, Arabia, in an attempt to set a straight line

There's a Cooler Side to This Life; Too

coats, he is shown handling salted meats for shipment. 'He's within touching distance of the hoavilyiced pipes. Upper right—And here's Ollie Cubert in the storage room of the Artificial Ice and Cold Storage Company, keeping company with hundreds of pounds of ice and wearing a leather jacket against the frigidity.

Senate Grants Authority for Morgan Tax Probe

Story of Far-Flung Railroad Financing Revealed in Van Sweringen Questioning.

BY LYLE C. WILSON I nitpd Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, June 8. The senate banking and currency committee. clothed with newauthority to push its Mrogan investigation into the realm of income tax payments, spread upon the public record today a story of a far-flung railroad financing, and a charge that such pracj tices served to avoid federal regulation.

POLICE ‘NAVY’ CALLED TO OUST SWIMMERS Officers Get ‘’Bronx Cheer” From 300 Swimming in Quarry. ■ By T'nited Press ROCKFORD, 111,, June 8 —Corporation Counsel Frank Ryan asked ! the police department to call out | its “navy” Wednesday night and I force some 300 men and boy swim- ' mers from the municipal quarry. When the heat reached almost 10ft degrees. Rvan recalled a $3,000 I judgment returned against the city j two years ago as a result of a drowning in the quarry. He sent two detectives to the pool to make sure nobody was swimming there. The detectives found 300 men and boys in the water. When they ordered the swimmers to come out and dress, the 300 responded with a ’"Bronx” cheer.

distance record, and as a final gesture. return to Croydon to complete the circuit. Experts attributed today's accident to collapse of one of the plane's struts under trie strain of the heavy gasoline and oil load. The under carriage was smashed, the wheels were pushed up into the lower wings, and the engine was torn apart.

He Couldn’t Be Honest jgARRETT COLVIX wanted to tell his wife the whole story when she asked about his ward, Gerald Moore. He couldn’t because of a promise—and Barrett was not the man to break his word. That’s just one of the situations leading to dramatic consequences in the new serial, “Bargain Bride.” It begins Monday, June 12, in The Times.

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Lower left—lt was almost 98 when Clark S. Wheeler, in his coat, and Miss Nigel Haley transacted business in their office that has a regular temperature of 70. But the inside story is that it is the office of the Frigidaire Corporation, 931 North Meridian street, where a Frigidaire Air conditioner, shown in the background,

O. P. Van Sweringen testified regarding the financial set-up of the Alleghany Corporation, the huge holding company formed in 1929 to take over stock of Van Sweringen railroads. The senate, meeting two hours earlier than is customary, promptly voted the additional power requested bv Chairman Duncan U. Fletcher of the committee when he encountered opposition to the plan to develop stock transactions of Morgan partners as they related to income tax payments. The senate also voted the committee SIOO,OOO for continuation of the inquiry into the summer. Ferdinand Pecora drew from Van Sweringen an agreement that indirect transfers of stock to the Alleghany Corporation were used “so as to avail of income tax exemptions." Pecora had developed this line of inquiry Wednesday with the charge that the Van Sweringens escaped payment of millions of dollars in taxes in this manner. ESCAPE WITH $17,000 .Seven Bandits Hold Up Chicago Bank: Terrorize 26 Persons. By I nited Prr*s CHICAGO, June 8. —Seven bandits with sawed-off shotguns and pistols, their faces masked with handkerchiefs, terrorized twenty-six persons in the Main State bank today, and escaped in two stolen automobiles with $17,000 loot.

keeps the temperature and humidity at a pleasant level. Lower right—Remember those days last winter when you wished for summer. Well, you’ve got it. Today there’s not much chance of traffic officer Harold E. Olsen scraping snow and ice from the street at Ohio and Meridian streets. But the photo shows he exerted himself a few- months ago.

FRENCH REJECT ARMS CUT PLAN Flatly Turn Down Proposals: Point to Germany's Munitions Plants. By United Press - PARIS, June B.—France flatly rejected today the joint proposals of the United States and Great Britain offered in a final effort to save the disarmament conference from failure. France will not sacrifice more heavy guns and suppres.s her tanks in return for Germany's concessions, Premier Edouard Daladier told the three powers conference in defining the French position. Foreign Minister Joseph Paul I Boncour said France was willing to join in any serious effort to save | the disarmament conference from I collapse and that France already had made a sincere effort to dis- : arm. Draft Is Adopted By V nited Press GENEVA, June B.—The general j commission of the disarmament* , conference voted today to accept the British draft of a disarmament i treaty as a basis for a future treaty. ! The vote was taken over the ob- ! jections of the French delegation.

Gold to Face Trial at London Parley; Fate as Form of Money Is in Balance

Untamed King of World Has Gone Into Hiding When Needed Most. World recovery, it is agreed. depends largely on the London Conference. The London Conference wlil tarn on monetary stabilization, trade and best. All these hings on eold. Gold never plaved sovital a role in world affairs as it does now. This i* the first of four article* on the most romantic and most sought-after of metals, giving the highlights of its history down through the ages. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor The fate of gold in the form of money is in the balance. Gold, the one substance as freely accepted in the heart of darkest Africa as on Fifth avenue for whatever there is for sale, has left the world in the lurch. Since 1899, until recently, every important country on the face of the globe, save China, has tied its | money to gold. Today not one in the lot really is on the gold standard. France and one or two smaller nations claim to be on gold. But the | truth is gold coins entirely have disappeared from circulaton. Not.

WORLD FLIER FORCED DOWN; TO CONTINUE Wrecked Plane Is Repaired, in Siberia After Crash Landing in Fog. REFUSES TO GIVE UP Plucky American Fixes His Ship, Then Is Delayed by Storm. BY EUGENE LYONS I'nited Pres* Staff rorrrspnnrirnt MOSCOW, June B.—Jimmy Mat- 1 tern's wrecked plane has been re-' paired, but his departure from this ' out-of-the way stop on his round-the-world flight was delayed tonight by a heavy storm. Damage to the plane was much i less serious than was thought at i first, the United Press was in- i formed by officials of the village of Bielovo, where Mattern made a forced landing Wednesday r.ight. Although he planned to depart early tonight, the weather forced him to delay his take-off until at least 1 a. m. Moscow time <4 p. m. central standard timei. Repaired in Few Hours Maltern said he was feeling fit. despite the effects of gas fumes he inhaled when his motor went wrong en route from Omsk. Late advices from Novo-Sibirsk ' ."aid that Mattern had made his I forced landing Wednesday night j many hours after he passed over i that city. j It appeared that he had flown around all day in the heavy fog, lost, before landing at Bielovo. The news ! that he was down did not reach i Novo Sibirsk until between 5 and 6 i a. m. today (7 p. m. Wednesday C S. TANARUS.). They described Mattern as happy because the accident was only of a minor nature. He washed, ate, and rested while keeping an eye on the local workers. Typical Siberian Village Bielovo is one of the mast remote places in the Soviet Union that can be reached by telephone from Moscow. It is a typical scattered Siberan coal mining settlement, in the Kuznetsk mow Stalinsk) district, far off the main highways. Not one of the inhabitants had heard of the round-the-world flight and because of the difficulty of language, it was almost an hour before Mattern made them understand the significance of the sudden visita- ■ tion from the clouds.

Caught in Deep Fog By l nited Pirns NOVO-SIBIRSK, Siberia, U. S. j s - R - ( via. Telephone to Moscow), June B.—The first detailed account | of the forced landing of Jimmy Mattern, American aviator, near the I mining town of Prokopievsk, was | given the United Press today by ! Manager Shetzoff of the local airport. ; Mattern made his forced landing ! soon after 7 a. m. Wednesday, Novoj Sibirsk time, shortly after ‘he had flown over this town on his way I from Omsk to Chita. "The American was caught in deep, white fogs beyond NovoI Sibirsk and wandered off his course,” Shvetzoff said. “He was obliged to make a forced landing on a wet, uneven field. "In landing, he apparently broke off the tail of his airplane, but he himself was not in any way hurt.” Today’s Short Story A metal boat ten feet long was offered for sale by Mr. Paul Miles, 253 South Sherman drive, through a Times Want Ad. -Four persons offered to purchase the boat. The cast for the ten-word ad below that sold the boat was only 81 cents for four days. METAL BOAT for sale; 10 feet lone; sls. IR-I‘2Bo. 25.1 S. Sherman Dr. A TWA is the ideal medium through which to dispose of your extra articles. It offers the lowest rate of any Indianapolis newspaper. Just call Ri. 5551 or come to Want Ad Headquarters, 214 West Maryland street.

Where Gold Is

Gold almost certainly was the first metal to attract the attention of man. It is one and one-half times heavier than lead, and nearly twice as heavy as silver. It is very widely distributed, but not in paying quantities. It even occurs in sea-water. In fact, there Is more gold there than anywhere else. If all the gold in the seven seas could be extracted, it would amount to 10.000.000,000 tons, valued at $5,000,000,000.000.000 or 200,000 times as much as all the gold brought to light since mankind began. All the gold extracted since Columbus discovered America easily could be stored in one room thirty-three feet square. For want of a few cubic feet of gold, empires have crumbled.

even in France can gold be had on demand. Gold has gone into hiding when mankind needs it most. With about $11,000,000,000 gold la the

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REPUBLICANS LEAD SMASHING ATTACK ON RECOVERY BILL

ROMANCE FADES

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Elliott Roosevelt ROOSEVELT SON FACES DIVORCE Wife Will Sue Soon. Says Wife of President at Phoenix. By I nitrd Press PHOENIX. Ariz., June B.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the President, today confirmed reports that her son Elliott and his wife, Elizabeth Donner Roosevelt, would seek a divorce soon. “Yes, that report is true.” she said when she arrived here by airplane from the coast. Mrs. Roosevelt, returning to Washington after visiting Elliott in Los Angeles, appeared extremely upset when newsmen attempted to question her. After confirming the report, she went immediately to the office of the American Airways Company. It was understood the charge in the divorce action would be mental cruelty. The suit will be filed in ! Nevada. Denies Divorce Plan By 1 nited Press LOS ANGELES, June B—Elliott Roosevelt denied he and his wife planned a divorce. She is living in Philadelphia.

Metal Sought After and Fought Over for Last 6,000 Years. world, nobody has any to spend. Few nations have any to speak of even in their vaults. For lack of it or because of the uncertainty over whether, when and how it will return to general use. currencies the world over violently are fluctuating. At the world monetary and economic conference at London, therefore, gold will go on triai. Upward of sixty nations will sit as a jury there, and their decisions will go a long way toward setting its future. Gold, or the lack of it, still is playing havoc with world economics. ; If the London conference can not find a way to make it do the job it is supposed to perform in world affairs, its future may be limited as man's monetary mainstay. After being sought after and ! fought over for 6.000 years, gold still j virtually is the untamed king of the economic world. Sometimes, rules 1 i (Turn to Page Ten) t i

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Licensing Provision Under Fire as Senate Opens Debate on Measure. ‘INSANE.’ SAYS REED Wagner Defends Plan as Weapon for Insuring Fair Competition. BY JOHN A. REICHMANX Vnitrd Tress Staff Correspondent \\ ASHINGTOX, June B. The fight to retain at President Roosevelt's request the licensing provision of the industrial control bill opened in the senate today with Republicans leading a smashing attack on the plan for forcingrecalcitrant industrial groups into line. Senator Davd A Reed 'Rep.. Pa >, charged the provision was so revolutionary that it would create an •‘inquisitorial” system. Reed announced he would offer an amendment to eliminate it. "Under the bill." Reed said, “the various industries may adopt codes of fair practice which, when the President approves, have ail the force of law. Any one who violates them is subject to imprisonment. “Now the administration insists on adding this licensing system as a further penalty. The individual who violates the codes may in addition to being jailed, be barred from doing business. “I think the plan is insane.” Senator Robert Wagner (Dorn., N. Y.), leading exponent of the measure, defended the section. He told Reed that it was put in as a club over ‘'.recalcitrant'’ business men who, by wage cutting and sweatshop methods, imperil fair wage scales.

PLAYBOY IS CONVICTED OF BEATING HEIRESS Reno Tells World ‘New Y'ork Gigolos Are Unwelcome. By I nited Press RENO. Nev.. June B.—Eugene A. Bowen, frail 40-year-old New York “Playboy,” late Wednesday was found guilty of assaulting and beating Miriam Hastetter Young, 32, New York heiress. Justice of Peace Francis J. Cunningham, who heard the case without a jury, sentenced Bowen to 25 days in the county jail or SSO fine. In finding Bowen guilty of two charges of battery. Judge Cunningham granted the plea of State’s Attorney Axel Johnson to “let the world know that Reno does not approve of New York gigolos coming to Reno to beat up on other men's wives.” CONTRACTORS INDICTED IN BIG DAM FIASCO San Francisco Men Accused of Giving SBO,OOO Bribe. Bn f nited Press LOS ANGELES, June 8. Alan MacDonald, Charles Ross and Felix Kahn, San Francisco contractors, have been indicted secretly by the county grand jury on bribery charges in connection with the San Gabriel dam fiasco, it was disclosed Wednesday when they surrendered to authorities. The men gave themselves up in superior court. They were accused of bribing Sidney T. Graves, former chairman of the county board of supervisors, who recently was convicted of accepting an SBO,OOO bribe for using his influence in winning a settlement for the contractors after abandonment of the dam. EDITOR IN STATE JOB Carl Houston of Marion Named State Reformatory Trustee. Carl Houston, editor of the Marion Leader-Tribune, was appointed a Democratic trustee for the Indiana state reformatory today by Governor Paul V. McNutt. He succeeds to the vacancy caused by resignation of Dr. H. O. Bruggeman, Ft. Wayne.

The Call to Adventure Men do not have a monopoly on adventure. Women, too, seek fame and fortune and thrills in the remote corners of the earth. The experiences of these women huntresses, aviatrices, and artists in faraway places; the hardships and pleasures of forsaking civilization for adventure, form fascinating stories. Earl Sparling. Times special writer, has spun these adventures into a series of thrilling tales, the first of which will appear Friday in The Times. The opening story will be about Mrs. James L. Clark, who killed two lions without reloading her gun—and then cried. Watch for it Friday.