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REVIEW BOARD DEFENDS CDTS IN VALUATIONS Insists on ‘Right to Use Own Judgment on 50 Properties.

ANSWER TO M’CLOSKEY Nearly $600,000 Involved in Appeal to Be Made by Township Assessor. Although strenuously denying any controversy with John C. MrCloskey. Center township assessor, members of the Marion county board of review today insisted on the right to use their own judgment.” The declaration of the board was issued in answer to charges by McCloskev Monday in announcing an appeal to the state tax board against a reduction of approximately $583,680 in valuations placed by him on fifty local properties. MrCloskey charged that the reassessments were made at a cost of about SIO,OOO of taxpayers' money, but that the work is being wasted through the board's action in ignoring the raises. Attitude of the board was given by County Assessor Robert. R. Sloan, with the statement after reading McCloskev's charges: “Acts Within Rights" "This board is appointed by law and has acted within its rights in placing valuations. We want to place them as near the true cash value as possible without accepting any one else's Judgment. We are not in a fight with anybody.” Frank Brattain, appointed a member of the board by Circuit Judge Earl R Cox. also replied to McCloskev's charges. Brattain. a Republican, was township assessor from 1927 to 1930, and was defeated by MrCloskey at the last election. Although establishing "true cash value" as the yardstick of the board in determining valuations. Brattain also said that the circumstances of individual taxpayers were taken into consideration. Behind in Taxes ' We have had many cases of taxpayers coming before the board and nearly crying because of their increased valuations." Brattain said. "Some of them have been unable to pay their 1931 or 1932 taxes, so what would be the point in raising them?” Brattain pointed out that McCloskev s reappraisal in Center (Turn to Page Three) DELUGES INSTEAD OF RAIN FOR LOUISIANA IR.R inches Fall at Shreveport in 48-Hour Period. Indianapolis residents finally are convinced that there is such a thing as rain, but suppose you lived in Shreveport. La., where rain reallv falls? Officials of the local weather bureau today said that reports from the southern city showed that 18 8 inches of rain have fallen there in the last forty-eight hours. That's one of the heaviest rains recorded in recent years and comparative figures here show how long it's been since that much rain fell here Since April 11. weather charts here show, only 17.85 inches of rain has been recorded That includes heavy rains Indianapolis had early this spring, when most of the residents thought the sun never would shine

NAZI DRIVE STAGED TO CORNER UNDESIRABLES Railroad. Motor Traffic at Standstill in Nation-Wide Search. By l nitr-d I'rr** BERLIN. Jiriy 25 Police halted all main line Railway traffic and closed all motor roads throughout Germany from noon to 12:40 p. m. today to search for "long sought'' German and foreign radicals and Communistic literature. Pohcg and Nazi storm troopers went through trains and motor cars searching for literature, weapons and for Communists and others regarded as updesjrables. PARLEY TOPE VANISHES Conference Reaches Impasse on World Wheat Agreement. By l nit* *t LONDON. July 25 —The last hope for a complete international wheat agreement before adjournment of the world economic conference vanished today when exporting and importing actions decided to attempt only a general understanding at tihs time. Times Index Book a Day 7 Bridge p Broun Column 4 City Briefs p Classified 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 13 Dietz on Science 9 Doug and Mary—A Series 8 Editorial 4 Financial 11 Fishing 7 Ford Near 70-A Senes 7 Hickman Theater Reviews 14 Lippmann Article 13 Radio 12 Serial Btory 13 Sports 10 Stream Pollution—A Series 1 Talburt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 11 Woman s Page 6

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 64

Million Dollars Are Added to Value of Hoosier Crops by Two-Day Rains

Left—Rain: And William Muegge. 2642 South Deleware street, finds his tomatoes are saved. Right—Rill Monday and his son Joe pick berries after Monday's rain. 7 * Lower—With the ground softened. Chris N'ierman and his son Walter, R. R. 650, plow their fields. y, ' ' .

I.rft—Rain: And William Muegge, 2642 South Dflrwarr strict, finds his tomatoes are saved. Right—Rill Monday and his son Joe pick berries after Monday's rain. Lower—With the ground softened. Chris \ierman and his son Walter, R. R. 650, plow their fields.

Hook ’n Ladder Detectives Nab Alleged Climber, but Not of Social Variety.

TNDIANAPOLIS’ biggest hook and ladder man finally has been caught, harassed police announced today. They are holding Alva Sweeney, 38. who. police say. "gives a different address every time you look at him.” Sweeney, according to four weary detectives, who have been hunting him for more than a month, has been fascinated peculiarly by ladders. In fact, he is charged with stealing about an even dozen of them. The four detectives, members of the city's "finest." have worked from one end of the north side to the other, hunting the men who seems to have made a nice profit out of ladders—all kinds of ladders. But it took little Jack Watson. 13. of 4538 Carrollton avenue, ftinally to trace down Sweencv. (Turn to Page Eight) Paving Contract Awarded Oast Construction Company. Warsaw, was awarded a $143,238.88 contract today for paving 5.2 miles of twenty-foot concrete pavement on State Road 8. from Road 41 to Crown Point, in Lake county.

Easy Way to Permit Sale of Draught Beer Shown

Should Governor Paul V. McNutt say "Go." draught beer could be had in Indiana through a ruling of the state excise director, it was learned today. Way has been made for such action through Paul Fry. state excise director, ruling that beer permits,

Streams Once Crystal Clear Now Polluted by Industry, Times Series Shows

BY ARCH STEINEL Time* Staff Writer of a summer's day; in an open boat a man with a sunburned neck reels in and out. tosses back and forth; downstream. forward and aft of his oar-locks, he throws his line. "Nary a bite." is his answer to a hail from a passing rowboat. Cool of a summer's eve; frantic shouts at a river dam spell adolescent joy in ducking each other and being ducked. A girl s sylphform cut* the water in a swan dive. She conibs up spluttering. The fisherman has gone home with empty pail. But to the fisherman with Nary a bite" and the girl of the swan-dive those waters are lurking dangers. To the fisherman of Hoosierland that continual report of "Nary a bite" may mean that his lake or stream is suffering at the hands of industry or negligence of officials who fail to impress taxpayers with the need to end stream pollution through proper sewage disposal systems. To the girl swimmer that water *r

Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change in temperature.

GRAIN ‘CORNER* EFFORT FAILS Government Restores Quiet to Chicago Mart, but Crushes Big Trader. Hit I nitnl Prr CHICAGO. July 26.—Grain futures operations functioned calmly on the Chicago Board of Trade today under regulated price ranges, but written in the annals of the great mart was another financially tragic attempt to corner the market. Mindful that grain prices would be eat a dangerously iow position if success had climaxed the gigantic coup planned by E. A. Crawford, now suspended, traders dealt with caution. Directors' announcement that the 90-cent minimum price for July whfeat and 92 cents for September wheat would continue in effect today served as a backlog to spurts of brisk activity. Crawford was suspended by the board of "liability to meet obligations.” but it was more than rumor along La Salle street that his holdings df 13.400.000 bushels of corn when the market began crumbling early last week held the necessary momentum that could have turned the slump into a major crash.

may be granted to restaurants outside the corporate limits of cities and towns. Fry evaded the law s handicap in this case through action of the department attoi-nev. Fred Behdolt. who wrote anew rule based on (Turn to Page Thrcy)

she spluttered, thankful for its coolness, may result in a manifold number of ailments. a a a HP HE fisherman's water may have grease or acid in it that locks the gills of fish in death. The swimmer's water may have pollution's stamp of organic waste —bacillus coli. The Indianapolis Times, in a series of stories on Indiana's rivers and lakes, will show how the state s own century of progress has had its drawbacks in wasted fishing grounds, contaminated swimming "holes." turning beauty spots into industrial sloughs. Spots made famous in quatrains and books have felt the grimy hand of industrial and municipal pollution of streams, the series will show. Points where Indians roamed free and a noon-day meal merely waited their pleasure are gone. The scavenger fish, the carp, lives now where blue gills, perch, and bass once thrived. The aristocrats of the finny tribe resented the invasion of water blackened, reddened sometimes, by industry's acid* and

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1933

Farmers Hope for Added Downpours, but Showers Only Are Expected. Thousands of farmers in Marion county and Indiana hoped for additional rains to aid their crops. ; many of which were saved by “mil- | lion-dollar" rains Monday and early today that ended a drought of three weeks. The tveather bureau forecast cloudy skies and below normal temperatures for the next twentyfour hours, but did not promise heavy rainfall. Light showers are probable in various parts of the ; state. The rain, which started Sunday night, moved to Indianapolis and vicinity Monday and reports of j rain were received here today from the southern part of the state. Worth "Million Dollars” Marion county farmers said that the downpour penetrated four inches and more into ground that was hard baked by the heat wave. One truck gardener south of Indianapolis said he watched his bean .crop literally "burn up" Saturday | and Sunday when the temperature was near the 100-mark. Farmers are watching their tomato and corn crops closely, hoping that ;!he rain will revive them, although heavy damage' was done by the heat and dry wave. Officials of the Purdue university school of agriculture estimated that Monday's precipitation was worth $1,000,000 to Indiana farmers. Corn Crop Is Helped Agricultural experts in the north central section of the state said that the rain, if followed by seasonable weather, will result in a 60 per cent harvest of the tomato crop and 50 per cent or com. At Tipton rain fell for ten hours, delaying harvesting of oats. At Rochester, farmers said the ' rain probably saved the majority of I the corn crop and improved pasture ; lands that had been burned dry oy j the heat wave. In the southeast section of the state, it was believed that the rain saved, in entirety, the late crops. At Shelbyville, a farmer said the break in the dry spell came too late to aid I their early plantings.

chemicals. They moved on. The carp moved in. So the fisherman goes home with empty pail. nun "OUT that fisherman can and does tell of cleaner streams and easier days, in The Times series, when all you had to do was "drop a line in and get a mess for supper.” The series will tell of a bigger fish, big in political waters of the state, who has had much to do with the retrogression of state streams. Somehow he’s always gotten by. Os course, he donated to the campaign funds of a political party. Complaints would be made to the state board of health and the state's conservation department of the pollution about his factories. “See the state board of health" would be the retort of the conservation department. “See the conservation department.” would be the health board's retort. Or again, "We've warned him." "We've warned him. too," would be a like answer from another state official.

ALLEGIANCE PLEDGES DELUGE ROOSEVELT AFTER APPEAL FOR UNITED DRIVE ON DEPRESSION

MKERfIITT PAROLE CLASH AGAM LOOMS Clemency Board Considers Ignoring Opposition of Criminal Judge. Possibility of another row between the state administration and Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker loomed today, as the state clemency board started its second series of sessions. The board is pondering a parole for Ordia Bruce. 31. Cumberland bank robber, serving a ten-year-flat prison sentence imposed by Judge Baker. The judge recommends that a parole be not granted. Bruce was sent to the Indiana State prison on Jan. 27. 1931. He held up and robbed the Cumberland bank of S3OO, firing a shot at the cashier as he fled, with the cashier in pursuit. No Previous Record Previously he had no criminal record, the board members were informed today by his parents and his wife, who appeared at the hearing. He had been employed at the Van Camp Packing Company, but had been out of work for several months. His wife and three children were destitute, they said. Having bought a home at 1702 Cruft street, he sought to keep th? installments paid on it. Since his sentence the wife and children have moved into a shed in the rear and rent the place to pay these installments. Get SI a Week Washing One SI washing a weex and a basket from the township trustees keep them alive, they reported Board members were meved by this and the fact that Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson did not object to the parole plea, although pointing out that when Bruce fired a shot there was danger of homicide. Chief Mike Morrissey, who arrested Bruce, recommended that he be paroled to support his family. Hp has arranged to take a job as truck driver. Judge Baker pointed out in a communication to the board that had Bruce ' needed money he should have sold his shotgun and automobilp, rather than employ them in bank robbing. Rank Chief Willing The bank president said he was willing to have Bruce paroled. So the borad delayed action to seek further information from the Indiana Bankers' Association. Only woman to seek parole from the Indiana Woman's prison here is Mrs. Parthenia O'Connor. Sentenced from Putnam county for one year for petit larceny, Justice James P. Hughes of the supreme court appeared on her behalf, as did her age dfather. Her mother is blind and she is needed at home to care for her parents and 13-year-old son, they said. A sister-in-law. serving similar sentence, led her into the crime, it was stated.

STEAMER STRIKES ROCK Seattle-Bound Vessel in Trouble Near Sentinel Island. ! Hit T'nitrd Prri i* SEATTLE, July 25.—The steamer : Northwestern, bound from Skagway to Seattle, struck a rock near Sentinel island in Lynn canal today, according to word received by the Alaska Steamship Company, owners j of the vessel. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 67 10 a. m 70 7a. m 68 11 a. m 72 Ba. m 68 12 'noon>.. 72 9 a. m 69 1 p m 73

NOTHING was done—that is nothing was done except a few surveys, until the present Democratic regime. The Times series will show howone lake famed the world over because of one who lived beside it and wrote of its heart and the soul of its trees may become a dead summer resort in years ahead. Where now every roadside home cries its "worms for sale" along this lake's borders, the years may bring stagnant green waters where even the river cat would turn up its nose. Farmers no longer can let their cattle or other livestock graze in creeks that amble through their farms. The Times series will tel! of one farmer who did trust his cattle too far. They drank deep in a shade spot of that creek. They died—poisoned by the industry that used that creek ditch for an outlet for its acid wastes. a a a THE series will show boys and girls, your child and your child, in photos, swimming in water that when analyzed shows the presence of bacillus coli—the forerunner of disease.

Our Part Here’s the Recovery Badge You'll See in a Few Days.

WE DO OUR PART The badge of recovery. You'll see much of this red and blue symbol soon. "IF all employers in eath comJL petitive group agree to pay their workers the same wages—reasonable wages—and require the same hours—reasonable hours —then higher wages and shorter hours will hurt no employer. Moreover, such action is better for the employer than unemployment and low wages, because it makes more buyers for his product.” ' r T''HIS is no time to cavil or to -I- question the standard set by this universal agreement. The workers of this country’ have rights under this law which can not be taken from them, and nobody will be permitted to whittle them away, but, on the other hand, no aggression is now necessary to attain those rights. The whole country will be united to get them for you." —Excerpts from PresHent Roosevelt's address Monday night.

BALBO’S FLEET STARTSRETURN First Leg of Flight Will Take Winged Squadron to Shediac, N. B. /?.(/ Vnfit'll Prm * NEW YORK. July 25.—General Italo Balbo, Italy's dynamic air minister, today led his fleet of twenty-four warplanes out of New York, homeward bound after the most spectacular mass flight in history. The first triad of air galleons rase from the waters of Jamaica bay at 8 a. m. 'lndianapolis time), followed in rapid succession by the remainder of the winged squadron, and headed due north for Shediac. New Brunswick, the first port of call on the return voyage to Orbetello. Italy. From Shediac, the fliers hope to take off Wednesday for Shoal Harbor. Newfoundland.

Accused Nurse to Take Stand in Own Defense

With the state closing its case at noon. Miss Marie Winmngham. 1339 North Pennsylvania street, nurse on trial for alleged performance of an illegal operation, was to take the stand as principal defense witness this afternoon. Conclusion of the state s evidence was featured by testimony of Jack Meehan. 2840 East Washington street, that he spent a week in Chicago on a trip financed by the defense. Meehan declared that he used

"I wouldn't let my youngsters swim in any water that showed any percentage of B coli” is the declaration of one bacteriologist to The Times. But the children swimming in those streams didn t know the meaning of "B coli." They didn't know that typhoid, dysentery and other communicable diseases hide in clear cool waters of rivers. They didn't know of the analyses made by The Times of' those waters. They only know that it's great to dive off a springboard, to feel the splash of water, to float lazily half-submerged in coolness—with no thought for bacilli. a a a npHE series wiii take you to the home of a man who was responsible for one of the movie epics of modern days. He was a fisherman. He loved the quiet of his creel, that flowed near his farmland. But now his creek Is ought in the whirlpool of industry. Its banks are reddened by wastes. Children swim in it oblivious of its polluted waters. Throughout the series It will be shown that the construction of

F.ntered a* Second-Ola* Matter at l’ostofTlre. Indlana(H<lia

‘Way to Better Times Is Carefully Charted/ Says President in Plea to Nation for a Common Covenant. OVERWHELMING RESPONSE FOLLOWS Promises of Support to Prosperity Program eJam Wires to Capital as Business Promises Full Co-operation. STATE FEDERATION OF LABOR acts to align union worker* with recovery plan—Page 5. INDIANAPOLIS C ITIZENS praise Roosevelt speech, declare they are 100 per cent with him on program —Page 5. HOUSEWIVES, business and society women pledge whole-hearted support to President.—Page 2. INDUSTRIAL LEADERS of city rally under the banner of the eagle.—Page 14. GROCERS meet and prepare to co-operate in recovery drive Page 14. BY FREDERIC K A. STORM United Press Staff Corrrponilent WASHINGTON, July 25.—Pledges of allegiance approaching wartime fervor poured in on the government today as Americans answered President Roosevelt’s call for a united and immediate offensive to conquer the enemy of depression. “It will be done,” was the slogan of thousands of messages which streamed to the White House in response to President Roosevelt’s appeal to all employers, large and small, to sign an agreement fixing fair and uniform wages for all and spreading employment by shortening working hours. “A common covenant,” the President called it—a covenant “in the name of patriotism and humanity." The way to better times for all carefully has been

charted, Mr. Roosevelt said in his nation-wide appeal Monday night, and “it is time for courageous action.” The President barely had finished speaking from his White House ! study before the telegraph wires into ■ Washington were jammed with mes- ! sages pledging support of big cori porations, small business men and j consumers. An official of one telegraph company estimated the number of messages for Mr. Roosevelt would reach 19,000 before the morning was far advanced. His company held three times the usual number of employes to handle the stream of responses that came in during the night. Like War Response He said he could recall no such response to a presidential appeal since Woodrow Wilson in 1217 summoned the nation to a different kind of war. Calling for the co-operation of the entire public as well as employers. Mr. Roosevelt explained the re-employment campaign in phrases for the complete understanding of the 'forgotten man." "The proposition simply is this: "If all employers will act together to shorten hours and raise wages, we can put people back to work. No employers will suffer, because the relative level of competitive cost will advance by the same amount for all. But if any considerable number should lag or shirk, this great opportunity will pass us

Miss Winningham's car and received sls for expenses during the trip He denied that he was accompanied by Miss Marie Jones, 413 East Ohio street, who testified Monday that Miss Winmngh.tm performed the operation on her. When pressed by Russell V Duncan. defense counsel, for a reason for taking the trip and the money. Meehan declared: "I took the money to get away iTurn to Page Three)

disposal plants has been left to this era of depression and ignored now on the basis of, 'the taxpavers already are overburdened. We can't build one now ' Nor will the series f<vget Indianapolis and Us own front door. It will show’ that this so-called "no mean city” is as lackadaisical as its neighbors in pieserving nearby streams and swimming "holes" from wastes. a a a THE senes will cake the fisher, the swimmer, the summer cottager, into spots they know of. but where passivity to conditions has killed fish, ruined spots for treading water, and turned streams of nature into unnatural canals for dissemination of sewage. It will tell of one stream that mixed quartets, paddling canoes at night, have honored with their notes, and how it drifts yearly down as a spot of beauty, romance, and dreams. And it will tell why fishermen reply, "Nary a bite" in good old Hoosier-age when they are hailed on an Indiana stream. (Next—The Loss to the Limberlost),

HOME EDITION TRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

by and we will go into another desperate winter. This must not happen.” That is the gospel that will be hammerpd home in every city and hamlet of the land. The President's address set the keynote for thousands of speaker* and campaign workers under dirtci tion of the recovery administration, who will carry on the drive to obtain every employer's signature to I agreements setting a minimum wage of sl4 a week for industrial labor and sls for "white collar" employes. Warns of Penalties Tile chief executive warned of penalties in the law for the laggards, but added that “I now am asking the co-operation that come* from opinion and conscience. These are the only instruments we shall use in this great summer offensive against unemployment.” "But.” he explained, "we shall use them to the limit to protect the willing from the laggard, and to make the plan succeed." The public's duty, he emphasized, is to support business men who abide by the agreements. "In war. in the gloom of night attack. soldiers wear a bright badge on their shoulders to be sure that comrades do not fire on comrades. On that principle, those who cooperate in this program must know each other at a glance. "That is why we have provided a badge of honor for this purpose, a simple design with a legend, We Do Our Part.,' and I ask that all those who Join with me shall display that badge prominently." Likewise, he explained, a "roll of honor" of co-operating firms and individuals will be displayed in the postoffice of every town. It's Fair For All "If all employers in each competitive group agree to pay their workers the same wages—reasonable wages—and require the same hours —reasonable hours—then higher wages and shorter hours will hurt no employer," Mr. Roosevelt declared. “Moreover, such action is better for the employer than unemployment and low wages, because it makes more buyers for his product. This is the simple Idea which is the very heart of the industrial recovery act. "On the basis of this simple principle of everybody doing things together, we are starting out on this nation-wide attack on unemployment. "It will succeed if our people understand it —in the big industries, in the little shops, in the great cities and in the small villages. "There is nothing complicated about it and there is nothing particularly new in the principle. It goes back to the basic idea of society. and of the nation itself, that people acting in a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring about.” Mr Roosevelt illustrated the benefits of united action by pointing out that the textile code wiped out child labor at one f°ll swoop while "no employer acting alone was abl* to wipe it out.” "If one employer tried it.” he said, "or if one state tried it. the costs of operation rose so high that it was impossible to compete with the employer or states which had failed to act. "Out Like a Flash” "The moment the recovery act was pas.-ed, this monstrous thing which neither opinion nor law could reach through years.of effort, went out in a flash." Turning again to the blanket .(Turn to Fage Three).