Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 68, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1933 Edition 02 — Page 1

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POLLUTION RUINING FISHING GROUNDS OF GEN. LEW WALLACE Industrialism Blights Spawning Spots; Big Sugar Creek’s Banks Reddened by Iron Refuse From Wire Mill. BACTERIA COUNT IN WATER IS HIGH Open Sewers bump Crawfordsville’s Waste Into Stream; Youngsters Duck Into B. Coli-Laden Muck. RV ARCH STKINEL Time* Staff Writer The General's fishing ta<kle hantfs unused in his study. The study resembles a cold mausoleum. “Rubbernecks,” lovers of curios—if only to look at them —study the case with its unused fishing tackle. The tackle is human. Strong soldierly hands that have held sword and pen with equal facility have graced them.

Tho General's farm now is a country club. Dubs and not so dubby golfers try for birdies and eagles on its slopes. The General’s fishing grounds face extinction. The deep creek he loved lo scull in a rowboat doesn't give of its fish as u did in past years. Industrialism wastes its spawning grounds. The creek's banks are reddened by the iron refuse from a wire mill. The General wouldn't like that. He wouldn't like seeing children and grownups swimming above or below the electric light company’s dam in water that The Indianapolis Times sampled and proved in state laboratories to contain from lo.oon j B coll per hundred centimeters above the dam to 100 000 B. colt one and one-half miles below. The General was Lew Wallace, author of "Ben-Hur.” A saga famed in its book, movie and talkie versions. His study is in the well-kept grounds of his former home at ! Crawfordsville. This is the fifth <>i" a series of articles on stream pollution in Indiana. The sixth, to appear Monday. will tell of conditions in the Wabash river. rh< farm now is the Spring Ledge Country Club. 'llie creek, more like a river compared to some they call that in Hoosierland. is Big Suga'r creek, where the man who wrote "BenHur" fished between chapters of his books, and taught a grandson, Lewis, the best use of a fiv. In Crawfordsville when you speak of the General, you mean Low Wallace. The General is the town’s history. The General knew things besides books. He knew how to get the most out of a cocktail, with "slushing it around with your tongue.” The General knew how to fish. And he would have told off a certain disciple of Ike Walton who was seen in the last few days trying to catch a "mess" within a bowling ball’s journey of an open sewer on Big Sugar. At that j*>int on the creek the (Turn to Page Two) BABY DROWNED IN TANK Accidental Death Verdict Returned in Ft. Wayne Tragedy. P i I mh-l /’-'** FT WAYNE. Ind. July 29 A verdict of accidental death was returned today in the drowning of 21-months-old Jerry Bolinger. son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Bolinger. residinc near here. The child was found m a watering tank for cattle fifteen minutes after it had disappeared from the sight of its parents. DEATH DRIVER FREED Robert Miller Held Blameless by Witnesses of Tragedy. Robert A Miller. 25. of 2034 Winter avenue, was freed of all charges in municipal court three Friday afternoon in the auto death of Mrs. Mary Susan Jor.es. 72, Saturday night. Miller, held on a manslaughter count, was acquitted by witnesses who said Mrs. Jones stepped into the path of the car. SAFECRACKING NETS 525 Standard Dry Kiln Company Is Robbed by Yeggmen. Elmer Workman. 1720 Orange street, manager of the Standard Dry Klin Company. Harding street and the Belt railroad, reported to police today that yeggmen had cracked the company's safe and had obtained $25. The Indianapolis Power and Light Comtwny reported the theft of copper wire, valued at $125. from Belmont a\emie and Raymond street Times Index Book a Day 3 Bridge 2 Broun Column 4 Classified 10 Comics .11 Crossword Puzzle . 9 Curious World 11 Editorial 4 Financial 9 Hickman Theater Reviews 6 Radio 9 Serial Btorjr 11 Sport* 12 Stream Pollution—A Scries 1 Talbtirt Cartoon 4 Vital Statistics 9 Woman s Page 5

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 15—NUMBER 68

Time to Act! Battle on pollution of Indiana streams, as bared by The Times, will be launched Monday bv the Indiana Sportsmen. Inc., at a meeting at the office of Howard Meyer, president of the organization, 805 Lemcke building. I-ee Emmelman, secretary, announced that the organization will open a determined battle to forre state and city authorities to take action to rid the state's streams of deadly waste.

BARS 3,2 SALE BY NEBRASKA MASONS Edict Prohibits Selling Even Though Legal. Bn I Hilril Print LINCOLN. Neb.. July 29.—Archie M. Smith, grand master of Nebraska Masonry, has issued an edict, prohibiting any member of the lodge from selling 3.2 beer, even though it has been legalized by the state. The edict has been sent to every Blue lodge fn the state If an offender is found guilty before a Masonic commission, he may be ousted from the order. STATE NAVY IS SUED Broad Ripple Woman Asks Judgment for Canoes and Oars. Indiana's navy is being sued for S4O. In action in municipal court one Friday afternoon. Della Lee, proprietor of the Green City Boat Company at Broad Ripple, demanded payment of money she alleges is due for two canoes and six oars bought by the Camp Gridley naval training station. fair; IS FORECAST Warm Weather to Continue for Week-End, Says Bureau. Fair and warm was the forecast for the week-end. issued today by the United States weather bureau here Temperatures in the mideighties was assured for this afternoon when the mercury rose from 73 at 6 a. m. to 84 at 1.

I hider the Hooked Cross Germany $ Four Months of Hitlerism A notion in the remaking—while the rest of the world anxiously looks on—is vividly described by Morris Gilbert. European staff correspondent of NEA Service, in six striking articles which will appear m this newspaper . . . Here will be the true, accurate story of Hitlerism s dramatic sweep to dominance over the New Germany. Don't miss this absorbing series—starting Monday, July 31, IN THE TIMES.

State to Go on 40-Hour Week Basis Department Heads Working on Stagger Program, Coy Announces. State employes will be placed on a 40-hour week in accordance with the NRA program as soon as department heads work out details of the plan, Wayne Coy, secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt, announced today. Due to budget limitations, no ad- j ditional employes will be placed on the pay roll, but working hours will ; be •‘staggered” a 40-hour total. Coy said. Schedules for the changes now are being worked on by department h"ads and will be submitted to the Governor for approval upon his return to the city Thursday. Governor McNutt is attending the Governors' conference at Sacramento, Cal.

BANDITS WOUND TWO JANKERS Open Fire When Commands Are Disregarded; Posse on Trail. Hi/ I nitril prrtt TAYLORSVILLE. N. C . July 29. —Two officers of the Merchants and Farmers bank were shot and critically wounded when they resisted efforts to four bandits to hold up the bank today. When T .C. Barnes. 45. cashier, and S. E. Little. 25. assistant cashier, refused to comply with the commands of the bandits, they were shot down. A hastily organized posse led by Sheriff W. B Somers of Wilks county picked up the trail of the bandits near the Wilks-Alexander county line. J. EDGAR HOOVER IS GIVEN FEDERAL POST Heads New Division of Justice Department Investigation. H't I iiilril Prrtt WASHINGTON. July 29—J. Edgar Hoover today was named director of the new division of investigation being set up cy the department of justice to consolidate its investigating and prohibition units. REMOVE LAST OF FIVE PINS FROM WOMAN Implement Dislodged From Esophagus at Ft. Wayne Hospital. I Hit' </ Pint KENDALLVILLE. Ind.. July 29 The last of five safety pins swallowed by Mrs. Gerald Hanes while tending her baby here last week was removed at a Ft. Wayne hospital Friday. The woman coughed up two of the pins almost immediately after swallowing them. Two more were removed at the hospital next day, but the fifth, which was open, had lodged itself in the esophagus, with the point sticking upward. It could not be removed until Friday. FALL INJURIES FATAL Greenfield Man Succumbs Friday at Hospital. William J. Estell, 75. Greenfield, died Friday night in Methodist hospital, the result of injuries suffered early this month when he fell from a cherry tree. He was brought to the hospital July 8.

Fair and continued warm tonight and Sunday.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933

CONTRACTS NO BAR TO PAYING OF NRA WAGES

Members Must Adjust Pay to Be Able to Show . Blue Eagle. PULE ON 6 PROVISIONS Oil Official Quits SIOO,OOO Job Rather Than Not Serve President. BY H. O. THOMPSON United Pre Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON. July 29.—President Roosevelt's vast scheme for higher wages and more workers in industry was given official interpretation today that may affect the very foundation of Labor's relationship with capital. While business men by the thousands were signing up under the I code of the blue eagle, the National j Recovery Administration issued in- I terpretations of six principal clauses in the President's blanket code for. business. Most significant of these decisions makes it mandatory upon members of NRA to conform to all the wage provisions of the code, even though the provisions conflict with existing labor contracts. The interpretation hinges upon Section 7 of the code, which re-. quires that pay shall not be reduced even when hours are shortened. and orders that “equitable readjustments" shall be made to increase wage scales above the minimum. He said he believed that influence of labor unions and public opinion would be powerful "persuaders.” Can’t Adjust, Can't Sign Other interpretations issued bv NRA concerned methods by which employers may settle difficulties peculiar to th-ir businesses, set the date for compliance "in good faith" with the code, settled possible conflicts between the blanket code and the codes of individual industries, set forth rules about increasing prices of commodities and listed workers not subject to the code. "It is not the purpose of this agreement to interfere with maintenance of contracts entered into by exercise of collective bargaining," explained Donald Richberg. counsel for NRA. "It does not force the breaking cf contracts. "No contracts are affected by the agreement. If the employer can't adjust hts contract, then he can't sign the agreement. The agreement I neither authorizes nor requires the breaking of contracts. But th? em- 1 ployer can not get the blue eagle until and unless he complies.” Include Professionals Such workers include professional men. employes of any governmental body, farmers, domestic servants and salesmen working on , commission. Signing of the President's "honor j role” was speeded up as postmen ( the nation over hastened delivery of 5.000.000 letters to as many employers. Mail cards returning to ' Washington were bulging with the pledge cards of early signers. The only major dispute in the whole enormous campaign was revealed with the resignation of James A. Moffett, SIOO.OOO a year vice-president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey when his employers refused to let him join an advisory committee of the NRA. Moffett's resignation was announced bv Walter C. Teagle. president of the company, who is in Washington in connection with efforts to set up a code of fair competition for the oil industry. Teagle told Moffett either to refuse appointement as an adviser to General Hugh S. Johnson or hand in his resignation. Felt It Was Command Moffett chose the latter course because he said he felt that the invitation to serve as an adviser to General Johnson was "the equivalent of a command from President Roosevelt. "I have been a lifelong Democrat. a supporter of the President, and am in accord with the President's program and policies.” he said. "My views as to the policies to be pursued apparently are not in accord with those of the board of the New Jersey company." Johnson himself was in Cleveland, flying there from Detroit where he obtained agreement of the automobile industry to a code based on the thirty-flve-houV week. That agreemenf brought all the "ke\*’ industries into the movement to bring prosperity back to the nation. Steel, coal and oil codes already have been submitted. Increase to 350.000 In handing in their code, the ■ bituminous coal operators of Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio. West Virginia announced that they had given wage increases to 350.000 miners, adding more than S6O.OC' '.OOO a year to their earnings. Minimum wages in the northern fields will range from $3 to S4 per dav and in the southern fields from *2 60 to $3.60. Still another push in the drive toward good times was contained in the release of $63,000,000 for the Grand Coulee project in Washington —another Tennessee valley development on smaller scale. Approval of this expenditure by President Roosevelt before he left for Hyde Park was regarded as a mere starter to public works contemplated by the administration in states west of the Mississippi. The public works board also intends to approve immediate resumption of work on the nine-foot channel for the upper Mississippi and to spend $21,000,000 for flood control and land reclamation on the South i Platte river in Wyomin*.

HOUSEWIVES GET RECOVERY PLEA OF PRESIDENT

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Thousands of letters to Indianapolis housewives were distributed by mail carriers as another step in the NRA program. In the photo. Edith Ann Hulsman, bain- daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Hulsman. 3026 Shriver avenue, is accepting the letter for her mother, from N. A. Cooke, mail carrier of the Thirtysecond street station. Mrs. Hulsman pledged her co-

War Declared Here on Blue Eagle Racketeers Federal District Attorney to Prosecute Offenders Relentlessly; Business Army Is Formed. The distant rumble of the drums of economic action—silenced for four years while depression held the American sector in a relentless grip—were heard in Indianapolis today as the Big Rerthas of business were trained on unpatriotic

Date’s Off Too Much Washing of Dishes Takes Youth Into Court.

THERE is little probability that Robert Jenkins, 18. of 234 Parkview avenue, will go riding with his sweetie this week-end. The lack of $2 to pay a fine is the major cause, but a little matter of dish-washing enters into it. too. Young Jenkins went racing down East Washington street Friday night at a forty-two-mile-an-hotir gait. Motorcycle Policeman Nolan Hill picked him up. Today in municipal court three before Judge William H. Sheaffer, Jenkins explained it all. Dinner was a little late Friday night, and he had a "big date." But he had to stay home and wash the dishes first. Robert has two sisters, but both are married and do their dish-washing in their own homes, he told the judge. Sheaffer was sympathetic. "That's too bad." he sajd. “I’ll make it easy for you. Two dollars and costs, the costs suspended." "Gee,” said Jenkins. "I haven't got two dollars.” "That's too bad." said the judge "It looks like a hard week-end." LOSES WALLET AT GAME B. F. Ere Finds His Driver’s License and Four Others. B F. Eye, 1840 Mansfield avenue, missed his wallet Friday night after returning from Perry stadium where he attended the Indians' baseball game. This morning he hurried out to Perry stadium, where he found piled up a stack of paper. Among the paper he found his driver's license. discarded from his wallet. No wallet could he find, but he did pick up drivers’ licenses issued to four other persons. Now police are, awaiting more reports of pocket picking. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m 73 10 a. m 79 7a. m 74 11 a. m 81 Ba. m 76 12 <Noon.. 84 9 a. m 78 1 p. m 84

Young ‘Santa’ of City Playground Turns Out Just a ‘Phony’ St. Nick

AT ANN E D young "Santa Claus" who created a nearfurore at Camp Sullivan the other day by handing the matron a SSOO gold certificate, and distributing coins to the children, turned out to be a "phony Santa" today in municipal court three. He was dismissed. The young and bogus St. Nick is Raymond Jones. 27, Marshall. 111. He wandered out to Camp Sullivan and made a big hit. He joined the children in their games, helped swing the little girls up to tree branches, and aided the boys with their artcraft. He sympathized with Miss Sys Chadwell. matron, as she bustled about her work.

operation to the drive, as did thousands of other city housewives. "I’m ready for the plan and know it will be successful.’ she said. “I am planning to do my buying only at the stores that fly the Jalue eagle If every woman in the nation acts reasonably and intelligently she will do likewise, and the recovery eagle can't help but win."

employers. Mobilized with a rapidity equalled only in actual warfare, Indiana's industrial army led by business men endowed for the emergency with military titles; complete with air corps and infantry of grav-uni-formed mail carriers, answered an early reveille today. War on racketeers who exploit the emblem of co-operation with the President's program of recovery —the rampant eagle of blue and gold—was trumpeted from the field , headquarters of the new army. Nolan Promises Probe Va! Nolan, United States district attorney, announced that he would investigate immediately activities of persons who have been calling on local merchants offering to sell the 1 emblems, obtainable only through government channels. "We will arrest and prosecute every person who is trying to defeat | the government program in this patriotic and altruistic effort to lift ius out of the depression." said Nolan. “This is no time for quibbling with petty crooks and slackers.” A survey of Indianapolis busi- : ness to determine extent of compliance with President Roosevelt's recovery program and to codify a list of unemployed was made folj lowing a meeting of the Ind,anapoj lis recovery council, with thirtyeight members, in the Chamber of Commerce building Friday. Canvass to Be Made The canvass of local industry will be made, according to Lotus J. Borinstein, president of the Chamber of Commerce, as soon as a general. a lieutenant-general and three colonels, are made to direct the campaign. The spirit of co-operation in the enlistments for economic warfare is evident as city merchants made haste to return to the postoffice signed agreements to join the President in his offensive. While local merchants rushed agreements back to the offices of j Francis Wells, Indiana recovery director. announcements of co-opera-tion came from Anderson, Bloomington, Huntington, Ft. Wayne, Kokomo, Newcastle. Noblesville, Petersburg and Princeton. “War to Limit” ; Indiana sky-lines will be invaded Tuesday, by the initial flight of the "recovery" army airplane, piloted by Lieutenant Stanton T. Smith, to collect signed covenants from merchants in the northern section of the state. Stops will b*> made at Muncie, Marion. Wabash. Ft. Wayne, Elkhart, South Bend. Culver. Lafay(Turn to Page Two)

"I guess you have to work pretty hard." he said. "Life's been pretty good to me,' 1 He seemed to feel terrible when Miss Chadwell admitted her life was not a bed of rases. “Santa" dug *own in his wallet, thrust an imposing looking document into her hand and fled. It was a SSOO gold certificate on the Schuylkill Chemical Products Company of Wilmington, Del. Miss Chadwell called patrolman Preston Heater, who picked up Jones when he came back to the playground later in the day. Today it wa* disclosed that Jones, at his home near Marshall. was approached by a man who offered to „ sell a SSOO gold Mi

Entered a* Second-Ola * Matter at I’ottoff ice, Indianapolis

STATE MAY ORDER TROOPS TO HALT SALE OF KEG BEER * t Fry Hurls Threat to Northern Indiana Dealers Who Are Dispensing Draught Brew in Defiance of Law. LOSS OF LICENSES TO t$E FACED Open .Violation Is General in Ft. Wayne and Throughout Lake County; Excise Director Warns Local Authorities. Threats that the state police or national guard will 1> called out en•enforce sale of bottle beer only, in Indiana, if local law enforcement officials refuse to act, were hurled today by Paul Fry, state excise director. Fry accepted as an open challenge the activity of beer sellers in the northern part of the state who. during tho

TROOPS PATROL MINE WAR AREA Martial Law Proclaimed by Governor Pinchot in Coal Strike. It II I llilril Pint HARRISBURG. P.i., July 29. Martial law was formally proclaimed in Fayette county today by Governor Gifford Pinchot. Pinchot issued a proclamation from the executive offices here, following the ordering of 300 national guardsmen into the bituminous coal mining strike areas to preserve order. Following the issuance of the proclamation, the Governor dictated the following statement from his home at Milford. "I have sent the national guard into the strike region to restore order and to see that the constitution and laws of Pennsylvania are respected. I have instructed the guard to protect all citizens in thrir constitutional rights and to suppress all violence, whether it comes from operators, deputy sheriffs, or miners. “The miners have the right to organize, to picket peacefully, and to assemble in meetings. The supreme court and the President recognize. these rights. "The mine operators have right to protection of their property. The laws of Pennsylvania recognize this right. "The national guard will protect the rights of the miners, mine operators. and citizens generally. It is impartial, and will remain so. "I call upon all good citizeas to co-operate with it in restoring ppace and good order in Fayette county."

RULING IS EXPECTED ON WHEAT ACREAGE Reduction of 10 Per Cent Is Probable Action. >/ I mini Pr rtt WASHINGTON. July 29—An official announcement was expected momentarily todav. setting at from 8 to 10 per cent the 1934 acreage reduction to be asked of wheat farmers. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace previously announced he might ask a 20 per cent reduction. The drastic change was caused almost entirely by nature, which disposed of much of the wheat surplus by drought. The chief task of the farm administrators now is one of seeking to prevent any future huge surpluses. PARK~CONCERT SUNDAY Arndt Band to Give Night Program at Garfield. The Arndt Concert band will be presented Sunday night at 8:30 by the Indianapolis park board in a concert at Garfield park. 600 to Get Pay Increase till I Hilril Prrtt KOKOMO. Ind.. July 29.—Wage increases of from 50 to 75 per cent for approximately 600 workers at the Reliance Manufacturing Company plant here, in agreement with the national industrial recovery act were announced here today.

bond for $5. Jones had only $6, but took the bond. Hitchhiking here, he went to a local bank and inquired about his investment. "You've bought a white elephant," he was told. "Well, now," he is reported to have told detectives. “I just wanted to get rid of it easy, so I passed it off on the lady." As far as distributing coins was concerned, he passed it off with the comment that he "loved children." ‘ I've certainly learned a good lesson." he said. ‘Til never buy [ anything, any more, anywhere."

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

last twenty-four hours, began the sale of the 3.2 brew on draught. Fry said a.s soon as he received definite evidence of the sale of draught beer bv persons holding stale licenses, he would revoke the writs. Two Permit* Revoked Fry said two permits already had been revoked in Terre Haute, two in Ft. Wayne and one in New Albany. He also said he would not hesitate to revoke the permits of wholesalers or importers if they were involved in the sale of keg beer. He said he did not believe anv Indiana breweries were selling krg beer for use in Indiana. According to Fry, the beer being sold in northern sections of the state is being brought into the state by the retailers m privately owned trucks. If the licenses are revoked." he said, "it will be up to the authorities to enforce the law." I'm the licensing authority in thin state and I will revoke them when I find they are selling draught, and not bottle beer. Beer Dealer Released "Then, if the proper authorities m these places refuse to take action, I ll ask that state police or the national guard go into the field to enforce this law ” Sale of keg beer was open in Ft. Wayne and Lake countv. In Ft. Wnvnr twenty dealers we e selling draught beer without interference of the authorities there Others were rlamoring for equipment to start sale. The rush for draught op rr f o j„ lowed the release of August Halfman after his at rest. In Halfman. City Judge Bert A. Fagan said the people of Aile n county want a mild interpretation of the state malt and beverage act and there is no reason wny they shouldn't get It.” Insist on Licenses He also declared that, as far as his court was concerned, licensed beer dealers would not be prosecuted for the sale of tap beer. In lake county officials said (hey will demand that sellers of ber r have certified Indiana licenses, but that they would wink" at the sale of draught beer. Prosecutor Robert o Estill took a defiant stand against enforcement oi the sale of beer in bottles. "The people want draught beer and I favor stretching the la* to give it to them," Estill said. Est ill's statement followed dismissal of charges agaiast Mr*t Domkowski, of East. Chicago who :s the holder of a state licease. but who was selling the brew on tap No Keg Brew Sold Here The move had not spread to Indianapolis today, although many of the beer places are in possession of petitions issued bv a draught beer organization, in which it is planned to make a demand on Governor Paul V. McNutt for a change in the law. Several downtown Indianapolis beer places already have their equipment for draught beer but. so far, have*not shown any initiative m a move to handle it. Chief Mike Morrissey said that If Indianapolis retailers burkpd the state law, he would arrest them immediately and leave the action to municipal courts. "The law r is on the books, and I intend to enforce it." he said. Lake county has been the seat of insurrection against the beer law previously. An East Chicago city councilman lost his fight in the state courts for sale of the tap brew, and was arrested after he defied the orders against him. SEN. ROBINSON SPEAKER Scheduled to Addre** the Sahara Grotto's State Pirnir. Senator Arthur R Robinson will be the principal speaker at the Sahara Grotto state picnic in Garfield park Sunday. Radio artists and entertainers will provide the entertainment Several bands are scheduled to play throughout the day, and uniformed drill formations, under the direction of Mike Scully, parade marshal, also will be provided. The program will start at 19 a m. with a reception in charge of Ken Amick. Two baseball games will follow between Blue Deni* and Pirates and Cast Clowns and Reveler Clowns.