Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 July 1933 — Page 13
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THREE KILLED IN WEEK-END AUTO MISHAPS Two Men and Boy Are Victims in Series of City Accidents. TOLL IS 71 FOR YEAR Eight of Injured Persons Are Children: Woman in Critical Condition. Death of Merrill Hale, 24. of Camby, at St. Vincents hospital today raised Marion county's week-end traffic death toll to three and the total sinre Jan 1 to *eveny-one. An 11-year-old boy and a 6!-year-old man were killed Sunday in two automobile accidents. onp a tragic smashup whirh caused injury to twelve other persons, eight of them children Hale died todav in the hospital, the result of injuries suffered Saturday in a crash on Road 67. near West. Newton. Hale's rar sideswiped a trnrk driven by J. W Huff. Martinsville, and both cars plunged into a ditch. He suffered a brain concussion and a fractured skull. Children's lives Periled The automobile of William Clemson. 2949 Euclid avenue, carry-
ing himself, his wife, and eleven children, collided with another rar. driven by Parks Draslev, 39 of Charleston. 111. at Emerson
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avenue and Forty-sixth street. Raymond Richard Clemons, 11. riding on the running board of his father's car, suffered a broken neck and died instantly. Charles R Volderauer, 61. of 2919 West Michigan street, was killed Sunday night when struck bv a taxicab as he was crossing West street near Eleventh street. Seated jn a parked car. Mrs. Mary Volderauer. saw her husband run down by the cab. Sergeant Slarence H. Vint. Eleventh infantry, died Friday night, at the Fort Harrison hospital of injuries suffered In an auto accident near Lawrence last week. Funeral services were to be held today. Woman's Condition Critical The Clemons family, with thre” of their eight children's playmates, started for a swimming party at Millersvilie in mid-afternoon. Two of the children were riding on thy running board. Both the Clemons car and Orosley’s automobil" were traveling slowly, but neither driver sighted the other until both ears were directly in the intersection, and the crash was unavoidable. Mrs. Clemons, 32, was injured internally and her condition is serious. Crosley suffered serious injuries to his bark, and Mrs. Crosley. 40. suffered a bruist and right arm. Parks Crosley Jr., 12. was cut and bruised, and his sister. Marion Crosley. 4. suffered a broken nose. Riding in the Crosley car were Mr. and Mrs. Clint Skelton of Charleston. Skelton was unhurt, but his w’lfe suffered serious Injuries of the head, back and arms. Children Are Injured Os the Clemons ehildren. two. Donald. 8. and Marian. 3. were not injured, but the five others. Thomas. 10; William Jr , 12; Owen. 6; Betty. 4. and Catherine, 2. were cut and bruised. Clemons was not injured. The body of Raymond was sent to eitv morgue, but was to be removed today to the Flanner <fc Buchanan mortuary. Riding with the Clemons family were three other children. Sarah Alire Elliott. 15. of Dublin. Ind . who was cut and bruised, and Harold White, 9. of 535 East New York street, and Jack Elliott. 13. of 2935 Euclid avenue, both unhurt. Jack Elliott had been urged by Ravmond to ride on the running board with him. but refused. He was Arm in his refusals to go to the hospital, but was taken in a police ear and then released after examination. Joyful family Reunion He left for his home while his parents were speeding to the hospital. Finding him gone, they rushed back home and greeted him with wide open arms. "Boy. you're never going swimming again, except w hen your dad s driving the automobile,'' said the cider Elliott. Volderauer. a foreman at the National Malleable Castings Company, had been called by hss company when fire started in a coal pile in the plant s yard. Firemen asked for laborers to shovel away the coal to expose the blaze. With his wife. Volderauer started Jo round up laborers and had obtained two men and was returning to his car after calling a third when struck by the taxicab
City Resident for 59 Years The cab was driven bv George Reeves. 32. Negro. 621 West Twentyfifth street, who said he i:d not see Volderauer until he was m front of the car. Reeves was ordered held on a manslaughter charge. Volderauer. a resident it. Indian—ii> fifty years had been connected with the castings plant for forty-three years. He is survived by three brothers. John. Frank and Rudolph, all of Indianaj oils and two sisters. Mrs. Justin Bennett and Mrs. William Victor, both of Indianapolis. in addition to the widow PROTEST BOAT NOISES Rrnad Ripple Residents \k Ban on Open Mufflers on River Operation of motor coats on Whit# river, north of Broad Ripple, with open mufflers, toda- brought a protest to Sheriff Charles (Buck* Sumner, from residents of the community. The protest was voiced by Mrs. J. C. Riddle. River Heights Civic Club president.
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BATTLES REPEAL
The big guns of the dry campaign to block repeal by legal procedure is Canon William Sheafe Chase shown above in a rerent portrait study. Chase believes many state repeal conventions which chose delegates at large are unconstitutional. The drvs plan to challenge these elect ions in court.
HOSPITAL MAY TRY SHORT DAY Bahr Thinks Institution Unlikely to Meet NRA Code. Adoption of an eight-hour day at the Central State hospital, in accordance with the NRA code, was being considered today, but was believed to be almost impossible by Dr Max A Bahr. superintendent. Dr. Bahr said it, would require an appropriation of about s'.’oo,ooo by (he legislature in order to abide by the code, as doubling of the present force of 300 employes, and provision of additional housing quarters would be necessary. At present, he said, employes spend about fifteen hours on active duty daily, but are subject to call dav and night to handle the 1.800 patients at the institution. Thp superintendent said he will present for discussion the subject of shorter working hours at the institution at the next meeting of the institution trustees Aug. 9 OFFER NEW SERVICE FOR I. U. ENTRANTS Advisory Conferences Arranged for Students Entering Extension. In order to provide pre-enroU-ment information to students who are interested in attending Indiana university, an advisory service is being offered at the Indiana university extension center. 122 East Michigan street, this week. Conferences are being conducted by a group of deans, administrative officers and faculty members of the Bloomington and Indianapolis division of the university. Information will be provided on courses, costs, credentials, entrance qualifications, opportunities for employment. the new two-year program. co-operative housing and other projects in effect at the university this fall. Sweden Air-Minded /ii; I H itnl /Vi** STOCKHOLM. July 31—Sweden appears to be air-minded. The Aerotransport Company reports that between June 2. 1324. when service was inaugurated, and May--31. 1933. 3.437.035 kilometers have been flown. During that time 107.548 passengers have been earned.
Regulation of Oil Pipe Line System Scheduled
Industry Code Will Include 'Unseen Railroads’ in Nation. R'l I ml. <f /*.<- WASHINGTON. July 31—A few feet beneath the surface of the ground a vast network of pipe more than 100.000 miles lone, the castiron veins of the petroleum industry, links oil fields of the southwest with refineries in the east and mid-west, with shipping racks and harbor terminals. One never sees the pipes: perhaps from a train window a pumping station or valve outlet is glimpsed now and then Yet pumps send throbbing through them the petroleum from which is manufac-
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The admimstrat’OiTs farm relief program provided for ran- Prov * ien also " as mad * ,or refinancing ... . The president a'so was authorized to reduce the odd conmg farm prices by allocating production, or by leasing lards a * * - P er ccn * ,n terest through issuance n sw.ooo. (XX).OOO The ma! on ser* o° authorized suuance of 53.000.000.000 tent of the dollar by as much as half, toDrder tree coinage and retiring them from production, the program to be in government bonds, the government guaranteeing interest m treasury notes if the president deems it necessar,, backed o* silver, and to accept as much as $200,000 000 ,n silver _ financed by-imposing “processing” taxes on millers, mat- btJ * not prmcipa . The farmers' interest rates were lowered, soie ybv the credit of the U. S. These treasury notes were r> at 50 cents an ounce in payment oi foreign debts. yj paciers and other firms handling rpw farm and time for paying extended. <*. .c. printed in the U. S. Bureau of Engraving, §i tICtT: Putting Mon to Wort in Fofitt.
The Indianapolis Times
FUGITIVE ENDS TRAIL HERE AS NERVE CRACKS Gives Up to City Police, Then Suffers Heart Attack: Goes to Hospital. IN HIDING FOR MONTHS Young Man Paroled From Reformatory Is Held on Vagrancy Charge. James Wilson breathed easier todav, as he sat within the confines of the city hospital detention ward. Several months of dodging the law, with every footstep bounding like that of an officer, and with the constant dread of capture, which broke his nerve, were at an end. Breaking down under the strain of being a fugitive, Wilson. 24. living ;in Monrovia. Ind.. walked into police headquarters Saturday night and surrendered to Cap L-in Jesse McMurtry. Wilson said he had been hiding from police ever since he was paroled from the Indiana reformatory several months ago. adding the ; strain of the constant fear of arrest made prison bars seem attrrej tive. Since his parole, he said, he has issued several worthless checks, abandoned two rented automobiles, and one borrowed automobile w-hich he damaged. He was held on vagrancy charges pending his return to the reformatory. After surrendering, Wilson suffered a heart attack and was removed to city hospital. THREE ARE HURT IN AUTO-TRUCK CRASH Two Policemen. Girl. 13. in Accident Fn Route to Hospital. Two policemen and a 13-vear-old girl were injured Sunday evening when a police car. en route to city hospital, was struck by a truck at Illinois and Michigan streets. The police car was taking Mrs. Phoebe Tingle. 43, of 328 North Davidson street, and her daughter. Opal, 13. to ihc hospital for treatmen. The girl had driven a needle into the palm of her left hand, and Mrs. Tingle w-as suffering from an ! infected ankle. Patrolmen Clinton Robeson and Thomas O. Carter suffered shoulder injuries and the girl an injured neck. They later were taken to the hospital by patrolman James Senteney in a first air car. The truck in the crash was driver, by Harry Geisendanner. 25. of 2120 Ashland avenue. He was arrested on a reckless driving charge. YOUTHS FLEE ACCIDENT Quartet Abandons Car After Crashing Into Gas Station. Pour youths who fled from a car Sunday after it crashed into a filling station at Indiana avenue and Tenth street, caused SSO damage to the station, are sought by police today. The driver. John Jones. 21. of 622 Home Place, was arrested on charges of reckless driving. He said he attempted tp turn into Tenth street from Indiana avenue and was forced to swerve by another automobile, losing control of the car. Bov Swimmer Is Drowned B’l I nitnl I’rrt GARY. Ind., July 31.—Chester Wvsocki. 17. Gary, was drowned Sunday while swimimng at Miller, , cast of here.
lured your gasoline and furnace oil. They represent an investment of nearly a billion dollars. The great integrated oil companies control the larger part of this unseen petroleum "railroad.” The Stand- \ ard of New Jersey, consolidated. | Standard of Indiana. Socony-Vacu- i urn. Gulf, the Texas Corporation and Shell-Union, all have individual stakes in these pipelines of $50,000.000 or more. Heretotore. these lines, so important as outlets for oil in the pro- i ducing fields, practically have been unregulated. Now. it is predicted here they will be regulated in connection with the code of fair practices of the oil industry, being darfted for submission to the oil code hearing tonight.
IXDIAXAPOLIS, MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933
GERMANY TRAMPS ‘SAWDUST TRAIL’
Nazis Stage Frenzied ‘Camp Meeting'Revolution
To the bea-;r.K of drum* and the ahrlll of buflea and the waving of awa*tka flagv a defeated nation seeks to regain Sts place in the sun. . . . For four -non-ha now German* have bent themselves to the amazing dictatorship of stern-visaged Adolph Hitler . . . What has happened in those four months'’ .What :s happening now’ What will happen l . Morris Gilbert. European staff correspondent of The Times and NEA Service, takes you through Hit!er*.st Germany in six unusual. thoughtprovoking articles, of which this is the first. BY MORRIS GILBERT NEA Service Writer BERLIN. July 31.—After a little over four months of absolute Hitlerism. Germany today is in the throes of a camp-meeting revolution. Millions of the population have hit the political sawdust trail, with whooping and hallelujahs, brown-shirted arms flung out in the Nazi salute. They are turning Hitlerism into religion, religion into Hitlerism. It is hysterical and bewildering. With all the energy of a great and vigorous race, they are proclaiming that this is the Promised Land for Germans, and that Adolph Hitler is their prophet and their guide. Everywhere bands blare out the Horst Wessel song, battlehymn of the Nazi revolution. Everywhere are streaming banners— red-white-and-black of the old Germany Empire, flame-red of the National-Socialist dictatorship. with the black hooked crass in the center of a white field. Germany is indulging in a riot of militarisms. Salutes! Heil Hitler! Salutes again! The heelclicking at public meetings is so persistent that it would be funny if it were not so sinister. The revolution is being achieved with breathless speed. It didn't begin until the end of February. It is almost finished now. Nazis themselves, seeking to analyze this bewildering business, .sav the revolution is proceeding in "waves.” Tire first wave is over. By it. Hitler seized absolute autocratic power. The second wave is being finished at this writing. By it. Hitler is making his autocracy secure. The third wave—just about due —is an economic or financial wave, to yoke German commerce and ! banking to the Hitler brand of Fascism. BUB MEANWHILE. accompanying the tremendous emotional and political crisis, cruelty has forged to the front. The Nazi triumph is accompanied by repression. espionage, terrorism and persecution.
Thousands of people are in jail for "political” offenses. Estimates of the number vary between 20.000 and 50,000. The latter figure seems nearer the truth, since it is learned on good authority that there are not less than 6.000 prisoners in Dachau, the Bavarian concentration camp. And Dachau is only one of a dozen such camps, the biggest two being near Eerlin, at Oranjeburg and Sonnenburg. But if fear tortures many Germans. glory exalts many more. There are plenty of neer-do-wells in brown shirts holding down good jobs because they are loyal Nazis, and for no other reason. "The first 100.000 Nazis” are being rewarded this way—the nucleuse cf discontented men who rallied around Adolph Hitler while he still was nothing but a smalltown demagog preaching a gospel without repute. The "spoils system” in Germany is working overtime. But the story of Hitlerism Is not confined to the minority of resolute hangers-on. For Hitlerism is based on a powerful and fundamentaal purpose. nan THIS purpose is the hope and promise of a reversal of the verdict of the World war. It is the revival of the German war demand of 1914 for "a place in the sun." Thus a national yearning has become synonymous with national self-respect. Hitler has capitalized it and It is leading him to triumph. In asceticism and zeal, the "Fuhrer” is pictured as a western Gandhi. He is also called a Mussolini, a Kemal—and a Mohammet, since he exhibits characteristics of each of these. He has learned much from Russian Communism about how to handle a state under dictatorship. If politics—as has been said— Is the art of getting and keeping power. Adolph Hitler is a consummate politician. His regime seems to be. for the time, secure. Its future is—unimaginable. If the school children of Germany have anything to say about it. in the future. Hitlerism will survive. Hitler is seeing to that. Crowds of them gather in front of a museum in Unter den Linden every morning long before the doors are open at 9 o'clock. The museum is called "Die Front." and it glorifies Germany's greatness in the World war.
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Nazi bonfires flame high, devouring 20,000 books decreed inimical to "the true spirit of Germany.”
THE children keep coming all day in detachments of about fifty, and guides show them through. The museum is full of war glory. There's a Fokker pursuit plane to climb into, with death's head, crossed bones, and record of enemy conquests on its dazzlepainted sides. j There's a section of trench to explore, realistic with duekboards and filth, concealed artillery and grenades in racks. There's a mobile souo-ititchen, humorously labeled. “Our dearly beloved goulash eannon.” There are relief maps laid out on huge tables, twenty feet square, of the maneuvers at Verdun and Dinant. Battered enemy towns, with French shop-signs hanging askew on Rapine shops, stand a loot high. The comoatants are tiny lead soldiers. There's a table diagram of the battle of .Skaggerrack, proving it a German victoiv There are wall
BUTLER DEAN LAUDS POETESS Article by Fred Kershner Praises Helen Welshimer. • Souvenirs.” a book of poetry by Helen Welshimer. recently received recognition in an artirlj written by Dean Fred D. Kershner. head of the | school of religion at Butler unii versity, for the last issue of the | Christian Evangelist magazine. Miss Welshimer. daughter of the Rev. P. H. Welshimer. pastor of the i First Christian church at Canton. 0.. has been lauded by many critics for exceptional poetry writing value. In his article on "Souvenirs.” Kershner said that "there never can be too much of this kind of poetry written.” Miss Welshimer visited friends in Indianapolis when she accompanied her father -here for the laying of I the corner stone at Butler university jin 1926. Mr. Welshimer gave the ! principal address at the ceremonies j at the time. PEDDLER BALKS BANDIT !N ROBBERY ATTEMPT Hurls Bottle at Gunman When Given 'Stickup' Order. Joseph Nahamias. 60. of 133 West McCarty street, ice cream and i candy peddler, has no time to be bothered by bandits. While driving his wagon in the 900 block Union street Sunday night. Nahamias was flagged down by a mar. who ordered a quart of ice cream. When the peddler started to fill the order, .the man | drew a gun and told him to stick j 'em up/’ i Grabbing a bottle. Nahamias threw it at the oandit. who fled when persons on porches of the neighborhood ran to the street to I investigate Nahamias" shouts.
charts showing the world at war 1 with Germany, the glorious odds against which Germany lought. And there are postcards at the exit, portraying Germany's present defenselessness. the menace of enemy aircraft, the heavy armament and man-power clustered on Germany's frontier. BUB rr'HIS is the stuff on which Germany's boyhood feeds under the Ceasarship of Hitler. The boys climb around the biI plane, dodge into the trench, imitate the gesture of throwing gre--1 nades. They listen with bright eyes while the guide graphically explains the drive on Verdun, rhapsodizes the heroic dead. The boys of Germany today are "Hitler - Jugend" Hitler-youth. There are no othr youth organizations. The Boy Scouts and other boys' clubs have been dis-
Wells, State NRA Head, Is ‘General’ in 'Big Push'
Headquarters Is Nerve Center of War on Depression. Rumble of mill wheels rather than roar of cannons. Shock troops cf gray-clad mail carriers instead of olive drab troops, and the war eagle, clutching a quiver of arrows. giving way to the eagle of the NRA, a machine gear grasped in its talons. Symbolical, too. of the economic war is Francis Wells, Indiana recovery director. From behind a flattopped desk in the Chamber of Commerce building he directs the vast, state-wide program of the war dn depression. Mild, alert and diplomatic. Wells typifies the field marshal of the new’ army. It is his job to explain covenants, interpret codes, soothe nerve-wracked business men. investigate industries failing to subscribe to the Presidents program and coordinate civic groups in the "big push" against the slump. For the new job. he will tel! you. a ".career” training comes in mighty handy. Things learned as an undersecretary in the United States embassy in London are helping in the recovery job. he says. "Government service abroad consists mostly of straightening out other peoples troubles,” said Wells. "That seems to be the main job here.” At present he is too busy to theorize on the effects of the recovery program—or too wise. It’s a problem a minute with Wells. He's on the telephone. He's on two telephones. "Sorry you'll have to have an authorization.” "Hello.” No you can’t use the
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solved and incorporated under the Nazis. Youth wears the brown shirt of the party, and becomes the hotbed of National-Socialist id-’as. Boys' magazines idolize the German soldier, the German flier the German cavalryman <as in a doggerel verse entitled "Deutsches R’iderlied” in the current Nazi Sunday magazine. Die Braune Post). To these German children the terror and agony of war. the dull boredom, the heat and cold, hunger, want, cruelty, are beautiful. One generation's reality is the next generation's romance. For it must not b? forgotten—it ran not be forgotten as a foreigner strolls through the museum called "Die Front”—that most of these children were yet unborn when the war ended. Next: How Hitler gained his absolute control over Germany.
Francis Wells insignia yet. You'll have to get permission from Washington. "The code for the retailers has been approved. You can go right ahead.” The phone receiver clicks a period to each staccato sentence. An excited secretary rusnes in. "I don't know what *:> do with this man," she says. "He's been telephoning all morning and row he's out here demanding to see you. He says he's a farmer and has hired three men to build a house. He can only afford to pay them $6 a week each and he's afraid he'll be put in jail if he doesn't pay the minimum. Unruffled. Weils interviews the irate farmer and explains that neither agriculture nor domestic help come under the recovery program.
TWO ARE HELD AS KIDNAPERS | OF O'CONNELL Arrests Made Less Than 24Hours After Release of Young Victim. SECRECY IS PRESERVED Ransom Paid to Obtain , Freedom of Relative of Political Bosses. BY PAUL H. KING I nllfd Prfis Staff Corre*ponricnt ALBANY, N. Y.. July 31 —Two were arrested early today, less than twenty-four hours after John J. O'Connell Jr., heir to the om- „ nipotent political rmpire of the O'Connell brothers, was released by his abductors following payment of $40,000 ransom Authorities let it be known they expeeted to "break the rase" quickly with the arrest of six men. The men were not identified as authorities subjected them to interrogation. District Attorney John T. Delaney, preserving the intense secrecy he inaugurated with the return of young O'Connell, refused to say if they were suspected of being actually members of the kldnaping gang. O'Connell, little the worse for his . twenty-two days in captivity, was at the mountain camp of his uncle. Daniel O'Connell, where .e was returned early Sunday morning. He had told his story only to members of his family and to authorities. Delaney issued strict orders that he I was not to talk to outsiders
Six Arrests Expected A hast of detectives concentrated on the hunt for the kidnapers. Delaney was confident that solution would be quick and certain, predicting he would send six men to the penitentiary for “fifty years.” Governor Herbert H. Lehman prepared a message for the special session of the legislature now in session, demanding increased penalties for convicted kidnapers. The only information concerning young O'Connell's adventure was in a brief statement Issued by his uncle. Daniel. The youth was well treated by his captors, given an abundance of good food, and was not kept bound or blindfolded all of the time. He was attacked from behind in front of his home early July 7 and knocked unconscious. When he aw’oke he was in an apartment which he thought was in New’ York City. Differ on Reports
A statement was circulated among newspaper men that he had been released on East 220th street, of the : Bronx, New York city. Other reports said he had been held in Albany and released here. Observers pointed out that something other than a blow’ would be necessary to keep O'Connell unconscious during a trip from Albany to New York. O'Connell's release was effected through Manny Strewell, well known in Albany sporting circles, who was one of the many intermediaries named by the O’Connells at the request of the kidnapers. Daniels turned the ransom money over to Strewell Friday, and Friday night Strewell delivered the $40,000 in five, ten and SIOO bills, all carefully marked with serial numbers recorded, to the kidnapers. Early Saturday, came word that the kidnapers would kill their victim and drop his body on "your doorstep” if they were not given the opportunity to exchange the marked monpy for money that couldn't be : identified. Receive Fresh Money The ransom was then delivered to a Manhattan bank, it was said, and an hour later the kidnapers received fresh money. It was not known if by some ruse authorities managed to mark the second batch. The kidnapers originally demanded $250,000 ransom. After Walter McGee was sentenced to hang for the kidnaping of Miss Mary McElroy, the kidnapers seemed especially eager to get the ransom, and release their captive. •HALF-PRICE SALE’ OF AUTO PLATES TO START Two New State Tax Measures Also Are Effective on Tuesday, Indiana's annual half-price sale of automobile license plates begins Tuesday. In addition two tax measures become effective, the state tax board having established this date as the deadline for payment of all intangibles taxes by persons having mora than SI,OOO upon which to pay. The $1 a 100-pound weight tax 1 also becomes effective on trucks. Appointment of the state barber* licensing board also is due. FLORISTS TO PICNIC 500 to Attend State Event Wednesday at Broad Ripple Park. Employes of local flower shops and wholesale florists will participate in the games and contests to be held at the Allied Florist picnic at Broad Ripple park Wednesday afternoon. More than five hundred peopl# are expected to attend. Indian* florists are invited. The committee on arrangement* consists of Miss Rose Brandlein, chairman; William E Morris. E. A. Nelson. Mrs. Laura Greene, Fred Ross and Clara Benson. Lodge Picnic Delayed Willing Workers’ Needle Club of Irvington temple, No. 411, Pythian Sisters, have announced the postponement of their annual picmc to be held at Ellenberger park, until i Aug. 11. $