Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 70, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 August 1933 — Page 1

CANNING PLANT OF POLITICIAN POURS ‘DEATH’ IN RIVER Ivan C. Morgan at Last, However, Has Promised, Say Conservation Officials, to Help End ‘Poisoning’ of Streams. GAME FISH QUITTING MUSCATATUCK Lye and Acids From Austin Industry Are Blamed by Nearby Residents for Near Ruining of Once-Clear Waters. BV ARCH STEINF.L rime. Staff Writer ‘‘Me catchem heap big fish! Back around 1800 those words were used in the Delaware Indian tongue as some big brave pulled out his line in the Muscatatuck river of Indiana and proudly related with measured hand-lengths and words his fish-story from tepee to tepee. The only difference now is that the Muscatatuck hasn’t the proud liars it had in the Indian days. The fish no longer are ‘‘heap big.”

Hut they’re still trying to catch "heap lug: fish" and one of the most earnest anglers of the stream is the department of conservation of the state. The department believes the "heap big fish" has been caught. They believe, or least they have his word lor it . that he’s changed his gills and fins and intends to restore to the Museatatuek river the true meaning of its Indian name. “Clear river.” Warnings. Only Warnings Angle m the pollution of the years on the Museatatuek and but one name is blamed for the destruction of the river's game fish by residents of Jackson. Scott and Washington counties and that — Ivan C. Morgan, head of the Morgan Canning Company. Austin. Heavy sugar-papa" to the campaign chest of Indiana's G. O. P and state chairman of the party during the last presidential election, Morgan never has been caught in the seining, of either the state t health board or the conservation department, for state stream polluters. This is the seventh of a series on stream pollution in Indiana. The eighth, to appear Wednesday, will tell of “A No Mean City and Its Pollution." When residents along the river became irate in their demands that waste from hts cannery at Austin cease their flow into the stream the state conservation department, before the regime of Governor Paul V McNutt, and the state health board said thrv had warned Morgan of the pollution. Nothing came of the warnings The pollution continued. Lye Causes Fish to Die Only a few weeks ago residents at Little York, along the river's hanks, ieported lye from the hornink packing of the cannery had resulted in the death of a large quantity of fish. Morgan has said tnat stories of the death of fish due to hts canneries has been exaggerated in the same manner as any fisherman would tell of his day's sport with rod and reel. Residents along thp river print to a three-mile ditch, black with waste and sludge, that pours the wastes from his cannery into the Museatatuek. The diteh passes through farms and is a fine food trough for Thickens and pigs, while one man along (Turn to Page Five) SHOWERS. IS FORECAST Relief From Heat Wave Promised for City Tonight. Relief from rapidly climbing temperatures was promised Indianapolis today with the United States weather bureau forecast that thunder storms can be expected here this afternoon or early tonight Fair weather will prevail on Wednesdav, was the forecast, with coolcer temperatures The mercury Monday climbed to 92 at 4 p. m. GOVERNOR IS MARRIED Virginia's Chief Fxerutivr Wed to Canadian-Bom Secretary. I mhd run WINNIPEG. Man . Aug 1 Governor John Garland Pollard of Virginia and hts Canadian-born secretary. Miss Violet Elizabeth McDougall. were wed in a quiet ceremony at the First Presbyterian church here Monday. Times Index Book-a-Dav 5 Bridge 14 Broun Column 4 City NRA Leaders 7 City Briefs 5 Classified 14 Comics 13 Cross-word Puzzle 5 Curious World 13 Di*tz on Science 14 Editorial 4 Financial 10 Fishing < 5 Hickman Theater Reviews 7 Lippmann 11 NRA Cartoon 4 Obfiuartea 7 Radio 14 Serial Story 13 Sports 8 Stream Pollution—A Series.. 1 Vital Statistics 10 j Woman s Page 6 i

The Indianapolis Times Probably thunderstorms this afternoon or early tonight, followed by fair over Wednesday; somewhat cooler.

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PENSION COSTS TO HIKE TAXES 12-Cent Increase in Levy Is Predicted by Auditor. Marion county taxpayers will find that a prospective 12-cent increase of the county's tax rate is due largely to the cost of old-age pensions, the new registration law for elections and cost of the 1934 general election. With budget requests filed with Charles A. Grossart, county auditor, the boost in the county's tax rate to a problematical 53 cents for each SIOO on the basis of present ■ valuations may not be a boost Ih actuality when consideration is taken of the cost of the old-age pension and the new registration law for insuring honest elections. The old age pension law will require $400,000, according to the budget of county commissioners and the registration law. $103,000 which will make the tax rate increase 7 cents more than the 41-cent rate of 1932-1933. The general election will require $120,000 or approximately 2 cents additional in the tax rate. Court hou.sg attaches point out that with a probable 12-cent increase in the tax rate for 1934 that 9 rents is due to mandatory increases by state laws. The county count il will meet soon to consider the various budget requests of county departments and it estimated lhat at least 3 to 4 cents of the tax rate can be cut i from the budgets. Requests in some budgets have been pointed out as being much higher than last year. SENATOR JOHNSON'S - SON ENDS OWN LIFE Suicide in West Coast Town Is Reported. By Rm'trd Prr BURLINGAME. Cal.. Aug. I. Archibald Johnson, second son of United States Senator Hiram Johnson. committed suicide today, authorities reported. GIRL. 13 js STATENS YOUNGEST MOTHER Grandparents. 29 and 32. Also Lay Claim to Title. By f nit*d Prr*t SEYMOUR. Ind, Aug. I.—The little town of Kurz near here today claimed among its inhabitants the youngest grandmother and mother in the state. A daughter was born to Mrs. Ralph Croucher. 13. Monday. Her mother. Mrs. Hubert Edwards, is 29. and her father is 32.

McNutt Is Court Victor in Agriculture Board Row

Governor Paul V. McNutt won a victory over the recalcitrant Indiana board of agriculture today, when a three-judge federal court upheld the Governor s right to control the activities of the board through the reorganization act passed by the la.st legislature. The court battle came when the board of agriculture defied McNutt a month ago. and refused to seat two new members he had appointed. The board carried its fight into federal court and the ruling today was to the effect that the board was a mere "instrumentality” of the legislature and. as such, could be abolished a' the whim of the assembly. The decision 'jas made by Evan A Evans, senior judge of the circuit court of appeals at Chicago; Judge Waiter C. Lindiey, district judge of,

I Recovery War Fought on Three Fronts

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Upper (left to right)—Herbert T. Fisher and A. L. Taylor. Chamber of Commerce officials; Lieut. Stanton Smith and Francis Wells, state recovery directors. Center left to right)—Harold Perry. Miss La-

OATTLE against depression moved forward on three fronts today as thousands of pledges to the recovery program swamped the state NRA office at the Chamber of Commerce. A plane, piloted by Lieutenant Stanton Smith, with Herbert O. Fisher as a passenger, left Ft. Harrison early for a circuit jump in the north part of the state to gather more pledges from industries. Francis Wells, head of the program army, said his office had received more than 10.000 pledges and emergency workers were busy sorting them. Labor groups met the challenge of recovery Monday night when they overflowed Tomlinson h?JI in the first huge labor meeting in many months. SQUIRREL HUNTING SEASON IS OPENED State Bureau Reports License Demands Exceed Last Year's. Smart country squirrels moved to town today for "the season." For while they can scamper at will around such city oasis as University park, they are open prey in the country from now until Oct. 15. The shooting season for squirrels opened today with the number of licenses running ahead of last year, accordhng to Kenneth Kunkel. chief of the conservation department fish and game division. The season continues until Oct. 15. with five being the daily bag limit.

Danville. 111., and Judge Robert C. Baltzell, federal district judge for southern Indiana. "The Indiana board of agriculture." said the court's ruling, "is but an instrumentality, which was to be used in furtherance of the cause of agriculture. "Being but an instrumentality of the legislature it could be. of course, aoolished by the body that created It. Its duties could be ’nlarced. and they could be narrowed by the legislature that created it. Its duties could, in fact, be entirely eliminated." The decision was handed down after the court had granted a motion for dismissal of the rase, entered by George Hufsmith and Herbert Patrick, deptfiy attorneysgeneral, acting for McNutt, ,

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! vinia layman, Mrs. Helen Helton and W. E. Paul, sorting more than 10.000 NRA pledges. Lower—Part of the huge crowd that assembled in Tomlinson hall Monday ngiht when labor leaders urged full support of the recovery program.

29 Big Downtown Stores Pledged in N.R.A. Drive Retailers Sign Up to Observe Blanket Code at Meeting Today: Agreements Flood In. Twenty-nine downtown Indianapolis retail stores today pledged themselves to support the NRA program at a meeting of the members jof the Merchants’ Association, according to Edward Kahn, furniture ' dealer. The meeting was held in the Illinois building. Signed NRA agreements from 10.000 Indiana employers were announced as a total. Swamped by the rush of agreements from employers throughout the city and state. Francis Wells. Indiana recovery director, announced the appointment of Frank J. Kurka of St. Louis as his assistant.

Ktirka's chief duty will be to interview the increasing throng of industrialists who have besieged Wells’ | office in the Chamb-r of Commerce building since the inception of the ; recovery program. I The new' assistant was transferred by the government from the St. Louis office of th? NRA Monday. He is a former employe of the Indianapolis office of the United States department of commerce, having served her? five years ago. Board to Meet Thursday Announcement was made today that the district recovery board for Indiana will meet in the Chamber of Commerce building Thursday. Six of the seven members of the board are expected to be present. They are: William Mooney, representing wholesalers: L. F. Shuttleworth. retailers; Irving Lemaux. bankers; Lewis Taylor, Farm Bureau; Vincent Bendix. manufacturers. and Alex Gordon, labor. George A. Ball seventh member of the board is abroad. Indianapolis representatives of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company said that whil? the company was in hearty agreement with President Roosevelt's recovery program certain minor details in the local code were under discussion. When these difficulties ai? adjusted the A & P will announce its local policy. G. D. Kessler, manager of the Gulf Refining Company, announced that his concern had signed the President's NRA agreement Monday and soon would go into effect in Indianapolis. Piloted by Lieutenant Stanton (Turn to Page Two) AUTO HITS SMALL BOY Donald Sutton. 3. Hurt Severely in Mishap Near Home. Donald Sutton. 3. of 925 West Twentv-nintn street, was injured severely Monday night when struck by an automobile as he walked across Twenty-ninth street, near his home. The automobile was driven by Conrad Schuller. 19. of 2017 West i Thirty-second tuttu

CONTEST MILK CODE PROVISIONS IN COURT Illinois Distributers Hold Enforcement Illegal. But nit id Prr*n CHICAGO, Aug. I—A court test of the government's complex farm relief program was started today. The test was attempted by the Independent Milk Distributors' Association of northern Illinois, which filed a petition seeking an injunction to prohibit enforcement of the recently approved Chicago milk code. The code depends upon licensing by the government of all milk distributors in the Chicago area and provides for a fine if minimum prices set in the code arp ignored. This licensing plan is the heart of the government's farm relief program.

McNutt Facing Showdown on Sale of Draught Beer

Governor Paul V McNutt immediately will be faced with making a decision regarding draught beer sales when he returns to ‘he statehouse next week, it appeared today. He has been attending the Governors' conference on the west coast. Should he say "go.” Paul Fry. state excise director, wou’d liberalize the law to legalize draught beer sales. Meanwhile, the sales continue in Ft Wayne and Lake rountv cities. It was reported to Fry that truck after truck of tax-free bottled beer is coming across the southern border into New Albany,

AETNA TRUST CO., RESTRICTED BANK, VOLUNTARILY CLOSED; PAYMENT IN FULL POSSIBLE

Million New Jobs Opened in Nation f s Retail Stores by Code Effective Today Provisions of Blanket Agreement Are Modified by NRA to Permit All Stores to Adopt Requirements at Once: Blue Eagle Signs Go Up. BV H. n. THOMPSON I'nited PrfM Staff C orroipondritt WASHINGTON, Aug. I.—America’s ‘‘big push” toward better times brought cheering victories today. More than a mNlion new jobs were opened in the country’s retail stores. Steady progress was reported in the campaign to bring the steel and oil industries under provisions of the national recovery act.

This was the day set for business to put into effect President Roosevelt's emergency re-employment agreements. From all sections of the country came reports of blue eagles }?oing up on store fronts and factories, and employers falling into line by the thousands to spread employment and pay workers higher wages. Provisions of the blanket aeicement as they affect the hours and wages of 4.000.000 employes of retail stores were modified Monday night by Administralor Hugh S. Johnson. The NRA estimated th3t under the new terms, more 1.100.000 persons could be given immediate employment. Progress Made on Codes Hearings on the code of fair competition for the giant iron and steel industry were recessed after a day of thick-and-fast developments, including withdrawal of the most controversial feature of the code, that proposing to continue the company union plan of employe representation. Progress in the effort to bring some semblance of order out of the chaotic oil industry was registered in anew code drafted by NRA officials and representatives of the industry. The new rode proposes a work-week of thirty-six hours in the oil fields generally, and forty-hour week in the marketing end of the industry. Tlie blanket code was modified for retail stores to enable most of the nation's retailers to come under the recovery act immediately. Many had complained that the original terms would work too great a hardship. The thousands of retailers who already had signed the original agreement are pjermitted to change it now in acrordance with the new schedule of hours and wages. Food Stores Lengthen Hours The modifications, however, are subject to later action on th? permanent retail codes. Hearings begin Aug. 15. Food and grocery distributors nrp permitted to work under a 48-hour week, instead of the 40-hcur week in the general agreement. The 1 000. 000 clerks in surh stores have been working up to 73 hours a week. Thp other division of the .retail industry—dry goods, department, specialty, mail order, mens clothing and furnishing, furniture, hardware and shoe stores—will have a 40-hour week. Three million employes are affected by these provisions, which fix the following minimum wages: sl4 in cities of more than 500.000; $13.50 in cities from 100.000 to 500.000; sl3 in cities and towns from 2.500 to 100.000: for towns of less than 2.500 a 20 per cent increase in wages is decreed, providing this does not require wages in excess of sll per week. Minimum Less in South In the south the minimums are $1 less per week. Immediate trade areas are included in the general population classifications. The food -d.stributors will have a sls minimum for a forty-eight-hour wvek in cities of more than 500.000; $14.50 in ci'ies between 250.000 and 500.000; sl4 per week in cities of between 2.500 and 250.0J0 or their immediate trade areas. There is a $1 differential for the south and employes with less than six months' experience will be paid $1 less than ihe minimum.

• A1 Feeney, state safety director, in Ft. Wayne in an attempt to smooth out the draught beer row. telegraphed statehouse officials and newspaper men that the situation at Ft. Wayne is "not as hopeless as pictured.” "Judge A. C. Fagen.” said Feeney's wire, "is very reasonable, fair, and is willing to co-operate with state officials, but declares, and I agree, that those selling without licenses should be arrested.” Feeney suggested that Fry have his investigtors take action against . unlicensed beer saUars.

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CRADLE PHONE RATES CHANGED 25-Cent Extra Charge to End When Payments Total $9. Monthly chargp of 25 cents for the French or cradle type telephone, will be eliminated after $9 has been paid, under an order of the public service commission adopted today. The order is directed to the Indiana Bell Telephone Company, but is expected to be applied to other telephone companies where such phones are used, it was explained. Sherman Minton, public counselor, had It promulgated. It was worked out in eo-operation i with B. G. Halstead, attorney for the telephone company. A similar order already is in effect on Bell properties in Ohio, is was explained. The order is retroactive, in that persons who already have paid $9 in monthly charges for such phones need pay no longer. This includes the charge of 50 cents monthly, which was made some time ago befort it was reduced to 25 cents by the commission. Under the 25 cent charge, it will take three years to pay off for persons starting now, or the $9 could be paid at once, it was pointed out. Previously, there was no limitation to the monthly payments, they merely continued. DECLARES MARTIAL LAW IN VOTE PROBE Louisiana Governor Acts to Guard Grand Jury. Hv I ililrd /Vr NEW ORLEANS. Aug I.—Martial law was declared in New Orleans Monday "to protect the grand jury" that has been investigating charges of fraud in the last general election. The order was issued by Governor O. K. Allen, after twenty-four hours of secret political conferences and troop movements in the streets. So far as could be learned, no threats had been made against the jurors. The points at issue were the 262 ballot boxes used in the election last November. PREDICTS REDUCTION IN SCHOOL TAX RATE 16.8 Cent* Drop Likely if State Shares Salary Cost. Is View. Marion county's school tax rate will be reduced by 16 8 cent* if the j state pays S6OO of salary to each of the 1 865 teachers. This esfimat? was made today in the office of Collector Clarence Jackson of the state income and sales tax division. It is based on figures compiled bv the state education department ■ under Superintendent George C. Cole, it was said. Under the estimate. the state would pay th? county $1,110,000. Based on an assessed valuation of $666,338,220. the 16 8 cents reduction would result. Similar figures were produced for each of the ninety-two counties. Average teachers to be paid in a county was placed at 136 and the average tax cut at 33.6 cents. WIFE-BEATER IS JAILED Harry Aker* I Given Thirty Days, Fin* for Assault on Mate. Harry Akers, 509 Smith lane, was fined $5 and costs and sentenc’d to thirty days on the state farm today by Judge Dewey Myers on conviction of a charge of assault and battery. preferred by hts wife. Akers was charged with knocking his wife down three times during an argument at their home. He admitted he had been drinking. Mrs. Akers admitted she hurled three chairs at her husband and tore his shirt off his back, but told the judge ib< was acting in self-delcum.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Thomas Barr Is Named Liquidating Agent for Institution. AVOID RECEIVER DRAIN All Cash Deposited Since National Moratorium to Be Returned. The Aetna Trust and Savings Company, 23 North Pennsylvania street, voluntarily closed today, affairs of the bank being placed in hands of the state banking department, with possibility of depositors and creditors being paid ir. full. The bank has been on restricted, or "B" basis, since the national banking moratorium It has liabilities and assets of about $1.900 000, with more than 1.000 depositors, President R H. Wallace said. Balk Receiver Expense R A McKinlev. state bank commissioner. named Thomas Barr, former asssistant state bank commissioner, and now field accountant for the state accounts board, assigned to the banking department, as liquidating agent for the bank, ! under tfie new state bank law. This obviates the expense attached to lengthy court receivership. McKinley said Barr probably will handle all such liquidations in the Indianapolis territory. It was announced by McKinley that all cash deposited in the bank since the moratorium will be paid in full. Deposits made prior to the moratorium will be subject to liquidation, or reorganization. Likely to Pay in Full "The board of drectors of the Aetna Trust and Savings Company, after careful consideration, deemed it advisable to request, the banking department, to appoint a representative to assist in liquidation or possible reorganization of the affairs of the company," Wallace said. "If this step eventually results in final liquidation, it is the opinion of the directors that through thn orderly Planner made possible under : supervision of the state, in accordance with a recently enacted statute. it should be possible to pay all depositors and creditors in full'" Besides Wallace, officers of the bank, founded about a quarter of a rrnturv ago, include: Leo M. Rappaport and Lewis F Hensley, vicepresidents, and o. R. Olsen treasurer. Directors are Wallarc. Rappaport. Samuel Brown. Francis W Dunn. 1 J. Fitzgerald. R S Martin and Pierre F. Goodrich EX-DEPUTY ARRESTED Paschal Pyle, Former County Employe. Fares Child Neglect Charge. Paschal R. Pyle, 39. of 1617 East Raymond street, former deputy county clerk, was arrested bv Indianapolis police today on a charge of child neglect. Also arrested in the case was Mrs. Cecelia Nolan, 25. whom police said is from Linton. Ind She was charged with contributing to child neglect. Both were ordered to appear in juvenile court Aug. 11. when Pyle will face charges of failing to obey a court order issued June 14, rp _ quiring him to pay $8 a week for the support of his two children PRAISES GROCERS’ CODE Borinstein Commends Retailers On Provisions of Program. Louis J. Borinstein, president of 'he Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. today commended the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers' Association for the adoption of the NRA blanket code, including the minimum wage and hour per week clauses. The chamber of commerce indorses such a program." said Borinstein. "with the hope that all retail grocers and meat dealers will abide by the uniform hours, and that consumers generally will adjust their shopping in keeping with these hours." Hourly Temperatures 8 a m 75 10 a. m 86 " a m 77 11 a. m 66 8 a. m 82 12 <noonu 88 9 a. m 84 Ip. m 87

NRA Leaders President Roosevelt's NRA program is remodeling a nation that has been in the depths of depression many months. In Indianapolis this work of recovery is moving fast, if not faster, than in any other section of the country. Do you know the leaders of this movement in Indianapolis? Perhaps you do; perhaps you don't. The Times, starting today, gives you an opportunity to meet these men and women who will guide the city from Its pitfalls. Today, on Page Seven, The Times presents the first of a series of photos and short sketches of the persons leading this army of industry.