Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1933 — Page 1

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DEPOSITS ARE HEAVY AS NEW BANK STARTS

Many Accounts Begun as American National Opens Doors. EXCEED WITHDRAWALS Correspondent Institutions Send Funds: Half of Deposits Freed. With heavy deposits being made and new accounts opened, the American National bank, successor to the Fletcher-American National bank, began its first day of business today. Expressing confidence in the new institution, business firms and individuals listed deposits far exceeding withdrawals. •Several hundred persons transacted business in the institution today, with Indiana banks, which use the American National as a depository. sending deposits by mail throughout the day. At noon, officers estimated deposits were "several times larger than withdrawals." Official figures of the day's business were to be compiled late this afternoon, after banking hours. The bank was opened this morning at 8:30, half an hour earlier than usual, to accommodate depositors. The new institution made SB,OOO- - available to depositors for the first time since the institution. th°n the Fletcher American, was placed on a restricted basis after the national holiday. Directors and officers of the institution said they were gratified with the reception accorded opening of the bank. First deposit in the institution was' made when the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company placed funds m the new bank. At 3 Wednesday, assets of the old bank were released by Frank C. Bopp. conservator No formalities attended the opening, in line with the order of James C. Rogan, new president, who said he believed the fact that the institution was ready for business would be sufficient. With opening of the downtown bank, the branch Institution at Forty-second street and College avenue again offered a complete service to depositors.

LAWYER ‘CHISELING* IS ASSAILED BY JOHNSON Warning Issue Against ‘Experts’ After ‘Big Money' to Write Codes. Bn Scripp*-Hoirarit \rw;i/rr .illinnrf Washington. Aug. 24 -Stern warnings came today from General Hugh S Johnson. NR A administrator, and other government officials against racketeering by lawyers, fixers and expens, who are victimizing business men by professing peeulair knowledge, skill and influence in formulating industrial codes. The justice and postoffice departments are prepared to proceed against this rather widespread prac- I tice. Johnson described it today as j “chiseling of the worst order.’’ Solicitor K. A. Crowley of the' postoffice department said he would act immediately under the fraud or- j der authority wherever the mails! are being used in this new sort of shakedown. Administration Johnson said: “No lawyer or fixers are needed in formulating codes. No one can get any special advantages in carrying out the recovery program. Business does not need lawyers to plead its case with the N 4A. Legal argu- | ments are not even permitted at hearings. AH we want is facts.” DRUG - CLERKS IN UNION 500 City Workers Organize I’nder Federation of Labor. Announcement that 500 local pharmaceutical clerks have organized under the American Federation of Labor to align with the NR A program. was made today when members sent a wire to President Roosevelt informing him of their action The local group will be known as Franklin D Rosevelt local. No. 1165. Officers and a code committee will! be elected Saturday night at 11 at a meeting at 116 East Maryland street. LINDYS IN SHETLANDS Arrive at Lerwick After Flight from Faroes Islands. Hui nit,,i r>.„ LERWICK. SHETLAND ISLANDS. Aug. 24.—Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh landed in the harbor at this small port at 3:55 p m. British standard time, after a rapid flight from Tveraa, Faroes islands. Times Index Page ABC of NR A 7 Books 8 Bridge 11 Broun Column 10 Brown Derby Coupon 9 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle H Curious World 15 Dietz on Science 8 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Fishing 7 Firebugs—A Senes 9 Hickman Theater Reviews 13 Kirby Cartoon 10 Living Costs Rise—A Series 3 Radio 8 Senal Btory 15 Sports 12 Vital Statistics 11 1 Womans Page 6

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 90

Depositors Flock to New City Bank

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EPIDEMIC TOLL IN ST. LOUIS 22 Drinking Water Eliminated in Tests as Carrier of Malady .Germ. Hit I nit• and Pn .**# ST. LOUIS. Aug. 24 Drinking water has been definitely eliminated as a carrier of the sleeping sickness germ which continues to prey on St. Louis and its environs. Four more deaths and thirteen new cases brought fatalities from the malady to twenty-two, and cases reported to 197. All research work now is being concentrated on insects as possible carriers of the germ under the direction of the three United States public health physicians. Dr. J. F. Leake. Dr. L. L. Williams, and Dr. Charles Armstrong. The epidemic of encephalitis started simultaneously with the greatest influx of mosquitoes which the suburban districts had experienced in years. NAB TWO IN KANSAS BOND FORGERY CASE Broker. Office Manager Face 60 Additional Charges. By I niti it I’rif* TOPEKA. Kan.. Aug. 24.—Ronald Finney, Emporia bond broker, and his Topeka office manager, Leland Caldwell, were arrested today on sixty additional charges in connection with the Kansas forged bonds scandal. Finney was arrested at Emporia, and brought to the Shawnee county jail here at the direction of County Attorney Lester Goodell. Caldjvell was taken in custody here. Each of the men was arrested previously on charges of uttering forged bonds and released on $25,000 bail.

JAPAN DENOUNCES U. S. BAR ON IMMIGRATION Act of 1924 Is Termed “Affront to National Honor." • Copyright. 1933. bv United Press) TOKIO, Aug. 24.—Sharp denunciaflon of the Japanese exclusion clause in the United States immigration act of 1924 was voiced by the Japanese government today, in a renewed appeal for its repeal. Mamoru Shigmenitsu. vice-minis-ter for foreign affairs, described the exclusion regulations against Japanese as “an affront to Japans national honor.” He declared that its repeal "would be hailed here in Japan as yet another expression of American friendship and fair play." and added that with removal of the clause "there will be nothing left that may possibly disturb the Pacific and friendly relations between Japan and America." Shigmenitsu's statement was issued as comment on reports of renewed efforts tn the United States to bring about repeal of the exclusion clause. BANDIT SHOT BY COPS Terre Haute Man Slain Fleeing Scene of Holdup Attempt. Hii I nil'-I Vrm* TERRE HAUTE. Ind . Aug. 24Lee Wheatley 48. was shot fatally by police here Wednesday night after he fired twice at officers attempting to arrest him in connection with a robbery attempt. Wheatley ran when police answered a report of attempted robbery of a street car motorman. He fired when the officers commanded him to halt and was slain in the return fire.

Aha! A Dark Horse Lopes Into the Lead in The Times Brown Derby

SKI LL STANDINGS T. II Roirr< 5H F.IU* IV. Dnlhrrifr Sl* AI rrrnr; * I- W. 'luhriih JS Fred II Krueger IW Joe Mcl affrrlv Clarence I Raker M' Frank J. Mrlarlhr . 2 Timothy Sexton *! Jame* A. Collin* SI HIDINCi his light under the "spot" of some motor car that he just ordered parked. Torrence B. Rogers tB. for Brown Derby victor, declare his followers*. forged into the lead today in the race for the Brown Derby and the right to be called the city's most distinguished cituea.

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Depositors, anxious again to use the facilities of one of the city's oldest banking institutions, flocked to the windows of the new' American National bank today. The bank was opened half an hour earlier, to accommodate depositors.

HIT-RUN VICTIM IN CRITICAL CONDITION Blood Transfusion May Save 5-Year-Old Boy. Condition of 5-year-old Redford Earles Jr., who was struck by an alleged hit-and-run driver Tuesday, continued critical at Riley hospital today, after a blood transfusion Wednesday. The boy was rushed to the hospital by a neighborhood physician, after he had been carried to his home at R R 3. Box 64, by two playmates, who were witnesses to the accident. On identification of the children. Leslie Dunham. 56. R. R. 3. Box 54. was arrested by deputy sheriffs as driver of the car. The accident occurred in front of Dunham's home. Charges of failure to stop after an accident, reckless driving, assault and battery and vagrancy against Dunham were continued until Sept. 28 in municipal court Wednesday, awaiting outcome of the boy's injuries. PAVING~CONTRACT' LET Columbia City Firm to Do State Road 9 Wort for $124,403. State highway department has awarded contract for paving 4.7 miles on State road 9. from one mile north of the Huntington county line to the Nickel Plate railroad in Whitley county, to the Tri-Lake Construction Company. Columbia City, on a bid of $124,403.39.

Rogers, general manager of the Indianapolis Motor Inn. is termed by his supporters as the one man in town who rates a dun-colored kelly. “His eyes—-his hair—Ah! it would match a derby to perfection." say the Motor Inn boys, as they vote right and left, backward and forward, in behalf of their candidate. "Dulberger's dogging it. He can’t take it!” chanted the Rogers ramblers, as they shoved another patrons car into a parking lot and begged for more ballots for their king.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1933

Upper Photo—Part of the line that formed at one of th? windows while thousands in deposits were made. Lower Photo—Mrs. Nellie Shipman of the Postal Telegraph and Cable Company making the first deposit.

DENIES HURLEY TO WED MRS. WOODROW WILSON Rumor Published in New York Is Branded False by Son. By t'nitcH I'rrttn V CHICAGO. Aug. 24—Any rumors that Edward N. Hurley plans to marry Mrs. Woodrow Wilson are "as ridiculous as if one were to say he is going to marry Mary Pickford.” Hurley's son. Edward N. Jr., declared Monday night. The elder Hurley, former chairman of the United States shipping board, is en route to New York from Europe. The younger Hurley said the rumor had been published m New York, but was untrue. “The story started going around a month ago.” said Hurley Jr., “and my father felt badly about it. Why, he has seen Mrs. Wilson only once in years. The report is absurd.” STUMP BLASTED INTO HOUSE KILLS GIRL, 17 Also Seriously Injures Mother as Two Wash Dishes at Decatur. By t'nitrd Prrs DECATUR. Ind., Aug. 24—Miss Pansy Smith, 17. was killed and her mother. Mrs. Frank Smith, was injured late Wednesday when a stump blown out of the ground during blatshing operations crashed through the door of their home. The blasting was being done at the Krick and Tyndall tile mill nearby. A charge of dynamite had been placed under the stump, half of which crashed through the back door, striking the women while they were washing dishes.

But alas and alack and gash dern. folks, there's bad news for derbyites. for none other than the redoubtable "Cootie" McGinnis ancf Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson have withdrawn from the Brown Derby campaign. “Cootie" has a pants-cleaning engagement and can not be present on the night of Sept. 7 at the state fair to be awarded the crown, and Wilson Just must stick to his Blackstone and keep the County pure tor posterity. B B B IF you have tears, prepare to shed them, and kt's an to

HUNDREDS OF WORKERS PUT ON PAY ROLLS

NRA Survey Shows Decided Gain in Employment in •Mile Square.’ HOUSEWIVES GIVE HELP 54,000 Consumer Cards Signed: Trouble-Makers Are Hunted. In a race to be the first large city in the nation to return complete reports in the NRA program, Indianapolis maintained a lead today with encouraging statements from local recovery officers. Art Rose, “lieutenant-colonel" of the recovery forces in charge of District 1, which includes the "mile square," reported 808 employes added to pay rolls, with a weekly wage increase of $20,458. Rose said that he had only covered half of his allotted territory. Charles W. Chase, “general" of the local NRA, expressed himself a£ "vastly pleased" with results to date. Pay Rolls Are Increased “On the basis of Rose's report." said Chase, "it is logical to assume that when he completes his canvass it will be found that nearly 3.000 people have been added to pay roils of downtown individual firms, with a weekly wage increase approaching the substantial sum of $50,000 a week, this computed on the report that the district is only half checked." Chase expressed satisfaction with the statement by General Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery administrator, ruling "out of order" any and all attempts of industries to interpret in their codes the collective bargaining labor section of the recovery act. Indianapolis housewives and other consumers received the unstinted praise of local NRA officers today, when James E. Fischer, "colonel" in charge of mobilization, announced that 54.000 consumer cards, pledging signers to buy only from NRA dealers, had been reported to headquarters. Large Area Covered Fischer also announced that a check today revealed that forty citycensus tracts had been covered in surveys and complete reports would be filed today. He explained that the falling off in signed consumer cards was due to a shortage of cards. "Our workers have been handicapped in many ways,” said Fischer, "many ot them being unemployed. They have been tramping from house to house codifying the unemployed, investigating employer violations, and pledging housewives, without getting a cent for their services. Many of them told me they did not even have carefare to come to headquarters to file their reports. "Such spirit deserves recognition. We hear a lot about the 'Spirit of 1 1776.' how about the Spirit of 1933?’ ” Fischer declared that few refusals (Turn to Page Seven)

GUARD HOME OF BOY AGAINST KIDNAPERS Clews Sought in Threat on Ravenswood Family. Authorities today continued to guard the Ravenswood home of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Copeland, whose 3-year-old son. Buddy, was threatened with kidnaping and slaying, in two notes demanding money. No clew to the writers of the notes have been found. One note, demanding SI,OOO. was left Sunday in the milk box and the second was left Tuesday night in a trellis in the rear of the home. This warning message threatened the child and his parents and demanded $2,000, charging the parents had "two-timed' the writers by informing deputy sheriffs. The money was to be delivered at Seventy-first street and Ke.vstone avenue at midnight Wednesday, but a vigil by officers proved futile. BRITAIN SEEKS FACTOR Retail s Ex-U. S. Attorney-General to Obtain Extradition. By T'nit* <f Prenn WASHINGTON. Aug. 24.—The British government has retained former United States AttorneyGeneral William D. Mitchell in its attempt to extradite John tJake the Barber) Factor of Chicago, the British embassy said today. Factor, who rose from a Halsted street barber in Chicago to promoter in England, who dealt in millions, is accused of defrauding British investors out of about $7,000,000

Joe McLaflerty, photostat operator at the courthouse, who appears to be anew threat in the race. Joe says he's going to form a coalition of numerous candidates to make the leaders look sick. Second place in the race looks liket a Snapper Garrison finish, with Jock Garrison turned into triplets and riding Al Feeney. Elias W. Dulberger and E. W. Mushrush. In fifth place is another nightblack "ho6s" in Fred W. Krueger, manager of Walgreen drug stores

NAVY PLANES HUNT STEAMER LOST IN HURRICANE; TWENTY DIE IN ATLANTIC COAST GALES

Steamer Passengers Are Chained Together, Saved as Gale Smashes Ship Two Sailors Washed Overboard Before Storm-Embattled Madison Makes Way Into Norfolk Port: Captain Praised.

Bit I'nitrd Prrff NORFOLK, Va M Aug, 24.—The battered coastal steamer Madison made port today after passing through a hurricane so intense that passengers had to be chained together to prevent them from being washed overboard.

Captain William Heath, veteran master, brought his sturdy ship into Norfolk with her superstructure partly torn away and w-ith two sailors lost overboard in the storm which forced him to send out distress calls Wednesday. The captain said that when the storm struck the vessel he ordered his thirty-seven passengers to gather in the center of the ship. They huddled together, and he had them fastened to each other with chains. For twenty-four hours the ship battled the storm, while coast guard boats and other vessels fought to approach her.

Train Dives in River; 2 Die

Bn Initnl /’rout WASHINGTON. Aug. 24. A speeding Pennsylvania railroad passenger train plunged through a flood-weakened bridge near here early today. The engineer and fireman were killed and thirteen persons injured, two seriously. The engine crashed at 3:45 a. m., from a bridge into the flooded mud flats of the eastern, branch of the Potomac river. A mail car turned side on the right-of-way beyond the bridge.

A second mail car and two Pullmans toppled into the swollen stream. Five other Pullmans turned over beside the right-of-way. Only one of the ten cars remained upright. Wreck crew's struggled to penetrate the engine cab, buried in the mud, to recover the bodies of Arthur H Bryde, engineer, and A. H. Fay. fireman. Physicians said Benjamin Johnson, 45. Washington, track foreman, and Claude Smith. 42, Wading River, L. 1., a postal clerk, were the most seriously injured. The wreck trapped C. S. Broeman, an official of the American Bakeries Company, Atlanta, and his wife, in their drawing room. Mrs. Broeman. brought to Washington in a relief train, said she was awakened by the bumping of the car over the ties.

Resort Struck by Giant Wave

Bn I nitnl l‘ri •** DOVER. Del., Aug. 24.—Refugees from the storm-isolated Maryland summer resort of Ocean City told today how a “tremendous wave" struck the island, flooding buildings in the business district to a depth of several feet. A general exodus from Ocean City, which has a summer population of 30,0t<0, to the mainland today was hindered by flooded roads and damaged bridges.

A graphic description of the storm was given by C. P. Hench of Harrisburg, Pa., who fought his way over water-covered highways to reach Dover. The population was panic-stricken, he said. “I was in the Atlantic ho'.el,” he said., "when a tremendous wave washed over the island and flowed into the bay in the rear of the narrow strip of sand. “The thought of high tide coming in after a big wave, made the people fearful because the water covered the island at low tide. “Foundations of the hotel shook when the wave struck the resort and water stood knee deep in the hotel." PHOTO CODE ADOPTED Forty-Hour Week. Fair Competition Are Provisions Made in Draft. By I nited f’rr WINONA LAKE. Ind.. Aug. 24 A forty-hour work week for all studio employes except cameramen and abolishment of special “inducement" offers in obtaining business were the principal regulations included in a code of fair competition adopted by the National Photographers’ Association, in convention here. The code has been forwarded to the national recovery administration in Washington. Murder Suspect Is Nabbed By 1 nited Prr* SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Aug. 24 Willis Laymon. alias Everett Jones. 35, sought since March 14. 1931, in connection with the slaying of Jack Forceia, was under arrest here today. facing a first degree murder charge.

of Indianapolis, who hopped into the race with 192 ballots, on the heels of the rushing Mushrush. Remember, the days are shortening when undated ballots will be acceptable. man DON'T hoard! Get your votes in. In Friday’s edition of The Times the deadline on undated ballots will be set. After that deadline, each day's votes must be in the hands of JoJo, Madam Draught Beer, and Major Hoople. the judges, within twenty-four hours of their dating. Don't forget that skull sizes and

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At last she was forced to proceed to a two-knot pace under her i own piower. As the Madison pushed into port, the passengers gathered or. the deck and cheered Captain Heath. The passengers were suffering from shock and exposure, and rqany j talked incoherently of their experiences. They were treated by physicians, but despite their hardships and terror, were eager to praise the captain for his courageous leadership of a crew of about fifty in the battle with the storm.

"Every light was out. It was pitch dark in the drawing room." she said. "There was a moment of silence, and then the car started toppling over on the side on which our berths were. "We jumped up and groped for the door. Water started pouring in the windows. My husband felt around but couldn’t find a way out. The w’ater started rising. "It must have been ten minutes before we finally found the door. The water had reached our w’aists. I started praying. Finally, we found the door. It stuck. Then he gave a push and we were able to climb out. "Every bit of our baggage was left in the train. I hope they find it. I had almost $5,000 worth of jewelry in there.”

MAYOR MAKES PROTEST Greenfield Chief Asks State to Limit Permits for Truck Lines Protest against issuing permits for any more contract carrier truck lines on the National highway j through Greenfield, because of I traffic congestion, was made before the public service commission to*ay by Mayor Arthur V. Downing. Greenfield. Traffic on the National road already is so heavy that it is difficult to cross it with fire trucks in Greenfield, and the traffic problem has been growing worse steadily for three years, he said. I Downing and a group of citizeas appeared at a commission hearing on several applications for trucking permits. BABY GIRL DROWNED Daughter of Frankfort Family Falls In Trough at Home. By I nit' >i Prrm FRANKFTRT. Ind.. Aug. 24 Janet Lynne Beisecker. 16-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Earl Beisecker, drowned in eighteen inches of water in a trough at heT j home near here late Wednesday, j The body was found by Mrs. Beisecker less than fifteen minutes after the child left the house. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 52 10 a. m 79 7 a. m 66 11 a m 80 Ba. m 71 12 <noon).. 81 9 a. m 74 1 p. m 82

pictures of the ten leading derby entrants will be printed next week. Who mill be among the ten leaders? You can vote as often as you want to. You can buy, steal, or graft ballots. But vote for your favorite as the city's most distinguished citizen. Hear him talk on Sept 7 in front of the grandstand at the Indiana state fair. See him receive the silver plaque from the Indianapolis Times. Btart today the ballot is on page nine.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Millions of Dollars Loss in Flooded Cities Mark Path of Storms. NORFOLK HARDEST HIT Shipping. Battered From Cape Hatteras to Maine; Gale Sweeps New York. By I'nitrd Prrn A furious twenty-four-hour storm the Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Maine today had left a toll of more than a score dead and millions of dollars damage in flooded cities, a major railroad wreck, and battered shipping from Ca|>e Hatteras to New England. Many persons were marooned or missing, including thirty to fqrty passengers on the steamer City of Norfolk, more than forty hours overdue. which was the object of an intense search by sea and air after she failed to arrive at Norfolk. A squadron of naval planes from Langley Field. Va.. joined the hunt. The ship had thirty or forty passengers, including two last from the damaged steamer Madison, which made port today, to two killed in the wreck of the Crescent Limited passenger train near Washington. Hurricane Blowing Self Out The tail of the tropical hurricane that created havoc in North Carolina. Virginia, Maryland and Washington, D. C, whipped over Pennsylvania after huge waves flooded the Maryland resort town of Ocean City, sending most of the 30,000 summer population over flooded highways toward the mainland The hurricane was blowing itself out. Today’s gale, northward on the coast, was anew storm. It marked the fifth consecutive day of bad weather which has gripped the Atlantic seaboard. In the Norfolk-Portsmouth area, property damage was estimated at $5,000,000. Communication with Norfolk was re-established early today, but many surrounding towns and resorts w-.:te isolated. Two of Ship's C'rew Lost The passenger liner Madison, battered and crippled, was convoyed into Norfolk by coast guard cutterg early today. She lost two of her crew in riding out the hurricane which caught her in its vortex off Cape Charles. Va., the ship flashed two SOS calls for assistance The New York metropolitan area today was held in the teeth of a sixty-mile gale. Floods threatened low-lying sections of Washington, but the hurricane’s damage there was small compared with havoc wrought in Maryland and Virginia resorts. Hundreds were marooned on roof tops. Daring rescues were numerous. Thousands were homeless. One-third of the city of Norfolk was under water. Marines and coast guardsmen assisted police in preventing looting of wrecked homes, but thievery was reported in Norfolk suburbs. Property Damage Heavy The hurricane diminished in intensity passing over the - Virginia capes and the District of Columbia, and today it was moving northward along the Susquehanna valley in Pennsylvania, reduced to a point where no further harm was feared. Property damage in southern Pennsylvania was heavy with lowlands and highways flooded. A death list was feared when submerger automobilec and wrecked homes were searched The heaviest property damage w-as to crops Many districts reported farmers had suffered complete lass. Highways, bulkheads, seawalls and ocean-side cottages from Long Island south to North Carolina w’ere either destroyed or damaged. Shipping Is Paralysed Shipping was paralyzed, and thr'-' seagoing barges were sunk, although their crws were rescued. Thousands of small vessels, tied up in harbors and inlets, were swamped and sunk. Today's new southeast gale was believed to have resuited from the clash of the hurricane and a northeaster which has blown along the North Atlantic coast since Sunday.

1 WHITE FEET STRAY AWAY When Mrs. Mary J. Beck, of 156 East Twenty-second street, learned that her per Angara' kitten with four white feet was lost, she immediately phoned an ad to The Times and it was no time at all before she had the little pet back. KITTEN feet, from IS* E 22nd at. TA--5244 Reuard This is Just another example of the effectiveness of a small lost ad in The Times When Yon Lose Anything Call RI-5551