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COURAGEOUS STAND FOR THRIFT TAKEN BY LEGION CHIEF Commander Louis Johnson Frames Program That Emphasizes Economy, Puts Organization on New Road. ASKS FAIR PLAY FOR REAL VICTIMS Better Treatment Sought for Veterans Who Suffered in War Action; Crisis Faced in October Parley. H rrr i th<> Artt nf three stories on the new pollries which Commander Louis A. Johnson will brine before the American legion convention In Chicago next month. a a m n a m BY TALC’OTT POWELL Editor Indianapolis Times The American Legion has reached a fork in the road, its officials admit at national headquarters here. At its convention in Chicago, beginning Oct. 2, it will be confronted with the most serious crisis in its career as an organization. Its delegates may vote to continue the Legion activities of the last ten years, seeking to put World war veterans who were not actually injured through their war service on the government pay roll. On the other hand, the delegates may adhere to a different program, already inaugurated by Louis A. Johnson, national commander, and by the national executive committee. This new program calls upon the Legion for a reconsideration of its whole point of view toward pensions. It stresses

the need for fairer treatment of the real casuals of the World war. At the same time, it asks the Legion to maintain a close scrutiny of all government expenditures, whether for veterans or for the boll weevil. Commander Johnson was the frst Legion hrad to be confronted with a situation upon which he had not even the vaguest instructions from the legion membership. Johnson Hacks President When President Roosevelt's economy bill ripped the pensions for non-service connected disabilities almost entirely out of the national budget, the legion was astounded by Commander Johnson's swinging squarely behind the President. "This is not the time for politics, personal ambition, or bigotries of any kind,” the commander says. "It is a time when every decent man and woman must put a shoulder to the wheel and help push our country out of the chaos that threatens to swallow it. "No group of citizens has suffered more unreasonable condemnation in the last two years than the veterans. A man had only to have worn his country's uniform to be denounced publicly as a pension racketeer' or a 'treasury raidpr.’ No effort was made to separate the sheep from the goats. "I should make myself ridiculous if I would not emphatically admit that the American Legion did oppose the economy act when President Roosevelt sent it to congress. I am not in the least ashamed of that stand. Battle Is Lost "We know on the one hand that some of the then existing veterans laws should be rewritten drastically, but we knew on the other that the economy law would mean cruel suffering for hundreds of thousands of sick, maimed, and disheartened veterans. “Well, we last the battle against the economy bill. Let us admit that this act probably had the indorsement of an overwhelming proportion of our citizens. But I think we took our defeat like good sports. We have stood up like soldiers and Americans and said to the President. We ll do our part." This is the right road for the American Legion. We never have faltered one step in all these months from that road.” The national executive committee. the ruling body of the legion between conventions, backed Commander Johnson to the limit and (Turn to Page Four) RAIL UNION HEAD KILLED James E. Karns Dies Under Train at Ft- Wayne Yards. By United Pres* FT WAYNE. Ind.. Sept. B—James E. Karns. 49. secretary of the Ft. Wayne lodge. Brotherhood of Railwav Trainmen, was killed instantly today when he fell beneath a freight train. An eyewitness said Kams slipped between two cars to the track when he tried to hop the train. Times Index Page ABC Os NR A II Book Nook 17 Bridge 15 Broun Column 18 Classified 25-26 Comics 27 Crossword Puzzle 15 Curious World 27 Dietz on Science 13 Editorial 18 Financial v 20 Fishing 15 Hickman Theater Reviews 13 Kirby Cartoon 18 Mae West—a Series 17 Obituaries 12 Radio 12 Serial Story 27 Sports 23-24-25 Vital Statistics 20 Woman’s Page 8

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 103

GIRL KIDNAPED, FEAR FOR LIFE Terne Haute Waitress Is Abducted After Escort Is Robbed, Bound. if l imes Special TERRE HAUTE. Ind., Sept. 8 Fear that 17-year-old Evelyn Hyslop. petite, brown-haired waitress, kidnaped Thursday night by two bandits, may meet with foul play was expressed today by police. The girl was taken from her escort. Frank A. Whalen, a salesman, after he w r as robbed of an automobile and $lB6. Fear for the girl's safety is based on a theory that she recognized the holdup men. who may go to extreme lengths to keep her silent. As was his custom. Whalen waited Thursday night at the Trianon dance hall, near the east city limits of Terre Haute, until the girl completed her work in the dance hall restaurant, so he could take her home. Shortly after the girl seated herself beside Whalen, two men, about 30 and 35. entered the car with drawn revolvers. Whalen, with the muzzles of the revolvers pressed against him. handed over the money and drove, (Turn to Page Twenty-one) FIGHT OVER OVERCOAT WITH MERCURY AT 90 Four Men Are Hurt in Brawl About Sale of Garment. Attempt to sell an overcoat, with the temperature above 90. led to a fight Thursday night in which four men incurred injuries necessitating hospital treatment. The injured were William Mose. 16. of 1748 Blaine avenue; William Rusher. 24. and George Rusher, 21. both of 321 Fleming avenue, and Gilbert Eads. 837 Church street. They told police they were In the Mase home when Howard and Katherine Preston. 1760 Blaine avenue. and Leonard Spaugh. 1754 Blaine avenue, came in and tried to sell the overcoat. "No sale’ was registered and the fight was on. according to the injured men. They charge the Prestons and Spaugh wielded blackjacks and brass knuckles. Police were unable to find any of the three. 3.000 WILL GET JOBS Results of Belt Highway Project Described for Engineers. Addressing the Indianapolis Engineering Society in the Board of Trade building Thursday. LeGrande Marvin, engineer for the $2.000.0C0 Marion county belt highway project, declared that more than 3.000 men will be employed on the new highway project. "Plans have been approved.” said Marvin, "and the preliminary - engineering features have been worked out. Six field crews have been busy for two months and at the end of the first month ninety-three men had been employed.”

Flow the foam down! Drink the man down! PROSIT! and mayhap the tuneful melody. ‘‘Down Where the Wurzberger Flows," will be heard cn Sept. 16. when Indiana's first beer-drinking contest since Volstead became the nation's bogeyman is held at the Turnverein. Prospect street and Madison gvenue. The mightiest steins with

The Indianapolis Times Fair tonight and Saturday; not much change in temperature.

George Sunday Hu United Preen SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8 George Sunday, 40, son of the famed evangelist, Billy Sunday, was near death at a hospital here todayafter falling to the pavement from his fourth-floor apartment. His wife, the former Mauryne Reichard. Hollywood mannequin and dancer, told police she heard a crash of broken glass in another room after Sunday struck her and ordered his mother from the apartment. Sunday, conscious for a moment whispered that he fell through the window while watering a dern. Physicians held slight hope for his recovery. He suffered a compound fracture of the right thigh, double fracture of the jaw, and oth°r injuries. Mrs. Sunday was treated at the hospital for a broken, finger. Her eye was blackened. She said that her husband was suffering from a nervous breakdown, brought on by financial reverses. A week ago she telegraphed for his mother, Mrs. Nellie Sunday, and the evangelist's wife came from her home at Hood River, Ore., co aid in caring for Sunday. “For no reason whatever,” said Sunday’s wife, “he suddenly turned on me, grabbed the ring finger of my left hand and then broke it with a snap. He then struck me in the face. “I ran to the bedroom and his mother upbraided him for the attack. He ordered her out of the house.” Mrs. Sunday was known in Hollywood by her professional name of Renee La Salle. She was named by Sunday’s first wife. Harriett, when the latter divorced him in Los Angeles three years ago. The present Mrs. Sunday filed a divorce complaint last July 17, but withdrew it a week later, when a reconciliation was effected.

WARNING ON DOGS SOUNDED BY POLICE Three Persons Are Bitten; Rabies Feared. Police warned citizens today to guard against mad dogs and to notify them of the presence of any animal that might be afflicted with rabies, with the report of three persons being bitten by dogs. Mrs. Martha O'Brien, 40. of 303 North Senate avenue; Willard Smock Jr.. 242 South Summit street, and Harry Willett, 29. Negro, 2547 Shriver avenue, suffered dog bites Thursday. The dogs were ordered penned up ten days to determine whether they had rabies. Mrs. O'Brien and Willett were treated at the city hospital and Smock by a private physician. Falling Bag Injuries Man Orrin Cox. 22. of 3671 Birchwood avenue, suffered sprained legs today when a 100-pound bag of seed fell upon him ip the warehouse of the Indiana state farm bureau. 610 Kentucky avenue. He was taken to Methodist hospital.

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doughty collars lapping the sides will be lined up for the city's best keg siphoners. It will be a contest dowft to the last drop. And so Germans of the city are trimming and curling mustaches in readiness for looking on the lager when it is lovely. Formally, the beer bout, with no holds barred, is the celebration of ••Gambrinus.” one the one thousandth anniversary of the birth of k

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933

STATE TO GIVE MILLIONS FOR SCHOOL WORK McNutt Pledges Huge Sum for Education in Next Fiscal Year. BOARD HEARS PROGRAM Formula Sent to Officials Working on Budgets and Tax Rate. Governor Paul V. McNutt todaypledged $17,500,000 to grade and high schools of the state before the end of the 1934-35 school fiscal year.' In making public his promise to pay, the chief executive predicted that $10,000,000 immediately can be slashed from the 1934 local tax levies through budgets now awaiting action before county tax adjustment boards. State payments to schools have not been given proper consideration in making up the budgets, he said. So a formula based on the Governor’s estimates has been w’orked out and is being sent to all local officials having anything to do with the school budgets and tax rate. McNutt discussed the program today with members of the state education board. Millions to Be Given Revnues will be received by the school units from the excise collections on Nov. 1 and May 1. Gross income tax receipts will be distributed Jan. 1 and July 1. Total distribution for the school year 1933-34 will amount to more than $7,800,000. and 1934-35 the amount will be $9,700,000 according to the Governor's estimates. It was estimated that not more than $7,500,000 has been allowed In j 1934 school budgets for state payments and this should be increased j by adjustment board to at least l $10,000,000, the Governor said. The entire sum of $17,500,000 will I be lifted from the shoulders of the | property taxpayers during the next j two school years, the Governor j pointed out. Average payment by the state will equal S9OO per teacher, he said. Agreed to Pay S6OO Under the law the state agreed to pay S6OO per teacher a year, if the money was available. County auditors were warned by Chairman Phil Zoercher of the state tax board to see that county adjustment boards take into consideration the state estimates of school payments. The hoard will insist that every cent of the $17,500,000 be deducted before the close of the school fiscal year for w-hich budgets, in most cases now are being made, Zoercher declared. George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction, has advised all school officials throughout the state to co-operate with tax adjustment boards in bringing about lower property tax levies.

Auto-Matic Backs Car Into Fire Alarm and Gets Plenty of Service. By United Press: MILWAUKEE. Sept. B.—Charles Fera backed up his automobile today and received an unpleasant shock when it jarred suddenly to a halt. Fera got out and was inspecting the damage when one fire boat, one engine company, two trucks, a district chief, the fire department rescue squad, and two squad cars arrived on the scene. He had backed his automobile into the marine district fire alarm box and the impact had sent in an alarm. THEFT LOSER SECONDS THIEF’S MERCY PLEA Farm Term Suspended When Victim Intercedes for Prisoner. Loser in a theft today aided in obtaining clemency for , the man who committed the offense. Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer imposed a fine of $1 and a sixty-day penal faim term upon Oscar A. Wolf, 414 South Gray street, but suspended all the sentence. Wolf had been convicted of stealing $2.50. The money was taken from the home of Lon Blankenship, 344 South La Salle street. Wolf said he had been out of work for two years until recently, and pleaded with the court to suspend sentence, promising he would return the money from his first pay. Blankenship corroborated Wolf on his long period of unemployment and said he had no desire to see him punished. .

beer, under direction of the South Side Turners. In the past arid years, the annual rites have been feted in the gloom of cellars, where home breweries with gaseous uncontrollable bottles shot ceilingward. But this year it will be in the open for all to see and the champion guzzler will be matched later against winners from other societies.

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Clara Moore By Times Special CHICAGO, Sept. B.—“ Thunder Without Rain,” an alleged sex novel, is being perused by Chicago authorities seeking a clew to the strange suicide of Clara Moore, 24, Cleveland. who leaped to her death in Lake Michigan from a gay yacht party. . Inquest testimony brought out that Miss Moore, an artists’ model, had been acting “queerly” since she read “Thunder Without Rain.” She preceded her leap from the yacht by tearing off her clothing and running about the deck screaming, “I don’t care if I don’t live another minute.” Publishers of “Thunder Without Rain” have expressed themselves as puzzled at the idea that the book could yield a clew to the suicide. The novel, they assert, is a psychological study of love between brother and sister. UNION CHARGES BRANDED FALSE Head of Real Silk Benefit Association Answers Pay Raise Attack. Charles Leeke, a knitter at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, was reelected president of the Employes’ Mutual Benefit Association at an election just completed by all employes of the company. The election was by secret ballot and Leeke was chosen by a large majority. According to Leeke, in his statement to the employes, thanking them for their vote of confidence in his leadership of employes’ affairs, statements being circulated to the effect that the company is violating provisions of the NRA are absolutely false and unfounded. Furthermore, he states that the wage increase of $250,000 recently announced by the company was absolutely brought about by himself and the E. M. B. A. board as representatives of the employes. His statement is to the effect that he, as spokesman for the E. M. B. A. board, on Monday, Aug. 28, had a conference with the - management and suggested a wage increase, based upon his observation that the company was starting to experience satisfactory business conditions again. His request, opening the subject of a wage increase, was met by the management inviting the E. M. (Turn to Page Two) CRASH KILLS MOTHER South Bend Woman Injured Fatally as Auto Hits Truck. By United Press HAMMOND. Ind., Sept. 8. Mrs. Ada Warner, 47, South Bend, was injured fatally Thursday night when the automobile in which she was riding with her husband and young son collided with an unlighted beer truck near here. She died in the Hammond hospital. Her husband. Wilbur Warner. president of the National Storage Warehouse Company, South Bend, and William. 9, their son, were injured seriously. The family was returning from a Century of Progress at Chicago. CHILD IS SHOT AT PLAY “Holdup Game” May Result Fatally for Bridgeport Girl, 7, Playing "holdup” may result fatally for Vivian Poland, 7, Bridgeport, who is in Methodist hospital with a bullet w'ound in the abdomen as a result of the accidental discharge of a revolver held by her brother. John, 14. The children were at play today in the yard of their home when the accident occurred. John had a .32caliber revolver which was not believed to contain any cartridges.

THE custom dates back to the year 966. when Henry the First became the first true German king of the Fatherland. Henry battled the Hungarians and drove them from German soil. But while he fought, his brother Jacob experimented with the hops when they were hopping. Jacob’s casks of beer could be heard almost to Henry’s battle front. But he kept on experimentipg until

CUBAN CHIEFS SOUND APPEAL FOR ARMY AID New Government Plays Every Card to Avert U. S. Intervention. DISORDERS ARE HALTED Recognition Given by Mexico: Roosevelt Voices Hope of Peace. BY LAWRENCE HAAS. United Press Staff Correspondent HAVANA. Sept. B—Cuba’s revolutionary government appealed urgently to army officers and political leaders of all parties today to unite its support. Only by united action could order be preserved and American intervention avoided, the government said. Members of the government left the palace, exhausted, to get a few hours’ rest before another meeting at noon. They expressed optimism i that army officers and politicians would rise as patriots to the emergency and support them. They did not seem to wish to consider the alternative—American intervention —that lefusal of support would bring. U. S. Warships in Harbor Events of the hours before and during the long meeting showed how important any move from any political faction might be. The American cruiser Richmond and destroyer Bainbridge arrived in Havana harbor, joining the destroyer McFarland. The destroyer Sturtevant was at Santiago, at the other end of the island. Other destroyers were on the way to various ports. Communists, students and women threatened to defend the capital if marines were landed. Red Demonstration Halted A Communist demonstration that might have precipitated a riot was handled with utmost skill. Raihvaymen threatened to go on strike again unless by Monday midnight the government promised better conditions. It was to harmonize such factors as these that the committee government met. Political leaders and army officers were called in. There were conferences pf all sorts, mixed and separate, culminating with a meeting of officers at 4:30 a. m. Roosevelt Voices Hope H;/ United Prree WASHINGTON. Sept. B.—President Roosevelt expressed the hope in an address today that Cuba will be able to solve its own difficulties. Speaking before the conference on Mobilization of Human Needs, Mr. Roosevelt made his first public reference to the present situation in Cuba. “I have been occupied during these last forty-eight hours with the question of human needs outside the United States,” he says. “I hope that the United States will not have to act outside its own quarters. I hope that another republic will be able to solve its own difficulties as we have solved ours. Recognized by Mexico Hu United Preen HAVANA, Sept. B.—Mexico has recognized the new revolutionary government of Cuba, the state department announced today. This is the first recognition by any foreign power. PICK CONVENTION CITY Indianapolis Is Chosen for 1934 Session of Photographers. Word has been received by Henry T. Davis, secretary-manager of the Indianapolis convention and publicity bureau,, that the International Photo Engravers Union of North America will hold their 1934 convention in this city in August of next year. Between 300 and 400 delegates are expected to attend. Earle Harding, delegate from the Indianapolis local to the Baltimore convention, invited the union to meet here.

Business Record Is Set by Kahn Tailoring Cos.

A volume of orders received in one day this week from every state in the Union gave the Kahn Tailoring Cos., St. Clair street and Capitol avenue, its largest day's busiiness in ten >^ars. The unprecedented boom was looked upon as the harbinger of returning prosperity by officers of the firm who pointed to the fact that the business came in despite the fact that the company maintains no staff of salesmen to push its goods. The clothing is sold through resident agents only and officials pointed out that the orders indicated better times throughout the

he had brewed an amber lager of body and zip. Then Henry's poor tired soldiers came home from the wars. Brother Jacob greeted him with bung-starter and stein. Wars were forgotten. Henry's soldiers all became big brewers or drove the brewers' elephantine horses. man THE beer-garden, the German band and pretzel indus-

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$4,460,000 LOAN WILL HELP CITY TO BANISH SLUMS Tentative Approval Given Plan Which' Awaits “Only Sanction and Signature of President Roosevelt. NEGRO SECTION WILL GET BENEFIT Program Is Put Through Without Publicity; By Planning Committee of Chamber of Commerce. BY WALKER STONE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—Tentative approval has been given to a federal loan of $4,460,000 to finance elimination of slums and construction of low-cost housing units in the Indianapolis Negro section. The enterprise, according to reliable information, is sponsored by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, the representatives of which manipulated secretly to obtain the approval of the federal works boaid.

BARGAINS GIVEN IN BEER WAR Illinois Dealers Lure Trade From Indiana: 32 Ounces for Dime. Hu United Preen CALUMET CITY, 111., Sept. B. Illinois beer dealers operating saloons on the state line were making a strong bid for Indiana business today, cutting the price to as low as thirty-two ounces for 10 cents. Indiana retailers have refused to lower their prices and as a result many of their former customers are flocking across the line to take advantage of the bargains in draught beer. . The standard price m many Illinois saloons is twenty-four ounces for 10 cents. A few dealers are selling ft quart for that price, and one proprietor has offered tickets for si.so which entitle the buyar to fifty beers. Tires were slashed on four automobiles parked in front of a state line tavern early Thursday, while Illinois cars were not molested. This led to the belief that Indiana dealers were attempting to intimidate Hoosiers from taking their business out of the state. NO RELIEF SEEN FOR CITY IN HEAT WAVE

Mercury May Pass Mark of 95 This Afternoon. Another scorching week-end appeared in prospect for Indianapolis and vicinity today, with the United States weather bureau's forecast of “not much change in temperature’ during the next thirty-six hours. Today started out as the hottest day of the whole week, which has seen the city tight in the grip of a late-summer heat wave. Starting at 71 at 6 o’clock, the mercury had leaped to 94 by 12:30. three degrees higher than the 9 o’clock reading of Thursday. There was every indication that thermometers would register more than 95 by 3 this afternoon. Thursday’s top was 94. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 71 10 a. m... .89 7 a . m 74 11 a. m 91 Ba. m 80 12 (noonj.. 92 9 a. m 85 1 p. m 94

country, with sales by agents in every state made at practically th\ same time. Monday the firm goes on a thirty-six-hour schedule for employes, operating under the NRA, which will mean a 20 per cent increase in wages for employes and an addition of 150 new employes to the 600 men and women already on the" payroll. M. C. Furscott, vice-president of the firm, said that while he never had lost faith in the ability of American business to stage a comeback, he believed that the volume of business on the day mentioned this week marked the turn of the much-maligned “corner.”

try w'ere born then. Germans became famous the world over as battlers of the bock and lovers of the lager. And so. on Sept. 16, the city's beer champ will be wreathed in hops and the Irish must be content with w'aiting until after repeal of the eighteenth amendment before they can rival with a contest of ruining the rye and bucking the bourbon. __

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

[ The formal application for the housing loan was filed in the name of the Indianapolis Community Planning Committee, said to lie affiliated with the Indianapolis Chamber. A committee of the Indianapolis chamber, it is reported, will organize a limited dividend corporation, which will borow the money from the federal government. It will construct housing units to provide more comfortable living quarters for families of Negro workers. Roosevelt to Approve So under cover were the preliminary negotiations for the loan that even Congressman Louis Ludlow never heard of the enterprise until Thursday night, although formal approval to the loan was given Thursday by the public works administration, and the papers were sent to the White House for final sanction of President Roosevelt. The President is expected to consider the Indianapolis housing project, along with a large number of other projects, this week-end. and give his final approval next Monday. Ludlow was not the oniy one caught off guard. Senator Van Nuys had not heard of the project. Otto P. Deluse, John N. Dyer and Lew G. Ellingham, who constitute the Indiana public works advisory board, and who are in Washington trying to speed up federal approval of Indiana projects, admitted Thursday night that the Indianapolis housing project never was tenrede for their approval. Deluse professed not even to know who was behind the project. Given Low Interest Formal announcement concerning the housing enterprise will not be made until after President Roosevelt has approved the action of the public works board. It is understood the $4,460,000 will be loaned to the Limited Dividend Corporation at a low rate of interest, probably 4 or 4ti per cent, and that profits of the corporation will be limited to approximately 6 per cent. Flood Control Fund Asked By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. B.—There can be no economic recovery in Indiana until flood control levies are constructed along the banks of the Wabash and White rivers, Representative Virginia E. Jenckes of Terre Haute said today in a hearing before the federal public works board. “The levees must be built by the federal government,” said Mrs. Jenckes. “The citizens o's Indiana, impoverished by floods of the last ten years, are financially unable to repair their broken levees. The success of the NRA in the flooded areas of the Wabash and White rivers, which comprise one-third of the state of Indiana, is jeopardized because the citizens have no means of developing buying power, due to the fact that the industries and agriculture in this vast area are unstable and indefinite because of fear of recurring floods.” With Mrs. Jenckes at today’s hear-

ing were the three members of the Indiana public works advisory board —Otto P. De Luse, John N. Dyer and Lew G. Ellingham. They sought an allotment of $18,000,000. The amount that army engineers have estimated to provide adequate flood control. ‘‘Funds in banks of cities of the floded areas,” said Mrs. Jenckes, "are frozen, due to farmers and industrialists being unable to pay or even curtail their loans. “After each flood, which impairs public water systems and leaves a great deal of decaying animal and vegetable matter, epidemics and sickness prevail. Flood control would improve the health of one-third of the population of Indiana.” UTILITIES TO BE TOPIC Public Service Board Ex-Employe to Address Club. Utilities and complaints against them will be related by Miss Mary Symms of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Indianapolis, in a ta k before the ScientecfkClub of Indianapolis, Monday at 12:15 p. m.. at the Columbia Club. Miss Symms was secretary to the director of service of the Indiana public service commission.