Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1933 — Page 1

WILLIAM BOOK TO BE NAMED STATE’S POOR RELIEF ‘CZAR’ Governor’s Aid to Be Given Power to Order 1,100 Township Trustees to Do His. Bidding, Plans Reveal. PROGRAM IS BITTERLY CONTESTED Present System to Be Abolished Entirely, According to Scheme of New Setup; Act Under 1933 Statute. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Timtt Staff Writer William H. Book, director of the Governor’s commission on unemployment relief, will be dictator of poor relief this winter with power to order the 1,100 township trustees to do his bidding, under state administration plans disclosed today. Steps already have been taken toward this end in Center township here, with Miss Hannah Noone, the elective trustee, relegated to the role of sayinj? ‘yea” to Mr. Book’s program.

Last week, the basket system was abolished under Rook’s orders and purchase of food placed in the hands of those receiving relief to shop wherever they desired and make their own deliveries. The investigation staff has been increased from twenty to thirty, all new appointees being social workers approved by Book. In addition, there has been added to Miss Noone's office, a head supervisor and two other supervisors who also are social workers. According to the figures from the trustee's office, this has meant a pay roll increase from $3,215 in September last year to $8,193.50 for September this year. Program Bitterly Fought The whole program is being contested bitterly by many trustees who claim that political appointees are better than social workers for the investigation jobs and that the political system is less costly than the new plan. What has been done is just a starter, however, it was learned. The new plan includes setting up of poor relief districts in Indianapolis and abolishing the present township system entirely. These districts will handle all food distribution, whether financed by local or federal funds. Power to bring these things about comes from federal rulings and poor relief statutes enacted by the 1933 legislature under orders from Governor Paul V. McNutt. Politicians Jeer at Ideas The federal department is Harry Hopkins, a trained social worker, who has ruled that trained social workers must get all the jobs. This idea has been scoffed at by old line politicians who declare that a housewife, who has been a good party worker, is better equipped to tell what a family needs than "spinsters trained from books or by schools.” Miss Nadia Deem. Mr. Book’s assistant. formerly conducted a school for social workers here. Miss Mayme Smith is the staff supervisor in Center tow’nship, who was approved by Mr. Book and now has charge instead of Miss Noone. Increase Is Reported Township reports show 7,050 baskets distributed during a September week in 1932 and 7.440 for the same week this year. While the investigation staff already has been increased 50 per cent, more are to be added. Mr. Book said. It will mean better relief work and in the long run, economy, he asserted. This view is challenged by the politicians, some of whom are predicting that it will cost $20,000 a year more for administration. Trustees have called on the Governor from various counties and many are building up political opposition to the plan. But the Governor, under one of his laws, has power to remove any trustee who does not properly handle poor relief and he is sole judge of the 'proper handling.” COLUMBUS HONORED BY NATIONAL OBSERVANCE Mammoth Parades Feature Many of Celebrations. (Local details on Pace Ten) ftp l nited Press NEW’ YORK. Oct. 12—Christopher Columbus, an Italian of Spanish leanings, who discovered the North American continent 441 years ago. was honored today in countrywide celebrations. Schools, banks, exchanges, the higher courts and numerous business houses in major cities were closed. American and Italian flags were raised at sunrise. Mammoth parades featured a number of celebrations.

Marts Closed All leading American stock, grain and commodity exchanges were closed today in observance of Columbus Day holiday. Trading in livestock markets were continued today. Trading will be resumed in all sectlone as usual Friday morning.

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ELEVATE TRACK, CLUB DEMANDS South Side Group Issues Ultimatum: Protest Meeting Planned. An “ultimatum” for definite action on elevation of the Belt railroad tracks was given Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and city officials today by south side civic organizations. The “ultimatum” was in the form of a vote by the central committee of the South Side Civic Clubs that the city administration become the object of a “gigantic protest meeting, if action is not taken in two weeks.” Action of the central committee was taken following a meeting last night at which E. H. Wischmeyer, Belt railroad committee chairman, reported he had been informed by the federal works board that elevation of the Belt tracks is included in the board's appropriation and that any further action must come from Mayor Sullivan and city officials. Wischmeyer pointed out that elevation of the tracks on the south side from Keystone avenue to Madison avenue would cost approximately $3,000,000 and that under the federal aid plan, the government would lend the city the entire amount. The city, county and railroad, in return, Wischmeyer pointed out, would have to repay only 70 per cent of the money and none would have to be rspaid for five years. Remainder of the payment could be made over a thirty-year period. Walter C. Rothermel, civic clubs president, presided. DUAL MINE UNIONS SOLUTION PROPOSED Progressives Suggest Both Be Recognized. Hu l nitcil pr< WASHINGTON. Oct. 12.—The Progressive Miners Union of Illinois, it was learned today, has submitted to the NRA a concrete plan which it contends would end its long and violent conflict with the United Mine Workers of America. The proposal provides that mines in the area of conflict would deal with both unions. A double checkoff system for collection of union dues would be installed, with the mine companies turning the money over to the organization designated by each miner.

New Legion Chief Takes Up Duties at Office Here

A FORMER apprentice seaman in the United States navy took formal command of the American Legion here yesterday. Seated behind a huge mahogany desk, banked with floral offerings. at American Legion headquarters. St. Clair and North Meridian streets. Edward Hayes, new commander of the legion's thousands. went on record as upholding former Commander Louis Johnson's policy for the veterans. And as he talked, frankly and forcefully, it was easy to understand how "Ed” Hayes has gained the homage of hundreds of thousands of ex-service men and others throughout the country. There is nothing commonplace about Commander Hayes. In his tall, spare figure, his fine frank smile and straightforward speech he is Lincolnesque. His answers to questions which have embarrassed other commanders were given with directness and he invited more. “Fire away, men.” he remarked. “I want to put all my cards on the table.” *r m m A REPORTER asked him what ha considered the most impor-

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“My baby won’t die, will he?’” she asked. That question spurred the nurses and doctor on to renewed efforts to force oxygen into the lungs of the baby boy all through the night. By morning his lusty crying told them they had won. It is not an unusual battle in St. Elizabeth’s home. Often babies born there are kept alive only through the use of the oxygen tank, which was a gift to the home by an Indianapolis doctor. # n a BEFORE it was used, the nurses breathed life into these newborn babies through a bit of gauze, saturated with aromatic spirits of ammonia. The oxygen tank has a glass piece, which fits over the baby’s mouth and nose. Its use through the first day and night following a birth has kept life ina number of babies at the home. Today the week-old baby boy sleeps peacefully in a crib in the sunny nursery at the home. Life, which in his first few hours was a difficult thing, has settled down into a regular routine of baths, bottles, and sleep. His mother, convalescing in a wheel-chair, is planning to return to her home and her work, that she may support her infant son. St. Elizabeth’s Home is one of the agencies receiving aid from the Indianapolis Community Fund. RIVERSIDE COURSE TO BE OPEN ALL WINTER Park Board to Close South Grove Links as Economy Move. Riverside golf course will be the north side winter links this year, it was decided by the park board today. In previous years, the board has maintained South Grove course and community center during the winter. Faced with a slashed budget, economy is necessary, park board members agree, and their order results in the saving of approximately §2,000 in coal and maintenance costs. Riverside can be maintained at a very much lower cost than South Grove. Pleasant Run course will be maintained during the winter on the east side. Game Is Played in Court By United Press LAWRENCE, Mass., Oct. 12.—A regular game of “beano,” including the ballyhoo, was played in superior court here recently at trial to determine whether it was a game of skill or chance.

tant mandate of the Chicago con- | vention. "Rehabilitation is the most important,” said Hayes, “but I also consider national defense and the legion's Americanization program | as relatively important. "The stated fact that we are for the bonus still stands. But if this stand is going to jeopardize the man who is disabled or widows and dependents, then we will not force the bonus demand.” Commander Hayes will go to Washington Friday to address the convention of the American Federation of Labor. He will revisit Washington in about ten days to meet President Roosevelt and renew the campaign for veterans’ hospitalization where Commander Johnson left off. a a a THE new commander revealed that he plans to spend most of his time as head of the legion in Indianapolis and Washington. While his four daughters will remain in school at Decatur. HI., their home, Mr. Hayes revealed that he and his wife probably will take an apartment in Indianapolis.

Fair tonight and Friday; colder tonight with frost, probably heavy.

SAVED BY SCIENCE New-Born Baby Wins Life Fight

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Just a week ago this baby was kept alive through the efforts of nurses at St. ElizabetlTs home, with the aid of an oxygen tank. He is shown with one of the nurses who saved his life. BY HELEN LINDSAY Times Stp.ff Writer „ DEATH fought a losing battling last week in a rocm at St. Elizabeth’s Home, on Churchman avenue. He pitted his strength against the cleverness and ability of two nurses and an Indianapolis doctor, and his objective was the life of a new-born baby. The unmarried mother of the baby, exhausted and half-conscious, lay on a hospital bed nearby, and watched the battle.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1933

RUSSIA, JAPAN AT WAR'S BRINK U. S. Alarmed by Soviet’s Determined Preparation for Outbreak. (Copvrieht. 1933. bv United Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—War clouds in the far east today drew the anxious attention of American officials. Sovieet Russia again is challenging alleged Japanese encroachments on Russian interests and citizens in Manchuria. Hot words are being spoken in both Tokio and Moscow. War appears possible. The dispute dates back to 1931 when the Japanese war machine, rolling indomitably north, crossed the Chinese Eastern railroad at Tsitsihar and invaded Russia’s ‘‘sphere of influence” in northern Manchuria. Russia, with mild protests, yielded. It had few soldiers and small food and munitions stocks near the Man-churian-Siberian border. Moreover, the trans-Siberian railroad, vital military and economic artery between Moscow and the far east, was being reconstructed. But Russia has moved fast since 1931. These things have happened. 1. Double-tracking of the transSiberian between Moscow and the Manchurian border is virtually completed. 2. Vast stocks of food and munitions have been piled up at Vladivostok and other points on the Manchurian-Siberian border. Five army divisions, numbering 100.000 men, and a large fleet of airplanes have been posted within striking distance of Manchuria, which would be the battlefield of a RussoJapanese war. 3. Russia has protected its European front by negotiating nonaggression pacts with Poland, France, Germany, Italy, the Little Entente, and the Baltic countries. Observers here believe that Russia, even in its improved position, would prefer to avert war. but apparently is determined to check Japan's advance on the Asiatic mainland. PECORA HURLS THREAT AT N. Y. EXCHANGE Gives Wall Street Until Tomorrow to Produce Records. By Unit'd Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Senate stock market investigators today dug into a coporate affiliate of Dillon, Read & Cos. to determine whether it was created to avoid income tax payments on rich international profits. Previously Pecora said he had given tfne New York Stock Exchange until tomorrow to produce pool, joint trading accounts, and other records which the committee had requested. He threatened to subpena the records if his demands are not complied with. NRA IS CRITICISED AT A. F. OF L. PARLEY Coupled With Statement of Full Support for Roosevelt. By United Pro* WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Direct criticism of the NRA was voted today by the American Federation of Labor. The criticism was coupled with a statement that the Federation would give whole-hearted support to President Roosevelt in his recovery efforts. Attacks upon the policies of the NRA came in resolutions adopted and in speeches from the floor. The convention criticised results of the recovery program after advocates of the industrial union form of organization had suffered another defeat.

BOMB BLASTS ROCK MINE ZONE; RUSH MORE TROOPS

FLOOD CONTROL ‘BUCK PASSING’ IRKSJOOSIER Mrs. Jenckes Angered by Handing of Issue to Mississippi Board. BY WALKER STONE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON. Oct. 12. The proposal to allot $18,000,000 of public works money for flood-control work along the Wabash and White rivers will be considered incidentally by the Mississippi drainage area board when it meets here Monday to discuss plans for development of the Mississippi basin. Meanwhile, the patience of Mrs. Virginia E. Jenckes, Indiana’s Sixth district congresswoman, is becoming shorter and shorter. Representative Jenckes does not like the idea of the Wabash-White flood-control project having to pass the inspection of the Mississippi drainage area board. In fact, Mrs. Jenckes does not like anything about the way the public works administration has been passing the buck on her proposal for improvement of the two Indiana streams. Gives Him Cold Shoulder Mrs. Jenckes returned to Washington early this week to renew her demand for final action on the : flood-control plan. She talked for i two hours with Colonel H. M. Waite, deputy administrator of public works. But the colonel refused to be stampeded. It is understood that Colonel Waite suggested to Mrs. Jenckes that a compromise might be worked out whereby a small portion of the $18,000,000 might be allotted, to be used exclusively in building levees to protect the cities and towns located along the two rivers. To this suggestion of a compromise, according so reports. Mrs.' Jenckes gave a cold shoulder. It is reported that she told Colonel Waite that levees to protect the cities alone would cause floodwaters, during the next wet season, to overflow even more disastrously upon unprotected farm lands. Counties Broke, She Says Moreover, she is said to have told Colonel Waite that it would be impossible to give absolute protection to the cities and towns unless there is a comprehensive and complete flood-control development over the whole course of the Wabash and the White, that new narrow levees built through a city would only cause the river to overflow at a point farther up the stream, with the result that floodwaters would spread out and rush down upon the city from another angle. Mrs. Jenckes told Colonel Waite that the counties and communities along the Wabash and White were almost bankrupt, and unable to sell more bonds to get money for relief of the poor. Congresswoman Is Mad Colonel Waite asked her to supply him with data on the number of persons on the relief rolls in the valleys of the two streams, and the amount of money that is being spent I for relief by the localities and the federal government. | Mrs. Jenckes, who boasts that she has stood in the horror of stormy nights on the top of a Wabash levee in Vigo county and helped men pile on sandbags to keep the floodwaters from washing out their homes and crops, doesn't much like to have to get down on her knees and ask for a favorable decision from a group of men who have never even laid on the Wabash, either at high or low water. Times Index Page. Bridge io Broun Column 14 Classified is Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 20 Curious World 15 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Hickman Review 20 Radio 17 Serial Story 19 Sports 16 Talburt Cartoon 14 Woman’s Page 8

200 West Virginia Miners Chosen for First U. S. ‘Back-to-Farm’ Experiment

By United Press Oct. 12. —Interior Secretary * * Harold Ickes today announced plans for the government’s first subsistence homestead project. It will be a demonstration of spreading out industries away from congested metropolitan centers, where working men can live "bn their own plots of ground, and show how the government proposes to meet the employment and relief problems of industries which can not absorb all of their skilled workers even operating at peak capacities. The first project will be for 200 unemployed coal miners and their families near Morgantown. W. Va.,' for whom prospects of re-employment in the mines has vanished. The demonstration project calls for construction of modest homes with from two to four acres of land for each family suitable for gardening, fruit trees, poultry raising and production of other foodstuffs tor home consumption.

Find Kelly, Wife Guilty; Given Life Maximum Penalty Meted to Pair Under Federal Lindbergh Law. fiy United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 12 George (Machine Gun) Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, the last of the gang that kidnaped Charles F. Urschel, were given life sentences today—the maximum penalty under the new Lindbergh law. They w?re found guilty by a jury of small-town business men and farmers that reported its verdict to Federal Judge Edgar S. Vaught at 9:36 a. m. The jurors had reached the verdict in only an hour's deliberation last night. The fate of the swaggering desperado and his auburnhaired wife was sealed until court convened today. Goes to Pen Tomorrow Marshal W. C. Geers said that Kelly will be taken by airplane to the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., probably tomorrow. Geers said he had no order yet for disposition of Mrs. Kelly. For the first time since their capture on Sept. 26 in Memphis, while Harvey J. Bailey, Albert Bates and Mrs. Kelly's parents, the R. G. Shannons of Paradise, Tex., were on trial here, the couple appeared completely subdued. Attractive Kathryn's flashing smile was gone. She appeared worried as Judge Vaught asked the machine gunner gangster and his 29-year-old wife to stand. Kelly Stands Silent, Defiant “Have you anything further to say?” the court inquired. Kelly had said no word to the court, offered no defense testimony for himself throughout the trial. Still bearing the marks of a pistol whipping given him by a federal agent Monday when he became fractious, Kelly stood, silent, defiant. Kathryn paused a moment, then said: “No, sir.”

INDIANA RECOVERY COUNCIL IS NAMED All but One of Members Are City Men. Appointment of the executive com - mitte of the state recovery council under the NRA was announceed today by Francis Wells, state NRA director, who declared the group should assure more co-operation in handling complaints of code violation. Committee members are H. M. Cochran, representing manufacturers; Adolph Fritz, labor; Albert Giesler, wholesalers; W H. Arnett chambers of commerce; C. E. Weidmann, retailers, and W. H. Settle, farmers. With the exception of Mr. Weidmann, a South Bend merchant, all the members are Indianapolis men. STEEL FIRM REFUSES TO GO BEFORE NRA Rejects Proposal to Submit Demands to Arbitration. By United Pree* WASHINGTON, Oct. 12—Ernest T. Weir, president of the Weirton f W. Va.) Steel Company, today refused to submit strikers’ demands to arbitration by the national labor board, as proposed by the NRA agency. The board’s proposal that the strike be called off and all disputed matters be submitted to the board had been accepted by representatives of the strikers. Weir in his telegram said nearly 5.000 men had returned to work. This directly contradicted declarations of strike representatives here that the men would not return until the company agreed to arbitration.

THE homes will cost about $2,000 each and will become the property of the settler under twentyyear purchase contracts providing for small, monthly payments, low interest charges and small down payments. “In the absence of a private industry immediately available for transfer to the area,” Mr. Ickes said, “it has been arranged that a factory on the settlement shall produce special equipment required by the postoffice department. In addition, handicraft industries will be developed in the community.” Settlers will combine subsistence farming with industrial employment. The community will be self-governing, after the New England town-meeting plan. A ’school will be established which also will serve community center. The factory will be not more than two miles from any of the homesteads on the 1.100-acre project. The project will be financed out of a $25,000,000 fund set azide in the recovery act for this purpose.

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All of Sullivan County Is Declared Military; District With Strict Curfew Law Put Into Effect. TOWN TO BE ‘SHUT TIGHT’ BY 10 P. M. ‘l’ll Put a Camp Right on the Courthouse Lawn, if Necessary,’ Asserts Commanding Officer. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer SULLIVAN, Ind.. Oct. 12.—Military rule was extended today in Sullivan county, with the whole county declared a military district under drastic regulations, including a curfew, following three Heavy explosions here early this morning. Regulations effective at once are contained in a proclamation signed by^.Brigadier-General D. Wray DePrez, commanding troops in the county; Major Earl Weimar and Captain C. K. McGaughey.

DALE'S APPEAL REFUSED AGAIN ,U. S. Court Denies Request of Muncie Mayor for New Hearing. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 12.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals toI day denied an appeal for a rehearing of the liquor conspiracy case, in which former Mayor George Dale ; and Police Chief Frank Massey of ! Muncie were convicted. The high court which previously had ' affirmed the sentence of the pair, who were convicted in one of Indiana’s most sensational trials, i refused to change its stand on the ! case. I However, a stay of sentence was ; granted Clarence Nichols, defense< attorney, to enable him to perfect ! an appeal to the United States supreme court. It was revealed by Attorney Nichols today that the court of appeals had acted upon the case without announcement Tuesday. The court’s action did not become known until Nichols made public his plans for an appeal to the United States supreme court. PLANS PREPARED TO FREE BANK DEPOSITS Woodln Hints Roosevelt Will Make Statement Next Week. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 12.—A plan to release frozen deposits in national and state banks will be announced by President Roosevelt within a week, according to Treasury Secretary William Woodin. Woodin said ‘‘verygood news” will be announced soon. He intimated that the administration would have a statement Monday or Tuesday on the banking situation. PRINCESS named on LEGION COMMITTEE Descendant of President Grant Is Honored by Auxiliary. Announcement of the appointment of Princess Cantacuzene. granddaughter of President U. S Grant, as chairman on the committee on national defense of the American Legion auxiliary was made made at legion headquarters today. Princess Cantacuzene's appointment was the first official act of Mra William H. Biester Jr., Philadelphia, national auxiliary president, upon her arrival in Indianapolis today. It was announced that Princess Cantacuzene, who makes her home at Sarasota, Fla., will direct an aggressive program of national defense for the organization. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 53 10 a. m 53 7 a. m 53 11 a. m 55 Ba. m 52 12 (noon}.. 58 9 a. m 52 1 p. m 58

HOME ■EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

Company F, Indiana national guard, will arrive here from Attica this afternoon to augment two other companies which have been on duty since Monday, when martial law was proclaimed in the county by Governor Paul V. McNutt. ' The company will be quartered in the basement of the county courthouse here, and General DePrez announced earlier in the day he "will pitch camp on the courthouse lawn if necessary.” Captain George C. Dickey commands Company F. The regulations forbid loitering or assembling, and only special meetings of lodges, churches and other organizations will be allowed, and these only on permits which must be applied for twenty-four hours in • advance. 10 o’clock Is Deadline All persons must be off streets and roads in the county by 10 at night, and all business places must close at 9, except by special permission to remain open later. Only national guardsmen and ■ police will be permitted to bear arms, and every person is cautioned to halt immediately when commanded. Speed of motor vehicles is limited to twenty-five miles an hour, and only vehicles of the military authorities ■ will be permitted to park on the public square here. Fronting one side of the square is the Davis hotel, where General DePrez today established provisional headquarters. Travel through the county by nonresidents will be permitted, but they will be subject to military orders to halt and give an account of themselves.* Hospital Patients Alarmed No damage resulted from the blasts, apparently part of a campaign of terrorism, and their location was not found. First of the explosions at 2:30 this morning was in the northwest section of Sullivan, near the home of Charles O. Fox, which was bombed earlier in the week. The second at 3:50 was in the northeast section and the third at 4:25 in the southeast part. Patients in the Mary Sherman hospital and residents generally were awakened by the first blast, heaviest of the three. Art Donie, living in the northwest section, expressed the belief that dynamite was used to cause the blast, which he said was followed by a crackling noise. “I Grabbed My Head” "The explosion was so strong I grabbed my head,” Ernest Cummings, neigohor of Donie, said. Sullivan police who investigated after the first blast, did not report to military authorities at headquarters in Shakamak state park, and the first report they had of the blast came from newspaper men. Immediately on receiving the report, General DePrez sent twenty troops, armed with three submachine guns, to Sullivan, and Major Earl Weimar came to take command. Shortly afterward he was joined by his superior officer. DePrez conferred with representative Sullivan business men today. who assured him they would co-operate in efforts to quell disorder. Patrol Work Started Road patrol work was started this morning soon after the bias* and many motorists were halted. Two parties of men in two cars were stopped. Military authorities said the cars contained shotguns and the occupants said they had been hunting squirrels. A guard sergeant was placed in each car who saw that the men went to their homes. General DePrez appeared today before the Sullivan county grand jury to make a recommendation for an inquiry in the death of Frank Stalder, union miner, injured fatally when run down by an automobile near the Starbum mine, and the bombing of homes of Fox and Roscoe White. Situation Is Quiet Clash of union pickets and nonunion workers at the Starburn mine led to martial law being proclaimed Monday by Governor Paul V. McNutt. i Elsewhere in the mining area, the situation was quiet today, with work reported resumed in the Buckskin and King's Station mines in Gibson county. There was no disorder at the Somerville mine today, following bombings yesterday which caused slight damage.