Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 132, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1933 — Page 13

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BLUE EAGLE DRIVE AIMED AT CHISELERS Housewives Carry Burden of Success for National Recovery Plan. 3 INSIGNIA REMOVED Buying Boycott Is Termed Grave Punishment by NRA Chief. Ba I nitrd Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—The lorn? overdue drive to purge the blue eagle of chiselers was in full swing today. Within a wpek housewives will have a chance to demonstrate, in most cities of the country, the full strength of their determination to make the recovery program a success. Three blue eagles have been taken away from employers. More will be taken away soon. If housewives and other buyers refuse decisively to purchase from these establishments the drive for re-employment and better wages will be given a great forward impetus. Administrator Hugh Johnson has no doubt that women buyers of the country will refuse to patronize stores which can not show a blue eagle. Weeks ago, as the eagles flight started, he said “When ever American housewife understands that the blue eagle on everything she permits to come into her home is a symbol of its restoration to security, may God have mercy on the man or group of men w'ho attempt to trifle with this bird.” He predicted then that removal of a blue eagle will be “a sentence of economic de'Ath.” Three Eagles Removed It is because NRA is so convinced of the gravity of the punishment it is inflicting that it has waited this long before starting its enforcement program. It waited until local compliance boards Were established to make painstaking investigation into every circumstance surrounding alleged violations of the President's re-employment agreement. It has gone over and over reports made by compliance boards, acting finally only on those where unanimous recommendation w r as made for removal of blue eagles. Eagles have been removed from Theodore H. Rahutis, restaurant owner of Gary, Ind.; Miss B. Wilmer, proprietor of a New Rochelle beauty parlor, and Maurice Rapoport, New Rochelle groceryman. AH three were given- repeated oppopUi-. nities to present their cases before local compliance boards, and have been warned that failure to comply with the terms of their agreements would lead to the action nowtaken. 40 Employes Complain Every one of Mr. Rahutis’ forty employes complained they were being forced to work longer hours at less pay than the blue eagle agreement called for. Miss Wilmer is accused of raising the pay of two girl employes only $1 each, making their aalaries $9 a week, a total far below' the minimum of her agreement with the President. Having thus increased overhead charges $2 a week, she raised her prices 50 per cent, the NRA reports. Mr. Rapoports workers filed affidavits saying they had been compelled to work twelve hours and more a day for $1.50. NRA intends to go forward with its enforcement drive as rapidly as it can secure evidence of violations. It has thousands of complaints before it. but is experiencing great difficulty in getting affidavits from workers, particularly from those employed by larger establishments who fear they will be dismissed if it is learned that they have complained. To meet this situation. General Johnson promised again today that his organization will take every precaution to prevent employers from learning who complains against them. The recovery administration is watching particularly for evidence sound enough on which to base action that employers are discharging workers receiving more than the minimum wage and rehiring them at the minimum. •ROMEO AND JULIET’ WILL BE BROADCAST Butler, Jordan Conservatory Will Join In Program Series. Butler university and the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music, affiliated institutions, will join in the sponsorship of a Sunday night radio program this winter. The first program will go on the air Sunday when dramatic students will give the balcony scene from •Romeo and Juliet” and the conservatory string quartet will play. The programs will be broadcast from 6:15 until 6:30. Max T. Krone, conservatory director, will have charge of the programs. James LartrTore and Fanchon Fattig. conservatory students, will present the Shakespearian excerpt Sunday night. Members of the string quartet will be Thomas Poggiani. Georgia Baumann, Seth Cary and Virginia Leyenberger. DIRECTORS NAMED BY TUBERCULOSIS GROUPS Annual Meeting of Association Is Held at Lincoln. The Marion County Tuberculosis Association held its annual meeting at the Lincoln yesterday. The following persons were elected to serve as directors for three years Grier M. Shotwell, Mrs. Mortimer C. Furscott, Theodore B. Griffith. Edgar Perkins Sr., Dr. C. J. Mclntyre, John S. Wright, Joseph Taylor of Decatur township, Mrs. Frank Kimberlin of Franklin township and Mrs. E. A. Clark of Perry township.

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SOUND FILM-AND NO MISTAKE!

Community Fund Movie Shows Need in All Walks of Life

Residents Shown Activities of Agencies Operated With Funds. In news reel style, daily activities of social and charitable institutions maintained by the Indianapolis Community Fund, are depicted in a special sound film soon to be shown at a majority of local theaters. The film was prepared with leading parts being taken by beneficiaries of the fund’s service and will be exhibited to show the work accomplished by the various agencies. Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler appears in the film in a brief talk stressing benefit of the Boys’ Club work in curbing juvenile delinquencies. For tpn minutes, the audience is taken on a rapid tour which includes the Indianapolis Day Nursery. Home for Aged Women. Boys’ Club. Riley hospital, Wheeler City Rescue Mission and a dozen other agenries deriving aid from the community fund. An actual visit w'ith a public health nurse to care for a mother and a baby, a hike with Boy Scouts, a short concert by a toy band at the Indianapolis Orphans' Home and a peep at long rows of cribs, each containing a sleeping baby at the Indianapolis Day Nursery, are included in the film. Downtown theaters will show' the film beginning Friday. Several neighborhood theaters already have exhibited the film.' The Community Fund drive opens Oct. 20 with a goal of $824,462 to be reached during the ten-day campaign. COPS AID DAZED YOUTH Found Wandering Aimlessly, Man Says He Wanted to Die. A well-dressed young man, about 23, who refused to give his name, was found by police at Illihois and Washington streets, early today wandering about aimlessly. He told police he had taken a dozen sedative tablets and wanted to die. He told police he wanted to be buried in potter's field. Police took him to city hospital for'treatment.

$1,900,000,000 in Liberty Bonds to Be Redeemed

Give Light Times’ Budget Economy Stories Lauded.

UNQUALIFIED commendation of The Times series on mu-* nicipal budget economies was voiced last night formally in a resolution adopted by the central committee of the South Side Civic Clubs. The resolution also quoted the Scripps-Howard newspapers’ editorial motto, “Give light and the people will find their own way,” and expressed appreciation of the frankness or k. 3. Morse, Indianapolis Water Company manager, in supplying data on excessive water rentals paid b£ the city. DAVID LOUIS CRONE IS TAKENJIY DEATH City Man Active Worker in Lodge Circles. v David Louis Crone. 66, 130 South Bancroft street, died yesterday in his home. He was a charter member of Lyndhurst lodge, F. & A. M., and a member of the Lyndhurst chapter, O. E. S.; Banner Temple 37. Pythian sisters; Wichita Tribe 139. Red Men; Meta Council 103. Pocahontas; Puritan lodge 678. I. O. O. F., and Progress Rebekah Lodge 395. Mr. Crone is survived by his his widow. Mrs. Carrie E. Crone; a sister. Mrs. Retta Huddleston: two brothers, William and Alonzo Crone; a stepson. Randolph Duncan. Cleveland, and two daughters. Mrs. Florence Norwood and Mrs. Retta Barnett. Girl Injured by Auto Abrasions were incurred yesterday by Mildred Davis. 12, of 423 West Merrill street, when she was struck at Kentucky avenue and West stret by an automobile driven by Carl Clark. 33. of 157 Bakemeyer street.

German Peasants Hate Hitler and His Nazis, Says American

Reports of wholesale arrests of lews and other opponents of the Nasi wegime filter through to the outside world . . . How are ther treated, these accused •enemies" of Hitler-dominated Germany* . . . Walter Orloff. American and Ametican-born. a medical student of Jewish extraction, has recovered froqi his experiences when he was arrestetf and imprisoned in Germany, and has told his absorbing story In two articles which he has written for The Times. This is the first. BY WALTER ORLOFF Written for N'EA Service cient traditions . . . today a hotbed of Hitlerism . . . I had had a warning before I went there. ‘ Keep strictly to yourself and your lessons," was the advice of a friend who saw me off when I left the University of Berlin to continue my study of medicine at the University of Greifswald. And as I neared this northern

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Upper left—This trio of babies, cared for at the Florence Crittenden home, 2044 North Illinois street, makes a film debut in a sound film booked for showing at local theaters In support of the Indianapolis Community Fund drive. Upper right—The “crying” need of the Community Fund is expressed by this youngster, who vociferously issues an appeal for aid from the Crittenden home.

Government Offers Cash or Exchange for Fourth Loan Issue. (Other Details on Page 15) By Scripps-Hofcard newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—The first major government bond conversion operation of the treasury under the Roosevelt administration was announced today, holders of about $1,900,000,000 of Foiyth Liberty loan 414 per cent bonds being offered cash or the right to exchange their securities for ones bearing lower rates of interest. The conversion, which will save the government a sizable sum, is patterned after similar operations conducted within the last two years by Great Britain and France. In those countries the conversion was put chiefly on a patriotic basis, bondholders being urged to give up their high interest securities for ones paying less to help their governments. | The same element is a factor in this United States bond conversion. The formal request for such an operation was made by the senate, which in the last session passed a resolution pointing to the savings that could be made by issuing bonds bearing lesser interest rates. The detailed announcement of the plan was made in the name of Treasury Secretary William Woodin. but by the time it became available in mimeographed form at the great, gray pile of a building on Pennsylvania avenue, the secretary was in Philadelphia helping Kate Smith get that moon over that mountain. Mr. Woodin played a guitar solo at the Philadelphia symphony orchestra’s “ticket auction” last night. The bonds called amount to approximately a third of the fourth liberties outstanding, the 4', per cent bonds issued in 1918 in the amount of $6,965,000,000. Since that time approximately $700,000,000 worth of them have been retired. Holders of the bonds called must present them for payment, and they may take cash or exchange them for new bonds to run for ten to twelve years, bearing f l * per cent interest the first year and 3U per cent thereafter.

German city by the Baltic, I recalled that here was a stronghold of Nazi sentiment. But I litttle dreamed that however strictly I tried to attend my own affairs, the result would be a series of arrests, threats, imprisonment, beatings and finally deportation. As I walked into the heart of the town from the railroad station, two big Nazi banners flown from houses on the main street showed vividly the political complexion of the place. The Hitlerites had polled a large vote here in the previous election, but Hitler himself had not yet become chancellor. That occurred on Jan. 30. 1933. a a a THE Nazis try to create the impression that the people do everything voluntarily, but the enlistment of Greifswald students as storm troopers furnishes an example of how “voluntary” action is fnw**4.

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LOCK BOX MAY HOLD GANG DEATH CLEW Contents Also May Solve $250,000 Mail Robbery. By United Press CHICAGO. Oct. 12.—Secret records which may help solve the deaths of Gus Winkler and Edgar Lebensberger and the $250,000 mail robbery here last December, were sought today. Both Winkler, shot to death Monday by assassins, and Lebensberger, found shot to death in his home last Friday, were to have been questioned concerning the robbery. Both had been indicted. Possibility that Lebensberger, a night club owner, was slain by gang associates and did not kill himself as at first believed, was revived by Dwight F. Green, United States district attorney. A safety deposit box belonging to Lebensberger is to be drilled open unless the keys are producer by 11 a. m. Friday, Coroner Frank J. Walsh said.

DEMOCRATIC WOMEN TO HEAR GOVERNOR Peters Also on Program in Johnson County. Governor Paul V. McNutt and R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman. both are scheduled to speak at the Discovery Day dinner of the women's Democratic organization of Johnson county tonight. Secretary Robert D. Jackson of the Democratic national committee, close friend of Mr. Peters, is scheduled as principal speaker, with Attorney M. E. Foley, Indianapolis, also on the program. The dinner is to be held in the Franklin college gymnasium. A large crowd is expected with both the Peters and McNutt factions of the party on hand to applaud their champions. Rebekah Group to Meet Olive Branch Rebekah lodge, No. 10, will celebrate the eighty-second anniversary' of Rebekah Odd Fellowship Saturday evening.

After the Nazis came into power, students of Aryan blood in the University of Greifswald were assembled and subjected to the following blunt order: "All those who do not wish to join the storm troops, step forward." Naturally, only a few of the most courageous ones stepped forward. As long as the Nazis are dominant, these' men can not expect to get any consideration. And as a matter of fact, the professions in Germany are so overcrowded that even the student storm troopers haven’t a bright future. a a a TNCIDENTALLY, I have heard groups of students of the storm battalion including students of theology—talking openly about the shooting practice that was being, taken regularly out in the fields. I also. saw other troopers, nonstudents, I believe, marching along with a machine gun on wheels.

Lower left—The happiness which flowers and comfortable surroundings bring to this 93-year-old woman is registered in scenes at the Old Folks’ Home, 2007 North Capitol avenue. Lower right—Playtime scenes at St. Elizabeth’s Home. 2500 Churchman avenue, fire included in the film.

‘ Un-American 9 Brand Put On Movies by Baptists

Delegates Ask Legislative Aid in Clearing Film Situation. Branding many movies as “unAmerican,” as well as “un-Chris-tian,” and demanding as the common right of all a “wholesome living from the cradle to the grave,” the Indiana Baptist convention today on recommendation of the resolutions committee,” outlined its position on important questions. The next convention will be held at Franklin college and the First Baptist church at Franklin, Ind. The present session is being held at the First Baptist church here. The Rev. J. F. Rake, Evansville, was re-elected president of the convention. Others elected were Tudor Jones, Anderson, vice-president; the Rev. George T. King, Columbus, secretary, and J. E. Showman, Indianapolis, treasurer. Two Indianapolis men were named on the state promotion board. They were C. F. Remy and the Rev. Louis Crafton, pastor of Garfield Park Baptist church. Laud Dry Amendment The eighteenth amendment was declared to be "a noble expression of r gh moral purpose” and the ecu .ion re-affirmed its adherence to c principle of prohibition and urged a careful study of the situation, as well as an intensive educational campaign. The Baptists pledged themselves to assist parents in the careful selection of pictures suitable for children and youth and to always show that the “American people do not iesire immoral pictures.” Legislation Urged Indiana legislative representatives at Washington were urged to support any legislation designed to regulate the movies at their source. The afternoon session was devoted to an historical address by the Rev. H. N. Spear, Bluffton, and talks by Dr. C. M. Dinsmore, New York City; Dr. U. M. McGuire, Jefferson, la., and Dr. W. B. Pope. Monroe. Ore. The sessions will close tonight with the presentation of a historical pageant, “Our Yesterdays,” at Cadle tabernacle.

Although Greifswald is in a farming and fishing region, I observed there the samq drawn and hungry' faces that I had seen in the vajious industrial districts. Soon, too. I became acquainted with quite a few of the unemployed. I got to understand their local dialect of Platt-deutsch, and soon felt entirely at home among them. Various workingmen told me privately that they had to join Nazi organizations to keep tfrpir jobs, or possibly to get work if they were unemployed. They expressed bitter hatred for the Nazi system. On the day that Hitler became chancellor, one giant workman whom I knew went down into his cellar and wept. After one of the numerous parades that Hitler is giving the people as a substitute for jobs, religious services were held on the field. While a minister was preaching. a workman who no longer could control himself blurted out: "If .there were- a- God.- he would strike

Who’s Afraid? Andy Mellon Dodges as He Sees Mine Chief.

By Scripps-Howard newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. Swishing towels wafted the odor of hair tonics and massage creams from the basement barber shop of a Washington hotel. It was the before-breakfast hour and customers were not plentiful. The two barbers on duty vied with each other in lavishing service on their clients. In the dimly lighted hall outside the shop sat a newspaper reporter waiting to interview one of the customers. A prospective customer walked spryly into the doorway. He shot a quick glance at a shaggy-haired individual who was getting the finishing touches to his morning shave and massage. There was a glint of recognition in the eyes of the newcomer. Quickly he turned on his heel and departed, although he did need a shave, In a few seconds he had traveled to the end of the hall and with a springy step he mounted to the street. The man in the chair was John W. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, one of the shrewdest labor bargainers under the new deal. And the man he frightened away from his morning shave was Andrew W. Mellon. But Mr. Lewis was unaware of the part he played in the little drama as he left his chair to renew his plea that the miners he leads return to work and liquidate the labor contracts he had made with the operators of Mr. Mellon's coal mines. PROSECUTOR - TO SPEAK “Law Enforcement” Will Be Subject of Wilson Before K. of C. Herbert E. Wilson, Marion county prosecutor, will speak on “Law Enforcement” during the Lecturers’ Hour at the regular meeting of the Knights of Columbus next Monday night.

into this crowd!” I do not know what happened to him. a a a SHORTLY after the election I had my first visit from Greifswafd police. I was studying in my room when a man in police uniform entered and said he would have to search the place. He wanted to know if I had the typewriter belonging to the local organization of the Communist party, and whether I bad used it to prepare illegal political leaflets. He then looked through my books and felt all over the bed and lounge. He found nothing, and left. A couple of weeks later another policeman came. He knocked this time. “Herr Orloff?” he asked. “Yes.” “Get ready to come along.” “May I ask why?” “That you will find out later." I was taken by auto to the kriminalpotiaei, questioned for about an

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MENACE OF TOMUNSON HALL BRINGS NEIGHBORS‘SKY HIGH’ RATES FOR FIRE INSURANCE Razing- Old Building- Would Remove Penalty Forced on Property AdjoiningOld City Market. OPERATED AT DEFICIT ANNUALLY Blaze Prevention Drive Brings Suggestion for Eliminating- Hazard, Costs; Denison Action Cited. This is the last of a series of stories on the city tax situation. BY AL LYNCH Time* Staff Writer With Indianapolis celebrating Fire Prevention week, Tomlinson hall and the city market stand revealed today not only as a building costing taxpayers a large sum annually to maintain, but also as a fire menace costing every property owner in its vicinity thousands of dollars in fire insurance. Two weeks ago, there were only two buildings in the congested mile square area downtown rated as “extreme fire hazards.” One was the Denison hotel block and the other is Tomlinson hall.

ROTTGER RITES TO BE SIMPLE Fellow Officials of Phone Company Announced as Pallbearers. Fellow officials of the Indiana | Bell Telephone Company will serve , as pallbearers for Russel C. Rottger, 42. vice-president of the company, who died late Tuesday night in sleep at his home, 5860 Washington boulevard. Simple funeral services will be held at 2 tomorrow afternoon at the Flanner & Buchanan mortuary. Burial will be in Crown Hill cemetery. Telephone company officials and department heads who will act as pallbearers include J. F. Carroll, president; F. A. Montrose, vicepresident and general manager; B. G. Halstead, attorney; A. R. j Henry, secretary-treasurer; W. J. | McWilliams, general auditor; C. R. i Woods, general superintendent of i traffic; J. W. Hannon, general superintendent of plant; Vance Oathout, chief engineer, and F. L. | Thomas, assistant to the president. EIGHT TONS OF ZINC STOLEN AT KOKOMO Investigation by Indianapolis Police Is Launched. Theft of eight tons of zinc valued at SBOO, from the Continental Steel Company plant at Kokomo, Ind., was reported to Indianapolis police last night. Kokomo police stated they had a report that five tons of the metal had been purchased by an Indianapolis man, but outcome of investigation of this angle has not been I disclosed. he zinc wa4 in mo’ds one foot long, six inches wide and two inches thick, in which wires were fixed for handling. GROUP 4 BANKERS TO CONVENE HERE Felix McWhirter to Speak at Session Tonight. Felix McWhirter, Indiana Banker’s Association president, will address Group 4 of that organization ! at its twenty-fourth annual convention tonight. The meeting will open with a dinner in the Travertine room of the Lincoln at 6:15. Chairman Edward C. Wischmeier will preside. Speakers include Don R. Warrick, executive secretary; Earl Crawford, ! Fayette Bank and Trust Company president, Connersville; E. Kirk McI Kinney, Indiana representative. Home Owners’ Loan Corporation; H. B. Wells, state department of j financial institutions secretary, and Miss Forba McDaniel, former bankers’ association secretary. Falls Dead While Running I Running across an alley in the rear of Washington street near \ Illinois street Wednesday night, j | Charles Gibbs, 62. Negro, 876 West- ! brook avenue, dropped dead. The (body was removed to city morgue.

acur ana then released. It was about the typewriter and illegal pamphlets again. When I came home in the evening a few days afterward I found out that the police had been there again. I immediately went to the station to ask what was wanted, and they told me to return at 8:30 next morning. They did not wait for me to appear voluntarily, though, but came early, before I had gotten up, and arrested me in bed. I was put in jail for eight hours. After long hours of questioning, the kriminalkomissar told me I was under arrest. “You have been accused of making illegal attempts to organize the Communist party.” That was the beginning of my troubles in Germany. ' Next—Mr. Orloff describes his treatment in German prisons.

Razing of the Denison biock is under way. Fire reductions effected by the 1 Denison razing range from 12 cents a SIOO at the high hazard rate to : 37 cents a SIOO at a low hazard rate. | Approximately the same savings j can be brought about by abolition I of the Tomlinson hall block, it is j claimed. Costs SIO,OOO a Year A series of articles in The Times containing suggestions for municipal finance economies has revealed that Tomlinson hall costs the taxpayers an estimated loss of $10,500 a year to maintain, and the market costs an approximate estimated loss of $3,000 more. In addition, it costs SI,BOO a year for fire insurance premiums. On a map of the mile square in the 1932 report of the national board of Fire Underwriters Association the block containing the old Denison and its adjacent neighbors to the west, and the entire block of the city market and Tomlinson hall are the only conflagration areas marked. With removal of the "extreme fire | hazard’’ of the Denison, the block ] to the west will be not be consid- | ered a fire hazard because of its isolation. But the market and Tomlinson hall hazard will remain. New Rates to Follow The Denison razing, according to the Indianapolis Inspection Bureau, will mean anew inspection of surrounding properties to be made and j anew set of rates established. | High rates have been maintained on the Consolidated building, immediately across the thirty-foot space of Wabash street because of the potential fire danger involved in the Denison building windows. Although the building of the Empire garage, just across the fifteenfoot alley from the Denison, on the east side, is of fireproof construction except for the roof, its proximity and that of other properties in the corner segment of the block cause them to be considered “extreme fire hazards.” Scene of Few Conventions Removal of Tomlinson hall and the city market block would have the same effect in reducing fire rates on all surrounding properties to the north or across the thirty * feet of Wabash street. | It has been said In defense of Tomlinson hall that it might be i profitable in the long run” to main- ! tain it at a loss because of its facilities for holding convention’s However, it is pointed out that few large conventions have been I held there recently and both the Democrats and Republicans turned it down and went a few blocks away to Cadle tabernacle. Produced 5245 Revenue The National Board of Fire Underwriters’ Association brands Tomlinson hall a fire hazard because "it is out of range of extreme fire hydrant protection.” There are only four downtown intersections where it is possible to put into operation sixty lines of hose for fourteen hours of continuous operation. After fourteen hours, the underwriters’ association rules call for dynamiting. Tomlinson hall is removed two blocks from any of the four intersections where these facilities exist. Last year, according to the city controller’s report, Tomlinson hall produced $245 in rentals. From Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan's statement urging observance of Fire Prevention week: “The old adage of an ounce of prevention being better than a pound of cure is illustrated nowhere better than in taking steps to prevent fires before they start.” ODD FELLOWS’ LODGE HOLDS STATE PARLEY 700 Delegates Are Attending Annual Conference in City. Officers will be elected today at the ninety-seventh annual convention of the Indiana Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, which convened yesterday with more than 700 delegates present in the grand lodge hall of the Odd Fellow building Wednesday. L. A. Handley. Richmond, grand master, who is presiding over the meeting, will be succeeded automatically by George W. Freeman, Kokomo, deputy grand master. Each of the Indiana Odd Fellow lodges is represented by a delegate at the convention. Wednesday's session was devoted to filing credentials and reading reports of officers. The reports will be brought before the convention today by the 'committees to which they were referred.