Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1933 — Page 1

P?(7U/Vv now AMD B

NRA HEADS PROBE CHARGES HURLED AT IVAN MORGAN Former Indiana G. 0. P. Chief Guilty of Grossly Unfair Trade Practices, Charge State Canners. USING CHILD LABOR, IS ASSERTION Methods Destructive to State’s Industry, Claim Leaders of Fight Against Noted Republican. BY WALKER STONE Time* Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The National Recovery Administration has started an investigation into charges of unfair trade practices and labor standards at the Indiana canning plants of Ivan Morgan, former chairman of the Republican state committee. Purpose of the inquiry is to determine the accuracy of charges that Mr. Morgan, during the canning season now drawing to a close, has employed child labor, paid his employes low wages, and forced them to work long hours, and otherwise engaged in practices destructive to the Indiana canning industry.

Then, if the charges are proved substantially true, the NRA faces the problem of what, if anything, can and should be done about it. Mr. Morgan who lives at Austin, Ind . and whose canning plants dot south-central Indiana, has not been operating under a blue eagle during the Last few months, as have practically all the other canners of the state and nation. Mr. Morgan did not sign the President’s re-employ-ment agreement. Preliminary part of the inquiry Into the Morgan firm’s alleged practices is in the hands of Frank Healey, chief of the blue eagle section of the NRA. Charges Are Impressive Mr. Healey is acting on information supplied yesterday by Clay Batcholder, Indianapolis attorney, and Edgar Ashby, Ladoga, who said they were members of a committee of three designated by the organized canners of Indiana to file a bill of complaints against the Morgan firm. A third member of the committee, Ollie Gilliat of the Vincennes Packing Company, president of the Indiana Canners’ Association, was occupied with business connected with the permanent canners’ code yesterday and could not be present at the conference with Mr. Healey. The canners’ representatives brought an impressive list of charges against Mr. Morgan, alleging that he has been employing children ranging in ages from 8 to 15. in opposition to the PRA, which fixes the minimum age at 16. Other Charges Flung They also told Mr. Healey that Mr. Morgan has ignored the PRA schedule for maximum work hours a week and has been working employes as much as seventy-two hours a week and in one instance, as much as ninety-six to 120 hours a week. The unfair practice charge against Morgan includes the allegation that Jie has-been engaging in “cut-throat competition’’ by buying produce, specifically tomatoes, grown by farmers under contract to other canners. There is no precedent to indlicate What the NRA could do to punish Mr. Morgan, even if it is found the charges are true, as he never has signed the NRA and has not been operating under a blue eagle. However, it is pointed out, when the permanent canning code becomes effective, Mr. Morgan will have to come under the blue eagle or market his products only through retailers who are not blue eagle members. Adolph Fritz, member of the state NRA recovery board and secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, revealed today that he has not had an answer from Mr. Morgan to a request Sept. 15 for information on conditions at the Morgan plant. Mr. Fritz said he had written Mr. Morgan asking him to affirm or deny charges that the Morgan company had arranged with school authorities in the Morgan district to postpone school opening to Oct. 2 so children could be used in the Morgan plant. Mr. Fritz’ inquiry said in part: “It goes without saying, as secretary of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, if this charge is true, we will surely condemn this kind of procedure Do not misunderstand me. I say ‘if true’.’’ Francis Wells. Indiana recovery director, said today that he had written Mr. Morgan twice to ask him about signing the PRA agreement. Mr. Wells said that the letters had been sent several weeks after the inaugration of the NRA program at which time he waited several weeks without a reply from Mr. Morgan. In September, according to Mr. Wells, he telephoned Mr. Morgan at his plant and spoke to him regarding his failure to sign the President’s covenant. At that time. Mr. Wells said Mr. Morgan admitted that he had not signed the PRA agreement, but insisted he was paying his employes more than the minimum required. Mr. Wells said that Scottsburg. home of Mr. Morgan, has no compliance board. Formal complaint to NRA officials against Morgan was made by the Indiana Canners' Association through Mr. Wells’ office in Indianapolis.

B

VOLUME 45—NUMBER 144

CHARITY FUND NEAR $400,000 50 Per Cent of Goal May Be Attained by Tomorrow. Including two special gifts totaling $40,000, today’s pledges announced in the Community Fund drive were $68,531.80, bringing the total to $377,899.22, which is 45.8 of the goal. Efforts of workers in the Community fund drive were spurred today in an effort to be far past the halfway mark in the 1933-1934 drive by tomorrow afternoon when the last report meeting this week will be held in the Claypool. Today's report meeting was expected to show the drive near the $400,000 mark, with $824,462 the total amount to be raised in the campaign that began last Friday. Subscriptions from large donors, totalling $40,000, were expected to be announced at today’s report meeting. Praise for the numerous contributions received from employed persons of the city and those who acquired jobs recently under the NRA was forthcoming from campaign leaders. With 37.5 per cent of the goal reached and $309,367.42 placed on the drive ledger, it is hoped that the week-end will see a great advance in the drive. Large gifts received at yesterday’s reoprt meeting were: Indianapolis Power and Light Company, $15,000; Indianapolis Water Company, $10,000; Indianapolis News, $6,000; Fairmount Glass Works. $3,000; Kiefer-Stewart Company, $2,400. THOUSANDS TO GET WORK ONHIGHWAYS Projects in Fifteen Counties to Cost $1,348,000. Highway projects to cost $1,348,000 in fifteen counties were announced yesterday by James R. Adams of the state highway commission. Thousands of unemployed men are expected to be given work in the large program. Among the projects contemplated is the widening of United States Road 52 from Cold Spring road to Sixteenth street in Indianapolis. One hundred and forty municipal improvements will be made in various cities and towns throughout the state. Seven of the proposed projects will be financed by funds supplied by the federal public works program. ROOSEVELT IS BETTER. BUT STILL AT HOME Irritating Cold Prevents President From Visiting Office. By United Press WASHINGTON. Oct. 26.—President Roosevelt, recovering steadily from an irritating cold, will spend another twenty-four hours in his study before venturing to the White House offices.

Graf Zep Pauses Briefly at Chicago , Heads East

Ry Cnitfd Prrtt CHICAGO. Oct. 26.—The much traveled Graf Zeppelin headed leisurely back toward its American base at Akron, 0., today after an early morning cruise over fogshrouded Chicago. The giant dirigible spent only two hours in the vicinity of Chicago, where it had come to bring Ger-

The Indianapolis Times Cloudy tonight and Friday, with probably light rain; warmer tonight; colder Friday afternoon or night.

Just a Skit Simmons Now Is President of 2 Percenters —lt’s Just Decided. WHO is the president of the 2 per cent club?” This droll statehouse query received an actual answer today from Pleas Greenlee. McNutt patronage secretary and one of the club

p mm * * * . > * , *> *

committee put its stamp of approval on the club’s pay roll collections, it had been going along with only one officer. That officer was the club treasurer, Bowman Elder. Since the pay roll collections will continue, Mr. Elder remains at his post, Mr Greenlee explained. He also said that he himself is secretary of the club and objected to calling it the “2 Per Cent Club.” ‘‘The name of the organization is the Hoosier Democratic Club,” Secretary Greenlee said. “It is not a 2 per cent club because our collections are now on a sliding scale of from 1 to 4 per cent. “Everything is voluntary, of course.” Since the club never has known to have a meeting, the question was raised as to who elected the officers. “Why the executive committee,” was the prompt reply from the secretary, accompanied by a broad Greenlee grin. STRIKERS WARNED BY 800 lOWA FARMERS Rift in Holiday Program Seen as Group Defies Order. By United Press DES MOINES, la., Oct. 26. Opposition to the farm strike called by the Farm Holiday Association developed today among midwestern farmers as state and federal officials prepared for a conference to discuss agricultural relief. Eight hundred farmers from southwestern lowa, led by a sheriff, defied pickets stationed at the Missouri river bridge near Plattsmouth, Neb., and escorted fifty livestock trucks to market today. The pickets were warned that any attempt to interfere with the convoy would result in “serious consequences.” Taps for Love Divorce Asked by German Wife of Ex-Soldier. ON a sunny morning in June ten years ago. Ralph Brown, a soldier in the American army of occupation, was strolling about Coblenz, Germany. He saw an apple-cheeked German maiden and Brow r n was lost. He returned to this country and sent money back to the Fatherland for his bride. Today, that German maiden filed divorce suit in circuit court. She is Mrs. Clara Brown, 544 West Thirtieth street. She charged Ralph Browrn, now a Columbus (In.d) resident, deserted her and their three children in 1928 when he pinned a $5 bill on a pillow with a good-by note. Judge Earl Cox withheld action until the war compensation and insurance status of Brown, who is ill, can be learned. SPEEDWAY SUED FOR INJURIES TO BOY, 14 Complaint Based on Loss of Wheel From Arnold's Race Car. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was named defendant today in a $5,000 damage suit filed in behalf of Ralph Matlock, 14, who was injured during the 1931 500-mile race when a wheel from a racing car struck him. The boy was standing in the front yard of Harvey Brink, on the Georgetown road, when the wheel hurtled outside the grounds from the racer piloted by Billy Arnold, according to the suit. Internal injuries, a fractured skull and concussion of the brain were suffered by the boy, the suit, filed by his sister, Mrs. Mabel Monroe, declares. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 34 10 a. m 47 7a. m 36 11 a. m 49 Ba. m 42 12 (noon).. 52 9 a. m 45 1 p. m 54

man greetings to the world's fair. The ship landed briefly at CurtisReynolds airport, north of Chicago, discharging its commander. Dr. Hugo Eckener, mail and several passengers. Then it nosed up slowly and floated down along the Lake Michigan shoreline over the city. The Zeppelin expected to land at Akron about 3 p. m.

founders. Nor is the club president named “Elmer,” the carto o n character, as some had hinted. Following a short conference wi th Governor Paul V. McNutt, Mr. Greenlee anno unc e and that Virgil (Skits) Simmons, state conservation director, is the club president. Before the state committee sub-

Mr. Simmons Has he heard?

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1933

ORDER 700 TROOPS IN FIELD TO WAGE WAR ON TERROR RANDITS SWEEPING WILD THROUGH STATE

STATE ORDERS mum (MPflilflKM Five More Cities to Get Sewage Disposal and Filter Plants. Continuing its active support of campaigns to rid the state of stream pollution, the state health board today ordered sewage disposal and water filtration plants for five more Indiana cities. Estimated cost of the Improvements is $4,370,000, with a portion of the expenditure to be borne by federal grants from public works funds. Today’s orders followed the health board action two weeks ago in authorizing expenditure of $7,000,000 in five other Indiana cities. Gary, Whiting, Hammond and Anderson are to benefit by sewage disposal plants, with Bedford on the list for a water filtration plant. Estimated expenditure at each plant is: Gary, $1,500,000, Hammond, $1,000,000; Whiting, in conjunction with Hammond, $300,000, and Anderson, $1,500,000. The Bedford filtration system will cost approximately $70,000. Complete Plans by Dec. 31 Action of the board followed public hearing yesterday in which delegations were received from fifteen Indiana cities and towns, who protested against stream polluted conditions disclosed in a series of articles appearing several months ago in The Times. All details of the -new projects will be completed by Dec. 31 in order that petition can be filed for federal 'aid, according to Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state health director. L. A. Geupel, chief health board engineer, will be in charge of working out details for the new construction and conferring with federal engineers who will file reports on which action will be taken by government loan authorities. “Citizens of the towns included in our program are co-operating by agreeing to issue bonds for payment of their share of the cost,” Dr. Harvey said. Indebtedness Delays Projects He pointed out that approval of other projects was being held up because of inability of several cities to issue bonds, due to limitations on bonded indebtedness. Consideration of pollution preventative measures for South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart is delayed for this reason, Dr. Harvey said. Other projects which may be approved soon are for Noblesville, Kokomo and Newcastle, according to Dr. Harvey. The order two weeks ago arranged plants in Michigan City, Ft. Wayne, East Chicago, Muncie and Hartford City. MOTHER OF LUTZ TAKEN BY DEATH Two Weeks’ Illness Fatal to Mrs. Barbara Lutz. By United Press BOONVILLE, Ind., Oct. 26.—Mrs. Barbara E. Lutz, 76, mother of At-torney-General Philip Lutz Jr., died at her home here today. She had been ill two weeks. Mrs. Lutz was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1872. She was a member of the Evangelical church. Railroader Dies of Burns By United Press RICHMOND. Ind., Oct. 26. Burns suffered by Fred Wilkemeyer, 60. railroad fireman, when a steam pipe was broken in collision of two locomotives in the switching yards here, caused his death in a hospital today.

Terror! —What Next? THEIR convict garb has been cast aside . . . they are dressed as prosperous young business men . . . their pockets contain more money than yours . . . their cars and their hip and shoulder holsters carry guns . . . their minds carry carefully laid plans to loot and kill . . . Today The Times gives you the latest on the activities of the mob of terrorists who are roaming the state, striking at will. What will their next coup of outlawry’ be? Will it be kidnaping, another bank robbery, or will it be an attempt to raid a state penal institution? On this page you will find the up-to-the-minute news of the bandit activities and the efforts of the law and residents of the state to cope with the greatest criminal display ever seen in Indiana. On the first page of the second section. The Times today presents interviews with Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, Lloyd D. Claycombe, attorney, and one of the witnesses in the famous Gerald Chapman case. They blame niggardly, short-sighted economy on the part of lawmakers for today’s reign of terror. On the same page is a story containing the latest report from the underworld on what the mobsters will do. It tells how, supplied with thousands of dollars and many weapons, the gang is ready to get what it wants, whether by purchase or by shooting. What will their next step be? A kidnaping ... a bank robbery ... a jail delivery?

QUITS CITY POST

f .' • lY* 4K7

Albert Stump Declaring he can not “serve two masters,” Albert Stump today resigned as counsel for the city zoning board.

U. S. FOREIGN TRADEON GAIN Favorable Balance Shown for September; Well in ‘Black.’ By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The United States had a favorable foreign trade balance of $13,000,000 in September, as foreign trade reached the highest levels in nearly two years, the department of commerce announced today. 2 ACCUSE NEGRO IN AJAMIE DEATH TRIAL Murder Defendant Is Under Special Guard to Prevent Escape. With two witnesses havin identified James Banks, Negro, as the slayer of Sam Ajamie, grocer, In an attempted holdup last year, the state was expected to close its case this afternoon. Banks remained today under close supervision of Maurice Hosier, exButler football star, who was appointed special guard by Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson, following rumors that Banks would attempt to flee the courtroom. FARMERS PROMISE TO CURTAIL WHEAT YIELD Eighty Per Cent of Growers Accept U. S. Bonus Offer. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—About 80 per cent of American wheat farmers have promised to reduce their acreage in the agricultural adjustment administration’s farm recovery campaign and will receive a federal bonus of about $102,000,000 this fall and next summer, Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace announced today. BOMB HITS HOME OF CUBAN PARTY LEADER Members of Family Escape Injury in Havana Blast. By United Press HAVANA, Oct. 26.—A large bomb was exploded today at the home of Colonel Carlos Mendieta, leader of the Nationalist party. Colonel Mendieta’s 'family miraculously escaped injury. Times Index Bridge 8 Broun io Classified 13-14 Comics 15 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 15 Editorial io Financial n Fishing 13 j Hickman—Theaters 7 Radio 13 State News 13

Woman's Pages 6-7

ALBERT STUMP RESIGNS FROM POST Quits as Counsel to Avoid ‘Serving Two Masters,’ He Declares. Disagreeing with the policy of the city in attempting to gain possession of the Citizens Gas Company, Albert Stump, attorney and former United States senatorial candidate, today resigned as counsel for the city zoning board. Mr. Stump’s resignation is to prevent his being placed in the position of “serving two masters,” he pointed out in his letter to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, as he has been retained for some time by the Indiana Gas Service Corporation. The Indiana Gas Service Corporation for several years has been attempting to obtain permission to serve Indianapolis manufacturers with natural gas to be transported by pipeline from the southern Indiana gas fields. Mr. Stump contends that the city of Indianapolis can obtain the going property of the Citizens Gas Company at a much cheaper figure than the city estimates. Accepting the resignation, Mayor Sullivan announced the position would not be filled and that the zoning board work would be handled by the city’s regular legal staff. The post of zoning board attorney was among those city hall positions charged in the recent municipal economies series in The Times as being unnecessary, in view of the inability of officials to effect budget cuts.

Egg—Sited Poultry Firm Fears for Safety of Load. NUMEROUS “bad eggs” roaming Indiana at present have raised fear for a shipment of fresh eggs which left St. Louis, Mo., last Saturday, police were told today. A telephone call from the Alex Wilson Company, Cincinnati, poultry dealers, reported truck and trailer carrying the eggs had not arrived in Cincinnati from St. Louis, although a day overdue. The truck was driven by J. C. Taylor, Anderson, Ind. Management of the Cincinnati company fears the eggs may have been “yegged.” ARMS BODY TO GET REVISION OF TREATY New Document Ordered as Conference Adjourns. By United Press GENEVA, Oct. 26. —The general commission of the world arms conference adjourned today, to convene again on Dec. 4, in accordance with the resolutions of the steering committee. In the interval, the steering committee was authorized to draft a revision of the proposed army treaty which, it is hoped, may go far toward softening Germany’s attitude toward the parley. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Secretary of state Hull today informed the League of Nations that the United States would accept its invitation to be represented on the governing body to aid in assisting refugees from Germany. PERU WILL REPLACE PLUNDERED ARMORY Cops Robbed by Bandit Gang Will Receive New Weapons. By United Press PERU, Ind., Oct. 26.—The Peru city council last night voted an appropriation of S7OO to replace the $1,400 police arsenal stolen by bandits last week.

Government Boosts Gold Price 18 Cents to $31.54

By Cnited Prest WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—The federal government today boosted its gold price 18 cents to $31.54 an ounce as the next step in its ambitious price lifting program. With London cables telling of a 13-cent rise in the world price to $31.06, the United States was forced to make a corresponding increase to keep well above the world level. The federal government .yester-

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis

Volunteers to Make Headquarters in FortyFour Armories, Maintain Twenty-Four-Hour Watch for Gang. PLACED IN CHARGE OF AL FEENEY. Sheriffs in All Counties Are Instructed to Deputize All Citizens Eager to Aid in Criminal Hunt. Seven hundred and sixty-five expert marksmen of the Indiana national guard volunteered for active service today with the state police in a concerted effort to end the crime wave. Equipped with all the facilities and weapons of the national guard, the volunteers prepared today to make their headquarters in forty-four armories in various parts of the state with orders to maintain a twenty-four hour watch for the criminals. According to plans formulated at a conference today between Adjutant-General Elmer F. Straub and A1 Feeney, state safety director, it is planned to station eight men and an officer at each armory.

The troops will be equipped with machine guns, rifles, tear gas guns and masks. Fast automobiles and airplanes of the national guard will be at their disposal. The national guard units will work under the direction of Mr. Feeney and other officers of the HOLDUP VICTIM NAMESCONVICT City Man Identifies One of Escaped Felons as Gunman. By United Press KOKOMO, Ind., Oct 26.—Joseph Burns, one of ten convicts who escaped from the Michigan City State prison Sept. 26, was identifed from a photograph today as one of two men who held up Glen Weise, Indianapolis salesman, on state road 22 early this morning. Weise made the identification after reporting the holdup to Kokomo police. Weise was robbed of S2O and said he thought the bandits had planned tto take his automobile, but were frightened away by an approaching car. They escaped in their own machine which carried Michigan license plates. Spies on Rendezvous A man, who asked that his name be withheld, reported to city police this afternoon that he encountered a suspicious rendezvous of a redhaired woman and four men in a sedan bearing Ohio license plates at Shannon Lake, one miles west of the Bluff road, shortly after 9 a. m. today. The sedan, bearing four men and the woman, parked in a secluded spot along the road and in a few minutes was joinect by a man who drove a green roadster. A license plate was taken from the roadster and thrown into the bushes along the road. The woman then took the wheel of the roadster and drove off toward Indiana polis. Then men in the sedan went in another direction. The discarded license plate, according to the police, was stolen from a car owned by J. E. Gamble, 728 Madison avenue, on Sept. 13. HEARTBROKEN GIRL, 11, SEARCHES FOR PET DOG Bandit Hunt Doesn't Mean a Thing to Ginger’s Owner. While city, state and federal police milled around looking for a gang of desperate gangsters and | bank robbers, a search was being made today by 11-year-old Joyce Dunn, 723 North Alabama street, which, in her opinion, was much more important. Sobbing heartbrokenly, Joyce is hunting Ginger, toy black terrier, | who disappeared about 4 Tuesday. Joyce’s mother, Mrs. Beryl Dunn, has asked that any one knowing anything of Ginger's whereabouts notify her, and end the hunt being staged by her daughter.

day began offering to buy all newly mined gold in an effort to boost American commodity prices by raising the price of gold. Under the government’s theory, a rise in the price of its buying rate for gold should cause a corresponding rise in commodity prices. The 13-cent advance in the government’s buying rate indicated continuous pressure toward boosting American levels.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

state police. With the new plan, it is hoped that clews to the “terror mob’’ led by John Dillinger, escaped bank bandit, will be traced quickly in all parts of the state and criminals escaping from the scene of a crime will be blockaded. The guardsmen will be dispatched on ail calls from the state police. The new plan, according to Mr. Feeney, should speed up pursuit of criminals immeasurably. Sheriffs in all counties throughout the state have been ordered to j deputize the citizen volunteers in I order to give them full civil authority. To Meet U. S. Officers Further conferences between the adjutant-general and Mr. Feeney were schedued in order to discuss the most effective system of patrolling highways and blocking the escape of criminals along state roads. Captain Matt Leach revealed that he was to confer with federal department of justice operatives, brought to Indiana at the instigation of The Times, today at state police headquarters. Meanwhile, local police investigated a story told by Thomas J. Johnson, Franklin road, Box 74, who said that he was aroused at 2 a. m. today by two men who knocked at his bedroom window. He told police that he recognized one of the men as a criminal who had known his nephew at the Indiana state prison at Michigan City. This man, described as 35, of medium height, and wearing a tan suit, asked for shelter. Trio Departs in Hurry “Your nephew told us to come to you for help,” Johnson told police the man said. His companion, a shorter man, wearing a small mustache, said: “Let’s go, Chuck, they’re after us," when Johnson refused to let them in the house. Johnson told police that the men drove off in a large black sedan with a third man at the wheel. While bandits were robbing two more Indiana banks yesterday, nine persons were taken into custody by Illinois policemen who reported to Indiana authorities that they had definite information connecting two of the suspects with the robbery of the Western State Bank at South Bend, Tuesday. Terrorists Not Suspected Police did not suspect the “terror mob” of bank robbers, composed of John Dillinger and several of the eight escaped convicts who broke from Indiana state prison more than a month ago, in two solo raids netting a total of less than S6OO made on banks in Fillmore and Modoc yesterday. A nervous young bandit accompanied by a woman, also young and wearing a red costume, held up the Fillmore State bank yesterday, forcing Amos Hunter, cashier, to ride for a short distance with him following the holdup, in which less than S2OO in silver was taken. When Hunter was released about a mile from town, the couple speeded west on United States Road 40 in a small touring car with side curtains. A squad of state policemen was searching the southwestern part of the state today for the car. Cashier Is Kidnaped At Modoc, a lone gunman held up the People's Loan and Trust Company and escaped with nearly S4OO. He escaped in a green sedan answering the description of a car used by the “terror mob” in some of its sorties, but Herman Lester, cashier of the bank, was unable to identify the bandit as one of the Michigan City fugitives. Chief Mike Morrissey today ordered all city policemen, especially those assigned to districts outside the mile square, where banks are located, to watch smaller banks vigilantly Peoria (111.) police indicated today that they would retain custody of the South Bend holdup suspects, having evidence against them in Illinois crimes. South Bend officers planned today to question the men regarding the $2,500 Western State bank stickup at South Bend Tuesday.