Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 November 1933 — Page 2

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PETERS MAY GET ‘LITTLE CABINET’ JOB Postal Berth Under Farley Reported Open for Hoosier Leader. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Time* Staff Writer R. Earl Peters, Democratic state chairman, yesterday was said to have asked the advice of Governor Paul V. McNutt as to whether or not he (Peters) should become a member of President Roosevelt's "little cabinet.” Rated as leaders in warring factions in Hoosier Democracy, the Governor’s reply to Mr. Peters was said to be: “That is up to you to decide.” The “little cabinet” post for Mr. Peters has been talked about due to the state chairman’s close friendship with Postmaster-General James E Farley. It was predicted that should Joseph McKee have won the New York municipal election, Mr. Farley would become candidate for Governor in the Empire state, and Mr. Peters would take a "little cabinet” post to aid Mr. Farley with campaign plans. But Mr. McKee lost. Senator John B. Kendrick of Wyoming died, however, and Joseph C. O'Mahoney, first assistant post-master-general, is to be appointed Senator Kendrick’s successor. Ambrose O’Connell, who has been holding the post of special assistant to Mr. Farley, is said to be slated for the assistant postmastership. This may place Mr. Peters in Mr. O'Connell’s place, or in one of the other assistant postmasterships, it w r as reported. Some talk also has been abroad that he might become first assistant. Mr. Peters denied all, however, and said there is nothing to it. He asserted that he w r as talking to the Governor about something else.

TRUSTEE IS SOUGHT IN BANK BOND CASE Petitions for Appointment Filed in Court. Petitions for appointment of successor trustee for bonds issued by the Meyer-Kiser Corporation, totaling approximately SIIO,OOO, were fibd yesterday afternoon in probate court. Defendants in the suits are the corporation, which was th esecurity house of the now defunct MeyerKiser organization; the former Fletcher American National bank, which was named trustee W'hen the corporation suspended, and Thomas E. Garvin, Meyer-Kiser bank receiver. The petitions, twenty-eight of which were filed today and twentyfive yesterday, are filed in behalf of bondholders who purchased real estate mortgage bonds issued by the Meyer-Kiser corporation.

LIQUOR OFFENDER GUARD AT PRISON Ex-State Policeman Under Suspended Sentence. Under a suspended sentenced in federal district court for a liquor law violation. Roy L. King. Kokomo, now is employed as a guard at the Michigan City state prison, it the Michigan City state prison. King entered the prison employ in May of this year, about four months after he pleaded guilty in 1 federal court here to implication in ! providing fifty gallons for the American Legion convention in August. 1932. Then a member of the state police force. King was fined S2OO and sentenced to serve six months in jail by Judge Robert C Baltzell, who TRACE HIT-RUN AUTO BY PIECE OF GLASS Police Hold Motorist on Charge of Manslaughter. By T imfs Special VEVAY. Nov. 11.—Clay Park. 40. was under $2,000 bond on manslaughter charges today following death of Joe Earls, injured fatally by an automobile. Beside the body of Mr. Earls, found on State Road 56 near here Tuesday, officers picked up a small piece of glass from an automobile headlight. Search resulted in the officers finding that the glass fitted neatly into a hole in Park’s car. He said he remembered hitting something but thought it was a dog or hog, and didn’t stop, officers said. FALSE ALARM AT JAIL BRINGS POLICE SQUADS Cops Surround Building as Buzzer Is Sounded Accidentally. For the second time in a week, police reserve squads rushed across Alabama street to the county jail in response to an emergency alarm, early yesterday afternoon. Lieutenant Ed Schubert led the reserves, armed with shotguns, and deployed his men to surround the building. He was informed by William Boyce, chief jailer, that the alarm must have been set off “by telephone men, working in the basement.” EMPLOYES PROVIDED WITH PLANE RIDES City Companies Offer Air Trips to All Workers. Nearly 100 employes of Stokely Bros & Cos. and Van Camp's. Inc., yesterday were availing themselves of free airplane rides offered by their employers. The airplane used by the company officials was made available to the employes at Municipal airport, for fifteen-minute rides. Officials announced that the flights would be continued, until all employes who desired the trip had

SOVIET ENVOY AND HULL MEET IN ‘SILENT’ SESSION

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As diplomats do, they sit measuring each other at the conference table. And Maxim Litvinoff, left, Soviet envoy, and State Secretary Cordell Hull, right, seem to be thinking, “I'll let him make the first move,” as they hold their first parley at the state department in Washington.

PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD LISTED ‘ANTI-UTILITY' State Commission Favors Municipal Ownership, Magazine Says. Indiana’s public service commission is listed as as anti-uttility and pro-municipal ownership in the current number of the Public Utilities Fortnightly, it was learned today. The classification is in a leading article written by C. F. Blanchard, formerly of Moody’s Investment Service and rated as an authority on utility investments. The article lists each state and rates Indiana as follows: “Anti-utility sentiment is on the ascendancy in Indiana and the public service commission is engaged in a state-wide campaign to force rates downward. The authorities display a tendency to disregard established decisions as to the adequacy of return; their ideas of a ‘reasonable’ figure are considerably lower than those which that body has declared fair. “Various communities are seeking to establish municipal plants. A tax of 1 per cent of gross revenues from the sale of gas and electricity went into effect May 1.”

RED CROSS AID PLEAJS ISSUED Cites Record of Group to Stress Work During Depression. Citing the record of the American Red Cross and stressing particularly work done as relief during the dfchas called upon all citizens to suphas called upon all citizens to support the annual Red Cross drive. In a proclamation, he sets out the period from Armistice day to Thanksgiving as the official time for the Red Cross roll call. HOOVER IS CROWNED FISHING CHAMPION Former President Lands Three Giant Swordfish in Mexican Cruise. By United Pregs LOS ANGELES. Nov. 11.—With three swordfish to his credit, former President Herbert Hoover wis crowned champion fisherman yesterday. His catch, including a 160-pound marlin, was the best of any member of a private party which returned after a two-week yachting cruise in Mexican waters. Bronzed and happy was the former chief executive.

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Millions of lights Care out against the darkness wnen nightfall conies to New York.. A panorama of beauty that leaves the observer gasping Is outspread from Rockefeller Center, looking south, as in this striking photo. .aitac** Jrf lyfeie MWk the badges across East- river to Brooklyn,

Forced to Deliver Booze in Baby Cart, Says Wife

Old World Beirothal Ends in Divorce Court; Wed at 15. An old world betrothal and marriage, sight unseen, was bent on the rack of the new world’s divorce court yesterday in superior court two. And in the bending Mrs. Vissle Kakasuleff of Bulgarian ancestry charged her husband, Steve Kakasuleff of R. R. 17, Box 205, with forcing her to deliver bootleg liquor in a baby carriage. In turn her husband in a crosscomplaint alleged she was wasteful of food and invariably quarreled with him on Fridays with the regularity that fish is served in restaurants. Mrs. Kakasuleff testified she was btrothed and married to her husband without her consent. She said she refused to sign the marriage license on July 29, 1924. She declared she was 15 when wed and that her parents merely selected, Steve for her husband in the same manner in which weddings are arranged in Bulgaria, without giving her a choice in the matter. Her husband testified that five years after their wedding she told him she did not love him. Mrs. Kakasuleff countered with: “I never loved him.” Judge Joseph R. Williams took the divorce action under advisement to determine the disposition of the custody of the two children. MILITARY ORDER CHIEF TO SPEAK AT DINNER New York Judge to Address City Foreign Wars’ Veterans. Pelham St. George Bissell, New York, commander-general of the Military Order of Foreign Wars, will be the principal speaker at a banquet at the Columbia Club tonight.

Mr. Bissell, a municipal judge in New York, served in France during the World war. He now is a lieutenant-colonel in the reserve corps and a past national president of La Societe des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux. Judge Bissell is a member of the American Bar Association, the St. Nicholas Society,

Society of Colonial Wars, Sons of the Revolution. Military Order of the Worid War, Society of American Wars and a past commander of the Greenwich Village post of the American Legion. Mt. Everest, in addition to being the highest mountain in the world with its 29,445 feet, is one of .the youngest.

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Cameras will grind for anew screen juvenile when George Breakston, 11-year-old “discovery,” goes into action. George, shown here reading the script for his first part in Hollywood, was given a contract after his mother objected, then yielded. She is a hat designer in the film capital.

N. D. PRESIDENT* PRAISESCOAGH Rev. O’Donnell Expects Irish to Beat Purdue, He Wires. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 11.— The Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, president of Notre Dame university, expects Notre Dame to defeat Purdue today, but win or lose he is still solidly behind Coach Hunk Anderson and the players, he wired yesterday from Rochester, Minn, O’Donnell, who has been ill for eight months with toxic labyrinthitis, was taken to Mayo Brother hospital Sunday for treatment. His telegram today to Coach Anderson follows: “I expect Notre Dame to win Saturday but win or lose we shall be proud of the boys. I shall be pulling hard for you in every way like every true Notre Dame man. I am more loyally devoted to the boys and the school now than ever before.” Tax burden in France and England is now $58.35 a year per capita, it is said.

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upper left. Lights glow from towers that seem to pierce the sky, and rainbow-hued bears flash and vanish from tens of thousands of electric signs. * The skyscraper in the center with lighted shaft is the Empire State building. Far in the distance, upper right, like a sentinei guarding the metropolis, the Statue of liberty sheds its beacon rays oyer th£ harbor

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11 CITY PLANTS BEGIN COSTLY BUILDING PLAN Industrial Firms Institute Largest Construction Since Boom. • k Eleven industrial plants in the city now are engaged in the largest building program since the boom days of 1928-29, which entail labor and material costs of over $2.000,000, William Hurd, building commissioner announced yesterday. “We have turned the corner.” Hurd stated. The major number of these programs, now under actual operation, have been planned and contemplated by some of the companies for the last three years. Uncertainty as to “what was coming next," has caused them to delay construction. “However, President Roosevelt has ‘sold’ a large number of Indianapolis business men on his belief that his programs for recovery will be carried out. As result of their faith and anticipation of new demands upon their respective business, additional floor space is being added to their plants,” Hurd said. Firms engaged in construction of new buildings and enlargements to their present planes are: SchwitzerCummins Company, Curry-Miller Veneers, Inc., Gro Flex Corporation, West Baking Company Armour & Co s„ Eli Lilly & Cos., Indianapolis Glove Company, Lieber Brewing Company and Indianapolis Brewing Company, Chevrolet Motor Company and Denison hotel. All of the above represent new construction alone with exception of the Denison Hotel Company, which represents the cost of wrecking the old hotel and construction of anew one-story building on the present site, at a cost of $75,000.

LIBRARY EXHIBITS BOOK COLLECTION Observe Week by Display of Rare Old Volumes. Interesting collections of old and new books are on display at the Central library for observance of “book week,” Nov. 12 to 18. By way of contrast, old children’s books are placed in the same case with beautiful modern versions and editions of the same books. A first edition of Alcott’s “Eight Cousins,” published in 1875, is balanced by its 1932 counterpart. A little papercovered “Mother Goose—Old Style” rests beside a large attractive “Mother Goose,” illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. A special number of studio “Children’s Books of Yesterday” is also shown. Parents, children and every one interested in the best in children’s books are invited to visit the library during “book week.” M'NUTT TO END ‘NONSENSE COURSES’ Survey of Courses at Normal Schools Opens. First steps toward elimination from state normal schools of what Professor Kenneth Williams calls “nonsense courses in educational technique” have been launched by the state department of education on orders from Governor Paul V. McNutt. George C. Cole, superintendent of public instruction, announced today that a survey of all educational courses has begun at both Ball State Teachers college, Muncie, and Terre Haute Teachers college. Ordering of the survey, in charge of Harry Elder, registrar, follows a series of disclosures in The Times. Purpose is to eliminate non-es-sential and duplicative courses, he declared. A similar survey may be made later at Indiana university school of education.

MAYOR BUYS FIRST GRID GAME TICKET

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Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today purchased “ticket number one” for the charity football game to be played between Southport and Cathedral high schools, Ncv. 18. at Butler bowl. Tickets will sell for 25 cents. All local high schools and Southport will sell them, as well as all city and county employes, including police and firemen. Proceeds will be turned over to the city and county soup kitchen funds. Southport defeated Cathedral, 7 to 6. early in the season.

Strachey Sees Fear of Japanese Back of Pact

Believes Parley Intended to Restrain Nipponese From Aggression. BY HELEN LINDSAY Times Staff Writer “Recongition of Russia by the United States Is one of the most important steps the United States can take,” said John Strachey, Town Hall lecturer, in an interview this morning, preceding his talk at English's. “President Roosevelt surely would not have made such overtures to Litvinoff, had he not intended recognition of Russia,” Mr. Strachey asserted. “It is essential that Russia and the United States unite against the aggressive attitude of Japan. I feel sure that this is the paramount reason for the - conferences with Litvinoff now, rather than the trade relationships which, of course, are important.” Able as Diplomat Mr. Strachey believes that Japan will be dangerous, if her activities are not held in check by Russia, backed by the United States. “No other man in Russia is so able to deal with these diplomatic relations as Litvinoff,” he said, “I do not know whether it generally is known in the United States, but he is the most finished diplomat in Russia. He has attended every firstclass conference since the conference of Rapalio, in 1921, when the treaty between Russia and Germany was signed.” Russia is much more concerned over the possibility of trouble with Japan than war with Germany, Mr. Strachey believes. Married English Woman “While Russia, of course, views with alarm the rearmament policies of Germany, and realizes that, if not curbed, they will mean war

Senators Dislike State Chairman Patronage Plan

Van Nuys First to Flay Farley in Ft. Wayne Receiver Case. By Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Post-master-General James Farley’s efforts to build up the Democratic party by giving the state party chairman a greater hand in the distribution of patronage has caused much discontent among Democratic senators and congressmen. Patronage is the price that many lawmakers have been accustomed to exact for support of the administration’s legislative program. In the past, a state chairman has been regarded as someone necessary to mobilize workers and raise money for election campaigns. He has had very little to say about who gets the government jobs. Senators and representatives regard federal patronage as their own soup. They don’t like to have to ask for the concurrence of their respective state chairmen, which is a Farley rule. Sometimes that concurrence is -withheld, and when Chief Patronage Arbiter Farley sides with the chairman, he makes the lawmaker mad. That happened with explosive results last week when State Democratic Chairman R. Earl Peters’ candidate for receiver of a large bank in Ft, Wayne, Ind., was named over the protest of Senator Frederick Van Nuys. Incidentally, Peters’ law partner, also against Van Nuys’ wishes, was named attorney for the receiver. Van Nuys was in Los Angeles at the time with a senate subcommittee investigating federal court receivership practices. But in the midst of investigative work, the senator took time out to send Farley a scorching telegram. “You have ignored completely my recommendations on behalf of the business interests of Ft. Wayne and the thousands of citizens of that city whose dearest interests are involved in this receivership. I hereby protest what I believe to be repudiation of our repeated promise of anew and square deal to the citizenry of Indiana.” " ' Under the new Michigan motor law a person who fails to pay an automobile accident judgment against him may never drive a car again in the state.

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as serious as the World war; she also knows that, with Poland lying between Germany and Russia, the immediate danger to Russia is not from Germany,” he said. Maxim Litvinoff is married to an English woman, the daughter of Sir Sidney Low. Before the revolution, they lived in simple fashion in London, where Mr. Strachey and Litvinoff were intimate friends. “I visited them in Moscow in 1928, and later in 1931,” Mr. Strachey said. “Contrary to the current belief that Litvinoff is a wealthy man, they live in very simple fashion there. Litvinoff Lives Simply “Their home was in a workmen’s apartment, in a newly built block of 1,000 apartments. The apartment occupied by the Litvinoff family was one of four rooms, sparsely furnished. It was what you here in America would call, I believe, a ‘walk-up’ apartment, and the name of Litvinoff appeared at the entrance listed as the other residents were. “They have two children, who attend an ordinary public school in Moscow. When I knew them in London, before the revolution, Litvinoff's wife was employed in a large insurance office. In Moscow she also was employed, translating Russian articles into English, and earning more than her husband.” Wife Is Able Writer Mrs. Litvinoff, while mildly interested in political affairs, is men. concerned with her work as a writer. According to Mr. Strachey, she is an able writer, having written several literary criticisms, and one or two detective stories. Mr. Strachey is an Englishman. He was educated at Eton and at Magdalen college, Oxford. His political leanings are radical, and he is a professed Communist. From 1929 to 1931 he was a Labor party member of parliament, and since that time, has devoted his time to writing.

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Mrs. Carl Wood, wife of a city lawyer, will l?e named as trustee of the Sunnyside sanatorium to fill the post vacated by Mrs. Arvilla Ault. This change in the sanatorium board of trustees was admitted today by county commissioners. “No official action has been taken as yet, but I understand that Mrs. Wood will take the place. Mrs. Ault’s four-year term on the board will end soon,” said Ernest Marker, commissioner. Other members of the Sunnyside board are Dr. A. L. Marshall, Irving W. Lemaux and Dr. E. M. Amos.

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70 VOLUNTEER SPEAKERS JOIN SEALJJAMPAIGN City. County to Be Covered in Battle Against Tuberculosis. Seventy speakers, representing many organizations, will carry word to every part of the city and Marion county of the unusual need for a successful Christmas Seal sale this year to curtail and cure tuberculosis. A number of the campaigners attended a luncheon today at the Lincoln, where Grier M. Shot well, member of the board of directors of the Marion County Tuberculosis Association, gave instructms to the speakers. The speakers’ bureau executive committee for the tuberculosis association, named by Dr. E. M. Amos, president of the association, include Mr. Shot-well. Mrs. Robert Winslow, Miss Helen Coffey and Mrs. W. L Appel. Services Are Donated Among the volunteer speakers who have donated their services for the December seal sale campaign are: Dr. E. O. Asher, Murray A. Auerbach. Dr. E. M. Amos. Dr. E. F. Boggs, Flyod Burns, Robert Brockenburr, Howard Caughran, Lloyd Claycombe, Dr. Stanley Coulter. Russell J. Dean. Addison M. Dowling, Kenneth P. Fry, Michael Foley, Dr. Earl S. Gilchrist, Edward W. # Harris. William H. Harrison. Harvey Hartsock, Laurens Henderson. Robert Hendrickson. Dr. Russell Henry, Joseph E. Hartman, J. Clyde Hoffman Jr.. Henley T. Hottell, Dr. Wayne O. Hill. Emsley Johnson, Roy Johnson, Leo Kaminsky and Herman W. Kothe. Harold Kealing, John Lauck Jr., Dr. James Mcßride, Cassatt Martz, Dr. C. J. Mclntyre. Howard Nyhart, John Niblack, Telford Orbison, William T. Pearcy, Hazen B. Pike, Captain Otto Ray, John Rocap, Dr. R. A. Solomon, Dr. James H. Stygall, Dr. Andrew Sudah, Judson Stark. Howard Travis, Urban Wilde, Delbert O. Wilmeth, Harry Yockey, Edward W. Wilson and' William Snethen. Other Speakers Named John Wright, Dr Thurman B. Rice, John F. Watkins, Rabbi Silas Charry, Frank Fairchild, Dr. John B. Ferguson, the Rev. August Fussenegger, Donald Lafuze, Georgs Lehman, Gordon Meeker, the Rev. Richard C. Stuckmeyer, the Rev. Henry Herod, Dr. Homer Wales. Mrs. W. L. Appel, Mrs. C. Severin Buschmann, Mrs. Russell S. Williams. Mrs. Sam Meyers, Mrs. Charles H. Smith. Mrs. E. C. Atkins. Mrs. Fred G. Balz, Miss Helen Coffey, Miss Louise Dumas and Miss Flora A. Dutcher. Mrs. Alexander Jameson, Mrs. H. H. Hornbrook. Mrs. Meredith Nicholson Jr., Mrs. Addison Parry, Mrs. A. C. Rasmussen, Mrs. G. M. Shotwell, Mrs. Frank S. Tomlin, Mrs. Charles Weiss, Dr. Mary Westfall, Mrs. Robert Winslow, Mrs. Gaylord Wood. Garrett M. Bates and Judge Wilfred Bradshaw.

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Then Came the Dawn for Poor ‘john Doe.’ POOR old “John Doe,” most maligned name in Indianapolis, almost got another “rap” yesterday but police cleaned up the mystery and revealed the malefactor's real identity. Resting comfortably under a coupe which had run off the road into a ditch under the railroad elevation at West Tenth street, last night, police found a man who had obviously “dined too well.” A search of the man’s pockets revealed nothing. Nor were his license plates registered in Indianapolis. “Aw, hell,” said the desk sergeant, “his name’s ‘John Doe.'” Today “John Doe” rubbed his eyes in jail and startled, found himself behind the bars charged with drunkenness. He managed to remember that his name was Lee Taylor,, that he was 35, but couldn’t seem to remember his address.

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