Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 188, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1933 — Page 3

DEC. 16, 1933

STARTLING PROGRESS MARKS FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 0. S. LIFE UNDER RECOVERY ACT 7 to 80 Per Cent of Nation’s Industry Is Now Operating* Under Permanent Codes; Minimum Wages Guaranteed. LABOR BARS CHILDREN UNDER 16 §3,300,000,000 Allocated to Public Works Projects Giving Employment to Jobless and Bettering Living Conditions. BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—NIRA is six months old today. The Recovery Act with its double-barrelled program for business and public works was signed by President Roosevelt June 16, and through two great divisions of an expanded government which devotes much attention nowadays to the welfare of its people and its industries, revolutionary changes have been effected in half a year.

If Rip Van Winkle had taken only six months for his famous snooze, he would have been just as perplexed on; awakening today as he was after his twenty-year slumber i in the Catskills. Here are some of the things, exceedingly strange to the eye of June 16, which he would note: Signs of business recovery, reported by the government and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, all under the emblem of countless blue , eagles, dynamic, tailless birds flaunting thunderbolts in every store and factory window. Organization of from 70 to 80 per cent of all industry under permaent codes, pledged by law to allow their employes to bargain collectively and bound equally against cutthroat competition through less-than-cost sellings. Minimum wages and maximum hours guaranteed to 20.000,000 industrial workers through permanent codes and Blue Eagle agreements, with labor by children under sixteen barred from all industries by mutual consent. Manufacturers asking, and getting sanction to reduce their hours of operation and shut down their machines by agreement to avoid glutting the markets. Establishment of a supreme court of labor, the National Labor Board, to which workers can and do come with facts and charges about a few surviving rugged individualists among employers. Rip Van Winkle might in amazement then turn his gaze from NRA to the other NIRA twin, PWA. just to make sure his eyes saw the truth. And, looking away from General Hugh Johnson's lair on the fourth floor of the Commerce Building, he ■would turn to the interior department and find: A quiet group of young economists, lawyers and oil men ridirtg herd on the country’s most riproaring bronchos, the old industry, under check-reins so tight that oil is selling for around $1 a barrel. Allocation of the huge sum of $3,300,000,000—a whole year's budget for Uncle Sam a little while ago—to a series of public works and relief projects designed not only to give work to the jobless but at the same time to raise standards of living for citizens of the United States through better housing, to improve water supplies, to help cities build municipal water and power plants, and to improve the federal government’s myriad of services. Award of a fund that placed 4,000.000 unemployed on pay rolls instead of doles during the short space of four weeks. If these things startled Rip into complete wakefulness, he might look j more closely and find other things in the picture, both in Washington and in other cities. He might find some chiseling (a new word on Rip by the way); he might find a few people whose immediate fortunes had been impaired by the operations of NlßA—sellers of ~h ot" oil produced in violation of production limits, and sweatshop operators for instance; but in general he would find a people hopefully looking to the future. And Rip. if he were interviewed, might say: “If I lived the 500 years of the phoenix. I don't believe I would find anything more interesting.” ROBINSON TO OFFER ■ECONOMY' REPEALER Senator Calls Present Law “Cruel and Indefensible.” Plans for introducing a bill to repeal the economy act at the session of congress in January were announced by Senator Arthur R. Robinson last night in an address before the Irvington post, American Legion. “Sentiment in Indiana favors justice and fair dealing to disabled service men." he said, criticising the economy act as “cruel and indefensible.” The senator said he had received pledges of support in his effort "to rectify the mistakes committed by a cowardly congress in passing this so-called economy act.”

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—Conservation — SPORTSMEN LAX IN MOVE TO PUT DEER IN STATE Only 667 Votes Are Cast in Indiana Survey of • Situation. BY WILLIAM F. COLLINS Time* Special Writer. The survey made by the department of sonservation among the sportsmen of the state on the question of establishing deer in southern Indiana shows that 600 men pledged their support and protection of the herd. Another sixtyseven men voted against the plan. This does not constitute a representative vote among a group of more than 100,000 hunting license buyers whS> live in southern Indiana. The only interpretation I can place on the evidence gathered is that 99,333 hunters in the south part of the state are not sufficiently interested in deer to express themselves one way or the other. For that matter, about the same proportion are not sufficiently interested in any phase of outdoor sport to make their desires well known. If the vast army of outdoor people in this state or in the United States were articulate, we never would have had a stream pollution problem to contend with. Many Are Silent Sixteen million men and women hunt and fish in this nation, or m at least they buy a license for that purpose. Do you think if this number of people raised their voices against the desecration of our streams we now would have thousands of miles of water turgid with filth, including 4<70 miles in Indiana. Do you think we would have a reforestation problem, a flood problem, a drainage problem and a vanishing wild life problem. We rise to heights of ardor to debate beer control, the walkathon and other transitory phenomena and pass over, with scant attention or no attention at all, those elemental things that make our lives worth living and which no doubt will affect profoundly the very existence of our children. If you don't believe this read the peoples’ voice columns in any daily newspaper. Two states alone, so far as I have observed thus far have adopted a program for the betterment of their citizens by improving conditions beyond the town line. Connecticut is buying forests. Eventually the forests will be joined together in a large area to be known as “The Peoples Forest.” Memorials Move Costly At this time that state has not spent as much money by half as Indiana expended for the George Rogers Clark and the War memorials. I am certain her people are getting vastly more enjoyment out of their forests than we get out of our two huge agglomerations. They have some beautiful buildings in Connecticut, but the only thing they wanted me to see was the winter sport carnival in the forest. The Boy Scouts and the Appalachian Mountain Club took over the task of mapping and cutting the trails, the Girl Scouts and the women's Clubs planned the shleters and outdoor camps. Thousands of cityweark folks may be found among the trees daily winter or summer i where a pitiful few are to be found surveying our masterpieces. The program in New York state is too well-known to bear repeating. President Roosevelt startled the country a few years ago when he was Governor of that state by announcing an appropriation of $22,000,000 to be spent over a period of years to bring back to the people of his state the opportunity for outdoor recreation. He has always believed firmly in the theory that character is more easily built away from the pavements. Solution of Proble With outdoor sport comes an insight into the problems affecting the natural resources of the country. If any group of Indiana people walked once across the deforested. eroded and virtually worthless fields of some of our Indiana counties, no further argument would be needed here about flood control. If we were able to attract as many people outdoors in Hoosierdom as they do in the east, the task of cleaning our streams, repopulating

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PRIVATE LIFE OF THE WYNEKOOPS

Catherine Charges Police Stupidity for Mothers Arrest

BY DR. CATHERINE WYNEKOOP Written exclusively for The Time* and other NEA Service newspaper*. (Copyright. 1933, NEA Service, Inc.) ON the morning of Aug. 31, 1929, four carloads of family and friends started for the quiet town of Sycamore, near Chicago. For in the chapel of St. Alban's school there, which both my brothers had attended, Rheta Gardner was to become Mrs. Earle Wynekoop. When we reached the school, I helped her change into the filmy white dress which she had brought from Indianapolis for the occasion, then arranged the folds of the white tulle bridal veil which we had bought in Chicago that morning. Clad in bright orange silk, I walked ahead of her down the norrow isle of the school chapel to the altar rail, where the Rev. Charles L. Street, headmaster, ! waited with Earle. Ahead of me walked Walker’s little boy, Walker Jr., carrying the ring. Back in Chicago later that day, we—the newlyweds, Rheta's parents, and our family—gathered at the Midwest Athletic Club for a bridal dinner, with the traditional bride s cake of many layers and toasts of the bride and bridegroom. Next day, Earle and Rheta started for our country place in Michigan for their honeymoon. During the two and one-half months that followed, we did not see the honeymooners/ But seldom a day passed that a letter or I postcard, with a Frankfort postmark, did not arrive at the “gloomy old mansion,” telling how happy they were. These letters and cards, curiously enough, seemed to give mother the first cheer she had had since dad’s death. She missed him terribly, and Earle and Rheta’s happiness seemed to give back part of what death had taken from her. n n u THEIR gay letters, she told Mary and me, carried her back to her honeymoon days. We all enjoyed the good cheer these missives brought, even our roomer, Miss Enid Hennessey, a great friend of mother’s, who had been a member of our household, almost a member of the family, for about ten years. She was a teacher in John Marshall high school. Early in November, Earle wrote that he and Rheta soon would be seeing us. So mother decided that as a welcome home surprise she would fit up as a special suite for them the two rooms on, the second floor which she and dad always had—the two best rooms in the house. Vividly do I recall the scene that took place in our Monroe street house the evening before Earle and Rheta were expected home after their honeymoon at Frankfort. Mother had put her heart as well as her purse into refurnishing the two special rooms for the newlyweds. And the results were lovely. Especially did Mary and I approve of the bedroom, with its twin beds, inlaid mahogany bureau for Earle, and its dressing table for Rheta. “Remember, girls!” mother ■warned Mary and me, as we admired the handsome furnishings, “these are Earle’s and Rheta’s rooms, where they can come when they want to be alone. We never must bother them here.” Although she also told us that it would be wisdom never to visit these rooms without an invitation, they didn't become any Chinese ■wall, separating Earle and his bride from the rest of the family. On the contrary, they were all over the house with the rest of us. Mary and Rheta became great pals. Both adored pretty clothes and parties. And when Mary entertained her friends at home, Rheta and Earle always were in the party. Naturally, I never got as close to my new sister-in-law. By the time she entered our family, I was a sophomore at Rush Medical college. Home, to me, then, simply was “that place where I slept and ate.” Nevertheless. I joined mother and Mary in giving some parties for Rheta, to introduce her to our friends. A true artist was Rheta. As soon as she had adjusted herself to her new life, she started study- ! ing violin again. Her lessons, incidentally, were a present from j mother. B B B THE following spring, she and Earle returned to Frankfort. This time Mary went with them. Mother, however, stayed behind to see me through my last quarter at Rush. And when, that August (1930), I won my degree, she bundled me off on a boat trip to Canada. Back in Chicago,’after my trip to Canada, I took a three-months’ interneship in anesthesia at the Presbyterian hospital. Then it was time to take the Cook county examination. Mary had been sent home from the University of Michigan < whence sh£ had transferred from Drake at the beginning of her j sophomore year) as a “T. B.” suspect. Having no special interests of her own. she suddenly developed a tremendous interest in my career. Despite her cheery encourage- ! ■ —— with wild things and making our I state a better land to live in would! be solved. So far, however, the venturesome few who dash outdoors | in the summer time have been con- j tent to den up like groundhogs through the winter and so far as I know nothing can be done about it. j We will have need in most of our! midwestern states at a date not far distant of some Rooseveltian prototypes to occupy the Governors’ chairs. You may be sure that nothing short of a popular demand guided into proper channels by the right executive will bring about a •change in conservational matters, j So far. the most of us have been ! supine observers of conditions that j annually have bocem more deplorable.

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Three pals together were Mary Louise, Catherine and Rheta Wytiecoop, left to right in the picture above after a dip during their summer outinf at Frankfort, Mich.

ment, I lost my nerve, but finally I took the exam. And three months later, when the results were posted, I couldn’t believe my eyes when I found my name listed in the first group of thirty-five. That July I began my coveted interneship of Cook County hospital. The family spent that summer as usual, at Frankfort, mother and Mary going up on the boat, while Earle and Rheta flew there. When time to close our summer house arrived, a girl from Detroit, whose parents also had a place on Crystal Lake, invited Mary to stay over and visit her. Mary accepted. But hardly had she unpacked her trunk, than her hostess became ill and both girls started home. The day after Mary reached Chicago, word came from Detroit that her friend had died of infantile paralysis. And the day after that Mary, herself, went to bed with the same dread disease. Mother, busier than ever by this time, gave up everything to take care of Mary. Whether it was her expert care, or my sister’s own great desire to recover, I don’t know, but a couple of months later, Mary was able to come downstairs. She still was very frail and, of course, she still was troubled by her bad heart. It was in the fall that Mary was ill that Earle learned to fly. His idea was to learn that aviation business from the ground up, for he was eager to get into the research department of one of the large airplane companies. bub Throughout his boyhood, he had shown a decided knack for things mechanical. He could do anything to dynamos and engines and things like that. Had he not been a physician’s son, I imagine that, when college came, he would have gone to an engineering school instead of to a medical college.

jk In Accordance With the W CODE OF FAIR COMPETITION ' of the CLEANING AND DYEING INDUSTRY (Approved by the President of the United States and effective November 20th, 1933) and conforming with instructions received from the NATIONAL CODE AUTHORITY for the CLEANING AND DYEING INDUSTRY. the local Administrative Board for Trade Area No. 6. including Bartholomew, Boone, Brown. Hamilton, Hancock, Hendricks, Jackson, Johnson. Marion, Monroe, Morgan, Putnam and Shelby counties, hereby announces the following minimum prices for dry cleaning and finishing the following articles effective Monday morning, December 18, 1933. Minimum prices have been approved for the following garments: MEN’S WEAR J WOMEN’S WEAR Suits, 2 or 3-pc S .95; Dresses No. 1* S .95 Suits, pressing only 50 Dresses No. 2* 1.25 Trousers 50 Dresses No. 3* 1.50 White Flannel Trousers ... .75 Coat Suits—2-pe. ... . _.. n _l Jacket and Skirt 95 W ash Suits 95 . Coat Suits—3-pc. Top Coats or Overcoats 95 Jacket, Blouse and Skirt.. 1.25 Hats 75 Plain Coats** 95 Gloves * .25 Velvet Coats *♦* 1.25 Ties .10 j Gloves, short white 15 CHILDREN’S WEAR Girls’ Dresses $ .50 Boys’ Suits $ .50 Coats $ .50 Cp to Sire 12 (Short Trousers and Knickers) * So. I—Silk or wool, plain, straightlinp. afternoon, sports or street dresses in one or two-piece style, including belt, pockets, with or without attached slip. * No. 2—Silk or wool, one or two-piece afternoon dresses, street or sports wear, modestly styled with flares, tucks or frills. * No. 3—Evening gowns, elaborately styled, and Telvet dresses. ** Plain Coats —For fur trimming add: Fur collar, 30c; fur cuffs, 25c; fur trim at bottom, 50c extra. m * * * Velvet Coats—With fur collar, add 50c extra.

Early in 1932, he received his pilot’s license. Rheta shared Earle’s love of the air, so he seldom went without her to the aviation field where he was learning to fly. For that matter, he seldom went anywhere without her. They always were together. In 1932 I left for the St. Louis Maternity hospital to do some special work. There I was when, early in March, came word that Mary was dead. She had surrendered at last, game fighter that she was, to her poor weak heart. When she died, the light went out of the big house on Monroe street. Everything seemed different now. Everybody was more sober. And when, a few months later, I was offered a residency in the children’s surgery ward of the hospital where I had served my interneship, I eagerly accepted. Meanwhile, the Century of Progress had gotten under way, and Earle, along with some other aviators, had found employment on the sky ride. Exactly what he was supposed to do, I never knew. One day he took tickets, the next he repaired the rocket cars. Despite what I have read in the newspapers these last few weeks, I wasn’t aware of any change between him and Rheta. As far as I knew, he was going home every night. And I know she always was dashing down to the exposition grounds to keep dates with him. The only change I noted was in her. Following Mary’s death, she became what I can describe only as health conscious. Then the Century of Progress neared its end, and from mother I learned that Earle and Stanley Young, a boy Earle knew at Northwestern university, were going west. Their plan, mother said, was to take colored pictures of the Grand canyon.

ffTwHE day that the fair closed, X they started, driving Earle’s car—the same car in which he’d brought Rheta to Chicago three and one-half years before. That was the last thing I heard. Then, the evening of Nov. 21, a call came for me in the ward where I was working. Mother was at the other end. “Catherine,” she said, “can you come home right away?” Never dreaming what had happened, I told her I was busy. “Won’t morning be time enough?” I asked. ’’What’s happened?” “Something terrible!” mother said. “Rheta is dead!” Rheta’s death, an overwhelming catastrophe, was discovered by mother. In horror and consternation, she turned to me for help. Little did she realize that her every action must be weighed and measured carefully—that the in-

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vestigation of Rheta's death would follow a set routine and place the members of the household under suspicion first. She was so sincerely anxious to help clear up the mystery that she refuseed to follow her attorney's advice to “say nothing further,” after four or five interviews, diming which she patiently had answered questions and volunteered information. BUM THE attorney, knowing police methods, was afraid that she would make statements in her fatigued condition that would be misconstrued. In an interval between her grillings. mother was allowed to take a sponge bath—in the presence of a male police officer! She was subjected to hours of hounding and misrepresentation. Topmost in her mind through all this torture was the idea that she must get home to prepare Rheta's clothes for the funeral. It was after a promise that if she just would make a statement, she would be permitteed to go, that mother made her so-called “confession,” all of which admittedly was suggested to her. Even after the inquest of Friday, Nov. 24. poor mother, in her fatigued state, thought she was free to go to Rheta—in her last hour in Chicago. Instead, she was held for the murder of the one she loved dearly. My precious mother now is behind bars—the innocent victim of circumstance and misrepresentation. The most noble of women is being crucified upon the altar of police stupidity. THE END FREE JOB BUREAU FOR VETERANS IS OPENED East Side Legion Post Helps Thirty Men to Get Work. Free employment bureau for veterans has been established by East Indianapolis Post 13. American Legion, in post headquarters, Sherman drive ana Michigan street. About thirty men have been aided in obtaining employment thus far. The committee in charge includes Schuyler C. Mowrer, John B. Collins, Grover W, Cross, Sam J. O’Connell, Glenn Bertels, Joseph P. Smith, George Peevler, Harry B. Perkins, Dr. D. C. Percival, Charles A. Cassady and James E. Mendenhall. CITY STUDENT HONORED Richard Thompson One of 15 at I. U. to Get Key. Richard Thompson, Indianapolis, is among fifteen Indiana university students to be elected to Phi Beta Kappa in recognition of high scholastic standing. Initiation will be held in the Union building Monday night. Professor Hugh E. Willis, Indiana law school, will speak on “Capitalism,” the Constitution and the Supreme Court.”

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WONT BUDGE; FORCES TRAIN TO DEAD STOP Finally Persuaded to Get Off Track: ‘Will Do It Again/ He Says. The bov stood on the ratlroxd track: The train was coming ff*. The boy stepped off the railroad track and let the train go past. BUM The story contained in the old ditty was re-enacted yesterday for the crew of a fast Pennsylvania passenger train by a shabbily dressed middle-aged man who, however, differing from the boy in the ditty, refused to get off the track. Residents in the vicinity of the Pennsylvania tracks at Denny street w ere startled today when they heard the engineer on the train holding down the whistle. Looking toward the tracks, they were startled to see the man standing resolutely in the center of the track. The engineer threw on the train's emergency brakes, tumbling passengers about, and succeeded in stopping a fewr feet from the man. Members of the crew approached him and ordered him off the tracks. He ignored them. Then they tried cajolery, with equal lack of success. “I am going to stand here,” the man said. 'Drive on.” After ten minutes of alternate pleading and arguing, the crew succeeded in inducing the man to “step off the track and let the train go by.” "But I'll get in front of another one,” was his parting rejoinder. CITY ACCOUNTANTS TO HEAR PAUL J. STOKES Economist and Statistician to Talk at Dinner Meeting. Paul J. Stokes, economist and statistician, will address the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants at a dinner meeting in the Washington Wednesday night at 6:30. Mr. Stokes is research director of the National Retail Hardware Association and a director of the Indianapolis Association of Credit Men. He is former assistant editor of “Market Service” published by the Babson statistical organization, Boston. The address will conclude the first half of the year's program which has been devoted to a study of industrial codes operative under NRA. Entertainment will be furnished by Billy Jolly Jr., boy banjoist, and George Willeford, violinist. J. C. Crim is entertainment committee chairman. Dale R. Hodges, president, will preside. Pickpocket Gets s2l C. H. Withers, 309 East Nineteenth street, reported to police yesterday that while he was passing through a crowd at the entrance of a downtown store, a pickpocket stole a billfold containing s2l and a Big Four railroad pass.