Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 278, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1934 Edition 02 — Page 1

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CHINA FIGURES IN U. S.-JAPAN WAR RUMORS Nation Being Sponsored by America, Tokio Now Believes. SOVIET UNION THREAT Russia Also Believed Out to Stop Nippon’s Asiatic Expansion. This Is thp third of five articles on Japan, .first of several scries which are bein* written by William Philip Simms, famed Scripps-Howard foreign editor, while on a world tour for The Times. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor (Copyright 1934, bv NEA Service. Inc.i TOKIO, March 31.—Here is solved the riddle of why Japan expects eventual war with the United States. To Americans, this has always been a profound mystery. They have not been able to see where the just aims of the two countries clashed at any point. Their trade and other legitimate interests are complementary, not competitive. Yet two hemispheres continue as full of war talk as the atmosphere above Vesuvius is of sparks. Especially does one hear such talk in Japan. Why? The answer is: China. Japan believes the United States is out to checkmate her; to sponsor China into becoming a great, modern nation; to stand behind China while that country thwarts the creation of a Japanese empire on the Asiatic mainland. Way down in their hearts the Japanese believe expansion for them is a matter of national life or death. Like other peoples, they sincerely do not want war. But they are prepared to fight any power, or any combination of powers, that stands in the way. Two Nations Bar Way They have fought four wars in recent times—two against China, one against Russia, and one against Germany—in pursuit of this policy. And they will fight another and another if necessary to carry it to fulfillment. The odds against them are a secondary consideration. Japan sees two countries irtJier way. One is Russia. The other is the United States. Britain and France—the other tw r o major Pacific powers—she does not fear. She might handily come to terms with them on partition of China were it not for the Soviet Union and America. That is why world chancelleries keep on harping on war betweeen Japan and Russia and Japan and the United States. Japan has very definitely embarked upon a policy calculated to make her supreme in eastern Asia and the western Pacific. This may sound like a pre-war dream, but realists admit the world has reverted to pre-war conditions. The postwar peace machinery has broken down. Time to Strike Is Near Unless she breaks out of her own little islands, Japan reasons, while the world in general and China in particular arc chaotic, she must be content to remain there forever—eventually, perhaps, becoming a vassal of her colossal neighbor across the China sea. While the justice of this may not be self-evident, the logic of it is all on her side. Also the law of selfpreservation. Partition of China among the great powers would save Japan. Also the creation of a number of “independent'’ Chinese states, each under its own ruler. Or, finally, a combination of these eventualities. Acordingly, some such process is under way. Japan has nibbled off Korea. Manchuria, and Jehol. She has “demilitarized” all North China from the Great Wall to Peiping and Tientsin. She can foreclose on this territory whenever she feels like running up her flag. She is pushing westward into inner Mongolia and nobody can tell when and where she will stop. Tightens Her Hold Meanwhile, Nanking and Tokio are said to have come to an understanding. A lot is going on under the surface. In a word. Japan seems slowly but surely tightening her hold on the neighboring mainland. But. looking ahead. Japan sees Russia and the United States blocking her road. Russia is there because Japanese aggression is rapidly pushing her back from the Pacific, bottling up Siberia. Why Japan suspects the United States, however, is quite another story. The notion is all over Japan that the United States is sitting up nights trying to undermine her—and this expression is that of one of the most intelligent and widely traveled Japanese I know, not mine. A whole succession of things was pointed out to me. proving to the Japanese way of thinking, that such is indeed the case. Point Out l". S. “Menaces” First we annexed Hawaii and built one of the world’s greatest naval bases there. Next we took the Philippines— “a pistol pointed at Japan's head.” I was told. Then we built the Panama canal so our entire navy could be concentrated overnight in the Pacific. After the Russo-Japanese war. the accusation proceeds, an American <E. H. Hamman) attempted to buy the South Manchuria railway. Later, in 1909, Secretary of State Knox proposed the neutralization of Manchuria. Both of these moves, in Japanese eyes, were suspected, their object being to prevent Nippon gaining a real footwork on the continent.

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VOLUME 45—NUMBER 278

Business Activity Carried to Highest Levels in Six Months by Spirited Easter Buying Throughout Country

Retail Stores Report Best Spring Period: Further Gains Predicted. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—Brisk Easter buying in the country’s leading stores was believed today to have carried business activity to the best levels in six months and close to that of the relatively active 1931 spring season. Preliminary reports to administration and banking leaders indicated that business has continued its greater than seasonal advance with prospects of further important gains soon. Increased purchasing power from increased employment and wages as marked by rising bank deposits and confidence in the future are credited with boosting sales of many retail stores to the best Easter levels in three years. Activity in nearly all business is exceeding the conservative estimates made months ago by President Roosevelt’s advisers. Even so, administration leaders are pushing the recovery program with no less vigor. New recovery steps include the ambitious program to stimulate the construction industry, the principal laggard of the last twelve months. A plan to promote financing of rehabilitation and construction of homes is expected in a few weeks. Auto Production Up Automobile production last week reached another new high level for the year at 81,896 units, compared with 25,796 units in the corresponding week last year. It was unofficially estimated that 350,000 men went back to work during March, bringing unemployment to around the 11.000,000 figure, compared with the record high of 13.689,000 reached a year ago this month. Steel ingot production this week was estimated at 48 per cent of capacity, compared with the year’s peak of 49 per cent in the first week of March. Electric power output last week gained over the previous week and was 17.6 per cent above the corresponding week of last year. Coal Output Gains Bituminous coal output rose to 8.657.000 tons from 5,106.000 tons in the corresponding week of last year, while anthracite coal production rose from 998,000 tons to 1,149,000 tons. United States foreign trade during February was at the best levels in three years. Export trade increased from 44 per cent of the 1923-25 average to 49 per cent, partly as a result of the recent depreciation in the foreign exchange value of the dollar which allowed exporters to obtain a better competitive position.

FIVE BOYS LED BY ‘DILLINGER,’ FOILED IN $300,000 HOLDUP

By United Press NEWCASTLE. Ind., March 31. —A daring plot by a group of juvenile bandits who planned to hold up the First National bank here today was revealed last night with the arrest of five boys. The youthful gang, led by a 15-year-old boy who claimed to be the “John Dillinger” of the group, expected to steal the $300,000 Chrysler automobile pay roll on deposit. > An 8-year-old boy confessed that five boys, whose ages ranged from eight to fifteen years, had robbed three stores and a school building here. He said he robbed a grocery single-handed Thursday night after three of his companions already had been arrested. INJURED DRIVER HELD City Man Arrested After Car Hits Safety Guard. Joseph Cannon, 35. 42 West Eleventh street, suffered a fractured nose and was arrested charged with reckless driving when an automobile he was operating struck a safety zone at Michigan street and Arsenal avenue. Gene Johnson, 36, same address, a passenger, received lacerations of the head. He also was arrested charged with vagrancy. Both men were treated at city hospital.

Integrity of State CWA Administration Lauded

County Chairman, Works Division Directors Addressed by FERA Field Officer.

Indiana’s civil works administration received praise for its integrity and the lack of complaints today when Howard O. Hunter, field representative for the federal emeragencv relief administration, addressed county chairmen and works division directors today in the assembly room of the Claypooi. •‘The civil works administration of Indiana in integrity of projects, degree of local participation, and the small number of complaints received at Washington ranks higher than any state I know of in the Union,” Mr. Hunter declared. With conclusion of CWA work this month Mr. Hunter explained how under FERA, one-half billion dollars was to be expended to keep those in actual need of relief on the employment rolls. He said the tendency under the new program of works relief would be to de-federalize and give the V '■ ~ *

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Reunion at the prison door came for Earle Wynekoop and his mother, Dr. Alice Wynekoop, as the aged woman entered Illinois women’s reformatory at Dwight to serve a twenty-five-year term for murder of Earle’s wife. Earle avoided his mother’s trial and it was their first meeting since they were grilled in Chicago after ths slaying, Nov. 21. With them, right, is shown the prison’s assistant superintendent.

Army Air Mail Flier Plunges to His Death Texas Lieutenant Crashes in Heavy Rainstorm While Seeking Landing Field; Mail Is Saved. By United Press DEWITT, la., March 31.—Lieutenant Thurman A. Wood, army flier, crashed to death last night with a heavy load of mail on a farm four

GREECE ASKS INSULL RELEASE BY TURKEY International Law Cited; Police Balked. By United Press ATHENS, March 31. Foreign Minister Demetroio Maximos today cabled the Turkish government at Angora, demanding release under international law of the Greek steamship Maiotis, which has Samuel Insull aboard as passenger. Turkish authorities have held the ship since Thursday, seeking a way to extradite Insull to answer charges of fraud in the United States. Mr. Maximos’s demand was made upon representation of George Pop, chief counsel here for the Chicago utilities man. Mr. Pop cabled the master of the Maiotis to refuse to surrender Insull if police demanded him. ISTANBUL, Turkey, March 31. Police asked Samuel Insull to go ashore for questioning today. Insull refused bluntly, and police left his chartered steamship Maiotis, to get new instructions from the government at Angora. Insull remained under guard. QUA INT CEREMONY H ELD Fireworks Exploded in Sacred Cart at Florence Easter Festival. By United Press FLORENCE. Italy, March 31. One of the most picturesque ceremonies of colorful holy week was observed outside the cathedral today—the explosion of fireworks in the “Sacred Cart,” drawn by four white oxen. Thousands of tourists and peasants gathered for the ceremony, which has continued for some six centuries with few interruptions.

money to the states to expend for public works projects to those shown to be actually in dire need. William H. Book, director of the Governor's unemployment relief commission, warned that works projects would not be started until April 9 under the new program. He said approximately 24.000 would be put to work in the urban areas under the plan. Those now on CWA will be canvassed to determine their actual need and the neediest given jobs to aid in the relief of their families It is estimated that Marion county's quota will be between 3.000 and 4,000 employed under the new program. They will be taken from the present CWA pay rolls. With the close of CWA, Mr. Book said that 43.500 person were employed. W. A. Hacker, vice-president of the unemployment commission, was chairman of the meeting.

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mnes nortneasc oi uewitt. Lieutenant Wood’s death was the first since the army resumed air mail service following a period of suspension ordered by President Roosevelt because of eleven previous fatalities. A heavy rainstorm, of which the flier had not been warned, was blamed for the crash. Although Lieutenant Wood was bound westward from Chicago to Omaha, the plane was found to be headed eastward with its nose plunged four feet into the ground. The twentythree mail sacks, weighing 500 pounds, were scattered. Lieutenant Wood had turned off his ignition switch before the crash and there had been no fire. Flier Made Good Time Coroner L. D. Riggert of Clinton, who investigated the accident, ordered the flier's body taken to Clinton, seventeen miles from the scene of the crash. Riggert believed that Lieutenant Wood had turned back eastward on his course, seeking an emergency landing'field. The pilot left Chicago at 7:15 p. m. and made good time along his course until he struck the rainstorm near Clinton. When he passed over the farm of Leonard McGuire, near the scene of the crash, he was flying low r .

McGuire was the first to reach the wreckage on the farm of William Mommsen. He described the crash as terrific, saying he heard the sound of the plane striking the ground from his farm. Mail Is Rushed Through Volunteers collected the mail sacks and drove them to Davenport, twenty miles away, where another army plane took over Lieutenant Wood's flight. Lieutenant Wood was on his course and in territory in which there were landing fields within every fifty miles. Lieutenant Wood had flowm the Chicago-Omaha route ever since the army took over the mail flights. His home was in San Antonio, Tex., and he was graduated in the 1931 class at Kelly Field, Tex. Weather maps supplied to the army fliers last night reported a 4.000-foot ceiling and fine visibility over Lieutenant, Wood’s course. He was flying a small A-12 type attack plane. His death was the first in the central army division. Guards were placed over the wreckage pending the arrival of investigators. German Cardinal Succumbs By United Press VATICAN CITY, March 31. Franz Cardinal Ehrle, librarian and archivist of the church, died at 1 a. m. today. 'He was 88. He was born in Germany and was made a cardinal in 1922. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 6 Bridge 13 Broun 7 Catholicism in Indiana 3 Church Services 3 Classified '. 11, 12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 13 Curious World 13 Easter in Churches 8, 9 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Hickman—Theaters 7 lippmann 14 Monuments of Literature 7 Pegier 7 Radio 11 Sports 10, 11 Sunday Sermon 9 Wallace Series 11

TWO SERVICES AT SUNRISE TO MARKEASTER Morning Ceremonies Will Be Held at Circle and Ft. Harrison. CHILDREN WILL SING Groups From Eleven City Churches Will Meet at Monument. (Easter Church Music on Pages 8 and 9) Choruses singing Eastertide songs in city churches, sermons by pastors, and two sunrise services, one on the Circle monument steps and another at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, will feature the 1934 Easter services tomorrow' in Indianapolis. Beginning at 6:30 a. m., on the north steps of the monument, children from eleven city churches will sing under the direction of Mrs. James M. Ogden, founder of the choir. At 7:45 a. m. an elaborate Easter service will be held at Ft. Harrison. Forming Living Cross One thousand soldiers, 200 Knights Templar in full uniform and 200 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars’ auxiliary, will aid in the rites. A. living cross will be formed by the enlisted men and other organizations. Planes from the national guard will form a sky cross overhead. The Rev. F. R. Davies will give a prayer and scripture reading. Dr. Lewis Brown, rector of St. Paul’s cathedral, will deliver the sermon. WFBM will broadcast the rites. Good Friday Observed It is estimated that 35,000 persons worshiped Good Friday in services at English’s theater, B. F. Keith’s theater and at downtown churches. Stock market wires were closed while other wires in some cases halted their business for several minutes revery. Stores were crowded today and yesterday with last-minute Easter shoppers. Egg-hunts, special dinners at city and county institutions, were to be other features of Easter Sunday. LABOR BOARD ACTS IN TRUCKING WAR Final Settlement Sought in Parley Today. An attempt to adjust the differences between the Kibler Trucking Company and its employes will be made at a conference today at the offices of the regional labor board, according to George T. Watson, secretary of the board. Representatives of Teamsters’ and Chauffeurs’ union charged yesterday that the company had failed to live up to the terms of the agreement signed several days ago. Harry Peats, business agent of the union, said the Kibler company had agreed to re-employ ninety strikers, but that only thirty-two had received jobs so far. GERMANY WILL MAKE TOKEN DEBT PAYMENT Approximately .$1,250,000 to Be Paid on $50,000,000. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—The German government today agreed to make a token payment of approximately $1,250,000 on its debt of approximately $50,000,000 due the United States treasury today. The agreement was announced by State Secretary Cordell Hull. The payments were due on account of mixed claims payments and interest, and the cost of the American army of occupation in Germany which were postponed by the Hoover moratorium agreement of 1930.

Wirt’s Slap at Wallace 'Whine, ’ Says Congressman; ‘Silly, ’ Laughs Rainey

American Farmers Believe Cabinet Chief Is Not Radical Enough, Claims Foulkes of Michigan. By United Press

WASHINGTON, March 31. Representative George Foulkes iDem., Mich.) today labeled as a “whine” the complaint of Dr. William A. Wirt, “Red plot” investigation instigator, that Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace had said the country must decide “w'hich way to go.” “The American farmers, a substantial number of whom I represent, want Secretary Wallace to go farther,” said Mr. Foulkes. "Their kick is not because he has been too radical, but rather because he has not been radical enough.” Mr. Foulkes, who has been trying to bait Dr. Wirt into a debate, said he expected to confer with the Gary educator when he comes here next week to testify before a house investigating committee. As for Representative Hamilton Fish (Rep., N. Y.), who has charged that “Socialists at heart” fill many key government positions, Mr. Foulkes said he was a “well mean-

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Ward Davis Pretty Annave France, 17, Petersburg, is dead, the victim of a young love tragedy, and Ward Davis, 18, Petersburg high school and University of Alabama athlete, is held in the Washington (Ind.) jail for her shooting. Miss France was a junior in the Petersburg high school and Davis was graduated from the school last year. Davis was know'n as Petersburg’s “one-man track team’’ and held many track meet records. By United Press PETERSBURG, Ind., March 31. With classmates acting as pallbearers, Miss Annave France, slain high school student, w'as buried here today. While funeral services were being conducted. Ward Davis, 18. former Petersburg high school athlete and her jilted suitor was being held in jail at Washington on charges of murder. As police reconstructed the slaying, they said Annave apparently was killed because of her refusal to marry Davis. The suspect told Coroner Charles Jones of Pike county that the shooting was accidental. NEW BOARD IS URGED Mediation Group Recommended by Eastman. By United Press WASHINGTON. March 31.—Federal transportation co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman today recommended creation of anew national mediation board to replace the present board. His proposal was in a letter to Representative Sam Rayburn (Derm, Tex.), chairman of the house interstate commerce committee, in which he submitted a proposed bill to revise the railway labor act.

ing young man who, I sometimes suspect, doesn't know that Columbus discovered America.” Speaker Henry T. Rainey, who believes the Wirt case is becoming “sillier and more ridiculous every

War Hero, Once Left for Dead on Battlefield, Dies Auto Wreck Claims Life of U. S. Soldier Decorated by Four Nations for Bravery in France. By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 31. —Death has come—this time for certain —to James E. Quinn, World war hero who was left for dead on the battlefields of France in 1918.

Quinn, decorated for bravery by four nations, was killed last night in the wreck of his automobile near Brighton. A second lieutenant in Company G, Twenty-eighth infantry, he was in the vanguard of the first wave of attackers and was assigned to destroy all defensive points in the path of the objective. ‘‘There were 246 of us, including five officers, when we started,” Quinn said later. w.‘T wound up the *

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LIMITS OUTSIE ADS FOR BEES Excise Director Rules Signs Must Not Name Any Certain Brand. One of the first steps to prevent brewery domination of retail beer parlors was taken yesterday when Paul P. Fry., state excise director, ordered brewers to refrain from giving retailers outdoor advertising signs. The new regulation goes farther and forbids retailers Worn displaying outdoor signs advertising any certain brand of beer or liquors. Retailers, however, may display signs on the inside of their places provided they are the property of the retailer. The inside signs must not exceed twenty-two by twentyeight inches in dimension. The excise director held that the retailer must show that he did not purchase the signs below their actual cost. Mr. Fry gave beer retailei s ten days to comply with their regulations. Revocation of license is the penalty for failure to obey the regulations. “The action we are taking is similar to that n Michigan, New York, New Jersey. lowa and other states,” said Mr. Fry. Possibility that the ruling would be taken to the courts by brewers as well as sign companies was seen by observers. Frank W. Young, president of the Allied Neon Sign Manufacturing Company, said today that he as well as other sign companies may carry Mr. Fry’s ruling to the courts on the th.-'ery that it is restraint of trade. H° charged the ruling unfair and said it would throw men out of work. STEEL PRICE ADVANCED Institute Announces Increases on Several Grades. By United Press NEW YORK, March 31.—The American Iron and Steel Institute today announced price advances on several grades of steel. Rerolling blooms, billets and slabs were increased $3 a gross ton. Sheet bar prices were advanced $4 a ton effective April 10.

day,” will appoint an investigating committee Monday. Representative Alfred L. Bulwinkle (Dem., N. C.), author of the investigation resolution, probably will head the inquiry body.

day with two privates, a noncom, and what was left of myself. That’s how tough the going was.” He was so grievously wounded that he was left for dead in a farmhouse. Later, it was discovered that his heart was still beating. He regained consciousness just in time to prevent the amputation of his arm. After spending weeks in American hospitals abroad, he returned to Memphis and began a successful business career^

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BROTHER SEES TWO SISTERS DIE IN CRASH Traction Car Crashes Into Teachers’ Auto at Grade Crossing. PAIR KILLED INSTANTLY Kin in Machine Following: Attempted to Beat Trolley, Is View. Their brother looking on with anguished eyes, unable to aid them, two sisters were killed instantly early today by an Indiana Railroad traction ear at a grade crossing . near the Johnson-Marion county line. The dead are Miss Wilma Wheatcraft, 44, and Miss Pauline Wheatcraft, 41. The automobile in which the sisters were riding, according to V. V. Slater, 2633 Stanley avenue, operator of the traction car, was halted near the grade crossing and then was started again, apparently with the intention of beating the approaching interurban. Slater said the auto was started again with the traction car about 100 yards away. In a car immediately behind the one containing the sisters was Leland Wheatcraft, their brother. The bodies were taken to the J. C. Wilson funeral home at Greenwood. The Misses Wheatcraft were school teachers, one having taught at Shelbyville for a number of years and the other at Ccntralia, 111. They had been visiting relatives at the family home near Greenwood, over the Easter week-end. and had gone to Greenwood to obtain food for breakfast. The Misses Wheatcraft were daughters of pioneer residfents of Johnson county. LINDY MAY HEAD TWA UNDER REORGANIZATION Scripps-Howard Paper in Capital Prints Report. By Uni fed Press WASHINGTON, March 31.—The Washington Daily News, a ScrippsHoward newspaper, today said reports in aviation circles were that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh may become president of a reorganized company to take over Transcontinental and Western Air. That line is one of the largest of the companies which lost mail contracts in the general cancellation. The News said it was understood TWA would be reorganized with different officers and another name, but would remain in control of the same financial interests. FOUR CHILDREN BITTEN BY DOG. BELIEVED MAD Animal Killed by Man; Head Sent to Health Board. Four children were bitten today by a dog believed mad, police were informed by Fred Goins, 218 Detroit street. The dog, a stray, was beaten to death with a club by a man when the animal attacked him. Its head was sent to the state health board for examination to determine if it had rabies. The children. Billie Goins, 5; Burl Goins, 3; Robert Lock, 2, of 214 Detroit street, and Jack Clark, 7, of 249 Detroit street, were given antitetanus serum at Robert Long hospital. DRY EASTER MORNING IS FORECAST FOR CITY Showers Predicted for Afternoon or Night. Easter finery may be strutted to church tomorrow without undue fear of the usual Easter morr.ing showers, the weather bureau announced today. Easter Sunday morning probably will be somewhat chilly and overcast, but rains headed this way are not expected to dampen spirits of those fortunate enough to have new clothes, as showers probably will be delayed until afternoon or night, it was reported. Lowest temperature tonight is expected to be slightly above freezing. OFFICERS OF CLOSED OHIO BANK SENTENCED Standard Trust Heads Given One to Thirty Years. By United Press CLEVELAND, March 31.—Alvanley Johnston and C. Stirling Smith, chairman and president respectively of the failed Standard Trust bank, today were sentenced to serve from one to thirty years in Ohio penitentiary for misuse of bank funds. The bankers filed notice of appeal and were given thirty days in which to file a brief. Johnston is grand chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and as such became chairman of the bank, which ' succeeded the Engineers’ Na’ional bank, a brotherhood institution. Kansas City Chief Quits By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 31. Eugene C. Reppert, director of poI lice, resigned today as a direct result of wholesale sluggings and 4pur killings at last Tuesday’s muniefpil election. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a. m 51 10 a. m 47 7a. m 52 11 a. m 41 Ba. m 50 12 (noon) ..43 Ba. m 49 ip.