Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1934 — Page 3

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36 CANDIDATES FILE BY MAIL, TOTAL IS 1,253 Mayoral Aspirants Promise Tax Reduction, Utility Acquisition. List of candidates filing with the secretary of state was boosted yesterday by thirty-six notices es candidacy received by mail, bringing the total of filings in the office to 1,253. The only Marion couny candidate in the belated group was John L. Benedict, Republican candidate for the state representative nomination from Marion county. Errors Rectified In the confusion of last minute filing of candidacies, names of several candidates were omitted from the list published by The Times yesterday, and errors unavoidably were made In several of the names carried. Names omitted included Paul E. Tcgarden. R. R. 17, Box 133, Republican, for Washington township assessor: Charles B. Sandage, 630 South Meridian street, Democrat, for councilman-at-large; Harmon A. Campbell, Republican, for county commissioner, Second district; H. Walter Schaefer, 1139 West Thirtythird street. Republican, for state representative, and Harry W. Collins, Republican, for county treasurer. The name of Allan Stranz, Republican, for state representative, was misspelled. Address of Walter S. Glass, 1143 Hoyt avenue, Republican, for state representative, was given incorrectly, and Roy O. Johnson, Smoke Abatement League secretary, erroneously was listed as a Republican candidate for state representative. He is a candidate for state senator. Industry Aid Pledged Untiring efforts to bring more industries to Indianapolis to relieve unemplyoment were pledged by George L. Denny, aspirant for the Republican nomination for mayor, in an address last night at 2724 Highland place. First duty of every public official, he said, is to protect the taxpayer against unnecessary taxes. A meeting of Republican women will be held at 2 tomorrow at 401 Mcyer-Kiser building. Mr. Denny and Joseph E. Hartman, Young Republican League of Marion County chairman, will speak.

Burk Talks on Gas Cos.

Immediately steps to acquire the Citizens Gas Company as a municipal utility, if elected, were promised by J. Ed Burk, candidate for the Republican nomination for mayor, in a talk before the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen last night. Other addresses scheduled by Mr. Burk include, tonight, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; tomorrow morning, Women's Voters League; tomorrow afternoon, Junior Chamber of Commerce; tomorrow night, 450 North Senate avenue; Thursday night, Hoyt and State avenues, and Friday night 1317 South Meridian street. Last to Register Dr. Joe W. Sovine, 628 West For-ty-third street, rushed into the court house shortly before midnight last night and gained the vague honor of being the last pe.-son to register officially in the county. To the weary clerk Dr. Sovine explained that he had been wrinkling his brows all day trying to rememf brr something which his wife had told him not to forget. A chance word of a patient whom he had been attending last night cleared Dr. Sovine’s mrmory. “My wife threatened to tie a siring around my finger to make me remember about registering, but I told her that it was not necessary,’ Dr. Sovine told the clerk. Dean Will Speak Italian-Democratic Club will meet a! 8:30 tonight at 940 East Washington street. Russel J. Dean, candidate for prosecuting attorney, will be the principal speaker. Kern Club to Meet Permanent officers of the newly organized Kern-for-Mayor Club of the Nineteenth ward will be installed at a meeting Sunday. At a meeting last Sunday in the home of Florence McFeeters. 2623 West Jackson streeet. Toney E. Flack spoke in behalf of Judge Kern. Duvall Opens Drive John Duvall, former city mayor and candidate for that office subject to the Republican primary, will open his speaking campaign at 8 tomorrow night at 723 Riviera drive. Groups Hear Markun Louis A. Markun. a Republican candidate for mayor, addressed five meetings last night. The meetings were held at Blake and Michigan streets, 900 West Twelfth street, 4346 Guilford avenue. 1225 Congress avenue and English hotel. Judge Candidate Talks Donald R. Mote, a Republican candidate for superior court judge, Rcom 5. spoke before the Irvington Republican C’.ub last night. He addressed the Perry Township Council of Republican Women yesterda\ afternoon at University Heights. Club Hears Engelke The juvenile court should co-op-erate with social and welfare groups, John F. Engelke, a Republican candidate for juvenile judge, told members of the Good Government Club last night at a meeting at Hoyt avenue and State street. Candidates to Speak A potpourri of political ideas will be expressed tomorrow noon as the eleven candidates for mayor will speak their alloted five minutes time on Why I Should Be Mayor ’ before the Junior Chamber of Commerce In the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Elmon Williams will preside. Evan Walker will introduce the candidates.

Way Back in the Days of Long Ago

This is the fifteenth of a series of pictures of scenes and people depicting “the good old days' 1 here.

Stocks Lobby, President Are Expected to Clash

Brain Trust Mourns as Rigid Markets Act Loses Teeth. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, April 10.—At one end of Pennsylvania avenue William A. Wirt solemnly warned the country today that the brain trust is too powerful. At the other end of the avenue the men he fears were more glum and discouraged than at any time during the Roosevelt administration. The Wirt charges were not responsible. The capital is amused by them. But by coincidence the man who fears revolution told his story before a house committee just after the President’s young liberal advisers had suffered a series of crushing defeats, striking at the fundamentals of their recovery program. Emasculation of the stock market bill in the senate banking committee yesterday was the most serious reverse they have met in the thirteen months of the Roosevelt administration. Unless the President on his return to Washington Friday is able to regain the lost ground and restore the bill to the form agreed on before he left, the reverse may prove a major defeat. In the stock market bill the administration and the "moneychangers” have come to death grips. The young liberals believe government regulation of the issuance and traffic in securities is essential if other phases of the program are to succeed. Financial interests are putting up their stiffest fight against the bill and spending thousands of dollars manipulating the most impressive lobby the capital remem- ! bers.

Accede to Money Changes Yesterday afternoon the senate banking and currency committee, 10 to 8. acceded to the wishes of the stock exchange and voted for regulation by a special new- agency instead of the federal trade commission. Not only that, but they struck from the bill the enacting clauses which were relied on to make sure of sanction by the courts. From another direction came a threat almost as serious. Inflation forces, massed behind three separate measures, threatened the administration’s fiscal policies, and in one case had the open support of Democratic leaders in the house. The drive for inflation has become menacing only during the President's absence from Washington. Today petitions are being circulated in the house of representatives to force votes on measures requiring the government to pay off all depositors in closed national banks and to issue greenbacks against farm mortgages. The first bill is openly supported by Democratic floor leader Joe Bvrns and Speaker Rainey is doing nothing to halt it in spite of administration disapproval. 52 Members Sign Petition Fifty-two house members signed a petition to bring the bill to the floor far a vote within a few’ hours after its presentation yesterday. If 145 sign this week a vote will be forced on April 23. The plan would cost the government $1,815,000,000 if only national banks and state bank members of the federal reserve system are included. It will cost $4,000,000,000 if amendments already being discussed in the house should be adopted. On another petition to bring to a vote the Frazier-Lemke (farm mortgage Greenback) bill. 132 signatures have already been secured. Still another inflationary threat is contained in the silver bill'which the senate agriculture committee is rewriting frankly attempting to get action while the President is out of the city. Administration Under Fire The administration and its recovery programs are under fire on a number of other fronts today. Tile American Bar Association has convened in special session to dissect the program and an exceedingly critical attitude is indicated. In Illinois the first primary election of the year takes place today with politicians watching closely tc see whether congressmen who have voted with the President will be rewarded or punished. Speaker Rainey is up for renominatfon and if he should be defeated it would be considered a direct slap at the administration. In Pennsylvania Senator David A Reed has launched the first campaign for re-election based directly on criticism of the recovery program. The senate will decide today, probably, whether the government's taxing power shall be used to produce revenue only, or to reform business. To make tax evasion difficult,

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Senator La Follette (Rep., Wis.) proposes that all income taxes be made public records. To keep business men from taking too great a share of corporation profits from stockholders, Senator Gore (Dem., Okla.) proposes an 80 per cent tax on all salaries and bonuses in excess of $75,000 a year. To keep capital from avoiding taxes Senator Clark (Dem., Mo.), proposes removing all tax exemptions from government securities. To check the growth of holding companies Senator Borah (Rep., Idaho), seeks to end consolidation tax returns and proposes taxing intercorporate profits of affiliated companies. To end war profiteering Senator Nye (Rep., N. D.), proposes a tax of 98 per cent of all net incomes over SIO,OOO a year whenever war is declared. MINISTERS AS INTERNES URGED BY DR. BENSON Hospital Chief Favors Link Betweeen Doctors and Clergy. By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., April 10.— "Ministers might do well to serve intemeships for a certain period in order to gain more than a classroom theory of how to deal with the sick,” Dr. John G. Benson, superintendent of the Indianapolis Methodist hospital, told members of the Baptist State Ministers Association at their meeting here last night. “The minister and the physician can bring great blessings on humanity by working understandingly together,” he added. BIDS ON NEW COLLEGE BUILDINGS RECEIVED Terre Haute Firm Believed Low Bidder in Projects. Bids for anew vocational and experimental building at Indiana State Teachers’ college, Terre Haute, and anew arts building at Ball State Teachers’ college, Muncie, was received by the board of trustees today at the Columbia Club, Glen W. North, Terre Haute, was reported low bidder on the construction there at $302,919. Building and furnishings are expected to cost $380,000, it was said. The college has saved $265,000 for the project and $98,000 has been promised from the federal public works administration. An additional $17,000 will be sought from PWA, it was announced.

BEER PERMITS REVIVED All Expired Importers Licenses Renewed by Same Firms. All beer importer permits, except that of the Southern Indiana Beverage Corporation, Evansville, which is not yet due for renewal, have been taken out by the same companies for 1934. it was announced today at the office cf Paul Fry, state excise director. BOY, 6, STRUCK BY CAR Lad Suffers Possible Skull Fracture in Accident. Theodore Stokes, 6 of 1054 West Thirty-fifth street, suffered a possible skull fracture when struck by an automobile at Clifton and Thirty-fifth streets yesterday. The automobile was driven by Dr. B. S. Davisson. 5015 Park avenue, who took the child to St. Vincent's hospital. SUES FOR S2OO SALARY Clerk of Court Files Suit for Difference in Pay. Judgment of S2OO against the Marion county board of commissioners is sought in a suit filed in circuit court by Wilfred F. Seyfried, clerk of the court. The complaint declared the council appropriated SI,BOO for his 1933 salary but that Judge Earl R. Cox fixed his hire at $2,000. MERIT PLAN CONTINUES System to Be Used - Again at Gridley Naval School. Gridley Naval school at Bass lake will continue its merit system rating program at its summer camp this year. C. L. White, camp commander. announced today. Honor midshipment will be taken on a special trip to the World Fair in Chicago at the end of the season. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind. 7 miles an hour; barometric pressure. 29.89 at sea level; temperature, 62; general conditions, clear, smoky; ceiling unlimited; visibility, 4 miles.

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Prominent in political and social life in Indianapolis years ago were the persons in this picture. Some of them still are residents of the city, while others have relatives here. Top (left to right)—Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson, sister of Booth Tarkington and mother of Booth Jameson, Indiana authors; Mrs. James B. Ryan and James B. Ryan, treasurer of state.

GIRL, 4, VICTIM OF LUKEMIA, IS BETTER Disease Supposed Incurable Responds to Diet. By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 10.— While funeral services were being planned for another victim of the same disease, Willie Mae Miller, 4, began to show improvement today in her fight against lukemia. Mrs. Hattie Buchanan McKinno of Memphis died of the incurable disease yesterday. Lukemia, or leucocvthemia, is a disease in which white corpuscles in the blood stream overcome the red. Mrs. McKinnan will be buried today at Troy. Tenn. Mrs. W. B. Miller, mother of Willie Mae, said her daughter was showing improvement under treatment of a bio-chemist, who has placed the girl on a liquid diet to prolong her life. Physicians, who have abandoned the case still say the child will die. ILLEGAL PRACTICES OF ATTORNEYS IS SUBJECT Report of County Investigation to Be Ready Today. Illegal practices of Marion county attorneys is the subject of a report to be read at a luncheon of the Lawyers’ Association of Indianapolis at the Washington today. The investigation was conducted by a committee selected by Grier M. Shotwell, president.

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MRS. THURSTON, WIFE OF MAGICIAN, IS DEAD Famed Stage Star and Daughter “Go On With the Show.” By United Press NEW YORK. April 10.—Grieef over the death of Mrs. Howard Thurston did not prevent her husband, the magician, from proceeding with his scheduled performance at a Jamaica theater. Observing the theatrical tradition that “the show must go on,” Thurston and his daughter Jane went through with their acts of legerdemain. At first performance Sunday night, however, Thurston was absent. His daughter remained at the theater and the act was performed by other members of the company. Mrs. Thurston died of a heart attack at the Thurston home in Beechhurst, Queens. INCREASED ROAD FUND URGED BY STOOPS Motorists Want Larger Share of Auto Tax for Highways, He Says. Indiana motorists are urging that more money derived from special automobile taxes be diverted to road building, Todd Stoops, secretary of the Hoosier Motor Club, said today. While the average motorist pays nearly $75 a year in taxes for the privilege of driving an automobile, more than 50 per cent of the money is used for purposes other than road building, Mr. Stoops declared.

U. S. LOTTERY IS STUDIED BY HOUSEBOARD Bill Proposed to Raise Billions to Pay Veterans. By Scripps-Hotcard Xciespaper Alliance WASHINGTON, April 10.—The somew r hat dignified house ways ana means committee this week will give ear to a proposal that the government run its own lottery and collect a slice of the billions which American throw annually into gambling schemes. Chairman Robert Doughton. North Carolinian Democrat and Baptist, has designated five mebbers of the committee to conduct a hearing beginning tomorrow on a bill introduced by Representative Edward A. Kennney (Dem., N. Y.), which would permit the veterenas’ administration to operate a lottery which the author says will turn $1,000,000,000 a year into the federal treasury. Mr. Kenney, a first-termer, has championed his measure with the energy of a dime store pianist plugging anew fox-trot number. He has spoken for it on the floor and tried to have it incorporated in the bonus bill as a substitute for printing greenbacks. A dozen witnesses, most of them representatives of veterans’ organizations, are ready to testify for the bill. Among theih is James Van Zandt, head of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Mr. Kenney also hopes to bring Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, who is backing a similar bill in his state legislature to raise funds for relief. By running a lottery, says the Jerseyman, the government would be doing no more than religious and benevolent organizations have been doing for years. And, he adds; quoting recent statements of postoffice officials, more than $2,000,000,000 is going out of the country every year to support foreign lotteries and sweepstakes. The idea of a government-super-vised lottery, Representative Kenney points out, goes back to the founding of the republic. In 1790, the New York state assembly authorized a lottery to raise 13,000 pounds to pay off the deficit incurred for improvements to the New York city hall, where congress convened for the first time. Later congress approved a SIO,OOO-a-year lottery for improvements to the city of Washington.

More than thirty countries use lotteries to raise revenue. In France the return, estimated at $500,000,000 a year, is used to pay for veterans’ benefits. Representative Kenney's bill would permit the veterans’ administration to prescribe rules for the lottery and would remove restrictions in the use of the mails. The bill now before the New York assembly, introduced by Assemblyman Ernest Lappano of New York City, seeks to circumvent the gambling laws by providing that holders of winning tickets shall become “officers” of the corporation managing it and that the proceeds from lucky tickets shall be regarded as “salary” for their services. Its backers hope it will produce $lO,000,000 a year. TRANSIT COMMITTEES SEE CITY CAR LINES 40 Members of National Body on Inspection. Approximately forty members of three national committees of the American Transit Association, who are concluding a two-day session at the Claypool today will inspect the new busses, trackless trolleys and street cars of the Indianapolis Street Railway system this afternoon. The meeting was held here because the industry believes the city has one of the best equipped systems in the United States. The three committees embrace employe relations, taxicab and street traffic.

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Death is slowly but certainly reaching for Willie May Miller, 4-year-old Memphis (Tenn.) girl (above), but she smiles and sings and plays with her Easter rabbit. The child is a victim of leuk°mia, a malady that baffles medical science, due to overproduction of white corpuscles, which crowd out the red ones.

FIRE INSPECTION IN CITY STARTS 35 Launch Survey to End Hazards in Cleanup, Paintup Drive. Thirty-five inspectors of the Indianapolis fire department today started their second day of inspection in the drive to eliminate fire hazards in connection with observance of clean-up, paint-up week. Inspection is being made in the district bounded by White river, the city limits west and north and Washington street. Bernard A. Lynch, fire prevention division chief, urged residents and building managers to have all rubbish placed in containers. The sanitary board has ordered garbage collectors to pick up trash on their regular rounds.

10,000 PRO-NAZISTS BOYCOTT ‘BOYCOTTERS Huge Demonstration Held by Hitlerites in New York. By United Press NEW YORK, April 10.—A Ger-man-American boycott against boycotters of German goods, planned Sunday night by ten thousand proNazists saluting the Swastika and singing the Hitler party “Horst Wessel,” was followed today by announcement of another leading store that it would cease buying German-made products. B. Altman & Cos. gave a great drop in public demand for German goods as its reason for halting German purchases. More than five thousand new Germany sympathizers packed Ridgewood Grove stadium and were guarded by uniformed storm troopers wearing the Nazi Swastika emblem. A dozen fist fights and four arrests followed the appearance in the overflow crowd of several hun-. dred anti-Nazist groups. Legislator Struck by Auto By United Press WASHINGTON, April 10.—Representative Clarence Cannon <Dem., Mo.) was injured last night when he was struck by an automobile as he stepped off the curb in front of the house office building. He was treated for lacerations of the face and shock.

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U. S. ENVOY TO IRELAND DROPS DEAD ATFEAST William W. McDowell Is Stricken While Responding to Welcome Speech. By United Press DUBLIN, April 10.—The body of American Minister William W. McDowell lay today at the United States legation which he took over officially only two weeks ago on his first and plomatic mission. After an active career as a mining man and political leader in Montana. McDowell was given the post of minister. Last night there was \ government dinner in his honor. As he was responding to a speech by President Eamon De Valera, he fell dead. Irish Free State officials, diplomats and persons from many countries carried in their minds today the tragic picture of McDowell’s collapse as they watched him, the center of interest at the brilliant state dinner at grim old Dublin castle, making his first real diplomatic speech. The view of official Dublin was expressed in the organ of De Valera’s government party, the Irish I Press. Established Precedent “In the hour when, in the name of the Irish race, Mr. McDowell was being welcomed by the leaders of our people, death came upon him,” I said the newspaper. “He himself | was speaking of his love for Ireland j when his life closed swiftly. Death ! robs our nation of a great friend | and his nation of a great citii zen.” Robust, more than six feet in : height, McDowell at 67 had just | entered anew career as diplomat. !He presented his credentials on | March 27. The fact that he had made many friends in his brief stay here and i was becoming markedly popular, was due in part to the sensation he caused when he presented his credentials, not to the governor-gen-eral— King George’s personal representative—but to De Valera. It was a diplomatic precedent that caused international comment and some criticism, as he was accredited really to the crown. Hence, there was more than the usual interest when at Dublin castle, brilliantly floodlighted for the occasion, McDowell was given a state dinner. He seemed in good health when he arrived.

Insists n Responding De Valera uad just paid tribute to McDowell. Perhaps intuitively, he turned to the new minister and told him he need not respond. McDowell insisted. A commanding figure, he rase and began his speech. He referred to the Irish in Montana, which he said really was founded by an Irishman, Marcus Daly. t ’ It was Daly, famous as an early Montana copper man, who took McDowell to Montana from Tennessee, twenty-nine years ago, and started him on a career as a mine buyer. His mind may have flashed back to those days and to his wife’s recent death. He turned pale and sank slowly to the floor. Dr. James Ryan, minister of agriculture, arid Dr. George Von Dehn-Schmidt, the German minister, were nearest him. They hastened to his aid, but he was dead. APARTMENT OWNERS TO DISCUSS BUSINESS Rent Stabilization to Be Topic at City Meeting. A round table discussion of trade problems will be held by the Apartment Owners’ Association at a luncheon meeting tomorrow in the Washington. Rent stabilization will be discussed by I. Watt Pugh of the Security Trust Company. The forum will be held by R. A. Franke, program chairman. President H. H. Woodsmall will preside.