Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 287, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1934 — Page 3

APRIL 11,1934.

TON OF ‘GRIEF* TO BE LAID IN ROOSEVELT LAP Johnson and Richberg Go to Miami to Let President Have Troubles. BY RUTH FINNEY Jimn Snrrial Wrltfr WASHINGTON, April 11.—When President Roosevelt meets two of his recovery aces in Miami tomorrow—Hugh Johnson. NRA administrator, and Donald Richberg', NRA’s general counsel —the conversation will not be about fishing. The purpose of the meeting Is serious rather than casual. The bluff general and his merry counsel hav* gone south to hand the President a load of grief and trouble aa ne steps off the Nourmahal. Washington has its ear glued to the ground, expecting important decisions after the conference. “Only a rest for Johnson," say the presidential secretaries, but the capital, recalling that Mr. Richberg has just returned from one test, does not believe that he abandoned plans for speaking in New York last night to enjoy a second rest.

What About Coal? Crisea in the industrial recovery program which have come to a head since the President’s departure must be counted on the fingers of both hands. What, for instance, shall be done about coal? Bituminous coal mine owners are glaring at each other and at their workers across a conference tf.'ole here. The fundamental question at stake is one NRA has been trying to answer since the first week of its existence and hasn't answered yet—shall northern industry and southern industry be required to pav approximately the same wage rates? Is competition between coal fields in Pennsylvania and Alabama, for instance, more nearly fair when the south is allowed to pay a dollar a day or so less than the north? The present crisis was precipitated when General Johnson fixed new wage scales for the coal industry last week, reducing the difference between northern and southern rates. Southern operators have gone to court about it. The question now is whether Roosevelt will go along with Johnson or retreat.

New Strike Scheduled And what shall be done about the automobile industry? The President's formula for bringing peace between workers and employers has not accomplished its purpose. Tool and die markers are scheduled to strike tomorrow. If they do they will tie up automobile production again as the motor products strike did earlier this week. Other disputes are pending. Violence broke out again yesterday. The American Federation of Labor has complained to the President about the way his automobile labor board is functioning. Underneath the whole explosive situation is the federation’s discontent that company unions are being permitted to bargain for workers along with trade unions. This brings the President. Johnson and Richberg face to face with the question of what to do about the Wagner labor disputes bill pending in congress. Going to President The bill would bar company unions. General Johnson has just written Senator Wagner that while he wishes him success he believes “the government should not favor any particular form of labor organization.” Senator Wagner is going to the President about it. The future of the national labor board and, to a great extent, of the labor movement in the United States, is bound up in the answer. The cotton textile industry today is trying to make defeat of the bill the price of its willingness to buy new machinery—and new machinery means jobs or no jobs in the heavy goods industries. There are still more decisions to make. General Johnson's announcement that. NR A code violators will be taken to court has been made since the President left town. If the policy Is carried through it means a fight. There are. of course, the chronic NRA problems—prices that persist in rising faster than wages; trends to monopoly under price-fixing systems in half the codes; mounting profits which have caused labor to renew its demand for shorter hours and higher wages. Wirt May Be Topic Finally, and in some ways most important, is the fact that suave, white-mustached Lieutenant-Colonel George A. Lynch, general Johnson's West Point classmate, is signing codes in Washington while the conference is taking place in the south. This follows the second reorganization of NRA in two weeks. It seems to mean a pending change in administrators or at least in administration methods. It probably preciptates a decision as to just howfar industry shall be left to govern itself. Roosevelt. Richberg and Johnson may talk also about the Wirt brain 1 trust scare, for Richberg's speech last night, phoned from Miami to the New York dinner he had planned to attend, was an official defense of "the use of brains in the solution of our political and economic problems.” ■ When any man ventures to scoff at the use of brains in government he should be asked to explain by j what part of the anatomy he be- ; lieves human affairs should be conducted.” said Mr. Richberg. “We have not engaged in planning a political revolution—but having accepted the fact of an economic i revolution we have planned to avoid any danger of a political revolu- I tion.” Bahai Assembly to Meet Regular meeting of the Bahai Assembly will be held Friday night at the Splnk-Arms. Mrs. Louis King will read from Chapter 44 of “Some Answered Questions,” by Laura Clifford Barney. Chveh Plans Card Tourney Annual spring card tournament of Sacred Heart church will be held Sunday afternoons and nights. I April 15, 22. and 29 at 3 and 8:30 1 in the parish hall. South Meridian and Union streets.

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Indiana in Brief Lively Spots in the State’s Happenings Put Together ‘Short and Sweet.’

/?>/ Time* Rpceinl COLUMBUS. April 11—Charged with grand larceny and obtaining money under false pretense, C. Vasco Dodson, Lebanon attorney, is awaiting trial in Bartholomew circuit court here. Prosecuting witness is Mrs. Jessie Cox. widowed mother of Arthur Cox, who is serving a life term in the state prison for kidnaping a 3-year-old Columbus girl. It is alleged that Dodson accepted SSO from Mrs. Cox with the understanding that he would effect the release of her son from prison, but failed to do so.

HITCHHIKER HURT IN 3-CAR CRASH City Louth, 18, Is Hurled Through Windshield; Other Mishaps. Irving Marcus, 18, 2258 North Meridian street, a hitchhiker, was thrown through the windshield of an automobile driven by Charles C. Byphers, 6501 Broadway, and suffered severe head cuts, in a threecar collision yesterday at Twentyfourth and Meridian streets. Mr. Syphers’ car struck an automobile driven by Mrs. Jessie Mills, 201 Hampton drive, forcing her car into one driven by Mrs. G. B. Abbott, 4365 Central avenue. Marcus was taken to city hospital. Two women were injured seriously last night when two cars crashed headon on state road No. 67, a mile south of Maywood. Miss Ida Mickels. 24. 1139 Kentucky avenue, suffered a possible skull fracture, and Miss Sue Garner, 65, 102 North Drexel avenue, injuries of the head, face and legs. Miss Mickels was riding with E. V. Darnell. 1305 South Belmont avenue, and Miss Garner in an automobile driven by W. H. Keys, 69. of 102 North Drexel avenue. Both women were sent to city hospital. Two girls were injured yesterday afternoon when an automobile driven by Ernest Vehling, 16, of 314 North Forest avenue, struck a safety zone guard at Arsenal avenue and Michigan street. Louise Vanreman, 16, 710 North I.inwood avenue, and Hilda Tilford, 15. of 334 North Gladstone avenue, passengers, suffered cuts and bruises of the face and head. They were taken home.

SCREEN STARS BACK BROWN IN LOVE SUIT Closing Defense Testimony Due Today in SIOO.OOO Case. Bp T'nited Press LOS ANGELES. April 11.—Attorneys for Harry Joe Brown were expected today to halt the parade of screen notables, marshalled behind the director in his contest of the S 100.000 breach of promise suit of Marjorie Gay, film “bit player." Closing testimony was expected to reach the jury late today. Lew Cody. Bert Wheeler and Sig Rogell testified yesterday, each attacking some phase of Miss Gay's story that Mr. Brown jilted her when he married Sally Eilers last year. BENEFIT PARTY LISTED Degree Team of Red Men Entertain Tonight at Cards. The degree team of Red Cloud tribe. Improved Order of Red Men, will hold a benefit card party tonight in their hall. Capital avenue and North streets. The tribe is making preparations to initiate a class of twenty-five Str.mbles in Yard, Breaks Leg Stumbling through his yard in the darkness last night. John Zimmerman. 1909 South Delaware street, fell over an old automobile chassis and broke his right leg. He was sent to city hospital. Bible Class Meets Tonight Meeting of the University-Park Christian church Bible study class will be held at 7:30 tonight. Lesson sheets will be distributed to each member.

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n u b Orphanage Sale Set Hi/ Timm Special KOKOMO, April 11. Howard county's orphanage, one of the oldest public buildings in the county, is to be sold at auction and its site and surrounding land, comprising an area of three and one-half acres, ■will be converted into a park. The orphanage has not been in use for twenty-five years. High maintenance cost caused the closing, and since the county has boarded orphans in the institutions of nearby counties. The building was completed in 1877. B B B Stolen Auto Found Hi/ Times Special MARTINSVILLE. April 11.—An automobile stolen from Shirley Troxell late in 1932, has been found in a water-filled gravel pit in the southwest section of Martinsville. When found, the ignition switch was turned on and the gears were in low. B B B Tipton Widow Buried Bp Times Special TIPTON, April 11.—Body of Mrs. Bennett A. Neal, whose husband, a business man here for forty-five years died in August, 1933, was returned here today for funeral services and burial. She died in Greenfield, where she had been making her home with a sister, Mrs. John Jack. A brother. J. Willard Miller, lives in Logansport. B B B Business Man Dies Bp 'l imes Special KOKOMO, April 11. Funeral services were held today so Harry Becraft, 57, who had been engaged in the storage transfer business here ftr twenty years. BBS Meeting Dates Changed Bp Times Special LAFAYETTE, April 11— Second annual meeting of amateur radio operators will be held at Purdue university April 28 and 29, instead of April 14 and 15 as previously announced. Attendance of 400 to 500 from Indiana and surrounding states is expected.

DEMOCRATS TRIUMPH * IN G. 0. P. STRONGHOLD Elect Mayor and Council for First Time in New Britain, Conn. Bp United Press NEW BRITAIN. Conn.. April 11.— Democrats, for the first time in the city's history, have elected a mayor and a majority of members of the common council. Attorney David L. Dunn, former Yale and Fordham baseball star and University of Vermont football coach, defeated Mayor George A. Quigley yesterday by 1.938 votes. Democrats elected sixteen of the thirty council members, which previously stood 20 to 10 for the Republicans. Burglars Get Sill Entering the home of Norman McArty. 1421 North Dearborn street, last night, thieves stole slll hidden in the house. The less was discsovered by Mr. McArty's son.

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’CITY MAN DIES AT WORK FROM HEART DISEASE Lawrence M. Lanam, 33, Is Victim: Funeral Set for Friday. Heart disease caused the death at his work yesterday of Lawrence M. Lanam, 33, of 1609 Bradbury street. Mr. Lanam went to work at the Union Stockyards a week ago. Funeral services will be held Friday in the Second Pilgrim Holiness church. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Pansy Lanam; a son, Arthur Paul, and his father, Stewart Lanam. Wohlfeld Rites Held Funeral services were held in New York yesterday for Julius Wohlfeld, 68. former resident of Indianapolis. Mr. Wohlfeld died Monday in that j city. Surviving are the widow; a brother. Jacob Wohlfeld. Indianapolis; four daughters, Mrs. Louis Becovitz and Mrs. Scott Cunningham. both of Bloomington, and Mrs. Harry Jacobson and Miss Esther Wohlfeld. New York, and a son. Louis Wohlfeld. Samuel M. Botts Succumbs Samuel Morris Botts, 55. died yesterday in his home. 2721 Barth avenue. Funeral services will be held in the Shelby Street M. E. church at 2 Friday, with burial in Washington Park cemetery. Surviving are the widow, Henrietta; a daughter, Iva Mae; a sister, Mrs. William McCotter, and two brothers, Joseph and James. Aaron Sering Dies A heart attack caused the death yesterday of Aaron Sering, 55, at his home 537 South Alabama street. Mr. Sering came from Russia twen-ty-seven years ago. Surviving are the widow, Rose; three sons, Harry, Joe and Charles, and two daughters, Rutli, and Mrs. Bertha Ruben. Funeral services were to be held at 2:30 today at Linath Hazedeck Society, with burial in the Hebrew cemetery.

CHURCH WOMEN TO MEET HERE Interesting Program Listed for Two-Day Session of State Council. Indiana Council of Federated Church Women will assemble in the First Congregational church at 9:30 tomorrow morning. The conference will close Friday night. Mrs. William F. Rothenburger, chairman of the national council race relations committee, Mrs. E. C. Rumpler, Mrs. M. G. Bridenstine, Mrs. George Burbank, Mrs. Ernest N. Evans. Mrs. A. D. Lange, Mrs. Charles A. Muller, Miss Dorothea Koper and Mrs. Will H. Adams will speak. Mrs. James T. Ferguson, national council president, will speak at the banquet at 6:30 tomorrow night. The state council will join Friday with the thirty-sixth annual meeting of the Indianapolis Council of Federated Church Women in the Third Christian church. The Rev. Robert Hall. Indiana state prison chaplain, and Dr. A. E. Cory, pension fund executive secretary of the Disciples of Christ, will speak. PRIESTS JLECTU RE SET Father Walde to Tell of German Girl Who Has Holy Visions. Theresa Neumann, the German girl who is said to see holy visions in her trances, will be discussed by the Rev. John J. Walde, pastor of the Corpus Christi church. Oklaloma City, Okla., at 8 tonight in St. Catherine’s hall, Shelby and Tabor streets. Father Walde gained admittance to the home of the girl and spoke with her. The lecture is being sponsored by the Young Ladies Sodality of St. Catherine’s church.

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Symphony Closes Fourth Season With Brilliant Program; Balance Is Lauded

WITH the closing of the fourth season of the Indianapolis symphony, orchestra last night at the Murat every member has the right to be proud of what has been accomplished this season. The orchestra has grown steadily in every department under the leadership of Ferdinand Schaefer, conductor; Herman Arndt, assistant conductor, and Fred Noble, concert master. Last night, the orchestra distinguished itself by playing Franck's "Symphony D Minor." The various string sections always have been strong, but last night the brass and bass sections scored heavily. There was a better balance in all sections during the playing of this symphony than has been observed this season. It was concerted playing that guarantees even greater development next season. The history of this fourth season is one of steady intelligent progress. Mr. Schaefer decided to do a request program last night, and even went beyond that and presented a novelty feature by having Wilhelmina Eberhart, Chicago soprano, as soloist.

STATE DAY SET AT HOME SHOW House Rebuilding Stressed Today; Materials on Exhibit. Rebuilding of houses was to be stressed today at the Home Complete Exposition in the Manufacturers’ building at the state fairgrounds. Exhibits of all kinds of building materials were to be brought to the attention of visitors at the show. Indiana day at the exposition will be celebrated tomorrow, with the Indiana Real Estate Board and the Indiana Real Estate Association acting as sponsors. Realtors and their wives and friends will attend a luncheon at noon. Friday will be given over to show exhibitors. Ten firms have taken space in the show since its beginning, thirteen years ago. They are the Peerless Foundry Company, William H. Block Company, L. S. Ayres & Cos., Burnet-Binford Lumber Company. Central Supply Company. Spickelmier Fuel and Supply Company, Ralph R. Reeder and Sons, and Vonnegut Hardware Company.

GIRL SCOUTS READY TO ELECT OFFICERS Nominating Group for May Meeting Is Named. Mrs. C. F. Voyles, commissioner, has named Joseph A. Miner, Mrs. Arthur Krick and Mrs. Louis R. Sereinsky members of the nominating committee to prepare a ticket for presentation at the May meeting of the Indianapolis Girl Scout Council. Girl Scouts plans include cookie day, May 5, and the first Brownie revel to be held April 21, at Broadway Methodist church. The Needlework Guild contest will close Saturday, with judging on Monday. Troop 9 will celebrate its second birthday tonight in the First Reformed church. ROOSEVELT ~ KIN DEAD T. L. Robinson, Former Navy Official, Dies of Pneumonia. Bp United Press WARREN. N. Y., April 11.—Messages expressing sorrow 7 over the death of Theodore Douglas Robinson, 50. former assistant navy secretary and member of the famous Roosevelt family, poured into the -amiiy home today. Mr. Robinson, nephew 7 of Theodore Roosevelt, first cousin of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt,, and a distant relative of the President, died of pneumonia.

BY WALTER D. HICKMAN

Miss Eberhart first appeared with the orchestra singing the Indian bell song from "Lakme." The song permitted trie singer to register effectively as a coloratura and gave the orchestra its chance to prove its worth in furnishing and musical background for a singer. Later in the program. Miss Eberhart sang a group of three numbers with Charles Lurvey at the piano. She was excellent in “Les Filles de Cadiz." She sang La Forge’s "Song of the Open" in English, resulting in a well earned encore. The orchestra excelled itself in’ the ever popular and melodious "Spring Song" of Mendelssohn and in the “Traumerei." All sections showed up splendidly in four dances of Tschaikowsky’s "Nutcracker Suite.” The program closed with the overture to "The Merry' Wives of Windsor." This request program was so successful that Mr. Scha°fer undoubtedly will make it an annual event. On Tuesday night, the orchestra will give a popular concert with every seat, in the theater priced at 50 cents. That will be the orchestra's contribution to Music Week.

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Alexander G. Cavins Among those entered in the primary lists is Alexander G. Cavins, 4775 Park avenue, attorney, seeking the Republican nomination for prosecuting attorney. Mr. Cavins was deputy United States district attorney in charge of federal prosecutions more than eleven years. He served four years as deputy attorney-general in charge of all criminal appeals.

BOY BURNS TRASH IN ‘INCINERATOR,’ SETS VACANT STORE AFIRE

Anew office boy who told police he thought a room with an iron door in the rear of a vacant storeroom was an “incinerator” was startled today when rubbish which he set afire there in turn set fire to the building at 246 East Washington street. The place is being renovated for a radio store. Damage was reported “slight.” STORM HALTS FLIGHTS City Students Get First Tests of Night Flying. First night flying instruction for several students of the Tarkington Aviation Company ground school was interrupted last night when a thunderstorm arose. Those who made flights before the storm were Othel Winninger, James Passwater, William Mitchell and Earl Ross. Other students will receive night flights later.

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On View Here Today INDIANAPOLIS theaters :oday offer: Rae Samuels in "Cocktail "Hour" on the stage and “The Countess of Monte Cristo" on the screen at the Lyric; "Spitfire.” at Circle: “Men in White" at Loews Palace; "The Lost Patrol" and "Sing and Like It" at the Indiana, and "David Harum" at the Apollo. / ana Zimbalist Coming EFREM ZIMBALIST. celebrated concert violinist, will appear here tomorrow, night at 8:15 in Caleb Mills hall in the final Civic Music Association concert. Mr. Zimbalist will oppn with the tuneful E Major sonata of Haydn. Following this he will introduce Variations on a Theme by Mozart, a modern composition by Rosario Scalero. Mr. Zimbalist has made his own arrangement of a concerto by Conus, a Russian composer little known to Indianapolis audiences. Mr. Zimbalist will close the group with three numbers of his own composition. They are Improvisitions on a Japanese Theme. Polish Dance. KurukaKuruka. and a fantasy on RimskyKorsakoff's opera. "Le Coq d'Or."

M'CULLOCH NOT TO RUN AGAIN State Democratic Chief Not to Seek Post on May 19. When the Democratic state committee is reorganized May 19. Dr. Carleton B. McCulloch will not be a candidate for re-election to the chairmanship, he told committee members at headquarters in the Claypool yesterday at the last meeting before the primary election. Among those being mentioned for the post are Ed Eisner, Seymour; James D. Adams, Columbia City, and William Storen. The first is said to be favored by state administration forces. Mr. Adams is chairman of the state highway commission and Mr. Storen state treasurer. Backers of R. Earl Peters, Fort Wayne, for the nomination for the United States senate, will try to wrest control of the committee from Governor Paul V. McNutt, who now dominates it. Governor McNutt ousted Mr. Peters from the chairmanship and is opposing him for the senatorial nomination.

WAR MINISTER OF JAPAN QUITS POST Army Chief Resigns After Brother’s Conviction. By Vnitcd Press TOKIO, April 11.—General Senjuro Hayashi, minister of war in the Japanese cabinet, resigned today because of a municipal bribery scandal involving his brother. No immediate successor was named for the man who had succeeded the scraggly-mustached General Araki in the war ministry early this year. Premier Saito accepted the resignation with reluctance. General Hayashi’s brother, Yukichi Shirakami, former deputy mayor of Tokio, was convicted with several other men in connection with alleged bribery in gas and electric contracts. Even a visit to the general’s official residence failed to have him change his mind.

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BAKER BACKS PEACE AIMS OF LEAGUE GROUP Supports Petition Urging Changes in Covenant Agreeable to U. S. By 7 iifi Sprrinl NEW YORK. April 11.— Expression of opinion by the American people on the questions of relationship of the United States to the league of nations and revision of the league covenant is declared to be of the highest importance by Newton D. Baker, in a statement released today by the League of Nations Association. The former war secretary has no doubt ‘that the world at this moment is drifting rapidly into competitive armaments.’ Another disastrous world war will be the ine\it able result if this drift continues, he believes. But "an expression of co-operation from the United States may turn the balance " Revision of the league covenant is cited by Mr. Baker as a possible way of improving modern peace machinery. His statement is made in connection with a petition being circulated throughout the United States by some twenty peace organizations, urging that terms be stated under which full membership of the United States in the league would be possible.

Guide to Administration Having signed it, Mr. Baker explains that the petition does not seek to coerce the action of our government. "We sign.” he said, “to let the administration know that it can rely upon the united support of millions of Americans when it finds opportunity to associate America with those who are seeking to co-ordinate the modem peace machinery and improve it by revision of the covenant so that it will be effective to prevent an international calamity from which we, with the rest of mankind, must suffer unpredictable griefs." Mr. Baker's statement follows: “There can be no doubt that the world at, this moment is drifting rapidly into competitive armaments to be used for nationalistic purposes. If this drift continues, another disastrous world war will inevitably result. Statesmen can only respond to what they believe to be the opinion and desire of the people of the countries which they serve. It is, therefore, of the highest importance that informal expressions of opinion be made, like the one initiated by the League of Nations Association urging that the United States state the terms under which American membership in the league would be possible, so that our government, representing a great people and a great nation, can act with full knowledge of what the people of the United States want their government to do. Forces in Head-on Conflict “Throughout the world the forces of law, justice and peace are in a head-on collision with the forces of distrust, suspicion, fear and aggression which make for war. An expression of co-operation from the United States may turn the balance. "This petition does not seek to coerce the action of our government, nor do those who sign it fail to recognize the tremendous burdens the President and his associates are carrying in the readjustment of our domestic affairs. “The more signatures there are to this petition, the more definite the expression it makes and the stronger the hand of the President.” McGuffcy Club to Meet Members of the McGuffey Club will meet at 1:30 Saturday at Cropsey auditorium, city library. Members will respond at roll call with McGuffey quotations.