Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 294, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1934 — Page 3
APRIL 19,1934
NEW DISPUTE INJECTED INTO AIR MAIL WAR Blacklisting of Firms Which Lost Contracts Opposed by House Group. R’i Rrrippn-Hotrnrd Sr.wtpnpr.r AUinnrc WASHINGTON, April 19.—The administration's air mail program apparently was headed into another fight today because the house postoffice committee voted against blacklisting companies whose contracts were canceled two months ago for alleged collusion. Not only are companies whose contracts were canceled prohibited from bidding, until after reorganization, under the bill now pending in the senate, but also the same prohibition holds in the specifications for bids on temporary contracts that Postmaster-General James A. Farley has .called for today. Legality of these bids was questioned today by Representative Clyde Kelly (Rep., Pa.). This blacklisting is the crux of ! the political issue that has grown ! out of the air mail controversy, j Republican critics hold that there | either was no collusion or that the companies were not given a chance to disprove the charges.
Political Effects Far-Reaching The house committee's decision was reached yesterday. At the same time the committee delegated a subcommittee the task of pitting its plan into a bill. Mr. Kelly, one of three members of the subcommittee, said he expected the revised bill would be reported out Monday. While the practical effects of the house action are somewhat doubtful, the political results may be farreaching. Already the vote is being construed as a repudiation of President Roosevelt's action in ordering mail contracts canceled. Senate Stands Firm Democratic senators in charge of steering the McKellar-Black bill through the senate indicated there would be no change in its provisions requiring concerns whose contracts were cancelled to reorganize. The deadline for filing bids for temporary operation of seventeen air mail routes is this afternoon. Mr. Kelly not only predicted no contracts ever will be awarded under these bids, but assailed their legality. No early court action seems likely in the injunction proceedings brought yesterday in the District of Columbia supreme court by four operating companies of the United Aircraft and Transport Corporation against Mr. Farley. His department insists the action should have been brought in the court of claims and predicts its dismissal. Hearing; Continues Chief excitement on Capitol Hill today centered on hearings before the special senate investigating committee. Principal witnesses is to be W. W. Howes, assistant postmastergeneral, who will be questioned by Republican members in further es-; forts to substantiate claims that in- i dependent operators formented a j plot to have contracts of rival con- | cerns annulled. Some headway was made by Sen- I ator Warren Austin (Rep., Vt.), yesterday in connection with these charges when T. E. Braniff, president of the Braniff Airways of Oklahoma, said that a society of independent operators “functioned” with the senate investigating committee in a campaign to obtain mail contracts.
U. S. DOCTORS ASKED TO MEET HERE IN '35 Medical and Civic Groups Join in Extending; Invitation. The American College of Physicians. how holding its annual convention in Chicago, has been invited to meet in Indianapolis next year, it was learned today. Dr. Robert Moore. Indianapolis, a delegate to the convention, made the invitation in behalf of the Indiana State Medical Association, the Indianapolis Medical Society, the Indiana university school of medicine, and the Indianapolis Convention and Publicity Bureau.
6 MONTHS TRIAL DELAY GIVEN ROBBER SUSPECT At Same Time Judge Raises Bail From 52.500 to SIO.OOO. A pica to Criminal Judge Frank Baker for a jury trial and postponement yesterday resulted in a six months continuance for Bernard Bradshaw, charged with second degree burglary and grand larceny, and the raising of his bond from $2,500 to SIO,OOO. Bradshaw has been in jail awaiting trial in connection with the alleged holdup of the drug store of Joseph Rosner Jr. CARBOLIC DOSE FATAL Visitor in City Takes Poison at Hotel Room; Calls Bell Boy. Cecil R. Throgmorton. 36. Schwenzer hotel, ended his life in his hotel room last night by drinking carbolic acid. After taking the poison he rang the call bell, and when Harvey Coleman, Negro bell boy, answered tfie call, pointed to the poison bottle. He died en route to city hospital. Police believe he had relatives in Herrin. 111. He had been writing to Alex Throgmorton, P. O. Box 82, Herrin.
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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Russell West. SO! Sutherland avenue. Ford coach. 92-111, from 501 Sutherland avenue. R B Radigan. 528 West Twentieth street. Connersville. Ind Auburn roadster 311-019. from Connersville. Ind.
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Stoen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Dr. Bennett Craft. 1120 Union street. Ford coupe, found in the rear of 553 West Twentv-fifth street, stripped of five tires, flvo wheel*, battery and generator. T R. Judv. 115 Bast Michigan street, Ford coupe, found at Lafayette, lnd. T. D. Halcomb. 2742 Shelby street. DeSoto sedan, found at Stanlev avenue and Nelson street, front door glass broken.
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Accused of the machine gun murder of a policeman in a Needham (Mass.) bank holdup, the Millen brothers. Irving left) and Murton. and their friend, Abe Faber (in felt hat), are shown arriving at Dedham county court under a heavy police escort for the opening of their trial. A plea to transfer the trial to United Jstates district court in Boston was denied.
TAX PROGRAM OUTLINED HERE Indiana Real Estate Group Moves to Lessen Property Burden. Lessening of the worries of the property owner through an eightpoint tax program was adopted yesterday by the board of governors of the Indiana Real Estate Association at a meeting in the Washington. The program is as follow's: 1. Strict enforcement of the $1.50 tax limitation law on urban property and the $1 limitation on rural property. 2. Urging that all receipts of the gross income and sales tax be applied to support the common schools. 3. Take the state tax levy off real property. 4. Urge that no more municipal bonds be issued in the state with tax exemptions. 5. Urge that all property owned by religious bodies, fraternal orders and educational institutions, which are not in actual use, be put on the tax duplicates. 6. Seek to have gasoline tax, automobile and drivers’ license fees expended for maintenance of roads and city streets. 7. Urge the legislature to provide an excise system of liquor taxation which will produce a minimum revenue to further broaden the tax base. 8. Strict economy in all departments of government. COAL DEALERS TO MEET IN STATE PARLEY HERE Fourth Annual Session to Be Held May 2 and 3. Preparations are under way for a full program at the fourth annual convention of the Indiana Coal Merchants Association to be held May 2 and 3 at the Claypool, Edward W. Korty, Lafayette, president, has announced.
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NAVY BANS PICTURE CWA ARTIST PAINTED OF DRUNKEN SAILORS
By United Prc/t* WASHINGTON, April 19.—A CWA picture, showing drunken sailors on shore liberty, was ordered' removed today by Navy Secretary Claude A. Swanson. “It shows all the derelictions of the navy, none of its virtues,” Mr. Swanson said. The picture was painted by Paul Cadmas, New York artist, during the time when the CWA was paying unemployed artists $35 a week for the work. The picture aroused the ire of Admiral Hugh Rodman, who protested to Secretary Swanson. Assistant Navy Secretary Henry L. Roosevelt personally supervised the removal. “I have taken it home. It's out of sight there and will remain out of sight,” he said.
TECH GRADUATE GETS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD Northwestern Student Wins TanHellenic Cup. Emily Schubach, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Schubach, 5334 Hill street, a student at Northwestern university, has been awarded a Pan-Kellenic scholarship cup in recognition of her high scholastic average last semester, it was learned here today. Miss Schubach, a graduate of Technical high school, is a senior in the liberal arts college. OFFICERS ARE NAMED BY CITY HIBERNIANS Barty Carroll Elected President of Ancient Order. Newly elected officers of the Ancient Order of Hibernians are Barty Carroll, president; James Heneghan, vice-president; Dr. V. J. Noone, treasurer; John McGinley, financial secretary; Michael Shea, recording secretary; John Heneghan, marshal, and Charles Carr, sentinel.
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FT. WAYNE MAN NEWT. 6. HEAD Dr. M. H. Draper Named President at Final Session Here. Dr. M. H. Draper, Fort Wayne, was elected president of the Indiana Tuberculosis Association at the closing session of- the twenty-third annual meeting in the Lincoln yesterday. He succeeds W. B. Hice, Terre Haute, who was elected a member of the xecutiv committee. With Mr. Hice on “the executive committee are Mrs. Karl Gilbert, Logansport; Dr. W. H. Mytinger, Lafayette; pr. W. M. Stout, Newcastle; Dr. C. J. Mclntyre, Indianapolis; Donald DuShane, Columbus, and Dr. Will J. Martin. Kokomo. Other officers elected to serve with Dr. Draper are Dr. Paul D. Crimm, Evansville, first vice-presi-dent; Dr. W. H.- Stemm, North Vernon, second vice-president; Mrs. William Gromelspacher. Logansport, secretary, and Dr. E. M. Amos, Indianapolis, treasurer.
RELATIVE BRINGS SUIT TO BREAK DWYER WILL Action Alleges Plaintiff W 7 as Cut Off With Dollar. Will of Mrs. Laura A. Dwyer was contested in a suit filed yesterday in probate court by Mrs. Nellie C. Richart, 1118!i Sterling street, a distant relative. The suit alleges that Mrs. Dwyer, who died Feb. 10, left the plaintiff only sl, whereas several pieces of property were bequeathed to other relatives. Parent Groups to Meet The Parent-Teacher Associations of Schools 64, 79 and 19 will hold a joint meeting at School 19 at 1635 East Palmer street at 3:15 Monday. The mothers’ chorus of School 64 will sing.
BASEBALL POOL TICKETS ABSENT AS PLAY OPENS Police Raid Headquarters of Operator. Seize Books, Lists. The baseball season is in full swing, but the “poolroom fans” are not having a good time, at all. Thousands who wait annually for the crack of big league bats as a signal to toss away nickels, dimes and quarters in baseball pools are bounding hopelessly in and walking disgustedly out of Indianapolis bars, poolrooms and restaurants. The reason is that Police Chief Mike Morrissey has the opinion that fans who participate in baseball pools would do a better job of gambling if they tossed their money down the sewer and only recently ordered a raid on headquarters of one of the biggest pool operators. In addition to getting thousands of books filled with tickets ready for distribution this week Chief Morrissey’s Officers are alleged ter have seized a list of those who are said to have been selling tickets for this operator. This seems to have called for further action and squads are said to have visited places on the list during the last forty-eight hours and left the warning that any evidence of baseball pool ticket sale would bring at least two “shakedowns,” which in English is two raids a day. Somewhat doubtful as to the feasibility or safety in handling the pool tickets, a meeting was called by the handlers and the decision to “lay off,” at least for a while, was agreed upon. That is, most of the boys agreed to do so. One operator, who has created the impression in the minds of some operators that his tickets are not as legitimate as baseball tickets can be. is reported ready to sell, but a pair of detectives and a sergeant were unable to find him. His name is Pete James and he is reported today as having distributed a number of tickets to several dealers. But regardless of whether his tickets are sold, for the “first time in many moons,” Indianapolis ushered in the baseball season without the sale of “big moons, little moons” and numerous other varieties of baseball pool tickets. And that's a real innovation for Indianapolis.
SIGMA PI FRATERNITY PLANS DANCE Only Membzers Will Be Admitted, Official Announces. Sigma Pi, Young Men’s Syrian fraternity, will hold its annual dance at Olympic hall, Riverside drive and Nineteenth street, tomorrow night. Music will be furnished by Kate Gibson’s dance orchestra. The dance is for members only, according to Clarence Risk, fraternity official.
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WASHINGTON PUPILS OFFER VAUDEVILLE SHOW
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Shown in the picture are members of the royal crew in “Cinderella’s Fellows,” an act in the Washington high school junior vaudeville, which will be presented this afternoon and tomorrow night in the school auditorium. Left to right, Harold Myers, Kent Parks. William Carpenter and Robert Wallin.
CITY NURSES TO ATTEND PARLEY Ten Members of Methodist Hospital Staff Will Go to Capital. Ten graduate nurses of the Methodist hospital will attend the biennial convention of the American Nurses’ Association and the National League of Nursing Education in Washington next week. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak on Tuesday to the delegates. Attending from Indianapolis are Miss Florence Sayce, supervisor of surgery; Miss Helen White, night supervisor; Miss Margaret M. Reich, night supervisor of the maternitydepartment; Miss Mary S. Resler. night supervisor of surgery; Mrs. Ethel Teal Carter, president of the alumnae association; Miss Maude Harmon, representing graduate private duty nurses; Miss Sylvia Berg, representing graduate staff nurses, and Miss Harriet Poe, Christine McDowell, Helen Broughton and Gladys Carlile, supervisors of departments. PHONE LINEMAN HURT City Man Falls With Pole, Suffers Fractured Left Leg. Thrown to the ground yesterday when a thirty-foot utility pole on which he was working at 501 Madison avenue fell, Vergil Moore, 33, Puritan hotel, an employe of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, suffered a broken left leg. He was taken to city hospital.
CLUB HOLDING DANCE ‘CRACKS DOWN’ ON POLITICAL ORATORY
jThe “peepul's choice” is finding it tough going. Along with the flowers that bloom in the spring, theoratory of almost 500 primary candidates is blooming. In fact, there's been so much oratory, that a lot of people think something ought to be done about it. Sigma Pi, a young Syrians' organization, has soived the problem in such a simple manner that it's incredible that someone hasn’t thought of it before. They’re not going to admit any politicians to the dance they're giving tomorrow night at Olympic hall. Riverside drive and Nineteenth street. Lilting strains of Kate Gibson's orchestra will be substituted for passionate panegyrics in praise of prominent politicians.
MYSTERY FIRE PROBED BY CITY AUTHORITIES Shavings and Straw Found at Scene of Blaze in Lunch Car. Police and fire department officials today were investigating circumstances of a mysterious fire early today at a lunchroom at 1349 Kentucky avenue, operated by Mary Longer. Police talked to George Acton. 2315 Southeastern avenue, who said he discovered the fire, called the fire department, and then kicked open the door and helped fight the flames Firemen said they found a quantity of shavings and straw under one side of the lunch car, where the fire centered.
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‘I'M gunman: VOLIVA WARNS CHURCH FLOCK Overseer Threatens Dire Destruction to School Board Foes. By United Pro* ZION, 111.. April 19.—Overseer Wilbur Glenn Vouva invoked heavenly wrath upon his enemies who elected the wrong man to the presidency of the school board and promised to back up the Almighty with his own “two guns and countless gunmen.” Mr. Voliva thundered out his ire at one of the best attended prayer meetings in Christian Catholic Apostolic church in several years, or since his followers began to desert. Many of tne audience were members of the independent faction whose dissatisfaction with the man of flat earth fame led to the election of Onias W. Farley to head the school board instead of Voliva’s candidate. Sylvester De Pew. Others were curiosity seekers of the north shore suburbs. Tar and Feathers Threat To the threat of tar and feathers and a ride from Zion on a rail which was advanced by Mrs. Farley, 63, wife of the new school board president, Voliva answered with as much vigor as to other threats. "I want you to know I could put that old ; lady out of commission two seconds, and I'li do it if necessary,” Voliva |said. “I was brought up as a gunman. When I was a boy I used to carry two guns. I’m heavily armed now and I’ll kill a man at the drop of a hat in self-defense. Countless guards, armed to the teeth, surround me. They have orders from me to shoot at a second's warning.” Voliva indicated he had enough guards to kill a hundred men in a few seconds. Lest any of his hearers doubt his other powers, Voliva pointed out. “Maybe the world will end next September. But Voliva will always be on top. I've seen everything and I know more auout human nature than President Roosevelt.” Tempers Drastic Edict Despite his belligerency, Voliva revealed that he had tempered hit drastic edict of yesterday, an order closing the parochial school of the church. Zion schools, already crowded with 800 pupils, faced the necessity of finding accommodations for another 700 from the parochial school. It was the closing of this school that led to Mrs. Farley’s threats. Voliva said he will open his preparatory college, senior high school classes and kindergarten today, but; that every pupil will have to take a pledge of loyalty to Voliva before being admitted. He explained the necessity for this as follows; “There are damnable traitors here. They elected Farley. What are you going to say to the lord about what you did. The swine eaters, the cigaret smokers and the booze swillers are against Voliva.”