Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1934 — Page 1

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PARLEYS HELD SOLE HOPE OF DEBTIMPASSE Europe Cynical Regarding Roosevelt’s Hope for June Payment. NATIONS STAND FIRM Countries Show No Desire to Avoid Defaulting Obligations. (Copyright, 1934, by United Press) LONDON, June 2.—Proposal within the next thirteen days for a series of definite conferences on war debts appeared today the sole possible alternative to general default of European nations to the United States. President Roosevelt's message was interpreted here as: 1. Formally inviting Europe to make full payment of the June 15' debt instalment and in some cases arrears on former payments, or being declared defaulters under the Johnson act. 2. Leaving the way open for any nation before June 15 to seek a definite debt refunding conference and thereby avert default or annul previous default. Comment Varies Slightly Comment here and in other capitals varied but slightly. Nations not angy becouse of the President’s broad hint that America’s debtors might pay their bills with the money they are spending on armaments, were cynical regarding his implied hope that substantial payment would be made. An important feature of the message was that with the addition of the Johnson act it brought at the end of three years the necessary official clarification of a situation created by the Hoover moratorium of June, 1931. On the day after the moratorium of one year on debts and reparations was proposed, in face of a terrific crash in Central Europe, comment from every capital was that neither reparations nor debts payments ever would be resumed. That feeling has persisted. Payments on capital sums, token payments, acknowledgments of indebtedness, have but served, in Europe's view, to postpone a crisis that now has been precipitated. Nations Stand Firm No nation now in arrears or actual default, which means all debtors but Finland, showed the slightest disposition to yield its position. The hope remained, however, that informal soundings out by diplomatists perhaps in the early days of next week might lead to a way out through a proposal for a conference that would mean refunding of the debts. The French cabinet for weeks has been leaning toward a compromise. Premier Gaston Doumergue and influential ministers have been won round to the argument of Edouard Herriot, president of the dominant radical Socialist party, that a solution should be sought. In Great Britain sentiment has strengthened every day that there is no alternative to default but settlement on a basis that would reduce to a fraction the British dues. The message caused the most angry debt comment ever made in official quarters here. As regards the armaments hint, the word “blackmail” was used by an authoritative commentator.

RACE TRACK S elections BY TOM NOONS

NOONE’S SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best —Pairbypair. Best Longshot—Stay. Best Parlay—Moane Keala and Tick On.

At Belmont Park — One Best—Go Quick 1. Judge Schilling, Scotch Gold, Mountain Elk. 2. Amagansett, Frolic 11, Rocky Run. 3. Go Quick, Sunned, Rough Diamond. 4. Fleam, Dusky Princess, Lady Reigh. 5. Tick On, Thursday, Springsteel. 6. Today, Pompey’s Pillar, Col. Greene. 7. Tetra Domino, Outbound, Peacock Alley. At Detroit — One Best—Pair by Pair 1. Hardatit, Polly Hundred, Double B. 2. Charlie, Ned.O., Hasty Belle. 3. Aunt Flor, Old Depot, Bright Bubble. 4. Try Sympathy, Phildia, Two a Day. 5. Pair by Pair, Marooned, Flying Sailor. 6. Watch Him, Sabula, Sea Fox. 7. Mouthpiece, Polly Cee, Kiltamond.

The Indianapolis Times Unsettled with thundershowers probable this afternoon or tonight, followed by partly cloudy weather tomorrow; somewhat cooler.

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As jolly as the jolliest tars in Uncle Sam’s navy were President Roosevelt and the two other “big guns” of the great review of the fleet in New York harbor when this striking photo was taken abroad the Indianapolis during maneuvers. Pictured with the President (center), who himself was assistant secretary of the navy, are Claude Swanson (left), present secretary of the navy, and Josephus Daniels (right), former secretary of navy and now ambassador to Mexico.

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It was a roaring tribute the coast guard ship “Mohave” gave President Roosevelt’s flagship Indianapolis when, as shown here, she glided by to review the great naval spectacle outside New York harbor. The gun crew of the Mohave is seen firing the twenty-one- gun salute.

SIX MORE ADDED TO SCHOOL COMMITTEE R. L. * Brokenburr Announces Resignation Six more members have been added to the Citizens’ school committee. Edgar H. Evans, chairman, announced today. The new members are Oscar V. Hightower, Sadie E, Hill, Kenneth Loucks, William H. Remy, William W. Walker and Henry R. Wilson Jr. Robert Lee Brokenburr, Negro, active for years op. the committee, announced that he would withdraw from membership, as he was a candidate for the legislature. Sportsmen io Hold Picnic Annual picnic of members of the Marion County Fish and Game Association and their families will be held tomorrow at the Riverside fish hatchery. Bait casting and fly casting tournaments have been arranged.

8. The Point, Stroll Along, Speedy Skippy. At Washington Park — One Best—lnfinity 1. Moane Keala, Hoops, Chirac. 2. Stay, Great Haste, Galla Clay. 3. Infinity, Broomshot, Polyfon. 4. Back Log, Belle Grier, Fortunate Youth. 5. Vox Pop, Foxiana, Dis Dat. 6. Cavalcade, Discovery, Bien Fait. 7. Wise Daughter, Croon, Isaiah. 8. Barney Sexton, Mad Career, Light Mint. At Latonia — One Best—Essential 1. Grimace, Smear, Squall. . 2. Morning Fair, On Side, Thunder Lou. 3. Spring Statioif Left Wing, Justina. 4. El Puma, Habanero, Bring Back. 5. Essential, Likewise. Shepherd Boy. 6. Wise Bessa, Ellen Fisher, Iceberg. 7. Mountain Man. Bourbon Prince, Camp Prince. 8. Len Helker, Omel, Barbara Carom.

THREE ‘BIG GUNS’ ENJOY THEMSELVES IN REVIEW OF FLEET

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By Unite<f Press ERIE. Pa., June 2.—John T. Saulter, 65, Indianapolis, died of a heart attack aboard a New York Central train near here today. The body was brought into Erie where it was removed from the train. COMMITTEE SEEKS TO SAVE ARMS PARLEY Permanent Peace Conference Is Among New Proposals. By United Press GENEVA, June 2—Disarmament conference leaders comprising its steering commivtee today began an unhappy four days during which they will try to find a means of saving the conference from death. The full conference was adjourned until Wednesday to permit them to discuss salvage methods after a day of proposals during which the possibility of new political combinations was presented. Proposals include: That the arms conference be made a permanent peace conference, that a permanent disarmament conference be created, that the conference attempt an ambitious program almost comparable to the .disarmament draft treaties on which delegates have disagreed beyond hope of preesnt compromise. ROOSEVELT AT GROTON President Joins Other Alumnus in School Celebration. By United Press GROTON, Mass., June 2.—President Roosevelt joined other Groton school alumnus today in celebrating the school’s fiftieth anniversary. Mr. Roosevelt will be one of the speakers at the birthday celebration today. The President yesterday saw his youngest son receive his diploma. He will spend tomorrow at his home at Hyde Park, N. Y., and be back in Washington Monday.

Fleets In —Sea Legs Prove Handy Equipment

By United Press NEW YORK, June 2.—One of New York’s greatest crowdbillows and ticker-tape sprays invited the fleet’s men to feel at home tdday. A white-capped parade surged wave on wave up Fifth avenue and shattered at Columbus Circle. Even sea legs were in order after a very gay night. Six thousand sailors in landing white with khaki trim, and ma-

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 2,1934

METHODISTS WILL HONOR MISSIONARY Church Memorial Services to Be Held for Lee. ' Indianapolis Methodists will join in memorial services in honor of Jason Lee, first missionary to the Oregon county, in a centennial celebration tomorrow and Monday. Special sermons will be given in a number of Indianapolis churches. The Rev. Mark A. Dcwber, superintendent of the department of rural work, of the Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, of the Methodist church, will speak at the morning services at Roberts Park church. The Rev. Jay S. Stowell, director of publicity of the board, will speak at West Michigan Street Methodist church tomorrow morning. Edward Winter Moon, young Mohave Indian accompanying the “Jason Lee Special,” motorized covered wagon which is following the trail of Jason Lee, will appear at the Sunday school session at Broadway church tomorrow morning, and at church services at Roberts Park church. Times Index Berg Cartoon 6 Bridge 4 Broun 7 Business News 9 Church Services II Classified 12 Comics 13 Conservation 2 Crossword Puzzle 11 Curious World 13 Editorial 6 Financial 14 Germany- 1 Arms Again 7 Hickman—Theaters 7 Pegler 7 Radio 4 Serial Story f, 13 Sports 10, 11 State News 3 Woman’s Pages 4, 5

rines in summer khaki, marched for an hour past reviewing highhats and cocked hats under the eternal light of Madison Square, to the lilting blares of battleship bands. Mounted police and 1,500 soldiers led the way. Thousands of watchers from windows and sidewalks saw the picked men of the fleet’s 35,000. Thousands of New Yorkers crowded the fighting craft determined to impress the sailors with endless curiosity about matters nautical.

FORMER CITY RESIDENT DIES; FUNERAL HERE James Alexander Duthie Succumbs in Chicago Home at 71. The body of James Alexander Duthie, 71, Chicago, former resident of Indianapolis, was to be brought to Indianapolis for funeral services in the Wald funeral home at 2 today. Burial was to be in Crown Hill. Mr. Duthie died Thursday in his home in Chicago. He was a buyer in the wholesale branch of Marshall Field & Cos. until his retirement two years ago. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Carrie Johnson Duthie, and thi-ee brothers, Archibald Duthie, Memphis, Tenn., and Robert and William Duthie, Indianapolis. George W. Fewell Dies Funeral services for George W. Fewell, 3004 North Gale street, were to be held at 2 today in the Pilgrim Holiness church, Thirtieth and Gale streets. Burial was to be in Memorial Park cemetery. Mr. Fewell died in his home Wednesday, after a two years' illness. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Sarah F. Fewell, and two sons, Rolland Fewell, Madison, and Ernest Fewell, Indianapolis.

36 NURSES GRADUATED FROM CITY HOSPITAL Mayor Sullivan Included Among Speakers at Exercises. Thirty-six nurses were graduated from the city hospital nursing school last night in the hospital auditorium while 400 friends and relatives looked on. Dr. Charles W. Myers, hospital superintendent, presented diplomas to the young women. School pins were distributed by Miss Beatrice Gerrin. Speakers included Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Russell Wilson, school commissioner, and Miss Velma Riley of the graduating class. LAWRENCE RESIDENT IS HURT BADLY BY AUTO Henry Asbury Knocked Down by Car Driven by Women. Henry Asbury, 60, Lawrence, was injured seriously last night when he was knocked down by an automobile at Thirty-eighth street and State Road 67. Mr. Asbury suffered a broken left shoulder and a fracture of the skull. Policemen were told that Mr. Asbury crossed the road directly in the path of an automobile driven by Mrs. Ora Greenwood, 49, Lawrence. DOOMED MAN WINS STAY Murderer of City Detective Granted Third Death Delay. Third stay of execution for Richard Perkins, Negro, w r ho is under death sentence at the state prison, was granted yesterday by the state supreme court. Perkins is charged with the murder of Carl Heckman, detective. He was to die June 8, but the stay is effective until Oct. 1.

NAVAL officers who chipperly returned parading salutes today proved again that fleetsmen can not be overwhelmed easily. New York government and society officialdom had inundated the gold-braided commanders with a dazzling night-long welcome. But from Mayor La Guardia’s coinmodere dinner and'a Waldorf-As-toria grand fleet ball, the leaders came through, many, it was observed, by dint of experienced footing on a weaving deck. Three thousand navy and army officers attended the New York

HEAT WAVE UNABATED; CATTLE DIE IN BARREN FIELDS, CROPS BURNED

Thunderstorms Predicted for City Tonight or Tomorrow. MERCURY SOARS AGAIN Slight Temporary Relief Expected; One Death Is Reported. Hourly Temperatures 9 p. m 87 4 a. m 75 10 p. m 85 5 a. m 75 11 p. m 84 6 a. m 77 12 p. m 82 7 a. m 79 la. m 80 Ba. m 88 2 a. m 80 9 a. m 89 3 a. m 78 Slight temporary relief from the record breaking heat wave which has gripped the city and state three days, imperiling drought - damaged crops, today was forecast for tonight and tomorrow. With the mercury standing at 89 at 9 a. m. today, two degrees higher than at the same hour yesterday, the sweltering populace was promised thunderstorms for this afternoon or tonight. No heavy rain, such as is needed immediately to save the state’s crops from destruction, was in sight, however, except possibly in a few sections of Indiana. The mercury, however, was not expected to climb quite as high this afternoon as yesterday’s all-time record for June 1 of 96, set in 1895. Street Worker Dies Increasing cloudiness, preceding the predicted thunderstorms, was expected to cause a slight break in the torrid weather which has gripped the city. Several heat prostrations were reported yesterday and one man died today while working on a street repair gang in the intense heat. Pending arrival of a deputy coroner, police were uncertain whether death was due to heat prostration or heart trouble. The victim was James D. Robinson, 53, of 550 North Gray street. He died while working at Northwestern avenue and Twenty-seventh street, as a part of a crew of men removing street car tracks. Slumps Over Wheel He slumped over while driving a truck. His son Earl, riding with him, grabbed the wheel and prevented an accident. * Edward Craig, 72, Greenwood, was overcome by heat yesterday afternoon while walking in the 800 block, North Capitol avanue. While working in the PittmanRice coal yard, Lacy Ellis, 32, Negro, 1327 Lafayette street, was prostrated by the heat. He was sent to city hospital. Appealed to by The Times to open the city swimming pools and beaches to relieve the discomfort of children and adults as well, H. W. Middlesworth. city recreation director, said the pools are undergoing overhauling and can not be opened before June 15. It will be impossible to permit swimming at municipal beaches until tests of the water can be made by the city health board Monday. In the meantime, several private swimming pools reported a rushing business. School officials announced yesterday that grade schools of the city would be closed afternoons until the excessive heat wave is broken. High schools will continue full-time classes. Slight Showers Reported J. H. Armington, local meterologist, said the temperature tonight probably will be somewhat cooler than last night and today. There was no indication, he said, whether or not the relief would last more than a short time. Unsettled conditions resulted in slight showers last night in several sections, including .03 inch of rain at Rockport and lesser amounts at Wheatfield and Terre Haute. High temperatures reported yesterday were 106 at South Bend and Wheatfield, 104, at Lafayette and 103 at Rochester and Marion.

Naval academy graduates’ ball, blazoned today as memorable in debutante annals for a long and magnificent stag line. Society’s junior and debutante committee was officially flanked by special title-and-rank guards —a United States naval officer and an officer of the French training cruiser in port. The French ship officers, far outnumbered, mingled with those of the fleet, and it was not disclosed how they stood at dawn. It was reported reliably, however, that they did.

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Heat Wave Blamed for State Death Liberty Youth Drowns as Records Soar; Water Shortage Feared. Serious water and food shortage threatened in Indiana today as the state sweltered under an almost unprecedented heat wave. One death by drowning and numerous prostrations we*e reported in a survey of conditions throughout the state yesterday in which temperature reached an all-time high in several localities. Charles Stanton, 20, Liberty, drowned in Clear creek, south of Richmond, while swimming to escape the intense heat. In addition to humans overcome by the heat, cattle and other livestock were reported seriously affected. There was a serious threat of water shortage in some localities. In Martinsville, Mayor Ralph K. Lowder issued a public appeal to citizens to protect the supply. He announced that the city’s wells never before had been so low and added that one fire, lasting thirty minutes, would exhaust the entire supply. Agricultural experts at Purdue university conducted a survey of crop conditions in the state and reported that virtually all but alfalfa stands have been affected seriously. Chinch bugs, benefiting from the lack of rainfall, are doing additional damage to the wheat crops, they reported. Virtually all crops will be far below normal, it was announced. Kokomo experienced the hottest weather in the state yesterday, with a mercury reading of 107 degrees, highest in the city’s history. Huntington reported an official reading of 106. Other high marks, most of them records, included: South Bend, 104; Laporte, 104; Lafayette, 104; Marion, Greencastle and Crawfordsville, 102; Vincennes, 101, and Ft. Wayne and Bloomington, 100.

DIESEL MOTOR WINS PRAISE FROM EVANS Veteran Racing Driver Predicts OilDriven Passenger Cars. The Diesel engine is the power plant of the future for highway and lighter rail transportation, Dave Evans, veteran racing driver, told members of the Optimist Club yesterday at their luncheon in the Columbia Club. Evans, who was forced out of this year’s Speedway classic at 200 miles because of a break in the transmission of his Diesel car, pointed to the part Diesels already are playing in railroad service and added that they are being used to push trucks over hard desert and mountain trails in the far west. “Within two years,” he predicted, “you will see a Cummins-Diesel motor in a passenger car giving forty to fifty miles a gallon on fuel which cqsts less than the gasoline tax today.”

207 GIVEN DIPLOMAS AT CRISPUS ATTUCKS Commencement Address Delivered by Dr. Isaac Fisher. Dr. Isaac Fisher, Hampton, Va., gave the principal address at the seventh annual commencement exercises of the Crispus Attucks-high school last night in Cadle tabernacle. Diplomas were presented to the 207 graduates by Merle Sidener, school commissioner. Russell A. Lane, principal, read the scholarship awards. Awards were made to Clemmie Poole, Worl Hill, Lora Williams, Maudie Williams, Marrie Caldwell, Beatrice Elliott, Zola Dunbar, Ruth Hardwick, Mary Cunningham, Allane Slater, Ester Goodnight, Abner Dunville, Benjamin Hollins and Walter Jimison. B. S. DEGREES GRANTED College of Pharmacy Graduates Class of Twenty-Two. Commencement exercises were held last night for the Indianapolis College of Pharmacy in Cropsey auditorium. Degrees of bachelor of science were awarded to twenty-two members of the senior class by Francis E. Robbins, president of the board of trustees. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: South southeast wind, 8 miles an hour; temperature. 88; barometric pressure, 29.86 at sea level; general conditions, high, broken clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, fifteen miles.

Capital EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County. 3 Cents

Records Tumble as Blazing Sun Beats pown on Sweltering U. S. FARM LOSSES SOARING No Rain in Sight, Is Report as States Begin Relief Work. By United Press CHICAGO, June 2.—A heat wave beyond anything that the United States has experienced before, blazed unabated today over two-thirds of the nation. Cattle died on barren and waterless ranges, crop losses grew by the thousands of dollars hourly, water supplies of great cities were threatened and human suffering was intense as temperatures soared for the sixth successive day. No ram was in sight. Surveying crop reports from the entire northwestern agricultural region, Dean W. C. Coffey of the agricultural school of the University of Minnesota, federal farm relief director for a dozen states, predicted that prolongation of the drought for two weeks will bring a national food shortage. “The situation is acute,” Coffey said. “Conditions are becoming more alarming hourly. The truth is, the United States is threatened with a food shortage.” Wheat Prices Jump Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace denied recently that a v.'?s nossible, pri-*'-" out that a 260,000,000-bushel wheat carryover would meet any probable deficit in this year’s crop. Wheat prices jumped 4 cents again yesterday on the Chicago Board of Trade, passing $1.07 a bushel, but closed with a slight loss for the day in a wave of profittaking and stop loss orders. Temperatures reported throughout the central west were almost unbelievable. Weather bureau reports placed Milwaukee, Wis.; Peoria and Springfield, 111., and Concordia, Kan., at the peak with 104 degrees. From cities and towns hot reporting to the bureau came reports of readings up to 110 degrees. Federal officialdom and executives of many states acted as the mercury mounted to relieve thousands of farm families threatened with ruin and even starvation. Relief Funds Increased Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins yesterday allotted $5,476,000 for farm relief in the ten most affected states, supplementing funds already available for purchase and slaughter of 1,200,000 cattle starving or dying of thirst in parched fields. Governor Floyd B. Olson of Minnesota proclaimed an embargo on shipment of livestock into the state except for slaughter and processing. He said he ac;ed in “an unprecedented emergency.” E. W. Sheets, federal drought relief director, pleaded with representatives of western railroads in St. Paul for an emergency reduction of freight rates on feed for livestock. County farm agents in northern Minnesota made arrangements to pasture thousands of head of cattle being driven and trucked from the southern part of the state to the head of the lakes. Water Shortage Feared Evaporation of hitherto unfailing sources of water supply brought genuine alarm to many cities and industries. The Mississippi river was at the lowest point in history. The Great Lakes, falling perceptibly every day, presented a unique problem to ship lines. , • Government agencies estimated that shallowed channels in harbors, necessitating reduction of loads, will cost coal and iron ore shippers more than $10,000,000 this season. Four boats now are required to carry what three handled before. Heat prostrations were reported by the scores as the center of the torrid wave moved slowly eastward. Forest fires blazed in several tinder-dry forest sections. OFFICERS ELECTED BY , INDIANA STAMP CLUB Dr. T. S. Tulley Is Named Head of Organization. Members of the Indiana Stamp Club elected officers at the meeting last night in the Lockerbie. New officers are Dr. T. S. Tulley, president; Peter Van Geyt, vicepresident; W. F. McNairy. treasurer; R. H. Macguire. recording secretary; Raymond H. Hinshaw, corresponding secretary, and Jr Lester Williams, Dr. Harry A. Washburn, Clarence E. Johnson and Floyd JShockley, executive committee.