Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 June 1934 — Page 1
111 ARTHUR' HUEY’S MAN IN SENATE RACE Famous Kingfish Comes Out Lock, Stock, Barrel for Robinson. BUT HE WON’T STUMP Perhaps Even That Won't Bother Sherman Minton, They Hint. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June 14.—“Li'l” Arthur Robinson is the Kingfish candidate for United States senator from Indiana. Although a rampant Republican, who as the now senior senator from the Hoosier state is given to ranting against President Roosvelt from the senate floor, Robinson has the blessing of his colleague on the Democratic side—Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana. When Senator Robinson returned recently from being renominated by the G. O. P. state convention at Indianapolis, Senator Long wrung his hand in congratulations and said: “I’m not only glad that you were renominated, but I hope you will be elected." Asked later as to the sincerity of his remarks, the red-haired, freckleface. flashy dressing Kingfish retorted in characteristic fashion. “You’re damm right I meant it.” Senator Long asserted half-belliger-ently. “I'm for Senator Robinson and I don’t care who knows it.” “Would you care to elaborate?” he was asked. “All I have to say is that he is. a Progressive and I am for all progressives. He is for the veterans and the poor man and so am I.” So Sherman Minton, the Democratic opponent of “Li’l Arthur,” is going to have to worry along without support from the author of “Every Man A King.” But he has this consolation—Senator Long said he would not enter the Indiana campaign as a stump speaker for Senator Robinson. 'Birds of a Feather’ “Indiana expressed its sentiments about Huey Long at the national Democratic convention at Chicago, and I don’t see why its opinion would be changed.” This was the reaction this afrernoon of Governor Paul V. McNutt to the unedifying spectacle of r Democracic senator indorsing the Republican Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana for re-election. The Governor referred to the contest at the national convention when opposing delegates lists were filled with the credentials committee by “The Kingfish” and John Ewing, New Orleans publisher. Indiana voted against the seating of the Long delegates, although Senator Long eventually was successful in installing his delegation from Louisiana. Sherman Minton, public counselor of the public service commission. and Democratic senatorial nominee, had nothing to say about the Long indorsement of Robinson. Notified of the Kingfish’s magnanimous gesture of fellowship in supporting Li’l Arthur’s candidecv. Judge John W. Kern, Democratic mayoral candidate, said: “Well, trite as the phrase may sound, it looks to me like just another case case oi ‘birds of a feather flock together. " Local Republicans generally refused to be quoted about the King-fish-Robinson alliance. Among those who had no desire to express any sentiments were Edgar Hart, former Republican county chairman, and Gavin L. Payne, who was discussed as an opponent to Robinson in the Republican state convention, but who did not enter. THREE HELD IN CITY STREET CAR HOLDUP Suspect Confesses, Implicates Two, Police Claim. > Implicating two other men, Wilbur Walker, 24 ofg 1304 Polk street, today amplified his reported confession to police last night that he had been one of a trio which robbed a Shelby avenue trolley car Sunday night at Perry avenue. Police said that Walker named Ward Brim. 27, of 2503 North Hardy street, and a third man not known to Walker by name. Brim is under arrest and Conda Rodman, 31, of 1561 Ashland avenue, is held on suspicion. Rodman has not been identified. Walker strolled into police headquarters last night and confessed his part voluntarily. Brim and Rodman had been arrested during the day. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 66 10 a. m 76 7a. m 68 11 a. m..... 76 Ba. m 72 12 (noon).. 78 9 a. m 75 1 p. m 81
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Girl Believed Slain Is Home After ‘Vacation’ Cleveland Miss Arrives as Indiana Police Grill Father, Suspected of 'Murdering’ Her. By Times Bpeeinl NAPOLEON, Ind.. June 14.—What seemed for a hectic day and night to be a murder mystery of the first order, dissolved into a farce here today with the return home of Gladys Lee Shuter. 19, of Cleveland, artist,
CROWD LOOKS ON AS MAN ENDS HIS, LIFE ‘Going to Drown Myself,’ Victim Declares. While a curious crowd of fishermen and shack-dwellers stood looking on. Jap Kelly, address unknown, deliberately ended his life today by drowning in White river two blocks north of the Oliver avenue bridge. Before wading out into the water. Kelly told Richard Milburn, 54. of 776 West Henry street, and his son. Walter Milburn. that he was going to drown himself as had his own brother, Jim Kelly, last year. The Milburns pleaded wtih Kelly as he stepped out into the water and stood powerless to act as Kelly went down for thte last time. Walter Milburn swam out to rescue Kelly, but he was too late. Negro fishermen, unaware of the suicide, placidly watched thp drowning. The elder Milburn said that he had argued with Kelly for an hour before the fatal act. ROOSEVELT TO MAKE ADDRESS TO NATION President to Give Speech at Close of Congress. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 14.—President Roosevelt probably will make an address to the nation at the close of congress, it was said at the White House today. Although it was emphasized Mr. Roosevelt as yet has no definite plans for such a speech, it was indicated he may review the legislative picture and give an accounting of his stewardship. BROWN COUNTY SEES RUSH FOR GOLD ORE New Deposits of Precious Metal Found in State. By United Press BLOOMINGTON. Ind.. June 14. Location of new gold deposits, together with the recent increase in ! price of the metal, has started a I rush in the Brown-Morgan county I district. Gold is being’ mined through va- ; rious means from the old panning i process to huge washing machines.
DYNAMITE-LADEN TRUCK WRECKED BY ALLEGED DRUNKEN DRIVER
missing since Friday night. While posses of the grim-visaged hill-folk who inhabit this part of Indiana had been scouring the | countryside and looking to the sky ; for the tell-tale circling of buzzards. Miss Shuter had been seeing America first. While Captain Matt Leach of the state police had been spending hours grilling her father, Silas Shuter, 46, Portland, Ore., suspected of murdering her, Miss Shuter had been riding to Raleigh, N. C„ and back. She appeared unconcerned by the fact her mother. Mrs. William Albrecht, Cleveland, and her grandmother, Mrs. Carrie Crusie, Napoleon, almost had been prostrated with anxiety. She taunted Captain Leach on his work until, he said, she “made a chump of me.” Friday night the father, who had not seen his daughter since he separated from Mrs. Albrecht eighteen years ago, took the girl to a movie in Greensburg. He ran out of gasoline on the way back to Napoleon and left the girl in the car while he went to Greensburg for more gasoline. Police doubted his story that she had disappeared while he was gone. Relatives made much of the fact he had not reported the disappearance for several days. Sunday, Mrs. Crusie notified local authorities. Yesterday Captain Leach entered the picture, apparently, faced with a murder. There were unexplained blood-stains on Mr. Shuter’s shirt and his coat was missing. Ugly tales were circulated in Napoleon and Greensburg and mob feeling ran high. At 1 this morning, the girl returned home. Captain Leach was not notified until breakfast time, despite the fact he was at the Greensburg jail, grilling Mr. Shuter. Then the girl said simply that she had obtained a lift in a moving van to Raleigh, had worked there as a waitress long enough to buy some food and then had hitch-hiked home. “I went on a pleasure trip,” Miss Shuter told a Times reporter. “It was my own pleasure trip and that was all there was to it.” She was asked the name of the van driver who took her to Raleigh. "I don’t know,” she replied. “I didn’t ask him. Refreshed and in a gay, summer dress of purple, the girl explained that she left her father’s car because she was afraid to be alone in the dark. She added that she went on to Raleigh because she had heard Mrs. Roosevelt was to speak there.
INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1934
Their guardian angel rode with James Seabol. 40. Belleville, 111., left, nnd Albert Loos, 40. East St. Louis. 111. (lower*, when they wrecked a truck with five tons of dynamite (upper) on the west side today. The truck carried five tons of dynamite, enough to have wreaked havoc with the neighborhood. Nothing happened when it crashed, but Seabol and Loos were arrested a few minutes later on charges of intoxication. a a a a a a AN explosion which might have killed scores and destroyed a large section of the west side of the city was averted miraculously today when a truck carrying five tons of dynamite and fuses while speeding on West Washington street at Rockville road. , Police said the men in charge of the truck—Albert Loos. 40, East St. Louis. 111., and James Seabol, 40. Belleville. 111.—were intoxicated and arrested them. State highway employes gingerly aided in removing the dynamite from the truck. The two men were employes of the Illinois Powder Company, East St. Louis, taking the dynamite and fuses to White Sulphur. O. banger signs glared from the top. the sides and the rear of the truck.
Loos was driving, while Seabol was enjoying the scenery. Police said both were very drunk. The dynamite and fuses rode behind them. Loos took the bad “S” curve under the elevation at West Washington street and Rockville road at forty miles an hour, or more, witnesses said. The truck couldn't quite make it. Over it went.
Nazi Official to Face Black Tom Explosion Quiz Hanfstaengl Warrant to Be Served When He Lands Saturday, Officials Reveal. By United Press NEW YORK. June 14.—Plans were completed today to serve a subpena on Dr. Ernest F. S. Hanfstaengl, German Nazi official, upon his arrival in New York Saturday, en route to his class reunion at Harvard.
OKLAHOMA POLITICIAN ' SLAIN BY KIDNAPERS Farm Board Candidate Shot, Tied to Tree. By United Press MUSKOGEE, Okla., June 14.—C. N. Nunn, Democratic candidate for president of the state board of agriculture, died in a hospital today of gunshot wounds inflicted by two men who had kidnaped him and trussed him to a tree in the Cookson hills. The gunmen shot Mr. Nunn late yesterday near his home at Porter. They picked him up, drove him into the hills and tied hinj to, a tree with wire. Police held little hope of apprehending the gunmen. DEBT MORATORIUM DECLARED BY NAZIS Reichsbank Calls Six-Month Cash Holiday. By Times Special BERLIN, June 14.—The Reichsbank today declared a six months’ moratorium on cash transfers of all middle and long-term debts beginning July 1, in an effort to bolster the sagging German mark. Short-term securities already were under a moratorium arrangement, so that today’s action completely “froze” German transfers. The action was expected as the only move calculated to delay or avert necessity for devaluing the currency. What doubt there might have been regarding the Dawes and Young loans was cleared up by a spokesman of the bank who told the United Press: “The moratorium includes all middle and long term transfers of whatsoever nature.” The Nazi cabinet’s insistence that the gold standard for the mark be maintained was meeting opposition in industrial and commercial quarters which declared Germany faced tw alternatives: 1. Devaluation of the mark. 2. Simultaneous lowering of wages and prices. Climbs Pole to Halt Game; K : i By United. Pres* CHICAGO, June 14.—Noise from a ball game under a corner street light annoyed Anthony Anicich, 51. Playing boys ignored his protests. Anicich climbed the light pole, shattered a bulb with a stove poker and fell dead—electrocuted. Times Index Page Bridge 19 Broun 15 Classified 1 23, 24 Comics 25 Crossword Puzzle 23 Curious World 25 Editorial 16 Financial' 20 Hickman—Theaters 3 Lippmann 15 Pegler 15 Radio 12 Serial Story 25 Sports 21, 22 State News 4 Steel Series 15 Vital Statistics 20 Woman’s Pages 18, 19
Dazed, Loos and Seabol clambered out—just slightly scratched. The dynamite lay quietly in the wreckage. A large number of police rushed to the scene. Attaches of the state fire marshal’s office superintended unloading of the truck. Loose and Seabol went to jail.
The subpena will seek his appearance before a congressional committee investigating ‘ subversive activities, it was understood. Hanfstaengl will be asked to testify concerning the wartime Black Tom ex- j plosion case and concerning Nazi propaganda. Hanfstaengl is named in an affidavit filed with the state department in Washington as the alleged master who engineered destruction of $1,000,000 worth of ammunition at a critical period of the war. * The affidavit was sworn to by James Larkin, deported Irish labor leader who told Casimir P. Palmer, former Scotland Yard detective, that Hanfstaengl distributed the explosives used to dynamite Black Tom. Palmer persuaded Larkin to give his version of the Black Tom affair by bringing to his attention a published attack on him by Germans. Larkin told the Scotland Yard investigator: “The Germans approached me on many occasions. No Irishman participated in the explosion of Black Tom. I know every one who is responsible for the blowing up of Black Tom and I knw the kind of explosives that were used. I know every one by name because I stayed with them in the same hotel in Mexico City. “It was Franz Von Papen who organized the sabotage in the United States. The man who organized the destruction of plants was a man named Hanfstaengl, an art dealer at Fifth avenue and Forty-fifth street. I saw him in Berlin some time after I left the United States.” Larkin was deported in 1923. TAXICAB DRIVER VICTIM OF FANTASTIC PLOT “Poison Highball” Killer Ends Life After Bizarre Murder. By United Press RENO, Nev., June 14.—The body of a taxicab driver, apparent victim of a fare who dispensed highballs, was found today along a highway twelve miles east of here. Dale Booth, the driver, was the victim of cyanide poison, the same chemical that brought death to R. S. Wilson, 27, his passenger. Booth’s body apparently had been thrown from his cab. Wilson committed suicide by drinking his own mixture of cyanide and whisky when police sought to arrest him at Lovelock. NeV.
$4,000,000 Utility Rate Slash Paved Way for Minton’s Senate Nomination
BY JAMES DOSS • Times Staff Writer Saving of $4,000,000 to utility consumers, effected by Sherman Minton and the public service commission, is the factor that resulted in Mr. Minton, the state’s public counselor, becoming the Democratic nominee for senator. Months ago The Indianapolis Times started a campaign for utilities regulation. Co-operating with The Times, Mr. Minton and the public service commission waged a vigorous battle for rate reductions. Results were obtained and political leaders started watching the progress of the 42-year-old attorney from New Albany who was proving himself one of most outstanding political
STRIKE SENTIMENT RUNS STRONG AS CONVENTION OPENS AT PITTSBURGH
SCALPERS GET SIOO A SEAT FORME GO Camera Holds 53-Pound Edge Over Baer in ' Battle Tonight. By United Perss NEW YORK, June 14.—Primo Camera will hold a weight advantage of 53 U pounds when he defends his heavyweight championship against Max Baer in Madison Square Garden bowl tonight. official weights taken this afternoon showed Camera weighing 26314 pounds and Baer 210. Baer arrived promptly at 1 p. m., after fighting his way through a milling crowd of thousands which had gathered outside the state office building which houses the boxing commission. Camera was late. Baer undressed at once and complained that “the champ shouldn't keep me waiting like this.” Camera arrived a few minutes later. They exchanged four words: ‘Hello, Primo.” and “Hello, Baer.” General John J. Phelan, athletic commission chairman, was in charge of the weighing-in. Seats Sell at SIOO Each Several cablegrams were delivered to Canera just after he entered the dressing room. One was from Achille Starace, secretary of the Fascist party of Italy. The cable read: “Remember you must win.” The boxers left the commission office immediately after the examinations, Camera going to his hotel suite and Baer to the home of an anonymous friend. Interest in the fight increased with every passing hour and it was nearly the sole topic of conversation in dining rooms, bars, and on the street.
Madison Square Garden Corporation reported a virtual selling out of the $25 top price seats. Only a handful of scattered tickets in the most expensive section remained. Meantime, scalpers were asking as much as SIOO for tickets in the first five rows and were doing a big business at SSO and S6O for seats farther back. Weather Holding Fair Long lines of spectators formed outside the $2:30 general admission gate at the bowl in Long Island City. Tickets to this section. 10.000 of them, u'ere to be place ! on sale at 5 p. m. The weather was holding fair and barring a sudden, local shower, cloudless skies and warm weather were assured. Dr. William Walker, commission physician, wrote out a report on the principals. He said each was in excellent physical condition, and that Camera's sore throat had disappeared. Camera, Dr. Walker said, was the more nervous. Before Camera and Baer left the state office building they were taken to the private offices of the commission, where General Phelan interpreted the rules and demanded clean boxing. Jack Doyle, principal Broadway betting commissioner, announced this afternoon that even money was prevailing on the fight. It was 9 to 10 and take your pick. MUSSOLINI URGES NAZIS JOIN PARLEY Italian Chief Asks Hitler for Peace Aid. By United Press VENICE. Junfe 14.—Premier Benito Mussolini, aggressive and outspoken ruler of Fascist Italy, appealed today to Nazi Chancellor Hitler for the return of Germany to world peace negotiations at Geneva. The two dictators, ruling between them more than 100.000,000 people, met for the first time at an historic luncheon at Stra. near Venice. to cUscuss for two hours the complicated political and economic problems which are troubling Europe.
opportunists Indiana has seen in some time. Quick to recognize Mr. Minton’s potentialities, Pleas Greenlee, executive secretary to Governor Paul V. McNutt and the 'administration patronage chief, marked Mr. Minton as a man of political destiny. Result of the Democratic state convention Tuesday was ample proof that Mr. Greenlee knows how to select an objective and set an undeviating course for it. A man of unquestioned party loyalty, the patronage secretary's aim was two-fold. Like other Democrats, he wanted someone who could retire the Republican Arthur Robinson this fall, and he also wanted a senatorial candidate who could reflect credit on the McNutt administration, t V* - ■ -51.
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Delegates Frankly’ Declare They Can’t Gq Back to Face Men Without Going on Record for Guarantees. TIGHE BATTLES TO KEEP CONTROL Parley Is Adjourned to Allow Close Checkup on Credentials of All Delegates Attending. By United Press PITTSBURGH, June 14.—The Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers adjourned shortly before noon today until 1:30 p. m. (Indianapolis time), to allow a close check on delegates’ credentials. The snort morning session was occupied exclusively with international President Michael F. Tighe’s address and part of the roll call. The adjournment found the roll call only partly completed, and Tighe ordered delegates whose names were not called to remain in the convention hall.
LOSES $87,000 IN GEMTHEFT Film Magnate’s Wife Victim of Daring Robbery in Chicago Hotel. By United Press CHICAGO. June 14.—Mrs. Adolph Zukor, wife of the west coast motion picture magnate, today was robbed of $87,100 in jewelry in a daring theft at the exclusive Blackstone hotel. The robbery occurred on the thirteenth floor of the famous Michigan boulevard hostelry sometime between midnight and 4 a. m. Another guest of the Blackstone, Mrs, Fitzhugh Scott, who occupied a room on the eleventh floor, reported that she was robbed of a handbag and S3O by someone who entered her room during the night. The thief was believed to have gained entrance to the rooms with a pass key, both women having told police their doors were locked. Mrs. Zukor, who was in Chicago awaiting the arrival of her husband to accompany her to California, told the United Press she was awakened about 4 o’clock thus morning by a light shining in her eyes, BOMBING MANIACS MENACING FRANCE Seven Infernal Machines Found in Mails. By United Press PARIS. June 14.—The French mails were found today to be loaded with dangerous bombs, mailed by a maniac or group of maniacs with an insane desire to destroy the French people. Three more bombs were discovered this afternoon, making a total of seven. Police believed the madman had mailed perhaps twenty bombs. Each was constructed on the same system, containing a tube of dynamite exploded by a cap when the package was opened, releasing a spring. The latest bombs were addressed to a news distributing company, a wireless station and a baby food company. Letters accompanying the bombs were signed by “The Three Judges of Hell” and threatened the French people, regardless of age or sex. COLONIES FOR INDIANS Secretary of Interior Approves 5400.000 Allotment. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 14.—Five subsistence homestead projects for Indians will be developed under a $400,000 allotment approved today by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes. The projects will be supervised by the subsistence homesteads division and the bureau of Indian affairs.
He raised the Minton standard. Others among the Governor’s lieutenants had other ideas. The Governor, himself, was not definitely decided on Mr. Minton until a few hours before the convention, but Mr. Greenlee, never wavered in his insistence Jiat Mr. Minton was the logical choice and he bore down opposition to the public counselor. With this two-fold objective in mind, Mr. Greenlee was quick to recognize that the $4,000,000 utilitysavings would be a campaigning point of tremendous possibilities. It is along this line that the drive to “sell” Mr. Minton undoubtedly will be made. However, “old line” Democrats were pointing out today that Mr. Greenlee’s insistence on Mr. Min(Turn to Page Three;
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Tighe, famed for his stern parliamentary tactics, had a hard fight attempting to keep , the delegates under control. They chafed against his rulings, and he pounded his gavel constantly. Tighe opened the convention with a brief address, urging the dele- < gates to confine themselves solely to the strike situation. His warning was prompted by reports that several local matters might be forced before the convention, and possibly a move started to oust Tighe as president. Vote on whether the union will call a nation-wide steel strike probably will not be reached before tomorrow, Tighe said. The afternoon session will be given over to another roll call and the convention chairman's address, he added. A strong pro-strike sentiment was evident ampng the delegates as they went into the meeting. They frankly emphasized that they could not face their lodges again unless they carried with them assurance of definite union gains. Steel concerns here continued their precautions against disturbances. The Jones <52 Laughlin Steel Company, largest independent concern, sent its river police patrol boat out for the first time today, manned by four company policemen. The vivid red of" its hull stood out significantly on the muddy Monogahela, Gary Mobilizes Forces By i nitedPress GARY, Ind., June 14. —Reserve police, deputy sheriffs and private guards were mobilized throughout the Indiana-Illinois steel district today in preparation for a strike considered inevitable except through intervention of President Roosevelt. Leaders of the Amalgamated Association of iron, steel and Tin workers left last night to attend an emergency convention of the union in Pittsburgh declaring that local chapters will abide by any decision of the national organization. They asserted, despite contentions of the iron and Steel Institute that 85 per cent of workers had voted for company unions and against a strike, that “steel production will stop unless we are granted our legal rights.” While the union men prepared for the walkout in Pittsburgh. Sheriff William D. Meyering of Cook county, Illinois, and Chief William Collins of the county highway police canceled leaves of absence and prepared schedules of riot duty. Gary and Indiana state police were instructed to consider themselves on duty twenty-four hours a day if the strike is called. Company managers refused information regarding their plans. Employes were notified, however, that they may remain in the mills throughout the strike. Army cots have been set up in all of the nine plants in the district and union men said that huge truckloads of groceries and arms have been stored in warehouses. G. 0. P. Attacks Measure By United Press WASHINGTON. June 14.—President Rooseveltt's four-point program for labor disputes legislation, timed primarily at the threatened steel strike, was subjected to sharp attacks from senate Republicans today. The President’s proposals would substittute the disputed Wagner labor bill, and a wide variety of suggested changes were advanced at a Republican conference to pass on the legislation. A Republican sub-committee of five senators was appointed to consolidate Republican ideas and put the proposed changes into legislative form. Twenty Republicans attended the party conference, which developed such a confusion of ideas that minority leader Charles L. MeNary found it impossible to settle them without resorting to the subcommittee procedure. Claim Workers Opposed NEW YORK, June 14. More than 85 per cent of the employes of major steel companies are opposed to a general strike and favor employe representation through company unions now in effect, the American Iron and Steel Institute declared in a statement issued today.