Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 61, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 July 1934 — Page 1

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FOUR DYING FROM STRIKE WARFARE

ALL-TIME HEAT MARK OF 106 MAY TOPPLE TODAY

Baking Sun Sends Mercury to 94 Degrees Here at 9:15 A. M. BEER RETAILERS BUSY County’s Crops Hard Hit by Heat Wave: No Relief in Sight. Ilnurly Temperatures 12 (midnight) M 2 1 a. m M 2 2 a. m 82 3 a. nt 82 4 a. m 82 5 a. m 80 6 a. m. 82 7 a. m 82 8 a. m 80 9 a. m 92 The temperature at 9:45 a. m. today was 95 degrees. A baking sun that sent the temperature 5 degrees higher at 8 and 9 a. m. today than at the same hours yesterday, made it entirely possible, according to federal weather observers, that Indianapolis would break its all-time heat record of 106 today. At 9:15 a. m. the thermometer boiled at 94 degrees as citizens wiped brows, hung over soda fountains and beer spigots, or re-adjusted office lans. Marion county crops dropped under the blighting rays. Swimming pools were jammed by early bathers, scrambling to be first in the water to beat the mounting torridity of the sun's rays. No letup m the record-breaking! warmth was seen by federal weather observers, whose forecast for tonight and Sunday, was - generally fair and continued warm.” Flock to Theaters Movie theaters with frigid air purveyors found their morning shows well attended as men. women and children sought escape from the sun. Cool picnic spots in city parks early received their quota of snade loungers. White river’s banks held numerous canoes idling under overhanging trees.. The government thermometer jumped two decrees in fifteen minutes from 92 at 9 to 94 degrees at 9:15. **lf it keeps up at this rate during the day yesterday's yearly record of 103.2 degrees will be broken and, possibly, the all-tie record of 106 degrees." it was said at the weather bureau. Beer Retailers Busy In the meantime, housewives sought grocery stores for suggestions for cool Saturday night and Sunday dinners. Canned goods was in demand. Beer retailers were overworked sending cases of foam to home ice boxes. In hospitals of the city patients were fanned by nurses and ice bags were used frequently to make ‘.he day more comfortable. The city jail as well as the Marion county prison had its quota of nudists as prisoners stripped to their - almost” in order to gain relief from the boiling temperatures. Highways as well as interurban trains were loaded with week-end vacationers hunting respite from from the city's bake-oven in cool lake streams, summer cottages, and nearby resorts. Weather bureau figures show that Indianapolis has had more than its share of days with temperatures of 90 decrees. Yesterday was the thirtieth day since June 1, this year, that the temperature has been in the nineties. MISSION CLUB TO MEET Gospel Program to Be Given by Rescue Staff. A meeting of the Breakfast Club of the Wheeler City Rescue mission will be held tomorrow morning under the auspices of friends of the mission. Members of the mission staff will conduct a gospel program.

' THE POWDER BOX Twenty years ago the world was a powder box. Diplomats and kings were preparing their nations lor war. They were fateful, crowded days, those days in 1914. Every twenty-four hours brought the world nearer to that tragic conflict which has left its imprint on a depres-sion-tom universe. Starting Monday. The Times w:l! present a gripping series of ing just what was happening twen’y years ago .. . the events that led to the declaration of war. Don t miss this stirring series.

The Indianapolis Times Generally fair today, continued warm tonight and Sunday.

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 61

Death Rolls Across U. S. as Heat Wave Keeps Grip • on Nation. WATER FAMINE LOOMS Disaster Confronts Country as New Drought Sweeps East. By I nilnl Press CHICAGO, July 21.—Death, famine and new afflictions for millions of farmers rolled eastward across the United States and southern Canada today in the shimmering- air of a record heat wave. At least seventy deaths were traced to heat. Thousands were prostrated. Cattle died almost unheeded in western fields as farmers sought water for their families. Crops burned terrifyingly in a dozen states. Winds became so hot that human skin cracked and blistered at its touch. Thermometer columns boiled over the 100-degree mark—in several places almost to 120 degrees—from Utah almost to the Atlantic coast, and from Medicine Hat to Port Arthur. Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas, speaking at Emporia, declared that the nation is confronted with "a great disaster.” Emporia has not seen the mercury below 100 degrees for thirty-two days. It was 118 yesterday. No rain has fallen for weeks. Fight for Water Thousands of farmers and even large cities fought almost frantically for drinking water. Five thousand residents of Falls City. Neb., were said to be in actual danger of a water famine. The city water plant was unable today to pump water from the lowering Nemaha river. A temperature of 114 degrees sent thousands to beer taverns. Creston, la., planned to enlarge daily shipments of forty-six carloads of water by rail from Council Bluffs. In Chicago and in Kansas City city authorities pleaded for w ater conservation. Chicago pumped more than a billion gallons from Lake Michigan yesterday without being able to maintain normal pressure in the mains. 17 Die in Chicago Seventeen persons died here in the last twenty-four hours of sunstroke, heat prostration and heart disease aggravated by the temperature. Thermometer readings from other points in the affected zone were fantastic. At Joliet till.) penitentiary, inmates were relieved of work when the temperature reached 115. Pierre, S. D., reported 113; O’Neill, Neb., Ill; Burlington, la.. Ill; St. Louis, 110; Kansas City and Cincinnati, 108: Springfield, 111., 105; Indianapolis. 103; Jackson, Mich., 101; Detroit. 96: Shreveport, 96. /In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: West, northwest wind. 16 miles an hour: temperature. 92: barometric pressure. 29.94 at sea level; general conditions, high, thin scattered clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 14 miles.

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NOONES SELECTIONS FOR TODAY Day’s Best —Teralice. Best Longshot—Deadeye Dick. Best Parlay—Barn Swallow and Manya.

At Arlington Park*— One Best—lndian Runner 1. Judge Judy. High Bottom. Mar--1 tie Flynn. 2. Deadeye Dick, Aunt Myrtle, Virginella. 3. Jens Son, Mr. Joe, Gift of Roses. 4. Fort Springs, Albuquerque. Roman Soldier. 5. Barn Swallow, Gay Monarch, Pairbypair. 6. Indian Runner, Hadagal, NewDeal. 7. Fanfern, Siskin, Pot Au Brooms. 8. Unkie Tom. Grayback, Carbon. At Empire City — One Best—Spoilt Beauty. 1. Alanova. Prettv Night. Golden Title. 2. Morpluck, Moisson, Anacreon. 3. Troboy, Saladm, Resurrection. 4. Deduce. Somebody, Economic 5. Spoilt Beauty. Bahadur. Longford. I 6. St. Omer, Pernickety, Dunfern.

Redouble Farmhand Hunt as Widow, After Grilling, Accuses Him of Slaying Beech Grove Woman Is Due for Further Questioning Following Admission That Hired Man Told Her He Had Killed Husband. Search for William 11. Williams, 25, missing hired man, was redoubled today after he had been named as the slayer of Alfred C. (Dan) Pearson, Beech Grove farer, by the farmer's widow, Mrs. Ethel May Pearson.

Mrs. Pearson broke two days of dogged silence yesterday afternoon and said Williams told her, “I have fixed that ” She will be questioned again today in an effort to elicit vital facts that police believe she has not yet disclosed. In a sworn statement Mrs. Pearson admitted that she looked in the bedroom of her home after WilSTATE SCORES IN COHN TRIAL Succeeds in Introducing a Portion of Testimony on Receivership. State and defense attorneys today were preparing for a vital argument Monday on a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty in the embezzlement trial of Melville S. Cohn, vice-president and director of the defunct Meyer-Kiser bank. Floyd Mattice, chief deputy prosecutor, rested the state’s case yesterday after he scored a victory for the state in obtaining favorable ruling from Special Judge Alex G. Cavins on admission of part of testimony given by Mr. Cohn in a circuit court hearing in June, 1933. Defense attorneys immediately made the motion for a directed verdict. Mr. Cohn is charged in a grand jury indictment with embezzling $37.50 in bank funds to pay a dividend to Albert Blue, Indianapolis, a preferred stockholder in the Frailich Realty Company, Gary. Mr. Cohn and Sol S. Meyer, former bank president, Ferdinand S. Meyer and Julian J. Kiser, vicepresidents, who are under similar indictments, were called into circuit court last year by Thomas Garvin, bank receiver, to testify as to management of the bank under their direction. Portions of the circuit court transcript, admitted in evidence yesterday, revealed that Mr. Cohn admitted paying dividends to stockholders of failing realty companies, “because we feared default on the payment of any of these obligations would precipitate runs on our bank.” Memorial Services to Be Held Memorial services for deceased members of George H. Chapman post. No, 209, and Women's Relief Corp. No. 10. will be held at 2 Tuesday afternoon at Ft. Friesdly, 512 North Illinois street.

RACE TRACK S elections

At Detroit — One Best—Frederick 1. Swifty, Sun Worship, Dunny Boy. 2. Volwood, Grand Champion, Annarita. 3. Billy Bee, Glint, St. Moritz. 4. Capitalist, Eddy Lee, Coya. 5. Frederick, Kieva, Crackle. 6. Sabula, Silent Shot, Mr. Sponge. 7. Pacheco, Black Stockings, Espinetta. 8. Frumper, Gertrude Reade, Winifred Ami. At Rockingham Park — One Best—Teralice 1. Sweepogan. Home Loan. Wax. 2. Conventional, Distribute. Twidgets. 3. Buy Straight, Hardatit, Teeter Totter. 4. Paper Profits. Jaz Age, Polvfon. 5. Teralice. Fleam, Dark Secret. 6. Cajoma. Bylona, Allenfern. 7. Allotment, Aquarius, Mayvite. 8. Manya, Night Jasmine, Cabouse.

INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, JULY 21,1931

liams’ declaration and saw the,inert body of her husband lying on a bed. She did not tell police why she had secretively pleaded ignorance of the manner in which the crime was committed and refused to aid them in solving the crime until late yesterday afternoon. Frequently wiping perspiration from her heated brow, she told haltingly of the night of the tragedy. “My husband and I sat in the yard until about 11 o’clock and then went to bed. I slept on a davenport in the living room and he went to bed in a bedroom that adjoins the living room. “Williams,” she continued in a broken voice, “had been out. I did not hear him return. I was awakened about daybreak and saw a light burning in the bedroom of the hired man. “I—l—,” she said in a low tone, “went to his room and found him still dressed in his best clothes. “He pointed toward the door leading to my husband’s bedroom, and said: “ ‘I have fixed that .’ “I looked through the door leading from the dining room into the bedroom and saw my husband lying on the bed with a pillow over his face. “I did not go into the bedroom at that time but went back and laid down on the davenport. I heard Williams searching and rummaging through dresser drawers in his room and heard him leave by the back door a short time later. “At 6:45,” said the widow r of the slain man, “I arose and changed the clothing of two grandchildren that were staying at my home that night. “I then started to light the fire in the basoline stove, when I thought I had better go to my husband’s bedroom and see what Williams had done to him.” Mrs. Williams eyed the circle of detectives questioning her and went on. “I walked over to the bed, raised the pillow and saw his face covered with blood. I dropped the pillow and ran screaming from the room. “I then sent my grandson, Richard Huntsinger, 6, to the barn for the hired man. He returned and said, ‘He’s not here, Mom ’ Then I sent him to a neighbor’s home, Mrs. Brick. Her son-in-law examined my husband and called Deputy Sheriff Harold Cook,” she concluded. Mrs. Pearson’s admission came twenty-four hours after the burial of her husband Thursday afternoon in Floral Park cemetery. Two blows from a heavy weapon had crushed his skull, police say. Mrs. Pearson insisted that her relations with the hired hand were those of employer to employe. On two occasions, she said, her husband had quarreled with Williams over his negligence in caring for livestock. She said she knew little of Williams’ antecedents. The widow of the dead man declared he was 25. but described him as handsome. She said he had applied at the farm fourteen months ago for work. He received $2 a week, lodging, board and laundry service. She said he came here from California and thought that his original home was in Pennsylvania or Virginia. She did not know if he was married. “He dated the girls around here sometimes,”_ she said. No letters leading to the address of relatives could be found by detectives in the few' effects left behind by Williams. The hired man’s writing, detectives say, showed signs of a good education. Last information as to the whereabouts of Williams was the cashing of a,512.50 check in a downtown store. The check was indorsed by Mrs. Pearson. Her explanation for the indorsement and the check’s possession by the hired man was that the check came from a milk company and that she indorsed it and turned it over to her husband. “I don’t know what became of it after that,” she said. A friend of Williams is said to have seen him in Beech Grove early Monday morning. He told the friend he was hitch-hiking to Louisville, Ky. Fractures Wrist While Working Falling while working in her home late yesterday, Clara Murphy, 47, of 214 South Oriental street, suffered a broken left wnst.

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Mrs. William H. Langer GOVERNOR'WAR' STILLGOES ON Mrs. Langer Pleads for Her Mate; Olson Keeps Capitol Office. By United Press BISMARCK, N. D., July 21.—Every political resource of North Dakota’s convicted and ousted governor, William H. Langer, was bent today on impeachment of Oie Olson, his successor and chief enemy. From his room in the ornate Patterson hotel Langer directed a furious effort to muster a quorum for a rump legislative session late today. Almost directly below him the hotel management established ‘‘barracks” for a small army of his supporters—penniless farmers who left their dust blown fields to protest in person against a supreme court ruling which placed Olson in his office. Army cots stood in rows under the crystal chandeliers of the hotel’s ballroom and crowds of overalled men, conspicuously ill at ease in the strange atmosphere of luxury, politics and excitement, grew hourly as the hours for assembly of the legislature approached. Olson, his feet cocked on Langer’s walnut desk in the capitol and perspiration trickling into a handkerchief knotted around his neck, fought a quieter but just as effective battle. A count of legislative noses today indicated that he probably would be successful in preventing a quorum in the senate. A majority of house members, Langer supporters almost to the man, was present when the legislature convened Wednesday. Langer’s attractive, dynamic wife, daughter of a prominent New York architect, was cheered for five minutes after an extemporaneous plea from the hotel steps for ‘‘vindication for my husband.” Mrs. Langer has become almost as important a figure as her husband through discussion of the possibility that she might head the Republican ticket in November if Langer is sent to prison.

PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER Anna Roosevelt Dali, daughter of the President of the United States, is in Reno, Nev„ preparing to institute suit for divorce. Anna Dali is 28, the mother of two children, the daughter of the nation's first family. Anna Dali has been taught to think for herself, to act for herself. Just what Anna Roosevelt Dali does interests the whole nation. Starting Monday, The Times will present a series of three articles, telling of the life and aims of President Roosevelt’s precedent-shatter-ing daughter.

Pollution Ignored, State Caters to *Big Business’ Millions Being Spent for Dredging of River for U. S. Steel’s Barges While Swimmers Brave Disease. The pocketbooks of the steel magnate, the rapidity with which ore and pig-iron can be moved apparently is closer to the hearts of citizens in the Calumet region, government officials and residents of Hoosierdom at large than a child fevering with typhoid in an Indiana hospital.

This picture is obtained in figures released by Harold L. Ickes, federal public works administrator, to Indiana federal works administrators showing that $4,000,000 in government money is being spent improving the Calumet river for barges of the United States Steel Corporation against $3,000,000 spent throughout the state on sewage disposal plants to improve the public health and recreational facilities. Lake county, steel province, is one of the counties whose representatives in the legislature never have aided public health measures anc

45 OTHERS IN HOSPITALS AT MINNEAPOLIS AFTER GUN BATTLE IN STREET

ALLEGED VOTE FRAUD UNDER INQUIRY HERE Ousted County Worker Is Quizzed on Ballots Found in Yard. The county prosecutor’s office today had resumed investigation of charges made by James Flaherty, defeated Democratic candidate for the county treasurer nomination, that a number of primary ballots from six city precincts were not counted and handed over to County Clerk Glenn Ralston, following the May primaries. Mr. Flaherty, who with sixty-two other employes, was discharged from county jobs at the county yard, Twenty-first street and Northwestern avenue, Thursday, says he found a number of ballots in ballot boxes brought to the yard for storage. He was ordered to return the ballots to Mr. Ralston yesterday but instead he turned some of them over to a reporter for The Times. Immediately afterwards, Mr. Flaherty was subpenaed and taken before Miss Beatrice Gohman, grand jury deputy, -who questioned him in the absence of Oscar Hagemier, grand jury prosecutor. Mr. Ralston said he was inclined to believe that the ballots were counted regularly and then placed in the boxes by mistake. Ballots are supposed to be kept on file in the county clerk’s office for six months after an election and then destroyed. Herbert Bloemker, chief deputy county surveyor and superintendent of the county highway department, said that Mr. Flaherty and another county employe were ordered to store 600 ballot boxes on the second floor of one of the count yard buildings. The keys were attached to the boxes which were supposed to be empty Mr. Blomker said that Mr. Flaherty and his co-workers were laid off because of lack of county funds. At the auditor’s office it was explained that salaries for the road workers must come from gasoline tax proceeds and that this sum, paid quarterly, has already been spent. While Mr. Flaherty was being questioned, it was discovered that he had turned the ballots over to The Times. He told the grand jury deputy, Mr. Ralston said, that the ballots had been unfolded when found. This, Mr. Ralston said, would indicate that the ballots had been counted. The ballots are all filled out properly and marked with the initials of polling place officials in one corner. CHICAGO MAN DROPS DEAD AT CITY HOTEL Silversmith Victim of Heart Attack, Says Coroner. Philip Reiffel, 48, of 4930 Bernard street, Chicago, a silversmith, dropped dead today in his room in the Clajpool. Dr. William E. Arbuckle, county coroner, reported that death was due to a heart attack brought on by asthma from which Reiffel was suffering. Barney Reiffel, 4722 North St. Louis street, Chicago, who came here with his brother last night, said that he sat down on the edge of his bed and asked him to get him a glass of water. When Barney returned he found his brother had fallen dead.

efforts to amend laws to conserve fishing and swimming in streams. Extent of the steel lobby in Washington shows in the huge Calumet river grant. While dredging and widening of the harbor for ore packets goes on, there is not one dime spent on Lake Michigan in an effort to clean the beaches from the pollution of the lakp cities. Army engineers, according to state sanitation experts, are interested primarily in the navigability of XTurn to Page Three),

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Union Men Swear Vengeance on Police for Opening Fire on Pickets; 3,000 Troops March Into City. SOLDIERS RESCUE 100 OFFICERS Workers, Angered, Refuse Even to Meet With Peacemakers; Hurl Death Threats at Chief of Cops. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, July 21.—Minneapolis was a powderhouse today, ready t) explode momentarily into a bloody street war. Forty-nine men were in hospitals, four dying, as 3,000 national guardsmen marched into the city with light artillery, machine guns, and truckloads of gas grenades. Thousands of union pickets massed at their headquarters and belligerently roamed the streets, daring police and employers of 6,000 stricking truck drivers to run a gauntlet

of guns. Workers swore vengeance on ‘“the bloody murdering police” who yesterday shot down forty-seven pickets in an effort to move a truckload of groceries through their lines. Screaming men fell to the pavement and were trampled in a brief but terrific battle. Two policemen were slugged into unconsciousness. Panic stricken crowds fled in all directions. Shotguns sprayed the street with buckshot and 200 national guardsmen rushed the mob with bayonets. Only the bayonets and massed ranks of the soldiers halted the the fight and rescued 100 policemen from the fury of more than five hundred pickets who charged them through a rain of buckshot. Mediation at Standstill Efforts of federal mediators, Governor Floyd B- Olson and city authorities to end the five-day-old strike were abandoned temporarily. Union leaders exhorted followers to vengeance and called upon 20,000 additional union members to join them in “licking the police.” They refused even to meet with peacemakers. “This is war,” shouted Grant Dunn, member of the strike committee, at a mass meeting last night.

Dock Strike Virtually at End, Frisco Rushes Back to Normalcy

By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, July 21.—This city, which a week ago was plunging headlong toward industrial chaos, today was rushing as rapidly back toward peace.

Union teamsters dealt what may be the final blow forcing striking maritime unions to arbitrate their paralyzing strike against Pacific coast shipping when they voted last night to return to work. Postmaster-General James A. Farley and Senator Robert Wagner arrived to join General Hugh Johnson, NR A chief, and the President’s mediation board in working out what they hope will be final details of settlement of all remaining labor disputes. Longshoremen, chief factor in the maritime strike, will vote today on the question of accepting arbitration. Other maritime unions were reported in favor of ending the strike. There were predictions that by Monday or Tuesday all labor difficulties in the San Francisco area would be in the hands of arbitration boards and the men would be back at work. Meantime, as an aftermath of the devastating general strike which held San Francisco in its grip for four days, the most militant crusade against alleged Communists and agitators since the days immediately following the war was in progress. More than five hundred persons were in Pacific coast jails. Efforts were being made to bring about wholesale deportations. Deadlock Is Broken By United Press PORTLAND, Ore., July 21. While 1,000 militiamen waited in nearby mobilization barracks, Portland's waterfront hummed with new activity today, the ten-week deadlock imposed by the maritime strike apparently broken. The balance of power rested with constituted authorities. Labor leaders held their rank and file in check. Talk of a general strike subsided. The presence of the guardsmen restrained strike pickrts from violence. The Portland strike strategy committee renewed its pledge to Senator Robert F. Wagner that it would take no general strike action until after the veteran labor legislator presented labor grievances to the President's mediation board at San Francisco.

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“What are we going to do to the police chief who ordered unarmed men shot down?” “Give him hell. Kill him,” roared the crowd. Dunn said that pickets would prevent every truck in the city from moving today. Police Chief Michael Johannes refused to discuss his plans. He would not say whether he intended to furnished police convoys for more trucks. “What policy will be pursued depends entirely upon conditions,” ha said, “Issue Is Clean Cut” Johannes told the Rev. Francis ,T.Haas, federal conciliator, that the demands of strikers and truck owners placed him between two fires. “If a truck owner demands police protection,” he said, “it is my duty to furnish it.” When the first truck was moved under convoy Thursday Johannes told his men: “You have shotguns and you know how to use them. Don’t take a beating.” “The issue is clear cut,” said Dunn. “When we signed a peace treaty for the strike in May (in which two men were killed and 300 injured) the employers’ agreed to arbitrate with us all questions pertaining to working conditions of our members. Now they’ve reneged and wee’ll not stand for it.”

Strikers Are Routed By United Press SEATTLE, Wash., July 21.—Seattle policemen, guided by a fighting mayor who formerlly starred in football, entrenched themselves on the ■waterfront today to await reprisals from the 1,200 strike pickets they routed yesterday in a spectacular gas attack. Mayor Charles Smith’s driven to open the port threw the strikers into temporary confusion. But they were reported rallying scarred and scattered forces. Smith took personal charge of the police after forcing the resignation of Chief George F. Howard. The mayor went into action soon after dismissing Howard. The police moved on Pier 41, which the strikers had wrested from the authorities in a bruising fight two days before. The pickets were stupefied by the rapidity of the police charge. The battle was over almost as rapidly as it started. The police found themselves in possession not only of Pier 41, but also of the railroad line leading to the pier terminal. Strike in Second Week By United Press KOHLER, Wis., July 21.—Striking eployes of the Kohler Manufacturing Company, who have turned this “model” industrial village into a battleground, today began their second week of siege outside the plant, Hundreds of pickets, many of whom have not been employed for months, idled along the rope barriers strung across all approaches to the factory. A carload of coal was permitted to enter for use in the power plant which supplies the village with electricity and water. The men maintained their determination to shut down the famous bathroom fixture plant until they win recognition of a union and a guarantee of employment. Hopkins Visits Mussolini By United Pri ss ROME, July 21—Premier Benito Mussolini yesterday received in audience Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief administrator. They discussed Italian and American relief methods for twenty minutes.