Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 80, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 August 1934 — Page 2

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LONG ATTEMPTS TO'GRAB CITY'S PURSE STRINGS Hand-Picked Board Begins Task of Reassessing Properties. Kt t ntt'il Prrsj NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 13—With the voters' roils firmly in his grasp. Senator Huey P. Long today reached out for the purse strings of New Orleans as a further move in his • war" with the city administration, which warns it means bankruptcy.” Only by couri action did the city stave off Long control of city police. He has countered this action, however. by keeping the militiamen under arms, as a club over his opponents. This morning seven newly appointed “district assessors,” appointed by the Long-controlled state tax commission, began assessments throughout the city wards. By this means Lon? hopes to make city officials beg for mercy. Tax Collection Held Up Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley said that assessments made by the Lon? men will not be recognized. Under the state law. however, the Louisiana tax commission has the final say on all assessments. “The taxpayers will be given relief.” Long said. “The district assessors will cut down the city administration's graft, and every one will be given a fair deal.” Previously Governor O. K Allen warned officials they must not insist on collection of delinquent taxes. Under a "‘relief law” passed at the last session of the legislature, a moratorium was granted taxpayers until Oct. 1. Bankruptcy Is Feared Thus, the strangling knot of bankruptcy is being drawn about the city, city officials charge. Meanwhile the federal grand jury, which last week heard the testimony of several of Long’s close allies in connection with its inquiry into the income tax status of prominent, state politicians, was scheduled to resume its investigation. The inquiry’ is being conducted by United States District Attorney Rene Viosca. whose appointment by President Roosevelt Senator Long blocked in the senate. Mr. Viosea is now serving by special appointment of the federal district court. This morning the “old regulars," as Mr. Walmsley's political machine is called, sent three checkers from each of the city’s seventeen wards to study the voting rolls, in an effort to discover how much skullduggery. if any. was practiced by Long adherents in purging the rolls of illegal registrants. FARM BOY. 7, RUNS IN PATH OF CAR: INJURED Lad Is Rushed to Hospital; Driver Is Held. Running across the road to a rural mailbox. William Mareane. 7, R. R 17. was struck by a car driven by Frank Sims. 23. of 152 West Twentyninth street, near the boy’s home on Michigan road today. The youth suffered serious head injuries and was taken by his parents to St. Vincent's hospital. Mr. Sims was arrested on charges of not having a driver's license. NEW STREET CARS PUT ON CENTRAL AVENUE Six of Scheduled Fourteen Cars Go Into Service. Six new street cars today began operating on the Central avenue line. Eight other new street cars will be placed on the line as soon as they arrive from the factory in Pennsylvania. By September, Indianapolis Railways will have placed in service sixty-five new street cars and eighty trackless trolleys this year. CHILD DRINKS COAL OIL 2-Year-Olds’ Condition Is Not Critical, Says Doctors. Robert Stamm. 2. of 40 South Dearborn street, is in city hospital today suffering from the effects of a quantity of coal oil which he drank Saturday at his home. His condition is not critical.

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Children a" the Marion countv juvenile detention home. 225 East Michigan street, now have a playground equipped with swines and slides, thanks to the generosity of public-minded citizens. The yard has been fenced off and the equipment bought and installed entirely without county funds.

HOKE ACCEPTS HOUSING POST State FHA Director Will Serve Temporarily, He Announces. Fred Hoke. Indianapolis, newly appointed state director of the federal housing program, announced today that he will take the position only temporarily. He resigned recently as state director for the national emergency council, declaring that his private affairs required too much time. The same reason was given for his decision to serve as housing director until another selection can be made. Mr. Hoke received notice of his appointment to FHA last night. He had previously announced his resignation from NEC for Aug. 15, but had reconsidered to the extent of offering to remain with the organization a week or two longer to cive the benefit of his experience to his successor. Now he is willing to do the same for the housing administration, but no more. Mr. Hoke told The Times, “Mv private affairs demand my attention. It is imperative that I give them all my time and I will do so not later than early September.”

AUGUSTUS THOMAS, THEATER UEAN, DIES Colorful Personality of Show Business Passes. Bit United Bren* NYACK. N. Y.. Aug. 13.—The death of Augustus Thomas, 77, dean of American playwrights, was mourned today in the world of drama. He was the guide, philosopher and defender of the theater. Mr. Thomas, in declining health for the last three years, died yesterday at the Clarkstown Country Club, his home the last two years. Funeral services will be held Wednesday morning in St. George's Protestant Episcopal church, New York City. Mr. Thomas, popularly known as Gus. was a newspaper reporter, illustrator, railroad brakeman. messenger. law student and labor leader before he wrote plays. Mr. Thomas had written about fifty plays, including such popular ones as “Alabama.” “Colonel Carter of Cartersville,” "Mrs. Leffingwell's Boots.” “The Copperhead.” “In Mizzoura.” “Soldiers of Fortune.” “Nemesis.” “Song of the Dragon” and The Man Upstairs.” 51 CONVICTS TO PLEAD BEFORE STATE BOARD Two Charged With Murder Among Leniency Petitioners. Fifty-one inmates of the state prison and reformatory will present petitions for leniency at this week's session of the state clemency board, it was announced today. The threedav session opens tomorrow. Thirty-four of the group are reformatory convicts. Os the seventeen state prison inmates, two are serving life term sentences. They are Ralph Broom, sentenced from Grant county on a murder charge in 1912. and Orville Thornburg, sentenced from Marion county on a murder charge in 1922.

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McNutt Rests Fate of Kunkel on Crime Board

Tells Editors He Will Ee Guided by Suggestions ot : Crime Board. Dismissal of Louis Kunkel, warden of the Indiana state prison, and any other personnel shakeup at the prison will depend on contents of a report being prepared for Governor Paul V. McNutt by a committee of penal experts. This was made plain by the Governor Saturday night at French Lick at the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association banquet, at which the Governor preceded Sherman Minton, Democratic nominee to the United States senate and principal speaker. The Governor referred to the “heat” placed on Warden Kunkel by administration critics w’ho contend the warden is a mere political appointee and not the trained penologist the position demands. The reports have said that Warden Kunkel would resign or be dismissed and be replaced by a trained prison expert to be recommended by Warden Lewis Lawes of Sing Sing prison, and Sanford Bates, federal director of prisons. Decision I’p to Experts The Governor's refernce to the prison situation contained the terse announcement: “Any changes in personnel recommended in the report of penal experts, now being prepared, will be made when and where indicated.” As scheduled. Mr.- Minton’s address was a ringing indictment of the Republican cries of “Back to the Constitution.” He drew a laugh w T hen he observed dryly that the Republicans “always are wanting to go backward—never forward.” "'The Republicans,” Mr. Minton said, ‘are smugly shouting for the Constitution, as if we are against it. The Constitution cry is being raised by those afraid to attack the peerless leadership of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Ridicules G. O. P. Cry Referring again to the Republican cry of “backward,” Mr. Minton said the appeal well might be construed as a return to the days of Harding. Coolidge and Hoover—a return to the chaos of early 1933. “Human rights consistently have been subjugated to property rights during the long years of Republican rule,” Mr. Minton asserted,” and the ascendency of property rights became such that 97 per cent of the wealth of this great and rich nation was concentrated in the hands of 3 per cent of the people. “That is constitutional government as our opponents know it and give it to us. To the Democratic way of thinking, that is perversion of constitutional government. Recalls Old Evils “The unemployment, collapse of banking, bankruptcy and other evils that, befell America during the depression never were contemplated by government under the Constitution with proper consideration for the rights of the people. “None of these things should have happened under the proper leadership under the Constitution. •'lf constitutional government, as the repudiated leaders of the opposition administer it, brings the nation to its knees, robs the humble of their savings, takes away men's | jobs, dumps women and children into the streets and makes life ! hardly worth the effort, why cer-

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tainly President Roosevelt has taken us a long way from constitutional government of that sort. We’ll not return.” If there were any doubts in the minds of those present about the firm position in the Democratic party of Pleas Greenlee, the Governor's patronage secretary, they were dissipated at the banquet. Mr. Greenlee's handling of the difficult patronage situation has been productive of. a great deal of “heat” on the administration. A resolution by the editors commended in glowing terms his services to the party and expressed their confidence in him. The resolution brought a round of applause and a .smile wreathed the Greenlee countenance. A meeting of the Democratic state committee early Saturday morning brought a decision on Sept. 11 as the date for the “formal” opening of the fall campaign. Terre Haute will be the scene and a later meeting will work out details of the meeting.

STEEL CO. WILL KEEP UNION PAY Republic Corporation to Adhere to Scale, Is Report. By United Press WASHINGTON. Aug. 13.—The Republic Steel Corporation has agreed to adhere to the union scale of wages, hours and working conditions, in operation of its plant at Warren. 0.. it was learned today at offices of the American Federation of Labor. Federation officials said they -were in possession of a letter sent by the district manager of Republic at Warren, to the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, Trumbull lodge at Warren, in which this promise was made. The letter was dated July 28. While not actually the written contract, officials of the A. F. of L. said that union leaders considered the letter acknowledgment of the corporation’s intention to renew a working agreement with Amalgamated. which expired June 30 and precipitated a fierce controversy. 2 BANDITS. CLAD IN OVERALLS, OBTAIN sl9 Filling Station Attendant Is Robbed; Autoist Routs Gunmen. Two men dressed in overalls who brandished German Luger pistols robbed Robert E. Fisher, 39. R. R. 5, Box 527, attendant of a filling station at 2919 English avenue, of sl9 last night. The bandits fled when L. R. Wilson, 2957 North Sherman drive, drove up to the. station. DI VERS COLLI DE, HU RT Rhodius Park Swimmers Treated at City Hospital. Two youths suffered severe head lacerations Saturday when one dived from a Rhodius park diving board and struck the other. The boys were Roland Wernke, 11, .of Mars Hill, who dived into the pool, and Thomas Barnes, 12, of 1239 Lee street. They were treated at city hospital.

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NEW DEAL SET TO PROSECUTE FOODNIOFITEER Higher Prices Inevitable, Government to Check Unfair Profits. By United rress WASHINGTON, Aug. 13. —The new dealers oiled up their shotguns today ready to level at the first drought profiteer to show his head. With high food prices inevitable and scattered reports of food hoarding already coming in. government agencies put their machinery in order to squelch efforts by any one to profit unfairly out of the national calamity. Summary action against any profiteers was promised. Even without profiteering, a rise in the cost of bread and butter can not be avoided. Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Walace warned. AAA Can Set Prices Dr. Frederic C. Howe, consumers’ counsel of the AAA, is expected to head the efforts to hold prices within bounds. The AAA is in a position to correlate production statistics and costs to determine whether the housewife is getting her money’s worth. Widespread publicizing through newspapers of fair prices for daily staples is expected to be the most effective weapon in halting the inroads of the profiteer. The AAA, however, can in an emergency invoke the drastic licensing provisions of the adjustment act. The license powers would enable the AAA to dictate fair prices for virtually all staples through its control over processors. It can even compete against private industry through its own processing units if all other means of control failed. Meat to Rise First Drought effects will be felt first in the butcher shop, officials said. Pork prices have started up and will advance further. Beef and mutton will follow. This can not be avoided due to the forced slaughter of cattle which is sharply reducing the nation’s herds. Despite the failure of the wheat crop, bread should not cost much more, officials believe. Reserve stocks are large and the price of grain actually is but a small item in the cost to the baker of turning out a loaf of bread. However, vegetables and fruits are expected to cost a good deal more. Destruction of these crops has been widespread. This can be expected to show up in rising prices of canned goods.

•DRUNKOMETER’ WILL GAUGE INTOXICATION AT FAIR EXHIBITION

A “drunkometer” to gauge the various stages of intoxication will be among the many scientific exhibits presented by Indiana university at the Indiana state fair, Sept. 1 to 7. This particular display is intended to show the dangers of mixing liquor with driving. Nurses and dietitians will give daily demonstrations of home nursing procedures. Other exhibits will include displays in physics, gymnastics, tumbling, football fundamentals and wrestling. Health displays will emphasize the prevalence and dangers of social diseases, the treatment of rabies and the early treatment and diagnosis of cancer. The annual alumni day program will be held Sept. 5 as a part cf the Education day observances. As in former years, a staff of students will edit the state fair edition of the Indiana Daily Student.

Indianapolis Tomorrow

Indianapolis Home Builders Association, dinner, Chateau Lido, at 7 p. m. Architectural Club, luncheon, Architects and Builders building. Universal Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club. Gyro Club, luncheon, Spink-Arms. Rotary Club, luncheon, Calvpool. Alpha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of Trade.

Ca-Choo! Hay Fever Season Almost Here Aug. 15 Dreaded Date for Sufferers Who Should Avoid Golden Rod, Dogs and Face Powder!

CA-CA-CHOO! Town's going locomotive. Dogs are eyed and detoured. Highway petting spots are dodged. Laundresses are unhappy. And all because the annual plague of Hoosierdoom and Indianapolis, hay fever, mantles the city and state. Unofficially the season opens with the first sneeze but officially, according to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, city health officer, Aug. 15 (Wednesday), is the dreaded date when the family kerchief box runs low and folders describing the beauties of non-fever lakes of the north are devoured.

Dr. Morgan puts the .family Fido in his kennel, with his tail between his legs, with the declaration that “dogs are caiTiers of tne pollen from golden rod.” The Galli-Curci notes* of your canary, Dr. Morgan says, may be singing a song of “Ca-choo ’ for you if you get too close to her.

WKBF OPERATION MAY BE UMITED Change in Frequency of Purdue Station May Cause Shift. By Timm Special WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—Full time operation of radio station WKBF at Indianapolis may be curtailed by the federal communications commission, it was announced today. Recent change of frequency of WBAA at Purdue university made the full time WKBF operation possible, but that change now is challenged by WILL at Urbana, 111. So the commission has ordered the Purdue frequency change suspended and the matter will be set for hearing. This puts the Purdue station back on 1400 kilocycles, the WKBF allocation. Consequently the Indianapolis station may have to be put on part time, at least until the conflict is settled, it was stated. WILL is operated by the University of Illinois on a frequency of 90 kilocycles, which was to have been the new Purdue assignement, leaving WKBF with full time channel clearance. Two petitions for new stations at Indianapolis still are pending on the communications commission docket. One was filed by the Hoosier Broadcasting Company and the other by L. M. Kennett. Both are for operation on one kilowatt of power. Hoosier Broadcasting Company seeks the old channel of station WIND (Gary) of 1.360 kilocycles. The other station wants an allocation of 600 kilocycles. Neither case has been set for hearing. Keith Johns, secretary of the Indiana Democratic state committee, is interested in the Hoosier company with the idea of using it for Democratic political broadcasting, it was said. The commission today announced that the Truth Publishing Company, Elkhart, voluntarily had assigned its radio license to Truth Radio Corporation, temporary hour schedule had been set for the South Bend Tribune station and licenses renewed for WGBF (Evansville; and WIND (Gary).

NOLAND C. WRIGHT WILL HEAD MILLERS Officers Elected at Luncheon of State Association. Noland C. Wright, Anderson, was elected president of the Indiana Millers Association at the third annual meeting in the Washington Saturday. Other new officers are Hadley Clark, Cambridge City, vice-presi-dent; Harold G. Hanlin, Portland secretary-treasurer, and Richard Robertson. Ewing; Carl H. Schaefer, Columbus: Darwin Cox, Nappanee, and Fred Moellering, Ft, Wayne, directors. Advisory committee members are Fred D. Wright, Anderson; Corwin Thomas, Marion, and E. M Haynes, Portland. A constitution and by-laws were adopted and plans w r ere made for discussion of trade problems in the four districts outlined for the state. Obligation of millers under the code was the speech topic of Fred K. Sale, district code director and secretary of the Indiana Grain Dealers Association.

ROBINSON TO SPEAK AT VETERANS’ OUTING Senator Will Address Ex-Service Men Here Next Sunday. Senator Arthur R. Robinson will be the principal speaker at a rally of Republican war veterans on the farm of Charles W. Jewett, former mayor, at Massachusetts and Arlington avenue next Sunday. Other speakers will be Frederick M. Landis, Logansport: Ralph Scott and Delbert O. Wilmeth. They will be introduced by Mr. Jewett. Clarence R. Martin will preside. Station Attendant Robbed Two bandits robbed Virgil McVay, 35. attendant in a filling station at 120 South State avenue, of 545 ea:iy today. The bandits escaped afoot.

T>UT he qualifies canine dangers in carrying the annual fever by averring that one man's wire-haired terrier might be another's chipmunk, as far as contracting a sneeze is concerned. Goldenrod and ragweed are the chief dangers afield for hikers and motorists. Indoors, well a good second to the “pooch” that wags his tail as you approach your sweetheart, might be ycur honey’s face powder, according to story related by Dr. Morgan. He tells of one youth whose sweetheart declared a moratorium on dates with him until after hayfever time only to find out that the powder she used caused the redness of her swain's nose and his echoing "ca-choos.” Dr. Morgan advises hay fever sufferers to find the source of the irritant, whether it be dogs, canaries, weeds or powder and then to avoid that irritant. Climatic changes, serum treatments by physicians, are helpful in alleviating the discomfort of the disease as it runs its yearly course, the doctor says. Otherwise only the frost on the proverbial pumpkin, or even on a squash, can be looked to as the finis for that unpleasant tickling that always ends with, “Ca-choo.”

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LONDON AERIAL i 'RAIDS' SHOWN IN NEWSREEL President Roosevelt Also Seen in Visit to Northwest. The spectacular air-raids over London, staged by the British army to test the country's defense against enemy attack, are seen in the current issue of The Timcs-Universal Newsreel. Leaving th r> flying fields, the great planes are seen winging their way to the city where feverish activity on the ground marks their arrival as the defending forces flash brilliant. searchlights across the sky trying to pick out the marauders to the accompaniment of the boom of anti-aircraft cannon and the rattle of machine guns trained on the soaring bombers. Other important events seen in the reel are the President's visit to Glacier National park on his inspection tour of natural resources of the northwest; views of the destru - tion of half a million in brand new automobiles as fire sweeps a big Buffalo (N. Y.) warehouse; a 74-vear-old great-grandmother in California who swims twenty miles to celebrate her birthday. The Newsreel features an entire officeforee working inside an immense refrigerator to escape the heat wave in Toledo. O.; the arrival of the Endeavor at Bristol, R. 1., to compete for the America's cup; views of the colorful parade at Coney Island as the Modern Venus of 1934 is chosen by a group of famous beauty experts: the break-fast-meeting of the Post-Mortem Club in Chicago over which the skeleton of the founder presides; the Pope's visit to his summer residence; the moving into the chancellery of Dr. Kurt Von Schuschnigg, Austria’s new premier, while the military court condemns his predcessor'ss assassins to death, and views of Henry Mullins of Kansas City, who is growing up from 7 feet 9 at the age of 19. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.f North northeast wind, 1 miles an hour; barometric pressure, 29.93 at set level; temperature, 82; general conditions, high, thin, scattered clouds; ceiling, unlimited; visibility, 7 miles.

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