Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 81, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1934 — Page 3

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SLOT MACHINE DISCOVERED ON BANK OF CANAL Battered Device May Be One Stolen in Seymour Raid, Cops Say. Finding of a batten'd slot machine on the bank of the canal at Walnut street yesterday started an investigation by police today to determine if the machine was one of those stolen m a tavern raid by racketeers near Seymour. Possibility of a slot machine “mob' working out of this city and raiding highway resorts of machine* in addition to robbing patrons of wayside inns, was seen by detectives. In the meantime, hands of state police were tied by the attornevgenerals office in probing state gambling devices when the state officers were told to remain out of counties unless aid was requested in “cleanup work by local authorities. A! Feeney, state safety director, mav meet within the next few days with Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. Police Chief Mike Morrissey, and Sheriff Charles Sumner to discuss the Marion county slot machine situation. County resorts have stored their machines away and say they'll keep them stored until the heat's off ‘ Chief Morrissey told Prosecutor Wilson that, he was working on an angle of "vital importance" in connection with the slot machine racket. STOREROOM PERMIT IS DENIED BY CITY BOARD Objections of Property Owners Are Upheld by Zoning Heads. The zoning appeals board yesterday refused to grant Coppock Brothers. interior decorators, a permit for a storeroom at 1443 North Meridian street, when adjacent property owners objected. Albert Stump, representing William B. Burford and representatives of SS. Peter and Paul cathedral, Cathedral high school and St. Agnes academv. objected, asserting that unless the building be set back fifteen feet from the sidewalk, it would destroy the beauty of the property north of Fourteenth street. Henley T. Hotte-1, realtor, representing the petitioners, refused to accede to the condition that the structure be set back fifteen feet. YOUNG PEOPLE'S UNION TO MAP FALL EVENTS Baptist Group Dans Evangelistic Drive for October. Cabinet members of the Baptist Young Peoples Union of Indianapolis will meet Sunday at the home of Fugene C. Foster, 5305 Julian avenue, to plpn the fall program. Karl Scheick. newly elected president. will preside. Other officers are Dorothy Rogg. vice-president; Phyliss Mitchell, secretary, and Bertha Hoffman, treasurer. The organization will launch an evangelistic drive Oct. 14 to Nov. 25 in co-operation with the young peoples department of the Marion couni ▼ council of religious education in the allied youth evangelistic movement. $1,000,000 ROAD WORK IS PLACED BY STATE Federal Funds Help Towns of More Than 3..VM1. More than a million dollars’ worth of highway and bridge construction was placed under contract during July by the state highway commission. Chairman James D. Adams announced today. Construction contracted since the first of this year totals more than $8,000,000. This is the first year the highway commission has been able to improve highway routes through cities and towns of more than 3.500 population, money for this work being financed by federal funds. HELD TO GRAND JURY Negro Accused of Jewelry Store Robbery Is Bound Over. Milton Sanders. Negro. 716 Hiawatha street, alleged to have smashed a jewelry store window at 56 Monument street and to have stolen valuable jewelry, today was held to the grand jury under $2,000 bond on burglary charges by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers. The case of Abe Tavel, pawnbroker at 326 Indiana avenue, charged with receiving stolen goods from Sanders, was continued. CITY GROCERY LOOTED Four Burglars Break Door Glass. Get Food. Drinks. Early today M K. Hunter. 7902 East Washington street, saw four burglars loaded with loot leave a grocery at 7903 East Washington street and dnve away. Police found that the burglars had obtained entrance by breaking the glass out of a door. 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The Sahara Grofto crum and bugle corps will entertain former patients and friends of Sunnvsfde sanatorium at the hospital s twelfth annual home-coming, Aug. 26.

U. S. Waterway Problem Rests With Roosevelt

President Must Decide on Vast Future Program of Action. BY NED BROOKS Times Special Writer. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Discussion among inland waterway exponents is centering now around future control over the government's vast program of river and harbor development. The answer rests with President 1 Roosevelt. It may not be given for some time, but before the end of the 1 year the President and his advisers must decide: 1. Whether the future program w ill remain purely a function of the United States army engineers or | shifted to an agency organized to deal with the whole problem of land and water usage. 2. Whether the projects to be dei veloped will be selected by specific j authorization of congress or by an administrative agency, with con- ; gress merely making lump sum appropriations. Going Ahead Fast Aided by generous allotments of Public Works Administration funds, river and harbor work is going forward this summer at an unprecei dented pace. The PWA allotments and the war department's carryI over from regular appropriations, i however, will be largely exhaus'ed bv the end of the present fiscal year, i June 30. Prior to 1928, the anual appropria- ! tion for rivers and harbors averaged i from $40,000,000 to $50,000,000, with about $10,000,000 yearly for flood j control. In the five years prior to establishment of PWA, the yearly average was raised to about $80,000.000 for rivers and harbors and $30,000.000 for flood control. , Os the original PWA fund of $3,300,000,000, the engineers got $255,928,000. of which $179,741,000 was for rivers and harbors. $69,187,000 lor flood control and $7,000,000 for sea coast defense. About $105.000.000 was spent during the fiscal year 1934, and about 5116.955.000 will be spent this year, having $34,000.000 for 1936 and 1937. Not in Harmony Congress, the President, adninistration advisers and officials now engaged in carrying out the program are by no means in harmony on the future policy. Congress, of course, wants to retain control over selection of projects. Critics last session were quick to seize upon the fact that the PWA had allotted more than $125,000,000 to projects not authorized by congress. But for the intervention of President Roosevelt, congress would have re-assumed command. A bill was reported by the house rivers and harbors committee authorizing long list of developments, but the President persuaded chairman Mansfield tDem., Tex.) to withhold it. Army Wants Control The Army Engineers want to retain control, and in this they have f the support of Secretary of War Dern. When the President's committee. of which Dern was a member. made its preliminary report 150 TO MAKE FAIR TRIP U. S. Tire Employes to Visit Chicago Exposition Sunday. Employes of the United States Tire Company, Inc., approximately 150 in number, will make an excursion to the world's fair at Chi- : cago Saturday and Sunday. The group will leave at 3 Saturday morning over ihe Big Foiir route and return at 11 Sunday I night. Headquarters will be in the Del Prado hotel. TREASON TRIALS OPEN Death Demanded for 150 Soldiers in Bulgarian Plot. By United Prett SOFIA. Bulgaria. Aug. 14—Death sentences for 150 army officers and soldiers will be demanded by the prosecution when their trial on charges of high treason opens tomorrow. it is alleged that they conspired in a Communist revolution scheduled for Aug. 1, which was x thwarted by government action. COP IS RADIO CROONER Policeman Leaves Traffic Job to Sing on Beach. y I str> <i Prrtt HAMPTON BEACH. N. H. Aug. 14—Patrolman William tBilD Elliot holds two jobs at this summer resort. While not directing traffic, E'liot steps over to the beach broadj casting station and sings for the crowds.

earlier in the year on the development of ten watersheds, the secretary protested against listing them in any order of priority and recommended that construction work continue as a war department function. Pointing out that the engineers had been compiling engineering reports on waterways for seven years, the secretary recommended that congress adopt a plan based on these reports without prescribing priority. Any other method, he warned, might cause a reversion to pork barrel methods which he said had been eliminated in recent years. Mr. Dern advised against lumping all parts of a national program in one plan, pointing out that stream pollution, for example, is unrelated to navigation. At a cost of more than $10,000,000 the war department has surveyed about 2.000 projects involving an expenditure of more than eight billion dollars. Secretary Dern suggested 'that such a program could be carried on at a cost of $200,000,000 a year for the next half century. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, also a member of the special committee. is on record against specifying priority for the ten watersheds, while Secretary of Labor Perkins, another member, favors putting the entire program of land and water development under the national planning board. President Roosevelt has expressed a desire to set aside about a half billion dollars a year for land and water development—“changing the face of nature,” as he expressed it. CHILE ‘FRIENDLY’ TO U. S., EXPERT SAYS Excellent Market Open, City Exporters Are Told. A “friendly market” will be found in the republic of Chile by American manufacturers, Harold M. Randall, assistant United States commercial attache in Santiago, Chile, told a group of local exporters at the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce yesterday. Mr. Randall, who is making a combined business and pleasure trip in the middle west, said that Chile is in better economic condition than it was two years ago. While the government still is in default on many of its bonds, its exports exceed those of last year, he said. CITY POLICE TURN IN GOOD PISTOL AVERAGE Instructions in Shooting End; High Scores Recorded. Indianapolis should have a police forceo f crack shots. Today Chief Mike Morrissey announced that the last class in instruction in pistol shooting had ended and that all patrolmen in the city have received instruction in the use of firearms. The chief told safety board members that the department's average was 79.635. This is considered a good average for the entire department. the chief said. Patrolmen O. Mangus and F. Martin were the sharpshooters of the worce with a grade of 99.33. GUN-TOTER SENTENCED Gets Ninety Days, SIOO Fine for Carrying Revolver. Jack Rhodes. 45, of 403 North Pennsylvania street, was sentenced today by Municipal Judge Dewey Myers to ninety days on the Indiana state farm and fined SIOO and costs on charges of carrying concealed weapons. He was arrested Aug. 5 by police after patrons of a downtown case reported that Rhodes was carrying a .45-caliber revolver. Counties to Hold Reunion Indianapolis residents who formerly lived in Crawford or Orange counties will hold their annual reunion in Brookside park next Sunday.

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CLEANER BEER BUSINESS SEEN Right of Government to Control Breweries Is Lauded. Federal court affirmation of the government’s right to control the liquor industry under codes should remove the last obstacle to keeping the Indiana beer business clean, Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Ninth Regional board of the brewing industry, said today. Mr. Feightner referred to the northern Illinois federal court ruling ordering the Schlitz Brewing Company to dismantle costly signs it has been providing for retailers. Supplying of costly signs by brewers, according to Mr. Feightner, is one of the chief difficulties with which the brewing code authority has had to contend in Indiana. Other evils of unfair competition which the code authority is endeavoring to stamp out are rebates and gratuitous services and equipment supplied to retailers. The latter problems, according to Mr. Feightner, have not been so acute in Indiana, although the code authority still receives some complaints that favored retail outlets are given free beer, usually on the ratio of one barel in five. The gratuitous services and equipment supplied in many states to retailers consist of coil cleaning service, payment of all or part of the rent and free installation of bars and other equipment. Mr. Feightner said investigation had disclosed there are none of the latter violations prevalent in Indiana and that the rebate evil is diminishing. MURDER JURY IS~~NEAR Woman’s Slaying Trial Opens in New York. By United Press COOPERSTOWN, N. Y„ Aug. 14. —A jury to decide the fate of Mrs. Eva Coo, 42, charged with complicity in the automobile slaying of Harry Wright, a cripple, neared completion today. Mrs. Coo is charged with having plotted Wright's death with Mrs. Martha Clift, 27-year-old mother, for insurance money. JEWETT ON PROGRAM Former Mayor to Be Chief Speaker at G. O. P. Meeting. Charles W. Jewett, former mayor, will be the principal speaker wiien Republicans of the Ninth and Tenth wards open their campaign at 8 tomorrow night at a house warming of the McKinley Club, 2217 East Michigan street. The program will include readings by Mrs. Martha L. Huggins, music and refreshments. Roy L. Volstad, club president, will preside. sls GROCERIES STOLEN Two Thieves Jimmy Door, Steal Tobacco and Food. Two thieves broke into a grocery at 977 Hosbrook street early today by jimmying a side door and stole tobacco and groceries valued at sls. George W. Griggs, 975 Hosbrook street, told police he saw two men leaving the store carrying a bushel basket.

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BANK DEPOSITS SHOW INCREASE OF $21000,000 Class A Institutions of State Are Reported in Excellent Condition. Deposits in Class A banks in Indiana have increased $23,000,000 over a year ago and for every dollar owed by banks, they have $1.19 in assets on their books, it was revealed today in the report of Richard A. McKinley, director of the state department of financial institutions. Mr. McKinley's report was based on the period from June 30, 1933, to last June and revealed total deposits of $259,000,000. “The great increase in bank deposits,” Mr. McKinley said, “has come during the last six months, bank deposits actually having slumped during the preceding halfyear.” Bank deposits since Dec. 30, 1933, have risen $28,000,000, or 11 per cent, according to the bank commissioner. Assets $112,000,000 Quick assets, with which the banks can make almost immediate payment to depositors, total $112,000.000, according to Mr. McKinley. This figure is 43 per cent as much as banks owed to their depositors and creditors. A year ago in June, when banks were considered to be in a fairly satisfactorily liquid condition, the quick assets, including cash deposits with banks and government bonds, amounted to $80,000,000, or 33 per cent of the liabilities. Thus, according to the report, banks have effected a 10 per cent raise in the ratio between their quickly convertible assets and their liabilities, since a year ago June. Banks have increased their holdings in other bonds by $3,000,000, although the actual increase has been in excess of that amount. Many banks have made heavy charge-offs in the book values of their bonds so that the amount at which they carried them on the books would corespond more nearly with the market value of the bonds. Loans Discounts Slump Loans and discounts did not rise as would be expected in view of better business conditions during the period, but this may be explained, according to Herman Wells, state bank supervisor, by the fact that banks also wrote off these losses. These write-offs were necessary, according to Mr. Wells, because of the rigid requirements for qualification for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation eligibility and by strict provisions of the new Indiana financial institutons act. Part of the loans decrease, according to Mr. Wells, also is represented by conversion of farm and other real estate mortgages into Home Owners Loan Corporation and Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation bonds, which are guaranteed by the federal government. CITY SCHOOL BOARD TO STUDY BEQUEST $58,000 for New’ School for Crippled Children Received. The city school board in session tonight will consider a detailed report of a $58,000 bequest from the estate of Henrietta West Roberts to be used for the establishment and maintenance of anew school for crippled children. The board also will receive bids for the $66,000 school board issue for the construction work at Broad Ripple high school, and will deliberate on contracts for the purchase of school supplies. SPEAKER RAINEY IS ILL Congressman’s Condition “Not Serious,” Physicians Say. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14.—The condition of Congressman Henry T. Rainey, Speaker of the house of representtaives, suffering from a slight attack of pneumonia in De Paul hospital, today was reported as “not serious.” Physicians said Mr. Rainey will remain here for ton days “to assure complete recovery. TAX DUPLICATES READY Fall Installment Due By First Monday in November. Tax duplicates for the fall installment of 1933 taxes now are ready in the Marion county treasurer's office, Room 25 of the courthouse, Fay Wright, chief deputy treasurer, announced today. Taxpayers have until the first Monday in November to pay their taxes, Mr. Wright explained. After that date, taxes become delinquent.

ENGINEER’S HOBBY IS BOON TO HIS FRIENDS

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Some people spend their spare time collecting postage stamps or building boat models in bottles or fashioning miniature churches from matches. But Clarence B. Foster, 111 East Thirtieth street, has found a w r a.y to combine pleasure with pleasure. Here is the explanation. Mr. Foster loves to fish. When his business of electrical engineering permits, he is a visitor to the lakes and streams. And on the long winter evenings he makes the rods and lures that he will use when the fish begin to bite again. The picture shows Mr. Foster examining one of his home-made rods. Six coats of varnish cover the selected Tonkin bamboo. Guides and ferulles are whipped on with many turns of winding silk. Some of the rods are strengthened by a solid covering of the fine thread. The finished product, six feet long and weighing less than five ounces, has the lithe power of a fine sword blade. Asked why he didn't make the rods on a commercial basis. Mr. Foster smilingly explained that it would take all the fun out of his hobby. “It's bad enough as it is,” he said. “No sooner do I finish a rod for my own use than a friend falls in love with it and talks me out of it. After all, I want some time for fishing.”

FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT OFFICES ARE MOVED National and State Relief Agencies Take New Quarters. Offices of the national re-em-ployment service and the Indiana state employment service will be moved from their present location at 310 North Meriden street on Saturday, M. F. Carpente-, director, has announced. The administrative offices and the employment office for business and professional workers will be on the third floor of the Chamber of Commerce building. The employment office for domestic, factory, hotel and restaurant women workers will be at 58 West New York street. The office for industrial workers, skilled, semi-skilled or common labor, will be at 60-62 West New York street. ZAHND SENATE NOMINEE National Party Pick Candidate; Offices to Open. John Zahnd, chairman of the National party, has been nominated for senator from Indiana, it was announced today. Louis H. Waldon was named state manager for Mr. Zahnd. Virgil H. Minker, county chairman, announced that downtown offices will be opened this week. Petitions for the fall election will be circulated by Francis X. Walter, Forrest L. Hackley and Mr. Minker.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Claude Edwards, 431 North Tacoma avenue, Chevrolet coach, found in first ailev east of Alabama street, north of St. Clair street - , . P Shirlev. 1134 Hovt, avenue. Chevrolet coach, found at Harrison and Shelby streets. P. E. Rose. R. R. 3. Box BC2. WillysKnight truck, found at 300 North California street. Oren Slagle. 915 Reisner street. Chevrolet. coach, found at Post and Shelbyvillp roads. Completely stripped. CHURCH HEAD ON TRIP United Brethren Leader to Attend Minnesota Parley. Bishop H. H. Fout, head of the White River conference of the United Brethren church, left Indianapolis yesterday for Grey Eagle, Minn., where he will preside over the first of seven United Brethren conferences in five states. The tour will include meetings at Princeton, Ind., Indiana Central college, Winona lake, Decatur, 111.; Grand Rapids, Mich., and Janesville, Wis. TOMATO TUMBLES' COP Motorcycle Officer’s Machine Skids on Overripe Vegetable. A lowly tomato caused the downfall of motorcycle officer Carl Ashley yesterday, resulting in painful bruises. Patrolman Ashley started to make a left turn at Henry and New Jersey streets when the machine skidded on an overripe tomato and tumbled over on the officer.

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NEW DEAL TEST IS PROVIDED IN TWO PRIMARIES Democratic Senate Races in Ohio: Nebraska Draw Interest. By United Press Two primary contests out of four being held today put New Deal issues up to the voters. The interest of political students was centered on the farm belt, where contests involving tests of strength of New Deal supporters were going on in Nebraska and Ohio. The primaries in Idaho and Arkansas largely were local affairs. The Nebraska contest was regarded as the most spectacular. Representative E. R. Burke of Omaha and Governor Charles W. Bryan are fighting for the Democratic senatorial indorsement. Mr. Burke is the candidate of Arthur Mullen. President Roosevelts floor manager at the 1932 convention. He is the author of the New Deal definition quoted by Mr. Roosevelt ni his Green Bay tWis.) speech last week. This gesture was regarded as a break with th£, traditional attitude of presidential neutrality in a primary. Brvan Denounes AAA Governor Bryan has denounced the AAA as slitting the farmer's throat from “ear to ear." He has been critical of other administration measures and has espoused remedies which critics claim amount to virtual cancellation of mortgages and other debt burdens. The Republican senatorial nomination also is biterly contested. Five candidates are in the race. In Ohio, the race centers on the Democratic indorsement for senator, with hot fights all the way down the ticket. Three Seek Nomination The three Democratic senatorial candidates are Representative Charles West, who is advertised widely as the “simon pure” 'New Deal candidate, Governor George White and former Governor Victor Donahey. Mr. Donahey Is the most, reticent in his support of the administration. Governor White takes a middle course. The outcome is expected to be very close. Senator Simeon D. P’ess is expected to win the Republican nomination by a good margin, although he has two opponents. He is a bitter opponent of the Democratic regime and a November race between him and Representative West would draw the issue squarely. Interest in Idaho mainly was in the effort of Governor C. Ben Ross to win Democratic indorsement for the third time. Should he win he will be regarded as the leading challenger to Senator William E. Borah in 1936. ACCIDENT DEATHS IN STATE SHOW INCREASE Decrease Revealed in Number of Crashes, Road Chief Says. Although the number of accident* on state highways has decreased this year, fatalities have increased 2'i per cent, asserted J. D. Adams, chairman of the state highway commission, in an address before the Scientech Club at the Columbia Club yesterday. Mr. Adams advocated a more adequate system of road patrol by state police as a means of regulating traffic and reducing accidents. The commission is carrying out a program of widening roads and eliminating deep ditches, he said.