Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 99, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 September 1934 — Page 1
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DR. WILL SMITH JR. IS NEW BROWN DERBY KING
Dentist's Backs Stage Rally, Pour in 17,708 Votes in Last Rush. STEINSBERGER SECOND New Ruler to Receive Kelly in Rites at Fair on Thursday Night. FIN/ STANDINGS Dr. Will I- Smith Jr 47,154 Fred W. Steinsberger 40.157 Dr. Paul Kernel 20,349 Fred W. Krueger 19,619 Hail! The King Today the bands that play, the cheers you hear, are for "King" Will I of Brown Derbyville. Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., dentist, and president of the Cosmopolitan Democratic Club, won the annual Indianapolis Times brown lid for 1934 in a last minute rush to the polls with 17.708 votes. Dr. Smith defeated Fred W. Stemsberger, president of the Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers Association, by 6.997 votes. The race was in doubt up to closing time. The “Steinsbergerians” flocked to The Times office with a bundle of ballot* that totaled 6.323 to be added to 33.834 ballet* polled previously, but the "Smithians,” using a packing case, bent the shoulders of Judges and wore out counting fingers with their 17,000 vote onslaught. Mr. Steinsberger, good sport, conceded the election before the judges had completed counting. "He's a better man than I am—this year," declared the grocers’ executive as he congratulated the winner's campaign manager in Gunga Din fashion. Dr. Smith, due to illness of Mrs. Smith, was unable to be in the counting room as the deadline hour tolled. Acclaimed the city’s "most distinguished citizen” the dentist -king,” who became the contes's first “King Will." will be crowned at 8 p. m. Thursday night in front of the state fair grand stand. He will be paraded through the city streets to the fairground. He will receive the kelly of kellys, a silver plaque huzzahlng his right to the crown, and he wall speak to his loyal subjects. Hear! See! Know! a “king" for the first time in your life at the Indiana state fairground on Thursday night. 8 p. m., at the grand stand. AGE PENSION FUND IS DEBATED AT HEARING $350,000 Proposal Storm Center at Budget Session. Opposition to proposed appropriation of $350,000 for the old-age pension fund proved the storm center in Marion county budget hearings at the courthouse today. Otto Del use, pension advocate, urged appropriation of the full amount before the county commissioners. Instead of the $150,000 which it was indicated will be budgeted for that purpose. In opposition to Mr. Deluse, Virgil Shepard. Chamber of Commerce research director, stated that no appropriation at all would be the wisest possible action on the part of the commissioners. He based his argument on the opinion that without trained social workers the fund could not be administered properly. The budget will not be adopted today. It will receive a second reading tomorrow and probably will be approved then. DOUG DAVIS. SPEED FLIER, DIES IN CRASH Veteran Pilot Lowes Life in SIO,OOO Race. By United Press CLEVELAND. Sept. 4.—The death of Doug Davis, veteran .pilot, whose life ended in the wTeckage of a plane that an instant before bulleted through the air at 245 miles an hour, was put down today to the hazards of air racing. Davis, leading competitor in .the SIO,OOO Thompson trophy Gice in the national air show, crashed while rounding a pylon. Colonel Rosroe Turner, following close behind. went on and finished first. More than 125.000 spectators saw the plane fall but thought the pilot had bailed out safely until two hours later his death was announced over the public address system. The accident occurred in the sixty-fifth mile of the 100-mile race around a triangular course. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 57 10 a. m 60 7a. m 58 11 a. m 63 8 a. m 56 12 (noon).. 61 9 a. m..... 59 1 p. m 61
INDIANA CONTEST The winners in the Bing Crosb.v-"She Loves Me Not" contest will be announced tomorrow in The Indianapolis Times. Henry Richard Behrens, interior decorator of Indianapolis, has been selected as the Judge who will make the awards. The judge has the nght to analyze all rules and his judgment will be final. The contest was conducted in connection with the showing of -She Loves Me Not." now at the Indiana.
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NEW KING OF DERBYVILLE DONS BROWN CROWN Ha ‘ it '
“King” Will I. alias Dr. Will H. Smith Jr., shown with his winning smile and the regal crown of Brown Derbyville.
Hoover Supports ‘Liberty of Exploiter, ’ Says Ickes Former President Defending Freedom of ‘Privilege,’ Charges Roosevelt Interior Secretary. By United Press WASHINGTON. Sept. 4.—Former President Herbert Hoover today was accused by Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes of championing "the liberty of the exploiter.* 1 "Mr. Hoover,” said Mr. Ickes, “seems to be defending the liberty of privilege. He is defending the class that doesn’t want to let go of anything it has.”
“Whose liberty is being disturbed? It is only the liberty of a small group, who by fair means or foul has been able to acquire property by exploitation of the mass of the people,” he said. Mr. Ickes likewise assailed the charges of administration critics that the government is moving toward regimentation. “The government hasn't regimented any one. but industry has. Look at your big factories where a man pulls one lever all day long and there you will see real regimentation.” Mr. Hoover saw the New Deal as "economic regimentation” and the thesis behind that, he said, is “the very theory that man is but the pawn of the state.” This, he continued, is “usurpation of the primary liberties of man by government. It is a vast shift from the American concept of human rights, which even the government may not infringe, to those social philosophies where men are wholly subjective to the state. It is a vast casualty to liberty if it shall be continued.” Never once did the former President mention the present President by name but he included a critical digest of emergency powers granted the executive by congress and sharply criticised congress for granting them. Dairy Firm Safe Battered Employes at the Banner Farms Dairy, 2302 Bloyd avenue, early today heard the sound of hammering in the offices. Entering the offices, they found that burglars had battered open the safe and taken an undetermined amount of money.
Prison-Political System Must Go, Summary Shows Scores Join in The Times’ Drive to Place Indiana’s Whole Program on Civil Service Basis. Political management of Indiana's penal and reformatory institutions stands indicted today in the face of a mass of testimony of penologists and the civil service experience of other states.
This fact stands out clearly in a summary of evidence accumulated by The Indianapolis Times in support of its proposal that the state’s penal institutions be placed under control of a central department of correction, officered under civil service regulations. From seven states has come evidence that the “spoils” system of managing penal institutions has yielded results corresponding to those in Indiana with a shocking series of prison and jail breaks. Today, came a climatic, sweeping indictment of political management of such institutions from the lips of an international authority on penology. Dr. Walter N. Thayer Jr., former president of the American Prison Association and now New York state correction commissioner, drawing on his forty-two years’ experience in several states, declared unequivocally that there could be no com{>anson between the conditions under the spoils system and under civil service control. Dr. Thayer inaugurated in Mary-
BANDITS GET SI,OOO AT WESTFIELD BANK City, State Police on Watch for Gunmen. Two bandits shortly before noon today robbed the Union State Bank of Westfield of approximately SI,OOO and fled toward Indianapolis. City and state police immediately mount’d guards on roads leading into the city. Three employes of the bank were at work when the bandits appeared. Both were of middle age. One was armed with a shotgun and the other with a revolver. The bandit with the shotgun threatened Roy O. Hadley, cashier; J. C. Hinshaw, assistant cashier, and Miss Helen Cloud, bookkeeper, while his companion scooped all the silver and currency into his pockets. The gunmen then fled toward Indianapolis, driving a Plymouth coupe with a state of Washington license. Clerks Elect Mishawaka Man By Ur ited Press WHITING, Ind., Sept. 4.—Oscar H. Mattmiller, Mishawaka, was elected president of the Indiana Federation of Postoffice Clerks at the closing session of the convention here yesterday. Walter A. Smith, Indianapolis, retiring president, was named trustee.
Convinced that Ind ian a’s penal and law enforcement systems must be revised. The Indianapolis Times is presenting a series of articles pertinent to such reform. The Times urges selection of a central department of correction, its officials to be chosen on a civil service basis; appointment of all wardens and their executive assistants from civil service lists; removal of county jails from the control of politically named sheriffs, and operation of the state police on a civil service basis.
land and New York methods of prison administration corresponding in all essential details to the proposal of The Times to correct conditions in Indiana that have contributed to a scandalous series of escapes from prisons and jails in this state. Dr. Thayer also is in responsible (Turn to Page Three)
Fair tonight and tomorrow; warmer tomorrow.
INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1934
PROBERS BARE ARMS MAKERS’ TRADEJJODE’ U. S. Firm Had Agreement With British Vickers on Sales. $766,099 TO ZARAHOFF Electric Boat Company Head Is Quizzed by Senate Munitions Board. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—Sir Basil Zarahoff, Europe's “mystery man,” Spanish duke and Knight of the Garter, w T as paid $766,099 from 1919 to 1930 by the Electric Boat Company of Groton, Conn., it was disclosed today at the start of the senate’s munitions investigation. Zarahoff, described by Henry R. Carse, Electric Boat president, as “one of the greatest men I ever met,” received commissions in connection with submbarine construction for the Spanish government. Other developments of the first session of the widely-heralded munitions investigations in the senate caucus room included: 1. The Electric Boat Company and the huge British Vickers-Armstrong munitions markers split profits and divided the world into zones where each was supreme in bididng for contracts. The Electric company, submarine builders, had the United States, Cuba and countries where the United States exercised control. Vickers reserved the right to seek business in Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and India. 2. The American firm received 40 per cent of Vickers’ profits in some cases and 50 per cent in others. 3. Salaries and expenses paid to four executives of the Electric company amounted to $1,326,494.34 from 1919 to August, 1934. 4. Electric Company submarine patents were licensed to Vickers and through the British firm passed to Japan, Holland and Spain. 5. Company officials denied that the United States ever was refused use of the patents but the committee chairman introduced a letter from the Electric company to one of its Paris representatives saying, “We have never assented to the United States government building our type of boat.” The angle was not followed immediately. 6. Various munitions firms paid royalties to the Electric company totaling more than $4,000,000. Stories about Zarahoff, a Greek who built a tremendous fortune after starting his career as a small builder of undersea craft, have been written romantically in all parts of the world. The Spanish payment plan was part of the general agreement between Electric Boat and the powerful Vickers under which the companies split profits and divided territories. Times Index Bridge 6 Broun 11 Classified 14 Comics 15 Crorsword Puzzle 7 Curious World 15 Editorial 10 Financial 8 Hickman—Theaters ....... 13 Let’s Go Fishing 13 Pegler 11 Radio 9 Serial Story 15 Sports 12, 13 State News 5 Woman's Pages 6, 7
Democratic Orators to Form ‘Flying Squadron' Sherman Minton’s Speaking Schedule to Be Placed Under Direction of State Bureau. Organization of a “flying squadron” of orators for the fall campaign will be perfected tomorrow by the Democratic state committee. The speakers’ bureau, which will have headquarters on the second floor of the Claypool, will be under the direction of Samuel Jackson,
former congressional candidate from Allen county and quite an orator in his own right. So heavy have been the demands on the time of Sherman Minton, Democratic senatorial candidEfte, that his speaking schedule from now on will be placed under the direction of the bureau. His only address scheduled for this week will be tonight at Bluffton when he speaks before a Wells county organization meeting. As the campaign swings into September, the state committee has redoubled its organization efforts. The week-end was a holiday for most persons, but Omer S. Jackson,
Be Sure to Read The Truth Conditions Inside Indiana State Prison A series of sensational disclosures that reveal what every Hoosier ought to know about the situation at the state penitentiary. Watch for this series . . . starting soon ... in The Times
HOSIERY EMPLOYES MAY JOIN IN TEXTILE STRIKE
INDIANAPOLIS AFFECTED BY TEXTILE WORKERS’ WALKOUT
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Picketing at the plant of the indianapohs Bleaching Company. 900 West Wabash street, where several hundred textile union members went on strike today, was reported peaceful.
THREE ESCAPE AT STATE FARM New Guard’s Inexperience Is Blamed for iireak at Putnamville. Escape of three prisoners from the Indiana state farm at Putnamville last night was ma< e possible by the inexperience of anew guard, The Indianapolis Times learned today in a telephone conversation wtih Ralph Howard, farm superintendent. The prisoners slugged the guard, Glen Campbell, when he turned his back on them to answer a knock at the dormitory door. “Campbell,’’ said Warden Howard, “did well to prevent larger disorder, for he was the sole guard in a building which houses 150 prisoners. Notwithstanding that fact, he soon had the remaining prisoners under good control.” ' Two of the three men who made good their escape were residents of Indianapolis and were sentenced in Marion county courts. Jess Rhodes was serving a six months sentence for carrying concealed weapons, while Harry Holding was serving a similar term for unlawful possession of stolen goods. Elmer Playton, Shelby county, the third who escaped, was sentenced to one year imprisonment for embezzlement. Campbell was stunned but sustained no serious injury from the blows of the three, who are believed to have fled through the main gate after departing from the dormitory. Superintendent Howard indicated that there was nothing unusual in assigning a single guard to watch an entire dormitory containing 150 men.
Democratic state chairman, spent Sunday conferring with state ticket candidates and advising them as to activities in their respective communities. The first address arranged by the speakers’ bureau, which expects to have oratorical talent available to answer all requests, is for next Sunday at Gary and will be made by Mr. Jackson. Mr. Minton is spending his days this week at the Democratic headquarters tent at the state .fair. His arm still is in good shape despite a good workout by well-wishers.
220,000 Out on Strike, National Survey Shows 268,000 Still at Looms, Checkup Reveals; Walkout 50 Per Cent Effective. (Copyright. 1934. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 4.—More than 220,000 textile workers responded today to a union walkout order, thrust on the nation by a strike of unparalleled dimensions. A United Press survey of silk, woolen, and cotton manufacturing centers showed the extent of the nationwide walkout, indicating 50 per cent effectiveness for the first day of actual strike.
CITY WOMAN, SO, HIT BY AUTO, KILLED Blinded by Lights, Says Driver of Car. Struck by an automobile as she was walking on Road 13 near Fortyforth street last night, Mrs. Louise Sawnson, 60, of 1901 Holloway avenue, died an hour later in city hos-
pital. She is the eightyfirst person to die this year in Marion county of injuries received in traffic accidents.
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Roy D. Harney, 55, Hamilton county surveyor, the driver of the car, said that he was blinded by lights of an approaching automobile and failed to see Mrs. Sawnson until too late. A mother and the 17-months-old baby in her arms were injured last night when they were struck by an automobile driven by Morris Marbaugh, 33, Oxford, 0., at Wilkins and Meridian streets. The mother, Mrs. Bertha Horowitz, 43, of 1038 South Meridian street, is said to have become confused in traffic. She suffered back and leg injuries and the child was bruised. WARMER, IS FORECAST Mercury to Climb After Rain, Weather Man Says. Warmer temperatures are expected tomorrow by weather bureau forecasters after a .19-inch rainfall yesterday and last night which pushed the mercury down to 56 degrees at 8 today.
Lord Jim in Spotlight at Indiana State Fair Hamaletonian Winner Races This Afternoon; Legislators Gather for Dinner at Exposition. Politics and Lord Jim were on everyone’s lips at the Indiana state fair this afternoon. Lord Jim, Hambletonian winner, went to the post in the 2.14 trot of the grand circuit races for a purse of S7OO. Three mares, who drew
inside positions, battled with Lord Jim for the purse. Politics went to the post in the women's building when state senators and representatives were dined by the girls’ economics division and state fair officials. Possibilities of the coming fall campaign were argued up and down in groups of cigar-smoking legislators at the luncheon and in the race track grand stand. M. Clifford Townsend, LieutenantGovernor, was to be host at the dinner. Governor Paul V. McNutt was to take an airplane in Oklahoma City tonight to be back in the capital city in time to attend the fair tomorrow and Thursday. Easily pulling 3.30 C pounds, approximately twenty-seven feet, the champion heavyweight team of the world, “Rock” and "Tom,” won the horse-pulling contest in front of the grand stand this morning. “Rock” and “Tom,” weighing an aggregate of 4,460 pounds, are owned by the Statler Farms, Piqua, O. They hold the world’s record weightpull of pounds.
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Scattering reports of violence came in as the strike reached real force, but a battle of strike estimate figures between industrialists and labor leaders was the most significant factor in the struggle. The psychological effect of strike dimension estimates was admitted by both sides as the fight began to keep nonunion millhands at the looms. Francis J. Gorman, strike leader 1 predicted that 300,000 union workers would have completed their walkouts by tomorrow night. By Saturday he wants 510.000 of the 600.000 active workers out of the mills. Mr. Gorman asserted that more than 150,000 union workers alone ignored factory whistles today. Cotton textile institute strike estimates were of 50 per cent effectiveness in that sector of the industry. Silk operators claimed a “complete failure” in that division. The United Press survey of strike centers showed: New England, 85,000 out. South, 110,000 out. Scattered, 26,550 out. An incomplete survey showed 268,000 still at the looms. Mr. Gorman today, however, put off 'until Saturday the possibility of an 85 per cent tieup of the industry. Yesterday he had predicted the strike would close the industry 80 per cent by tomorrow. Approximately 300,000 nonunion workers will be the strike followers sought by union leaders from now on. Only half of the 600,000 actually working in the industry are union members. SSO Case, Tobacco Stolen A leather case valued at SSO and tobacco valued at sl4 were stolen from the garage of Earl J. Wells, 2435 East Washington street, early today, according to police reports.
Three Wayne county youths, Harold Hartman, Lewis Lafuse and Marion Kitchell, won the annual stock judging contest and will represent Indiana at the national junior livestock judging contest in Chicago in December. Two high-scoring youths in the contest, young Lafuse and Don Berlet, Cass county, won Purdue scholarships for ranking first and second in judging. Topcoats and sweaters formed the fair visitors’ prized possessions today with chill and damp putting coffee urns of concessionaires to work and giving beer spigots a vacation. In the Coliseum blue-ribbon cattle, of the Polled Shorthorn and Angus breeds, were appraised by judges while their owners worried and fretted over the sleekness of their flanks and their proper carriage. Labor day literally made the 1934 fair. The turnstiles clicked to the tune of 70.684 paid admissions compared with 63.001 1a 1933.
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Threat Adds to Conditions Created by Walkout at Bleaching Firm. 150 ON PICKET DUTY, Full-Fashioned Men Told to Stand By for Sympathy Move. The threat of a strike by; employes in Indiana’s hosiery mills today was added to tha conditions created by the United Textile Workers of America strike as the latter organization made tight its picket lines around the Indianapolis Bleaching Company. With the management and the workers disagreeing only as to the extent it was successful, both agreed that the na-tion-wide strike had come to Indianapolis this morning with the opening of the workday at the bleaching company, 900 West Wabash street. Members of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers were told Saturday to stand by ready for a sympathy strike, The Indianapolis Times learned this noon. The union is a minority organization at the Real Silk mills here, where it participated in a bitter and prolonged strike this spring. It also has locals in three Ft. Wayne mills. Sympathy Move Talked Federation officials could not state when the sympathy call might be expected, byt said that all Indiana locals, along with locals all over the United States, had been informed that they might be called out in sympathy with the textile workers. With from 150 to 200 persons in the picket lines at the times the first two shifts were due to report today, union leaders claimed tha strike was most effective at the bleaching company. They estimated that sixty-four employes reported for work out of the early shift of approximately 200. A Times reporter found ap-, proximately 120 reported out of a A afternoon shift of approximately 250. Union Estimate Higher Charles A. Young, 4348 Broadway, plant manager for the bleaching company, said early in the day that the strike was approximately 20 per cent effective, and after the noon shift reported, said there were “no new developments.” His estimate was considerably below that of Bob Spink, strike committee leadedrd dfodr Fuller local. No. 2069, U. T. W. A. The company, only one In Indianapolis, and apparently in Indiana, really to feel the strike, is an affiliate of the Bemis Brothers Bag Company, with headquarters in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Young said, how- * ever, that it had no connection with the Bemis Brothers Bag Company here. Every Loom Operating Mr. Young said every loom in his plant was operating, but admitted that his carding, spinning and bleaching departments were somewhat crippled. Mr. Spink and other union officials said the walkout was 90 per cent effective in the bleaching department. The plant manager, who Indicated that he was inclined to be sympathetic to the textile workers’ demands, stated that he felt the bleachers should not have gone out since they were not, in fact, textile workers. Union officials said they came under the same charter a* did other workers in the plant. Both Mr. Spink, who expressed his determination to keep “Communists and other radicals” from the strike lines, and Mr. Young were sure there would be no violnece, Mr Young said no outside, or “scab,” workers would be employed except possibly in the bleaching department, and there only if the strike was exceedingly prolonged. Picket Lines Dissolve “I have promised every one’s Job back unless the striker Is proven guilty of unlawful acts," Mr. Young declared. “I am in sympathy with the union idea and do not object to the employes’ right to strike when they feel they have a real grievance.” Mr. Young indicated that, if it lay in his power, he would grant the workers’ demands, but made it plain that this was impossible. Tne picket lines dissolved some time after the morning workers had entered the plant, and, except for a few who remained on duty, the strikers followed Mr. Spink to union headquarters, 210 East Ohio street. There they were urged to keep their lines intact and to conduct the strike vigorously and openly. The workers formed their picket lines again before the afternoon shift reported. Meanwhile, Charles Myers. safety 1 ) board chairman, said that the would "preserve order” as they did in the Real Silk strike.” Later Chief Mike Morrissey detailed five patrolmen to the plant. Plans for the strike were perfected yesterday noon at a meeting in unipn headquarters attended by more than two hundred workers.