Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 189, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1934 — Page 3

DEC. 18. 1934.

CENSORSHIP IS VOTED DOWN IN DE PAUW TEST Student Poll Shows Only B*Vote Edge: Editor Scores Results. B V Times Special GREENCASTLE. Ind.. Dec. 18 Censorship of undergraduate publications by the student governing council was voted down by the De Pauw University student body today by the narrow margin of 179 to 171 in a student poll held here. For what he termed the “inconsistency” of the vote, Alan L. Ritter, editor of The De Pauw. student newspaper, in an editorial today berates the undergraduates for their failure to support more decisively the freedom of the press. “The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the students* right to participate in political demonstrations, and at the same time censorship of the student newspaper was voted down by only eight votes. In other words, students want freedom of parade, but not of speech,” the editorial attack declared. Favor Optional R. O. T. C. The students indicated by a vote of 321 to 40 that they disapproved of their institutions restraining them from participation in public political controversies and demonstrations as long as they kept within the law. Voting on the question of military training in colleges, 231 students favored optional military training, 122 stood for complete abolition and 41 voted for compulsory training. The De Pauw R. O. T. C. unit was withdrawn from the college last June by the War Department because of lack of interest on the part of the students. Denounce Increased Arms By a vote of 176 to 165, the student body denounced “the program of the national Administration for increasing the armed forces of the country as not a safe and reasonable course to follow.” Other votes showed that students favored the United States’ entrance into both the World Court and League of Nations and requested the continuance for two more years of the NRA. the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The results of today's referendum will be delivered to the National Student Federation meeting in Boston. Mass., Dec. 28, by Wendell Kay, student body president. CLERK. 57, ENDS LIFE: ILL HEALTH IS BLAMED Hanging Victim’s Body Found in Shed by Wife. Charles G. Allen, 2020 Quill street, a clerk, today committed suicide by hanging himself in a shed in the rear of his home after writing a farewell note. Mr. Allen was 57 years old. 11l health and financial difficulties were blamed. Mr. Allen's suicide was discovered by his wife, Mrs. Rose L. Allen, when she returned from City Hospital, where she had taken a child for medical treatment. Entering her home. Mrs. Allen found this note: “Goodby all. My health gone completely. Charles.” A search revealed his body hanging in the shed. Mr. Allen was dead when he was found. Police cut down the body. THREE ARE KILLED IN HOOSIER AUTO CRASH Denver Banker’s Wife, Daughter Victims of Accident. By t'nih <1 Press CINCINNATI. Dec. 18—With her mother and sister dead—victims of an automobile accident late yesterday at Aurora, Ind.—Alice Morgan. 5. daughter of Harry Morgan, Denver (Colo.) banker, was recovering today at Good Samaritan Hospital here! The girl received a fractured left knee and head cuts. The girl’s mother. Mrs. Harry Morgan, died at the hospital late yesterday, one hour after her sedan collided with a gasoline truck. Another daughter. Miss Mary Morgan, 18. a student at the University of Colorado, and John Buddenberg. 52, Aurora, driver of the truck, were killed instantly. SNOW DUE TOMORROW WEATHER BUREAU SAYS Storm Will Be Accompanied by Mercury Drop. Is Forecast. Snow, accompanied by colder weather, was predicted today by the weather bureau for tomorrow and tomorrow night. It will be preceded by warmer weather and rain tonight, but the rain will have changed into the sott whiteness of snow before Indianapolis awakes tomorrow, according to J. H. Arington, Federal meteorologist. The entire state will feel a decided drop in temperature tomorrow night. Mr. Armington predicted. Intercollegiate Club Hears Trueman Walter Trueman, district manager of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers, addressed members of the Intercollegiate Club at the Young Men's Christian Association. last night.

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Fountain Square business men, his customers for years, yesterday gave Louis Geifer, their news stand man, anew shack from which to sell his papers in warmth and comfort. Seventy-six years old and partially paralyzed, he could not stand cold weather when it came along this year. With the shack, “Dad” received a cash balance from the fund collected by his friendly customers.

MODERN WOODMEN TO INITIATE CUSS High Officials to Take Part in Ceremony Tonight. High officials and a select degree team will take part in the Twelfth District meeting of Modem Woodmen of America at the organization hall, 322 E. New York-st, at 8 tonight. John D. Volz, national director; George E. Hopkins, state manager, and J. Raymond Trout, district manager, are among distinguished officers who will attend. Ritualistic work for both men and women candidates is to be conferred, following a banquet and reception. Camps comprising the district are Marion, Ironwood, Park, Riverside, Broad Ripple, Capital City and Maple, all in Indianapolis, and Fortville, Greenfield, Acton, New Palestine, Maxwell, Shirley, Cumberland and Marion County. TRIO QUESTIONED IN STATE BANK HOLDUP Two Men and Woman Grilled at Plymouth Jail. By United Press PLYMOUTH, Ind., Dec. 18.—Three suspects arrested at Kokomo yesterday in connection with the robbery of the Farmers State Bank at Lapaz Saturday are being held in Marshall County Jail here today for questioning. Two of the suspects. Jim orkis, 27, South Bend and Peoria, 1 ~ and John C. Merryman, 33, Kokomo, were identified tentatively as two f the four bandits who robbed the Lapaz bank of $3500 last Saturday morning. Mrs. Erma Boomershine, alias Sally Carlson, 33, Kokomo, who was arrested with the two men in Kokomo, is also being held nere. CAR WRECKED, OWNER KILLED SEEKING HELP Body of Connersville Man Found Thrpe Miles From Crippled Auto. By United Press RICHMOND. Ind., Dec. 18.—The body of Jack Cohen, 26, Connersville, was found on a road 10 miles west of here today, three miles from his wrecked automobile. Investigation by sheriff’s officers indicated that Mr. Cohen was injured when his car struck a Pennsylvania Railroad overhead crossing abutment and he was killed when struck by another car while wandering along the road in search of help. BIBLE CLUB TO MEET Lecturer to Give Description of Christmas in Palestine. A description of Christmas in Palestine will be given by Professor J. J. Haramy at a meeting of the Y. M. C. A. Bible Investigation Club tomorrow night in the “Y” building, A fellowship supper at 6:20 will precede the address. SIOO In Cigarets Stolen Jacob A. Knerr, 1205 N. Glad-stone-av, had his truck parked in front of his home early today. Somebody noticed this, investigated the contents of the truck and took 93 cartons of cigarets. Mr. Knerr sorrowfully told police the cigarets were worth SIOO.

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M’KINNEY PROMOTED TO ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF Fulmer, Lynch and Gould Renamed to Posts by Kern. Mayor-elect John W. Kern today announced promotion of Battalion Chief Roscoe A. McKinney to assistant fire chief and reappointment of Assistant Chief Harry H. Fulmer. Bernard A. Lynch, fire prevention chief, and Harry R. Gould, secretary to the chief, also have been renamed, the Mayor-elect announced. EAGLES TO ENJOY CHRISTMAS PARTY Gifts to Be Distributed to 800 Children. Indianapolis Eagles Aerie has completed arrangements for entertaining 800 children at the annual Christmas party to be held Sunday night at the lodge home, 43 West Vermont-st, Fred J. Snyder, aerie president, announces. The party will be open only to members and their families. Toys, candy and fruit will be distributed. D. R. Sturgeon is general chairman and Grover V. Camden assistant. Committee chairmen include Santa Claus, Robert G. Amick; tree, Roy Martin; music, Edward Bannon; games, Ray Sipes; toys, Edward Wischmeyer; candy, Clarence Currens; tickets, John OHeara check-room, James Shaffer; finance, Harry B. Moore; features, E.‘ C. Burch; publicity, J. Pierce Cummings; door, Roy Alber; reception, Otto P. Deluse and distribution of toys, Lawrence O'Keefe. HAVANA FEARS REVOLT; 40 BOMBS EXPLODED Five Injured in All-Night Rioting at Cuban Capital. By United Press HAVANA, Dec. 18.—Fear that the closing days of 1934 would bring a crescendo of violence, climaxed by a revolution, increased today after a night of terror in which 40 bombs were exploded in the capital. Starting in mid-evening and continuing into the early hours of the morning, the bombs were detonated in streets and before shops. It was evident that the terrorists did not seek to kill, for in all the bombings there were only five casualties. Three women and two men, passersby, were injured. OFFICERS ARE ELECTED BY JUNIOR MECHANICS Clarence E. Reck Is Chosen Councilor of City Lodge. Clarence E. Reck, 109 Dickinsonst, has been named councilor of Indianapolis Council Junior Order of American Mechanics. Other officers are Frank Rector, vice councilor; Virgil R. Henderson, chaplain. Thomas Rector, conductor; Robert Messersmith, warden; Clarence E. Meyer, financial secretary; Clyde Franklin, recording secretary; John Balcom, assistant recording secretary; Carl Messersmith. treasurer; Leslie Johnson, outside sentinel; Vonroy Davis, inside sentinel and Frank Guyer, trustee.

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WAR IN CHACO CLIMAXES LONG, BITTERRIVALRY Century of Dispute Led to Grim Struggle in Plains Area. This i* the second of > series of dispatches on the progress and signflegnee of the Gran Chaco war between Bolivia and Paragnar. BY ARCH RODGERS United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright. 1934. by United Press) BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 18—A century of dispute, which the ultimate efforts of diplomacy could not prevent from becoming a war to the death, is coming to a climax in South America. After two and half years of sanguinary fighting, the Bolivian and Paraguayan armies are nearing the end of their war over possession of the Gran Chaco region. Paraguay, in a sweeping offensive along a 200mile front, is pressing against the last defenses of Bolivia proper, and the Bolivians are massing the full extent of their man-power to halt them in the final, decisive phase of the war. Paraguay’s righ flank is moving toward Ft. Carandaiti, the last important Bolivian stronghold on the path to' its army base at Villa Montes. Diplomatic Relations Severed The smoldering friction between the two proud people broke into flame in 1928, when word reached La Paz and Asuncion, the capitals, that border patrols had clashed in the Chaco. Diplomatic relations were severed. Futile negotiations continued until 1932. In June of that year, hostilities started when it was announced in Asuncion that the Bolivians had attacked Ft. Carlos Antonio Lopez, called Pitiantuta by the Bolivians. Both sides claimed the position and mutually accused each other of the aggression. The Paraguayans recaptured the fort a month later and the Bolivians immediately retaliated with the capture of three Paraguayan positions, the most important being Ft. Boqueron. The really heavy fighting, in which men died by the thousands, started in September, 1932, when the Paraguayans, anticipating an attack against Ft. Isla-Poi, headquarters of its general staff, began a drive against Ft. Boqueron. Both Display Contracts The dispute is over possession of a vaguely defined territory of nearly a hundred thousand square miles, lying between the two countries and possessing rich potentialities in timber, agriculture, cattle and possibly oil. It arose over different interpretations of the treaty of 1810, when the South American colonies won their independence from Spain and set up various republics. Both Bolivia and Paraguay present documents supporting their claim to the region. The dispute was unsuccessfully submitted to arbritration and neither showed great disposition to go to war over the territory. In 1879-1883. however, Bolivia and Feru were defeated iji a costly war with Chile in which Bolivia lost her seacoast on the Pacific, becoming a land-locked nation. In later years, although allowed unhampered rail transit to the Pacific across Tacna-Arica, Bolivia felt she needed outlet to the Atlantic by access to the navigable waters of the Paraguay River, which flows down through Paraguay and Argentina to the sea. Where it touches Bolivia in its upper reaches, it is navigable only for shallowdraft vessels, but the Chaco region extends to the confluence of the Pilcomayo and the Paraguay, where the latter broadens and deejDens. Bolivia wants a ready outlet for her exports of minerals, especially the vital tin which is the backbone of her existence, and for oil. Paraguay resisted her claims. SLAYER SUSPECT GOES ON TRIAL IN JANUARY Chapman Recovered From Wound and Is Sane, Doctors Say. Charles W. Chapman, 56-year-old alleged slayer of his sweetheart. Mrs. Grace Lackey, will be tried on a first degree murder charge in Criminal Court early next month. Special Judge Clyde C. Karrer concurred with the opinion of Dr. Larue Carter and Dr. E. Rogers Smith that Chapman is sane new and may stand trial. Chapman attempted to commit suicide following the slaying, according to police but has recovered. NAVAL PARLEY ITO”END U. S., England and Japan to Close Session Thursday. By United Press LONDON, Dec. 18.—The “technical” naval conference, preliminary to one set for 1935, will be formally adjourned Thursday, it was announced in British quarters today. There will be a final business meeting of the American, British and Japanese delegates tomorrow afternoon.

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Plea of Virginia Cherrill, film beauty, for SIOOO a month separate maintenance payment by Cary Grant, also a movie notable, was denied by a Los Angeles judge, who ruled she must worry along on $167.50 a week. The pair are shown above as they appeared in the courtroom. They separated after six months of marriage.

Civic Ceremony Heralds Start of Slum Project Housing Division Head Lauds Enterprise of City Prior to Dynamiting Shack on Site of Project. A dynamite charge, touched off under a squalid shack near the intersection of W. Walnut and Blake-sts this afternoon, was to mark the start of demolition or buildings in the. Indianapolis slum clearance area. Col. Horatio B. Hackett, head of the housing division of the Public Works Administration, was to press the button firing the explosive.

Col. Hackett was principal speaker at a luncheon in the Lincoln Travertine room preceding the ceremony. Gov. Paul V. McNutt, Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan, Louis J. Borinstein, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president, and Edward W. Pierre, Construction League of Indianapolis president, also spoke. William H. Trimble, chairman of the Indianapolis community -lousing project, presided. The advisory committee was aided in furtherance of the project by the Chamber of Commerce and the Indianapolis Construction League. Col. Hackett praised the work of these agencies in overcoming opposition. “This city was one of the first to make a survey of its blighted areas and to estimate in dollars and cents the cost of supporting a decaying section,” he declared. “Today will witness the official start of the project. Houses that have contributed to unwholesome living for many years will be replaced with anew kind of home. Indianapolis is the fourth city to make this start. “We find that slums actually cost the municipality many times the taxes they return; that cities have to pay to support these neighborhoods. Slums harbor the enemies of society, the youthful gangster and the hardened criminal. Your survey showed that 30 per cent of the total cost of City Hospital service was being absorbed by 10 per cent of the slum population. Following the luncheon the party

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FEDERAL POWER BOARD ANSWERS UTILITY ATTACK TVA Protest to Roosevelt by Institute Stirs Verbal Clash. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The long-impending fight between the Administration and power interests over the Tennessee Valley development project broke out today with an exchange of verbal bombshells. The Edison Electric Institute, representing powerful utilities companies, opened fire on the Government’s power program and the Federal Power Commission replied with a series of counter-charges. The Institute told President Roosevelt it hoped it wouldn’t be forced to carry the fight into the ;7?deral courts, but said it was “filled with anxiety over the grave crisis.” Thomas N. McCarter, president of the Institute, emerged grimly from a conference with Mr. Roosevelt. He made public a “memorial” which he said he left with the President. The President sent it immediately to the power commission. The memorial, couched in ominous phrases, said utility interests would not submit docilely to “destructive punishment, loss of taxable properties, and the jeopardizing of a $12,000,000,000 industry.” It directed attention to “the baneful influences of the Government program.” Hardly had the statement reached the power commission than mimeograph machines began to click off copies of a reply, signed by Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the commission. “This memorial,” said the commission’s reply, “is a confession of the abuses of the electric powei industry and an appeal against the efforts of the Government to correct those abuses.”

was to be taken on a tour of the area to be razed. At 2:45 Col. Hackett was to set off the blast. The area will be completely cleared of ali buildings and utility lines in preparation for the model Negro community. Much of the 22 acres will be devoted to landscaped parks and playgrounds. Bids for general construction work will be received about March 1 with construction starting about May 1. It is expected that the project will be completed in January, 1936. BETTY GOW DEPARTS Lindbergh Nurse On Aquitania, Is Report. By United Press SOUTHAMPTON, England, Dec. 18.—Betty Gow, nurse of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., at the time he was kidnaped and murdered, was believed to be a passenger aboard the liner Aquitania when it sailed today for New York. Miss Gow is returning to the United States to testify in the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, charged with the murder. Bank Bandits Get 10 Years By United Press CRAWFORDSVILLE, Ind., Dec. 18.—Pleading guilty to charges of robbing the Ladoga State Bank June 15, Otis Dickerson, 23, and Paul W. Robbins, 32, Peoria, 111., were under sentence today to 10 years each in the state prison.

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Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings took time off for a little tea at a party There he played host to delegates to the National Crime Conference in Washington. But it’s no tea party that the law enforcement officers of the nation have planned for gangsters. The vowed a relentless cleanup to reach to every part of the country.

BURNING CERTIFICATE NO DIVORCE, COURT RULES Young Father Gets Lesson on Law in Juvenile Ourt. John Duhamel, 23, of 315 S. Ala-bama-st, had a free lesson in the law of domestic relations in Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler’s court yesterday afternoon. Charged with child neglect, Duhamel disclaimed responsibility because, he said, he no longer was Mrs. Duhamel’s husband. Failing in an attempt to receive a divorce, he said the took the marriage certificate from a trunk and burned it. This, he contended, ended his marriage. Duhamel’s legal interpretation was reversed by Judge Geckler, who instructed him to pay $6 a week. BARRY HEADS COUNTY GROUP IN LEGISLATURE Representative Named Chairman of Indianapolis Affairs. Edward P. Barry was chosen last night by the Marion County delegation in the House of Representatives as the chairman choice for head of the committee on affairs of Indianapolis. Th"e delegation also heard an address by L. F. Shuttleworth of the Indiana Retail Merchants Assn., in which he advocated substitution of a sales tax for the present gross income tax. _

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JUDGE OPPOSES' PROPOSED NETT DETENTION SITE •Makeshift' Solution of Juvenile Problem Is Geckler Target. Opposition to any “makeshift'* solution of the problem of supplying Marion County Juvenile Court with office space and a detention home was voiced today by Juvenile Judge John F. Geckler. Purchase of an apartment building at the northeast corner of New York and New Jersey-sts has been under consideration of the county council and county commissioners. Judge Geckler said he did not oppose the New York-New Jersey-sts site, but insisted he had not given his approval to plans for housing the court offices and the detention home. The judge said he was making formal objections to the plan to county commissioners, asking a fireproof detention home. The commissioners were in session today to consider an ordinanc# authorizing purchase of the building in order that the county council may act on the ordinance before the end of the year. Extensive Repairs Needed The Juvenile Court. Judge Geckler declared, must have a least 67,000 square feet of floor space and the detention home must be so arranged as to provide suitable facilities for 12 classifications of wards of the court. Capacity for a maximum of 100 children was advocated. Extensive alteration would be required to remodel the apartment building for which County Commissioner John W. Mann yesterday said the county is willing to pay $57,5000, according to Judge Geckler. The entire center of the building would have to be torn out to provide suitable quarters, in Judge Geckler’s opinion. SIO,OOO Remodeling Cost The three-story brick structure could be remodeled for SIO,OOO by using Federal Emergency Relief Administration labor, according to Commissioner Mann. The building has been approved by the Indiana Law Enforcement League. The contemplated site is approximately 78x150 feet. County councilmen and members of the state tax board have indicated they will approve issurance of bonds for purchase of a suitable site. “Time after time,” Judge Geckler asserted, “I have urged the acquisition of a proper detention home and quarters for the Juvenile Court. But I remain opposed to any ‘makeshift' proposition.” womeFn steal perfume $36 Bottle Taken From Downtown Drug Store. Police today were searching for two young w. _>men so fond of perfume that they took a bottle of Christmas Night from the Hook’s Drug Store at 150 N. Pennsylvaniast last night, without bothering with the formality of paying its $36.50 price. WINTER’S WINDS WHISTLE ' CLOTHE-A-CHILD