Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1935 — Page 1

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nwessary. fir.*. to do something about the yellow fever mo - quitoes before we could even beam digging where the French had failed Maybe that is part of our problem todat Our job is to get our country bark to where it belongs. We hate some millions of men out of

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work. W® have falked about the number being m ono non There isn't anbodv m the United States who know i tnriav whether that figure .s within of the facts—which moves me 10 say fha? an out landing feature of this depression is our atmost complete ig - non* nre of ,1.. We arr disbursing millions of dollars to take rar® of the unrmplovrd and th®ir families and yet w** have not th® simplest fact about it How would vou foe! if you waked up tomorrow to And that it is not w.nnnnno out of work. hit only—let's say—s.ooo.ooo We ha’® had to spill the works in our expenditures beeause if was mor® important that nolw>dv should starve than that too much money should be -pent. Taking merelv as a guess. that ten millions is the figttrp—that means that 11.000.T00 people are dependent, not eouptinc the mammere million' who are nearly destitute because of the difference in what they earn and what it costs to feed them actually. In fact, the statisticians rould plausibly calculate tha* noi more than one per--on m three in the United States is coming his living We know better than that. mum Oonhts W Million Jobless PERSONALLY. T vers- much doubt if there are ten million people nu of work. Tt does not -o.lare with the fact that business everywhere is showing a great improvement. In the early stages of the depression. I could not walk a block in any large city without being panhandled for a dime or a quarter by seme unfortunate who a-ked some trifle to buy his food Today, the panhandler has all but di'appeared from the streets. That is not a scientific analysis, bn* it may be a straw that shows how the wind us blowing But we do pot know, and it ought to he our bti'ines to flnd out just cxarrlv ho* many of our people are oiu of johs Tht.s. of course, raises in the mind of most people an idea of months of preparation and the expenditure of mote millions to rount the >ob|e.s> That is another p-cce of nonsense During the war when we were putting over the draff we needed a census of man-power. In fart, we took two censuses and *e registered 10 000.000 men of a-ms-bearing age. and each of the e two censuses took just 24 hours to accomplish and the cost in each rase 'except for printed matter* was about $50,000 The am® process would give us a real chart of the unemployment situation. You mat recall that during the war ve all had to have registration cards, as a measure to prevent draft dodging We ought to have registration cards today for every person who is accepting or asking for government relief. In this wav we could have a check against any chiselers vnn and it less painful to eat the bread of chanty than to do an honest ray's work Moreover. the index of these cards ui'i'd be a movi ig picture of the progress of the depression. We then would knew definitely from d.av to day wne her we were moving up or dow MUM Let's fie Hard-Roiled OUR pre.-ent figures, no matter how carefullv compiled, come from .'Ources that must be lacking to accuracy. A man loses his job todav and 1- reported bv his union or bv -ont' government agency as out of work He gets a job outside of his craft and the government ran net know anything about it and our figures do not reflect it. If we are going to spend billions let us know what we are spending them for. We have had to go ahead in a slipshod fashion and do nothing in a large way that would correct the possible incompetence of our distributing agency Lei's know what we are doing. • Cppvr gh! U3' b* United Fati:r Svrtcrratr Inc A r:er-- r®-cr\ca Rcpr*v- c .on in holr ®r in par' forbidden

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STATE LIQUOR BOARD NAMED BY GOVERNOR Russell Ryan. Paul Fry Are Selected as Democrat Members. SALARY S6OOO YEARLY David Myers, Howard Quigley Get G. 0. P. Berths From McNutt. Gov. Paul V. McNutt today named the four members of the hi-partisan Alcoholic Beverage Commission that will administer the liquor law passed after bitter debates in the last General Assembly. Members are: Paul P. Fn. Democrat,, present excise director, chairman. Russell J Ryin Democrat, former judge of the Marion County Superior Court. David A Myers. Republican. Greensburg. for 20 years a member of the Indiana Supreme Court. Henry A. Quigley. Republican, Kokomo former mavor of Kokomo and Howard County clerk The board, each member of which will he paid S6OOO a year, has broad powers and responsibilities under the law. It probably will convene for organization at the earliest possible moment. As the appointments were announced. Chairman Fry issued a formal statement of the intentions and intended method of procedure. He said: “We expect to enforce the new liquor control law to the letter. I realize this is a great opportunity for enforcement and a general : clean-up as soon as we get the machinery of the department in operation ‘ We are going to select men of character and experience in the police work of the department. Since these men have police powers, they must be men of good moral character and we do not expect to make snoopers out of our police force. We expert all our investigations and prosecutions to be open and above board. Our men will be in plain clothes, but will carry their credentials from this department which will be shown before making an mi vestigation on anv premises." RELIEF WAGE VOTE IS NEAR IN SENATE Administration Likely Victor in Pay Battle. £*y f tuft ti pn u WASHINGTON March 15—Defeat of the McCarran prevailing wage amendment was urged in the Senate today by one of its former supporters as the Senate headed toward a vote on the most controversial issue connected with the work-relief bill. Sen. Robert F. Wagner D.. N. V.. .said Congress could not offord longer to delay enactment of j the $4,880,000 measure. Neither a feeling of self-righte-ousness. of pride or f®ar of public opinion should cause us to forget that our prime responsibility is to the millions of jobless people who need our help." Senator Wagner said Administration leaders predicted defeat of the prevailing wage amendment and adoption of the so- : called Russell amendment, requiring the payment of code wages on permanent public buildings. Times Index Book Review IS Bridge 17 Broun .. 19 Comics 35 Crossword Puzzle 33 Curious World 33 Editorial 20 Financial 32 Food Paces 22-24-25 Hickman—Theaters 10 1 Junior Aviation 10 Napoleon's Letters 19 Notes on Canvas 18 Pegler 19 Radio 6 Religious Questions 8 Shooting School 21 Sports 26-27-28-29 State News 34 Womans Pages 16-17

Post Speeding East in Quest of Plane Record Famed Flier Pilots Winnie May Through Sub-Stratos-phere. Striving for Seven-Hour Mark. fat/rtf Fr-*$ LOS ANGELES. March 15.—Wiley Post sped eastward today in his monoplane, the Winnie Mae. hoping to span the continent in seven hour and pave the way for commercial flights through the sub-stratos-

phere. The one-eyed Oklahoman, dressed like a man from Mars” and piloting the craft In which he twice circled the glob.- took off unexpectedly from Union air terminal in Burbank it 8:16 a. m 'lndianapolis time t. The destination to which he hoped tr. rocket at from 350 to 400 miles an hour was Floyd Bennett Field in New York The Winnie Mae which Post gunned down the Ion: runway at sunrise and headed toward the Atlantic seaboard was substantially the sam® old ship in which he rode to fame To get her to a speed of 350 miles

Partly cloudy and warmer tonijrht; tomorrow showers followed by colder.

FIELD GOAL! AND. BY THE WAY. ALSO A FIELD DAY FOR 15.000 INDIANA BASKETBALL FANS

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Phot>> hv John Hawkins. Staff rhnfnjraph^r. While almost 15.000 mm. women and children screamed their excitement in the crowded Butler University fieldhouse today. Stanley Lawrenep. Princeton High School guard, sank the first basket in the finals of the Indiana High School Athletic Association s annual basketball championships. Despitp his efforts and those of his teammates. Rushville High School won. 34-32.

Spring, Sunshine and Basketballs Fill the Air; Everybody’s Hysterically Happy —Except Sparrows

BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer All the out-of-town people who milled about the streets last night, and filled the hotels, along with a good many residents of Indianapolis, gathered today by pre-arrangement, at the Butler Fieldhouse and told the sparrows on the rafters to move over. The sparrows, who all winter had considered the fieldhouse as their personal hangar, naturally resented

KIDNAPED SELF TO WIN GIRL'S FAVOR, YOUTH CONFESSES

By Lit i 1 r 'l Pres* WILIMINGTON. Del.. Mar. 15Police Chief Howard L. Boyd said this afternoon that Chester Hyde, had confessed that he had staged his own purported abduction in an effort to regain the favor of an 18-year old Woodridge girl with whom he had quarrelled Monday.

SLUMP IN PROFITS BOOSTED GAS RATES Cost Mounts From 60 Cents to $1.20. Thi* iv Ihr IhirH of rrir of articles on the ramifirjtinn* of tjic n,t - wirir :i< -.ifuation with *mphav* "n th man*Hcrptopments <t* they apprt to Indianapolis. BY VINCENT LYONS Times Financial Editor During the World War. the Citizens Gas Cos. prospered as a result of the substantial profits realized from the sale of coke and its other by-products. But when the postwar depression set in and carried the price of coke sharply lower, profits nose-dived. Asa consequence the company for a few years was unable to maintain the 10 per cent on the common shares. Confronted with this situation officials of the company in December, 1920. asked the Public Service Commission for temporary relief by suspending a law on the books which made it illegal for any company to charge and collect more than 60 cpnts each 1000 cubic feet for gas in the City of Indianapolis. A rate of 90 rents was sought. Citizen committees moved from iTtirn to Pace Threel

an hour, or better. Post was depending chiefly on the thin air of 35,000 feet where he expected to ride, a tail wind of 50 miles an hour ana redu-red air resistance through the elimination of his landing gear. To enable him to stand the subzero temperatures of the altitude end provide oxygen enough to keep him alive. Post wore a curious rubber suit, topped bv an aluminum helmet into which an oxygen jet flowed. It was his second attempt to so span the continent. Seven! weeks ago he was forced to land m Muroc Dry Lake, near Mojave, Cal., when an oil line broke.

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the intrusion and set up a squawk that was drowned out only by the organized shrieks of distinctly partisan spectators. Only a small portion of the almost 15.000 persons in the house ever actually had matriculated in the schools whose teams were scrambling about on the floor, but the rooters wore their hearts on their sleeves, and picked up lustily when a team appeared to be unlucky. Scratch a rooter at the Indiana

10,000 Homeless in Flood; 100,000 Acres Inundated Widening Waters Menace Thousands More in Mississippi Valley; Three Drowned, Many Missing. Bv United Press I Widening flood waters already lapping over 100.000 acres of the lower { Mississippi River valley today drove 10,000 persons to emergency shelters in five states and menaced the homes of thousands of others.

Three men. Negroes, were known to have drowned in the muddy sea centering around the boundary junctions of Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Kentucky. Several other persons were missing. Danger of a flood comparable to that of 1927. when the Mississippi routed 100.000 persons from their homes, was minimized by predictions of fair weather. In many localities. however the flood crest wdll not arrive until tomorrow. Flood waters of the St. Francis River broke through the levees in thrpp places at Kennett. Mo., today, inundating additional thousands of acres of evacuated farm lands. Effect of the break was t,o lessen the

LOUIS HOWE. AID OF ROOSEVELT, IS ILL President's Secretary in Serious Condition. By I fiUrrl Prrxt WASHINGTON. March 15. Louis McHenry Howe, senior secretary to President Roosevelt., is seriously ill at the White House, it was learned today. Col. Howe, under the care of Dr. Ross T. Mclntyre, the President's physician, was in a critical condition Tuesday and Wednesday, bur yesterday and this morning ha? shown signs of improvement, it was stated. His illness was described a? a recurrence of old bronchial disorders, complicated by cardiac weakness. He is 64 year? old. For a quarter of a century Col. How? has served Mr. Roosevelt, he joined the President, then State Senator from Duchess County in the New York Legislature, in 1910. and has been with him since. THEFT SUSPECT CAUGHT Alleged Young Purse - Snatcher Nabbed in Downtown Chase. Herbert Foster. 21. of 807 W. 25thst. was captured today after a downtown chase by police during which several futile shots were fired. He was sighted at Illinois and Wash-ington-sts and caught a half block away. He was held for purse snatching. Rebel* Lynch Mexican Teacher By l '>■ 'i Pt** MEXICO CITY. March 15. * Rebels hanged Prof. Silvestre Gonzalez and left his body dangling from a tree with a placard on it reading: ' For teaching socialistic education." a dispatch from Jojutia, in Morelos state, said today.

High School Athletic Association tournament and find a person who will pat a stray underdog! Most of the cheer-leaders were girls, and they did all right. They jumped and flexed their biceps and pulled yells out. of iheir followings like a dentist pulls a molar, with approximately the same vocal reaction. Spring was with the crowd that banked itself about the partly glassenclosed house like van-colored

tension on other levees, but it w'as feared w*hen the waters receded other sections would go out by reversal of the strain. Boatmen arrived every hour from the St. Francis bottom lands with new' loads of shivering and w-eeping men, women and children taken from roof tops of their homes. Conditions improved slightly in Kentucky, Southern Illinois, Mississippi and the upper reaches of the Ohio River. Highways near many tributary streams w r ere impassable and railroads reported frequent washouts from Cincinnati to Cairo, but, the danger of a major flood of the main stream w'as believed past.

HOOSIER FATALLY HURT Greenfield Man Dies Here After Truck Crash. Harry Wilfong, Greenfield, w-as fatally injured today wdren his car was forced off the road by a truck near there, narrowly missing a school bus. He was brought to Methodist Hospital, w'here he died. He w'as 50.

Score Card of State Basketball Finals

Rtishvillle (34 1 \ Fridav, a.no w. Rushville \ Prinreton (32i ) / Satnrdav, *..yi m. \ Frankfort (17)....... j V Frtda.v, io ; m a. m. Richmond / I Richmond (34i ) f Saturday. 2:30 F. M. Mentone (241 ...\ I Friday, moo a. M. Michigan City \ I J Michigan City (35* . . ) / I r Saturday. 9:30 A. M. / Jeffersonville \ V Friday. 2.00 P. M. , J Montgomery ) 33 SEMI-FINALS FINALS Bert e \ Saturday, 8:00 P. M. _ Friday. 3:00 P. M. \ Roachdale ) f *§ Saturday. 10:30 A. M. \ Logansport \ i | Friday. 4:Oo r. M. ■/ I Shelbyville ) f Saturday, 3 30 P. M. j Brazil \ Frida v. -:30 P.M. , \ V Anderson ) ) Saturdav. 11:30 A. M. J Nappanee \ i Fndav, 8:30 P. M. j •/ Tipton )

flowers in a green-house. Visiting high school beauties and local talent served competition to the games, and frequently lured some spectators from strict attention to the players. Nearly all were dressed in silk pants that looked nice and shiny, but aw'ful fragile. There were no sartorial casualties, however. During the practice periods before games the air was so filled wdth basketballs that the show' might have been staged bv a physics professor to show his students the home life of the molecule. Outside the fieldhouse people w-ere gay and gala in a balmy air More precious than money were the tickets they clutched as they appioached the crowded gates and entered. Even the sourpans of the crowd seemed to be eager to enjoy themselves. In perfect weather, in perfectly good humor and in regimented hysteria. Indiana basketball fans today began a tw'o-day spring vacation.

SACK HOME AGAIN, WITH HER 81 DOGS Canine Howls Bring Roars From Neighbors. Society note: Miss Wilhelmina Adam returned to her home. 2224 Churchman-av, at 1:30 this mornj ing, accompanied by 81 dogs. State note: She nad been invited to do so by the city of Terre Haute, where she had had the dogs for several days. Neighborhood note: All within a mile of the Churchman-av , address were awakened at 1:30 this morning by the dogs’ barking. Court note: Miss Adam, by taking the dogs out of the jurisdiction of Circuit Court, which had ordered her to get rid of all but two, closed the case and is not in contempt of court by bringing them back. Foot note: Miss Adam says the dogs are hungry.

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JEFF AND LOGAN GO INTO ACTION AT FI ELDHOUSE Favorites to Be Seen This Afternoon; Rushville. Richmond and Michigan City Sweep Into Second Round. PRINCETON FALLS IN CLOSE FRAY, Frankfort Crushed in Morning Play of High School Tourney; Mentone Is Eliminated in Easy Fashion. (All detail play accounts on Page 261 BY DICK MILLER Times Stall Writer Fifteen thousand basketball fans streamed out to Butler ' University’s giant fieldhouse this afternoon where two of | the most popular favorites were scheduled to play firstround games in the Indiana high school finals tournament. just as many fans this morning watched Rushville, Richmond and Michigan City sweep into the second round i of nlav, two of them in easy fashion. 1 11 1 - J ~ 1 1 lU A

TEXAS SEEKS GAS LINE LOAN $60,000,000 PWA Advance for Midwest Project Is Requested. The Texas Gas Conservation Corp a corporation formed by the state of Texas, today asked Harold L. Ickes, Public Works Administrator, for 560.000.000 to construct a natural gas pipeline, from the Pahnadle fields lo St. Louis and Detroit. It was regarded as virtually certain the loan will be granted. In Washington. Mr. Ickes, who has repeatedly declared himself in favor of the conservation of natural resources, the avow'ed purpose of the corporation, conferred with Texas officials. After the conference, Texas officials said that when the PWA loan is approved, they udll immediate.,?, introduce enabling legislation in the state Legislature. Any pipeline that is built from the Texas Panhandle to Detroit by way of St. Louis. w r ould skirt Indianapolis and be in a position to fui - nish natural gas to the city, when, and if, the city buys the Citizens Gas Cos. plant and offers mixed gas to customers. At present the Columbia Gas and Electric Corp. and its subsidiaries, now charged in Federal court by the Federal Trade Commission with operating in this region in restraint of trade, are owners of the sole facilities for furnishing the city wdth natural gas.

FEENEY NO 'FIXER,' HE'S GIVEN STICKER. PAYS UP PROMPTLY

A1 G. Feeney, State Safety director, helieves that stickers for traffic violations should not be "fixed." When Patrolman John R. Moorman saw Mr. Feeney's low number auto parked in a restricted zone in front of the Indiana Theater he promptly put a sticker on it. Much to the surprise of the police, traffic office clerk, Mr. Feeney came in and laid down the $2 charged a first offender. He explained that he had rushed in the theater building to get a package and that the alert officer had spotted his car.

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Rushville needed all the power it could muster to defeat Princeton, 34 to 32, in a nip-and-tuck battle, but Richmond coasted to victory over Frankfort, 34 to 17, and Michigan City had just as easy a time with little Mentone, winning 35 to

The touted Jeffersonville team, undefeated this season, was to go into action at 2 o'clock against Montgomery. At 3, Berne and Roachdale were to tangle, and at 4, Logansport was to be seen in action against Shelbyville. First-round battles will be concluded tonight with games between Brazil and Anderson and Nappanee. and Tipton. Tomorrow morning will see four quarter-final games, and tomorrow afternoon two semifinal tilts. The two victors tomorrow afternoon then will move into the final game that will decide Indiana's 1935 scholastsic basketball champion. Action of the ding-dong variety which has made Indiana basketballmad sent the tourney away to a fly-* ing start, with Rusirville’s roaring Lions staging a terrific comeback to nose out Princeton. 34 to 32, in th® first game this morning. Trailing 26 to 19 late in the third quarter, the Lions broke loose with a dazzling attack that pulled the count up to 26 to 23 as the final period started. Led by Sharpe, speedy guard who connected three times on two-pointers in the final minutes, Rushville tied the count at 27-27 with five minutes to play. Rushville then took a 29-28 edge, but Princeton fought back to gain a one-point advantage. With less than two minutes to play. Rushville forged ahead 34 to 30. Then Abell of the Tigers snagged a long heave, but before Princeton had another chance the gun sounded. SUNDAY - SEES START OF FASTEST AIR SERVICE City to Be Flag Stop on Chicago to Cincinnati Run. The fastest air transport run in the world will be inaugurated Sunday by American Airlines on its C'nicago-Cincinnati night schedule, on which Indianapolis will be a flag stop, it was announced today by William H. Roose. local traffic representative. The 272 miles will be made m 86 minutes. Planes stop at Indianapolis only if there are passengers to land or pick up. Other inovations in trips of tha American Airlines will include cutting transport time from Indianapolis to Washington to three hours and 48 minutes. The present time is four and one-half hours. Planes will leave the Muncipal airport at 12:33 in the afternoon on the new schedule, and will arrive in Washington at 5:11, Eastern Standard time. CRIME ROUNDUP BEGUN IN U. S. BY AGENTS 12,000 Go Into Action; 1000 Arrests During Day Expected. Bv United Press Federal agents renewed a gigantic drive on smugglers, counterfeiters and narcotic dealers throughout the United States today, seizing many men and women and thousands of dollars’ worth of equipment. Some 12.000 agents participated. More than 1000 arrests were expected. Arrests included: New York area, 29; Washington, 12; Kansas City, 51, and Troy, N. Y., 4. WARM SPELL GREETS OPENING OF TOURNEY Mercury May Reach 80 During Day, Expert Says. An unusual warm spell today brought ideal conditions for the state basketball tournament. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, predicted that the temperature probably would rise to 75 or 30 degrees today followed by showers and colder tomorrow. The normal temperature for today is 33. The mercury stood at 71 at noon. Fire Destroys 515,000 Grocery. B’j l mted Pr-n WARSAW. Ind. March 15. —The Garber and Phelps grocery at North Webster was destroyed by fire today at a loss of $15,000^