Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 April 1935 — Page 3

APRIL 9, 1935

ROOSEVELT URGED TO WIELD ‘BIG STICK' ON CONGRESS TO SPEED NEW DEAL MEASURES President Returns From Vacation at Critical Time; Leaders Cry for Guidance in Muddled, Lagging Session. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Timr* Spflil Writer WASHINGTON, April 9.—When President Roosevelt returns to the capital late today he will be confronted almost immediately with a plea for guidance and leadership of a Congress that is performing like a slow-motion picture. Otherwise, his lieutenants will warn him, part of his program will be jeopardized. They will recommend that he take the “big stick” from the shelf, and swing it a time or

two. That, they will say is what the country wants —and what Congress wants. Leaders, themselves, will certify to this need by starting a procession to the White House. They are not staging on this occasion the welcome home parade of a year ago when Congressmen swarmed down to Union Station, a little shamefaced, behind a brass band, to symbolize their dependence on the Chief Executive. But the legislative situation is more muddled now than it was a year ago. Three months of the session have passed and only one major Administration measure has been enacted —the $4 880,000,000 works-relief bill. Dammed up are the social security bill, which soon will go before the House; NRA legislation; the public utilities bill; the banking bill; the communications bill; railroad legislation, the Wagner labor disputes measure, the pure food and drug bill, war profits bill, and tax legislation. Take Advantage of Confusion Calling for a decision by the President also are the soldier bonus bill and bills of an inflationary type such as silver remonetization measures. Opponents of the President’s program, obstructionists, and powerful private interests have taken advantage of the long fight over the work-relief bill, and the resulting confusion of leaders, to get in some effective licks. Once again is heard the cry, made more seductive by the peculiar type of spring fever emanating from the Potomac lowlands: ‘Let's drop several controversial measures for this session, pass one or two other bills and then let Congress go home and give business a chance.*'

Important Decisions Awaited This cry is raised about this time ! every year—and frequently it has its effect. President Roosevelt will hear it. Consequently, he returns to Washington at a critical time and faces decisions about his program that are most important. It is generally agreed that measures which are stricken from the program now j must stand aside for a long time to come. For, if tradition holds, little will be accomplished at the next session, since the coming elections will be uppermost, and politics will overshadow everything else. The eve of President Roosevelt's return found enemies of the pure food and drug bill, a reform to which the President pledged himself some time ago. successfully sidetracking the measure. This is the sort of sabotage that will go on henceforth, it appears, unless the President assumes command. Southern conservative leaders would gladly see parts of the Roosevelt program shelved, it is reported. Social Security at Stake The President's first problem is the social security bill which, next i to the work-relief bill, lies closest j to the public heart. Leaders will j ask Mr. Roosevelt to decide wheth- j er this measure should be put, through the House under a gag rule, or whether they should risk the chance of amendments from the floor, sponsored by Townsend plan advocates and others, to increase; the pensions provided. This bill will become the center j of the next big fight in Congress and leadership will be needed. If the President desires the banking bill to be enacted, it is obvious I he must take a hand. For it was ! discovered today that Senate leaders are talking about dividing it up anti postponing for further study provisions designed to transform the Federal Reserve system into a central banking system, regarded as the heart of the bill. A decision on the bonus bill, recently passed by the House, will be required by the President. Senate leaders plan to see him soon to find out whether they should seek a compromise, and if so. of what sort, or whether they should permit the Patman greenback bill to go through and kill it with a veto.

SLAYER OF GIRL SENT TO INSANE HOSPITAL 20-Year-Old Y’outh Admits Beating Child, 7, to Death. By United Press NORMAN. Okla.. April 9—Gay Williams. 20-year-old Drumright youth who beat a 7-year-old girl to death, was committed to the State Hospital for the Insane this afternoon. Williams confessed that he killed Katherine Cline with a 10-pound rock. “She told me that she wanted to go where her mother was.” he said. “She asked me to kill her and I said I would.” The girl's mother, Mrs. A. V. Cline, died last summer.

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REPAIR DRIVE HEADS NAMED Mrs. Paul T. Hurt Selected Chairman of Women’s Committee. Mrs. Paul T. Hurt, representative of the Indiana Federation of Womens Clubs, has been appointed chairman of the Women’s Committee of the Marion County repair and modernization program. Under Mrs. Hurt’s direction, a committee of women will be formed to stimulate repairing of homes. The committee will be appointed within the next few days. Mayor John W. Kern has been named honorary chairman of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee in the Chamber of Commerce’s program. A group of business men will be asked to serve with Mayor Kern. The executive committee consists of Robert S. Foster, chairman; Carl C. Weiland, P. *G. King and C. Harvey Bradley. Mayor Kern said the resources of the city are behind the movement and said that every city department will co-oper-ate to the fullest extent.

HAKRAHAN CASE IS SET FOR TOMORROW By-Drink Test Likely to Be Settled at Last. The great Hanrahan by-the-dnnk test case probably will be settled tomorrow when it comes up, for the 'steenth time, in Municipal Court. Last July, during the storm over sales of liquor by the drink, supposedly banned by the 1933 liquor law. police arrested Michael J. Hanrahan, proprietor of the Penhoff Grill, for making such a sale. With a test case in the courts, no further arrests were made and by-the-drink sales continued unabated. The case was continued repea.tccUy. Since then the Legislature has changed the liquor law, and It is believed the case will be thrown out of court, now that there is no point to the ruling. TOWNSEND CLUBS~TO HOLD STATE MEETINGS Changes in Pension Plan to Be Discussed at Sessions. Members of Townsend Old-Age Pension Clubs will meet in various parts of the state this week to discuss recent changes in the pension plan. E. J. Speake, state organizer, told a Haughville audience last night that the plan which formerly called for a straight pension of S2OO a month has been altered to make the maximum payment S2OO a month. He said that the new changes provide that a fund be built up in the national treasury before expenditures start. 800 TO ATTEND STATE JUNIOR H. S. MEETING Chicago U. Educator to Address Session Here May 3. More than 800 Indiana educators are expected to attend the state junior high schoc* conference here May 3, according to Virgil Stinebaugh, Indianapolis junior high schools director, who will have charge of the meeting. Dr. Charles H. Judd. Chicago University education department head, will be the speaker at a night meeting in Caleb Mills Hall, Shortridge High School. Indiana school supervisors will hold a conference here the same day. STICKUP MEN GET SBO Insurance Collecter Also Lost Car in Holdup, Police Told. A thorough search is being made today for two stickup men who robbed Ernest Zeigler, 34. of 906 N. Kevstone-av of SBO last night. Mr. Zeigler reported to police that he had gone to 402 Christian-st to make a collection for an insurance company. “When I came out there were two men standing on the running board of my car,” he said. “One of them drew a gun on me. and they took my SBO and the key to my car. They drove the automobile away.” Police later found the automobile abandoned at Southeastem-av and Earhart-st. Taxpayers to Ht.ar Judge J. B. White, former Pennsylvania judge, will be the principal speaker at a mass meeting tonight in the New Augusta community house. The meeting is sponsored by the Hocsier Taxpayers' Association, which ha? opened headquarters at 33 W. Ohiost. City Youth Enlists in Navy Charles A. McGaughey. son of Mrs. Maude McGaughey, 1303 E. Michigan-st, is en route to the Naval Training Station, Norfolk. Va., for a 12-weeks training period following hi* enlistment here yesterday.. *

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In their best bibs and tuckers — well, in their best new bibs, anyway—ivith their names proudly blazoned on the front of the crisp white surface, the Dionne quintuplets give you a bright good-morning. Note that each little girl has her oivn idea of how to handle a doll. But each of the five sets of starry eyes is equally bright.

Adolph Ochs, Famous U. S. Publisher, Is Dead

High Tribute Is Paid Great American Journalist by All Rivals. (Continued From Page One)

Marian Sulzberger, who came here with him from New York, and Rabbi Abraham Feinstein of the Julius and Bertha Ochs Memorial Temple. In addition to those named, he is survived by his wife, who was in Atlantic City at the time of his deaih; a daughter, Mrs. Arthur Hays Sulzberger; two other sisters, Miss Nannie Ochs, New York, and Mrs. Bernard Talimer, Philadelphia, and three other grandchildren, Ruth, Judith and Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, High Tribute Paid By United Press NEW YORK, April 9.—World leaders joined the eminent and the humble of journalism today in paying tribute to Adolph S. Ochs. His career was eulogized in hundreds of statements issued by statesmen, diplomats, public officials, editors, puolishers and writers. Mr. Ochs’ own newspaper, The New York Times, devoted 48 columns to news and pictures of his life and career. A four-column picture of the publisher, bordered in mourning, was carried on page one. The column rules of the editorial page and the page following were turned to print the traditional mourning bands. The obituary took 16 columns; tributes and statements of condolence, 16 columns; pictures, nine columns. Mr. Ochs career and his influence in shaping the destiny of American journalism, his aid in giving the calling its present high standing and value to mankind were praised by William Randolph Hearst of the Heart papers; Frank Gannett, head of the Gannett newspapers; Roy W. Howard, chairmon of the board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers; Ralph Pulitzer and by scores of individual publishers representing every section of the country. Lifted Papers to Power Mr. Ochs based his career upon the publishing of one kind of newspaper only. At the age of 38, in 1897. when he took charge of the bankrupt New York Times, he said his newspaper would publish “all the news that's fit to print.” His paper, he said, would be “clean, dignified, trustworthy and impartial.” Those were his ideals when he took charge of the bankrupt Chattanooga Times at 20. This code lifted the Times there and later the New York Times to positions of power prestige, and prosperity. His influence in the development of American journalism during the past 30 years was profound His Times was widely imitated, its policies widely followed. He was not the first to divorce news reporting and editorial opinion, but he developed it into a rigid newspaper technique. Before his day. editors commonly villified public officials and others in abusive, high flown language, taking pride in “wielding a vitriolic pen.” Mr. Ochs’ influence was one for moderation. His New York Times was conservative during all of his ownership. It still does not print comic strips. Refused $150,000 Contract Mr. Ochs also preached and practiced the strictest editorial independence. He once refused a contract to carry official advertisements that would have meant an annual income of $150,000 because it might throw a political shadow over his paper. Mr. Ochs was born in Cincinnati March 12, 1858. eldest of the six children of Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs. His parents were German Jews, intellectuals and liberals, who had been driven from the fatherland by autocratic government. After the Civil War the family moved to Knoxville, where, at the age of 11, Mr. Ochs became an office boy on the Knoxville Chronicle. Later he was printer's devil for the same paper. At 17 he became a workman in the composing room of the Louisville Courier-Journal, tut six months later returned to Knoxville, where he went to work for the Tribune. There he was successively printer, j reporter, assistant manager. He worked for the Chattanooga Dispatch for a while and at the age of 20 bought for SBOO the bankrupt and decadent Chattanooga Times. In 1896 Mr. Ochs, then 38. came to New York and with $75,000 acquired part control of the New York Times, then a financial sieve. If he could make it pay three consecutive years he would get controlling interest. Four years later he owned 51 per cent of the stock and the Times has grown steadily since to its present status. i

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YOUTH, HANGED FOUR DAYS AGO, GRANTED STAY OF EXECUTION

By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 9. Court machinery moved solemnly here today to “save” the life of a dead man, hanged four days ago at San Quentin Prison. Meanwhile state officials investigated the legal blunder which sent Rush Griffin, 19-year-old Negro, to the gallows last Friday although he had been granted a stay of execution. An appeal which automatically postponed Griffin’s death sentence was found in the files of a lower clerk’s office yesterday, apparently forgotten. The investigation started after Richard F. Bird, the Negro’s attorney, read of his client’s execution in the newspapers. He started on the trail of the appeal, filed with a transcript of record two months ago, and found it in the office of Court Clerk E. K. Boardman. Records in the clerk's office showed that Griffin’s attorney received the receipt for the stenographic transcript last Wednesday, in ample time to have saved the young Negro’s life if it had been properly forwarded by the lower court.

ROOSEVELT DICTATOR, G. 0. P. LEADER SAYS Monroe County Chairman Attacks Work-Relief Setup. “The condition of the United States today is comparable to the reign of Louis XIV,” Donald E. Bowen, Bloomington (Ind.) city attorney and Monroe County Republican chairman, declared in an address attacking President Roosevelt at the Irvington Republican Club last night. Mr. Bowen charged that Congress abdicated when it passed the mammoth relief bill and asserted that the president had asked for “autocratic, dictatorial power.” BASEBALL TO BE TOPIC AT SESSION OF LYONS Twenty Members of Club to Go to Pendleton for Meeting. The Lion's Club luncheon tomorrow in the Washington will be given over to a discussion of baseball, past and present. Twenty members of the club and their wives will go to Pendleton tomorrow for the district meeting of the organization. CAFE OWNER IS DEAD Last Rites Will be Held Thurday for Charles H. Owens. Funeral services for Charles H. Owens. who died Sunday at his home, 2450 Northwestern-av, will be held at 1 Thursday, at Christ's Temple. Paris-av and Fall Creekblvd. Burial will be in Franklin. Mr. Ow r ens at one time was operator of a case here and at the time of his death was in the transfer business. He had lived in Indianapolis 45 years. Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Fannie Owens; a daughter, Mrs. Eloise Smith, and a granddaughter, Lois Ann Smith, Indianapolis; a stepson, Fred Allen. Detroit a sister, Mrs. Belle Riffe, Toledo; a brother, William Owens, Pittsburgh, and several neices and nephews. LIQUOR CASE QUASHED Suspect’s Address Incorrectly Given in The Times. Charges against Joe Krenzer, 909 E. Market-st, who was charged with selling liquor on Sunday and having no liquor license were dismissed on motion of his attorney in Municipal Court yesterday. It was erroneously reported in early editions of The Indianapolis Times yesterday that Mr. Krenzer's place of business was at 908 E. Market-st. Zion Evangelical Pastor to Speak The Rev. Ferderick R. Dsries, pastor of Zion Evangelical Church, will speak on “The Foolishness of the Cross,” at the sixth of a series of Lenten services to be held in the church at 7:45 tonight. The choir will sing.

O. E. S. to Give Dinner Tonight North Park Chapter, 404, Order of Eastern Star, will entertain the worthy grand matron, Hazel Thompson Coates, at dinner tonight in the North Park Masonic Temole, 30th and Clifton-sts. *

M'NUTT VAGUE ABOUT SESSION Governor Still Is Uncertain About Special Term, He DeclaresReturning to his office today after a vacation in Florida, Gov. Paul V. McNutt said he was still uncertain about calling a special session of the legislature. He said the need for such a session hinged on how Indiana comes out on the new Federal funds. “From conversations I had in Florida with Harold F. Ickes and Harry Hopkins, I believe I am safe in saying that we will get our share of Federal money,” he said. He pointed out that of the $4,800,000,000 provided in the work-relief bill which President Roosevelt signed yesterday, $900,000,000 will be apportioned out to the states. “A great deal depends on the restrictions which the President places over the states in the spending of this money,” he declared. While he pointed out that he had no idea as to the need for a session, he said that when the need arose he would prepare a legislative program.

WASHINGTON TO HOLD . SCHOLARSHIP DANCE Last FUnd Event to Be Staged at School Friday. The last of the scholarship fund dances to be given at Washington High School this semester will be held in the school gymnasium Friday. The student committee directing the affair includes Charles Maizey, Herschel Sartor, Pearl Kretheotis, Betty Jean Miller, George Doreff, Norman Heinze and Jack Romine. Faculty sponsors are Miss Myrtle Johnson, Miss Elizabeth Hester, William Bock, Mrs. Margaret McWilliams, Miss Eunice Seybold, O. W. Nicely and Justin Marshall. ARGUMENTS ARE HEARD Receiver Sought for Medical Arts Building by Stockholders. Pleadings on the request of John B. Burris and Harriet M. Burris that a reeciver be named for the Medical Arts Building Corp., opened today before Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox. Each of the two complainant:: claim to own two and one-half shares of common and two and onehalf shares of preferred stock in the corporation. They charge that the corporation suffered a $17,139 operating loss last year. Club Federation to Meet The North Side Federation of Clubs will meet at the residence of George Q. Bruce, 2815 Sutherlandav, at 8 tonight.

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23 Students Are Ousted on Immorality Charges

Jewish Fraternity Closed; ‘Maintained Disorderly House/ Is Claim. By United Press lOWA CITY, la., April 9.—Twen-ty-three members of Phi Beta Delta fraternity, suspended from the University of lowa last night for “maintaining a disorderly house,” charged today that similar conditions prevail in many other lowa fraternities. Members of Phi Beta Delta, a national Jewish fraternity, were accused by the university board of discipline of “lewd, lascivious and immoral relations with women on the fraternity premises, and contributing to the delinquency of a minor female.” University authorities said two girls, one 17 and the other 21, visited the Phi Beta Delta house at least four times in December and January, engaging in wholesale immoralities. Suspended Men Protest The university chapter of the fraternity was ordered disbanded and all its members suspended “indefinitely.” President Eugene A. Gilmore and Dean Robert E. Rienow approved the action. The suspended men dispatched a statement to President Gilmore admitting “some of the charges,” but adding that university officials knew the involved women were operating throughout the campus. “We wish to make known that many of us are not involved,” the statement said. ‘“The charges are exaggerated. Moreover, we know that these same women, who are or have been stationed at local hotels during the school year, have circulated freely from fraternity to fraternity on the campus.” Campus Probe Unlikely “We have been set forth as an example, despite the fact that school authorities knew that these women were stationed at local hotels and that they were engaging in wholesale immoral practices. “Expulsion from the university of 23 men, many of whom are absolutely innocent, far exceeds the penalty which we deserve.” Dean Rienow said he did not believe other fraternities were guilty of the “wholesale” practices of Phi Beta Delta and planned no unusual investigation unless evidence was

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produced which made it seem necessary. Drinking Brings Ouster By United Press ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 9 The University of Michigan chapter of Phi Beta Delta, national Jewish fraternity, was closed by university authorities last Thursday for serving liquor at a party in the Michigan League, women’s social center. Like their brothers of the University of lowa, suspended last night for “immoral conduct,” the Michigan chapter members accused school officials of winking at similar incidents. The Michigan Daily, student publication, charged editorially that the league served “setups” and said that “if the university is demanding drinking be cut out in the fraternities, the university ought to put its own house in order.”

DEMOCRAT DISTRICT CHAIRMAN IS NAMED Anderson Man Elected to Succeed Jackson. Cary Forkner, Anderson license bureau manager, today was named 11th" District Democratic chairman at a district meeting held in state Democratic headquarters in the Claypool. Mr.. Forkner succeeds Omer S. Jackson, state chairman, whose home is in Greenfield and who has been serving as the district chairman since his election to the state post. The new district chairman formerly was Madison County auditor and Madison County Democratic chairman. W. C. T. U. TO GATHER Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr to Speak at Session. Mrs. Daisy Douglas Barr will speak at the meeting of Vayhinger W C. T. U. at 2 Thursday in the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Charles M. Fillmore, 1914 Commerce-av. Readings will be given by Doris Anne Johnson and Don Martin. Curtis Davis will sing.

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5 ARRESTED BY VICE SQUADS ON LIQDOR CHARGES Defendant Given 180-Day Farm Term on 15th Appearance. The police vice squad lost some of its zeal in the last 24 hours, or Indianapolis has gone pretty goodygoody. because only five persons were arrested, compared to 110 over the week-end. All five were charged with having violated the liquor laws—none of them with gambling or making books or betting on the ponies, which is. so far as Chief Mike Morrissey is concerned, the worst of all. Most of the cases were thrown out of court because of the failure of arresting officers to have search warrants. Pete Cowards. 5020 E. lOth-st, appeared for the 15th time on a charge of being intoxicated and was sentenced to 180 days on the Indiana State Farm and fined $25 and cost*. Police arrested Gorden Kranosheck on a charge of having violated the liqour law. They claimed he sold beer in a tavern at 2708 W. Tenth-st after closing hours. As for the policy, or number, racket —it is reported to be going at full tilt as usual, although it is distinctly of a gambling nature. Chief Morrissey says someone must get out a warrant against someone before his men can do anything about it. Moreover, don’t look now, but aren't those bookies taking bets as usual by telephone? PROBE MYSTERY DEATH OF BEAUTY ON COAST Nude Body of Texas Divorcee Found on Bathroom Floor. By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 9—Police today awaited an autopsy report before resuming their investigation of the mysterious death of Mrs. Flora A. Willison, attractive blond divorcee of Dallas, Tex. The woman’s nude body was found on the floor of her bathroom when apartment house attendants investigated the howling of a dog. Police discarded their original theory that she had slipped while taking a shower and awaited a more complete examination before delving further into the mystery. Dr. A. F- Wagner, police surgeon, said, in his preliminary report, that bruises and injuries she suffered about the head were not sufficient to have caused death. He planned to make an examination of her vital organs today. CIVIC LEAGUE TO MEET Brightwood Group to Hear Postoffice Official Tonight. Members of the Brightwood Civic League tonight will hear an address by Edgar S. Brown, Indianapolis postoffice finance superintendent. League officers will be elected at the meeting in Clark’s Hall, 25th and Station-sts. The FERA cowboy band will play. Burglar Loots Barber Shop A burglar took four razois, two shears and a clipper, all valued at S4O, from the Anthony Kirch oarber shop, 1037 Virginia-av, last night, according to police reports.

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