Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1935 — Page 3

APRIL 12, 1935

HOUSING DRIVE IS OUTLINED BY U. S. OFFICIAL 175 Million New Homes Is Goal of Federal Campaign. The Federal Housing Administration estimates that the nation needs 1 750.000 new homes and it intends to make the construction of these homes the spearhead of economic recovery. Ward M. Canaday, assistant to the Federal Housing Administrator, brought this message from Washing’on today and delivered it at a luncheon attended by 500 persons at the Idianapolis Home Show at the Indiana State Fairground. Special guest of honor on this, Better Housing Day. Mr. Canaday was presented to the audience by Gov. V. McNutt, who pointed out that Mr. Canaday is a native Hoosier. In fact, Mr. Canaday's mother celebrated Lie seventy-eighth anniversary of her birth today by being with her son in Indianapolis and taking part in the ceremonies in his honor. She lives at Newcastle, his native town. Housing Shortages Acute “As you perhaps know, ’ he spoke, “the campaign for property modernization and repair came first in the planning of the Federal Housing Administration because that was the most urgent need. The second phase of the program deals with the estimated need for 1,750.000 new homes that is today making itself jf’lt in the form of acute housing shortages in many communities. “Consequently, the Administration is planning for an educational campaign in that direction, because through the FHA is offered to the American people today a sound common sense plan for home ownership. “By the old method, when a man or woman purchased a house, they had to invest from 40 to 50 per cent in cash in order to get a first mortgage for the balance. If that much could not be laid down in cash, it had to be covered by a second mortgage. This second mortgage had to be paid within a certain number of years, while the first mortgage had to be renewed every four or five years. Every time it was renewed theer was a finance charge. “And thus, with the part payments that had to be made on the second mortgage, and with the interest and financing charges on the first mortgage, many people who purchased homes found that after 10 years they were hardly a step closer to actual home ownership. Entire Picture Changed “Now. under the opportunity of the National Housing Act. the picture is entirely changed. Today if you want to build a home you can be sure of a first mortgage—one first moi tgage—covering up to 80 per cent of the appraised value of the home. The equity of 20 per cent j may be either in cash or in a building lot. "Just as soon as the mortgage is Issued, the home owner begins to achieve ownership because each month, just as you pay rent, you pay the interest charges, insurance, taxes and a portion of the principal sum borrowed. "Thus the home mortgaged for ! S4OOO can be paid for in 20 years by a monthly charge of about S4O, and the S4O covers everything, even the taxes and insurance.” The Home Show. w hich has been attracting thousands of spectators each day. will close Sunday night. Tomorrow will be Indianapolis day at the show-.

TECH GIRL CAPTURES DISCUSSION CONTEST Alice Cleveland to Compete in Finals at Bloomington. Marion County was represented today by Alice Cleveland. Technical High School, at the 22nd annual State High School Discussion League Contest conducted by Indiana University. Seven similar contests will beheld throughout the state this week-end and the winners will compete April 26 in the finals at Indiana University. HIT ~BY TRAIN, KILLED Cloverdale Man Hurled 75 Feet By Speeding Engine. By Vnated Press GREENCASTLE. Ind.. April 12. Injuries suffered when struck by a passenger train near here were fatal to W. Clayton McKamey. 33. Cloverdale. Mr. McKamey was hurled 75 feet and lived 12 hours before succumbing to a fractured skull.

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RANEY IS GIVEN PITTENGER JOB New Superintendent Named for State School for Deaf. O. M. Pittenger has been dismissed as superintendent of the Indiana School for the Deaf and will be succeeded by Jackson Raney, former Ripley County schools superintendent. Formal announcemnt of the change at the school was made by Dr. Ralph Chappell, a trustee of the school, although Mr. Pittenger was informed some time ago he would be early this summer. Mr. Raney is a student at Gallau - det University in Washington and will take over the school June 1. Dr. Chappel and Miss Hilda Tillinghast. principal, will direct the school affairs until Mr. Raney’s arrival, EXCESS POWER BILLING CHARGE UNDER INQUIRY City Officials Delay Decision, Seek Further Data. City officials will examine additional data before reaching a decision on charges that Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. overcharged the safety board for service during 1929-1933. Power company and city officials conferred at City Hall on claims of Walter O. Lewis, former safety board secretary, that the overcharges were made for street traffic signal, dog pound, police radio and engine house service. LIFE TERM FOR MOTHER Young Negro Woman Found Guilty of Slaying Husband. Mrs. Velnoria Jones, 27, Negro, mother of two children, today was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Women's Prison after a Criminal Court jury found her guilty of sec-ond-degree murder in connection with the slaying of her husband last Sept. 28.

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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Coburn Motor Sales Cos . SSO S. Meridianst Ford V-8 sedan. M-lill, from rear of offices.

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Stolen automobiles recovered by police belong to: Nellie Cassidv. 121'i w. JefTerson-st, Muncie. Ind Chevrolet coupe, found in front of 318 E Vermont-st.

Dust Clouds Prophets of Doom, Wallace Warns Continued Misuse of Land and Streams Certain to Bring Disaster, Izaak Waltons Told. By United Press* CHICAGO, April 12. —Dust storms are the prophets of the “disaster certain to follow” continued misuse of the nation's fields, forests and streams. Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, said today. Addressing the Izaak Walton League by radio from Washington, Mr.

Wallace painted a grim picture of the havoc wrought by “wasteful, careless and unprofitable exploitation of our land and its resources.” “Each year it has become gradually more difficult for the average American to find unspoiled natural areas,” he said. “To many of the streams and waters we knew years ago are dry now, or mud-choked, or foul with pollution. Fish can no longer live in them. Woods, too have disappeared, leaving great areas of countryside nearly barren of any of the evidences of a green and productive nature. The somber pall of dust that has shrouded the country so frequently during the past few years is only the most spectacular and awe-in-spiring of the many significant warnings nature is giving us.” Mr. Wallace said the government's land utilization program was essential "to correct the unprofitable, uneconomical chaos” produced by lack of poliiyr in times of pioneer settlement. More than 77,000.000 acres of potential refuge has been taken awf from waterfowl by marsh drainage, Mr. Wallace estimated. “There is no question,” he said, “but that some of this attrition of water areas has resulted in the addition of valuable farm lands, but in some regions much of it has been shown up as a rank failure.” Inspection Tour Ended Mrs. Marie Leonard, grand guardian of Indiana Order of Job’s Daughters, has returned from an inspection visit at Bethel 13 in Anderson and Bethel 5 in Clinton. She was accompanied by Mrs. Mae Marcum Jacobs, state organizer; Mrs. Elizabeth Tyre, grand guide; Mrs. Bertha Lynch, grand treasurer; Mrs. Ethel H. Warner, past grand guardian: Mrs. Eula Griffey, grand secretary; Dean Craft and James Lynch.

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Police arrested a Negro last night when she leaped from a car and ran between two houses at St. Clair and N. East-sts. Because “she” had a bass voice they thought "she” was a “he” and took “her” to police station where “she” gave “her” name as Alice White. “She” maintained “she was a woman, but police still suspected “her” of being a “he” and were about to have “her” taken to City Hospital for examination when “she” confessed “he” was Albert White. Police held him for vagrancy under high bond, suspecting him of being one of the “girls” who have been strong-arming men on the North Side recently.

M'NUTT IS BOOMED FOR VICE-PRESIDENT Townsend Sounds Plea at Anderson Democratic Meeting. By United Press ANDERSON, Ind., April 12.—The vice presidential boom for Gov. Paul V. McNutt was in full swing among Indiana Democrats today following an address here by Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend. Pledging his full support of the Governor in the race for the nomination in 1936, Mr. Townsend told his audience last night that “President Roosevelt needs the services of our nationally known and outstanding Governor.”

CHILDHOOD PALS BACKMATHERS Youth Became Moody After Sleeping Sickness Attack, Court Told. By United Press LEBANON, Ind„ April 12.—Childhood friends of Theodore Mathers, 21, Coalmont, were scheduled to tell a Boone Circuit Court jury today that his mind was unbalanced after a critical illness in 1932. Mathers is being tried on a charge lof murdering the Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders, 36, a former Wabash minister. Saunders was shot after a drinking party in Indianapolis Feb. 2, 1934. He and Mathers were roommates at an Indianapolis embalming school at that time. Six witnesses testified in support of the defense insanity plea yesterday. Dr. C. W. Thralls, Hymera, the family physician, told how the youth lay delirious with encephalitis for .seven weeks. The disease, an inflammation of the brain, changed Mathers from a cheerful, normal boy who enjoyed studying to a morose youth who frequently had moments of despondency, the doctor testified. Other defense witnesses included Forrest Fields, principal of Coalmont High School; Miss Edith Jones, Mathers’ English teacher; Floyd Bemis, a neighbor, and Charles Gosnell, a classmate, now attending Indiana State Teachers College at Terre Haute. All told of a radical change in the youth when he returned to school after the illness. The state rested yesterday after presenting Saunders’ insurance policies aggregating nearly $14,000. PENSION FUND TcTeLECT Firemen to Name Trustee at Poll Set for Tuesday, Election of a trustee of the Firemen's Pension Fund will take place Tuesday at fire headquarters, it was announced today by Chief Fred C. Kennedy. Candidates named at a convention yesterday are Oscar F. Stevenson, incumbent, whose term will expire; Russell M. Miller, Glen Frey, William Murphy, James Myers and Marcus Sexton.

UNION HEADS TO SET DATE FOR RUBBERjTRIKE Leaders Confer in Capital While Plants Prepare for Battle. By United Press AKRON, O , April 12.—Setting of a date for an extended walkout of organized labor in "big three" rubber plants was awaited tensely in this tire capital today. Labor chiefs met with William Green, American Federation of Labor president, in Washington, while company officials, who went there yesterday, studied proposals to avert a strike, offered-by Frances Perkins, Secretary’ of Labor. Strike votes of workers at Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear and the craft unions operating in the plants, were taken to the national capital by Coleman C. Claherty, chief A. F. of L. rubber organizer and head of the three rubberworkers’ locals. Mr. Claherty said he would make no “appeal” to President Roosevelt, but that if the President wished a confeience on the Akron situation fie would attend. “Whatever we do will be satisfactory to the workers of Akron,” Mr. Claherty told a mass meeting of the three rubber local sbefore he left. Meanwhile, the companies and labor were entrenched for the walkout that seemed inevitable. Barbed wire entanglements and machine guns were on the companies’ front. Inside their giant factories they stored foodstuffs and cots The unions were prepared to mess men on picket lines from mobile kitchens. Only unionization is involved in the dispute, wage scales, at present, are not concerned.

GIRL LOST AT MOVIES. FOUND ASLEEP IN CAR Brother Launches Search After Child Disappears in Lobby. Eight-year-old Beverly Schmitz went to the Parker theater last night with her 15-year-old brother, Robert, and at 10:30, when the show let out, Robert stopped in the lobby to unlock his bicycle and Beverly disappeared. All efforts of Robert, her father, William of 1218 N. Dearborn-st. and police were unavailing and the child was thought to be lost. At 2:15 a. m. Beverly was found asleep in a car parked in front of the theater. Legion to Hold Card Party Service Post No. 128, American Legion, will hold a public benefit euchre and bridge party in Legion Hall in Oaklandon at 8 tonight. The committee in charge includes Bradford B. Evans, Faras H. Day, Jesse S. Combs, Mrs. Alta Lawson, Mrs. Marie Mohler and Mrs. Bina Talmadge.

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Twins separated since a short time after birth, when both their parents died, are reunited in Cincinnati after 25 years. Henry E. Walter and his sister, now Mrs. Milton Rose, of Cleveland, 0., smile their joy over meeting again, after Walter had searched for four years through humane society files for the name of his sister. They had been adopted by different families.

FOUR FINED DN FOODMARGES City Market Quartet Admits Using Sulphide in Hamburgei. Four butchers with stands in the city market were fined iiG and suspended costs each today by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell. for using sulphides in the adulteration of hamburger. The butchers were Robert W. Wurster. stand No. 291; Louis Essig. stand No. 307; Karl W. Klamm. stand Nos. 288 and 229, and Emil C. Vorrath, stand No. 283. All four p}eaded guilty to the charge preferred by J. R. Dunwoodie, city chemist. Essig, manager of the stand which is owned by Sam Davis, stated that his'employer knew nothing of his food adulteration, although he had been in Mr. Davis’ employ 30 years.

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WAREHOUSING ACT IS 'DUD/ STATE FEARS Failure of Bill to Provide Fund-Raising Powers May Be Costly. Scores of deserving Democrats probably will not get jobs and Indiana farmers probably will not get the relief they anticipated in passage of the grain warehousing act in the recent session of the General Assembly. The warehousing act. sponsored by Rep Carl G Wood. Indianapolis, provided for licensing and state supervision of grain warehouses m which Indiana farmers could store their grain without resorting to long freight hauls to other states. The measure, passed with an emergency clause, so it could take effect immediately, was to enable farmers to enter into contracts with the Federal government. The government required storage of the contract grain in supervised warehouses and since few in Indiana qualified, the contracting farmer was faced with a big freight bill in addition to storage charges. There's Job Angle, Too Too. there was the angle cf jobs for deserving Democrats and there are a lot of party workers who have not yet been rewarded with patronage. The act provides for appointment of inspectors, clerks and other assistants who would work under the Department of Commerce and Industry. The license fee for the ap> proximately 100 warehouses that could qualify is $lO. It was assumed that the Department of Commerce and Industry would be able to charge in addition, enough to pay for operating of the law, but it was learned today that Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. has ruled that all the department can collect is the $lO warehouse license fee. Can't Pay Expenses The sum of SIOOO for initial expense was appropriated in the bill, but it was specified that this SIOOO must be repaid the state general fund from receipts. Thus, the department is faced with the fact that revenues will be only SIOOO a.id that will not pay administration expenses. That's the reason scores of deserving Democrats probably will not get jobs and Indiana farmers probably will not get relief. > STATE CONVICT ESCAPES Young Prisoner Brvaks Away From Guards at Hammond. Bp United Press HAMMOND. Ind., April 12. William Lamb, 21, state prison convict, escaped from guards at a railway station yesterday after testifying for the state in a trial at Crown Point. Lamb is unler sentence to 25 years on a robbery charge.