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CALM REIGNS AS MAY DAY IS OBSERYED Minor Outbreaks Reported in Europe as Radicals Celebrate. CHICAGO POLICE READY Left-Wingers Gather at City Park Under Eyes of Police. B* I nitfiJ Pr May Day was celebrated around 11 the world today with extensive labor kj>nd Communist demonstrations, outbreaks witn nine casual-di<-ie occurred in Paris and Vienna 1 *ut. disturbances up to mid-after-pinoon in Europe were at a mimimum. ' The mast impressive demonstration was in Moscow, where there was a great military display, including 660 airplane l -, 500 tanks and heavy ariillery. In Berlin. Adolf Hitler proclaimed Germany's strengtn and her "honor among nations" in an address to 600,000. In Chicago, police lined the route of march of unemployed men and women demonstrating against a threatened curtailment of relief. In New York, heavy police detachments were detailed to guard Socialist and Communist demonstrations. Violence was feared. Some difficulty was anticipated in several other American cities. Left-wingers of Indianapolis were . ' heduled to meet at 4:10 today in Military Park to contribute their part, to the world demonstration. Their efforts to interest he labor unions in the demonstration were futile. They will demonstrate with police permission and under police supervision. Hitler Listeners Cool Fy I nitrd Pre** BERLIN. May I.—Adolf Hitler, in two speeches to his Nazis, sounded tiie keynote of revitalized Germany today with an exhortation for national unitv and strength, coupled with a plea for peace. His impassioned voire, directed first at a mass meeting of 270.0C0 Nazi youth at the Lusthall and then to uncounted hundreds of thousands of Nazis at Templrhof Airdrome., called for a Germany that could hold up its head. Perhaps because of the delirary of the arms crisis, intensified beyond calculation by the revelation of German submarine construction, he did not touch on international political issues. But he roused his hearers, who heard him at the Lustgarten, the airdrome, by loud speakers at puolic places and by radio in homes, lo frenzy with the oratory that carried him from a Munich beer cellar to national dictatorship. Warns of Slnrm Clouds ‘As the wind now flies our flags around us.” he said at the Lustgarten meeting, “it may a few years hence gather storm clouds around us. But you will not be frightened. ‘Your determination to guard Germany's future recalls the old days of the great Reich which you do not know’ of your own experience. ‘ Our first task has been o establish strong administration in in the interior; our next to make Germany strong toward the external world. “Asa greet you I greet a Germany of honor and freedom, a Germany of peace but also of courage.” The thousands at Tempelhof stood with coat collars upturned, stamping their feet in the snowy cold. Emphasizes Solidarity Mfv Day to the Nazis has become an annual occasion for reporting on the government's accomplishments and aims, and Hitler started his third May Day speech by recalling the one that preceded the Nail regime. Then, he said, there was political strife and: The Reich was the toy of foreign whims—at the mercy even of small nations." Here he emphasized the importance of national solidarity. “It is the world's misfortune.” he said, “that statesmen often forget that power can not lie in a moments. Rather it lies in the beliefs and ideals of peoples.” "We Do Not Want War" "We say to other peoples: You need not fear that we want anything from you—we have more than you could offer us. We have a unified German people.” he added. "We do not want war. Just as we restored peace in the nation we seek peace in the world. "However, we never have renounced our honor in the nation (Turn to Page Three) TRAIN RAMS TRUCK: 3 ESCAPE UNHARMED Machine Is Ripped in Two by Freight Engine. A Big Four freight tram this afternoon struck a truck at the Belt Railroad and Harding-st crossing, cut off the rear end. and left three passengers unharmed in the front seat. Those who escaped injury are William Carter. 62. of 556 Coffey-st; John 'White, 35. of 657 Coffev-st. and his wife. Orpha. 26. Civic League Meets Tomorrow Community problems will be discussed at the Wayne Township Civic League meeting at 7 30 tomorrow night at 3825 W Washingtonst. William 8. Vornkamp will preside.

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VOLUME 47—NUMBER 44

Teachers Are Voted Pay Raise

5.5 Per Cent Hike to Be Given City Educators by Board. The situation of the Indianapolis public school teachers, notoriously underpaid since 1932, was relieved last night as the Board of School Commissioners voted without dissent. to restore 5.5 per cent of the 11 per cent wage cut adopted by the I board since 1932. The reductions are based upon the i 1927 wage schedule which was i amended toward reduction in 1932 as the effects of the depression began to be felt on the school city finances. In addition, the Indiana Legisla- ! ture levied a sliding wage cut of from 4 to 26 per cent iti 1932 on teachers' salaries. Action taken by the board in 1932 to suspend all automatic salary increases was not ; changed by the board last night. The new’ salary schedule will be placed in effect at the September | school term. The board gave three reasons for the salary increase—increased cost of living, salaries of Indianapolis teachers are 9 per cent below the national average, and a general i trend throughout the nation toward restoring pay cuts to teachers. The salary action will benefit especially a group of young teachers with one to four years’ experience who w’ere receiving from SIOOO to $llBO a year. All teachers with ex(Tiirn to Page Ten) FIRST U-BOAT READY SHORTLY Construction Order Given Last Christmas, London Is Informed. By United Frrti < LONDON, May I.—lntensive rearmament preparations in Germany | will result in completion of the Reich's first submarine—in defiance of the Versailles Treaty—probably within six months. Sir Bolton EyresMonsell, first lord of the admiralty, ; rold the House of Commons today, t Sir Bolton, describing the German i preparations, said that on April 26 German authorities notified the j British naval attache that the order to manufacture 12 250-ton submarines had been given last Christmas. The order to construct the hulls and assemble parts was given in mid-April. The sea lord said the admiralty ‘ was without information on the al- , leged reopening of the submarine school at Kiel. 44 Fishermen Feared Lost j 1 ni,r>l n,r ** NEMURO. Japan. May I.—A fieree storm off the Island of Hokkaido was feared to have trapped i and sunk eight fishing boats whose j crew’s total 44 seamen. Steam trawlers spread over a wide area I in an attempt to sight the distressed : fishermen.

Drunken Driver Suspect Captured After Crash South Side Man Caught in Woods Near Accident Scene: Running on Wrong Side of Street, Is Claim. Captured early today by deputy sheriffs as he is alleged to have attempted to flee through a woods following a traffic accident, Thomas Norman. 37. of 2850 S. Meridian-st, faces charges of resisting an officer, leaving the scene of an accident and intoxication.

Mr. Norman, driving on the wrong j side of Madison-av Just south of Troy-av, deputy sheriffs said, struck ! head-on a car driven by Colon E Childress, 28, of 338 Prospeet-st, I Apt, 28. Mr. Childress' wife, Mrs. Gertrude Childress, 24. a passenger, was sent to City Hospital suffering from serious body injuries. Deputy sheriffs said that. Mr. Norman leaped from his car and ran into the nearby woods, where he later was captured. Four persons were injured early today when a party oi :nerry-mak-ing motorists smashed into an auto driven by Deputy Sheriff Edward C. Kassenbrock, 35. of 52 E. Orangest. and then careened into a cement porch at 2211 Southeastern-av. 1 The injured. Miss Mary Medlin. 21. Linden Hotel: Miss Margaret Blaire, 27. of 2036 N. Delaware-st; j Forest Williamson. 42. of 31 W. 13thst, and Gerald Fender. 25. of 3345 j Roosevelt-av, were treated at City Hospital and taken to jail. All. with the exception of Miss Medlin. were held on intoxication charges. Miss Medlin was charged J with drunken driving” and no driver's j license. The cases were continued today until May 9. Harvey Smith. 25. Negro. 2523 Highland-pi. suffered a broken leg last night when he stumbled upon alighting from a trackless trolley at Fall Creek-blvd and Northwesternav and fell beneath the wheels of the trolley. Witnesses said that Mr. j Smith had been drinking. Police spurred their drive on erring motorists during the last 24 hours. Fifty were arrested in that period. Twenty-two were convicted in the two municipal courts yesteroay and 19 today. Two persons were injured last night when the auto in which they were ; riding crashed into a safety zone guard at Senate-av and Washing-ton-st. They are A A. Hooper. 41. Crawfordsville. and Mrs. Elsie McCoy. 41, of 2425 N. Alabama-st. Both i

RISE IN MILK PRICES HERE IS PROBABLE Agreement to Be Filed With State Control Board in x Next Few Days. GRADED SYSTEM LIKELY Farmer's Share Now Compares Well With Other Areas, Assertion. The price of milk to the Indianapolis consumer probably will be raised under an agreement, between producers, distributors and brokers to be filed within a day or tw’o with the State Milk Control Board for its approval. Milk now is 10 cents a quart, which compares favorably with prices in other sections. Although no member of the board, which has been deliberating on the agreement for the last week, would make any statement whatever on the probable price after the agreement if approved and put into operation as provided in the 1935 Indiana milk act, all indications pointed to the probability of an increase. National price indices show a general increase in the prices of farm products, an advance that outstrips the advances in prices of other classes of commodities. This, coupled with other conditions peculiar to the Indianapolis milk situation and somew’hat growing out of the arbitration of last fall's milk war here, make the indication inescapable. It was intimated by persons close to the negotiations, too, that the system of paying the producers for milk w’ill be changed from a flat price, as it now’ is and has been since the fall milk w*ar, to a system of grade milk as nearly every other city and milkshed in the country has. The prices now paid the farmer compare w’ell enough with the prices paid in other milksheds. The last report, of the National Co-operative Milk Producers Federation, in Washington, of milk prices to farmers and consumers from all population centers in the country, released April 12 and covering the month of March reads, in part,: Quart rrirr raid Price to TenCity. Farmer st’.mer Indiana pnli* Sl.fil'-i ,10 Clarksburg I.Rfi ,10 Davenport 1.29 to 1.84 .10 St. Paul 1.14 .10 St. Joseph. Mo 1.53 .10 Evansville I.SO .09*4 Oklahoma (price wart.. 1.33 .01 Lo* Angeles 2.01 .12 l/ouisvllle 2.C0 .12 Atlanta 2.20 .14 Charleston, W. Va. ... 2.53 ,li Detroit 2.13 .12 Boston 2 53 .13 Those cities are picked at random from the report. Launches Tugwell Relief Task Ft/ l tiitrd Prrgg WASHINGTON. May I.—President Roosevelt this afternoon started Rexford Guy Tugwell on his phase of the gigantic works-relief program by signing three executive orders that, set up the re-settle-ment administration.

were sent to City Hospital. The driver. Joseph Long, 38, of 2138 N. Delaware-st, w’as charged wtih failure to have a driver's license. Joe A. Campenell, 34. w’ho was found asleep in his parked and damaged car early today, told Municipal Judge Charles Karabell that he was en route to Chicago to take examinations for a position as a fingerprint expert. A fine on intoxication charges was suspended. Traffic Cap:.. Lewis Johnson announced today that police squads would center their attention today on apprehending ‘‘road hogs" and rhose whe make improper left and right turns on four-lane streets.

Glenn Curtis First a Principal and Then Coach of Basketball, Martinsville’s Retort to Indiana

BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer MARTINSVILLE, Ind., May I. As principal of Martinsville High School. Glenn Curtis administers successfully a plant and staff that teaches more than 800 pupils at nearly the lowest per capita cost in the state. As principal, in the last three or four years, during which the school has been seriously beset by financial difficulties, lie has assisted in so managing the funds available that there was no loss of time and a minimum curtailment of school activities. As coach, he has won three state basketball championships for the school and derived therefrom a lop-sided "headline'’ fame. To Mr. Curtis himself, the duties of his principalship are much more important and serious than his duties as coach. Mr, Curtis, who has announced

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935

GIRL SCOUT COOKIES VERY TASTY INDEED. MAYOR KERN DISCOVERS

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Left to Right—Joan Buschmann, Mayor John W. Kern and Marjorie Rosehrock, The broad smile on Mayor John W. Kern’s face shows that he finds Girl Scout cookies are very tasty, indeed. Joan Buschmann. Troop 20. and Marjorie Rosebrock. Troop 46, w’ere the persuasive salesgirls who sold Mayor Kern the first dozen cookies to be delivered in connection with Girl Scout Cookie Day. Saturday. More than 28,000 dozen orders have been received. Proceeds will be used to finance Camp Dellwood, summer Girl Scout, headquarters.

COAST CRIPPLE FIRST AT SPEEDWAY; RACED HERE ON WHEELCHAIR

The annual race to be first in line for opening of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway gates at dawn May 30 today was won by Norman A. Tapper, 23, cripple, who drove the 2300 miles from Los Angeles in a powered wheel chair. Undauted by the prospects of his month-long wait, he expects to hold his position, regarcWess of j w’eather conditions. Mr. Tapper left Las Angeles j March 5 and arrived in the city Sunday. His vehicle, termed by him "the fastest wheel chair invented.” was stolen in Denver, Colo., but later was recovered by police. An ardent fan at the Ascot I race track near Las Angeles, Mr. | Tapper has been planning this I trip for a veai-. It is his first S Speedway race visit. FROST SKIPS STATEi CROPS ARE HELPED Wet Spell Is Forecast by Weather Bureau. Cloudy .skies scudding swiftly eastward from the far West, saved Indiana from a damaging frost last | night and further increased the I state's hopes for a bumper crop. J. | H. Armington. Federal meteorologist, 1 reported today. Although frost was reported In I states surrounding Indiana, heavy skies, which are expected to bring rain throughout Indiana today and tomorrow, kept the frost from materializing in this state. The temperature will rise slowly during the next 24 hours, Mr. Armington said.

that he will not sign a contract tnat. would have taken him to Southport High School next year as principal, pointed out today that ne does not run his school as a basketball plant, no matter what implication was given in the current battle at Southport over the doings of Leonard A. Hohlt, Peerry Township Trustee. "We have no special emphasis on basketball here,” Mr. Curtis said as he led the way to the school's trophy case. "You will find in here medals won by students in statewide typewriting contests, orchestra and band conte i track, and in many other lines. "I look upon contests as the true test of good teaching, and good work on the part of the pupils. We have the state champion typist here, and we are just as proud of that achievement as we were last year when our team won the basketball championship. It's a sign of excellence and we feel that it shows our methods are right and our work worthwhile. ni.

FIND CLEW TO STOLL KIDNAPER j Nab Memphis Man Claiming to Know Whereabouts of Robinson. By United Pre*t> MEMPHIS. Tenn.. May I.—Police said today they had information i W. O. Cook. 24. held here without I charges, had been trying to obtain SBOO from Berry V. Stoll, wealthy j Louisville <K.v.) oil man. for reveal- j ing whereabouts of Thomas H. i Robinson Jr., fugitive kidnaper of Mr. Stoll's wife. Police said they found a letter from Mr. Stoll on Cook when they arrested him at a hotel here last night. The letter contained information indicating Cook was attempting to extort SBOO from the Louisville oil magnate, they said. Cook, w’ho has a court record here for forgery, teas held without charges while police and postal authorities questioned him. GIRL. 6, FOUND SLAIN: SUSPECT DENIES GUILT Child’s Body Found a< Bottom of Elevator Shaft. By United Prem | NEW YORK. May I.—Frank ' | Flynn. 39. confessed slayer of Mar- ! garet Parlatto, 6. ivhose body was j found at the bottom of a dumbi waiter shaft, pleaded not guilty to ! the murder at his arraignment this , afternoon on a short affidavit. Magistrate Adolph Stern in Long Island City Court adjourned the hearing until May 8 at the request of j i Flynn's attorneys. Dist Atty. Charles j P. Sullivan said he exnected an in- ! i dictment against Flynn before that! i time. i

"We have regularly played intramural games in the following classes: Basketball, softball, volleyball, track, tennis, ping-pong, handball, shuffleboard, croquet, crosscountry, checkers, golf driving and others. "We do not now, and never have, seen that our good basketball players are coddled along on grades. They sink or swim on their own scholarship. And that's that. "I do not want the impression to get out that I am first a cftach and then, if I have anything left on the ball, a principal. That is not true. I am first a principal and then, because of economic reasons which make impossible the hiring of a coach. I am a coach ” M. S. Mahan, Martinsville school superintendent, stated that Mr. Curtis is the best administrator he ever had in the position of principal and branded as highly erroneous the impression that might be drawn that Mr Curtis was made principal as well as coach so that he could draw

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SENATE COMMITTEE ASKS NRA EXTENSION UNTIL APRIL 1, 1936

By United Prat WASHINGTON May I.—The Senate Finance Committee this afternoon decided to report to 'he Senate a joint resolution extending the NRA until April 1, 1936. The joint resolution w’hich the committee intends to report will contain three specific provisions, as follow’s: 1. No price fixing shall be permitted under any code except in those of mineral natural resources which now have price fixing provisions. 2. That no trade engaged wholly in intrastate commerce shall be eligible for a code. 3: It will give to the President a certain number of days in which to review present codes with a view to approving them and carrying out. the price-fixing and intrastate exceptions. Roosevelt Indorses Coal Drive By l nitrd Pres* WASHINGTON. May I.—President Roosevelt today indorsed the aim of stabilization of the coal industry, but declined to commit himself on the Guffey bill for special Federal regulation of the industry.

Times Squadron Awaits Initial Contest Saturday Seripps-Howard Junior Aviators Prepare Flying Models for Transcontinental Derby Elimination. With the announcement yesterday of the tw’o-day all-expense-paid trip for the winners of next Saturday's contest at Stout Field, members of The Indianapolis Times Squadron of The Seripps-Howard Junior Aviation are busy this week "tuning up” their planes for the event.

two salaries and thus be retained. Mr. Mahan said that Mr. Curtis’ work as principal had been enormously complicated by the depression and lack of funds, but that even so he has managed to include in the curriculum many manual classes, such as electricity, concrete working, carpentery and woodwork, auto mechanics, printing, the study of fabrics and agriculture. These classes are maintained. Mr. Mahan said, on the theory that every boy and girl should be given a chance in school to find some bent, some talent that a purely classical curriculum would not touch. Figures compiled from of high schools in communities of comparable size show, Mr. Mahan said, that the per pupil cost at Martinsville last year was SB4 11 while that of other comparable schools range as high as $110.93. At the same time, he said, teacher's salaries there are above the average in the same schools.

SOUTHPORT H. S. COSTS TOO HIGH, HOHLT ASSERTS Per Capita Cost of Educating; High School Pupils Is Silo, Claims Trustee; Martinsville Figure Quoted at $64.11. DISAPPOINTED BY CURTIS’ REFUSAL Finds Predecessor in Office Appropriated Far Less for 1935 Than Operation Cost in 1934, He Declares. In the *bitter disappointment of the refusal of Glenn Curtis, Martinsville High School principal, to accept the position of Southport principal next year, Leonard A. Hohlt, Perry Township Trustee, today, for the first time since the Southport furor began, made a clear public statement of his position. Heretofore evasive and vague about what he intended to do with the Perry Township schools, Mr. Hohlt today told The Indianapolis Times that his real reason for wanting Mr, Curtis as principal and Ray Addington, present principal, as assistant principal and history teacher, lies mostly in what he describes as the woeful state of school finances.

M'SWAIN TAKES REBUKE BLAME House Military Committee Head Regrets Paring of Army Secrets. ! By United Pren, WASHINGTON. May I.—Chairj man John J. McSwain of the House Military Affairs Committee, which was rebuked yesterday by President i Roosevelt for the committee's pubi lication of secret hearing testimony : on war plans, said this afternoon he j would assume -‘full responsibility.” "I heartily and sincerely concur with the President,” Mr. MrSwatn said, "in desire to live up to letter , and spirit of any treaty we may have H’ith Great Britain, Canada or any other nation and our Army and Navy are entirely and solely for defense and never for aggression, j "There are and have been for 100 ! years forts along the Canadian I | frontier and they never have been i recognized as hostile to Canada any j more than French forts along the Belgian frontier are hostile to Beli gium. They are merely placed as ! a defense against any foreign na- ! tion that may come through Bel- | gium. "The committee is in no way rej sponsible." Mr. McSwain said. "I assume full responsibility for what | happens through clerks in my office.” He said he had not as yet deter- ! mined exactly how the testimony leaked into published hearings. The testimony included plans of a "camouflaged” air base near the > Canadian border, given by Brig. I Gen. Charles Kilbourne at an ex- | ecutive session of the committee. : TODAY’S WEATHER Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 44 10 a. m 49 7 a. m 46 11 a. m 50 Ba. m 47 12 (noon).. 51 9a. m 48 Ip. m 50 Tomorrow's sunrise, 4:44 a. m.; sunset. 6:40 p. m

Two contests wall be staged, one for Outdoor Commercial models and one for Outdoor Stick models, and the winners in each event will represent Indianapolis in the Transcontinental Derby to be staged by The Scripps-Howard organization. Three flights will be allowed each entrant, and it Is expected that during the course of the event many long-standing records will be broken. The two-dav vacation will take the top pair to Kenyon College at Gambier, 0., on May 25 and 28, where entertainment will be furnished at the college and at the Kenyon Airport. During the visit, The Times members will be afforded a chance to vie with elimination winners from Cincinnati. Toledo. Columbus, Akron, Youngstown and Pittsburgh in a model contest. A silver cup *->as been offered by the college for the winner of this affair. No advance entry for Saturday's contest need be made, as all Times members who report at the seen-, of the eliminations by 10 o'clock Saturday morning will be eligible.

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Sitting- in his cubicle office on Madison-av and surrounded by smirking hangerson who attempted to lay down a screen of irrelevancy until he finally became serious and silenced them, Mr. Hohlt told his side of the story. “When I took offiee Jan. 7,” he said. “I found that there was $32,112.25 in the tuition fund for teachers’ salaries for the remainder of the school year, and I found that salaries that would be owed them at the end of the school year amounted to $56,350. ‘‘l found that the special school fund out. of which janitors and bus drivers are paid contained only $0867,04. whereas there would be owing by the end of the year $23,45C. Assails Appropriations "Looking further into the situation, I found that whereas Oral j Green, my predecessor, had spent in 1934 the sum of $3775 for school supplies, he had. after he was defeated in the primaries and before ihe left office, appropriated only $2200 to the same fund for my ad- ! ministration in 1935. I "Whereas he spent $1620.14 for janitor’s supplies in 1934 he appro- ! priated for me in 1935 only $1000; Ihe spent $5616.70 for repairs on buildings and care of grounds, and appropriated only SISOO for me; for j transportation of pupils he spent | $20,456.05 and appropriated $18,433 I for me; he spent $1627.60 for lighr, and power and appropriated only j SISOO for me. And all this was done in spite of the fact that 1934 was an eight-month school year, and , 1935 nine months. "I found out also that there are |7B teachers in our schools. The I state gross income tax pays S4OO 1 annually to the salary of each | teacher for which there are an av- | erage of 35 pupils in daily attend- | ance. The class load is so light in j our schools that only 67 of our i teachers qualify for the gross m- ’ come tax payment. "Now. then, as nearly as I can compute from the records here, the per capita cost of educating Southport High School pupils is slls annually. That is too high. Martinsville Cost Low "Knowing that I had to do something about cutting costs without impairing the standards of the school, and if possible improving them. I looked about the state for a man who had the experience to do it. I found that the per capita annual cost of educating Martinsville High School pupils was $64.11, one of the lowest in the state, and I went to see Mr. Curtis. "I satisfied myself that Mr. Curtis was responsible for the administration of Martinsville and I soon realized that Martinsville, in addition to being more economically administered. offers courses Southport doesn’t, and by and large has better qualified teachers. "So I returned and offered Mr. Addington the position of head of the history department, for whicn position he is eminently qualified, and told him that in that position he would receive $250 a month, instead of the $325 a month he now gets. "I was determined to get Mr. Curtis and I’m disappointed that he won't come. It would have been a fine thing for Southport. I blame the whole thing on politics. "Last Thursday night a group of perso'is. 33 to be exact, met me in this office and demanded that I leave Mr. Addington where he is and made other demands. There were eight families with members in schools represented in the group. (Turn to Page Ten) Times Index Auto News. 11 Bridge 8 Broun 13 Comics 19 Crossword Puzzle 19 Curious World 13 Editorial 14 Financial 15 Hickman—Theaters 4 Junior Aviation 5 Let’s Go Fishing 17 Pegler *. 13 Radio . 7 Sports 16*17 Stamps 9 State News 6 Woman’s Pages 8-9