Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1935 — Page 3

MAY 1, 1935

CALM REIGNS AS MAY DAY IS OBSERVED

Few Disturbances Reported as Left-Wingers Demonstrate. (Continued From Page One) and we do not propose to renounce our honor among nations." Hitler ended his speech with three j ‘'hells" that rang thrughout Ger-' many. In one specific reference to domestic problems, he said that unemployment had decreased from 6.000,000 to 2,000.000 persons and that thus year the Nazis would at- ' tack the remaining problem. Hitler was bareheaded, and hisj voice became exceptionally hoarse In his 26-minute speech in the snowfilled air. Soon after he stopped the sun came out. It was noticeable that the applause was almost entirely from the men in the uniformed lormations on the field rather than from the mass of spectators. The crowd seemed as cool as the weather. Bombs, Bullets Flv • Copyright. 1935. bv United Press) PARIS, May I.—Pistols, bombs and flying fists in three countries marked May Day observances by Europe's left wing workers today. Nine deaths, and injuries to i miany, were reported even before the ! bii.k of the demonstrations began in a j dozen countries—all under the giins of massed policemen and soldjfers. ; Three policemen and five Comntiunists w r ere reported killed and 10 Communists wounded in a riot in the Bulgarian village of Enino. A policeman died here of wounds received in a riot in the Communist suburbs of part of Paris’ "red wing" from which trouble was expected later today. Andre Fargeas was killed, another policeman and six civilians were wounded when 300 policemen intervened at a riot. Communists leaving a late meeting in preparation for Sunday’s municipal elections tried to break up a rival meeting. Police found 50 pistols and knives in the Communists’ hall. Nazis Defy Austria By Unite* Press VIENNA, May 1. —Nazis defied the government today by sending seven j automobiles racing through the streets of working districts with handbills, which were thrown by hundreds into the streets. They made their sortie despite police precautions against May Day demonstrations by Socialists, Communists and Nazis. The hand bills denounced "the infamous government with its degenerated aristocrats, financiers, JJerry,w r ry, Godless priests, generals, and Hapsburg scum.” In conclusion, the bills said: “The Austrian nation wants to join Hitler.” Tw r o men and two girls were wounded at an early morning political meeting by an infernal machine, believed to have been a communist answer to government suppression. Chicago Jobless Parade Bv t nited Press CHICAGO, May I.—Police squad ears laden with tear gas bombs patrolled the route of a May Day parade today as jobless men and w'omen prepared to march on the Loop in protest of a state-wide closing of relief depots. Nearly 700 uniformed police were called out to guard against disorders arising from a crisis precipitated w-hen Federal Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins shut off all FERA funds to the state. Mr. Hopkins’ order, which withstood a direct appeal to President Roosevelt by Gov. Henry Horner, forced wholesale closings of relief stations supplying food to 1,200,000 indigents. The administrator based his drastic action on the failure of the Illinois Legislature to provide $3,000,000 a month to supplement Federal relief money on a l-to-3 ratio. The May Day marchers, converging on the Loop from two sections of the city, had official permission for a demonstrat.on in Grant Park along the Michigan-blvd lake fropt:: With relief stations in 53 of the state's 102 counties padlocked and other counties skimping food orders from meager remaining funds, officials of the Illinois Emergency Relief Commission said the situation would be become "really crucial" by the end of the week. Russia Shows Strength By I nited J’reti MOSCOW. May I.—Soviet Russia flung a sample of its military and aerial might across Red Square today in the most impressive May Day demonstration in recent years. A fleet of 660 airplanes droned over the parade at noon. They ranged from a giant Maxim Gorky —the world's largest lard plane—and four-motored, sinister-looking bombers down to a squadron of new, Si nerspeed attack planes. Lewis Opens Law Office Walter O. Lewis, former secretary of the City Safety Board, has opened law office at 429-430 Lemcke Building, he announced today. Mr. Lewis was board secretary under the administration of former Mayor Reginald Sullivanfl

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Navy Commander, Visiting in City, Gives Views of Japanese. The Japanese, when questioned about Japan's seizure of Manchukuo, reply blandly that it is exactly ! the same situation as when the United States annexed Mexican territory to form Texas, Commander Morton willcutts, U. S. N., wffio is visiting here with his brother, Ear- i rison Willcutts, said today. Commander Willcutts, one-time interne at City Hospital, arrived here this W'eek after three years’ service with the American legation in China. He leaves Saturday for duty at the Naval Hospital in Washington. The naval physician was particularly optimistic over China's progress under the new regime and “new life philosophy,” w’hich he characterized as a modern adaptation of Confucius and Christianity. “China, as it becomes more modernized. will become a great market for United States products, particularly automobiles,” Commander Willcutts said. The danger of war in the Orient is greatly exaggerated, particularly since China is making gestures of friendly relations with Japan, he stated. THEFT SUSPECT NABBED S2OOO in Stolen Rings Found on Handyman, Tolice Say. Orb Karney, 632 E. St. Clair-st, was arrested late yesterday after 'police reported finding in his possession diamond rings valued at S2OOO reported taken from the home of Mrs. Lucille Williams, 733 Park-av. Karney had been repairing screens at Mrs. Williams’ home shortly before she discovered the loss of a pocketbook containing the rings and S7O in cash, police said. Karney was charged with vagrancy and held for further investigation. MOOSE INSTALL SLATE Samuel L. Montgomery Takes Tost of Dictator. Samuel L. Montgomery was installed as dictator of Lodge No. 17. Loyal Order of Moose, last night at the ceremony marking the lodge's twenty-eighth anniversary. William A. Anderson, supreme prelate, spoke at the initiation and installation at Moose hall. Other officers installed include Zenor Lanham, vice dictator; Arthur Gran f , prelate; George Walters, trustee, and M. R. Gray, treasurer.

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Capt. I. L. Kitts aboard “Directrix" is shown (upper) as they demonstrated the proper method of sliding dowrn a steep embankment. Both horse and rider will be a part of the show when the Indiana Saddle Horse Association presents the American Olympic equestrian teams at the Fairground Coliseum at 3 Sunday.

NABBED FOR SENDING LINDBERGH THREATS German Alien Charged With Mailing Death Note. By United Press PATERSON, N. J., May I.—Philip Martin, 46, a watchman in a Paterson silk mill, was arrested today, charged with having sent a letter to Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, threatening to kill him. Martin, a German alien, was described is "suffering from brainstorms,” and was believed to be irresponsible. His arrest, according to police, solves the mystery of two such letters received by Col. Lindbergh since March 19. His wife informed police that he had been brooding over the Lindbergh case, and that since the conviction of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. discussion of it had become almost a mania. POSTAL RECEIPTS GAIN 11.77 Per Cent Increase for April Is Reported Here, Receipts at the Indianapolis postoffice during the month of April ' showed a gain of 11.77 per cent over the same month last year, it was announced today by Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. The increase amounted to $36,324.05 over April, 1934. Total receipts for the year, however, are only $308,498.59 as compared with $344,823.15 at this time a year ago.

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CHILD HEALTH WEEK OBSERVANCE OPENS Programs Given by Schools as Feature. Child Health Week was celebrated today in Indianapolis with a large assortment of programs under the auspices of civic clubs, women’s organizations and the Marion County Medical Society. Parent-Teacher Associations w r ere entertained by playlets in many of the schools and heard talks on the general objective of the day—safeguarding health of children. immunization against children’s diseases is the central theme of the observance here, as it was scheduled by the medical society. Diphtheria is the particular target. ELECTION CHIEFS WIN COMPENSATION FIGHT Cox Orders County Council to Pay Commissioners $2500 Each. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox ruled this afternoon that the County Council must pay Othniel Hitch and Rae Potvell, county election commissioners $2500 each for services in conducting elections last year. The commissioners agreed on the $2500 sum, the plaintiffs charged, but the County Council cut the election allowance to SSOO for each commissioner. OPEN WALGREEN STORE Remodeled and Enlarged Unit Starts Business Activity. Fred W. Krueger, supervisor of Walgreen drugstore in Indiana, announced today the reopening of the enlarged and remodeled Walgreen store at Meridian and Ohio-sts. Floor space has been added by absorbing area formerly occupied by a typewriter agency.

STATE STUDY IS MADE ON DELINQUENT CHILD Average Delinquency Is 5.8 a Thousand, McCabe Shows. Indiana had a juvenile delinquency average of 5.8 children a 1000 in 1934, according to a summary of the State Probation Department work compiled by Francis McCabe, director. The highest incidence of juvenile delinquency was found, according to the summary, to be 14 for boys and 15 for girls. A total of 4744 juveniles were placed on probation during the year, either officially or unofficially, and only .02 per cent failed on probation and had to be committed to institutions. The department made 5071 preliminary investigations, 25.534 home visits and held 113,219 office interview's with probationers.

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NEW PIONEERS OFF TODAY FOR ALASKA HOMES

69 Mid-Western Families Hope to Find Security in Yukon Wilds. By United Pres* SAN FRANCISCO, May I.—Fleeing drought and dust, modern pilgrims seeking economic security rather than religious freedom, 69 Midwestern families, 287 individuals from bleak areas of Minnesota form the party which today sails for Alaska, there to colonize the fruitful Matanuska Valley. Johann Johnson, sturdy Swede farmer from St. Louis County, Minnesota, manifested their spirit and purpose. Mr. Johnson had a 50acre farm which was producing sufficient crops to give him, his wife and little son a comfortable living up to the summer of 1934. One day a windstorm swept through his com field and leveled the crop on which he depended largely to provide clothes, food and medical care. Besieged by Reverses The next day a sudden frost nipped his truck patch, making unfit for use the vegetables on wliich the Johnsons could have eked out a meager existence. The third day fire destroyed the little farmhouse. Reluctant to take aid from others, the farmer was forced to accept relief from the United States government. A month or so ago, he heard of a chance to start all over again, in a land many thousands of miles from the Minnesota acres he had broken to the plow. Mr. Johnson qualified, as did 300 other family heads chosen for their sturdiness, their pioneer background and their willingness to work. "I hate to leave the United States behind, but it’s for this little one that we’re tearing up our roots and transplanting them to Alaska," he said. New Town to Be Built Federal Emergency Relief officials, including the Alaska Rehabilitation Corp. and the Federal Transient Service, joined with the city, which ow'es its existence to the pioneers of 1849, to make the MidWesterners’ stay at pleasant one. Six days later they will be in Seward, Alaska. They will board trains there for Palmer, at present only a railroad station and a postoffice. At Palmer, assisted by single men sent there temporarily by the transient service and by the heads of the families who will follow from Michigan and Wisconsin May 15, the Minnesota group will clear the ground, lay out 40-acre farms, build their cabins and establish a town. Palmer, when they have finished, will have a community building, a motion picture theater, a canning factory, and stores. Federal authorities expect the colony to be well established and self-supporting within five years.

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Ray Addington Principal of Southport High School, Ray Addington, was less a target today for demotion to head of the history department and asistant principal, after Glenn Curtis, Martinsville High School principal and coach had turned down the offer of Leonard A Hohlt. Perry Township trustee, to head Southport next year.

BARES ILLEGAL SURGERY RING Probe ‘Shocks’ Governor: Philanthropic Doctor Is Held for Murder. By United Press ENID, Okla., May I.—The filing of murder charges against an elderly, philanthropic physician disclosed today an investigation into an alleged illegal operation ring which Gov. E. W. Marland denounced as "the worst I ever heard of.” The charges were placed against Dr. Guy B. Brewer, unmarried physician of Garber, Okla., who maintains three homes for Oklahoma A. & M. College students at Stillwater, one of which he calls "the house of purity.” Charges against Dr. Brewer were in connection with the death of Mrs. Victor Jones, 20. According to the complaint signed by her husband, an Enid store clerk. Mrs. Jones, mother of two small children, underwent an illegal operation April 3 and died eight days later. Gov. Marland said information obtained by his investigator constituted "one of the most fantastic, one of the most bizarre stories you ever heard.” "I’d rather not talk about the case,” he added. At Stillwater, Dr. Brewer was regarded as an altruistic old gentleman whise philanthropies had no strings attached. The “house of purity” is a twostory frame building on a treeshaded street where 20 seniors reside. In another house maintained by the doctor without cost to the occupants live 29 freshman boys. Seven girl students live in a third house.

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LEGION HONORS FRENCH HERO IN AERIAL ROUNDUP

M. Desbon Pleads Cause of Peace: First Planes Roar Into City. The cause ot world peace was upheld here today by Jean Desbon, Paris, France, international president of Didac. interallied organization of World War veterans, who said that veteran groups were among the leading forces for preserving peace. Monsieur Desbon arrived here to attend the American Legion aerial roundup ceremonies at Municipal Airport this afternoon and tonight at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. "I and other Fidac officials have conferred with German veterans organizations to bring about closer understanding and avoid war. There is a great need for union and cohesion of veterans to work for the cause of peace.” the distinguished former war aviator said. handsome, tall figure, speaking almost entirely in French, Monsieur Desbon was welcontel by the Rev. Robert J. White, American vice president of Fidac. and by Legion officers. Distinguished War Record Monsieur Desbon was a major in the French air force during the war. was captured and escaped from German forces and was decorated for an attempt to bomb the Kaiser’s field base. First section of 0 swift airplanes piloted by some of the nation’s most famed aviators winged into Municipal Airport this afternoon from all corners of the United States. They were laden with more than 50.000 American Legion membership cards which were relayed to national headquarters by auto. Asa tribute to the city each plane, before landing, dipped over the downtown business district. Belgrano Greets Fliers The planes were scheduled to land at intervals between 12:30 and 4 this afternoon. Incoming planes were met by Commander Frank N. Belgrano Jr., and members of the national executive committee. Among the distinguished aviation officials who will attend the banquet tonight are Gen. Frank M. Andrews. commanding officer, general headquarters air force, Langley Field. Va.; C. R. Smith. Chicago, president of American Air Lines; David Ingalls, Cleveland, former assistant secretary of the Navy, and Major Jeck Berry. Cleveland Municipal Airport superintendent. Mayor John W. Kern will deliver the address of welcome. POl SO N ~ KILLS W 0 MAN Estranged Wife of Advance (Ind.) Man Ends Her Life. Leaving a note for her children, Mrs. Lottie Groover, 545 Exeter-av, estranged wife of Frank M. Groover. Advance, ended her life today by taking poison. Her daughter-in-law. Mrs. Gertrude Neff, detected the odor of the poison and administered an antidote, but was unable to save her life. Mrs. Groover had been separated from her husband a year.