Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 234, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1935 — Page 1

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HIGH COURT DENIES BRUNO'S PLEA

CRITICS LASHED BY F. D. R. IN FARM ADDRESS

F. D. R. Charges Critics Are Playing Cities Against Rural Sections. blasts away at foes Makes Spirited Defense of New Treaty With Canada. By I nitrd Pr< ** CHICAGO, Dor. 9.—President Roosevelt left at 12:44 p. m. (Indianapolis time) today for South Bend, Ind. (Complete Text on Page I) tty f hitnl Pn hh CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—President Roosevelt charged today that his political opponents—depression profiteers he called them—seek to wreck the recovery program by playing city against farm. Speaking to 18,000 at the annual convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation the chief executive employed militant language reminiscent of Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. He hurled defiance at his critics, calling them dispensers of discord and calamity howlers. Amid cheers of the delegates he summed up Administration accomplishments and pointed to the agricultural record to justify measures taken to aid the farmer. Defends New Treaty He pointed to higher farm purchasing power, defended the new Canadian reciprocal trade agreement, and asserted that “although prices for farm products show many increases over depression lows, the farm program instead of burdening consumers as a group, has actually given them benefits.’' His speech marked the second time in a little more than a week that he rallied to lash out savagely against his foes. In this attack he was even more vitriolic than heretofore as he declared that benefits to the American farmer were opposed "chiefly by the few who profited heavily from the depression.” “It is they and their henchmen who are doing their besi to foment city people against the farmers and the farm program,” he said. The crowd broke into cheers as the President reminded them that "farm prosperity can not exist without city prosperity, and city prosperity can not exist without farm prosperity.” Crowd Listons Intently As he proceeded the crowd, however, listened seriously in what appeared to be a studious silence. This was especially true, it seemed, as he reviewed the plight of the farmer during the depression years. The audience roared with approval. however, as Mr. Roosevelt in tracing the development of his agricultural program added: "It was inevitable, too. that, time had to elapse before results were fully felt. When the many ecus of our economic life were dying for lack of the blood of purchasing power, it took time, after fear had begun to subside, for new. vital purchasing power to be diffused once more. But that life is coming back —buoyant, happv life—we need no evidence beyond what we .see and hear around us.” The President pounded on the speaker’s desk with a fist sunburned by the Georgia sun as he drove home his words. "Whose Baby Has Measles” In pointing to the growth of farm purchasing power and its effect on industrial life. Mr. Roosevelt departed from his prepared text to observe: "And let me assure you, you are not the only people who understand this, the city people are beginning to understand it too.” Again digressing from the text while blasting away at profiteers of the deprescion, he said “but that kind of stuff does not get very far in the United States." A roar of laughter went up as Mr. Roosevelt, assailing his objectors, smilingly remarked: “It all depends on whose baby has the measles.” Roosevelt Visits City En route to Chicago to address the American Farm Bureau Federation convention. President Roosevelt passed through Indianapolis shortly before 8 this morning on a Big Four special train. Aside from railroad officials, few' persons knew of the routing of the train, and there was no official greeting. New Zealand Volcano Erupts By l nitrd Prrss WELLINGTON. N. Z, Dec. 9.The volcano Niuaioou erupted violently today. Lava was flowing slowly toward the sea in a stream to miles ide. Threatened villages ere evacuated.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Generally fair and colder tonight and tomorrow; temperature tomorrow about 27.

VOLUME 47—NUMBER 234

13-POINT PLAN SUGGESTED TO HELP JOBLESS Program Offered at Parley of Industrialists to Cut Unemployment... (Copyright. 1935. by United Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The New Deal today presented to a stormy conference of 2400 industrial representatives a 13-point program designed to lead to absorption of most of America’s 11.000,000 unemployed. After a tumultous general conference meeting which broke up with Maj. George L. Berry, industrial co-ordinator, and A. P. Haake, one of the leading delegates, calling each other liars, the Administration presented to the delegates at round table conferences the 13 suggestion o -. Emphasizing the fact that tne proposals came from management and labor rather than from the Roosevelt Administration, Maj. Berry said they were offered for “such consideration as the groups may choose to give them.” Urge Maximum Work-Week A summary of the proposals follows: 1. Amendment of the Federal Trade Commission Act granting the commission more authority to meet fair-trade-practice and workinghour requirements. 2. Enactment of a maximum work-week law. 3. Enactment of the O'Mahoney bill for licensing and taxation of ail corporations in interstate commerce. A “Encourage New Industries.” 4. Modification of the anti-trust law's. 5. Establishment of a Federal subsidy for business as a means of increasing employment. 6. Consideration of the effect upon domestic production of the competition of imports from foreign countries. 7. Establishment of a national industrial organization to concern itself with Federal and state business legislation. 8. Consideration of allocating the jobless to all industries on the basis of normal employement. 9. Encouragement of new industries to absorb the unemployed. Federal Jobless Census 10. Establishment of an industrial council under Federal auspices to promote industrial co-operation. 11. Examination of the taxation question and its relationship to unemployment. 12. Consideration of a national program for training labor with a view to meeting the shortages developing in many skilled employments. 13. Establishment under the census clause of the Constitution of a system of unemployment censuses, providing a job inventory to be used by a Federal employment office in placing workers. Spanish Premier, Cabinet Quit Bp United Prat* MADRID. Dec. 9.—Premier Joaquin Chiapareta and his cabinet I resigned today.

Gloom Marks Opening of Naval Parley at London

By United Press LONDON, Dec. 9.—An American appeal for a 20 per cent reduction in naval strength, a British call for a firm agreement restricting submarine warfare and a Japanese demand for a “just and fair” treaty—a bid for equality—marked the opening of the five-power naval limitation conference today. France and Italy, rivals in the j Mediterranean, indicated in statements of policy that they will oppose. at present, any binding long- j term agreement because of the deli- I cacy and danger of the European situation. Delegates met believing that they faced a formidable and perhaps impossible task in seeking a comprehensive naval treaty to replace the Washington and London treaties which expire Dec. 31. 1936. It was foreseen that, as soon as the business stage of the conference was reached, the delegates of the naval powers would be deadlocked. By Uni'ed Press ROME, Dec. 9.—Premier Benito Mussolini strengthened hopes today that something may come of the Anglo-French efforts to mediate the Ethiopian war when he refrained from any controversial utterances in an appearance before the Senate. “I can assure the Senate that

Highlights nan President Defends Pact in Address to Farm Bureau.

Bp United Prrss CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Highlights from the address of President Roosevelt before the American Farm Bureau Federation convention: When the many cells of our economic life were dying for lack of the blood of purchasing power, it took time, after fear had begun to subside, for new, vital purchasing power to be diffused once more. But that life is coming back—buoyant, happy life—w'e need no evidence beyond what we see and hear around us. a it a One of the greatest eurses of American life has been speculation. The kind of speculation I am talking about is the involuntary speculation of the farmer when he puts his crops into the ground. 808 We sought to stop the rule of tooth and claw that threw farmers into bankruptcy or turned them virtually into serfs, forced them to let their buildings, fences and machinery deteriorate, made them rob their soil of its God-given fertility, deprive their sons and daughters of a decent opportunity on the farm. To those days, I trust * the organized pow'er the nation has put an end forever. B B B Forty-eight separate sovereign states, acting each one as a separate unit, never were able and never will be able to legislate or to administer individual laws adequately to balance the agricultural life of a nation so greatly dependent on nationally grown crops of many kinds. a b b Bargain price§ for food in 1932 were little consolation to people in cities with no income whatsoever. B B B It is difficult to explain why in many cases if the farmer gets an increase for his food crop over what he got three years ago, the consumer m the city has to pay two and three and four times the amount of that increase. B B B Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family can live is opposed chiefly by the few' who profited heavily from the depression. It is they and their henchmen who are doing their best to foment city people against the farmers and the farm program. It is that type of political profiteer who seeks to discredit the vote in favor of a continued corn-hog program by comparing your desire for a fair price for the farmer to the appetite of hogs for corn. B B B I believe these city people resent the attempts of personal advantage seekers and profiteers to heap ridicule upon the recovery efforts that all of us are making. B B B Agriculture, far from being crucified by this agreement (the Canadian trade treaty), actually gains from it. REMOVE ‘EYE’ MOLDS 56,009,000 Telescope Glass Believed Unqualified Success. Bp United Press CORNING. N. Y.. Dec. 9 Skilled workmen began removing the mold and cores of the 201-inch eye for the $6,000,000 “dream” telescope today. Scientists unanimously agreed that the most important step in construction of an instrument, w'hich will reveal light objects a billion years distant, was an unqualified success.

Italian interests in Africa will be. strenuously defended,” the premier said. That constituted his entire twominute speech, except for several sentences of thanks for the Senate's loyal support.' By United Press PARIS, Dec. 9.—France and Great Britain awaited expression of Premier Benito Mussolini’'- attitude toward a final proposal for peaceable negotiation of the Italian-Ethiopian war today, determined to impose an embargo on oil and other commodities calculated to immobilize Italy’s armies and industry if it is not favorable. A summary of the proposal was telephoned to Mussolini last night, it was learned, with a request that he indicate the extent of his interest within 36 hours. Premier Pierre Laval and Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign secretary', who drafted the proposal, made it in the nature of an ultimatum. The terms of the proposal are well kr jwn—territorial concessions to ital in northern and southeastI ern Ethiopia. Italy to get the towns of Adigrat and Aduwa in the north, Ethiopia to retain the holy city of Aksum; Ethiopia to get a corridor to the sea; Italy to gat colonization rights in fertile territory in southern Ethiopia; Ethiopia to have the right to seek League protection and aid.

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1935

STOCKS IRREGULAR, MOVING NERVOUSLY 100 Per Cent Dividend of Motor Products Brings Buying. By 1 nited Press NEW YORK, Dec. 9—Stocks moved nervously today and at midaftemoon were irregular, with trading fairly active. Motor Products' declaration of a 100 per cent stock dividend plus two 50-cent declarations on new stock, brought active buying into this issue w'hich advanced 6 points to 66)4, a new' high for the year. Electric Auto Lite turned active and was 11/4.l l /4. higher at 35V2. Motor shares generally firmed after the Motor Products declaration. Coca-Cola was active and after jumping 10 points to anew high at 93, slipped back to 88%. Homestake Mining touched anew high for the year at 275, up 25. FILMING PARTY TICKLES QUINS Dionnes Squeal Joyfully at ‘Birthday Fete’ for Movie Cameras. By United Press NORTH BAY, Ont., Dec. 9.—The Dionne quintuplets celebrated their second birthday today—just a little more than six months since they celebrated their first birthday. They really aren’t 2 yet, but the script of their movie calls for a second birthday party. The fairyland of toys in which the quins were placed for the scene w'ere real, so the famous babies didn’t seem to mind if the calendar was set forward. Wide-eyed and overjoyed they cautiously inspected jumping jacks, wrestled with big w'oolly teddy bears, poked tiny fingers at eyes of beautiful dolls and squealed their delight with silk-haired rabbits and bounding balls. It was all part of “The Country Doctor,” in its fifth day of production. Jean Hersholt, playing the title role, romped w'ith the babies, and Dorothy Peterson, playing nurse, watched over them.

COMMON-LAW WIFE CONFESSES MURDER Calls Police and Tells of Slaying Dentist. By United Press LOS ANGELES. Dec. 9.—Mrs. Frances Mabel Willys, 38. plump and matronly, today called police to the blood-spattered bungalow where she beat her common-law husband to death and coolly announced, “I beat him to death with a hammer; this is another Clara Phillips case.” Inside was found the body of Dr. Walter F. Hammond, 50, prominent dentist. His head was crushed and a claw-hammer was driven into the back of the skull. Begging for “one more drinlg before I swing for it,” she calmly told of killing Dr. Hammond in a quarrel yesterday over other women and then sleeping in the house with the body last night before calling police.

15 ARE MISSING IN FLOOD ATHOUSTON Buildings Are Battered by Water; One Falls. By United Press HOUSTON. Texas, Dec. 9.—Slowly receding waters of Buffalo bayou which inundated low lying sections of the city battered down buildings today while rescue parties sought 15 missing persons. Fourteen of those missing were children. Arnold Holub, 26. of Bay City, disappeared Saturday night while attempting to swim to safety in Middle Bernard Creek. Witnesses reported seeing the bodies of six victims in the flood waters. Authorities feared that the water would undermine large buildings. A two-story structure crashed today. Buildings, awash since Saturday night in the torrent that swept through the heart of the city, cracked as foundations wore away.

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BLOOD-STAINED CARS AID HUNT FOR 2 GUNMEN One Outlaw Shot in Battle With Detectives Here, Officers Say. GIRL FRIEND IS GRILLED Desperadoes Back in City, Is Report; Quinette in Serious. Condition. From the blood-stained back seats of tw'o stolen cars found abandoned in the eastern part of Indiana today, police hunting two detectiveshooting gunmen deduced that one is wounded seriously. They also believe the fugitives have returned to Indianapolis. The gunmen are Donald Joseph, 28. and Paul Pierce, 26. who on Saturday afternoon shot and seriously wounded Detective Orville Quinette .who is in a serious condition at City Hospital. City police were questioning a 27-year-old blond woman companion of the pair, w'ho was arrested yesterday. Officials let it be known that they think the gunmen have doubled back to this city, and police are w'atching all known haunts. The car, which the gunmen stole from Dr. Edmund Moten, Negro, 1330 Cornell-av. waa found near St. Omer, Ind., covered with blood. Another car was stolen from St. Omer and police believe the two men stole it. It was at first reported that two cars were stolen, but one of them was found in the town. The Moten car, state police said, had been parked all day Sunday before it was reported. Early today, Shelbyville police were informed a car had been abandoned-on State Road'9 on the Hancock-Shelby County line, two miles north of Fountaintown. The rear seat in this car was cov(Turn to Page Three) NEW NAVAL CRUISER DAMAGEEbOPEN PROBE Turbine Reducing Gears Broken at Quincy Shipyard. By United Press QUINCY, Mass., Dec. 9.—The turbine reducing gears of the new $11,000,000 Navy cruiser Quincy have been mysteriously damaged, it was revealed officially today by officials of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Ltd., who refused to deny or confirm reports of sabotage.

TERRE HAUTE LABOR CASE OPENS TODAY Wagner Bill Violations Are Charged by Union. By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Dec. 9. Hearing on charges that the Columbian Enameling and Stamping Cos., focal point of a paralyzing general strike here July 22, has violated the Wagner Labor Relations Act, was scheduled before Robert W. Cowdrill, Regional Labor Board director, in Federal courtroom today. Charges were filed by the Enameling Workers Union No. 19694, which asked the general strike that brought martial law to Vigo County. The complaint states that the company, subsequent to signing the National Labor Relations Act, has refused to deal collectively with represetatives of its employes. Election Is Ordered By United Prtss FORT WAYNE, Ind.. Dec. 9.—An election among employes of the Wayne Knitting Mills, Inc., here to determine whether collective bargaining will be instituted in the factory must be held within seven days, Robert Cowdrill, Regional Labor Board director, announced today.

Help an *Unemployable ’ by Clothing a Child

(#1 Children Clothed—Donori on P*je 3) “Unemployable!” This notation or the records of families of Community Fund relief agencies and the Center Township trustee's office spells need the entire year, but especially at Christmas,. 1935, it spells npedy school children on the rolls of Clothe-a-Child. of The Indianapolis Times. The widow who tries to keep a family of six children together, the sick father nursed by the mother of children that hang to her skirts, are found in the relief agency*records—and social service workers have a word for “it”—"Unemployable!” On Clothe-a-Child rolls are children of the ‘ unemployables.” They

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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments oy AAA Today

New Deal Ready for Battle to Save Keystone of Farm Program. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 9—A new plea against constitutionality of the Agricultural Adjustment Act went to the Supreme Court today as it prepared to hear /the New Deal argue for the life of the keystone of its farm program. The new plea was in a brief filed by eight Louisiana rice miliers who have a case challenging the amended law scheduled for argument next Monday. Later today, arguments for and against the AAA will be presented to the court by Solicitor General Stanley Reed, for the government, and former Senator George Wharton Pepper, representing the Hoosac Mills Corp. of Massachusetts, which is challenging validity of the law. Hundreds of persons interested in the argument of the AAA case who had come from all parts of the country sought entrance to the resplendent. but tiny court room where the tribunal sits. The rice millers’ plea was leveled most intensively at the amendments to the original AAA which prohibit refunds of taxes unless the processor can show that he has not passed them on to the consumers or producer. This proof is so impossible of

are children who know their parents, because of illness and other reasons, can not compete for WPA jobs. They know Community Fund welfare agencies can not bring Christmas to them and hope to sur- • vive throughout the coming year. No Federal money aids them. Clothe-a-Child seeks to offer city | folk an opportunity to employ themi selves for a few hours in going into the homes of “unemployables” and bringing to their children warm | clothing as a gift on the birthday of brotherly love. i Call Riley 5551 for your child or if you do not wish to shop for a boy or girl then Clothe-a-Child will do the job. Send cash or check and the name and addicss of the child your money ciothec will be sent to you.

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achievement in the rice business because of its peculiarities, they asserted, that it amounts to barring them from a chance to recover their money by any process of law. They also challenged the validity cf all processing taxes as an improper delegation of power to the Secretary of Agriculture. HOLC Law Held Void B/t United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The United States Supreme Court today held that Federal legislation permitting state-chartered building and loan associations to take out Federal charters as part of the Federal Home Loan Bank system in the face of disapproval by state authorities was unconstitutional. The case arose in Wisconsin where suits were brought challenging the right of three building and loan associations to take out Federal charters. Their move was protested by the State Banking Commission, which held they were state units subject to state control. The decision was considered of wide-spread import although its immediate application was not considered serious. The law was passed as an amendment to the HOLC Act of 1933 and since that date, 38 states have passed legislation permitting local organizations to make the change. The decision, written by the liberal Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo, went unusually far in holding the provision invalid. The decision was unanimous. DECLARE ACT ILLEGAL Liberty League’s Lawyers Give Opinion on Guffey Coal Bill. By L nited Pr> ss WASHINGTON. Dec. 9.—The American Liberty League's Lawyers’ Committee, continuing its practice of passing upon New Deal laws before their legality has been determined finally by the courts, today declared the Guffey Coal Control Act is “clearly unconstitutional.” Times Index Amusements 13 Births. Deaths 16 Books li Bridge 11 Broun ll Comics 19 Curious World 19 Editorial 12 Financial 18 Pegler ll Radio 6 Serial Story 9 Sports 14-15 Want Ads 16-17 Woman s Pages 8-9

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SLIGHT HOPE NOW LEFT TO AVERT CHAIR Nine Justices Refuse to Intercede in Famed Murder Case. TURN DOWN WRIT MOVE Hauptmann, Waiting in Cell, Not Yet Told of Decision. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. The United States Suprema Court today denied the plea of Bruno Richard Hauptmann that it intervene in his fight to escape death in the electric chair for the kidnaping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. The court, without uttering a single word from the high bar of justice, blasted the German carpenter’s plea for a review of the Flemington iN. J.t trial which brought his conviction and death sentence. The denial was in a typewritten list of cases on which the court acted. The action ended Hauptmann’s last substantial hope of averting by legal maneuvers the execution ordered by the Flemington court. New Evidence Only Hope Unless Hauptmann's attorneys can obtain a writ of habeas corpus by convincing the courts that new' and important evidence in the case has been uncovered, only the New Jersey Board of Pardons can save him from the electric chair. No word of the Supreme Court's answer to Hauptmann’s plea broke the placid solemnity of the crow'ded marble and gilt courtroom. Thrpngs of spectators attracted to the chamber to hear oral arguments in the Hocsac Mills test of the AAA processing taxes were not even aware that the decision had been rendered. Only a slight bustle of newspaper men at their desks below the bar where the nine dignified justices sat indicated anything unusual. Word of the Hauptmann ruling came to them on a white sheet of flimsy paper bearing the court’s orders for the day. After the court’s opinions of the day had been read, a youthful page took the sheets from the clerk's desk and distributed them silently the newspaper men. There on a typewritten list of a score of cases was the simple notation. ”583—Hauptmann vs. the State of New Jersey—The application for a writ of certiorari in this case U denied.” Not Yet Notified tty Vnitrd Prrah TRENTON, Dec. 9.—C01. Mark O. Kimberling. principal keeper of Trenton State Prison, said today he would wait until Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s lawyers arrived before he notified his prisoner of the Supreme Court's decision. THAW CRACKS UP ON FLIGHT TO ANTARCTIC 9500-Mile Search for Lost Explorer Ends at Atlanta. tty United Pre** ATLANTA. Ga.. Dec. 9.—An aerial expedition to search for the lost Antarctic explorer, Lincoln Ellsworth, ended in a crackup here today with Pilot Russell K. Thaw miraculously escaping death. Neither he nor the mechanic, William Henry Klenke Jr. of New York, were injured when the $30.000 low-wing Northrop monoplane crashed shortly after a takeoff on the second leg of a 9500-mile flight to the southern tip of South America. Thaw was at the controls as they were headed for Brownsville, Tex. DIES IN AUTO “ CRASH Mrs. Lena Farber, Indianapolis, la Victim of Illinois Accident. Times Special SAVOY. HI, Dec. 9.—Authorities today sought relatives of Mrs. Lena Farber. Indianapolis, killed instantly Saturday night when the car in which she was riding collided with a truck near here. The driver, Helen Murray, Indianapolis, was not injured. The Mrs. Farber killed in Savoy, 111., is not Mrs. Lena G. Farber. wife of Harry D. Farber. 2440 N. Merid-lan-st. president of Nu-Grape Bottling Cos. FALL IS SERIOUSLY ILL Former Interior Secretary Stricken With Pneumonia in Texas. By l nitrd Press EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 9.—Condition of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, was reported a “serious" at William Beaumont Hospital today. He was said to be suffering from bronchial pneumonia.