Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 276, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1936 — Page 1

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SUB ZERO WAVE TO STAY IN CITY; 175 DEAD IN U. S.

City Grade Schools Close at Noon: Mercury Gains After Dip. HIGH SCHOOLS CONVENE Temperature to Remain at Low Levels, Weather Man Predicts. TEMPERATURES Midnight 8 1 A. M 2 A. M 3 A. M 4 A. M —lO 5 A. M —lO 6 A. M —lO 7 A. M —lO 8 A. M 9 A. M 10 A. M 11 A. M —3 12 Noon 0 1 P. M 2 1:30 P. M 2 Faced with a possible low temperature tonight and tomorrow of between 5 and 10 degrees below zero Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of the Indianapolis Public Schools, said that another half-holiday would be granted pupils in elementary schools. Schools will close at noon, he said, if tomorrow morning’s temperature rivals today's low of 10 degrees below from 4 a. m. to 8 a. m. Traffic In the city and state, slowed by the subzero weather, received little encouragment from the United States Weather Bureau which forecast “fair and continued cold, tonight and tomorrow.” “We are making schedules from day to day during the present severe cold spell,” said Mr. Stetson. High Schools Are Open City high schools are to hold regular classes and registration for the new semester today. All school bui.dings in. the city have been heated continuously throughout the frigid temperatures with the result that classrooms were warm and comfortable as pupils attended their morning sessions. From 1 a. m. through 3 a. m. today, the thermometer registered 9 degrees below zero and then slipped to 10 degrees at 4 a. m., where it remained through 7 a. m. It climbed to 9 degrees below at 8 a. m. and then broke to 7 degrees below at 9 a. m. A 14-mile wind that the Weather Bureau said might increase gradually during the day and die down in the late afternoon, added to the suffering. Mercury May Climb Tomorrow The temperatures were expected to take their downward slide late this afternoon toward a 10-degree below for tomorrow morning. The mercury was not expected to reach higher than 5 degrees above today. A slight hope of rising temperature was seen by the Weather Bureau for tomorrow afternoon, but no definite break in the cold wave was forecast. A Canadian blizzard tended, weather observers said, to keep Hoosierland hugging firesides. Illinois street cars were held up 15 minutes at 7:25 a. m. when a trolley wire snapped at Illinois and New York-sta. No indication of a milk shortage, due to the severe weather, has been reported to Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary. Dr. Morgan said Indianapo.iS was more fortunate than other cities in that its milk supply is within 30 miles of the city. The city woodyard, under the supervision of W. H. Marsh, reported it had cordwood on hand today sufficient to care for 125 relief families. During last week's subzero temperate es the yard gave wood to 137 families. Trees cut down at the Municipal airport to provide a landing field are being used. Five schools in Perry Township and the high school, three in Center Townshop. outside, and one school in Wayne township, in addition to Ben Davis High School, remained closed today. J. Malcolm Dunn, county superintendent. said a balky heating plant that failed to provide sufficient warmth caused the closing of Ben Davis High School. "Schools will be open tomorrow in the county,” he said. Township trustees, he declared, made special arrangements for transporting pupils. Busses will cling to the main traveled roads. All county highways are clear of drifts. From midnight Saturday to early today the mercury’ did a hop-skip-and-jump with temperatures dropping from 7 above to 1 below at 6 a. m. Sunday and then alternating between 2 below and zero until 10 a. m. During the Sabbath afternoon the mercury reached a four-degree high and then skidded to zero at 5 (Turn to Page Three)

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Biting Winds Sweep Into East; Cold Wave Is Worst Since 1912. EVEN DEEP SOUTH HIT Niagara Falls Is Frozen Solid for Third Successive Day. By United Press Biting Arctic winds howled down from Western Canada today, reviving a recordbreaking cold wave east of the Rocky Mountains. Light snow in the East presaged anew blizzard. Subzero temperatures prevailed for the sixth successive day in the Middle West. It was the most extensive cold wave since 1912. Even the deep South, with the‘exception of Southern Florida, shivered in freezing temperatures. The severe cold will continue at least through Wednesday, forecasters said. Many rural schools wil remain closecLuntil more normal temperatures return. 175 Deaths Reported Deaths attributed to cold throughout the nation mounted to more than 175. Hundreds of cases of frostbite were treated at hospitals. Derailing of five cars of a passenger train at Sulphur Springs, la., was blamed on rails cracking in the intense cold. No one was injured. In Chicago a score of persons received first-aid treatment after three elevated cars jumped the tracks Four were hospitalized. East Suffers, Too Eastern and New England states, after temperatures rose several degrees Sunday, again suffered with the hard-hit Midwest. The six-be-low Sunday reading at Albany, N. Y., was expected to be duplicated today. For the third successive day Niagara Falls was frozen solid with the flow of water stopped by ice jams. Light snow was falling in New York City early today with the temperature at 19 above. Some of the coldest temperatures included Spirit Lake, la., 24 below; Fullerton, Neb.. 24 below; Bismarck, N. D., 22 below; Kirksville, Mo., 17 below; Omaha, 13 below; Chicago, 6 below; Kansas City, 5 below. Meanwhile, at Miami. Fla., beaches were crowded with the temperature at 76 degrees in the shade, and southern California looked forward to a break in a period of unseasonably warm weather that sent the mercury into the 90s. MILK BODY FAILS TO PICK ADMINISTRATOR Shed Committee to Meet Again Wednesday. The newly appointed Indianapolis Milkshed committee met today without recommending a successor to A1 Feeney, discharged recently as Indianapolis milk administrator. They are to meet again Wednesday. The committee elected Clarence Hill, distributor member, as chairman. The committee was named last week after producers and distributors had balloted on selections. Members are Cecil Buchanan. Mr. Hill, Don Spugnardi and A. W. Buescher. distributors, and Frank W. Mcßeady, Frank Wilson, Irving Parker, John Bright Webb and E. F. Hadley, producers. Arthur Holt, a distributor, declined the appointment. In a statement last week Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, state milk board chairman, thrust the responsibility of rehiring A1 Feeney, discharged administrator, or hiring anew man for the position into the iap of the new committee. However, the selection of the local committee must be approved by the state board. ATTORNEYS IN JACOBY CASE READ DEPOSITIONS Testimony of Absent Witness Presented to Court. After a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty was overruled, defense attorneys for Forrest Jacoby. A1 Head, John Head and Jerry Dukes opened today in Criminal Court with reading *of depositions of absent witnesses. Objections to the depositions by j the prosecution was overruled, j The men are charged with the robbery of the William H. Roberts & Sons Dairy last August.

FORECAST: Fair and continued cold tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight sto 10 degrees below r zero.

WFBM MAY BE PURCHASED BY TOMTAGGART Negotiations Under Way, Indiana Democratic Committeeman Says. $200,000 PRICE, REPORT Station Would Be Used Strictly for Business, He Declares. Thomas Taggart, Democratic national committeeman for Indiana, this afternoon admitted that he was negotiating for purchase of Radio Station WFBM of Indianapolis. “The deal may be closed shortly,” said Mr. Taggart when reached by telephone at his French Lick Springs Hotel. Earlier in the day a usually reliable source had reported consummation of the sale. The reports had said Mr. Taggart had paid approximately $200,000 to the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. for the WFBM equipment and goodwill. “We have been negotiating for some time,” said Mr. Taggart. “It is being purchased strictly for business purposes such as advertising the hotel and the waters of French Lick.” He replied to a rumor current in Chicago that the station would be used for dissemination of Democratic propaganda with one word: “Bologney.” Mr. Taggart said the WFBM deal would include purchase of the broadcasting plant, transmitter, advertising contracts and good will. Power oompany officials could not be reached for comment. Fred Bates Johnson, attorney for the power company, said: “Any infomation must come from Mr. Taggart.” RESCUFirNEATFOR 1850 STRANDED ON ICE Fishermen Contacted After Being Marooned 40 Days. By United Press MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—A1l of the 1850 fishermen and 1400 horses marooned on ice floes in the Caspian Sea are expected to make contact with the shore soon, it was announced today. The men are afloat with food, fuel and forage for 40 days. All are believed safe. The largest group, numbering 1000, has established radio communication with the shore and announced it has caught 250,000 pounds of fish while drifting. TWO TRUCK DRIVERS OVERCOME BY FUMES New’ York Men Revived After Being Found at Terminal. Two drivers who slept all night in the cab of their truck with the motor running, were found overcome by fumes early today by employes at a truck terminal, 333 W. Ohio-st. They were revived by the fire department rescue squad and sent to the Methodist Hospital, where it is said they are out of danger. They are Eugene Pattison, 29, of Hudson, N. Y., and William Carpenter, 33, of Rochester, N. Y. BANGS CASE OPENED IN HUNTINGTON COURT Mayor and 10 Co-Defendants Face Contempt Charge. By United Press HUNTINGTON, Jan. 27.—A hearing on contempt charges against Mayor Clare W. H. Bangs and 10 co-defendants was scheduled to open today in Huntington Circuit Court before Special Judge Huber M. Devoss. Amended complaints, filed by the Northern Indiana Power Cos. charge the militant mayor and his followers violated a permanent injunction prohibiting extension of the city’s “toy” electric plant. Bangs spent 101 days in Huntington County jail last summer when he refused to post an appeal bond after his conviction on charges of violating a temporary injunction obtained by the private utility. Former Kaiser 77 Today By United Press DOORN, Netherlands, Jan. 27. — Former Kaiser Wilhelm postponed the celebration of his seventyseventh birthday anniversary today until Friday, because of the death of his first cousin, King George V. of Great Britain.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1936

ROOSEVELT MAY KEEPJISSOURI Boss Pendergast Ready to ‘Go Down Line’ for President. Here Is the third of a series of articles by the chief political writer of The Times Washincton bureau. He is . swinging around the circle from coast to coast viewing the campaign situation. BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 27. President Roosevelt and his New Deal have lost popularity in Missouri. This is the consensus among political analysts. Nevertheless, nine months before election, it appears that the President will carry Missouri on Nov. 3 because of Democratic Boss Tom J. Pendergast, who has a flourishing vote-counting business in this city, his stronghold; a branch office in St. Louis, largest metropolis in the state; and who controls the governor, the state administration and the election machinery from top to bottom. Mr. Pendergast is ready to “go down the line’’ for Franklin D. Roosevelt, while taking good care to perpetuate through his own state ticket one of the most effective political machines now extant. Though the Pendergast machine is no more savory than Tammany, with which it may be more than favorably compared in efficiency, Jim Farley will take it to his practical bosom gladly, while idealists look the other way, just as he will welcome back his own Tammany Hall. Political idealism has to be for(Turn to Page Three) THOUSANDS PASS BY GEORGE VS COFFIN Doors to Westminster Are Opened Early. By United Press LONDON, Jan. 27.—Thousands upon thousands of people, rich and poor, young and old, poured into central London today, hoping to view King George’s coffin as it lay for the last day in Westminster Hall. By 5 a. m. today, 7,000 people were in line awaiting the opening of the hall. Because of the press, the doors were opened at 7:10 instead of the usual 8. Baldwin, King Boris of Bulgaria and Former Queen Ena of Spain were among those who visited the hall yesterday. Those here included Norma?. N. Davis, Capt. Walter S. Anderson, naval attache, and Lieut.-Col. Raymond E. Lee, who will represent the United States. Times Index Amusements 6 Births, Deaths 14 Comics 15 Editorial 10 Financial 11 Merry-Go-Round 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 4 Pegler 9 Radio 2 Serial Story 5 Sports 12, 13 State Deaths 8 Want Ads 14 Woman's Pages 4, 5

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Bitter Debate Rages in House Over Smith Talk

Unique Period in U. S. Politics Inaugurated by League Dinner. BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—What promises to be a strange period in the history of American politics has been inaugurated by the American Liberty League’s dinner here. Men who had publicly reviled each other met in back-slapping good fellowship, allied by a common hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt ana his New Deal. Party lines were forgotten as they had not been even in the war. If A1 Smith remembered that the men and women he faced as he stood at the flower-covered speakers’ table were the same ones who jeered at his fitness for the presidency in 1928, he gave no sign of it. People who once shuddered at Al’s “ain’ts” and “foists” let no such qualms bother them Saturday night. And they d’dn’t have to hear him say “raddio.” That reminder of his own campaign was gone from his speech. Davis, Reed on Hand Power company officials to whom he used to be anathema cheered and clapped. Philip Gadsden was there chairman of the Committee of Public Utility Executives. So were William J. Hagenah of the old Insull group, Forney Johnston, Alabama leader in the fight against TVA, Ralph M. Shaw and lesser lights in the utility world. At Al’s feet sat former Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania, who once said, “What this country needs is a dictator.” A1 was saying, “We don’t want any autocrats, in or out of office. We wouldn’t even take a good one.” And Reed appeared to be liking it. John W. Davis sat at the same table with Reed, In 1924, whpn he ran for the presidency, Reed’s party shouted “Coolidge or chaos” and defeated him. He didn’t like A1 in 1928. Old Foes Applaud Rep. James Wadsworth Jr. of New York, who as a Republican has fought A1 in state and national battles years without end, was there to do homage. So was Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose brother Theodore has fought the Smith crowd in New York time and again. Frank Hogan and J. J. Cotter, wealthy Washington lawyers whose clients in the naval oil scandle cases were pilloried by Smith in ’2B, had choice seats. James J. Davis, one-time Republican Secretary of Labor, was there. The Liberty Leaguers, by the way, were silent when Smith said he was (Turn to Page Three) BROWN HEADS COUNCIL Badger Named Vice President of County Group. W:lliam A. Brown was elected president of the Marion County Council and D. Harry Badger was named vice president today. Albert O Deluse is retiring president. The council heard the first reading on appropriation ordinances totaling about *IOO,OOO, including a $41,000 item for payment of old-age pensions recently ordered by Circuit Judge Earl R. cox. Final action is scheduled for tomorrow.

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Epithets Freely Hurled as Republicans Come to Al’s Defense. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Alfred E. Smith’s Liberty League dinner attack on the New Deal stirred tumultuous debate in Congress today with Republicans and Democrats shouting such epithets as “termites,” “political fleas” and “spoiled little boys.” Action centered in the House where Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D., Va.) ridiculed Smith’s declaration that he would “take a walk” if the 1936 Democratic convention renominated President Roosevelt and reaffirmed the New Deal. He characterized Smith as “Democracy’s most famous walker outer.” “He, John J. Raskob (former Democratic chairman) and Jouett Shouse and the other little spoiled boys who couldn’t take it walked out in Chicago,” Rep. Woodrum shouted. Rep. Hamilton Fish (R., N. Y.) leaped into the fray •with an eulogy of Smith. This precipitated so much noise from the Democrats that Fish had difficulty making himself heard. “The fundamental issue,” Fish shouted, “of the next campaign will be that of liquidation of Brain Trusters who never have been Democrats—such as Rexford Guy Tugwell and other termites.” The Democrats raised a roar. “Smith’s platform is the same as that of the Republican Party,” Rep. Fish continued More shouts of disapproval from the Democrats. Rep. Harold Knutson (R., Minn.) shouted, without obtaining recognition from the chair: 'Go ahead and laugh that off, damn you.” Some Democrats laughed, others tried to interrupt Fish. Finally Knutson shouted: “Mr. Speaker: I submit the gentleman from New York should be protected from these political fleas.” Rep. Woodrum, in a sarcastic, bitter vein, had charged that groups (Torn to Page Three) GORDON, MATLOCK DEAD AFTER CRASH Driver, Mechanic Victims of West Coast Track. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 27.—A1 Gordon of Long Beach, Cal., nationally known aut6 pilot, and William (Spider) Matlock, his riding mechanic, are dead today after their car hurtled over a retaining wall during the running of a 200-lap race at Ascot Park Speedway yesterday. Matlock died today in General Hospital. The accident occurred as Gordon’s car hit the south turn on the one hundred twenty-seventh lap. The blue and white speedster suddenly went into a sharp spin, rocketed over the low iron retaining wall and whizzed down a steep embankment. Both Gordon and Matlock have participated in several 500-mile classics at the Indianapolis Speedway.

VETERANS’ BILL IS GIVEN FINAL APPROVAL 76-19 $2,237,000,000 ‘Baby Bond’ Measure Enacted Into Law Despite Bitter, Ironic Plea by Republican Hastings. MINTON, VANNUYS WITH MAJORITY Every Member on Record, With 13 More Votes Than Necessary to Override; Admin- ' istration Faces Fund-Raising Task. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Senate bowled over a Presidential veto today and enacted into law the $2,237,000,000 soldiers’ bonus bill, despite a bitter and ironic attack by Senator Daniel O. Hastings (R., Del,). The vote of 79 to 19 to override the veto completed action on the measure and posed for the Administration the question of how to raise the money to pay the veterans. A fight over inflationary measures was forecast and the necessity for new’ taxes was believed likely to be emphasized in Administration sources.

Asa climax of the 15-year political struggle over immediate payment of the bonus, Senator Hastings paradoxically came to the defense of his chief politcal foe, President

RESERVE BOARD GIVEHENATE F. D. R. Sends Nominations for Consideration in Upper House. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—President Roosevelt sent to the Senate today nominations for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. They were Marringer E. Eccles of Utah, for four years; Joseph A. Broderick of New York, for 14 years; M. S. Szymczak of Illinois, for 12 years; Ronald Ransom of Georgia, for six years; John McKee, of Ohio, for 10 years, and Ralph W. Morrisor of Texas for two years. Eccles was appointed to the Reserve Board and designated as governor Nov. 10, 1934, and since has served in that capacity. Under the Banking Act of 1935 the title was changed to Board of Governors and the governor became the chairman. Brokerick for years has been connected wtih New York banking activities and was the first chief examiner of the Federal Reserve Board. Szymczak was appointed a member of the Federal Reserve Board June 13, 1933. He is a Chicagoan. Ransom is executive vice president of the Fulton National Bank of Atlanta. He has been a director in several corporations, president of the Atlanta Clearing House Association and president of the Georgia Bankers Association. McKee, a native of Pittsburgh. In 1931-32 represented the Comptroller of the Currency as receiver for insolvent national banks in Ohio and Pennsylvania. Since 1933 he has been chief of the examining division of the RFC. Morrison, a native of Howell County, Missouri, for years has been interested in hydro-electric development. In 1933 he served as a member of the American delegation to the world monetary and economic conference at London. SALESMAN ENDS LIFE AT HOME, POLICE SAY Parvin Traylor 111 Since Christmas, Widow Tells Officers. Funeral services were arranged today for Parvin Traylor, 42, of 3549 N. Illinois-st, a salesmen, who, according to police, shot and killed himself yesterday morning. Police quoted his widow, Mrs. Georgia Traylor, as saying that her husband had been in ill health since Christmas. The bullet which killed him went through the wall and into the home of Fred Berger, next door. Deputy Coroner John Salb investigated and released the body to Flannner & Buchanan Mortuary. BUILDING PERMITS DROP Cold Weather Slows Operations, Commissioner Says. Cold weather has discouraged building operations here, William F. Hurd, building commissioner, said today. In the week ending Jan. 25, the permits dropped to $24,842, a loss of almost. 50 per cent from the corresponding week in 1935, he said. Find Hit-Ban Victim’s Body By United Press HAMMOND, Ind.. Jan. 27.—The body of Michael J. Boland, 65. apparently the victim of a hit-and-run driver, was found on an icy street yesterday.

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Roosevelt, ironically begging the Democrats to stand by their leader. Ssventy-six Democrats, including Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton of Indiana, voted for overriding the veto. They were joined by 16 Republicans, one Progressive and two Farmer-Laboritea. Twelve Democrats and seven Republicans voted to sustain the veto. There was no change—except in pairs—from the Senate vote last week. Every member of the Senate was recorded on the bonus veto vote. 13 More Than Necessary Vice President John N. Garner said it was the first time in his memory as presiding officer that all 95 members (there is one vacancy) had been present. “I want to congratulate the Senate on its good health,” he said before announcing the vote. The vote was 13 more than the necessary two-thirds to override a veto. Veterans’ organizations, which led the campaign for immediate payment of the bonus originally due in 1945, saw the Senate follow the pace set by the House Friday when it overrode President Roosevelt's six-paragraph, hand-written veto message. Inflation Fight Looms A congressional fight for inflation to pay the sum was believed certain. Administration sources, however, have indicated that additional taxation would be necessary. In this connection, it was pointed out that this is a campaign year and that political leaders hesitate to offer proposals for new taxation at present. At the same time. Administration experts w-ere known to be working on new tax proposals necessitated, by various readjustments in the 1936 budget since the opening of Congress. Payment, the bill provided, will be made in “baby” bonds which can be cashed or held as an investment. Payment probably will be made next June. The following table shows the amounts due veterans, the additional funds required and the total cost of payment of adjusted service certificates: Maturity value of outstanding certificates $3,458,080,00* Add—lnterest to be forgiven • 263,000,00* Total 53,719,000, 00* Value adjusted service certificate fund 1,482, 000.080 Additional amount required 2,237.000,00* Amount due veterans in bonds Amount due veterans in cash 87,788,85* Amount due United States Government life-insurance fund 57.0f1,0n* Amount due banks 88,008,08* Total (2,191,000.00* The Senate roll call: For Overriding the Veto Democrats (57)—Adams, Ashurst, Bachman, Bailey, Bankhead, Barkley, Bilbo, Black, Bone, Bulow, Byrnes, Caraway, Chavez, Clark, Coolidge, Copeland, Costigan, Dieterich, Donahey, Duffy, George, Gore. Guffey, Harrison, Hatch, Holt, Lewis, Logan, Lonergan, Maloney, McAdoo, McCarran, McGilk McKellar, Minton, Moore, Murphy, Murray, Neely, O’Mahoney, Overton, Pittman, Pope, Radciiffe, Reynolds, Robinson, Russell, Schwellenbach, Sheppard, Smith, Thomas, Okla.; Thomas, Utah; Trammell, Truman, VanNuys, Walsh, Wheeler. Republicans— <l6) Austin, Barbour, Capper, Carey, Davis, Dickinson, Frazier. Gibson, McNary, Metcalfe, Norbeck, Norris, Nye, Steiwer, White. Progressives—(l)—La FoUette. Farmer-Labor—(2>—Benson. Shipstead. For Sustaining the Veto: (19) Democrats —< 12?—Brown, Bulk ley, Burke, Byrd, Connally, Fletcher, Gerry, Glass, Hayden. King, Tydings, Wagner. Republicans— (7)—Couzens. Hale, Hastings, Johnson, Keyes, Townsend, Vandenberg.