Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 285, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1936 — Page 1

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NORTH SIDE WOMAN NEAR DEATH AFTER APARTMENT BLAZE

Couple, Found Unconscious, Saved by Firemen Who Force Entrance. HUSBAND ALSO INJURED Tenants Crowd Into Hall, Hampering Work of Fire Fighters. (Photos on Page Three) Physicians battled this afternoon to save the life of Mrs. Alberta Stewart, 32, who was burned critically early today when flames destroyed an apartment in a building at 3610 N. Meridian-st. At. City Hospital doctors said that Mrs. Stewart's condition is not improved and that she has an even chance of living while her husband, Robert Stewart, 34. is improving from burns and near-asphyxiation. Mr. Stewart is proprietor of Stewart's Radio Shop, iG4 W. Ma-ple-rd and the couple lives in Apartment 7 of the Meridian-st building. Mrs. Stewart was found in the living room beside the davenport, where the fire, believed caused by a eigaret, seems to have originated. Her husband was rescued from the bedroom, where he was found wedged between the bed and wall. Both were in their pajamas. Tenants Hamper Firemen Firemen were able to keep the blaze confined to the Stewart apartment, although they were hampered by the occupants of the 22 apartments in the building whose opening of doors created drafts that fanned the flames, and whose rushing into the halls delayed the laying of hose. The alaim was sounded at 3:38 a. m. after Miss Helen Perlco, a maid in the apartment next door, was awakened by the smell of smoke. She traced it to the Stewart apartment, where she saw a small amount of smoke comi.ig from under the door. She roused her employers, Mr. ar.d Mrs. Benjamin Steiner. Mrs. Steiner sent in the alarm and then summoned the building manager, ClifT Meloy, who went from apartment to apartment calling the tenants. Wife Found Unconscious Capt. Cecil F. Scott of Engine House 14 was the first fireman on the scene. He found the heavy outside door to the Stewart apartment locked by night lock and chain, and had difficulty in breaking down the door. With the help of Lieut. John Kitzmiller he gained entrance and they were met with.a burst of heavy smoke and flames. The latter forced his way through (he smoke and Capt. Scott turned in a second alarm. Mrs. Stewart was found lying on the floor unconscious and was carried to a neighboring apartment by Lieut. Kitzmiller. Firemen ran two hose lines into the apartment and succeeded in getting control u, the blaze after (Turn to rage Three) 45 ARE FEARED LOST IN TRAGEDY AT SEA Three Other Ships Are in Distress, Battered by Gales. By I'nited Tress Three ships were in distress in heavy seas today while all hope was abandoned for a fourth, believed to have gone down with 45 men. The motor ship San Rafael, her propeller shaft broken and battered bv a heavy sea. awaited assistance in the Gulf of Tehuantvpec off the west coast of Mexico. The American freighter Eglantine, with the disabled Japanese freighter Tsushima Maru in tow, was in distress in mountainous seas of the coast of Japan. The Isushima Maru depended for safety on the Eglantine. Rescue vessels failed to find a trace of the Unnan Maru in the same area and it was feared she was lost with all of her crew. SWANSON, NAVY CHIEF, IS INJURED IN FALL Taken to Hospital With Broken Rib After Accident. By Unitcil Pres* WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson was in the Naval Hospital today suffering from a broken rib received when he fell in his home yesterday. Mr. Swanson, who is 74 years old. fell against a chair in the bathrom, Navy Department official said. He was taker to the Naval Hospital. where p?iysicians found that a broken rib was the only apparent injury. Times Index Page Amusements 10 Births, Deaths ’ 19 Books 15 Bridge 12 Broun 15 Comics 21 Editorial 16 Financial 17 Pegler 15 Radio 6 Serial Story 13 Sports 18- to State Deaths 22 Want Ads 19-20 Woman's Pages 12-13

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PROBERS PLAN EARLY QUIZ OF BLAST VICTIMS Five, Less Seriously Hurt, May Be Questioned at Hospital Today State and local investigators this afternoon planned to interview five victims of yesterday's explosion at the Continental Baking Cos., 339 E. Market-st. Investigators disclosed they intend to question the victims at Methoaist Hospital as soon as they are able to receive visitors. Edward Byrnes, 26-year-old baking plant engineer, lies critically injured in City Hospital and is too ill to be questioned. He received burns and a crushed chest. The five other victims are maintenance workers who are being treated for injuries which are not considered serious. Building Not in Danger Capt. Harry A. Miller, acting fire prevention chief, said this afternoon that the blast which damaged valuable machinery and wrecked a portion of the building was caused by leaking gas in the compressor room. After an inspection today. William H. Hurd, city building inspector, said that there was no danger that the structure might collapse. No estimate has been made of the damage. Investigations were being made by Cape. Miller, Mr. Hurd. Robert Myers of the state fire marshal’s office and the state industrial board. Two Theories Are Advanced Two theories were advanced as to the cause of the explosion: That gas escaped from a break in the meter or that gas leaked from the lead pipe to the compressor. Damage of thousands of dollars to machinery will not prevent the bakery from operating or distributing its products today, it was announced. Mr. Byrnes, who lives at 2526 E. 16th-st, had left the boiler room to go to the meter room when the explosion occurred. He insisted on shutting off the valves on the boilers (Turn to Page Three)

HOFFMAN IS SHORN OF POWER BY G. 0. P. Action in Hauptmann Case Arouses Party Members. Bp United Press TRENTON. N. J.. Feb. 6. —Some of Bruno Richard Hauptmann's evil fortune rubbed off on Gov. Harold G. Hoffman today. Principally because the Governor befriended the Lindbergh kidnaper he was stripped of his leadership in the Republican Party and threatened with action by the Legislature to deprive him of part of his gubernatorial powers. Politicians said he could blame his deposition almost entirely upon the unpopularity of his attempts to save Hauptmann from death. The party state executive committee ousted Gov. Hoffman from leadership at a special meeting. It announced plans to establish permanent headquarters to direct passage of legislation in conformity with the party platform, settle disputes over appointments to public offices and assume control of party finances. Democrats have charged in the Legislature that his concern for Hauptmann was purely political, translatable into a desire to discredit and oust Col. H. Norman Schwartzkopf, state police chief. Col. Schwartzkopf was appointed by Gov. Hoffman's Democratic predecessor and his term expires in June. Gov. Hoffman may reappoint him or replace him. MARKET CARRIED UP BY SELECTIVE TRADING American Telephone Rises 5 T S Foints to 171*1. Bn United Pres* NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—Selective trading carried the stock market sharply higher today with communications shares maintaining most of the early gains that had extended to almost 6 points. American Telephone led communications. rising to 171-% for 5 7 * gain and at the close of the third hour was at 171 L. Postal Telegraph Preferred. International Telephone and Western Union had gains of 1 to more than 2 points. Cuban American Sugar issues were active and rails strong. Chrysler led industrials. WORKER IS INJURED IN ELEVATOR PLUNGE Repair Man Hurt Seriously as Lift Drops on Him. George Davis. 40, Negro. 2254 N. Capitol-av, an elevator repair worker, was injured critically today as he was working in Rink's Cloak House, 33 N. Illinois-st. Police said that Davis was working on top of an elevator when he was struck by another. He was sent to City Hospital suffering from head injuries.

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$5.50 AUDIENCE CHEERS CHAPLIN Comedian Sings in Latest Film, Pleasant —but Without Words. By TJni'cd Prat* NEW YORK, Feb. 6.— Charlie Chaplin's voice came from the screen for the first time last night in a riotous world premiere of “Modern Times,” his first picture in five years. The film received an ovation from a first-night crowd .studded with headline names. Scenes outside the Rivoli Theater rivaled Hollywood's famous premieres. Extra police were necessary to handle a stubborn crowd that gathered at 49th and Broadway to look upon the top- hatted actors and ermine-clad actresses who paid $5.50 each to see the screen’s first “genius.” Police used night-sticks before getting the crowd under control. But Chaplin’s voice—he displayed it, but not much. It came clear and pleasant, in a series of songs in a case scene where he was a singing waiter. For the purposes of the film and Chaplin comedy, he forgot his lines and merely poured forth unrecognizable words to a bright and airy tune. This particular scene brought hin the best hand of the evening. In Nature of Satire The picture was in the nature of a satire on the machine age, with Chaplin a confused figure in modern life. He turned bolts in a factory until he went crazy. He picked up a red warning flag to restore it to an oil truck and was arrested as a. Communist. Out of jail, he unwittingly get mixed up with demonstrating strikers and was again netted, by police. The lack of voices and the sudden appearance of title lines rather stunned an audience long accustomed to talking films. Among those who fought their way into the theater with the aid of police and through the flashes of scores of photographers were Edward G. Robinson, Gloria Swanson. Evelyn Laye, Corinne Griffith and Eddie Cantor. SULLIVAN IS IMPROVING Avres Publicity Director ‘Better,’ Hospital Reports. The condition of Sidney A. Sullivan. L. S. Ayres <te Cos. publicity director, was reported as “slightly improved” today at St. Vincent’s Hospital. Mr. Sullivan is suffering from pneumonia.

Following the Straight Road to War —BY CHARLES A. BEARD

In the following: dispatch, written for tho Scripps-Howard newspapers, the dean of American historians warns that an? new European war will reproduce the renditions prevailing: in America in 1914-17. shows how those conditions led us into war, and asks if it weald not have been better to submit to an economic crash in those years than to pursue the road to war. WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 —When the World War broke out in. 1914. American industry and agriculture were suffering from a recession. There were surpluses of commodities seeking outlets and potentials of production lying idle, awaiting the stimulus of demand. After the first confusions of the war-outburst passed, the Allies began to buy munitions, implements of war. other manufactures. and agricultural produce in the United States. These goods

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Lip Service B.y Science Service , CHICAGO, Feb. 6.— Change the scent of your lipstick, girls, if the kind you are using brings on a skin trouble. The doctors have traced some cases of lipstick dermatitis —the skin disorder that occasionally develops among users of lip rouge—to the perfume it contains. A particular offender is a perfume containing methyl heptine carbonate, the Journal of American Medical Association states. A young woman came to her doctor with a breaking-out on the skin, which he traced to her use of lipstick. She had been using a certain brand for years with no ill effects until she changed shades. By patch tests on the girl’s arm, the physician found that she was sensitive not to the oiN or dyes in the rouge, but. only to the perfume used in two shades of lipstick of the brand she had been using. The same test was made on 38 other women. Exactly half of the 38 were sensitive to the lipstick that had methyl heptine carbonate in its peifume. Other possible components of the perfume used in lipsticks gave no reaction.

SERVANT CONFESSES TO SLAYING WRITER Carl Taylor, From Indiana, Shot at Albuquerque. By United Press ALBUQUERQUE. N. M.. Feb. 6. Modesto Trujillo. 18-year-old houseboy employed by Carl Taylor, nationally known magazine writer, confessed today, according to police, that he shot Taylor to death in his cabin 25 miles east of here yesterday. Trujillo's confession, in which the youth was understood to hav-j admitted that he killed Mr. Taylor to rob him of some S2OOO in cash and traveler's checks, cleared a crime in which officers had at first leaned to a theory that Mr. Taylor was murdered by the Penitentes, a cult of self-touturers. This theory had been supported by reports from friends of Taylor, including Conra<J Richter, Western writer, that the slain man had violated the secrets of the Penitentes, even photographing their “morada.” or temple, to obtain material for a manuscript concerning them. Mr. Taylor was born at Milltown. Crawford County. Ind..* and was a graduate of Central Normal Colllege at Danville, Ind.

had to be paid for and the processes of exchange facilitated. Bankers accustomed to doing international business entered the operations. They accepted shipments of gold tendered in payment for American goods. They aided in the transfer and sale of foreign-owned American and Canadian securities for the purpose of raising cash to discharge the obligations created by the Allied governments in the purchase of goods. They arranged to provide temporary credits of one kind or another pending final payment in some form. In providing these services the bankers facilitated the purchase of American goods by the Allies and made possible additional purchases in increasing amounts. In this way thousands of industrialists and farmers found profitable

AAA TAXES MAY BE RECAPTURED Retroactive Clause May Provide Means, Say Justice Experts. B.i/ United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Recapture of $200,000,000 impounded processing taxes lost to the government by Supreme Court order is cbnstitutionally possible in the opinion of Justice Department experts, congressional leaders revealed today. Recovery is possible through incorporation of a retroactive clause in the tax bill being drawn to provide revenues for the new farm program. the experts were quoted as saying. The Justice Department opinion came as President Roosevelt continued to concentrate on fiscal affairs. He called heads of government spending agencies to a conference this afternoon at which estimates of a cut in authorized expenditures were expected to be presented. The retroactive levies, legal experts advised congressional leaders, must be restricted to the present fiscal year which began July 1.1935. in view of the Supreme Court opinion. By going back to July 1, virtually all of the impounded processing levies would be returned to the government. The bulk of legal actions which tied up the funds were instituted after that date. It was not made clear whether the new bill would contain any provision intended to thwart efforts of processors to recover any of the $1,000,000,000 processing taxes actually paid into the Treasury. CIVIC CLUB TO DISCUSS SCHOOL SITE TONIGHT I South Irvington Group 1 6 Consider Report of Building Committee. Members of the South Irvington Civic Club are expected to discuss the school board building committee’s report on a site for a proposed Irvington High School at 8 tonight in the Christian Park Community House. The committee reported that a site south of E. Washington-st on Pleasant Run-blvd purchased by the board for $30,700 in 1928 was unsatisfactory. living in that neighborhood are said to favor the site. The organization originally pushed the purchase. The civic club, recently reorganized, is to elect officers tonight.

outlets for goods which otherwise would not have been sold. An enormous stimulus was given to business and agriculture, followed by the expansion of productive activities. a a a BY the summer of 1915 the Allied governments had put a heavy strain on their buying powers. They either could not or would not meet that strain by sending over more gold or more American, Canadian, and other foreign securities for liquidation in payment of mounting bills. At that juncture American bankers presented to the officers of the United States government, especially the Secretaries of the Treasury and State, a proposition in the nature of an ultimatum: Unless the government relaxes its ban on loans and permits Amen-

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BATTLE BEGINS ON SUBSTITUTE FOR AAA PLAN Republicans Push Forward Their ‘Kansas Program’ for Farm Aid. DEMANDS QUICK ACTION Rep. Hope Lists Proposals During Hot Debate in Senate. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 6 —Congress cleared away the wreckage of AAA today and plunged into a roaring battle on a substitute farm program, in which Republican backers of the “Kansas plan’’ took a leading role. Immediately after both Houses had sent to the White House the repeal of the cotton, tobacco and potato control acts, the controversy broke unexpectedly in the House where Rep. Clifford Hope <R„ Kas.), demanded immediate action to attack the farm problem on a threecornered front. Mr. Hope, who has a farm plan backed by many Republicans and sometimes linked to Gov. Alf Landon, potential presidential nominee, spoke as the Senate opened a hot debate on the new farm bill to replace the AAA. Details of Proposal Rep. Hope suggested that the problem be solved by: 1. Developing and maintaining the home market for domestic farmers. 2. A domestic allotment plan which will give producers of surplus crops an equivalent for the tariff. 3. The development of foreign markets for American agricultural surpluses. The tariff equalization feature was considered the most important feature. Meanwhile, the revised Administration farm bill was laid before the Senate by Chairman Ellison D. Smith (D„ S. C.) of the Agriculture Committee. It was greeted by a demand from Republican Leader Charles L. McNary of Oregon for a “full explanation of these various editions.” “Every day I find anew one,” McNary said. Explains Administration Bill Mr. Smith said that the revised farm bill would “co-ordinate the Federal powers with the state powers to accomplish the best possible for agriculture.” “The object is to preserve and conserve the productivity of the soil.” he said. . He said he thought there would be no question of the constitutionality of the proposals for state plans—“little AAA's” —and that other features of the bill, providing benefits for farmers who co-operate in conservation methods, could be defended successfully. citylMpathof NEW SUBZERO WAVE Snow Forecast by Local ' Weather Bureau. Although Indianapolis is believed to be out of the path of anew cold wave from the Northwest, snow flurries this afternoon brought another round of winter. The temperature was 16 at noon. The local forecast is for occasional snow tonight and tomorrow, with temperatures not lower than 5 tonight. Fears of a coal shortage in the northern section of the state were revived today as subzero temperatures swept several counties. Four additional deaths were reported. The Wells County Civilian Conservatio Corps sent to Huntington to obtain sufficient coal to last the rest of the week. Coldest recording in Indianapolis last night was 2 at 3 a. rn. Helen Moore, 12, Warsaw, collapsed at West Wayne High School, suffering from exposure after a long walk in subzero weather from her home to the school. Andrew Williams Lash, 85, Craigville, Wells County, died at Berne from exposure. He was found lying in a snowdrift, with hands, feet and face frozen. A heart attack suffered while carrying coal was fatal to Ed Harper. 64, Linton. Mrs. Mary Hunter. 77. Logansport, died from injuries incurred when she fell on icy pavement.

can citizens to pay for Allied supplies by advancing money and taking bonds, a grave crisis will arise in the American economic system. Allied buying will slow down and a depression in business and agriculture will set in. Like all governments threatened by a domestic crisis, the government of the United States sought an escape by yielding. So one loan after another was floated in the United States for the Allies. American citizens put up the money to pay American industrialists and farmers for the goods bought by the Allies. By the opening of 1917 the Allies had strained even this form of ..redit. Unlimited borrowing was out of the question. The war fortunes of the Allies were at a low ebb. In March. 1917, the (Turn to Page Three)

GENERAL STRIKE IS CALLED OFF BY PEKIN UNIONS Merchants* Decision to Resume Business in 200 Establishments Leads to Sudden End of Walkout. ‘LABOR DICTATORSHIP’ IS BROKEN All Pickets Except Group at Distilling Cos. Plant to Be Withdrawn, Sheriff Is Informed by Leaders. By United Press PEKIN, 111., Feb. 6.—The Pek'n general strike was broken today. Announcement was made by Jack Kinsella, labor leader and a member of the “labor general staff” which had controlled Pekin’s business life for more than 24 hours. “The strike is off,” Kiiuella announced as he stepped from the general strike headquarters. Announcement followed by less than two hours decision

A. F. OF L. ASKS PAY INCREASES Green Promises Immediate Fight to Offset Effect of Inflation. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—President William Green of the American Federation of Labor today promised an immediate fight for nationwide wage increases “to offset the deleterious effect of currency inflation.” In a statement taking cognizance of current inflation efforts in Congress, Mr. Green pointed to the increase in prices which could be expected to follow currency expansion. “Obviously, labor will be at a disadvantage if commodity prices increase and wages remain stationary at the depressed level to which they have been forced through the pursuit of a wage deflation policy,” he said. “Asa matter of sound public policy, as well as of justice, an increase in wages should precede an increase in commodity prices.” Mr. Green said members of the A. F. of L. executive council were “determined to safeguard interests of the wage earners by insisting upon increases in wages immediately.” POLICE HUNT MOTHER OF STERILIZED HEIRESS Mayhem Charges Are Filed Against Mrs. Maryon Hewitt. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.— Police of New York and San Francisco today sought Mrs. Maryon Cooper Hewitt, mother of Ann Cooper Hewitt, sterilized heiress, who may have fled to England to escape criminal prosecution and a $500,000 civil damage action filed by her daughter. Warrants charging mayhem and based on the sterilization operation were issued against Mrs. Hewitt and two local physicians Monday. Officers here doubted Mrs. Hewitt had left the country and favored the theory that, ill and distraught by the sensational case, she has gone into seclusion. Her attorneys denied she had left.

80.000 AT OLYMPICS IGNOREMRICANS Cheers Stop as U. S. Team Enters Arena. By United Pre** GARMISCH- PARTENKIRCHEN. Germany, Feb. 6.—The American Olympic team, greeted with silence as contrasted to applause for European and oriental squads, today defeated Germany, 1-0, in the opening ice hockey game of the quadrennial international winter competitions. The game was played in a driving snowstorm which began this morning, hours before Reichfuehrer Adolf Hitler, in the climax of a colorful ceremony, declared the games officially opened. While the 80.000 spectators had enthusiastic cheers for most of the athletes of the 28 nations represented in the games, the Canadian group was accorded only scattering salvos and the United States squad received no demonstration whatsoever. PIUS M/fRKS ELECTION AS CATHOLIC PONTIFF Prays for World Peace on Fourteenth Anniversary as Pope. By United Peru* VATICAN CITY. Feb. 6.—Pop* Pius observed special periods of prayer for world peace today, the fourteenth anniversary of his election to the papal throne. He received many messages of congratulation from foreign rulers, statesmen and high church officials. Otherwise there was no change from his usual busy routine.

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of the Perkin Association of Commerce to reopen 200 stores and demand full police protection. Sheriff Ralph Goar announced the strikers had agreed to withdraw all pickets except at the American Distilling Cos., where 700 workers hav® been out more than two weeks. Thus ends a brief interlude during which a typical Midwestern industrial town was under a virtual labor dictatorship, unable to get a shave, a cigar, a sandwich or a drink and supplied with meager food and coal only by permit from the strike committee. Support Police Chief Militant storekeepers already had begun breaking the “close—or else'* edict issued by the strike general staff at 3 p. m. yesterday. First to reopen were a bakery and a cleaning and dyeing shop. The Association of Commerce at a secret meeting adopted a strong “law and order” resolution supporting Police Chief Harry Donahue and agreed to reopen in defiance of the strikers. Clarence Rupp, who was shot from ambush outside his home last night, made a statement from his hospital cot blaming the shooting on the Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union, which is co-operating in the labor holiday. Rupp, operator of cutrate taxicabs, had carried food to strike breakers at the distillery. “I refused to take orders from them so they tried to get me,” he said. Still defiant, despite a bullet In his chest, he added: “I still won’t take orders from them.” 100 MEN START TREK TO ICE-BOUND HOMES Fishermen Struggle Four Miles t# Cutter in Open Water. Bp T'nitril Prrx* WASHINGTON. Feb. 6—A hundred men tied together like Alphine climbers trekked across the ice of Tangier Sound today in an attempt to return to their ice-bound homes on Tangier and Smith Islands. The islands have been blocked by ice for two weeks and food and medical supplies have been taken in by airplane or dirigible. Led by Maj. Enoch Gary 7, superintendent of Maryland state police, the fishermen walked -four miles over the ice to the Coast Guard cutter Travis. The Travis was to take the men across a dangerous stretch of broken ice to the edge of the ice barrier which surrounds the islands. Dr. R. M. Johnson, health officer of Somerset County, was on Tangier Island today caring for eight pneumonia victims. FARMERS ACT TO FREE DOG TRAPPED IN CAVE Terrier Near Death After Tw* Weeks in Mountain Cavern. Bp United Pres* ICKESBURG. Pa.. Feb 6.—High up on the stone and ice face of Tuscarora Mountain six farmers drilled and chipped at a 50-foot high boulder today, moving inch by inch toward a frightened and half-frozen terrier trapped for two weeks in a cavern prison. The rescuers thought they might reach the dog before dark, feeling that if they didn't the animal would die of cold and exhaustion before tomorrow. A fox led the terrier into the cavern Jan. 24. Food has been poked down the crevasse easily and the dog has been seen to eat. Snow ha prov'oed water. ETHEL SHUTTA ROBBED OF JEWELS, FUR COAT Singer Glad That Bandit Trie Didn’t Kidnap Her. Bp United Per** CHICAGO. Feb. 6.—Ethel Shutta, singer and wife of George Olson, orchestra leader, today bemoaned the lass of SBSOO in jewels and a S3OOO mink coat and was thankful that robbers did not kidnap her. Three gunmen curbed her automobile while she was en route to a performance last night, threatened her chauffeur and forced her to hand over the jewels and coat.