Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 301, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1936 — Page 1

20,000,000 ON RELIEF ROLLS, SURVEY SHOWS Influx of New Faces Wipes Out Nearly All Gains in Industry. PART-TIME JOBS FEW •Borderline' Families, at End of Resources. Now Ask for Aid. BY ROBERT S. BROWN Timf* Special Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Relief is as grave and far-reaching a problem today as it was a year ago. A continuous influx of new faces has wiped out nearly all the gains recorded by private employment. Relief and unemployment curves are meeting. In 1933 oniy 50 per cent, of the jobless were accepting assistance from public agencies. Today the figure is near 100 per cent. “Borderline” families have reached the end of their private resources. An unusually cold winter has hastened their application for aid. Part-time jobs are few. Relatives and friends no longer ire able, or willing, to lend support. In the large majority these new relief cases are “employable.” but. they are barred from WPA jobs because they applied for relief after the deadline of Nov. 1, 1935. So they are being relegated to direct relief rolls where benefits, ss supplied by states, counties or cities, are often inadequate, especially for ’arge families. Relief Needs Are Greater .These facts dominate other important conclusions reached following a second nation-wide survey of the relief problem by The Indianapolis Times and other ScrippsHoward newspapers in 24 representative areas. Asa year ago when ScrippsHoward made a similar survey, the magnitude of relief needs is greater than the efforts of all agencies to meet them. True, the Federal government's WPA and other jobcreating agencies have provided more than 3,500.000 jobs and have raised the standard of living for this group. But for the remainder—those classed as unemployabies, or those unable to qualify for WPA because of regulations or quotas—the present division of responsibility between Federal and state agencies has brought lower standards, a renewd lack of security and in many areas actual suffering. “Throw Back” Causes Trouble When President Roosevelt ruled last year that the Federal government must end its dole and provide funds only for work relief. It was necessary to set a maximum figure for such employment In order to stay within the four-billion dollar appropriation. On advice of Relief Administrator Hopkins, this number was fixed at 3,500,000 individuals, representing about 70 per cent of the number of relief “cases.” Mr. Hopkins knew then that at least 1.500.000 “cases” or 6.000.000 individuals, would be thrown back to the states for care. What he did not anticipate was the tremendous increase in this "throw-back” group from the borderline families. It is this development which Is keeping the relief rolls close to 20.000,000. It Is preventing the *bur.i(Turn to Page Five) DEALINGS ON MARKET LIGHTER: PRICES EASE Smallest Volume Since Jan. 21 Recorded on Exchange. B.n I nited Press NEW YORK. Feb. 25. Prices gradually eased on the Stock Exchange early this afternoon and dealings lightened to the smallest volume since Jan. 21. Losses of fractions to a point were noted in United States Steel. Woolworth, Kennecott, Pure Oil, Bethlehem Steel, Standard Brands, Union Carbide, Lima Locomotive, Chesapeake Ohio, Pennsylvania Railroad. Atlantic Coast Line and American Tobacco. WORKER HURT IN BLAST Air Driven Punch Press Explodes at Plant Here. Albert Fry. 35. of 1530 N. Illinoisst. was injured seriously today when an air driven punch press exploded at the Chevrolet Body Cos.. 1100 W. Henrv-st. His upper left arm and shoulder were mangled when he was struck with a section of the shattered press. He is in St. Vincent's Hospjtal. 69 PERMITS ARE ISSUED Report for Week Ending Feb. 22 Given by Building Commissioner. Building permits for the week ending Feb. 22 totaled 69 for a value of $29,518, Building Commissioner William F. Hurd said today. This is lower than the corresponding week, but the year's total is ahead of last year's. TIMES INDEX ' Amusements 15 Births, Deaths 17 Comics 19 Country Doctor 9 Editorial 12 Financial ’4 Radio 4 Sport* 16-17 State Deaths 7 Want Ada 17-18 Women's Page g-9

WHAT'S WRONG WITH INDIANAPOLIS SCHOOLS?—READ THE TIMES, SURVEY—ON PAGE ONF, SECOND SECTION

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Cloudy and colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about freezing.

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An ice gorge that stretched more than a mile atony White River this afternoon threatened property in Ravenswood and surrounding areas. The ice, clogged chiefly near Ravens-

TROOPS ASKED IN TIRE STRIKE Akron Sheriff Abandons His Plan to Wage Battle With Pickets. By I nited Press AKRON, 0.. Feb. 25.—Sheriff James T. Flower today announced he would ask Gov. Martin L. Davey to send troops into Akron where striking rubber workers have blockaded the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. plants for eight days. Flower started an attempt to reach Gov. Davey in Columbus after his plans for a military onslaught against 1000 pickets, striking because 70 veteran employes were dismissed. were upset. Police Chief Frank Bass refused to permit his patrolmen to use violence in helping Flower enforce a court order restraining mass picketing at the gates to the world’s largest tire factory. Flower immediately abandoned the plan. Boss defended his decision. He said that to send officers into a club swinging mass of defiant pickets would have been “poor policing and foolhardy.” City councilmen dispatched a telegram to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins asking that Assistant Secretary Edward E. McGrady. the department's ace “trouble shooter.” be sent to Akron. Sheriff Flower was unable to reach the Governor immediately. He talked with Col. L. B. Brown of the State Adjutant General's office in Columbus. Col. Brown said he would not send in the militia unless a major disorder develops. That appeared unlikely as long as peace officers refrain from molesting pickets who outnumber them at least 20 to 1. Meanwhile, at Columbus, a delegation of Akron labor leaders waited on Gov. Davey. They refused to disclose the nature of their mission. TREASURY TO BORROW MORE THAN BILLION (ash to Pay Bills, Notes Maturing in March and April. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 25. The Treasury laid plans today to borrow more than a billion dollars to refinance obligations coming due during March and April. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau announced that on March 16 the Treasury would obtain sufficient cash to cover bills and notes totaling 5,50.000.000. maturing on March 15, and $559,000,000 maturing April 15. ADAMS WILL PROBATED Justice Owen Roberts Is One of Attesting Signatures. Thp will of C. Willis Adams, formerly an official of the Link Belt Cos., was probated today. One of the attesting signatures on it was that of Owen J. Roberts, now a justice of the United States Supreme Court The property was left in trust for his widow, Mrs. Louise O. Adams.

l : 1 nve good reasons* why you should read ‘The Country Doctor,” new continued story now running on the Fashion Page of The Times *the Dionne Quintuplets are heroines

Ice Gorge Threatens Property at Resort North of City

TEACHERS URGED TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM Dr. Begrd Sees Threat to Academic Liberty. By United Press ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 25.—A fighting constitution for the teachers of America to defeat “witchburners and fanatics,’ was proposed to the National Educational Association convention today by Dr. Charles A. Beard, author and historian. Dr. Beard addressed a general session of the sixty-sixth annual convention of the N. E. A. Department of Superintendence. “The immediate obligations of organized education in America are clear.” he said.*- “They are: “1. Draft a national code of good practice for the teaching of subjects which involve or touch upon controversial questions. “2. Define the rights and duties of teachers and pupils. “3. Secure the co-operation of parents and school boards. “4. Provide rules of procedure for the examination and adjudication of specific cases of controversy. “5. Publish a constitution for the teaching profession. “6. Educate teachers and the public in the liberties, responsibilities, and duties of inquiry, research and scholarship in American society. “7. Establish a national body, to promote and defend the rights of free scientific inquiry.” CITY DENTIST INJURED WHEN CAR OVERTURNS Condition of Dr. J. Thayer Waldo Is Reported as Serious. Dr. J. Thayer Waldo. 135 W. 41stst. dentist, with offices r.t 610 HumeMansur Building, is in a serious condition today in Methodist Hos.pital suffering from injuries received last night in an auto accident. A car, in which he and four other dentists were driving to dental meeting at Crawfordsville, slipped from the icy road 15 miles east of Crawfordsville. struck a soft shoulder. and turned on its side in a deep ditch. No one else was injured. Others in the car were Dr. Edgar T. Haynes. 5133 N. Pennsvlvaniast. with offices at 39 E. Ohio-st, driver; Dr. Robert Botkin. 217 S. with offices at 39 E. Ohio-st; Dr. Harold A. Buses. 2327 Coyner-av, with offices "t 724 Bankers’ Trust Building, and Dr. F. A. Hohlt, 1241 Kentucky-av, with offices at 39 E. Ohio-st. 3-WAY NAVAL TREATY PROPOSED BY BRITAIN' IT.l T . S., England, Germany Would Be Included in Suggested Agreement. By United Press LONDON. Feb. 25.—Great Britain has proposed informally a threepower naval agreement with the United States and Germany in event the present American-British-French-Italian conference collapses, it was reported today. Leaders feared that the present j four-power conference in search of a limitation treaty might collapse because Italy wants to make it conditional on cancellation of League penalties and Fiance to make it op- j erative only if European security is attained.

Called Home A child was hurt, the radio said, at 415 Moreland-av. Patrolman Albert Brahaum heard the call and made his way there as fast as the squad car could take him. A 5-year-old boy had mashed his finger playing with a wagon. Patrolman Brahaum rushed him to City Hospital for treatment. The injured child was Wayne Brahaum, son of the patrolman. The accident occurred at the Brahaum home.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1936

wood, forced water back 350 feet into lowlands. The photo at the left shows the ice jammed in front of the Ravenswood beach. In the foreground can be detected the only break in the

SPECIAL RITES TO MARK LENT 40 Days of Abstinence and Prayer to Be Observed Starting Tomorrow. Observance of Lent, 40 days of prayer and abstinence, begins tomorrow in Indianapolis churches. Special masses and rites are to be held in Catholic and Protestant churches in observance of Ash Wednesday. The Lenten rites are to continue to Easter Sunday, April 12. Catholic churcnes are to observe fasting and abstinence. Protestant churches urge attendance at special prayer meetings, with the administration of holy communion at regular services. Protestant women are to observe a “World Day of Prayer” Friday. Noon-day Lenten rites are to begin at 12:15 tomorrow at Christ Episcopal Church, Monument Circle. Episcopal churches are to observe (Turn to Page Three) HAGOOD’S REMOVAL FIRES CONGRESSMEN Action Against WPA Critic Brings Bitter Protests. By United i . r.sS WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—Suspension of Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood from active duty drew a storm of protest today from congressmen and New Deal critics that threatened to become a major political issue. Gen. Hagood, “‘by direction of the President,” was relieved of his post as commanding officer of the Eighth corps area at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., and ordered home “awaiting orders” after he criticised WPA spending of “stage money.” At the War Department it was indicated the third ranking officer of the United States Army may continue to sit at home until he reaches the Army retirement age 16 months from now. Revelation of the order caused congressional tempers to explode. Rep. Thomas L. Blanton (D„ Tex.), asserted Secretary of War George Dern. Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff, and Assistant Secretary of War Harry Woodring “ought to be impeached and removed from office.” SCHWEITZER RELEASED ON SIO,OOO CASH BOND Stern Still in Jail Awaiting Sentence for Mail Fraud. Sam Schweitzer, convicted last Wednesday by a Federal jury on mail fraud charges, obtained his liberty today under a SIO,OOO cash bond. Schweitzer was charged v.ith being the “financial wizard” of Louis Stern & Cos., former Indianapolis investment firm. Stern still is m jail. Sentence is to be passed on the two and H. N. Collins by Judge Robert C. Baltzell Saturday.

Boy, Infantile Paralysis Victim, Who Lived in ‘lron Lung ’ 699 Bays, Dies

By United Press OAKLAND. Cal.. Feb. 25.—The Alameda County Hospital's “iron lung” which maintained life in 18-year-old Raymond Rambo for 699 days was idle today. Raymond, the smiling youth who insisted he "couldn't die,” expired last night. Death came suddenly to the boy whose favorite occupation was reading sporting magazines in preparation for his recovery from infantile paralysis and release from the Drinker respirator which continued his breathing when paralysis attacked his diaphragm. Collapse of Raymond’s stomach, the same difficulty which threatened his life 10 days ago. caused his

gorge. A plan to dynamite was abandoned. The photo at the right shows in detail the trail of ice and some of the debris it is carrying with it.

Last Word By United Press MILWAUKEE. Feb. 25.—Leo P. Brzezinski was back at home today although his wife believed he should be in jail. Judge George E. Page sentenced him to 30 days on a charge of being a common drunkard. “That's not enough,” Leo's wife interjected. “Who's running this court, anyway?” the judge asked. “For that I’m going to give your husband another chance. Case dismissed.”

BILL-DRAWING BODY STUDIES INCOME TAX Amendments Would Make Non-Profit Corps. Pay. The joint legislative committee drawing bills for the special session of the Legislature today considered amendments to the gross income tax law calculated to broaden the payment base. The proposed amendments, through which part of the social security cost is to be financed, would bring under the income tax law various non-profit corporations which are in competition with private business and which now escape payment. Approximately $2,000,000 annually will be raised by this clarification of the law. it is estimated. Clarence Jackson, gross income tax division director, emphasized the fact that the proposed changes in the law will not effect rates and will make no change in the taxes paid by present taxpayers. The special session now is expected to be called by Gov. McNutt about the middle of March. The Governor denied that the special session Is to be postponed until after the primary for political reasons. PROPONENTS OF FAST TIME PRESENT CASE I. C. C. Hears Arguments in Chicago’s Move to Turn Up Clocks. By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 25.—Proponents of an ordinance establishing Eastern time in Chicago, starting March 1, continued efforts today to convince the Interstate Commerce Commission that railroads should operate on the new schedule. Barnet Hodes, Chicago corporation counsel, was to recommend to Commissioner Clyde B. Aitchison the territory Chicago believes should be .served by railroads operating on Eastern time. After other witnesses for the city are heard, opponents of the time change are to present their arguments. They include farm and labor representatives of Wisconsin. Illinois and Indiana and civic groups. By United Press FORT WAYNE, Ind.. Feb. 25. The Fort Wayne Federation of Labor today was on record in opposition to proposed adoption of Eastern time in Indiana,

death, physicians said. An emergency pumping treatment carried him past the first r ri sis, but similar effort last night we*e futile. The boy's mother was at his side when he died. Raymond had been in the respirator since April 10, 1934. On two previous occasions death was near. Once gangrene attacked his wasted body and he lapsed into a coma. Doctors marveled at the will power which brought him back to consciousness. On another occasion the respirator broke and he had to be transferred to another in record time. Without the aid of the pulsating

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lIR6E ADDITION TO HIGH SCHOOL Board Group to Advise $350,000 Improvement at Washington. Construction of a $350,000 addition to Washington High School is to be recommended to the School Board tonight by its special building committee. The committee also is to recommend construction of a second addition as soon as convenient after the first has been completed. The committee, presenting the fifth in a series of school housing conditions, is to say that the building was designed for 1000 pupils and now contains 2250. The first addition would contain 23 class rooms and a gymnasium and the second 12 rooms and an auditorium. The school now is using four temporary frame buildings of two rooms each. They are steam heated, but have no toilets. The stage of the auditorium and an ordinary classroom are used for gymnasium facilities. The report is to state that the cafeteria is inadequate. Seating only 300 pupils, it is used to serve 1200. An enrollment of 2885 by 1940 is to be predicted. This, the report is to say, would then be an over-load, unless additional facilities are provided, of 1885 students.” Erection of the first addition will increase the capacity by about 800. $25,000 DOG POUND PROPOSEDJOR CITY Site for New Structure Not Yet Selected. Plans for anew city dog pound, to be constructed at an estimated cost of $25,000, were announced today by William F. Hurd, city building commissioner. The site is to oe selected soon. Mr. Hifrd told the Safety Board the proposed pound would house 300 dogs and be divided into five wards containing separate rooms. Each room is to have an exercise pen, and the superintendent. Dr. Elizabeth Conger, is to be provided with quarters. The structure, modernistic in design, is to be two stories high with one-story wings. A lethal chamber and a garage also are to be constructed. At present the pound Is on rented land at 4400 Massachusetts-av. There are no water or sewer facilities. Proposed sites for the new pound are 2200 S. West-st and 3600 S. Harding-st. Plans for the new structure were drawn by Works Progress Administration architects. Rural Lighting Bill Debated By f nited Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—The billion dollar rural electrification bill sponsored by Senator George W. Norris <R., Neb.), was brought up for consideration in the Senate today with leaders expecting to enact it during the present session of Congress.

machine, which kept him breathing 16 times % minute, the normal rate of respiration, he would have died. While he lay in the machine, two goldfish swam around in a bowl placed on a glass shelf over his head. He used the shelf to hold books, face downward, while he read. Nurse* turned the pages for him. Several weeks ago Raymond had begun to learn radio telegraphy. With a practice set resting on his throat, he tapped the transmitter key with his chin. , One of his most prized possessions was a personal letter from President Roosevelt.

FLOOD WATERS ENTER COTTAGES AT RAVENSWOOD

Several Families Marooned in Corncribs Near Illinois Town. RESCUE ATTEMPT FAILS Danger of Overflow at Evansville Dims as Ohio Recedes. By United Press NEW HAVEN, 111.. Feb. 25. —Twelve rurai families were marooned in corncribs 10 miles south of here today after flood waters of the Wabash River inundated their homes. The families fled their homes and took refuge in the corncribs, elevated on heavy Tiles, after water had flooded several low-lying houses. According to Ben Beeker. a storekeeper, the w r ater was five and six feet deep in many residences. “They Aren’t in any danger now,” Beeker said. “They have food enough to last three or four days. But those corncribs are loosely built and if the temperature drops it will be bad.” Most of the marooned victims were children. Names of only four of the families were known. They are: Mrs. Minnie Frailey. a widow, and her four children. Thomas Cisna, and Fiis four children. Otis Stevens, his wife, and five children. J. A. William and his wife. Beeker said that fishermen started out in a motorboat this morning to reach the victims but gave up when imperiled by ice floes. Nine Areas Endangered Cracking ice gorges this afternoon threatened flood stages in nine Indiana communities along the Wabash and White Rivers, the Weather Bureau reported. With the Ohio River reported virtually free of ice jams, farm families returned to the lowland homes in the Evansville area today. The upper half of the Wabash River is rising, and ice jams have driven White River up at Anderson, Noblesville and below Indianapolis. Imminent danger of a flood is reported at Petersburg, junction of the two rivers. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said that ice gorges threatened floods in the Wabash River at Bluffton, Logansport. Lafayette. Terre Haute, Vincennes and New ’ Harmony. At Bluffton the river was at 9.9 feet and workers are blasting to break an ice gorge at the town's chief bridge. The gorge Is holding at New Harmony, but the flow of jammed ice began moving last night or today in the ether threatened communities along the Wabash. Mr. Armington said that the floods, if they occurred, would be brief and would pass as soon as the flow of ice began moving down the rivers. Floods Plague Midwest (Bv United Pi ess) Floods today menaced the vast mid-continent area drained by raging, ice-choked streams which flow into the Mississippi. Huge accumulations of snow melted over thousands of acres as temperatures mounted well above freezing in the territory which suffered a month of subzero cold. Breakup of ice gorges in the Ohio River lessened the flood danger in southern Indiana and Kentucky, where spring floods are an annual occurrence. Two streams in southeastern Nebraska, where two feet of snow melted in two days, poured over their banks.* Lowland residents evacuated their homes. Weather observers believed lower temperatures during the next few days would retard the early thaw and alleviate the flood threat. Heavy rains would spread disaster by rising hundreds of streams above flood stage. J The Mississippi ice gorge broke at Chester, 111., last night, threatening to crush boats and levees under huge ice cakes. The ice moved slowly at first, but rivermen foresaw thousands of dollars damage should it gain momentum. Tremendous ice blocks jolted down the Ohio River, but shore ice | held fast, keeping the ice cakes from lowland homes. With Scioto River ice pressing! dangerously against bridges at Columbus, 0., city engineers dynamited 1 several dams. In Milwaukee, engineers prepared to dynamite ice Jams in the Lincoln Park section where floods annually inundate a wide territory. The Milwaukee River rose six inches yesterday. Sidewalk Blown Out By United Press HUNTINGTON. Ind., Feb. 25. Dynamite charges set off simultaneously to dislodge ice gorged in the Little Wabash River here blew out a section of the sidewalk on the Jefferson-st bridge, shattered! windows of nearby apartments and disabled 600 telephones.

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Ice Gorge Breaks, Carrying Away Boats and Docks Along River. MORE DAMAGE FEARED Mercury May Drop Tonight to Freezing, Weather Man Says. A one-mile ice jam in White River this afternoon threatened flood damage to Ravenswood. Rising swiftly after the ice gorgw had broken, the river overflowed and inundated the first floors of buildings 350 feet from the oeacli at Ravenswood. Occupants hastily began moving furniture from the first to second floors of stores, taverns and cottages in the path of the rising waters. Rowboats, docks and trees were lodged among the large chunks of ice piled high in the river as the water rase at a rate of more than two feet an hour. Halt Dynamiting Plan The water first rose into the ground floor of Arens Wharf House and j then crest up to the Beech View Casino, Schmelz' Jungle Inn and Goodpasture's Happy Landing. Deputy Sheriff Charles McAllister said it would be impossible to blast, i the ice. because the tremendous amount of dynamite necessary for the charge would endanger the dam. While an Indianapolis Times reporter was telephoning at the Goodpasture store, the water started entering the store. The ice was moving slowly until the water backed up into the lowlands and relieved the pressure. From Lagoon Park south the tern is frozen almost solidly for two miles. The jam is backed up against the wall of solid ice. ThvA water rase so swiftly that within an hour it pushed from 75 feet to more than 350 feet from the beach, flooding streets and cottages in Ravenswood. Drop in Mercury Forecast The Weather Bureau forecast near freezing temperatures for tomorrow, but it is feared this may not relieve the situation. The river, near Keystone-av and 75th-st, was frozen solid for several weeks, until midnight last night, when it began cracking. A huge gorge was formed from 75t.h-st to Sandy Beach. Huge chunks of ice massed up against the stone wall, and residents heard the grinding of the ice throughout the night. Gorge Breaks Suddenly At 10 this morning, the gorge broke suddenly. The water began moving slowly and then increased rapidly, sweeping away rowboats, docks, shrubs and trees. The swirling mass plowed downstream for 45 minutes, according to two witnesses, Mrs. D. F. Monn and Albert Quack. Fifteen minutes later the water receded two feet. The ice jammed again at Ravenswood a short time later, and White River rose again at 75th-st and Keystone-av to within six inches of the high spot reached during the breaking of the jam and then dropped gradually. Mr. Quack and Mrs. Monn said some of the chunks were two feet thick and six feet square. They said sharp edges of the ice cut bark from trees and sliced off parts of docks. The water spread out over some of the lowland. At Terrace Beach. Mrs. George Wildman prepared to evacuate her home, and Abe Greenwald and C. T. Nankervis moved their furniture to the second floors.

BLAST FROM POLICE GUN FELLS CITY MAN Clifford Mallott Badly Wounded} One Arrested, Two Escape. Clifford Mallott, 30, of 18’i 3. Capitol-av, is in a serious condition today with a charge of buckshot in his legs, put there by police last night when he and three others in an alleged stolen auto tried to escape. Police sighted the car and gave chase. At 10th and Alvord-sts the car stopped and police arrested the driver. The other three left the car and tried to escape on foot. They shot Mallott, but the other two escaped. The driver of the car was Lee Goins, 22, of Lorraine. Mallott is in City Hospital. CLAIM TWO VICTORIES Ethiopians Report 651 Italians Dead, After Raids on Enemy. By Uni'ctl Pren* ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 25.—Ethiopia claimed two important victories today in raids against Italians on the northern front, reporting 651 Italians killed. Four hundred Italians were killed in a secret night raid by Ras Imru on an Italian camp north of Aksum. on the main route to Asmara, capital of Italian Eritrea, a communique said.