Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 303, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1936 — Page 1

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Compromise Reached With Revolt Leaders; Terms Are Awaited. TAKAHASHI AMONG DEAD Battle Fleet Trains Guns on City as Rebels Go to Barracks. (Pictures on Page Nineteen) BY RAY MARSHALL (Copyright. 1936. bv United Press) TOKYO, Feb. 27.—Army chieftains today reached a compromise with leaders of the extremist army groups who attempted a" coup and precipitated a grave national emergency. While the guns of a battle fleet dominated the city, and troops and bluejackets guarded the imperial palace, the army chiefs and the young revolting officers agreed that the rebels shquld return to their regiment. The officers—held responsible for leading the men into revolt will be given the opportunity to decide whether to submit to arrest and trial or make some other proposal for their disposition. The enlisted men will return to I heir barracks, but not immediately. For the time being they will be quartered at hotels, restaurants and the homes of the ministers of education. railways and agriculture while details of the compromise are worked out. By 8 p. m. (5 a. m. Indianapolis time) the rebel soldiers were starting to leave lor their new quarters. Warships Tram Guns on City As the leaders compromised, the city and nation was under a drastic slate of martial law and there was a censorship that strangled all news exrept officially approved material. Ships of the first division of the grand fleet, pride of the nation, steamed into Tokyo Bay, guns ready for action. Picked troops of the imperial guard co-operated with bluejackets and civilian troop to guard strategic parts of the city and its great public buildings. After more than 24 hours of mystery, the War Office permitted it to be known that the rebel extremists had held portions of the army general staff property, the prime minister's residence and the grounds of the new Diet (parliament) Building. Details Eagerly Awaited Details of the compromise with the rebels were not announced immediately and the country awaited them eagerly. They meant much to its immediate future, for the severity or the liberality of the army leaders toward the young men who rebelled against the constituted authority was expected to tell something of their great question: Was the coup—in itself abortive—to mean a victory for the civilian liberals or for the army men who at any moment are glad to offer their lives for their ideal,' the country’s traditions? The compromise, and its release of the news of the rebels’ captured renters, showed that the men of the Third Infantry Regiment of the First Division, which participated in the revolt, had done their work efficiently. Officials Study Situation The places which they held, the premier's residence>ihe general staff property and the new Diet grounds, are in the center of the city's heart across the moat from the Emperor’s imperial castle. The American embassy is just to the south. As the compromise was reached, three groups of leaders were considering the situation—army and navy officers of highest rank; the civilian political figures who for centuries have been locked in a fight with them for supremacy in administration, and royal princes who met with Emperor Hirohito at his palace. Each group was considering its own ideas of the immediate future of the government, intending to recommend a course to the Emperor. It was an acute national crisis due to the boiling over of extremist army spirit after the liberal victory it. the elections, which brought to the front again the now dangerous(Turn to Page Three)

FRANCE RATIFIES SOVIET NON-AGGRESSION PACT Mutual Assistance in Case of Unprovoked Attack Promised. By l nite<! Press PARIS, Feb. 27—The Chamber oi Deputies today ratified the FrancoSoviet non-aggression pact following three weeks of debate. The treaty provides mutual military assistance in case of unprovoked attack on either power in European territory. Contrary to an earlier decision, the government did not ask for a vote of confidence on the question of ratification. House Damaged by Stove Blast Explosion of an oil stove at the home of William West, 1315 Lee-st. caused SIOO Are damage today. No one w’as home when the stove exploded.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Fair and colder tonight with lowest temperature about 15; tomorrow increasing cloudiness with rising temperatures.

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U. S. Officials Silent as They Continue Study of Situation. FULL RESULTS AWAITED Diplomats Say Extremists Are Urging War With America Now. BY JOSEPH H. BAIRD United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The State Department, reading avidly both official and press reports from Tokyo, still was unable today to judge the effects on Japanese-Amer-ican relations of the army’s revolution against civilian government. Reports to the State Department told merely of the dramatic events in Tokyo, but made no effort to interpret the situation. Interest here centered on whether Ihe coup against Japan's “moderate” ministers was engineered by the War Department or"was merely the action of a small, independent group. IT. S. Vitally Interested If the former, diplomats reasoned, there may be a further revolt against the government in Tokyo. If the latter, yesterday’s assassinations may prove a closed chapter. The State Department is vitally interested in whether the Japanese government is dominated by the army or by liberal civilians because the complexion of the government in Tokyo may have a decisive bearing on the question of peace or war between America and Japan. According to diplomats, a sn.all group in Japanese army and navy circles insist that war between the two countries is inevitable and that Japan should fight now before the United States Navy becomes stronger. That, it is readily admitted, is an extremist point of view. Fear War With Russia Yet it would find readier acceptance in a government dominated by the army than in a regime of moderates. On the other hand, Japanese liberals appear ready to work out the problems existing between Washington and Tokyo through diplomatic channels. Also, control of the Japanese government by the army, it is believed here, might precipitate a war between Japan and Russia. With world politics as closely knitted as they are today, the State Department is apprehensive about a breach of peace anywhere in the world. SOVIET SEES REVOLT AS PERIL TO PEACE Moscow Press Expresses Grave Misgivings. By United Press MOSCOW. Feb. 27. Official Moscow interpreted the Japanese uprising today as indicative of a hidden class struggle in the island empire threatening the peace of the world. Karl Radek. eminent Russian publicist, whose views coincide with official Soviet action, wrote in the newspaper Izvestia today that the Tokyo coup “may have the most strious consequences on foreign policy.” "The revolt is significant of the victories of the peasants and workers in the election and a symptom of a break with the ruling cliques of Japan. Disappointment at results of the election instigated the plotters to immediate armed action The event of Feb. 26 is more far reaching than assassinations. They undoubtedly signify anew- State of internal struggle which may have the most serious consequence on foreign policy. “If under conditions of formal peace. Japanese militarists solve domestic arguments with arms, imagine what internal relations would be in case Japan was defeated in war. There is no need to speak of the difficulties such a regime presents for peaceful powers desirous of settling all arguments with Japan by peaceful negotiation. ’ Japanese ministers are forced to make decisions with a gun at the temple. Such is the alarming significance of events in Tokyo.” BRAIN SURGEON CALLED FOR SOVIET OFFICIAL Rumor He Was to Treat Stalin Is Exploded. By United Press MOSCOW'. Feb. 27.—Prof. Herbert Olivecrona, famous Swedish brain surgeon, is in Moscow for consultation on treatment of I. A. Akulov, Central Executive Commit* tee secretary, the Commissariat of Health announced today. It had been rumored that Olivecrona had been called to treat Josef Stalin, but the rumor was set at rest by the latter’s personal secretary, who gave assurance that the Soviet head is in good health, in

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GIVE APPROVAL TO LORRY BILL House Rules Committee Returns Favorable Report on Proposed Law. Rii United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—The House Rules Committee today approved a recommendation for passage of stringent legislation designed to curb activities of congressional lobbyists. The recommendation was written into a report to the House on the committee’s inquiry into lobbying on the Utility Control Bill last session. It was understood that both Republican ana Democratic members agreed. Under the proposed legislation every lobbyist would be required to register and give a strict account to Congress of money spent and from what sources P .amp. The Senate Lobby Investigation Committee was revealed to have issued a blanket subpena on telegraph companies demanding original copies of all messages filed in 1935 seeking to influence legislation. More than 1.000.000 telegrams were estimated to have been received. Father Charles E. Coughlin's radio appeal for opposition to American adherence to the World Court brought a flood of more than 100,000 messages in one week. PLANE;, GROUNDED HERE Wind Keeps Eastbound Ships From Landing. Due to gusty west wind, airplanes were grounded today at the Municipal Airport. Officials said that pilots of through planes to the East had been instructed not to attempt landings hei'e until the wind shifted.

4 BELIEVED DEAD AS SLIDE BURIES TRAIN \ | Passenger Coach Engulfed by Western Avalanche. By United Press WALLACE. Idaho, Feb. 27. — 1 Wrecking crews dug into the ice and debris of the Rocky Mountain region’s second disastrous snowslide today seeking the bodies of four persons believed killed when the avalanche buried the rear car of a westbound Northern Pacific train. The slide occurred near Lookout Summit, five east of Wallace. After % six hours’ frantic effort, a rescue pariy removed H. E. Wheeler and Mickey Florine. both of Wallace, from the wrecked car. Both were injured seriously but will recover, railroad physicians said. Given up for dead in the wreck, covered by 40 feet of snow, ice dirt and rocks, were Conductor Thomas Byall. Brakeman F. A. McLean and a man and woman, unidentified. RESIGNS LICENSE - POST Robert Loser Quits as Auditor of State Auto Department Resignation of Robert N. Loser. State Automobile License Department auditor, was announced today by Frank Finney, license commissioner. He resigned to practice law here. TIMES INDEX Births 21 Movies 10 Books 13 Mrs. Roosevelt 16 Bridge 16 Music 5 Broun 13 Pegler 13 Comics 23 Pyle 14 Clapper . * 13 Radio 5 Editorials 14 Serial Story.. 17 Fashions 17 Society 16 Financial 18 Sports 20 Hoosier Editor 14 State Deaths 12 Merry-Go-R (£l3 Want Ads ... 21

THURSDAY’, FEBRUARY 27, 1936

THE JAPANESE ‘DIET’!

Real Stars (“The Country Doctor" is annearini in serial form in The Times. Today's installment is on rare ?7.) By l lifted Press HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 27.—The irresistible Dionnes today were launched on their way toward becoming America’s favorite actresses. • Debuting in “Ihe Country Doctor” before a preview audience, the quintuplets gooed and gurgled critics into sentimental ecstasies. Jean Hersholt plays the title part in make-up highly reminiscent of Dr. Dafoe. He is medical shepherd of a north woods village, struggling to gain a hospital for his little community.

PWA OBTAINS EARLY UTILITY TRIAL DATE Suits Against Power Help Are Set for March 30. By United Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.—The Public Works Administration announced today that, acting as “a trustee for the unemployed,” it had procured early district Supreme Court trial of utility company suits seeking to block government financing of Tennessee municipal power systems. PWA’s action was seen as an Administration move to capitalize on the recent Supreme Court TVA decision and a ruling on the municipal plants by the South Carolina Federal Appeals Court. The government's power program was upheld in both cases. The 10 suits, all containing the same points, are to be tried March 30. They affect projects in Alabama, Texas. Olkahoma and Vermont. NAME DUPLICATION IN STREETS STIRS ACTION McLeay to Meet With County Board on Reform. Val McLeay, City Plan Commission secretary, today is to confer with County Commissioners on the problem of duplication of street names in city and county. In a survey, Mr. McLeay found 11 Main-sts, 8 Orchard-sts and several streets west of Indianapolis which changed names every time they jogged. Mr. McLeay proposes approximately 150 name changes. CITY LOANED $500,000 Six Loeal Banks Provide Funds Until Tax Collections. Six local banks today loaned the city $500,000 at lli per cent interest on notes issued in anticipation of spring tax collections. The banks gave the city a $lO5 premium.

Dole Is Costly Makeshift, but Better Than Social Unrest, Survey Indicates

BY ROBERT S. BROWN WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.—“ You’ve got to feed 'em or shoot ’em.” Not a pleasant phrase, yet in a crude way it sums up public sentiment generally on the necessity of providing for the millions of Americans on relief who can not qualify for WPA jobs. The job of “feeding 'em" has been a state and local responsibility since Dec. 1. when the Federal government cut off the dole. It has been a makeshift in all but a handful of states, the Scripps-Ho ( ward newspapers found in a coast-to-coast survey of the relief problem. Many state and local; authorities

STATE ORDERS PHONEJURVEY Work at City Light Cos. Ended; New Probe to Start Monday. Completion of an extensive survey of the Indianapolis Power and Light Cos. properties will permit the Public Service Commission engineering department to begin immediately preparatory work which may mean telephone rate reductions on a state-wide basis. A large staff of appraisers and accountants have been at work on the light company survey under Chief Engineer Harry V. Wenger. Results have not been announced. The commission has ordered its engineers to start Monday on appraisal and inventory of all properties of the Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. and the American Telephone and Telegraph Cos. in South Bend. Mishawaka and St. Joseph County. Investigation of rates charged by Indiana Bell at Auburn already is under way and a number of rate petitions from other municipalities are on file. The start ordered on the St. Joseph County telephone properties lends credence to repeated reports that the Public Service Commission will attempt to obtain phone rate reductions on the same scale that it brought about utility rate reductions throughout the state during the depression. Telephone companies are the only major utilities to escape rate reductions during the depression, largely because the commission engineering and accounting staff has been tied up by electric rate surveys, one commission official pointed out.

SINCLAIR IS NAMED TELEPHONE DIRECTOR Kinjan GfficiaJ Fills Vacanacy on Board of Indiana Bell. W. Richardson Sinclair, R. R. D, Box 380, vice president and treasurer of Kingan & Cos., today was elected a director on the board of the Indiana Bell Telephone Cos. Mr. Sinclair was named by the board to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Charles P. Cooper New York a vice president of tfie American Telephone & Telegraph Cos. SHOOTING IS MYSTERY Frank Napier, 27, Wounded While Walking at Greenwood. Frank Napier. 27, Greenwood. Ind., laborer and father of four, is recovering in City Hospital today from a buckshot wound inflicted mysteriously last night. He was struck while walking near the Greenwood traction station. He told police he did not see his assailant and knew of no reason for the attack.

believe that Congress in voting new relief funds will restore the Federal dole., Others are willing to “muddle through” until Federal and state social security legislation begins to work. Direct relief today is going to two distinct classes: 1. The unemployables, who include the sick, lame, blind, aged, widows and dependent children. 2. The employables, those ablebodied family heads crowded out of WPA job lists either because the job quotas in their areas have not been fulfilled, or because they had not applied for relief prior to last Nov. 1. Relief officials admit the present

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$500,000 FLOOD FUND IS ASKED BY INDIANA WPA; UPSTATE DANGER GROWS

MONEY CHIEFS, ROOSEVELT TO DISCUSSTAXES Fiscal Heads Meet Tonight; $800,000,000 Loan for Bonus Hinted. B f/ United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—President Roosevelt today summoned congressional and government fiscal leaders to meet with him tonight for a general discussion of the tax situation. The President's call for a conference came shortly after announcement by Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., that the government on March 15 would borrow almost $800,000,000 of new money in preparation for payment of the $2,249,000,000 soldiers bonus and other immediate expenditures. At the same time, there were rumblings of a possible congressional battle over the administration’s program for perhaps $500,000,000 in taxes, which indirectly would finance the new farm program. Congress Revolt Predicted There were predictions of a congressional revolt if new processing taxes were proposed. The Administration has given no indication of ihe method to be employed, but it was believed several alternatives might be put up to Congress for decision. These might include excise taxes or broadening of the income tax base. The White House meeting is to be. according to Secretary Stephen T.’ Early, “a general round-table discussion.” He said that the business would be purely along general exploratory lines. Those who will meet with Mr. Roosevelt are Vice President John W. Garner; Senator Alben Barkley (D„ Ky.); Speaker Joseph Byrns, Mr. Morgenthau, Senator Pat Harrison (D., Miss.), Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. John Bankhead (D., Ala.), Herman Oliphant and George Hass, Treasury experts.

HOUSE ADOPTS NEW FARM BILL REPORT Senate Approval on AAA Substitute Awaited. By United, Press WASHINGTON. Feb. 27.—The House today adopted a conference report on the New Deal’s $500,000,000 farm subsidy and soil conservation program, designed to replace the invalidated AAA. The adoption followed introduction in the Senate of a constitutional amendment giving Congress power to regulate the sale and marketing of all agriculture commodities. The amendment was proposed by Senator Gerald P. Nye (R„ N. D.). Only Senate acceptance of the conference report remains before it will be sent to the White House for signature. The Agriculture Department then will speed the work of putting the program into operation. Meantime. Chairman Ellison D. Smith of the Senate Agriculture Committee announced he intended to seek next Monday to over turn President Roosevelt's veto of the $50,000,000 seed-loan bill. SMITHVILLE SCHOOLS DESTROYED BY BLAZE Fire of Undetermined Origin Causes Loss Estimated at §50,000. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind.. Feb. 27. Fire of undetermined origin destroyed grade and high school buildings at Smithville, 10 irftles south of here, early today. Loss was estimated at $50,000. Fire started in the grade school building and spread to the high school despite efforts of firemen from Bloomington and volunteers. Handicapped by lack of water, the firemen formed a bucket brigade.

direct dole is' inadequate. There is actual suffering for want of food, clothing, shelter and proper medical attention in all sections of the country, but there's little t 5 be done about it until states provide funds sufficient to meet the needs. WPA while a blessing to the majority of relief clients, has worked a hardship on the minority. Local public funds, which ordinarily would have been utilized to aid the relief load as a whole, have been diverted to match Federal WPA allocations. Then too, local funds for direct relief were sapped when WPA failed to provide to fill the quota of jobs on Dec. 1, the date the Federal dole (Horn to ifotc Twelve)

Raging Snowstorm Sweeps Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota. MISSOURI RIVER RISES Kansas Families Flee as Ice Cakes Pile Up, Block Channel. By United Pres* A raging- snowstorm swept over northern Wisconsin today while ice-filled streams flooded lowlands in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky. Scores of residents fled their homes to escape rain-swollen streams in northern Indiana. Fair and colder weather today was expected to check the floods. Snow, driven by a 45-mile-an-hour wind, whirled into Wisconsin after clogging roads in Minnesota and North Dakota, which had just been cleared last week-end. More snow was predicted for the upper Great Lakes region. The Superior-Duluth interstate bridge was closed to traffic and bus and freight train schedules were canceled out of Superior, Green Bay and Marshfield. Passenger trains and busses were held back from Marinette. Rhinelander and other northern Wisconsin cities. Six inches of snow fell late yesterday at Rice Lake and Eau Claire, Wis. Air Base Threatened B'J United Press FORT LEAVENWORTH. Kas., Feb. 27. —Huge floes piled up in the ice-gorged Missouri River in this vicinity today, threatening inundation to Kickapoo Island, the Army’s air base, and lich farming land on the Missouri side of the river. Already the ice-jammed river had spread over lowlands in the Atchison vicinity and forced a dozen families to flee with their possessions to higher ground. By midmorning. however, the gorge had broken at Atchison and the flood waters receded. Five families returned to their homes. So acute was the new threat in this area that Army authorities considered sending bombing planes over the stream to blast the ice jam. Niagara Falls Open Bp Tin it-d, Press NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.. Feb. 27. —lce which for five weeks shut off the flow of water over the American Falls began disappearing today as the mild temperatures of the last two days continued. The flow of water over the American cataract increased steadily and assumed almost normal proportions.

EL PASO IS DARK AS LIGHT WORKERS QUIT Strikers Accuse Company of Violating Agreement. 3y United Press EL PASO, Tex., Feb. 27.—El Paso and the surrounding territory was plunged into darkness at 2:55 (Indianapolis time) this morning when employes of the El Paso Electric Cos. went on strike. Approximately 150,000 persons from Hatch, N. M., to Fort Hancock were affected. Service was resumed partially in El Paso from an auxiliary plant at 8 today (Indianapolis time). Only a part of the downtown district and hospitals were supplied. The strike was called at 10 last night. Workers said the strike was called because the company had discharged employes for union activities.. This, the strikers claimed, was in violation of an agreement which followed a similar strike on Feb. 28, 1935. BROOKSIDE PETITION FOR POOL REJECTED Head of Park Board Says School Needs Are First, The Park Board today turned down delegations request for a swimming pool in Brookside Park. The delegates were assured, however, that the board would improve the walks in Spades and Brookside Parks. Jackiel W. Joseph, board president, said the cost of a pool, estimated at $35,000, would be too high to obtain Federal aid for the project. “This body would be condemned if it spent that much money on a pool with the schools in their present unsatisfactory condition,” Albert H. Gisler, board member, said. The board received bids on acoustical equipment for the Brookside Community Building, but deferred action. HURT." BY CHAIN BLOCK Worker Injured Seriously at Plant, Taken to Hospital. Rov Rittenhouse, 56, of 802 Lin-coln-st, was injured seriously today when he was struck by a chain block at the Capitol Ice Refrigerator Cos.. 356 W. North-st. He was taken to Methodist Hospital. ... V*

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Local Threat Facies as Ice Jam Swirls Safely Over Dam. DAMAGE IS MODERATE White River Within Banks Again at Ravenswood, Other Resorts. An appeal to Washington for $500,000 for emergency flood control work in Indiana was’ made by Works Progress Administration officials here today, as the high water threat in Indianapolis was removed. The flood fund would be used as a pool from which to draw funds as flood emergencies arose. If the total amount requested was not used, the remainder would revert to the WPA. Moderately heavy rains in northern Indiana during the last 24 hours drove the Wabash River to higher levels. The special funds, if apportioned, would permit assignment of 90,000 WPA workers to aid in rescue and reconstruction work in the flooded areas, John R. Curry, state WPA director of projects and planning, said. Two Projects Started Relief workers already hate been assigned at Peru and Logansport to construct temporary dams and strengthen levees and at river communities ftortheast of Indianapolis. The White River threat here was erased early today when the ice jam that had backed water into river colonies broke and went over the Broad Ripple dam. The ice jam started to break yesterday afternoon, and at, 2 this morning was wrested from its moorings. By 3:30 all the ice either had deposited on the river bank or had floated away. Almost immediately there was a decided lowering of waters in Ravenswood. Terrace Beach, Exeter Park and other river resorts from which residents were rescued yesterday. The tension on Rocky Ripple, where 200 families live, also was removed. Lowlands Shipping Water Downstream there are reports of higher water, but there is little likelihood that the ice will jam again, *• and only the lowest of lowlands are shipping water. Moreover, the mile and a half ice jam that moved toward Indianapolis yesterday from Noblesville, apparently had disintegrated. The river bank all the way down is loaded with large slabs of ice. At 71st-st the most distressing damage that was done was to bushes and shrubs. All bridges downstream apparently are safe. The ice is floating in the swift current, but is staying in the deeper middle channels. Dynamite Plans Dropped Mayor Kern surveyed the high waters in and near Indianapolis by auto, and City Engineer Henry B. Steeg and Nish Dienhart, Municipal Airport superintendent, made an aerial survey today. WPA workers who started yesterday afternoon to blast the Ravenswood jam arrived on the scene about the time it started to break up. and abandoned their plans. C. T. Nankervis, Terrace Beach resident, said today that it had not been necessary for any persons living in Terrace Beach to leave their homes because of high waters. Predict High Levels The crest was reached at Bluffton last night and the flood waters are receding slowly. The river is expected to reach a crest of 18 feet, three feet above flood level, at Logansport today. The bureau predicted the Wqbash would rise to 25 feet, 12 feet above flood stage, at Lafayette, and to 28 feet, also 12 feet above, at Covington by late tonight. Forecasters anticipate the Wabash at Terre Haute will reach 24 feet, eight feet above flood level, within the next 36 hours. As the swollen waters are earned downstream, the river is expected to leave its banks at points below Terre Haute during the next three or four day?*, the Weather Bureau said. Fort Wayne Families Flee On the west fork of White River, above flood stages are expected at Elliston and Edwardsport. The river still was rising at Indianapolis today, but it is not expected to go above 13 feet, five feet below flood level. The east fork of White River remains low, but Weather Bureau officials anticipate trouble at Petersburg and Hazelton on the main stream. Both the St. Mary's and the Maumee Rivers went out of their banks in Fort Wayne late last night, forcing families in low areas to leave their homes. One family was removed by boat when water from the St. Mary's filled the lower floor of their dwelling. The Maumee stood at 20 feet, five feet above flood stage. It was receding slowly this morning. Thirty families were rescued from, (Turn to Page Three) Y *