Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 313, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 March 1936 — Page 1

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FRANCE AGREES TO MODIFY DEMANDS; RUSSIA FOR ACTION

Paris Veers From Adamant Stand After Locarno Powers Meet. FLANDIN, EDEN CLASH Britain Seeks Negotiations With Hitler on His Peace Proposals. By Unitrrt Press PARIS, March 10.—France decided today to waive her demand for military sanctions against Germany and even, on certain conditions, to withdraw her demand that German troops be withdrawn from the Rhineland. The adamant French attitude veered suddenly today after a conference of the powers signatory to the Locarno Treaty, which Germany has denounced. The change came while Capt. Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, was telephoning London, advising his government that Foreign Minister Pierre Etienne Flandin of France wanted economic and financial sanctions but not military ones. Two Conditions Set OrA France decided to abandon her demand for withdrawal of the Rhineland troops on two conditions: 1. Germany must pledge not to rebuild fortifications in the Rhineland. 2. Adolf Hitler must modify the proposition he made in a speech on March 21, 1935, to assure “certain guarantees for the future.” In the speech, Hitler outlined the conditions under which Germany could return to the League and agree to a European aerial defense pact. Flandin tried vainly, it was indicated today, to obtain British agreement to a four-point program against Germany which would entail a virtual ultimatum to Adolf Hitler to withdraw his Rhineland troops and, if he refused, withdrawal of diplomatic representatives from Berlin. Flandin, Eden at Odds It was indicated that the first clash of opinion was between Flandin and Eden on the question first of penalties, secondly of seeking some way of taking advantage of the seven-point peace program which Hitler offered Germany’s neighbors when he sent troops into the Rhineland. Britain wants to negotiate with Germany because it does not believe that penalties are desirable or practicable. Belgium has promised full support (Turn to Page Three) FOOD IS SPEEDED TO STRANDED HARVESTERS Failiv.'e of Tea Crop Leaves Men, Families in Need. H>i United Press SANTA MARIA. Cal.. March 10.— Two trucks loaded with emergency rations today sped here from Los Angeles to a camp of emaciated harvest workers, stranded without food by failure of a pea crop. Plight of the itinerant harvesters was learned yesterday by Federal relief officials in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who immediately ordered the food supplies rushed here to the tent camp where the workers have been subsisting on scanty rations. The workmen and their families, numbering several hundred, were stranded several weeks ago when rain and a blight destroyed the ordinarily heavy winter pea crop. $840,000 BOND ISSUE IS PASSED BY COUNCIL Funds to Finance Township Relief Approved by County. The County Council today passed without dissent an ordinance calling for an $840,000 bond issue to finance township poor relief. Virgil Sheppard, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce govenmental expert, yesterday asked that action on the issue be deferred until after the General Assembly passed social security legislation. BEAR ATTACKS TRAINER Beast That Injured Maria Rasputin Claws Her Rescuer. Hu United Press PERU, Ind., March 10.—John Helliott, 52, animal trainer, was treated today for injuries suffered when he was attacked by a Himalayan bear at winter quarters of the American Circus Corp. The bear last year attacked Maria Rasputin, daughter of Russia’s famed "bad monk.” Helliott was her rescuer. BUILDING GAINS SHOWN $85,110 Increase Over First Week of March Last Year Reported. Building reports for the week ending March 7 represented $112,153 in construction, $85.110 over the same period last year. Building Commissioner William F. Hurd told the Safety Board today.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Increasing cloudiness with probable showers late tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight and colder tomorrow’.

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Soviets 'Resolutely Opposed’ to Any Deal, London Is Notified. KING ALSO CONCERNED Edward VIII Meets With Baldwin, Duff-Cooper in Conferences. By United Press LONDON, March 10.—Russia officially informed Britain today that the Soviet government is “resolutely opposed” to negotiations with Germany and the Soviets are ready “actively to participate in any action decided upon at Geneva.” Ivan Maiski, Soviet ambassador, visited the House of Commons and delivered to Lord Cranborne an important oral communication based on instructions just received from Moscow. It was learned that Vladimir Potemkin, Soviet ambassador to France, meantime conveyed a similar message to the French Foreign Office. The Soviet communication ivas believed to foreshadow a united front at the League Council meeting of Russia, France, the Little Entente—Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia —Turkey and possibly others, not only against Germany but against the British inclination to compromise with Adolf Hitler regardless of Germany’s repudiation of the Locarno Treaty. United Front” Feared The Soviet stand, it was feared here, might neutralize Britain’s efforts to win France and the others over to a policy of conciliation. British leaders were concerned and held various private consultations. King Edward VII was keeping in close touch with the situation and earlier in the day received Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Alfred Duff-Cooper, secretary for war, in separate audiences at Buckingham Palace. The Soviet attitude suggested that Britain might be almost isolated at Geneva if she persists in her desire to negotiate with Germany. It was understood that Maiski intimated to Lord Cranborne that opening negotiations with Germany would be like rewarding an aggressor and indicated that the Soviet opinion was such a move would be r. death blow to the League. IMMEDIATE WAR NOT PROBABLE--BINGHAM Bill to Increase Planes Reported Favorably. By l niled Press WASHINGTON, March 10.—The European crisis was described as ’’perilous but not likely to lead to immediate war” by Robert W. Bingham, ambassador to Great Britain, following a conference today with high State Department officials. Rft I nited Press WASHINGTON. March 10.—The House Military Affairs Committee today favorably reported a bill to increase the Army’s air strength to 4000 airplanes. The committee unanimously reported the Rogers, bill to strengthen air defense after but a few minutes discussion. NEW YORK STRIKERS EXTEND WAR FRONT More Leave Jobs; Realtors Reject Mayor's Plan. By United Press NEW YORK. March 10 —Building service strikers opened their “major offensive” today when they extended the walkout U the skyscrapers and residential structures in BioOklyn, New York's most populous borough. Approximately 25.000 workers in 4000 buildings will be affected by the strike extension, union leaders said. The new move was by way of reply to the Realty Advisory Board’s failure to accept uncono,tionally Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia’s arbitration plan, which was satisfactory to the strikers. “My answer to the Realty Board has begun now.” James J. Barnbrick. strike chief, declared in announcing the extension of the 10day walkout. “This is the major offensive.” Times Index Births 21 Movies 8 Books *...13 Mrs. Roosevalt 10 Bridge 10 Music 4 Broun 13 Pegler 13 Clapper 13 ; Pyle 14 Comics 19 Radio 4 Editorials .... 14 Serial Story . .11 Fashions 11 Society 10 Financial 15 Sports 16 Hoosier Editor 14, State Deaths . 7 Mer’y-Go-R’d. 13 j Want Ada ....18

G-MAN SLAYER THREATENS TO END OWN LIFE George Barrett Declares He May Crush Glass Eye, Swallow It. DOUBLE GUARD ASKED Present Ones Report They Are 'Worn Out’ Frenzied Prisoner. George W. Barrett, sentenced to be hanged in the Marion County jail yard before sunrise, March 24, for the murder of a G-man, is threatening to take his own life, Federal officials revealed today. In a fit of frenzy in his cell yesterday Bairett rose from his bunk, dressed and threatened to kill himself and slay the two Federal guards who Nvatch over him in 12hour shifts, day and night, attendants said. Pacing up and down in his cell he is reported to have turned to one of his guards and said: Odd Threat Reported “You fellows forgot that I can grind up this glass eye of mine, and swallow the glass.” (Bairett lost his left eye in a gun fight.) Chief Deputy Marshal Julius J. Wichser said he would accompany Dr. Robert Dwyer, Federal physician, to the jail this afternoon and remove the glass eye and the lens in Barrett’s spectacles which aids his vision in his other eye. After a conference today between Mr. Wichser, District Attorney Val Nolan and Judge Robert C. Baltzell it was decided to secure permission from Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings to double Barrett’s guard. The present guards, E. S. Rivers and Oscar Poole, have told authorities they are worn out from trying to control the prisoner. Judge Baltzell believes that the additional - cost of $lO a day for the extra precautions may save not only the life of Barrett but those of the guards. Killed Agent Klein Barrett was convicted for the slaying of Agent Nelson B. Klein. He is trying every artifice to cheat the noose, his guards say. The Klein killing occurred at West College Corners, Ind., last August. Barrett faced trial previously for the slaying of his mother and sister in Kentucky. He has been insisting that he can not walk, due to wounds he received in the gun fight with Klein. However, Dr. Dwyer said he believes tnat Barrett has been exercising his wounded legs, anticipating a break for freedom. At the time Klein was killed, Barrett was shot through both knees and attended his trial in a wheelchair. Until yesterday he had laid in his cell bunk and had insisted that his arms were useless. The guards fed him. Moaned, Cried at Night For a month he moaned and cried until Dr. Dwyer gave him opiates each night. His appeal now is pending in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago. Motions in the case were argued last Thursday and an opinion is expected late this week. After he was sentenced to death. Barrett embraced religion. The Rev. John McShane, of St. Bridget s Catholic Church, gave him the rites ; of the Roman Catholic faith about ; a month ago. Now Barrett has dei riounced the religion, officials said. The law under which Barrett was sentenced for the murder of Klein is an old one. Baltzell pointed, out, and has been on the Federal statute books more than 50 years. Judge Baltzell said that it was designed to protect the lives of Federal operatives who have enforced laws when local and state authorities have failed. The sentence is mandatory, Judge Baltzell said. The condemned man’s alibi throughout the trial was that he believed he was being pursued by : Kentucky feudists. MOTOR ISSUES LEAD STOCK MARKET CLIMB j Trading Quiets After Brisk Spurt of Selling as Tickers Lag. By United Press 1 NEW YORK. March 10.—Auto- ! mobile shares led the stock market [higher in the early afternoon trading today with at 97%, up 2%, and General Motors at 62, up 2 points. Trading quieted after a spirited selloff just before noon when the tape fell behind. That decline fol- '■ lowed what brokers termed a pre- ! mature rally of broad proportions at .he opening and in the early I trading. Farm implement shares vied with ; the motors for leadership. Case ' shot 5 points to 128. DEMPSEYS RETURN TO HOME AFTER THREAT j Leave Atlantic City to Escape Deluge of Phone Calls. By United Press NEW YORK. March 10. Jack Dempsey brought his family back to I New r York from Atlantic City today to escape a deluge of crank telephone calls that followed revelation of a kidnaping threat against his 19-month-old daughter. Dempsey said he regarded a postcard warning of plans to kidnap Joan Hanna as “just crazy stuff” but did not relish being the center of a storm of hysteria. Mrs. Dempsey expects another child in June.

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1936

HAIL, THE QUEEN! SHE’S RULER OF SPEED

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Ladies and gentlemen—the queen! She is Miss Virginia Reynolds, 820 Eastern-av, Butler University beauty, who is to preside at the indoor relays at the fieldhouse March 21. Surrounded by tuxedo-garbed officials. Miss Reynolds is to rule the kingdom of human speed for a day. She is shown holding one of the cups that will be presented during the ceremony. Miss Reynolds is a member of Pi Beta Phi Sorority.

Pinning Up a Record M’Nutt Gets Strikes on 31 of 32 Alleys—With One Toss; Police Are Next.

BY BERNARD HARMON . IT’S no wonder that they have police teams scheduled for the second event of the American Bowling Congress tonight after what happened when Gov. McNutt rolled the first ball in opening exercises last

|25 ARE INJURED AS TORNADO HITS MIAMI Freak Storm Twists Way Through City. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., March 10— City officials marshaled their forces today to clean up debris and repair damaged property left in the wake of a freak tornado that twisted erratically through four square miles of Miami’s northwest and southwest sections, inj"ring at least 25 persons. An accurate immediate check of the number injured was difficult because so many victims were being treated for slight bruises and cuts. None, however, was reported hurt seriously. Damage was confined mostly to temporary structures erected for the Dade County Fair, which waS to open today. Two ferris wheels were twisted, tent was shredded, a merry-go-round and a “whip” destroyed, and 300 snakes released. Loss was estimated at $50,000. SHOT FATHER, GLAD OF IT, BOVI4, SAYS Slayer Shows No Remorse; Parent Mean, Is Claim. By United Press READING, Pa.. March 10.—Louis Toontas. 14, shot his father to death from ambush and is giad of it. Mrs. John M. Dunkel, a neighbor of the Toontas family, sat ready at Louis’ ] murder trial today to tell why. “Toontas was so cruel that his I dogs crawled up to him on their ! stomachs,” she said. “Even neighborhood children were afraid of him." Louis, curly haired and rosy faced j junior high school student, put it j another way: “He was a mfean man. He beat me and treated me badly. I'd do it ageun.” Six men and six women, two of them parents of young children, accepted the jurors' task of deciding whether Louis was justified in killing his father, a 42-year-old mechanic. They may send Louis to prison for life. Louis last his calm yesterday when he saw his mother for the first time since his arrest Feb. 17. Florida Bandits Get 515.000 HOLLYWOOD, Fla.. March 10 Bandits robbed the Hollywood Counj try Club of $15,000 today, using draperies to tie up a half dozen em- ■ ployes.

night at the State Fairground. When the ball reached the pin end of the alley, the pins went down in every alley but one—3l strikes on one ball, than which there never has been anything whicher in bowling. One pin boy forgot, the rumor is, to jerk the string that should have produced the synthetic strike, or there would have been 32 strikes. It is reported that the faulty pin boy is a Republican. n tt u IN addition to the police and fire teams—l 6 of them—there are to be 64 Indianapolis merchants' teams. First of the merchants’ teams are to bowl at 6:30; police and fire teams are to bowl at 8:30; remainder of the merchants’ teams are to bowl at 10:30. Festivities opened last night with a downtown parade which included fire apparatus, a police escort and bus loads of contestants. At the Coliseum, Neil C. King, American Bowling Congress vice president, acted as master of ceremonies and Mayor Kern welcomed the event to Indianapolis. n n a THE Rev. F. s. C. Wicks delivered invocation. Paul E. Crosier, Indianapolis A. B. C. president, presented the alleys to A. G. Jankowsky, congress president, who accepted them. “This is the most elaborate layout I have ever seen at an A. B. c.,” he said, “and I feel that those participating will leave Indianapolis with a desire to return in the near future.” Gov. McNutt spoke briefly, commending the bowling officials for attractive show, and stepped to the foul line to cause a mild sensation with his multiple strike.

Witches , Ghosts Brush Up on Haunting as Ides of March and Friday 13th Near

Tl 7 ITCHES and ghosts that ’ ’ have been coasting along on their reputations all year are scheduled to do some fancy haunting Friday. If mortals are indifferent to calendars and superstitions, the demons aren’t. They have been making plans and looking forward to Friday, the thirteenth, for some time. If you really take the witch business seriously, a little research into folk lore shows that there are antidotes for witches as well as rat poison. You can get rid of a witch by shooting at her picture over running water or by shooting her picture with a silver bullet, ac-

ns Second-Class Matter at I’ostolTico, Indianapolis, Ind.

MERIT SYSTEM LOSES IN VOTE ON WELFARE RILL; TAX REVISION UNLIKELY

6-HOUR LIMIT ON PARKING IS STUDIED HERE Board Approves Proposal to Slash Time in All Parts of City. The Safety Board today approved a proposed ordinance limiting parking time in all sections outside downtown congested areas to six hours. The measure provides an hour and a half limit in the district bounded by St. Clair, Noble, South and Weststs, with three exceptions. On Market-st between Alabamast and Capitol-av, Meridian-st between Washington and Ohio-sts and on Monument Circle parking time would be limited to 30 minutes. The proposal, suggested by Chief Morrissey, is to be redrafted by the city legal department and probably will be introduced at the Council meeting Monday night. The proposed ordinance is aimed at motorists who park their autos in residential neighborhoods at night. The board told salesmen for automatic parking meters that such devices would be illegal in Indianapolis because taxpayers could not be made to pay for parking on city streets. CONGRESS, TREASURY FIGHT ON PROFIT TAX Rise In Food Prices Depends on Dispute Outcome. By United Press WASHINGTON, March 10.— Whether the New Deal’s budget tax bill will carry new processing levies affecting food prices depended today on the outcome of a dispute between Congress and the Treasury over how much corporations should be taxed to finance the permanent farm program. Congressional tax experts have informed the Treasury of opposition to an outright corporation undivided profits tax to yield $620,000,000 unless some partial exemptions are given to small companies to aid them in building up “cushion” reserves for future business doldrums. BABY CASE FIGURE ATTEITOSUICIDE Police Say Victim Is Woman Who Plotted Kidnaping. Mrs. Dorothy Marsh, said by police to be the same woman who attempted to kidnap a 4-day-old baby Dec. 20, 1934, tried to take her life today in her home, 627 N. Pennsyl-vania-st, Apt. 1. She was given first aid by the fire department rescue squad and taken to the City Hospital. Physicians said her condition was not serious. In an attempt to regain the affection of her husband, police said .she took the baby of Mrs. Grace Robbins, 25, of 947 Lexington-av, claiming it as her own. Pleading guilty to an assault and battery charge, she was sentenced to six months in prison and fined $25 and costs by Judge Frank Baker, records show. GIRL~COLLAPSES AFTER TELLINGJJF ABDUCTION Says She Was Held 12 Hours and Then Released. By United Press CHICAGO, March 10. Sadie Verona, 20, attractive brunet who said her home was at Ottawa, 111., collapsed in a hospital ante-room after telling attendants she had been kidnaped by two men and held captive nearly 12 hours. Sha said her abductors released her after discovering she was not their intended victim. Police who investigated reported she was suffering from nervous exhaustion and from the apparent effects of ether or chloroform.

cording to the best-informed nether world sources. U tt u FRIDAY, the thirteenth, is supposed to be doubly dangerous, because it falls in the month of March. Caesar, school pupils will remember, gave the horse laugh to the seer who warned him about the Ides of March. Consequently, a few of the boys ganged up on Caesar in the legislative chambers and lulled him. Well-meaning spirits have been pretty busy this week warning their friends about black cats, bent pins and the like. About the best thing to do if you are inclined to be nervous about the jinx racket is to take the day off Friday and stay in

Associated Retailers of State to Hold Mass Demonstration. 10,000 MAY JOIN MARCH Repeal Demand to Be Made at Statehouse Rally Tomorrow. Retailers protesting against the gross income tax and scheduled to stage a demonstration tomorrow at the Statehouse for the benefit of the General Assembly special session are unlikely to obtain any public hearing on the •Jernegan gross income tax repeal bill. Senator Ralph Jernegan (R., Mishawaka), author of the repeal measure, conferred today with Senator Thurman Gottschalk (D., Berne), finance committee chairman and state budget committee member, about action on his bill. He was told, Senator Jernegan said, that the bill will not be brought out of committee unless the social security measures now being considered should require some new financing, thus opening up the tax question. Such a step is extremely unlikely, Senate leaders said. 10,000 May Join March Meanwhile, spokesmen of the Associated Retailers of Indiana estimated that as many as 10.000 objectors to the gross income tax law may join in tomorrow’s scheduled demonstration. L. F. Shuttleworth, association managing director, said today that the protestants are to meet at 1 tomorrow at the Statehouse. Then they are to reach a decision as to the best method of carrying their attack against the law to the legislators. Mr. Shuttleworth said he had no way of knowing how many would assemble but indicated the number would be large. Statewide radio appeals were made by retail leaders last night for every merchant who could get away to join the demonstrators. Grocers, most active of the 14 groups constituting the association in opposition to the gross income law, are attempting to arrange a conference with the Governor for tomorrow afternoon, Mr. Shuttleworth said. Hold Meeting in Corridors Some inkling of what the legislators may expect occurred last night when a delegation of about 100 grocers went to the Statehouse and sought a hearing during the House Democrats caucus. Denied admission the delegation held an impromptu meeting in the corridors. Walter J. Mercer, Indianapolis Retail Meat and Grocers’ Association president and chairman of the legislative committee, urged attendance at tomorrow’s demonstration. SHOWERS TO SPOIL WARMER WEATHER Rain Tonight, Cooler Tomorrow, Bureau Predicts. The spring weather Indianapolis has enjoyed for the last two or three days is to be interrupted tonight by cloudiness and showers, and tomorrow by colder temperatures. The weather bureau predicts showers may start late tonight and continue through tomorrow. It will get warmer tonight to make the cold of tomorrow more noticeable. At 1 p. m. the mercury touched 62. Meningitis Quarantine Ordered By I nited Press JENKINS, Ky., March 10.— Schools, churches and theaters were closed here today as the city board ordered a rigid spinal meningitis quarantine. Two persons have died from the disease.

bed. It may cost you your job, or the roof may cave in, but at least you have tried to baffle the evil spirits. m * m WHILE most persons pooh pooh Friday the thirteenth superstitions, there always will be someone who will fall and break a leg that day and forever after shake his head knowingly about brazenly daring fate. The Weather Bureau, at least, isn't worried about Friday. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, saW, “Friday, the thirteenth, is just about the only time there isn’t some weather superstition.” To the Weather Bureau, as to most, Friday merely means that spring is that much nearer. m

FINAL HOME PRICE THREE CENTS

Women Voters’ Proposal Is Beaten in House on Voice Vote. LABOR PROTESTS GIVEN Administration Suffers Its First Serious Defeat in Salary Test. A “fool proof merit system for state and counties proposed by the Indiana League of Women Voters was rejected overwhelmingly today as the House of Representatives, on second reading, considered amendments to the proposed Welfare Act. The action was set aside by voice vote. Earlier, the administration, under the hammering of a coalition of Republican and “home rule” Democrats, had tasted first serious defeat of the special session. Administration forces were beaten on a close vote when the House voted to slash the salary of the administrator from a proposed maximum of S6OOO yearly to S4OOO. In their first test of strength, the farm bloc succeeded in putting across an amendment which limited investigators for old-age relief to be named by the state board, to tc be named by the state board to clusively for the state. Labor’s. Protest Presented Soon afterward, however, the administration forces scored a comeback when a motion by Rep. C. Nelson Bohannon <D„ Jeffersonville) to strike out the entire section giving the board control over the penal and correctional institution was lost by a vote of 59 to 32 on a motion to table. Meanwhile organized labor's twofold opposition to the employment compensation bill had been laid before the Senate by Carl Mullen, Hammond, Indiana State Federation of Labor president. Mr. Mullen appeared before the Senate in committee of the whole at the suggestion of Senator E. Curtis White (D., Indianapolis). Generally indorsing the social security program now in the process of enactment, Mr. Mullen listed two points in the bill as objectionable to organized labor. Labor, he said, does not believe the employe should be required to make any contributions to the state fund and does believe that the act should be broadened to include more workers.

Would Broaden Bill “We are hopeful, he said, “that you will make employers of one or more persons come under the bill. We believe the lowest figure at which the employe minimum should be set is four, instead of the eightworker minimum now in the bill.” Senator Bruce O. Lane FR„ Bainbridge) interposed the suggestion that the Senate hear the views of the Indiana Manufacturers’ Association. President Pro Tern. Jacob Weiss <D„ Indianapolis* said the chair would appoint Senator Lane a committee of one to obtain the appearance of the president or a representative of the manufacturers’ organization. Majority Report Adopted The House adopted the majority report on the unemployment insurance bill recommending adoption. The action came soon after the House convened this morning and followed voting down of the minnority report which favored reporting the bill without recommendation. Demands for a public hearing which had been frequent in the sessions of the joint ways and means and medicine and public health committees, which had the bill under consideration, were repeated on the floor from the minority side. Speaker Edw’ard H. Stein assured the House that a hearing would be held and Rep. Frank G. Thompson <D„ Bluffton), majority leader, suggested a night session of the committee of the whole for consideration of the measure. Lutz to Prepare Opinion Speaker Stein indicated that Frank B. Clifle, Schenectady, assistant controller of the General Electric Cos., who has explained the bill to the Senate in committee of the whole, would be available for the hearing before the House. On action of the joint House committee Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. is to prepare an opinion on constitutionality of the Federal unemployment insurance law and on the proposed state measure. Request was made that the opinion be ready b” 10 tomorrow. The public welfare bill w, brought up on second reading a* , (Turn to Page Three) SCHOOL REPORT IS DUE Board to Hear Review of Situation at Crispus Attucks. The School Board is to meet tonight to consider the sixth report of the series on the conditions of local school buildings. This report is to deal with the situation at Cris- 1 pus Attucks High School, officials* said.