Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1936 — Page 3

MARCH 16,1936

LOBBY INQUIRY 1 WILL CONTINUE: WITHOUT WIRES Committee Turns Attention to Social Affairs Tendered Congressmen. BY RUTH FINNEY WASHINGTON, March 16. Without the aid of telegrams, the Senate Lobby Committee expects to develop sensational new testimony about lobbying here today. It will explore the extent to which the social lobby has been used to advance consideration of the Pcttengill long and short hci>; bill, soon to be voted on in the House. The committee has subpenaed Robert E. Smith of Portland, Ore., who spends much of his time here as .representative of the National Security Owners’ Association. Until the last few days he has been living at 4616 30th-st, NW, and entertaining almost nightly, according to information reaching the committee. His guests have included a number of congressmen. Others have been invited, but refused to go. The committee will seek to learn whether or not a member of Congress has been living with Smith, while listing his residence in the Congressional directory as a Washington hotel. It also will attempt to learn i whether power company officials have attended some of the parties. I Smith answered a questionnaire! sent him by the Lobby Committee but did not mention his parties for congressmen.

Bill in Congress 25 Years The long and short haul bill for ■which he has been active has been knocking around Congress for about 25 years. Different members of House and Senate have sponsored it from time to time and it was debated and rejected years go by the Senate. It had slumbered years in the House Interstate Commerce Committee but late last summer it was rather unexpectedly given favorable action. After that it w'ent to the House Rules Committee, which also reported it favorably a few weeks ago, assuring a vote in the House. The long and short haul bill is sponsored this year by Rep. Samuel B. Pettengill <D., Ind.), a bitter opponent last session of the Wheel-er-Rayburn bill. Pettengill was so active in the fight against the holding company bill that one utility had its employes and their friends send him a shower of telegrams—at their expense—thanking him for his work. House Numbers Removed When the Senate Lobby Committee sought Smith to serve him with a subpena it found the street numbers had been removed from the 30th-st house and that he was moving to another house around the corner. According to information in the hands of the committee, congressmen from the East and from the Far West attended Smith's parties.

13 DEAD AS FLOOD IN NEW ENGLAND RECEDES Food, Fuel Shortages Threaten Many Communities in East. By United Press BOSTON, March 16. —New England flood waters receded today, leaving at least 13 deaths and property damage mounting into millions. Though rain or snow was predicted for tonight, experts believed the floods had passed their peak. But portions ot many communities may be inundated for weeks. Food and fuel shortages threatened several sections of Maine isolated by flooded highways and railroad lines. The flood peril in Maine, chief danger spot, was eased last night when a 20-mile ice jam in the Penobscot River broke. An ice pack in the Connecticut River at Mount Tom Junction in Western Massachusetts broke suddenly last night, relieving Holyoke, Northampton and other cities and towns. New Hampshire reported all rivers receding. COAL OUTPUTJNCREASES Indiana Produced 443,000 Tons in Week Ending Feb. 29. Indiana produced more than 4 per cent of the nation's bituminous coal supply during the week ending Feb. 29. the United States Bureau of Mines reported today. Indiana's tonnage was 445.000 tons, while the national output totaled 9,970,000 tons. During the same period last year the state mined 436.000 tons. PUR DUE MAN TO SPEAK Psychology Professor to Address Mallory Engineers. Otis C. Trimble, Purdue University psychology professor, is to speak on ‘'Psychology as Applied to Typical Problems in Personnel Selection and Guida- at the Mallory Engineers T* m. al Association meeting Wedruvjy night in the Mallory clubhouse. DOCTORS ARE TO MEET Medical Society to Hear Three Speakers at Athenaeum. A panel discussion on “Preventive Measures in Pediatrics” is to be held at the Indianapolis Medical Society meeting at 8:10 tomorrow night in the Athenaeum. Speakers are to be Drs. Herbert F. Call. Russell Hippensteel, Louis H. Segar and Howard B. Mettel.

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MR. AND MRS. HOAGLAND CARMICHAEL By United Press NEW YORK, March 16.—Hoagland Carmichael, the Indiana University law student who made good as a song writer in Hollywood and New York, and his bride, the comely Ruth Meinardi of Chicago, were honeymooning at home today. They were married here Saturday. “Honeymoon? What for?” demanded Carmichael. “I’ve just gotten back from a five-week trip in the Barbadoes and Miss Meinardi—beg pardon, Mrs. Carmichael—only recently returned from four months in Europe. It’s a treat to be home again.” “Besides,” he added, “we’ve got to rest up from the wedding reception. You know, we had a lot of Indiana people here—people I used to go to school with, and they sure went to town.” The wedding ceremony w T as performed at the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Lockhart Ammerman. The bride’s father, the late Rev. Garrett Meinardi, was pastor of the same church 15 years ago. McClelland Barclay, the noted artist and illustrator, gave the bride away. Only close friends and members of the two families were present. After the ceremony the newlyweds were placed in a hansom cab and driven to the bridegroom’s home for the reception. “We had a little difficulty reaching home because the horse wanted to go uptown and we wanted to go downtown,” Carmichael explained today. “When we got there, my mother—her name’s Lida—sat down at the piano and played ‘Maple Leaf Rag,’ which she used to play at dances 30 years ago.” Among the guests at the reception were Conde Nast, publisher; George Gershwin, composer; Julius Glanzer of Carter’s Jewelry Shop, and Conrad Tiiibault, baritone. The bride, who was a model, attended the Lucy Cobb School at Athens, Ga., and the bridegroom, a native of Bloomington, Ind., is a graduate of Indiana University. His parents now live in Indianapolis. Carmichael said he was awaiting word from Warner Brothers to go to Hollywood next week.

Sol Meyer Asks Change of Venue in Court Move

Action Comes After Motion for Continuance Is Denied. A motion for a continuance of the trial of Sol Meyer, president of the defunct Meyer-Kiser Bank charged with banker's embezzlement, was denied today by E. E. McFerren, special Criminal Judge. Last week. Judge McFerren indicated he would grant the motion on the basis that Mr. Meyer was in Florida suffering from asthma ana his health would be injured by returning for trial here next Monday. Judge McFerren said today that after a study of the motion he believed that the pleas of the motion

Job Insurance Battle Brings Senate Recess

Proposal to Alter Bill to Include Employers of Four Stirs Fight. (Continued From Page One) recommended by the Federal experts are of a controversial nature, according to administrative leaders. Any floor fight was expected to come this afternoon, if Senator Claude Mcßride <D„ Jeffersonville) attempted to insert a clause exempting workers from contributions and laying the burden wholly on employers. Poor Relief Control Issue The House was to meet at 2 this afternoon with control of poor relief by township trustees as the major issue between aministration forces and a coalition of “homerule” Democrats and Republicans. Dissent from concurrence in Senate amendments in the public welfare bill is expected to pave the way to sending the bill to a conference committee of both houses where administration leaders are expected to eliminate features objectionable to Gov. McNutt. The House is expected to dissent from the amendment of Senator Claude Mcßride, specifying that poor relief shall not be infringed upon by the proposed State Welfare Board. The amendment fixing the welfare board administrator's salary at S6OOO also may be opposed by House members. The House cut the salary to S4OOO. “Pocket Veto” Likely Hope that municipally owned utilities might be exempted from taxes at the special session was dispelled today when Speaker Ed Stein said *he measure would not be handed and, wn for further consideration. The speaker is expected to exercise his unofficial “pocket veto" in preventing consideration of the bill he indicated. Introduced by Rep. Q Austin East <R., Bloomington), it was the first measure not dealing with social security reported out in either house. Efforts were made Saturdaj to recommit the bill to committee but failed, 43 to 37. Rep. Carl E. M. Woodard (D.. Michigan City), a backer of the bill admitted today that Speaker Stein is expected to place the measure in

were not legal grounds for continuance. Attorneys had asked that the trial be continued until after May 15. After Judge McFerren announced his ruling, attorneys for Mr. Meyer fiied a motion for a change of venue, alleging prejudice against Mr. Meyer in this county. Arguments on the motion are to be heard at 11 tomorrow. The petition alleges that the 5000 dppcrHors of the bank who have not received any money from their accounts and the estimated 50,000 depositors of other closed Indianapolis banks have created a prejudice against Mr. Meyer. The petition alleged that newspaper articles and “direct statements by those in public confidence” have inflamed the public mind against the banker.

cold storage until the adjournment sine die of the special session. “Just Keep Issue Alive” “We just wanted to keep the issue alive and in front of the people,” he said. Attempts may be made today or tomorrow to force out two other bills now reposing in the County and Township Business Committee. One is a measure banning day-light-saving time anywhere in the state; the other permits optional registration in small counties. The bills were introduced, respectively, by Rep. Robert A. Hoover and Rep. Guy W. Dausman, both Republicans, of Goshen. Necessity of rewriting entire portions of the unemployment insurance bill faded over the week-end, it was said, after representatives of the Federal Social Security Board conferred with joint legislative committee members and were reassured over validity of several parts of the Indiana bill. Federal Officials Help A few minor revisions were made at a meeting yesterday of a joint House and Senate committee with W. J. Couper, Federal economist, and Miss Beatrice Lotwin, attorney. Mr. Couper and Miss Lotwin at first objected to the gross income division collecting the pay roll tax. They said an accurate check on all funds collected was desired by the Federal law. Committee members explained the operations of the income tax division and showed how an accurate check could be kept on the pay roll taxes with the result that the Federal officials withdrew their objections, it is said. Minor Changes Made Several minor changes to clarify the measure and make it conform with the Federal Security Act were made. It was at first understood that Federal authorities objected to the employers’ reserve fund being raised from 74 per cent to 10.3 per cent, but Mr. Couper declared he did not object to this feature. Nor did he object to the unemployed being paid for 16 weeks an amount equal to 1 per cent of their total earnings for the preceding 52 weeks.

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SERGE MDIVANI KILLED BY KICK OF POLO PONY Louise Van Alen in Mourning for Mate; Rites to Be in Newport. By United Press PALM BEACH. Fla.. March 16. The wealthy, blue-blooded Van Alens withdrew into their winter villa today to mourn Serge Mdivani. of an adventurous Russian provincial family whose members have twice brought tragedy to the family of American aristocrats. Sad-eyed Louise Van Alen Mdivani stood on the edge of a polo field yesterday afternoon and saw her husband kicked to death by his pony. In 1932 sne divorced Serge’s brother, Alexis. It was no secret at the time that she still loved him. Alexis later married Barbara Hutton, five-and-ten-cent store heiress, who also divorced him. He was killed seven months ago in an automobile accident in Spain. Serge’s body was taken from the polo field at Delray Beach to the Van Alen villa, then to a West Palm Beach funeral parlor. It probably will be shipped today to the Van Alen mansion at Newport. R. 1., scene of the Van Alen social triumphs of three generations, where funeral services are to be held.

Bride Breaks at Home Mrs. Mdivani, bride of one month, who stood like a statue in a pouring rain while ambulance attend- ' ants worked over the body of her husband, was understood to have broken once she was in the privacy of her mother’s home. Serge was one of three brothers who styled themselves princes and became celebrated for their marrages to wealthy American women. Serge was the former husband of Pola Negri, movie actress, and Mary McCormic, opera star. He was 33. The accident occurred on the Gulf Stream polo field, one of a chain maintained by the wealthy Eastern socialites. Serge, not an expert player like his brother, Alexis, but an enthusiast, was a member of a team comprised of Michael Phipps, E. A. S. Hopping, and C. R. Harrison. The opposing team was comprised, too, of enthusiastic society men with the notable exception of Cecil Smith, one of the world’s great players. Serge, Mount Go Down Serge was pursuing the ball across the field. His pony swerved suddenly, directly into the path of Smith’s charging steed. There was a collision. Serge and his mount went down. Serge fell on his face. He did not get up. The pony had kicked his head and doctors believed he died almost instantly of a fractured skull. The players gathered around. Mrs. Mdivani waited a minute for him to get up, then ran out on the field, followed by her mother. Suddenly it began to rain. Many of I the spectators ran for shelter, thinking the accident had been of no consequence. Mrs. Mdivani knelt beside her husband, urged him to speak. She stood up, dry-eyed and calm. An ambulance arrived and its attendants applied a pulmotor. Two doctors came out of the spectators. Both said he was dead, but Mrs. Mdivani urged more efforts to revive him. Finally, she was led from the field and taken to the Van Alen home. The Mdivani brothers were born in Batoun, Georgia—the native province of the Societ dictator, Josef Stalin —the sons of Gen. Zakhari Mdivani, later styled prince. They were brought to this country at an early age and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

KNIFE WOUND IN HEART CLOSED WITH STITCHES Surgeon Performs Unusual Operation; Patient May Recover. By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 16.—Francisco Parra, 55-year-old Mexican laborer, today was given an even chance to recover from a knife wound in his heart which was stitched by Dr. A. E. Saverien, an emergency hospital surgeon, as he lay dying. Parra received the knife gash in his chest during a brawl at a beer parlor, police reported. Examination disclosed the wound was in the outer layer of the heart. With only nurses assisting, Dr. Saverien cut away a three-inch section of Parra's ribs to expose the gash. He then lifted the heart almost out of the chest cavity and took six stitches to close the wound. BLOOMINGTON YOUTH’S DEATH TO BE PROBED Victim Found Near Monon Tracks Is Identified by Foster Father. By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 16 —The body of a young man found beside the Monon Railroad tracks neai here was identified today as that of Delmont Parks Gilman, 20, adopted son of James H. Campbell, living eight miles north of Bloomington. Campbell said the boy had been away from home since Saturday morning. Although he was first believed to have been killed in a fall from a train. Coroner Ben Ross said he would conduct an inquest on report of city police Gilman had engaged in a beer-tavern fight here Saturday night. INSULL BEGINS WORK AS RADIO CHAIN HEAD Network to Open Within Six Weeks, Will Include 17 Stations. By United Press CHICAGO, March 16.—Samuel Insull, fallen utilities magnate, today returned to his paneled office high above the Chicago River to work out plans for a Midwestern radio chain which will open within six weeks. As president of the new chain, to be known as the Affiliated Broadcasting Cos., Insull will be campaigning for “complete vindication” and new success to erase the stigma of the crash of his utilities empire. His network will include 17 stations at the start, but he hopes to have 35 later.

Two Right Wing Adherents Killed as New Riots Flare in Spanish Province

Trouble Centers in Town of Villaneuva de Castellon in Valencia. By United Press MADRID, March 16.—Two rightwing adherents were slain today in anew outbreak of political violence in Valencia Province as Spain’s new Socialist parliament prepared to convene here after a week of bloody disorders. The fresh trouble centered in the town of Villaneuva de Castellon, where Genaro Llagaria and Filiberto were killed in a gun battle w F ith leftists. Three leftists were wounded. In the town of Silla, Reds broke mto a church and burned various sacred objects. The Governor ordered mayors throughout Valencia to maintain order at any cost. Days of street rioting, church burning and even the attempted assassination yesterday of left-wing leader, Francisco Largo Caballero, did not quench the elation of radical adherents as the parliament gathered. They will be participating for the first time since the bloody outbreak of October, 1934, in which more than 3500 persons were killed when the government put down the Socialist revolt against return of conservatives to power. The new parliament will be dominated by the left-wing as long as its heterogenous collection of parties continues to co-operate. They have a majority of about 265 while the Rightest forces have 144 and the Center, 64 In the former parliament, the Right had a working majority. STRIKERS MOVE INTO LA FOLLETTE OFFICE Wisconsin WPA Employes Aided by Governor. By United Press MADISON, Wis., March 16.—WPA strikers who have occupied the capitol's assembly chamber since last Thursday today moved into the office of Gov. Philip F. La Follette. Five men in work clothes from among 125 camped on the Legislature’s plush-carpeted floor took up their station outside the door of Gov. La Follette’s inner office. The Governor has contributed advice and money to the strikers, who warned the national Administration to take heed or “loss of life is inevitable.” The strikers demand increase of their S4B-a-month pay and discharge of “strike breakers.” They believe La Follette has sufficient influence in Washington to get them a hearing. Lyle Olson, leader of the ragged “army,” asserted his followers would remain in the plush and marble capibol until their demands for higher wages are met. PWA Workers Strike By United Press ST. LOUIS, March 16.—About 2000 building trades workmen went on strike today on Public Works Administration projects in protest against the low wage scale of the Works Progress Administration.

BEAUTY REVEALS GOD’S NATURE, PASTOR SAYS The Rev. Harold O. Boon Preaches Noon Lenten Sermon. Knowledge, creative power and the beauty of nature reveal the nature of God, the Rev. Harold O. Boon, St. Matthew's Church vicar, said in a noon Lenten sermon this afternoon in Christ Church. “The beauty which is nature's reveals his glory; the knowledge which is power testifies his constancy and the creative power which we behold at work, especially in human life, giving us new souls for old, shows the 'finger of God’ casting out demons,” Mr. Boon said. TAX COLLECTOR IS HELD Roy Henderson, Deputy at Richmond, Accused of Embezzlement. By United Press RICHMOND, Ind.. March 16. Roy Henderson, 47, Richmond, deputy collector of internal revenue, was arrested today on charges of embezzling public funds. The warrant, signed by Paul Sauer, Intelligence Bureau of the Treasury Department, charged Henderson converted to personal use a certified check for S2OO. drawn on the Winters National Bank, Dayton.

OFFICIAL WEATHER —United States Weather Bureau

Sunrise 5:55 I Sunset 5 53 TEMPERATURE March 16, 1935 7 a. m 60 1 p. 63 Today a. m. 39 10 a. m 45 7a. m 39 11 a. m 45 Ba. m. 42 12 (Noon) 45 9 a. m. 44 1 p. m. 43 BAROMETER 7 a. m 30.03 1 p. m 29.98 Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... .00 Total precipitation since Jan. 1 5.04 Deficiency since Jan. 1 2.52 OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Station. Weather. Bar. Temp. Amarillo, Tex Clear 30.22 36 Bismarck, N. D PtCldv 30.26 22 Boston Cloudy 30.08 38 Chicago Cloudv 30.10 34. Cincinnati Cloudy 30.02 42 Denver Clear 30.36 28 Dodge City. Kas Clear 30.20 34 Helena. Mont Cloudy 30.32 30 Jacksonville. Fla Cloudy 29 96 62 Kansas City. Mo Rain 30.16 42 Little Rock. Ark. .. Rain 23.90 48 Los Angeles Clear 30.02 52 Miami, Fla Rain 30.02 66 Minneapolis Cloudy 30.18 28 Mobile. Ala Cloudy 29.88 64 New Orleans Foggy 29.86 68 New York Cloudy 30.00 48 Okla. City. Okla Clear 30.03 42 Omaha. Neb Cloudy 30.24 30 Pittsburgh Rain 29 98 40 Portland. Ore Cloudy 30.20 40 San Antonio. Tex Foggv 29.82 64 San Francisco Clear 30.02 54 St. Louis Cloudv 30.06 42 Tampa. Fla Cloudv 29.98 66 Washington. D. C. ..Cloudy 29 96 54 OUR PERMANENTS Are Guaranteed Until Your Hair Grows Out With Our New French Hair Solution /(,■ French —Man L Hair Cutter H i\ .y. and Stylist Smile Beauty Shop ess Mass. Awe. LI-0 No Appointment Necessary!

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GERMANS WILL OUST NAZIDOM, PRINCEJILAIMS Calls Hitler Gangster and Predicts War May Come in Two Years. Twelve hundred Indianapolis persons today read the latest news of the European crisis with added interest. the words of Prince Hubertua Loewenstein ringing ominously in their ears. “If Hitler gets away with this latest holdup,” declared the former leader of the Catholic Center Party in Germany, "war will come within two years.” The spruce. 30-year-old Teutonic Frince. appearing last night before the Indianapolis Open Forum, drew a burst of applause when he emotionally cried that "You can imprison human beings, you can blind and torture them, but you can’t kill the word of God and you can’t imprison human freedom.” Election Called “Travesty" The coming elections called by the Nazi government to show the world that Germany is united behind Hitler’s seizure of the Rhineland is a “travesty,” said the prince. The Prince's topic was “The Coming German Revolution.” He spoke before the largest crowd of the season at Kirshbaum Center. “Hitler.” he said, “thinks nothing of the lives of Germans, nor of any other European. He wants power only for power’s sake.” Declaring that millions of Germans are against the Nazis, he said that he and his co-workers are striving to consolidate these forces and overthrow the Nazis. “I believe.” he said, “that Germany will shake off the gangsters who have seized her by the throat and take her place again among the truly civilized nations.” Asked by a member of the audience if he could return to Germany under the Nazis, Loewenstein retorted: “I am a Catholie and therefore can not commit suicide.”