Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 5, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1936 — Page 3

MARCH 17, 1936

THREE LABOR BILLS LOSE IN CITY COUNCIL Peaceful Picketing Act Is Beaten: Pay Boosts Also Refused. (Continued From Pa** Or***) "Chief Morrissey has explained that he would rather have workers on a picket line than scattered in all sections of the city. Many employers also feel that way." Debated for Months Other Council members refused j to comment on the bill, which has been opposed by merchant associations. It has been a subject of debate for several months. John Royse, attorney, asked for the wage increase for police and firemen. He claimed these men were receiving less pay than relief workers. "No civic group,” Mr. Royse added, "is opposed to this bill. I have 2200 signatures asking for Its passage. It . ould raise their wages 10 per cent after July 1.” Mr. Fritz asserted the state law cutting police and firemen's wages 15 per cent was to have expired the first of this year. Loses by 5-to-4 Vote In answer to these statements, Dr. Cablp, who voted "no," said it was financially impossible to make this restoration now’. He added that Mayor Kern hopes to make salary adjustments for all city employes later. Author of the bill, Edward R. Kealing, charged Democrats with "playing politics” in de feating the proposal, 5 to 4. Several weeks ago the Council passed an ordinance providing a sanitation checkup on barber .shops, but failed to provide money to pav inspectors. Last night they defeated, 5 to 4. a S3OOO appropriation for this purpose. Members ex-! plained this action nullified the previous ordinance. Although Dr. Silas J. Carr wanted the price cut SSOO. members voted to give Chief Morrissey $2175 to buy anew automobile. Other ordinances passed called for i purchase of street repair materials, j a fund transfer of $672 in the Works Board, a temporary $125,000 loan to meet current expenses of the Health Board, purchase of five dump trucks and a gift of a small tract of land at 30th-st and White River to the state for construction of a Naval Reserve armory. Taxi Rill Delayed Action was delayed on the proposed taxicab licensing ordinance because James E. Deery, Corporation Counsel, told members it did not sufficiently protect, the public in accident, cases. Members also : sailer to agree on the relocation of the dog pound, and deferred action I on that bill. A proposed ordinance was introduced w’hich would require garage owners to keep complete records of i cars, repaired. It is designed, mem-; bers said, to aid police in appre- i hendmg hit-and-run drivers. Other , new bills would provide minor fund transfers and amendments to the zoning code. Filling Station Approved Although City Plan Commission members approved erection of a j filling station at 38th and N. Meri- J dian-sts, they hoped today that j other business establishments would not flood them with requests to build in North Side residential sections. At a board meeting yesterday afternoon, Henry B. Steeg. City Engineer, predicted that if this request were granted, at least six more petitions for filling stations in this section would be filed soon. The variance from the zoning law’ was granted after trustees of North M. E. Church, located on that corner, said they would not oppose ! the petition filed by the Vanderbilt Realty Cos. A. B. Carter was refused the right to build a "drive in” refreshment stand at 5655 Wesffield-blvd after neighborhood property owners objected. Granted Over Protest Although a delegation of 50 neighbors protested against Mrs. Olive M. Ellis' request to convert, her existing two-storv house at 60 N. Campbell-av into a fourfamily apartment, the board granted her petition. Other zoning variances granted were to John H. Kroetz, 3016 Clif-ton-st, to convert a double house into a four-family apartment, and ! to the Fourth Church of Christ i Scientist, io erect a $75,000 structure at 5201 Pleasant Run-pkwy, south drive. The request of Frank Mattson to use a steel tempering process in a garage at 1033 High-st was continued until a report was received from the Fire Department. The hoard decided it had no jurisdiction in the case of Edward I Ingles! Jr„ who asked that he be allowed to continue to use his lot at, 2864 Boulevard-pl to repair and sell used cars. SINGAPORE ARRANGES FOR CHAPLIN TO WED Comedian. Miss Goddard to Spend Honeymoon in Bali, Is Report. By f M itrrl Prrtn SINGAPORE, Straits Settlements, March 17.—Singapore had it all arranged today for Charles Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, his co-star in his latest movie. "Modern Times," to marry by special license on their arrival from Manila tomorrow and honeymoon in the South Seas. It was understood that Chaplin engaged a suite of rooms in the luxurious Adelphi Hotel here and arranged to fly to Bali Sunday, to spend his honeymoon on a tropical island. NORRIS SERVICES SET Victim of Stroke Will Be Buried i Friday at Greenwood. Services for Mrs. Bertha Blanche Norris, for 10 vears employed in the E. J. Gausepohl Cos., who died Sunday night in Methodist Hospital j after a paralytic stroke, are to be Friday in Greenwood. Ind. She was 45. She is survived by her husband. Charles W. Norris; brother. Ancil Stauton. both of Indianapolis. and a son, George Whitemack, United States Navy.

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Five cars (shown above) in the middle of a 36-car freight train were derailed early today on the Pennsylvania Railroad near suburban Longacre. south of the city. Two of them plunged down an embankment. No one was injured.

AKRON STRIKERS ASK GREEN AID Want A. F. of L. President to Help Negotiate With Goodyear. By United Press AKRON, 0.. March 17.—Striking rubber workers today appealed to William F. Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to come to Akron to seek new negotiations in their four-w'eek controversy with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Cos. Sherman H. Dalrymple, president of the United Rubber Workers Union, wired his request to Green as pickets, snow-covered and shivering. tramped in a blockade of the world’s largest tire factory. “We feel your presence in Akron at this time will have a great, effect in maintaining order and settling the controversy now existing,” Dalrymple said in his telegram. “Advise so we can prepare for a huge meeting.” Pickets braved heavy snows to maintain their blockade at the main gates after it was reported an attempt would be made today to transport non-strikers into the factories. No activity by the company of the law and order league vigilantes was noticed, however. SNOWBOUND PLANE PILOT GIVEN PRAISE Five Passengers to Continue Tnp by Air. By I"tiitrd Pres* * CLEVELAND. March 17. Five passengers who left Newark Airport last night aboard a United Airlines plane munched doughnuts and coffee at Municipal Airport today and told of their experience when the pilot, ran into a heavy snow and landed his ship safely in a country cornfield 45 miles west of here. Praising Maurice Marrs. the pilot, the five planned to continue their trip to Chicago by plane. Four other passengers remained at West Clarksfipld. They will be brought here later today. Gross Income Tax Tested Rii J nifrit Prat* EVANSVILLE. Ind., March 17. Constitutionality of the gross income tax law was questioned today by a petition filed bv the Evansville Producers’ Commission Association.

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Life Light Abraham Lincoln was one of the first lawyers to use weather observations in a trial, J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said this afternoon in an address before the Sigma Delta Kappa Alumni luncheon at 115 E. Court-st. Mr. Armington said that Lincoln refuted the testimony of a witness in a murder trial who testified he saw the defendant in the “light of the bright moon.” Lincoln, according to Mr. Armington, produced an almanac showing that the moon was in the last quarter at the time. The meteorologist cited many examples of weather records used in trials.

GAS UTILITY REPORT IS DELAYED 30 DAYS State Grants Extension; Two Forms Needed. Extension of 30 days from March 10 for filing of the annual report of the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility has been granted by the State Public Service Commission. Two reports are to be made. One will deal with the operations of the Citizens Gas Cos. until Sept. 9. 1935, when the city took it over, and the second with the Citizens Gas and Coke Utility from Sept. 9 to Dec. 31. Report on operations of the utility from Sept. 9 to Dec. 31 showed a s7l 000 profit. WORLD NEEDS CHRIST, LENTEN SPEAKER SAYS The Rev. Arthur M. Shermin Delivers Noon Address at Church. “Never has the world needed Christ more than today, because we have failed to take Him into each and every area of life,” the Rev. Arthur M. Sherman said in a*Lenten sermon this noon in Christ Church. “We are bidden to go into every area of life where Christ is not obeyed and followed and to make it conform to His commands and purposes. These areas are social, economic, political over the entire geographic area of the world. “Jesus Christ calls all men to discipleship. The meaning of this call is personal and signifies that the Christian religion is a challenge to each person; beginning thus, it reaches out into all phases and forms of our organized society.”

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Railroad engineers who almost immediately began clearing the tracks said they could not account for the accident. The front part of the train, undamaged, was sent on to Louisville, its destination, and the rear part, also still on the tracks, was brought back to Indianapolis.

LITTLE FLOWER SHRINE BURNED Coughlin’s First Building, Contents Destroyed by Fire. By Waited Pres* ROYAL OAK, Mich., March 17. Father Charles E. Coughlin's original Shrine of the Little Flower and all of its treasured possessions were destroyed by fire today. The 10-year-old frame structure, built at a cost of $30,000 under leadership of the militant radio priest, still smouldered at 9 a. m„ as fire departments of Royal Oak and Birmingham concentrated efforts on preventing the blaze from spreading to the new shrine. Father Coughlin was moved deeply by loss of the shrine in which he rose to national prominence in the last decade. It was in this building that Father Coughlin had stood before the microphone each Sunday afternoon and preached his sermon against “the money-changers” and exhorted his followers to action. “Nothing can replace the original Shrine of the Little Flower.” he said. “It was my home. I have eaten, slept and lived there for 10 years.” Looking over toward the magnificent new shrine, built at a cost of $750,000, he muttered; “I would rather have seen this one destroyed.” The priset said that in the safe of the burned building were a piece from the “true cross” and a bone from the arm of St. Therese, the “Little Flower” in whose honor the shrine was built. The expensive organ and broadcasting equipment installed in the shrine also were destroyed. Leo Fitzpatrick, president of WJR, originating station of the Coughlin broadcasts, said that anew studio would be started immediately in the new shrine. CLUB WILL CELEBRATE G. O. F. Group to Mark Anniversary at Party Friday. The First and Second Ward Republican Club is to celebrate the anniversary of the party at 8 Friday at Compton Hall, 2001 Winterav. Weir H. Cook, World War ace, and Mayor A. H. Berndt, of Bloomington, are to speak. Entertainment and refreshments are to be provided by women of the club. Harry Alford is to preside.

False Alarm If police and fire officials could catch up with the individual who turned in six false alarms within 33 minutes early today, they would be glad to see him. The celebration started with the fire box at Meridian and South-sts at 4:44 a. m.; then at Pennsylvania and North - sts at 4:51; next at East and Ohio-sts at 4:56; then over to Alabama and North-sts at 5:05, with a quick one at Illinois and St. Clair-sts three minutes later. It ended at 5:17 a. m. at St. Clair and West-sts. Inspector John Mullen had enough police cars in the danger zone to start a police convention and Fire Chief Kennedy joined in the chase, but the firebox puller must have decided about this time to go home.

HOLT RENEWS FIGHT ON HARRY HOPKINS Charges WPA Head ‘Whitewashed’ Two Inquiries. By United Prats WASHINGTON. March 17.—Senator Rush Holt (D.. W. Va.) charged today that evidence in his possession would show that assistants to WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins “whitewashed” investigations of the death of World War veterans on the Florida Keys hurricane and in the burning of a Lynchburg (Va.) Federal Transient Bureau. Mr. Holt’s new charge came as he returned to his battle with Hopkins which started over the administration of WPA in West Virginia where Holt charged political influences dictated appointments and award of relief jobs. TAX PENALTIES TO BE IMPOSED IMMEDIATELY 1935. Returns Estimated Greater Both in Number and Money, Penalties for failure to file Federal income tax returns by midnight last night are to be imposed on all delinquent taxpayers starting today, according to Will H. Smith, internal revenue collector. The deadline for filing returns was marked by a last-minute rush here and in branch offices over the state. Mr. Smith said he expected that the returns for 1935 would exceed last, year in number and amount of money.

JOB INSURANCE PASSES SENATE 1 BY 37-11 VOTE Political Oratory Precedes Action: Adjournment Tonight Possible. (Continued From Page One) labor bloc leader, read a lengthy statement in which he praised the national and state administrations for the legislation they have enacted in the interests of organized labor. His address listed the highlights of this legislative program for labor and touched chiefly on state enactments. He mentioned chiefly the gross income tax law and praised ! its passage as obivating a sales tax which, he said, would have taken three times as much from the worker. Jenner Joins Attack Then the Senate “young bloods” had their day on both sides of the house. Senator William E. Jenner ; <R., Paoli) leading orator on the minority side, launched into an address in which he attacked Senator White's address as tending to “array class against class” by its insistence on the debt organized labor owes to the present state and national administrations. He reproved Senator White for ignoring what he termed the Republican Party's contributions to the cause of labor. He added that th< job insurance bill and its companion ! social security bills were the result of mental efforts by “boondogglers and nitwits.” He was answered by Senator Wil- | liam Fitzgefald. North Vernon, one of the younger Democratic Senators. In succession spoke Senators Henry Schricker <D., Knox) Democratic caucus chairman; Merrill W. Nichols i LR.. Winchester) and Claude McBride (D., Jeffersonville). The roll call today on the unemployment insurance bill in the Indiana Senate was as follows: Ayes. Democrats—Albrijfht, Anderson, Bedwell, Riddle. Brandon, Chambers. Cleary, Dennigan, Eicborn. Fitzgerald, I Gottschalk, Hardy. Hays, Hemmer. HcnI dricks, Inman, Janes, Kolsem, Lynch, Mc- ; Bride, Porttcus. Robertson. Rupert. Sands, I Schricker, Smith, Sohl, Swihart, Vermil-

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SOUTHERN BLOG IS FORMED TO SEEK 'JUSTICE' ‘Economic Rehabilitation' to Be Sought for Nine States, . Leaders Say. ; By T . tifrrl f'rrtt WASHINGTON. March 17.—Rep- ) resenlatives of nine states formed a bloc today to obtain “economic justice for the South through congress onal legislation. They were sftid o have support of high Administration officials. Arkansas. Texas, Alabama. Maryland. Virginia. Oklahoma. Tennessee. North Carolina and Mississippi were represented at two “informal" meetings with Federal government? officials at which it was agreed to press for “economic rehabilitation" of the South. First, emphasis of the drive, j spokesmen said, will be for passage of the $425,000,000 rural electrificajtion development program and the Bankhead bill for Federal loans to : enable tenant farmers to purchase ! their own iarms. Both bills have i passed the Senate and are pending in the House. Association to Aid Drive Rep. Maury Maverick (D.. Tex.l, one of the movement's leaders, said' ! the legislative drive would be car- ! lied out in co-operation with a ’revivified" Southern Policy Association. Meetings are planned within the next few months in .several Southern cities to formulate a longrange program. Rep. Maverick attributed South- . ern economic difficulties to the j "down and out position of Old King Cotton" and the fact that many children, whose education and rearing expenses had been defrayed by j their Southern parents, had moved ' to Northern and Eastern industrial points for work. He said the bloc would not seek any legislation that would be “inj jurious to the nation as a whole.”