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CITY OUTLINES RAIL CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS $324 a Mile Yearly Asked for Use of Streets by Trolleys. LINE COMBINE FAVORED UtP'tv Officials Do Not Comment on Demands of Works Board. The Works Board today told Indianapolis Railways, Inc., officials what provisions the city wants included in the permanent contract, which is expected to be rallied within the next few weeks. Following the recommendation of City Engineer Henry B. Steeg, the board proposed that the company pay $324.76 a mile annually for use of streets over which it operates trackless trolleys. The utility previously had offered to pay $275. The board also favored combining of the Lincoln-st and Minnesota-st car lines, but not over the route suggested by railway officials. The utility proposed to run the line from the terminus of the present Lincoln-st line at East and Lin-coln-sts through Leonard, Palmer and Shelby-sts to Minnesota-st. Mr. Steeg and the Works Board recommended the company route the Lin-coln-st link south in East-st to Min-nesota-st, east in Minnesota-st to Ringgold-st, south in Ringgold-st to Pleasant Run-blvd, north drive, and east in Pleasant Run-blvd to Shelby-st. Other Features In Proposal Other features the Works Board want incorporated into the contract provide: 1. The company must keep all equipment repaired. 2. It can abandon lines only with the Works Board’s permission. 3. The Works Board lias the power to force the company to remove two miles of rails a year. 4. If the company refuses to remove the tracks, the city can do this work and sell the old rails. 5. The company must keep the pavement between its tracks in repair. Charles W. Chase, railway firm president, and Arthur L. Gilliom, company attorney, would not comment on the board’s proposals. Previously, they had said the figure was too high. They said they planned to study them, and report back next week. No new hearing date was set. City Ready to Sign “The city is ready to sign any time its figures are met,” Robert K. Eby, board vice president, said. “When the new agreement is signed it is to become effective as of March 26.” South Side civic leaders, who opposed the street car company’s proposed route for combination of the Lincoln-st and Minnesota-st lines, also objected to Mr. Steeg's alternate route. Property owners living along the route favored by the board presented a petition opposing the change, claiming the streets were too narrow. Similar objections were raised previously to the route suggested by the street car company.

PRICES FIRM IN EARLY AFTERNOON DEALINGS Trend Follows Morning's Decline to 2 Points. By f uiied Press NEW YORK. May B.—Prices firmed from the lows in the early afternoon dealings on the Stock Exchange today after a morning decline of fractions to more than 2 points. American Telephone rose 11,4l 1 ,4 to 154% and other utilities were steady to firm. Chrysler and General Motors rose to small gains. Losses ranging to more than 3 points were considerably reduced by Allied Chemical, Amerada and U. S. Gypsum. Oil shares fluctuated narrowly. ■\\ -ghouse Electric touched 105 ex-dividend, up T*. and General Electric made a. small advance. Rails rallied but still were irregular. Steel shares registered fractional losses. SLAYERS ARE CAPTURED Youths Found 24 Hours After They Fail in Raid on Bank. By United Press ONEIDA. N., Y.. May B.—Two nervous would-be bank bandits were captured by state police today, less than 24 hours after they shot and killed C. N. Salisbury, elderly president of the Laconia National Bank. The youths gave their names as Harry Stevens, 18, of Mattydale, N. Y., and Charles Waterbury, 20, of Euclid, N. Y. Philosopher Dies in Munich By United Press MUNICH, May 8 —Oswald Spengler, 56, famous philosopher and writer, died here today. Times Index Births 38 > Jane Jordan 25 Books 21 Merry-Go-R'd 21 Bridge 24 Movies 26 Broun 21 1 Mrs. Ferguson 22 Clapper 21 ; Mrs. Roosevelt 24 Comics 39 Music 38 Crossword 9 Pyle 22 Curious World 21 Radio 33 Editorials ... 22 Sherrer 22 Fashions 25 Science. Diets 22 Financial ... 32 Serial Story ..14 Fishbelß 22 Short Story ..39 Flynn 22 Simms .. .21 Food 30 Society 24 Forum 22 Sports 35 Grin, Bear It 21 State Deaths .18

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST: Partly cloudy and continued warm tonight, becoming unsettled tomorrow.

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 50

6-Year-Olds Score Hit With Mothers; Give Them Petunias Grown in School

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Patricia Bike and Paul Hunt, first grade pupils at School No. 16, gave the class garden a final sprinkling in preparation for an inspection by their mothers today.

ITALY'S TROOPS OCCUPYJjARRAR Foreign Diplomats Virtually Requested to Leave Addis Ababa. % (Copyright. 1936. by United Press) Italian motorized columns commanded by Gen. Rodolpho Graziani today occupied Harrar, second city of Ethiopia and most formidably fortified stronghold. While they consolidated positions before advancing on the strategic railroad center at Dire Dawa, French Senegalese Irailleurs, returning to Djibouti from Addis Ababa fought a pitched battle with bandits 20 miles down the railroad from the capital. Sir Sidney Barton, British minister to Addis Ababa, today notified the Foreign office in London that grave disorders, including looting, burning and shooting preceded Italian occupation of Harrar. Italy virtually requested the departure of foreign diplomats from Addis Ababa when Marshal Pietro Badoglio's representative called on the envoys to discuss their “diplomatic privileges until their departure.” Selassie at Jerusalem Emperor Haile Selassie and 50 persons who followed the imperial family into exile arrived at Haift, en route to Haven in the Coptic community at Jerusalem. The Negus went ashore from the British cruiser Enterprise with a pet python and 117 chests filled with gold and silver. He completed the trip to Jerusalem by train. Italy announced final elimination of Haile Selassie's authority in Ethiopia with the surrender of Ras Siyoum, “the Black Fox,” to commanders of the Third army at Socota. Siyoum was the Negus’ hardest fighter and most bitter opponent of Italian penetration. Great Britain today flew large numbers of troops to the southern border of Ethiopia. Detachments of the King's African Rifles are to establish frontier patrols to keep refugees from Ethiopia out of British territory. DEADLINE POINTED” OUT Assessment Reports Must Be Filed With County on May 15. Robert R. Sloan, Marion County assessor, announced today that deadline for filing domestic corporation assessment reports for personal property is May 15. For everyday thereafter that returns are unfiled there is a penalty of SIOO.

Retiring ‘King of Hoboes’ Gets O. K. on His Income Tax Report

TTfILL H. SMITH, Federal col- ™" lector of internal revenue for Indiana, expressed himself as satisfied today with the income report of Joseph Leon Son of Morris Lazure Cohen Lazarowitz, president of the National Council of Hoboes. Leon Son of Morris, etc., disembarked from a private (freight) car & few days ago at Evansville and went directly to the United States revenue office to pay his income tax. He presented a voluminous credit and ledge; ac-

Nearly Flood Basement in Process but All Turns Out for Best. BY TOM OCHILTREE The first gr. ders at School No. 16, Bloomington and Market-sts, may be a major- worry to janitors, but their teacher is satisfied they know how to surprise and please their mothers. On their best behavior and acting so sweetly that sugar wouldn’t melt in their mouths, these 6-year-olds held a Mother's Day party in their classroom today. To climax the occasion they gave their mothers petunias they had grown in their own miniature greenhouse. Miss Ethel Underwood, the teacher, originated the greenhouse idea, and received even more cooperation than she expected. The young botanists were so eager to make their plants grow they almost flooded, the basement. Using small sprinkling cans brought from home, the youngsters worked on the theory that the more water they poured the faster the flowers would grow. Pity the Poor Janitors This eventually caused an overflow, and water began seeping through to the basement. The janitors, who think a flower’s place is in the yard, weren’t too pleased over this turn of events. They kept silent, however, in order not to put a damper on today’s party. The greenhouse, which is a twodeck, 5x5-foot structure, has been filled with plants since fall. First the children made a Dutch garden, and planted flowers which grow from bulbs. In February these began to bloom, and the class gave a flower show for other pupils. The petunias, which were blooming today, were planted in March. Vegetables Not Neglected Beans, corn, lettuce, radishes and onions were put in early last month, arW recently a rock garden and a miniature clover field were added to the greenhouse. To keep the class interested, Miss Underwood taught the children to sing and recite pieces about the various plants. They are blase enough about this singing when alone, but around strangers they speed up the tempo and mumble off the last few phrases. Many of the girls think they would like to raise flowers on a large scale when they get older, but most of the boys still think it would be more fun being a fireman. Fear New Arab-Jewish Riots CAIRO, May B,—An unknown number of British troops were dispatched to Palestine by airplane during the night, it w’as learned today, because of fear of further Arab-Jewish disorders.

counting book covering every detail of his “business” for what he termed two fiscal years of hoboing. At the end of half a dozen pages of neat, itemized figures was the total $6539.85, listed as credits. “That total,” said Joseph Leon Son of, etc., “represents the value of food, clothing, lodging and courtesies shown me during two years on the road. When I received food, i not only estimated the value of it but added something for the spirit in which it was given.” The ledger book likewise showed debits of $2403.

FRIDAY, MAY. 8,1936

CAPTURES SPUR ROBINSON HUNT Abductor of Mrs. Stoll Is Only Major Kidnaper Still at Large. By United Press WASHINGTON, May B.—An indication that the next major fieldof the Federal government’s G-men would be the shadowy connections between dishonest politicians and the underworld was seen today in the jubilant announcement of J. Edgar Hoover that only one of the kidnapers who harassed the nation for over three years remains at large. Mr. Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pressed a Federal roundup of all persons who have harbored or aided fugitives from Federal justice, while his agents rushed the two newest public enemies captured by his department to justice. In Tacoma, Wash., William Mahan, kidnaper of 9-year-old George Hunt Weyerhaeuser, who was “Public Enemy No. 1,” (or “Public Rat No. 1,” according to Mr. Hoover), during the six days between his capture and that of Alvin Karpis, faced quick arraignment on two longpending indictments. It St. Paul, Harry Campbell, 36, last member of the Barker-Karpis gang to remain at large, joined his erstwhile chief, Karpis, in custody. Remaining at large was Thomas H. Robinson Jr., kidnaper of Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville, who has retained his liberty so far only because he has no underworld connections and is an expert female impersonator.

STATE STONE MILLS CLOSED BY WALKOUT Engineers, Operators Seek Increase in Wages. By United Press BEDFORD, Ind., May B.—Walkout of approximately 150 engineers and traveler operators today caused a shutdown of 18 limestone mills in Monroe and Lawrence Counties. The walkout affected approximately 1000 other workers in the mills. Clyde Webster, president of the Engineers’ Union local, said the walkout would remain effective until demands for wage increases had been met.

“'T'HESE figures,” said Joseph X Leon, etc., “represent the many insults I received from nonoperative persons and from policemen who didn’t understand me.” Revenue clerks checked Joseph’s “income credits” and “exemptions.” but were unable to find any phraseology in the Federal income tax law to cover his particular sort of income. They found dull stuff on earned income, interest on money and bonds and profits from sales, but nothing covering backdoor handouts. So they marked up a clean slate for Joseph Leon Son of Morris Lazure Cohen Lazarowitz “king

HINDENBURG IS NEAR AMERICA; AIDED BY WIND Dirigible Rides Out Storm in Mid-Atlantic on Flight to U. S. SHIP NEAR NOVA SCOTIA Reported 550 Miles East of Halifax; Passes Below Newfoundland. BY WEBB MILLER (Copyright. 1936. by United Press) ABOARD DIRIGIBLE HINDENBURG, EN ROUTE TO THE UNITED STATES, May B.—Speeding toward the American coast with favorable tail winds promising arrival over the New York area early tomorrow the Hindenburg at noon today passed below Newfoundland, the shoulder of the North American continent. At 11 (Indianapolis time) we were in latitude 43.23 North, Longitude 53.32 West. Calculations indicated we are now approximately 550 miles east of Halifax, with a course veering slightly to the South. If weather conditions permit maintenance of this course the Hindenburg, pride of Nazi Germany, will pick up the New England coas.t as our first landfall in the United States. Rides Out Storm Throughout the night we passed majestically, as safely as an ocean liner, through rain and turbulent air currents but this morning we rode in banks of woolly clouds splotched with sunshine. Father Paul Schulte, the flying priest, celebrated the first air mass in history as we felt the Hindenburg pushing her blunt nose on toward our destination. It was after midnight when we struck the rain and the turbulent air currents. All we could see outside was our searchlight playing on the water. Passengers Get Two Thrills But the voyage has been so smooth and tranquil that even the vases of flowers on the tables have not upset, and the water bottle in my room has not moved. Such a thing would be impossible in any other form of transport. The ship bucked a bit In the storm, and gave the passengers their second big thrill—the first was sighting the liner Staatendam yesterday. But at the height of the storm we felt only a gentle swaying.

MORTGAGE ACT HELD INVALID BY COURT Violates Property Right, Balizell Rules. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell ruled today that the three-year mortgage moratorium provision of the Frazier-Lemke act is a violation of property rights aqd therefore unconstitutional. The section voided by the decison is the amended subsection passed by Congress after the Supreme Court had held a similar provision invalid. The new section violated the right of the mortgagee to determine the time of selling the property when the mortgage is in default, Judge Baltzell held. The ruling, affecting 12 cases in this district, was on a suit brought by Walter Bennett Mullikan, Montgomery County, .mortgagor, against the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Cos. BRUNO TRIAL JUROR IS KILLED BY TRAIN Philip Hockenbury Is Second Panel Member to Die in East. By United Press HIGH BRIDGE, N. J„ May B. Philip Hockenbury, 62, one of the jurors who condemned Bruno Richard Hauptmann to death for the murder of the first son of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, was killed here today when he was struck by a freight train. Hockenbury. a railroad track walker, apparently stepped from behind one train into the path of another. He was the second member of the jury to die. Liscom Case, who also voted for Hauptmann’s conviction, died of a heart attack last February.

of the nation’s hoboes,” as far as Uncle Sam is concerned. Joseph brought in his books to settle everything, because he is going to quit after 17 years on the road. He is going back to Brooklyn to “start a pew career,” he said. He even is going to resign as national council president. Joseph said he would not attend the national convention of hobc<es in Louisville this week. “There are too many criminals and ordinary bums on the road nowadays to keep the profession dignified," he said, with a touch of nostalgia for the good old days.

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Just Pals! Just to show sympathy, a hat was passed at police roll call yesterday to raise money to pay the $2 fine of Detective John Dalton, Criminal Court investigator who was caught double-parking his car. The collection totaled 20 cents, 43 buttons, one dice and a tobacco coupon. This morning, five minutes before opening time, Detective Dalton, accompanied by police, detectives, professional bondsmen and fellow-citizens, knocked on the traffic window at police station. “I’ve come to pay up,” he called. “Can you open a little early?” The window was opened. He paid. He was given a receipt. He left announcing he would frame it.

ORDERS REALTY OF BANK SOLD Judge Directs Liquidation of Washington Trust Firm’s Holdings. Probate Judge Smiley N. Chambers today ordered the sale of the remaining real estate held by five subsidiaries of the defunct Washington Bank and Trust Cos. The firms are the Capitol City Realty Cos., which has paid 13 percent and with the sale will pay an additional 5 per cent; the Realty Mortgage and Security Cos., 2Y 2 per cent plus 5 per cent with the sale; Hanover Realty Cos., 4 per cent plus 3 per cent; No. 2 Realty and Mortgage Cos., 4 per cent plus 3 per cent, and the Brandt C. Downey, receiver, collateral trust agreement, 20 per cent plus 5 per cent. The Fletcher Trust Cos. Is receiver for the first four concerns and trustee for the fifth.

CIRCUS TO PARADE IN CITY TOMORROW Clyde Beatty Show to Stay Here for Two Days. Backyards, school playgrounds and even offices and homes heard one big whisper today: “Circus is coming to town." Early tomorrow morning the Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty circus, with three special trains, is to unload on the Big Four siding on W. Wash-ington-st, near the old baseball park grounds. A parade is scheduled at 9:3.0 a. m. thPough the downtown streets. Performances are to be held at 2 and 8 p. m. tomorrow and Sunday. Tickets are on sale at the Haag drug store, Claypool. The circus will feature numerous wild animal acts with Beatty as the featured performer as well as aerial displays. Following Sunday night’s performance the circus will go to Terre Haute for Monday performances. RELIEF BILL FLAYED BY HOUSE DEMOCRAT Cheers Greet Attack From Republican Side. By United Press WASHINGTON, May B.—As Republicans roared their applause, Rep. Andrew J. May (D., Ky.) today attacked the $2,364,000,000 deficiency bill on the House floor and demanded that the New Deal call a halt on “unnecessary” expenditures. Mr. May’s bitter outburst came as House leaders struggled to bring the bill to the stage of a motion to recommit it to committee by tonight. The roll call vote is expected Monday. In the meantime rebellious House Democrats, defeated at a caucus last night, indicated today a coalition with Republicans will be sought in an effort to earmark relief funds for expenditures by Harold L. Ickes. Rep Alfred F. Beiter (D., N. Y.) charged Administration leaders with “steam roller” tactics after the caucus he forced voted, 70 to 53, against the proposal to allocate $700,000,000 of the work-relief fund for expenditure on heavy construction projects by PWA Administrator Ickes.

LAZAROWITZ’S ledger book shows he has traveled 345,180 miles on freight trains, airplanes and steamships, and he figures he owes $8504.75 in fares. Cash donations in the last two years total $371.97, panhandled in 392 cities and towns. His living expenses averaged 50 cents a day. His original capital was 1 cent and he finished with 21 cents, a clear profit of 20 cents. He slept in beds 521 nights in two years. Joseph headlined his way to prominence two years ago when he quarreled with Jeff Davis over the hobo monarchy at the Cincin-

FACTIONS PREPARE FOR DEMOCRATIC, G. 0. P. MEETINGS Republican Reorganization Committee Ready; to Put Up Stiff Fight to Seat Bookwalter as County Leader. COFFIN GROUP HOPEFUL OF SUCCESS Rumors of New Attempt to Reorganize Democratic Ranks Are Denied by Chairman Walter C. Boetcher. BY ARCH STEINEL The political atmosphere in Marion County was smoggy today with rumors of possible reorganization of the Democratic as well as the Republican Central Committee at tomorrow’s conventions. The Democratic convention meets at 1 p. m. in the Claypool to select a county chairman and other officers to lead the party in the fall election campaign.

MOVE TO BLOCK SALEOFBONDS Franklin Township Group Files Injunction Suit on School Issue. A last-minute move to prevent the sale of bonds for financ'ng the proposed New Bethel consolidated school was made today by the Taxpayers’ Association of Franklin Township. The organization filed an injunction suit in Superior Court as the school advisory board was opening bids for the $54,000 bond issue. The fight over the construction of the new school was carried to the state tax board, which last month approved the bond issue. Residents of Acton fought the proposal, because under the new plan all high school pupils would be enrolled in the New Bethel school. The sale of bonds, the action declared, would be injurious to the taxpayers. The bond issue and a Federal grant would finance the construction. HEALTH EDUCATION COURSE IS ORDERED State Boards Outline New School Requirement. By United Press A requirement that all public school pupils take a complete course in health education, starting next year, was approved today by the State Board of Education. The program provides for creation of a health education division in the office of Floyd I. McMurray, state superintendent of public instruction. Dr. Thurman B. Rice, State Health Board assistant director, was recommended for the position as director of the new department. Mr/McMurray announced that the program would call for standardization and unification of health education and improvement of present instruction. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state Health Board director, proposed the new program. Classroom education in health studies would be combined with physical education to reach more advantageous results, he said. SENATE ASKS REPORT FROM REX TUGWELL Requests Information on Rural Resettlement Work. By United Press WASHINGTON, May B.—The Senate today passed without objection a resolution calling on Rexford Guy Tugwell, head of the Rural Resettlement Administration, for a report on the advisability of continuing the administration as well as its effects on labor, taxation, real estate values and the tenants themsleves.

nati Convention of the Hoboes of America. At that time he sent a postcard to Davis declaring he was abdicating the throne. Davis issued lengthy apd scorching statements demanding how he could give up a throne he didd’t have. Davis said he (Davis) was the only rightful king and that Joseph was no better than a usurper, a pretender and maybe worse. Joseph, a native of Rumania, left New York when he was 15 to see the world. Now, he says, he is going back to Brooklyn. The books are open on how long he can resist the lure of the road.

FINAL HOME PRICE THREE CENTS

The Republican convention is to be held at the same time in the K. of P. Building:. Democratic factional differences have been increased by the primary campaign. County Chairman Walter C. Boetcher has said that he does not yearn to be the party’s leader during the general election. Nevertheless, today he said: “I know cf no reorganization move in the party at tomorrow’s convention.” Democratic Breach Widened Henry O. Goett, county committee treasurer; Hendricks Kenworthy, former Ninth Ward chairman; Russell Ryan, former Superior Court judge; Municipal Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, and James Scott ars among the party leaders discussed as possible chairmen if Mr. Boetcher does not run. Defeat of “anti-organization" candidates in the primary has widened the breach in various wards Placing the name of Cle.ude E. Shover, former street commissioner, in opposition to Sheriff Otto Ray in the primary, Mr. Shover’s withdrawal and re-entrance, also has created dissatisfaction, it is said. On the G. O. P. side the test will come tomorrow when the Marion County Republican Reorganization Committee attempts to make John H. Bookwalter county chairman. Emmelman Claims Edge Wayne Emmelman, incumbent county chairman, said that precinct committeemen favoring the candidacy of Frederick E. Schortemeier, former Secretary of State, far outnumber the Bookwalterites. “They won’t have more than 38 to 43 committeemen and vice committeemen in the convention,’- he declared. A. O. Meloy and other leaders at the reorganization headquarters expressed confidence that the movement to defeat so-called “Coffinism” would demonstrate its strength on the convention floor. Possibility of a compromise candidate is scoffed at by both groups. Mr. Schortemeier has said he would consider the chairmanship if it was the will of the majority of the party. Others to Be Named In addition to chairmen, Democrats and Republicans are to name a treasurer, secretary, vice chairman and district convention delegates at tomorrow’s conventions. Incumbent officers of the Republican committee are: County Chairman Emmelman, Mrs. Bloomfield Moore, vice chairman; Samuel L. Montgomery, treasurer, and Edwin McClure, secretary. Democratic incumbents, besides Chairman Boetcher, are: Mrs. J. H. Bingham, vice chairman; Joseph McNamara, secretary, and Mr. Goett, treasurer. Following the Republican county convention the group will resolve itself into a Twelfth Congressional District convention to name the district chairman. Payne May Be Chosen Gavi' Payne, present Twelfth District chairman, is expected to be renamed to the post. Delegates are to be selected for the Eleventh District to attend the Anderson meeting of the district group. The Democratic county convention, after naming a roster of officers and delegates to the district conventions, is to adjourn into district conventions. The Eleventh District convention is to be held at the Courthouse, and the Twelfth District group meets in the Claypool. ROOSEVELT OUTLINES NEW JOBLESS ATTACK Suggests Expansion of Housing, Rail Equipment Industries. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 8. President Roosevelt today outlined a new approach to the nation's unemployment problem, involving the expansion of certain industries which appear suited to extensive development. He revealed he had discussed the possibility with a number of leading industrialists, including Waiter P. Chrysler, motor magnate, and Owen D. Young, General Electric chairman. He sugested as two industrial expansion possibilities the railroad equipment industry and housing construction.