Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1936 — Page 3

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FIGHT AGAINST | - TROLLEY FEES|

Federation Committee Jo " Attend Hearing Before Council Group.

‘The public utility committee of |

the Indianapolis Federation of Community and Civic Clubs today continued prepartions for its appearance before the public works committee of the City Council Tuesday at 2 to oppose ratification of the trackless trolley contract. ‘John PF. White, the committee chairman, outlined the objections to the contract as agreed to by the Works Board and the Indianapolis Railways, Inc. The contract provides that the railway company pay the city $324.76 a mile a year for use of the city streets by the trolleys. - The Federation committee contends that rental would be insufficient to keep the streets in repair and proposes that the fee be raised to $500 a mile a year. At a Federation meeting last night Mr. “White declared the committee would continue its fight for the increased rental at Tuesday's hearing. In addition to Mr. White other

Executives of the Mystic Order

of Veiled Prophets prepare for the opening of the Supreme Council Sessions Which are to start here tomorrow. They have just been given the key to the city by Mayor

members of the committee are Mrs. | Kern

Florence Thacker, Harmon A. Campbell, E. O. Snethen and George Bruce. Members of the Council's public works committee are Dr. Theodore H. Cable, chairman, William A. Oren, John A. Schumacher, Ross H. Wallace and Dr. Silas J. Carr. Natural Gas Urged

The Federation committee also moved to ask the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility for action on a proposal of a Texas natural gas com-

pany to supply gas to large indus-.

tries here which have tifyeatened to leave the city unless cheaper fuel is provided.

Members of the committee also |.

were directed to investigate and compare the new taxicab license fees with those proposed for the street car company. The members also discussed the need for lights on traffic zone bumpers which, when unlighted, they claim to be a traffic hazzard. Last night’s meeting was the last until September. Mrs. George Bruce showed motion pictures of her trip through England, and Mrs. Alma Robertson sang several songs accompanied by Paul Brown.

REVERSE STERILIZATION;

GIRL BECOMES MOTHER

Doctors Perform Later Operation at Request of Patient. By Science Service NEW YORK, June 6.—A case in which a sterilization operation on a young girl was reversed four years later so that she was able .to give girth to a healthy baby was made public in a report by E. S. Gosney of the Human Betterment Foundation, Pasadena, Cal., to ‘the ‘Eugenics Research Association here this morning. This girl at the age of 14 was committed to a California institution for the feeble-minded and the sterilization operation was performed. Later she was paroled, “made good.” was discharged from the institution and married successfully. Then she asked for an operation which would reverse the sterilizaThis was done and six years| after her sterilization, she gave birth fo her baby.

26 STUDENTS OF LAW ARE GIVEN DIPLOMAS

Speaker Reminds Young Attorneys of Difficulties Ahead. /

Young lawyers today face some of the most difficult problems in govermmmental functions in the nation’s history. Atty. Gen. Philip Lutz Jr. told 28 graduates of the Lincoln University Law School at commencement exercises in the Claypool last night. Diplomas were presented by Edward Lustgarten, university president, and scholarship awards by Dean Edward F. New. The postgraduate scholarship, awarded to the most deserving student, went to James Dunlap. Robert Schuttler and John Walsh received prizes for highest scholarship in senior work. i

WOMAN'S PURSE TAKEN

Finly (Ind.) Resident Reports Loss to Police Here.

Mrs. Iona Arnold, Finly, Ind. reported to police that after being crowded into a doorway at the Terminal Station last night she missed her purse containing $7, two certificates of deposit of a New Palestine Bank totaling $700 and a watch, Mrs. Arnold told police that shortly before she missed her purse she had been pushed by another

MAY JOB GAINS SET NEW HIGH MARK IN STATE

Placements Rec Recorded by Employment Service Total 5504.

+ With 5504 private job placements made in May, the Indiana State

Employment Service has just completed its most successful month, it was announced today. A bulletin just released by the United States Employment Service covering April shows widespread gains in private employment and an increase in the number of placements made in public employment at prevailing wages for the country at large. The Indiana Service in May made a gain in private job placements of about 1200 over April, and exceeded its previous best month, August, 1935, by about 700. “We attribute this gain in part to general business improvement,” Martin F. Carpenter, director, said, “but more especially to the fact that the period of mass public placements is now over, and the service has more time to devote to finding Hebe for persons in private indusry.” Officers of the United States Employment Service made a total of 109,174 placement in gainful employment in private industry during April, a gain of 19.4 per cent over March. This represents the highest level of private placements since last October, it was said. Gains in private employment and in public employment at prevailing wages were accompanied by a marked decrease in the number of persons registering for work at employment offices and a decline in the total active file of persons actively seeking jobs through the pub‘lic employment system, the bulletin states. April 1936 jshowed a ani of 7.6 per cent in Private placements for the nation over April, 1935. Private employment gains, the bulletin says, reflect the intensification of private placement work by the employment offices and the results of the program of employer-solicitation now being conducted. “We have noticed a direct connection between the number of field visits made to employers to determine the kind of jobs they have to offer and the number of private placements we make,” Mr. Carpenter said. “The more visits, the more placements.” Public employment offices mad 200,835 placements in public a governmental employment at prevailing wages during April, a gain of 47.3 per cent over March. Employment of this nature includes all placements in local, state and Federal governmental units on public works projects and with contractors working on such projects, the bulletin says. April placements

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of this type were the highest since August, 1934, and represent a gain of 36.8 per cent over April, 1935. Every state but five reported private placement gains for April, the bulletin reveals, public placements

were at the highest level since Au- |

gust, 1934, and the active file of job applicants showed the first significant decline since the beginning of the WPA program, every state but eight showing a decrease. The United States Employment Service bulletin is the first of a series to be issued shortly after the fifteenth of each month, summarizing the service's activities for the previous month.

{BOY HIT BY POP BOTTLE

Missile Hurled by Fan §t Stadium Inflicts Head Injury.

Paul Egenolf, 9, of 4051 S. Meri-dian-st, today was recovering from a head injury received last night in Perry Stadium bleachers, when he was struck by a soda bottle hurled by -a spectator. He was treated in City Hosiptal.

BANKHEAD WIELDS HOUSE GAVEL IN SORROW

58 ARE TO GRADUATE FROM HANOVER MONDAY

Four Indianapolis Students Included in Group to Get Degrees. Times Special . HANOVER, Ind.. June 6 —Four Indianapolis seniors are among 58 at Hanover College who are to receive degrees during commencement exercises Tuesday morning. They

are Miss Katherine Hines, Gerald!

Norcross, Charles Hutchings and Langdon Geutal. The address for the one hundred third commencement is to be given by Dr. Earold McFee Robinson, general secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Christian Education.

CULT LINKED TO PLOT ON MAYOR

Home Bombed Becaie He Was Catholic, Suspect Tells Polzse.

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By United Press : DETROIT, June 6A confession by a Black Legion night rider that the hooded order attempted to mur-

“| der the mayor of suburban Ecorse

with dynamite turned the investigation of its crimes toward almost forgotten, - but suddenly significant,

| bombings today.

At the same time discovery of a

1A in of $3000 by|

Democratic Group Is Challenged.

‘E. Kirk McKinney, Democratic candidate,

not say that. I think it was written to scare me out,” he said.

. BY ARCH STEINEL The Democratic State. Committee assessed Gov. McNutt, successful

: ‘candidate in 1932, the same amount

‘it has assessed thé three leading

. | Democratic candidates this year, the

Governor said today. E. Kirk McKinney, Indianapolis, one of the candidates for Governor, challenged the assessment of $1000

to be paid before the convention 1 and $2000 additional if nominated, | in a letter to William Storen treas-

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urer of the Democratic Committee. "M’Nuit Says He Paid

“1 paid around $3000, sliogethes; and possibly a little more up to an after my nomination. I haven't ang exact figures handy,” said Gov. McNutt. The Governor said that $1000 w paid before his name was placed in nomination and $2000 after he was nomigated Mr. Storem, whose letter to Mr. MecKinney set up a list of fees to be paid by candidates for offices on the

. state ticket said:

“The $1000 assessment is customary. The understanding is that the additional $2000 is to be paid by the successful candidate for the nomination.”

“Same Assessment”

Asked if he knew the reason for Mr. McKinney’s protest and whether it had any bearing on his candidacy, Mr. Storen said: “I don’t see how it could benefit his candidacy and see no reason for him to complain of the assessment. The same assessment was made in 1932.” Mr. Storen’s letter, released by Mr. McKinney, stated: “The finance committee of the Democratic State Committee, in session June 2, set up a schedule of fees. to be paid by candidates entering the Democratic state convention. “The assessment for Governor is as follows: $3000—$1000 payable beon the convention and $2000 payable thereafter to the treasurer of the Democratic state committee.” Mr. McKinney could not be reached for a statement early today.

. Terms Assessment High Pleas E. Greenlee, ousted patron-

age secretary of Gov. McNutt and |

| also a gubernatorial candidate, said

BYRD DEVOTES LIFE TO PEACE

Explorer Sees. Civilization Plunging Toward Its Own Destruction.

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the resources of thought to save him from the madness of loneliness. “It was a combination of unfor-

‘| seen circumstances that closed in|

on me at Advance Base that brought’ ut the crystalization of plans which had for long been in my mind,” he said. “Much of the time during the dark months and sleepless hours when I lay on he edge of life I could not read, > that thought was my only tompanion. I recovered some of those thoughts in my diary and I am going to read you a page from it.” The excerpt explained how clearly, in‘the white vastness and silence of Antarctica, it became plain that

| “the great folly of all follies is the

amazing attitude of civilized nai tions toward each other.” :

It commented that even aviation,

the invention that made Byrd’s-ex- |

plorations possible, “is one of the

main causes of the ‘present uni- |

versal nightmare.” Says Nations 20,000 Years Behind , “Fear, antagonism and reprisals

1 seem to be the rule among nations

*| which, in their conduct toward each

‘| cated that two unsolved murders | might be traced to Black Legion executioners.

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hind the in vidual civilized citizen

he relieved the assessment a “little 8 ” “I called Storen to my office and paid-the initial $1000; What is the difference? ‘I am going fo win. It is a little stiff but they (the MecNutt forces) are in control,” Mr. Greenlee said. Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend, the third Democratic candidate, said last night in Gary that he would pay the assessment.

G. O. P. Assessed $600 Te “Republican State Committee assessed candidates for the Governor nomination this year $600. In 1932 the amount assessed was $500. Mr. McKinney's full statement, which he is purported 'to have released, follows: “This is to acknowledge receipt of your letter of June 2, in which you state that the finance committee of the Democratic state committee has set an assessment for the can-

didate for Governor entering the.

Democratic state $3000. : “I am aware of the fact that it is customary for candidates to pay an assessment to help defray the.expenses of the convention and, as a ‘candidate,*I expect to do so. I will be a candidate for Governor in the Democratic state’ convention on June 16, but the assessment, as set is exorbitant.

“Expects to Pay”

7 - “My candidacy is not supported by the Liberty League, by the Two Per Cent Club, by petty loan inter‘ests or by any other special interests. It is supported by those who are interested personally in my candidacy and ‘in the party’s success. They are small contributors. “Of course, I expect to pay an-as-sessment and not to ride free, but I do not intend to pay any such assessment as $3000. “I refuse to believe that the Democratic Party has become the party in which only men capable of paying such an assessmenf are free to run for office,” the letter states.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

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MOSCOW, June. 6—Maxim Gorky, famous author (above) was gravely ill today of grippe,

complicated by weakening heart

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ANY PREDICTION 600D, JOE SAYS

3 oni Open Golf Meet Goes Into Final Two Rounds.

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Meadow all Mr. Sarazen did was

throw a 66 into the startled pans of the boys for the last 18. It proved more than sufficient to win the marbles. One hundred fifty-ones and ties qualified for the play-off today—the fastest qualifying pace the Open has known in years. This put out a number of pretty fair players including Sam Parks, the defending champion, who missed by a stroke. There ‘was a buzz of “I told you so’s” around the locker room when young Parks railed to get in. It had been said he was lucky to win at Oakmont last summer and™his failure here scemed to confirm his mediocrity. Parks didn’t qualify because he Wasn't putting and putting is the strongest feature of his game. And besides he is by no means the first champion who failed to make the grade the next ti out. As recent as 1929 Johnny rrell, defending, could clo no better than 167 for two

rounds at Winged Foot. And I don’t

remember that anybody pointed a vulgar finger at the Irisher and sneered, “Serves you right, you lucky stiff.” ‘\# #8 =

YEAR ago the pros said Oakmont was too tough. ‘Now they are saying Baltusrol is too easy. Bobby "Chuickshank réfers to it as a ladies : course. Incidentally, he carded -an 80 yesterday. Oakmont undoustedly was tough. Young Parks was the only man in the field who broke 300. Baltusrol is definitely a comparatively easy course. But if Oakmont is too tough, on the one hand, Baltusrol too easy, on the other. Just what kind of a course do the pros vant? I certainly. wouldn’ know, but it has been my observation that no golfer who was scoring well ‘ever complained about any course.

PROMOTIONS GIVEN TO 96 EIGHTH-GRADERS

26 Members of School 93 Class Are on Honor Roll.

Promotion certificates were given yesterday to 96 eighth-grade pupils at School 39, 801 S. State-av. This is one of the largest groups promoted from any elementary schoool to high school, = teachers said. Twenty-six members of the ¢lass were on the term honor roll and seven ' of them have maintained honor roll standing thorughout, the seventh and eighth grades. They are David Chauncey, Dovie Hurt, Juanita Lewis, Winifred Farrington, Jean Hay, Mary Alice Lamparter and Shirley Fisher. Lambert Cochrun led the term honor roll.

TOW NSENDITES TO MEET

Lee Rito Economist, to Speak st Riverside, Tomorrow.

. Townsend Clubs of Indianapolis are to hold a mass meeting at 2 tomorrow afternoon in the Riverside Community House, Pruitt-st and E. Riverside-dr. Lee Riineou!, lecturer an¢ economist, is to ‘We Need the Townsend Plan.” Musical entertainment is to be provided by Townsend Club 42.

HOOSIERS - HEAD STAFF

Lake Forest College Publi¢ation Business Chief Is Local Student.

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PERM REPOI

Avounces by Head . of Project.

hamber of Commerce, the NYA poll was conducted with co-opera= tion of the Indianapolis police de« The object was to gain an accurate cross-section check of the public's attidute on traffic cons. ditions. Results of the poll are to be used by the police department, Chief Morrissey said. Workers were ine structed not to learn the names of persons answering the question= naire.

2000 Submit Suggestions

According to survey officials, the fact that more than 2000 persons submitted writteh sugestions for im= proved traffic conditions in the city indicated a public concern for trafe fic safety. Seventy-two per cent of those ane swering the poll favor strict ns forcement of the law requiring ail pedestrians to cross the street in conformity with traffic signals. Only 32 per. cent believed lower fines would solve the sticker problem. Sixty per cent of persons drive their own cars to work, and only 43 per cent of those driving, use their cars during business hours, _ Approximately 55 per cent of car owners driving to work park their automobiles in parking lots or garages, the survey showed.

Law Compliance Favored

Seventy-two per cent of the ane swers favor strict compliance with the time limit for downtown parks ing, and more than 70 per cent were opposed to double parking and park= ing in alleys. The 2000 suggestions tabulated were classified under 42 separate headings. Enforcement of present traffic laws, restriction of taxicab cruising, reduction of ‘car speed, periodic inspection of cars and en forcement of lane driving regulas tions were five topics on which the greatest number of comments were made. Other suggestions included ene forcement of pedestrian’s right-ofs way, curbs against drunken driving, better education for motorists, ban on excessive horn blewing and le= galization of driving on street car tracks to the left of safety zones.

February Comparison to be Made

The traffic poll, the first of its kind to be conducted in the city, was the third completed NYA traffic project. Last week the NYA traffic violation survey office commienced its second check on all parked cars in the mile-square area. Figures obtained during the day check are to be compared an earlier survey made in February. Police officials are to use this dats to see if there has been a reduction of over-time parking during -the past three months. it was announced. Approximately 100 youths are ems ployed by the NYA traffic office, Workers attend a class in municipal government two days a week under N. 8. Hollis, instructor. Several field trips in the city have been planned for the summer. ‘ Gene L. Hess is in charge of the recreational activities of the projects Several soft-ball teams were organs ized this month.

AYMAKERS OPEN ME

ore Than 600 Delegates of State Expected to Aitend.

The forty-eighth annual cenven= tion of the State Haymakers Assoe ciation opened today in the Im proved .Order of Red Men Hall, S. Delaware-st. © More than 800 delegates representing 14,000 mem bers of the order are expected attend: Officers were to be elected: the business session this afternoom,

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