Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1936 — Page 1
sures —nowe2] VOLUME 48—NUMBER 76
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SPECIAL SPEEDWAY RACE OUTLINED FOR.
VISITING
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Leading Speed Stars to Clash This Afternoon at Local Track; Wild Bill Cummings Arranges Event for Grotto Groups.
5000 DELEGATES HERE FOR MEETING
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Members Present Gifts to Gov., Mrs. McNutt, Mayor Kern; Grand Officers Arrange Parley.
The 5000 members of the nation’s Grottos are to see a special automobile race at the Indianapolis Speedway this
afternoon.
Although the visitors arrived a week too late to witness
the city’s biggest
fort attraction, William (Wild Bill) Cum-
mings, 1934 Memorial Day race winner and a Grotto member, has arranged the event which is to start at 4:30. Some of the country’s greatest speed stars, Louis Meyer.
Fred Frame, Wilbur Shaw, Rex Mays. Tony Gulotta, Mauri Rose, Babe Stapp and
Chet Miller, are to compete.
The Selama Grotto, St. Petersburg, Fla. this morning presented Gov. McNutt and Mayor Kern with desk sets, and gave Mrs. McNutt a bouquet of roses. Delegates from the 10-gallon hat regions and the muskrat coat areas agrived and registered at headquarters in the Claypool. City streets were decorated in the yellow-orange and blue bunting with the insignia of the Prophets as the members of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm prepared the “hot sands” for the tread of the novices of the order who are to be initiated tomorrow night at English’s Theater. Grand officers of the order were to meet at 1 p. m. in the Claypool for a conference. A tea is to be held for wives of the grand officers at 2 p. m. in the Claypool. Mrs. Harriett Foster is to be hostess. The grand monarch’s banquet, to be followed by a ball, is to be held
+6:30-4anight- in the Scatbish Rite | |
thedral. . Business sessions of the order begin tomorrow. While the business sessions of the supreme council are in session the wives of visitors are to be taken ona tour of the city. . Breakfgst Scheduled Tomorrow A breakfast for the supreme council is to precede the sessions at 7:15 tomorrow morning, with C. Wilbur Foster, grand alchémist, presiding. Welcoming addresses are to be given at the business sessions by Gov. McNutt, Mayor Kern and Clinton Nichols, Hartford, Conn., grand monarch. Visiting Grotto bands are expected to serenade the downtown business section in tuning-up for the grand parade of the order at 3 p. m. tomorrow. The parade is to move through the downtown streets. The Indian- " apolis division of the order, the Sahara Grotto, will be in the parade, but will not take part in the band and drill team competitions of the organization. : Contest at English’s
A quartet contest with a grand monarch’s ceremonial are to be held tomorrow night in the English's Theater. Lee Reed, Indianapolis, is to be master of the ceremonial, with Ralph Wurz, Indianapolis, conducting a revel contest. A drum corps contest is to be held at 10 a. m. Wednesday on the World War Memorial Plaza under the direction of John Sproule of Saraha Grotto. In the afternoon a drill team contest is scheduled under the leadership of Capt. Michael F. . Scully, Sahara Grotto. A band contest is to be held at English’s Theater at 7 p. m, Wednesday. The Mardi Gras parade and dance on the Monument Circle is to be held at 9 p. m. Wednesday. Roy L. Volstad Indianapolis, and Horace Riggs are Sahara in charge. Grotto Dead Honored Memorial rites for the Grotto dead were held yesterday at the World War Memorial Plaza. Dr. W. P. Dearing, president of Oakland City College, lauded the order as an exponent of fellowship. He said: : “The League of Nations fiddled ‘while Rome burned Ethiopia. Four-
CULT MEN FACE MURDER CHARGE
13 Bound to Circuit Court; Two Congressmen Start Probe.
By United Press . DETROIT, June 8—Thirteen meémbers of the Black Legion held for the wanton slaying of Charles A. Poole last May 12, were bound over to Circuit Court today for trial on charges of kidnaping and mwurder. Over the strenuous objections of defense attorneys that both charges did not apply to all the defendants, Common Pleas Judge Ralph W. Liddy ordered the suspects returned to Wayne County jail without bail. + Examihation of the; 13, including “Golonel” yey Davis and Dayton Dean, confessed “trigger man” in the slaying of - Poole, was resumed after a recess. “Testimony showed that two men carried guns to the meeting of the ‘Black Legion at which Poole’s death was decreed,” the court said. : “The crime,” Judge Liddy added, “was premeditated, . I shall hold them all on both charges.”
Congress Action
Meanwhile, two members of Congress prepared to make their own inquiry into the cult’s activities: Senator Elmer A. Benson (F.-L. Minn.) and Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D., N. Y.) were to confer with Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea here. The congressman introduced in Congress today a concurrent resolution for a joint investigation of the cult and similar organizations.
PROPOSED BUDGETS OF CITY DIVISIONS FILED
Salary Considerations Not Included in Estimate.
Proposed budgets for 1937 for three departments, minus all salary
considerations, with City Comptroller Walter C. Boetcher. : A survey of salaries paid city employes now is under way. Mayor Kern has indicated some of the pay Suis are to be restored.
ving the proposed salary budgets .in all departments plank, the proposed requirements of the 1937 budgets ask an increase of $2640 in the City Market, $1500 for the legal department and $1000 in the Weights and Measures Departmen A restoration of from 71% to 10 per cent has been proposed to replace some salary cuts made in 19832. These have not been acted on and are net 10. he included in the budget until determined.
FIVE OF 16 ESCAPED
Search Continued for Rest of Insane Fugitives. By United Press ST. PETER, Minn, June 8.—Five
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were filed -today|
CONVICTS CAPTURED{|
of the 16 criminally insane men who | | escaped from the state asylum here || last night were in custody at noon |
advisers, will take control of the Republican Party. Ideas emanating | from him and from the new group will dominate: the platform. One senses that the new control is mobilized “to take over.” Those persons reflecting Gov. Landon who have ideas for the platform show a grasp of the fundamental issues. They know this can be no ordinary platform. They know that there is abroad in the world a new .conception of society and government. They know that this new conception is not merely’ an invention devised by individuals. They know the new conception’ is in part a consequence of economic forces. They know these forces will continue to play upon America no matter who is elected President next November. They know that America can only resist infection and be held to its own tradition by laying. down long-range policies. One of these policies is resistance to monopoly, whether public or private. The New Deal stands for a kind of semi-public monopoly, for government-owned or government managed or strongly governmentcontrolled monopoly. The New Deal can hot be successfully opposed by a party which tolerates private monopoly. As between private monopoly and the semi-public monopoly of the New Deal, the American electorate would prefer the latter. They do not like the New Deal type of monopoly but they like private monoply even less. » » 2
ONSEQUENTLY, the platform written at Cleveland this week will contain a strong anti-monopoly
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PILOT FLIES BLIND ‘ON EAST-WEST HOP
Maj. Ira Eaker Is Hailed for Pioneer Achievement. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 8.+Maj. Ira C. -Eaker, Army flier, was hailed today for a pioneer achievement in aviation following his “blind” flight from New York to Los Angelgs in 23 hours. The veteran pilot flew the entire distance in a hooded cockpit. He was guided only by his instrument panel and information radioed to from a convoy plane flown by ils E. Kepner, Bayer took off from New vo St ednesday at 12:15 p. m. and set the ship down here at 1:15 p. m. yesterday. His elapsed ‘flying time was 23 hours, 10 minutes...
WEST SIDE STREET WIDENING IS ASKED
Ww. Washington-st Prone) Is Given to City Works Board.
A petition filed foday with the Works Board asked that W. Wash-ington-st be widened from Belmontav to Tremont-st to accommodate safety zones proposed for two traffic signal crossings at Pershing-st and SheflTield-av. - The board referred the matter to City Engineer Henry B. Steeg. The pelition, forwarded to the board by Police ‘Chief - Morrissey, was signed by 300 West Side residents.
BODIES OF MINERS LOGATED IN SHAFT
2 Workers Kiled Killed in Blast
Near Paxton, Ind.
$ : By United Press PAXTON, Ind,’ June : 8—The bodies of two men, illed last night by an explosion, were found today in the Dugger-Martine coal mine southeast of here. The victims, Charles Webb, 3, Pleasantville, and Dale Williams, 30, Paxton, were burned beyond recog. nition, rescue crews reported. Cause of . the explosion, which caved in a section of the mine near the surface and filled the shaft
with acrid fumes, had not been de-
termined. Webb and Williams were employed as maintenance workers and were the only persons in the shaft at the time of the the explosion.
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THE BANDWAGON- JIE
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UTILITY STOCKS LEAD UPTURN IN MARKET
T. T. & T. Issue Goes Up 2 Points to 167 on Excéhange. By United Press Es NEW YORK, June 8.—Investment buying in American Telephone and Telegraph capital stock sent the issue up 2 points to 167 to
feature early afternoon trading on|
the Stock. Exchange.
Telephone’s gain was paralleled |
by many issues in other sections. Steels were strong though dull after they led the market higher in the morning. Oils picked up slightly. Chrysler rose more than a point to feature the motors. ‘Railroad issues were in Felatively ‘goed de= mand.
STATE TAX CLAM
ISLOSTING ls
Nonresidents Held Free From Intangibles Levy.
Superior Court Judge Herbert E. Wilson ruled today that intangible property executed by Indiana residents in favor of nonresidents is not subject; to. the state intangible tax law." ; Such property, the opinion stated, can be delivered to a foreign (outof -state) owner, or recorded without having lax stamps affixed. Judge Wilson made the ruling in :| the case of the Indianapolis Union Railway. Co. and. the : Fletcher ‘t Trust :Co. vs. the State Tax Board. He denied the demurrer filed by the Attorney ‘General's office. : On March 1, 1936, the Indianapolis Union Railway. issued $4,714,000 in bonds bearing 31% per cent interest. These bonds; approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, were .sold to residents of New York state, he said.
The railroad and the Fletcher |
Trust Co. trustee for the bonds,
claimed ‘the . state could not tax]
bonds before they were delivered. - The court held the tax is upon own and not upon issuance. ds are taxable only when they come into the possession of an
Indiana resident subject to the tax,
the oourt ‘held.
CONSTITUTION IN LANDON'S PATH
Followers Seinen. Change ‘af Risk of Wrecking ~. Party ‘Issue.
BY HERBERT LITTLE - Times Special Writer
CLEVELAND, June 8.—That old rock, the Constitution, loomed. up in the path of the onrushing Lan-
Sonites. Joday.
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tributing their parody : on “Oh, Susanpa” with this refrain’ today, altholigh their . pink-cheeked brain r, William Allen White, was wor on a constitutional amend-
ment plank that would utterly ruin the G. O. Ps planned “Save the Constitution” issue. States rights is the battle cry of the amenders. The idea is to favor an amendment which would make possible state laws regulating ‘hours and wages for mi women and children. Her 2 out for ah amendment of this sort, but whether he would apply it to men as well as to women and children is not cerfain here. The =. preme: Court's. minimum wage cision which set up the ron. tal no man’s land knocked out a law |- applying to women only, but the ruling was so broad that all workers are cove The storm ‘blew up: since the court staked out the mo man’s land a week ago today. Editor White, the sage of Emporia, and the other small-town editors who dominate the Kansas group, are work(Turn to Page Three)
Famed Philanthropist Dead By United Press . } PRINCETON, N Ti June 8.— philanthropist and father of on SR Armour, American minister to Canada, | died Yoda
. of heart disease.
First Symphony Concert
~ Draws Large Audi
. BY JAMES THRASHER : There was no doubt, today in the
Aer the G. 0: P: Con- | phony Orchestra
2 Schaefer, founder
ience Under the baton of Ferdinand
and conductor, the players gave ‘8 spirited per-
SCHUSCHNIGG STUDIES - BID FOR NAZI SUPPORT
May Name Man Friendly to Party to. Cabinet, Is Hint. . By United Press VIENNA, June 8. ~ Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg may.reconstruct his cabinet so. as to include a man
| who, ‘while not a Nazi ‘himself, is
acceptable to the powerful Austrian Nazis, it was reported today. This move! would do much to pacify the country and would be a compromise: with Germany. It ‘was reported that Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy approved this | ‘course in ‘his conference with Schus last week, and it was
50 0UT ON STRIKE
10 0,000 Are Unaware of Pay Increase Agreement.
By United Press PARIS, June 8.—One . hundred
thousand coal miners struck today in the north ‘while a million. jubilant strikers in other areas awaited leaders’ orders to return to work after a The coal miners’ struck despite an agreement by which: employers conceded demands’ for higher pay, va‘cations with pay, and other conces-
sions. BO woinment. leadbre lioped 15 end the new strike quickly. They be-
lieved it was due in part to the fact .that provincial neWspapars could
not be published this morning because of the strikes, and that the miners did not know of the agree- | ment. - The new. _ Socialist-Communist-Radical Socialist
stride in its hew deal legislative program tomorrow.
FRANC MUCH STRONGER AS STRIKE IS SETTLED
| ay viites Press PARIS, June 8—The
‘| of national committeewoman,
BORAH EASES UP STATE FEUD 0}
Dispute Flares in Indiana Delegation Over Watson for Chairmanship.
GATES FACTION ROUSED
1Ex-Senator’s Attempt to
Oust Mrs. Snodgrass Is Blamed.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY * Times Staff Writer
CLEVELAND, O., June 8.
| —A Dbitter feud developed
here today on the plan to make former Senator James Eli Watson delegation chairman. The delegates meet tonight
to choose their officers. Senator Watson ‘anounced his candidacy .for chairman of the delegation on arrival here, and at first it seemed acceptable to every one: But his attempt to put Mrs. Grice Banta Reynolds into the position instead of Mrs. Eleanor Watson Snodgrass, brought opposition to him for .chairman. State Chairman ‘Ivan Morgan | contends that when he accepted his position as a compromise in the fight between Don Irwin and Ralph Gates, it was agreed by Mr. Watson that Mrs. Snodgrass would ‘be re‘tained as national = committee-
woman. Mr. Watson denied such agreement and the Gates faction have declared war on him. Although he will not lead the fight against Mr. Watson for chairman, Mr. Gates is reported to have asserted. privately that the former Senator should not be given the post. He believes: that the Watson days should be dead and buried in
ane foul Gf the party,
Tt rs movement in
Indiana. -Both former Gov. James P. Goodrich and Henry Marshall are claim-
ing Landon backing for the plat-
form committee, Indiana Republicans all may be for Landon if the bandwagon doesn’t break down,’ it appeared today. Hoosier Republican leaders credited him with 20 fo 22 ‘of the 28 votes now, with more .to come if he appears a “natural.” ; Meanwhile, James Eli Watson, the towering former Senator who is a delegaté-at-large pledged to the Landon cause, is spending considerable time visiting his old friends among the anti-Kansan forces in the hotel lobbies. He is loud in boosting the Landon cause. “They can’t stop: him because there is no concentrated leadership or program against him,” the former Senator says. Off the record he might admit that he would vastly prefer Col. Frank Knox, but being instructed he can vote only for Landon. Such instruction is indicative of (Turn to Page Three)
1G. O. FP. Program|
By United Press ~~ CLEVELAND, June 8. — Here's the program for the Republican national convention: : MONDAY State caucuses and informal preconvention TUESDAY
11 a. m.—Convention called to or-
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Senator to Let Platf , Determine Attitude, He Indicates.
TEXANS ARE FOR KANSA
New York, Pennsylvania Switch Expected to Clinch Victory.
Pictures and other G. 0. P. ‘convention stories, Page 3 and Page 1, Second Sec tion.
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent
CLEVELAND, June 8. Senator William E. Borah day all but bolted the s Landon movement and beg concentrating on forcing policies into the Republica Party platform. :
Suddenly changing his strategy of the past months, which has been to make the presidential candidate the top issue of this national conven Mr. Borah announced he would “satisfied” if the platform took definite position on the questions the day. He spoke before the state delegation. Simultaneously there were : reporis that former Senator John Thom: of Idaho was being considered fe chairman of the platform coms tee as a gesture of conciliation ward Mr. Borah. Mr. Thomas is of the Borah campaign manag Whether Borah finally will decide fon concentrate on the candidate platform is not known.”
Hits Foreign Affairs Plank
Mr. Borah denounced one of many Yeniajive planks on foreign, f 7 “a. cowardly. decla ation.” He said he would trol
will have won victory and I. leave here satisfied. k
Texas Out for Landon’
Meanwhile, the first of a series ¢ delegate caucuses and polls
leaders n neuvered toward a vital fgnton convention floor over a consti tional amendment for state * rule.” Senstor Boral wag: -eporte ready to take the floor if necessa to oppose it.
unanimously their first ballot to vote for Landon and stick with him. ' has 25 votes.
Vandenberg and Frank Knox. New York Switch Hinted
A New York poll gave Mr. don 40 ‘of the 90 votes which tional = Committeeman
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