Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 June 1936 — Page 1
SCRIPPS = HOWARD VOLUME 48—-NUMBER 77
MYSTIC ORDER ‘PARADE IS SET FOR 3 TODAY
Delegates to March Around Circle After Start at St. Clair, Meridian.
HEAR GOVERNOR, MAYOR
McNutt and Kern Extend Welcome at Meeting in Claypool.
Those gentlemen in fezzes and red and yellow pants who will be seen marching through the - downtown
streets this afternoon are Veiled Prophets, and this is the season
when they take off their veils and have a good time. Their parade is to begin at 3 »
‘8t. Clair and Meridian-sts. It is to march south to Michigan-st, east to Pennsylvania-st, south to Washing-ton-st, west to Illinois-st, north to Market-st, east to Monument Circle, around the Circle to Meridian-st, and north to Vermont-st. To give the gentlemen in fezzes their full title, they are members of the Mystic Order of the Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realm, and they are having their fortyseventh annual convention here. The prophets have their own ideas about running a g convention. For example, this is the third day it has been in session” and the official open meeting took place in the Claypool ;this morning at 9:45. Gov. McNutt and Mayor Kern made welcoming speeches, Charles
B. Forrest, Monarch of the Sahara]
Grotto, presided, and Grand Monarch Clinton G. Nicholas addressed the delegates.
Concert Is Presented
A band concert at the World War Memorial Plaza followed the opening meeting. The Masonic lodge is ‘a’ pretty serious body, and the prophets’ organization, according to J. Stephen Fullen, orator of Sahara Grotto, was formed 46 years ago in Hamilton, N. Y., to give a lighter side to the organization. “The M. O. V. P. E R. is the playground of master Masons in good standing,” Mr. Fullen said. Its primary pufpose is social—the
promotion of good fellowship Among |.
members.” . The principal event on the program today is the official uniform parade through downtown streets at 3. 135 Grottoes in U. 8. and Canada There are 135. Grottoes in, the United States and several in Canada that make up the prophets’ membership, Mr, Fulléen said. Most of them have ladies’ suxiliaries, but of course the ladies, Mr. Fullen explained, are not really a part of the Masonic lodge. “The M. O. V. P. E. R. is founded on the principles of the Masonic order, but is in no sense a part of symbolic craft Masonry and does not function as a ritualistic Masonic ofder,” Mr. Fullen declared. Other items on the program this morning were a Supreme Council breakfast ‘at 7:15 in the Lincoln, a ladies’ tour of the city at 9 and a 8 Supreme. Council session at 9:30. The Supreme Council is the order's
governing ‘body. Ladies’ Program Outlined
Ladies are to lunch at 12130 in the William H. Block Co. auditoritum and dine at ‘the Scottish . Rite Cathedral at 8. Contests for quartet and choral clubs are to be held in English’s Theater at 6 followed by the Grand Monarch’s ceremonial at 9 and a Revels contest at 10:30. Last night the Grand Monarch’s banquet and ball were held in the cathedral. Two seven-lap races held yesterday afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway provided the highlight of the day's entertainment. About 10,000 cheering prophets and wives saw Wild Bill Cummings win the first contest and Deacon Litz the second. Toronto, Pittsburgh and Cleveland are bidding for the 1937 ' meeting, convention officials said.
STOCK MARKET TRADE
By United Press GLOUCESTER, Mass. June
executioner to become a confidant of a Czar and a President, died at his Lookout Hill estate late yesterday of heart disease. He was 81.
Hammond, a world authority
fr e quent mild heart attacks recently, but yesterday, feeling rested for the trip, had ordered his car brought to the door for an afternoon drive. When he failed to appear, his secretary, William G. Griffin, searched ‘the house and found him dead. Hammond's career included exploration of the Amazon's upper regions, shootings in Mexico, and finally, the association with Rhodes and the fight with “Oom Paul” Kruger, president of the Boar republic, Rhich almost cost his neck in
Later he became adviser to the Czar and special ambassador from the United States at the corgnation of King George V of England. .
MARTINDALE, 79, ATTORNEY, DIES
Hammond
Retired Lawyer Was Author
of Law for Board of Guardians.
(Editorial on 1 on Page 12)
Charles Martindale, Indianapolis attorney and civic leader, who died yesterday at his home in the Winter Apartments, 1321 N. Meridian-st, is to be buried tomorrow afternoon in Crown Hill Cemetery following: Brlvate funeral services at the hom: Mr-Martindale,” ‘who was 19, : been ill several years. He was Hoy in Newcastle, June 1, 1857, the son of Elijah B. Martindale and Emma Taylor Martindale His grandparents and great-grandparents “were early South Carolina colonists and were pioneer settlers of “Wayne County, Indiana. Mr. Martindale attended Indianapolis public schools after his parents moved here in 1862. He also attended Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Berlin University. He was a reporter on the old Indianapolis Journal for two years following his return to the United States. He also served as Washington correspondent of the newspaper from 1878 to 1879 and became editor in 1880: Drafied Guardians Board Law He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and since ‘had practiced corporation law. He made the draft of the law providing for the Marion County Board of Children’s Guardjans, which was enacted in 1889. He had been a member of the board sice its beginning and also was vice
president. In 1893 Mr. Martindale was elected a member of the School Board and a year later was named president of the board. He was deeply interested in improvement of | © public school standards and in charity work, particularly the Indianapolis Benevolent Association of which he was a member. He married Martha L. MaclIntire, daughter of Dr. Thomas MacIntire and Mary MaclIntire, in 1878. Mrs. Martindale died two years ago.
« Retired Five Years Ago
Mr. Martindale practiced law until five years ago, when he retired because of illness.
Presbyterian Ch MOVES AT SL AT SLOW PACE | Historical Most Leading Issues Hold Gains|Of’
Made During Morning. By United Press
Hammond Dead
Chase National Bank Brings|
Action to Secure Bonds - for Holders.
$6,881,000 IS INVOLVED
District Directors to Meet This Afternoon to Decide Action.
City Utility District directors are|
to meet in the Majestic Building
this afternoon to decide-on a plan|:
of action in the Federal Court suit brought against the city’ by the Chase National Bank of New York. The city is named as successor to the Citizens Gas Co. and the Indianapolis Gas Co. ‘The : bank, acting as trustee in behalf of. the holders of bonds of the Indianapolis Gas Co. sued to secure their bonds which now are outstanding in the amount of $8,881,000, - Declining to comment on the action, the utility officers said they would give the suit careful consideration before issuing a statement regarding the action fhey would take.
Seeks Ruling on Lease
‘William Li; Taylor, Indianapolis; and Newton D. Baker and Raymond T. Jackson, Cleveland, attorneys for the plaintiff, filed the complaint. The complaint seeks a judgment from the court that the 99-year lease executed Sept. ‘30, 1913, by the two companies is part of the property covered by ‘the mortgage to secure the bonds of the Indianapolis Gas Co. The trustee said the bonds now are owned by individuals and institutions and the action seeks to prevent loss or damage to the security by any acts of the defendants. According to the complaint, the lessee is required to pay to the trustee the interest as it matures. The complaint further stated that at the time the city took over the company it declined to recognize the lease,
Under a temporary arrangement )
the city now is paying rentals to the
Indiana National Bank for operat-|
ing the system .of fhe Indianapolis Gas Co. shaky final atrans the Sent wads or consent of the trustee or the bondholders of the
company. and that they are entitled to receive the. interest.
' Injunction Is Asked
leading to & surrender of the lease and ‘defining obligations of the city as successor to the Citizens Gas Co. The action also sought an injunction to prevent the city and the company from entering into any agreement which would result in the surrender of the lease. According to the complaint, the rights of the city were determined fully in a previous litigation and that the rights of the bondholders of the gas company were adjudicated. .All questions which have ‘been in controversy since the city = over the Citizens Gas Co. were presented in the suit. Money with which the city made payments to the bondholders was obtained by the sale of $8,000,000 in gas revenue bonds. Dispute Began Sept. 7 The dispute between the fwo gas organizations began Sept. 9 when the city took over the operation of the od Citizens Gas Co., and found it had been paying the Indianapolis Gas Co., more than $600,000 a year rental for 60 per cent of the distributing system and one plant. Under terms of the agreement, reached March 2, the city agreed to pay all municipal, county and state taxes, Federal and Indiana income taxes and premiums on insurance policies on : Indianapolis Gas Co. property. These are to be paid outright by agreement is
1 agreement. +O that - w “into a 4
{man of
RIFT IN STATE
6.0. P. HEALING
James Watson, Back i Saddle, Says Morgar
Won't Quit Now.
BY. DANIE] : Times
mM. KIDNEY taf Writer
Chairman nn E. ‘Watson of the delegation said he’ had been as-, sured that State - ‘Chairman = Ivan
pany has! Morgan would not resign as threat-. opened negotiations “with the city
ened “at least until he gels back: home.”
Mr. Morgan. gave out an
interview declaring that the 'sore|
spots frdbm last night's fight. Wgte disappearing and harmony -is in offing. He said ‘no more about uit ting the chairmanship. This new harmony Plow also was echoed by Raph Gates, anil-Watson leader. * But from Watson down to the last delegate, a defeatist attitude is apparent. They all reflect what is said to be the slogan of this cons | vention: - “Lets get ‘licked with Landon.” Although under instructions to vote for Landon as a delegate-at~ large, former .Senator Watson terms the Kansan, “a synthetic candidate built up by the newspapers.” “A man might bea. good swimmer in a small pool and not do so well if he is tossed into the ocean,” Mr. | Watson remarked. The somewhat tired and exceedingly cynical attitude of the Hoosier G. O. P. was reflected by a comment on this morning's new harmony. “If the fighting is over it is because the leaders are too tired to Sloubleeros each other again.” “of _ the ‘oud
Guid ih pover wis acbomplished |
organization
meeting night by a. cealition of the two Jims |.
—Watson and former Gov. James E Goodrich—Ilong-time - political oes.
Mr: Watson wanted to be chairthe . ‘and (Turn te Page Three)
LEE TROLLEY CONTRACT
| AUTO CRASH INJURIES ‘ARE FATAL TO SOLDIERS
PROTEST LL TODAY a
Mark Sullivan
_ Says—
\LEVELAND, Sui 9 The prob: ability that this convention will
nominate Gov. ‘Landon is very great. The accounts which. describe him‘as
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primaries, possibly the delegates at] this convention would be more like thoSe at past conventions. In that (Turn to Page 11) :
MONEY FOR POLICE - CLASS ASKED AGAIN
Board of “Safely: Request|
$1800 Appropriation.
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ua COURNGE,
SAYS CLAPPER
Party. Leaders Appear to Be Losing ' - ‘Nerve; Whiter Claims.
The weary 5) bohés feel the stir- :
ve direction, the t sig-
| ropremsive, direc 0, She Mogi 4g-
tion here for a : constitutional amendment to protect exploited
| labor against ruthless individuals.
- But these: impulses are timid and weak. ‘Unless: carefully nourished, they will ‘be : crushed out by the ‘hard-jawed- men around here: who now what they want. Just because are- keeping ‘out of the headdon’t think’ they are not here e job. i they have had rough going. ‘They have: been shuffling ' around alone, under’ suspicion. + Nobody wants. to: be in the’ newspaper photographs. with them.
Villian: ‘Allen . White, the Lan-|
platform spokesman, drew | trendy aor ao a he Sal tie ace ue Republicans. ho
RAINS ARE. FORECAST 10. RELIEVE DROUGHT
‘The Indianapolis Board of Satety ; Sen
Mr. the
Governor Reported Insist“ing on Plank Calling for Minimum Wage.
|ISSUE RAISED BY COURT
William Allen White Is Kansan’s Spokesman on Platform.,
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
CLEVELAND, June 9.— Behind the scenes of the Republican donvention which opened today there is going .on a test of the fiber of Gov. Alf M. Landon, which far transcends the sham battle over the nomination, for it affects the subsequent fight
with President Roosevelt. The one bright spot of this otherwise colorless gathering is the bold stroke of the Landon forces, led by William Allen White, to seize the issue which the Supreme Court dropped when it outlawed the New York minimum wage law, and to press for a plank advocating ‘ an amendment that would give the states. power to regulate wages, hours and working conditions. Gov. Landon has given his backing to this fight and he is inextricably involved in it now. ° The issue turns out to have two sides, as most issues do. Pressure is being brought upon the Governor to give way. i he cht or will he compro-
the next two days and
‘| nights the fight will go on in the
resolutions committee, scheduled to begin its work after today’s first . . Lamdon will be in
The Spcaitiod of Fasiam oR:{s
| sérvatives has been intensified |
now by the sharp-shooting of Gov. Landon’s rivals who are on the ‘ground — Senators Borah, Vandenberg and Dickinson, all of whom flinch from the issue with
ment is necessary. The Governor thus has stepped out in advance of these men, two of whom, Borah and Vandenberg, profess liberalism of a sort. ‘Reports have come trickling in from Kansas in recent weeks that the Governor. is a real progressive, and that, once he is nominated, he will surprise the counby his
1912 when, as a& young a he followed ‘Theodore Roosevelt
state courts. “Teddy” revelled ir caustic remarks about the judiciary Constitution Is Problem -Landon has an opportunity to dramatize himself at the start with the constitu though the Democrats should match it, or go further, when they meet at
POLICE CHIEF KILLS SUSPECT TAT CLINTON ;
the explanation that no amend-
are for him point back hopefully to pa
Senator Steiwer Ratified as Keynoter; Parley Offi= cers Named.
CESS “UNTIL TONIGHT,
Attitude of Borah on Plat form Only Worry for Kansan.
Additional G. O. P. con vention news on Pages 3 and 11.
BY. LYLE C. WILSON (Copyright, 1936, by United Press) 3 PUBLIC HALL, CLEV] LAND{ June 9.—&ormally equipped with a keynote speaker and a slate of ten porary officers, the Repu an national convention h its stride today in the big political parade which probs ably will lead the nominati of Gov. Alf M. Landon fox president ‘of the United States. Senator Frederick Steiwer, note speaker today at the first ses« sion of the party’s twenty-first cons vention. Thére was no oppositiol The convention recessed at 11: until 7 p. m., when Mr. Steiwer 3 set off the first national hnics of .the campaign year with keynote speech rallying the G: O. Py
‘to rout the New Deal.
“The convention got away to a start, 43 minutes after 10, when was scheduled ‘to convene. gates who entered in mid-mo: cool, milled and ; seitiod far the touting business at Ey k the ni-
A covered wagon pulled up o id 10 typify the pioneer spirit of C t
movement, but whose platform ¢ mands worry Kansans more th dust storms, made medicine in hotel room. He summoned Wiscon: