Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1936 — Page 3

FIVE PERSONS KILLED HERE;

"NORTH SIDE SWEPT BY

Property Damage in Eleven ;

Three Are Victims of Heat, Two Struck by Bolt in Freak Storm:

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States Is Estimated at $200,000,000.

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Willowbrook Club last year. He was preparing to go to St. Paul, Minn. for an open tournament to be begun July 16. * Clayton Schulz, a brother, was professional at Sarah Shank course two years ago. Other survivors are John J. Schultz, 1024 W. 36th-st,

father; and other brothers.and sis- |

ters. Services have not been arranged. Burns is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ford E. Burns of the Olney-st address. Two sisters, Mrs. Carl Bidwell, and Joyce Burns, and two brothers, Robert F. and William H., survive him.

Roof Is Torn Off

Paragon, the heat victim, died at City Hospital. the Big Four Rail tracks on S. Sherman-dr. Ream, a lieutenant of Pumper Company No. 12, was

late in the afternoon, as he was

fighting a grass fire. He died at 11:35 last night at Methodist Hospital. Funeral services for Mr. Ream are to be at | Shirley Bros. Central Chapel, 10th and Illinpis-sts at 1:30 p. m. Saturday. He is to be buried in Memorial Park. " He was 42. He is survived by his widow, Earnestine Ream; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ream; three brothers, Claude and Paul, of Huntington Park, Cal, and Wilbur of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Edith B. Hammer, Lake City, Fla. He was a member of the Tuxedo Pagk Maptist Church, Logan Lodge, g M., Scottish | Rite, Mystic dg Sahara Grotto, Firemen'’s Legion Post 42, Indiana Firemen's Association, and the International | Association of Fire Fighters.

Lewis was knocked unconscious as |

he stood under a tree at 38th and LaSalle-sts. He was revived at Methodist Hospital. is not serious. The storm whipped the ‘root off the American Buncher Supply and Realty Co.; factory building at 1507 E. 54th-st. , A ware house of the Spickelmeier Fuel & Supply Co. Carvel-av and 52d-st, was struck by lightning and a wall torn away. Officials estimated the damage at between $6000 and $3000.

Canvas Canopy Whipped Back

The 100-foot long canvas cancpy alongside of she Riviera Club, Illi-nois-st and the canal, was whipped by the wind and laid back on to the roof, hending nearly double several lengths of one-inch pipe - that stretched out over the porch. The Indianapolis Power and Light Co. reported that 15 poles were down, and that crews of 75 men worked until 3 this morning repairing damage. All service was restored, it reported, by 8:30 last night. Lightning struck a 33,000volt line but did no damage, which offficials said was unusual. The city street department reported that 21 trees were blown across streets, blocking trafffic. Five trucks and 15 men were worked all night to clear streets, and other crews are to work all day finishing up. The wood will be cut up and given to the poor.

Lightning Strikes Chimney

- It was estimated that more than 150 shade and lawn trees wkre uprooted or otherwise destroyed by the wind in the severe storm area extending approximately from 38thst as far north as 63d-st. At times water was four inches over street curbings, and some householders reported their cellars were flooded. The storms poured into open windows, first on one side of houses and then on another. A chimney on the home of Herbert E. Barker, 5236 College-av, was struck by lightning and bricks showered onto the roof of the home of M. F. Riley, next door. Lightning struck the home of -H. S. Adams, 4925 Carrollton-av, and Mrs. Adams was knocked unconscious. She was revived by meinbers of fire station No. 32. Dam"age to the house was estimated by them at $15. Several hundred persons last night crowded the 26th-st bathing beach opened for the first time this year by the city, Other beaches were ‘proportionately crowded.

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tures up to 108 degrees forecast for the state later ay. Sickly-looking | cattle moved in railroad cars from the barren pastures of the Dakotas to Chicago, St. Paul and Sioux City stockyards, bringing the prospect of a iemporary drop in meat prices. But consumers recalled that meat prices soared after the 1934 drought and a United Press survey indicated the 1936 drought already had started to affect food and meat prices. Grocers in 15 cities said the current rise is seasonal, but warned that it would continue under pressure of the drought.

Predicts Butter Increase Frank Schuster, chairman of the

| price committee of the Milwaukee He was overcome at |

Grocers’ Association, predicted a 5cent increase in the price of butter. Federal relief officials started to

| pour millions of dollars into 268 overcome at 10th-st and Ritter-av

counties in the worst areas to put farmers to work building dams and roads and as direct relief to nearstarving families. The drought already has directly affected nearly 5,000,000 persons, Acting AAA Administrator J. B. Huston estimated. The drought by states: NORTH DAKOTA — Wheat crop ‘burned out except in northern section. Pasturage gone. Too late for rain. 20,000 farmers scheduled for WPA jobs. - SOUTH DAKOTA—Wheat! corn and small grain crops gone except in southeast section. WPA jobs for 17.000. Forest fires raging in Black ills.

Wyoming Wheat Total Loss

WYOMING — Wheat crop total loss in northeast. Rain will aid other | sections. WPA jobs for 2000. . MONTANA — Eastern section burned out. Good crops in western area, but rain needed badly. WPA

His condition | | jobs for 6000.

MINNESOTA — Central section crops withered, but corn crop still in good condition in southern and most of western areas. One hay cutting harvested before drought hit. WPA jobs for 7500. IOWA—Return to normal temperatures will save corn. Grasshopper and chinch bug damage heavy in western section. NEBRASKA—Rain will save erops in principal grain section in east. Winter wheat crop harvested in soutH. KANSAS—Wheat crop harvested and rain will save much of corn and pasturage.

Wisconsin Grains Hard Hit WISCONSIN — Rain needed for

pastures turning brown. Grain yield | | is expected to be irom 25 to 75 per

cent of normal. ILLINOIS—Oat crop burned out in most sections. Drenching rain within a week will save corn. Burned pastures reducing milk production. INDIANA — Goo®%®rainfall will bring bumper corn crop but pastures and small Sains withered. No rain since May 22 MICHIGAN—Damage not considerable but may be extreme if drought continues. MISSOURI — Grasshopper and chinch bug damage extensive in western section. Hot dry weather hindered growth after good start. COLORADO—Heavy cricket damage but rains will save most crops. OKLAHOMA — Condition critical but still much to be saved by rain.

101 in Columbus

Representative temperatures over the United States at 11 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today, follow:

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TORM!

After tightning shattered timbers on this storage building of the Spickelmeier Fuel and Supply Co., Car-vel-av and 52d-st, wind came along and did more damage during the severe electrical storm on the North

Side late yesterday.

State Welfare Heads Study $2,393,569 County Budget

14-Cent Tax Levy to Be Required for Local Share of Security Act Funds, Baker Announces.

The State Welfare Board today

.Marion County Welfare Department.

studied the $2, 393,569 budget of the

The budget, according to Joel A. Baker, county welfare director, will require a tax levy of about 14 cents on each $100 of taxable property in

the year 1937.

Wayne Coy, state welfare administrator, said final approval on the

budget is to be given within the next two

The budget, one of the first to be submitted by a county welfare unit

under the new state Social Security.

Act, provides for an administration cost of 6 per cent of the total, according to Mr. Baker.

Declared Lowest in State

“This administration cost is one of the lowest on which any government unit has operated in Indiana. In some counties the administration cost for relief has been as high as 15 per cent,” Mr. Baker pointed out. The county’s expense share of the $2,393,569 budget is estimated by the welfare director at $865,000. Under the public welfare law the Federal government is to pay 50 per cent of the assistance, the state 30 per cent and the county 20 per cent. The administration cost, with only a few exceptions, must be born" by the county, according to welfare officials.

- Change May Be Appealed

After final approval of the new budget by the state board it is then

to be certified to County Auditor Charles Grossart, who in turn is to place it before the County Council for approval. After approval by the County Council the County Board of Tax Adjustment is to consider it along with other county budgets, Any change in the welfare budget by the County Council or Tax Adjustment Board may be appealed to the State Board of Tax Commissioners. Mr. Baker pointed out today that many items in the budget formerly were listed in those of the county Juvenile Court and the county commissioners. In some cases, such as an allowance of $75,000 for the care of sick children in the James Whitcomb Riley Hospital, the money is not actually handled by the County Welfare Department, Mr. Baker said.

$1,997,234 for Assistance

A total of $1,997,234 is provided for assistance to the aged, blind, dependent and crippled children in the budget. The budget earmarks $396,335 for administration expenses and assistance to dependent children under the jurisdiction of the Juvenile Court and the Board of Children’s Guardians Home. The old-age pension item of the budget calls for the expenditure of $1,092,000, based on a 1937 probable pension roll of 4500 persons, Mr. Baker set the average allowance for old-age pensions at $20 monthly, while under the welfare law the pensions may reach a maxi-

mum of $30 monthly.

The amount for dependent children, formerly carried in the Juvenile Court budget, has been fixed at $852,984. It is estimated that this total will support approximately 7500 children.

A total of $24,750 was appro-

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printed for pensioner burials and $7500 for burials of persons receiving partial aid. An .item of $20,000 is listed for assistance to the blind. Other budget items listed were: Maintenance and operation ‘of the Board of Children’s Guardians’ Home, which was placed under the welfare board by the 1936 law, $54,550; assistance to dependent children in boarding homes, $47,450; assistance to dependent children in institutions, $63,725; assistance to sick children, $75,000. The Juvenile Court is to continue to administer these funds.

The county welfare department:

Mr. Baker said, will operate next year with 35 fewer persons than now

are employed. Temporary help was

needed to aid reinvestigation of 3300 persons on the old age pension rolls when the act became effective, Mr. Baker said.

Salaries Are Itemized Budgeted administrative expenses

include a $136,800 expenditure for

salaries. The items were: $4000 for

the county welfare director and $2800 for his assistant; 28 investigators at $1800 a: year ‘each and 19 investigators at $1500 yearly: 19 clerks and stenographers at $1200 yearly; seven supervisors at $2000 yearly and four blind and physical deficiency assistants at $1500 each. Administrative expenses also included the following, postage, $3500; telephone and telegraph, . $1650; travel, $375; electric current, $1480; furniture repair, $200; office records, $100; stationary and printing, $1800; other office supplies, $300; equipment, $1675, and headquarters rental, $7200. In commenting on the budget Mr. Baker said: “Members of the County Welfare Board have submitted the budget to the State Welfare Board with only one thought in mind, and that is to spend as little money as is possible in the administration and distribution of the assistance.

Answers Budget Critics “The board has kept in mind that it is essential at this time that

whatever of the taxpayers’ money is expended for assistance to those

- whom the national security act and

the estate welfare law is serving, must reach only those who are actually in need.” He said he had been criticised because he had not fixed pensions at the maximum and had not asked for all the rsoney he could receive under terms of the Federal and state laws. “The budget was estimated on a tax return basis of between $58,0C0 and $60,000 for each cent of the tax levy and bases on the assessed valulation being practically the same as last year.” he said. >» “I feel it is my duty, regardless of the fact that 80 per cent of the

assistance money is coming from

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LEWIS CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT

Labor Chief Pred Predicts Steel Crusade Will Aid New Deal.

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 9.—John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America, predicted at the White House today that his attempt to organize workers in the steel industry will have political repercussions favorable to the New Deal. He told the President that “an unparalleled mass movement” of labor will swing over to the Democratic standard as a result of opposition by the steel companies to the organization attempts ot Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization. Lewis, who is chairman of the C.

‘1. O., denied after his White House

conference, however, that he had troubled Mr. Roosevelt with the internal strife in the ranks of organized labor as exemplified in the controversy between the American Federation of Labor and the Lewis forces over craft and industrial unionization. Although Lewis said he did not deem the A. F: of L.-C. 1. O. controversy of sufficient importance to justify his taking. it up with the President it was of paramount significance in the A. F. of L. Executive Council meeting across town which’ was reported weighing drastic proposals for ending the United Mine Workers leadership of a rebellion in labor’s ranks and agreed to make every possible effort to close the breach. Green Makes Statement Following the visit to the White House by Lewis, President William Green of the A. F. of L., who was a White House caller yesterday, said: “The mind of the executive coun-

cil is open and will continue to be

open until the last stone has been turned in an effort to heal the split in labor’s ranks. The council is alarmed, however, by the situation and by the confusion caused in the ranks of organized labor.” The council this morning discussed the refusal of the mine workers to appear and explain their rebellion, but decided that the regular schedule of giving each of the 12 C. I. O. unions an opportunity to appear would be carried out.

staté and Federal governments, to keep expenditures of the department at the lowest figure possible. I know that whatever money is expended by the department, whether provided by the Federal government or by state and county tax levies, the average taxpayer eventually must pay the cost,” he added. ~ “The Welfare Board of Marion County will stand on this budget for it believes it as low as is humanely possible,” he said.

BY JURORS nN ~ MURDER TRIAL

Mrs. Mary v Frodls TestiRgs for State in Penny ~ Death Case.

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came back to my house in Indianapolis about 11 o'clock and Vic threw the rocks out of the car. “The next time I saw Vic was the following Sunday, when I learned of Penny's death. “I ‘was arrested May 13 by Detective Paul Taylor, to whom I gave a statement.” She said she lived in Room 80% at the Indianapolis Athletic Club from May 13 to May 25 and was at the State Women's Prison May 26 and 27. Since then, she testified, she had lived with Miss Marje Linehart, 2258 N. Meridian-st. Miss Linehart is secretary to Herbert Spencer, Marion County prosecutor. On cross-examination, she said she had never seen a warrant for her arrest. She also said she never had been in jail since her arrest.

Questioned by Attorney

Asked if she knew arrangements had been made to pay her brother $10 a week for support of her three children, Mrs. Freels said: “My sister-in-law told me something about it.” “Do you know you are indicted as an accessory before the fact?”

Symmes asked. “Yes.” “Do you know you stand indicted for murder then?” “No,” she replied in a low voice. | A legal battle over admissability of a picture preceded Mrs. Freels’ appearance on the stand. The photograph showed Jerry Scherer, Monrovia, Kroger “warehouse superintendent, and an insurance man with rocks which Scherer said he found on March 8 at the scene of the alleged stoning.

Stones Lost, Charge

The prosecution charges the stones .since have been lost by the ‘police department. Judge Cox said the picture ot the men with the rocks was prejudicial. He ordered the men cut out of the photograph, leaving only the rocks, and admitted the exhibit into evidence. Sam Wolf, automobile dealer, testified that on Feb. 20, 1935, Haygood purchased a Buick car from ‘his firm and traded it in again on March 186. Fred Goodfellow, former Kroger personnel manager, was questioned about alleged conversations with Peatsand Williams concerning union contracts. Judge Cox ordered the testimony withheld until he studied the law on its admissability. George Haygood, on the stand for six hours yesterday, said that when he threw a sotne at the truck Penn was driving on the National-rd near Belleville on March 7, 1935, he had

no in killing’ or i lite «+ gh said, or oid know. He testified he signed a false confession of the alleged {fatal stoning of Penny. The falsé confession, siamedt Jan. 13, 1936, was made in order that Haggood and Frank Klize, convicted kidnaper, might attempt a jail break in Hendricks - County, Hayg0Cs: destified,

Confession that he was involved in plotting the murder for robbery of Harry Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain, is said to have been made to Indiana State Police by Heber Hicks, 38 (above), ex-con-vict, held in Brookville, Ind. The head ‘and hands of a man found near Carrollton, Ky., were identi- - fied as Miller's, after a torso had been found 30 miles away, near Eminence, Ky. Police said Hicks was not the actual slayer. Three other men are being sought.

HUNT-FOR HICKS

«| \AIDS IS PUSHED

10 State Police Sent to Cincinnati to Help in Search.

A detail of 10 Indiana State Police is to be sent to Cincinnati this afternoon to remain until the alleged accomplices of Heber L. Hicks in the killing of Harry A. Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain, are apprehended, Capt. Matt Leach said this morning. Hicks, state police said, confessed

that he hired three killers to murder Mr. Miller. Police said the nen named by Hicks have criminal records. Hicks, who served 11 years in

Kentucky State Prison for the mur- |

der of a woman, is held in Franklin County Jail. He is expected to be charged with murder in commission of a felony, a crime that carrics a mandatory death penalty on conviction.

Charges “Double Cross”

2 Mr. Miller supposedly was slain at his cottage near New Trenton, Ind. and his dismembered body disposed

Y | of in Kentucky.

“They (the actual killers) double crossed me;” Hicks repdrtedly told 4 malig ession. “I told them To take 't y 400 or 500 nmiiles away. Instead, they double crossed me by dropping it almost in my backyard.” Hicks and Miss Flora Miller, the murdered man’s sister, were taken into custody by Indiana state police last Thursday night. Miss Miller was released yesterday after Hicks’ alleged confession exonerated her.

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DRAW 300,000 * SINCE JUNE 15

1158,419 Register at City

Playlots; Swimming v Crowds Grow. :

Almost 300,000 persons have been served by the recreation department since pools, parks and playgrounds opened June 15, actording to H. W, Middleswords, city .recreation direce

ity. eight playgrounds have registered 158,419 aitendance during the three weeks. Five city swimming pools have increased attendance each week for a three-wz2ek total of" 105,303. The greatest weekly gain is reported for the wading pools: Eleven now in operation started the first week with 2646 children, ads. mitted 6831 during the second week and jumped to 9250 during the third week for a total of 18,727. ’ Only 15 playgrounds are open on Sunday, but 8990 have taken ade vantage of them during ‘the last three weeks. Mr. Middlesworth said the numse ber of swimming patrons in city pools and beaches has declined al= most 60,000, compared with the opening three weeks last year. Much of this he attributes to the closed 26th-st beach, which was opened last, night for the first time. The attendance figures reported. by Mr. Middlesworth include the period from June 15 to July 5.

C.M.T.C.IS TO SEE MOUNTING OF GUARD

Corps at Fort -Harrison Reviewed by Gov. McNutt.

Citizens Military Training Corps were to witnéss for the first time today a demonstration of formal guard mounting by the field artils lery units at Fort Harrison. Following mounting of the guard the youths were to attend classes in which’ motion pictures on map making and firing data were to be shown. In a special review yesterday the entire C. M. T. C. unit paraded before Gov. McNutt, who ‘was given a 19-gun salute when he arrived at the Fort.

CAB COMPANY WINS 11 MORE LICENSES

Wilson Orders Controller to Issue City Permits.

Superior Judge Herbert Wilson: ruled yesterday in favor of the Red Cab Co. in a suit to mandate City Controller Walter C. Boetcher to issue 11 more cab licenses. Controller Boetcher declined to issue licenses for the extra 11 cabs because his record showed only 105 cars were in operation last year, he said. The cab company Petis tioned for 116.cab licenses.

WAR NURSES TO MEET

Annual Reunion Dindgr ot Indidna : Group ta Be in Muncie.

The second annual reunion din ner of the Indiana World War Nurses is te be held at 6:30 Monday Aug. 24, in the Muncie Y. W. C. A. The committee in charge of the program are trom the World War Nurses, the American Legion and the Muncie American Legion Convention Corp. Mrs. Mary Cana is state commander.

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