Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 July 1936 — Page 1
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VOLUME 48-NUMBER 104
U. S-ENGLAND AIR SCHEDULE
BELIEVED NEAR
Passenger Service Across Atlantic May Begin in | Six Weeks.
TWO FIRMS CO-OPERATE
Pan-American and Imperial Airways Officials Confirm Report.
By United Press WASHINGTON, June 10.—A fleet of powerful, fast seaplanes soon — probably within the next six weeks —will bring New York and London within week-end tommuting distance of each other. ‘This prospect of early trans-At-lantic air travel in heavier-than-air planes materialized when well-in-formed official circles today con- _ firmed a report that Imperial Airways of Great Britain and PanAmerican Airways of the United States had agreed to establish such a service. Full details were lacking. e American company’s offices here. declined to discuss the arrangement. It is understood, however, that Pan-American, on its part, plans to use the same type of giant Clipper ships now employed in its trans-Pa-cific service. They are four-motored Sikorsky planes.
Two Routes Offered
Two alternative routes are offered: 1. The southern, via Bermuda to England. 2. The northern, via Canada, Newfoundland and the Irish Free State and thence to England. It is not known definitely which will be adopted, but a communique _ issued following conferences here last December between British and - American companies apparently favored the northern route for usual operation. Assistant Secretary of State R. - Walton Moore, chairman of the Interdepartmental. Committee on Civil Aviation, said, following the conference: “It is recognized that the.northern route is: h shorter and therefore will have the advantage
"of more economical -operation, but: eo
this fact does not preclude the pose: sibility of considerable use being made of the southern route. Presumably the northern route would be followed in summer when the Atlantic is relatively calm and the southern in winter during stor weather. § Terminals Available
During the conferences ‘last fall, the commerce department consented to the establishment of the American terminal of the line in any of five cities. They were: Baltimore, Cape Charles or Norfolk, Va. Charleston, S. C., and New York City, The first four would furnish a | convenient base of operations when the southern route was used and the latter for the great ciycle ‘route.
‘MURPHY ANNOUNCES MICHIGAN CANDIDACY
Makes Statement as He as He Steps From Train at Detroit.
By United Press DETROIT, July 10.—Frank Murphy, who tendered his resignation as - high commissioner to the Philippines Commonwealth to President Roosevelt Thursday, today formally announced his candidacy for the governorship of Michigan on the Democratic ticket. The announcement was made, as Murphy, former Mayor of Detroit, arrived in this city from Washington, ‘as he stepped from his train in’ Union Station, Murphy said: “For reasons already made known I have decided to become a candidate for the office of Governor in Michigan.”
MRS. OWEN TO WED IN-EAST TOMORROW
President and Mrs. Roosevelt to At- . tend Hyde Park Ceremony. By United Press SANDS POINT, N. Y, July 10— “Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, American minister to Denmark, is to bé mar-
President are to attend.
e ceremony will be performed
Breath of Life
By United Press LINTON,
Thomas L. Sullivan, former Mayor of Indianapolis, was born Oct. 6, 1846, and died ‘yesterday at his home, 503 N. Capitol-av. Last rites are to be held tomorrow at St. Paul's Charen,
~ THOS, SULLIVAN DIES AT HOME
Services for Form Former Mayor Are to Be Held at 2 . Tomorrow.
While friends and political leaders of both parties offered condolences today. last rites were planned for 2 p. m. tomorrow for Thomas L. Sullivan, former Mayor of Indianapolis and father| of former, Mayor Reginald H. Sulliran Funeral service are to be held in St. Paul’sChurch—-the same church in which Mr. Sullivan had been a warden and vestryman for 40 years. Burial is to be in Crown Hill, All offices at t ie City Hall are to be closed during the funeral services. The City Hall and Statehouse flags are to be at| half staff. Hundre@is of phone calls expressing grief. came today to the Sullivan home, 503 N. Capitol-av, where Mr. Sullivan died last night. The Rev. William Burrows, St. Paul's rector and Dr. Lewis Brown, rector emeritus, are to have charge of tomorrow's rites. Il 12 Weeks Mr. S llivan haa been ill 12 weeks. y. his. condition grew worse po he ‘became uns i didnot regain cons0 fest; rel ves said. Former | Mayor Reginald Sullivan and Dr. : Tims § L. Sullivan, another Son, Miss Mary L. Sullivan, a daughter, were at his bedside. The son, counseled by his father while he was Mayor, today said: “He - never had been ill much of his life. He was always active. He: hadn’t the general aches and pains of an old man. His judgment was keen and I often went to him to talk things over while I was Mayor.”
Mayor for Two Terms :
Active in civic and church life Mr. Sullivan was Mayor of the city two terms, serving from 1890 ‘to 1893. His son was Mayor from 1930 to 1935. Born Oct. 6, 1846, on the family
| homestead at Ohio-st and Capitol-
av he would have been 90 years old this fall. The Sullivan homestead now is a patt of | the Traction Terminal grounds. Mr. Sullivan, with Reginald H. Sullivan had lived at the Capitolav address for 54 years. As business encroached on the neighborhood MF. Sullivan and his sens and daughter, kept the Capi-tol-av home as one of the last (Turn to Page Two)
LEACH NAMES TRIO IN MILLER KILLING Ex-Convicts Hired by Hicks, Alleged Confession Says.
Three states joined in the hunt
FORMER MAYOR DIES [QT
Mrs. ‘Ethel McCracken Is Scheduled to Be First Defense Witness.
FOUR DRIVERS TESTIFY
Grocery Employes Tell Jury That Their Vehicles Were Stoned.
drivers and four store managers who claimed they had been stoned, the state today rested its case against Harry F. Peats-and Emmett
der in the alleged fatal stoning of John M. Penny in March, 1935. Court was resumed at 1 p. ‘m. after a recess. The first scheduled defense witness was to be Mrs. Ethel MeCracken, mother of Alma Louis McCracken, alias Ruth Miller. Miss Miller, according to testimony of state witnesses, was alleged to have accompanied Gerald Haygod, Victor Crickmore and Mrs. Mary -Freels the night Peany allegedly was stoned. The four Kroger Grocery and
‘| Baking Co. truck drivers who testi- |.
fied their trucks were stoned were: Wilfred Brunk, who said his truck was stoned three times in October, 1934. He testified that compafly | guards followed the trucks at times during that period. Glenn Click, who said his truck was stoned March 4, 1935, by persons in a parked automobile, ‘ . Clarence Pottage, who testified his’ truck was attacked Sept. 20, 1934, near Pleasant Gardens, and that his face was cut. Frank Hart, who said bis left hand was ‘cut badly when his truck was stoned Feb. 26, 1935, The four Kroger branch managers testified that stores at 30th and Cornell-sts, 2666 :Northwestern-av,
2202 Harding-st were stoned. Mrs. Lavonne Thomas, 707 N. Ala-bama-st, and Miss Mattie Short;
1249 W. New York-st, who testified they were textile workers, said they |
accompanied Crickmore and Hay<|
truck driven by cussed the possibi
10 i ‘Methodist Hospital. One of the state's star witnesses, Mrs. Mary Freels;, 27, testified yesterday to the alleged stoning of (Turn to Page Three) :
MANY ARE COLLISIONS ORE" than .one-third of all motor car fatalities result from collisions. About 17 per cent of the deaths are from collisions between two cars; 20 per
tor vehicle and some fixed object.
other head-on, or when an au-
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With the Sestimony of four wick
Joseph Williams, on trial for mur- |
W. 16th-st and Speedway-av, and |
good on Sept. 20, 1934, Shen they} ‘were alleged to have: ed the
During the recess, Rattorness disAlity ‘of amending |
the indietment, which charges Mr. Penny died March 9. He died March
cent are collisions between a& mo- |
When one automobile meets an-
“Times Photo. by. ‘Cotterman.
"These ttle tos at at. Elizabetiys- Home found. that it is ‘hot - out their way. too; so they have" been
Spe the days during ‘the scorching heat in
“in the ‘small: pool: and
sprinkler behind their
“homie at 2500 Churchuisi-ay, In so many squeals. theyll have; you Understands that iid like it.
QUINS’ BROTHER I" HOWLS LL LUSTILY -
Farmhouse Bari Barricated to Keep Curious “Away From Home. :
By United ress CALLANDER, Ont., July 10. ~The new . ‘eight-pound brother ' of the Dionne quintuplets and the forgotten five other little Dionnes kicked’ oid fat’ legs and howled: healthily today. while -hundreds of curious persons ‘gathered around the barricaded’ seven-room farmhouse of Mr. ‘and Mrs Oliva Dionne. ’ The mother. and child were reported in “excellent condition. :
: The birth of £ the twelfth child ta
North TAS
diti
Dr. Joyal was engaged: by the|
Dionnes because they had disagreed
with the quintuplet’s doctor, Doc-|
tor Allan Roy Dafoe, about the care of their five famous daughters. Mrs. Dionne suffered “quite a bit,” Dr. Joyal said, but she did not appear to be afraid. Her husband was
{in the room during the birth. He {had expressed fear before the birth;
according to Mrs. Dionne’ : father, that she might. die.
PEDESTRIAN LLED BY AUTO UTO OF FRIEND
: Jalius. Siaszman: Is Struck
£
on Madison-av.
‘Julius Glasmman;. 22, was injured fatally today when he was struck by an auto driven by a friend, Donald Richie, 22, “Greenwood. ;
state affairs preparatory to depar- | {'ture tonight on a vacation trip that will take him to Canada before he
ras’ Was concerned it WAS oti i only an nas, birth,” Dr. Joyal hut said, “but I am glad that the mother | and baby are in Such excellent. con: :
| a. possible levy for free gravel road
: rculosis Hos on Pita), leaving » uoisl of $1750.78
ROOSEVELT T0 LEAVE FOR VACATION TRIP
President - ‘Eager to ‘Begin ‘Cruise |- ~.. With Three: Sons.
By United Press : : WASHINGTON, July. 10.—Prenklin D, Roosevelt today ‘cleared away
se
returns to Washington.
-at. top - speed this week © on the drought situation; politics, labor and routine ‘administration. affairs. He
i. sage: to start: the vauafion éruite ee 0 sons 4 ‘July 14 at Rockland, Me. and ter'minate the end of the month at] Campobello ‘N. B.
fo36 36 Figure. :
Marion County taxpayers and civic organizations today studied county budget proposals which may bring the tax rate requests in 1937 to an estimated 45 cents. “The estimated ‘45-cent ‘rate was based on the county general fund budgets, ' the _tubercuiosis - “csp, | ¥ the new county welfare ‘budget, and}
funds. The sinking fund of the county was not added to the ustimated rate, as it is possible that if may ‘balance with’ Tevenues foreseen in 1937. The estimated 45-cent rate is 91a: cents lower than the 543%-cent rate advertised for 1936, it was said. The possible 45-cent rate re est, however, would be 7 cents ‘higher than: the 38-cent rate finally approved by the State ‘Tax ‘Board for
Final figures for the budgets of all county institutions, courts and offices placed the general fund budgets at $1,569,689.82, with: 31003519 for the Sunnyside Tube:
in appropriations ask “The $1,730,041.78 for the general ‘fund and tuberculosis hospital represents an estimated tax rate of 31 cents. Joel - A. Baker, Marion
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Use of Busses,
Mr. Roosevelt has been working:
ion County, * jbreaking seven days of heat. | teen persons were drowned, six died }ifom. heat
,| County Welfare Board director; an- | nounced a 14-cent tax rate, gate or flop. eat
20 DEATHS LAID 1 HEAT WAVE
Crop Damage in in State Is Increased as Mercury * Remains High.
By. United Press
Additional deaths and crop damage in Indiana, outside Marion
County, today were attributed to a |
sizzling heat wave which has prostrated the state since July 4.. Once ‘again the mercury rose with the sun ‘toward 100 degrees. ' Twenty deaths “have been re- | corded in the state, excluding Maruring the Li I's
prostratiion and one was killed by ligh
Higher, Than County's |- Progred
John. ‘Estes, ne, of a tucky. died at Bluffton of a cerebral hemorThese induced by heat. * Frank Stead, 48,“ Kendallville, died
of a heart attack while attending a
convention at Lake Wawasee.: Several hundred acres- of woodJands and ‘fields in Bartholomew County, ‘were swept by 8 blaze late esterday. At Wabash, a serious Water shortage that may force closing of industrial plants thréaiened here: today. L. J. Evans, Northern Indiana Power Co. manager, and Fire Chief George. Harrell urged that every means possible pe tried to conserve water supplies, = While County Agent A. T. Marvel estimated Elkhart County farmers were: losing $100,000 a day -by damaged crops, city residents felt the force: of the ‘heat when five pave- ‘ ment explosions were reported at
~The Wabash River dropped to below: the one-foot mark, and tele‘phone - wires sagged until. they
touched trolley lines, holding: up traffic,
Bluffton reported. Farmers living ‘in the vicinity of Seymour carried water to their parched stock. Two-year-old John Grim suffered second-degree burns when he walked ‘across searing sands. John. T Reynolds, . 85, died - of
. hee ere | yesterday {REROUTE TROLLEY LINE “A Plymou
{orks Board Grane Futon or
thing. Paring the fatalities. wee
1S FEARED HERE
‘Damage Increasing as Sun
Continues to Bake Down on Farms.
DEATH TOLL MOUNTING
Forest Fires in Michigan; New Record Is Set in New York.
® By United Press
CHICAGO, July 10.—Five million drought-weary farm-
ers looked to the skies for re-{
lief today but were blinded by the same relentless sun that has destroyed $250,000,000 in crops and taken at least 239 lives. “New destruction came in reports of forest fires ranging over more than 1000 acres of national woodland in Michigan. Reinforcements were rushed to aid men fighting a
| blaze sweeping through 800 acres in the Hiawatha unit of the Upper Michigan National Forest. . The second ‘Michigan fire burned
jover 300 acres in the Huron Na-
tional Forest with 250 fighters battling to bring it under control.: Consumers feared a rise in food and. meat prices. Large ‘canning companies were reported buying up all available corn, peas and other vegetables, fearing a shortage. Farmers in the 11 states where the drought has hit hardest deserted their fields days ago. Government agencies are paying them a “security wage” to build dams and roads and dig wells as part of a long-time program to prevent future droughts. The almost unprecedented heat ‘spread to the East where new high (Turn to Page Three)
Prophetstown, Illinois, Merchants Collect $1000 to ~ Meet His Demands.’
By Uniteq Press PROPHETSTOWN, Ill. July 10.— Merchants of Prophetstown dug into their pockets today for $1000 to pay an exwortionist ‘who has threatened to bomb and destroy the little city's business ‘district. ® “We intend to pay,” be-spectacled,
blond Mayor George S. Brydia said
in his grocery: store today. “Things are mighty dry here. We can’t take a chance on fire.” And tomorrow night Mayor} Brydia—unless the unexpected intervenes—intends to climb into an automobile and drive 100 miles to pay his city’s “ransom.” The mayor doesn’t know what
Mercury 103 in Midg Bringing Possibility of All-Time Record.
SEVERAL ARE OVERCOME
Irrigation Project Studie by Farmers; No Relief Is in Sight.
HOURLY TEMPERATURE Year
m, sess eve 67 m. sevens 68 72
. A 14-yeat-old boy died a several others collapsed in dianapolis today as the. 8 hore down again from a vir tually cloudless: sky. and sen temperatures past the 1 mark.
The temperature at 12:40 this : ernoon ‘was 103.1. The deéad boy is Millan Police said he was playing fe street in front of his home N. Warman-av, and his bi Emil, 11, struck him in the with a broomstick. vhandle. |". They said Millan collapsed diately and. was Cartied os a
shortly Aft
i : butor William ri a West
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he had 1
|rear of the
Club, Roy Niehus, club. @ who found the boy, helped him and he was sent home. |
Others who collapsed but revived and were said to be ih condition by attending were Geor, Roberts, 41, 1414 Columbia-av, a PWA on a project at Kentucky nd ver-avs. Mrs. Mary Smith, 31, of 14 Division-st, who was treated ath by ‘a physician on a City Hos) ‘ambulance, and two’ whose - police had not. learned. The all-time record - for apolis is 106, set July 22, 190 To the average city man meant xineipally that he was
sort of person wrote the threaten- | Milk
ing letter he received two days
ago. He said he “never before had
one just like it.” The district attorney turned the letter over to
“G-men” in Chicago, he said, but|
just to be on the safe side he in-
Department of Justice agents had “no comment” on the extortion threat. ‘ “This,” Brydia said, “is my ninth term as Mayor—I started when I was just a kid—and I don’t know what to think.
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