Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 July 1936 — Page 1

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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 112

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Long Leader in ‘Civic and Business Affairs of Indianapolis.

MOURNED - BY MANY

Merchant Had Been Several Years From Heart Disease.

(Editorial, Page 10)

Abram L. Block, president of L. Strauss & Co., Indianapolis depart-

ment store, died at 2 a. m. loday 5 Bt his home, the :Marott Hot2l. ‘had been ill for several years i heart disease. He was 71. In spite of his illness, associates said he maintained a personal contact with the store, and visited the store on business one week ago. He also maintained an active interest in civic affairs and in the conduct of many Jewish social, educational and religious organizations in the city, associates said. Donated Race Trophy Throughout his long business career in Indianapolis, during which L. Strauss & Co. expanded from a “relatively small store” to one of the largest in the city, Mr. Block took part in every major civic enterprise, his associates said.” Starting in 1916 he donated a trophy for the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway every year. He was a member of the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation. L. Strausf & Co.'s store was closed today and is to remain elosed until Thursday. Funeral services are to be held at the Indianapolis Hebrew Congregation Temple, 10th and Delaware-sts, Wednesday at 10:30 a. m. The body is at the Flanner & Buchanan ‘Mortuary. Burial is to be in Indianapolis Hebrew Cemetery. #7 4 Born in Cincinnati

He was born in Cincinnati, O, Sept. 27, 1864, the son of raus and Saralh Moerel Block. His father died when he was six weeks old. His mother then moved to Rochester, N. Y. Later he entéred the wholesale branch of the men's wear business there, In-1893,. he. joined .a Brooklyn retail firm, remaining until 1807. A year later he came to Indianapolis and joined the late Leopold - Strauss, whom he had known for |t many years, In 1912, Mr. Block became president of L. Strauss & Co., at which time he also acquired the en interest of Mr, Strauss. Mr. Block ‘also was president of the Circle Theater Co. and Monument Realty Co. He was a member - of Columbia Club, Marion Club, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Hoosier Athletic Club, Indianapolis Club, Broadmoor Country Club, Chamber of Commerce, New York Bridge Club, Old Colony Club, B. P. O. E. and a life member of the Valley Lodge 109, Free and Accepted Masons, of Rochester, N. Y. He was married to Miss Rachel Fishel in Rochester, Sept. 19, 1888. He is survived by his widow, a daughter, Mrs. Joseph Gelman, and a granddaughter, Alma Lyon, all of whom live at.the Marott Hotel.

DOG BREEDERS WIN ORDINANCE DELAY

Mayor Announces Rabies Vaccination_Order to Be Studied Further.

" A delegation of dog breeders today asked Mayor Kern to delay action on the proposed ordinance “calling for inoculation of all dogs. "Mayor Kern said the . ordinance would not be -presented at City Council. meeting tonight, and that the would have two weeks to study the proposal. Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health | Board secretary, said he

tion, in making a thorough study of ihe inoculation serun® and its efects. The* delegation included Harold

W. Brady, Stowell C. Wasson, Frank

‘Hatfield, "HB. A. Meyer, Hirschman and E. R. Etter.

CIVIC CLUB PLEADS FOR WATER MAINS |

Clifton

MERCHANT DIES

Mr. Block

CITY REJOICES IN GOOL SPELL

Likely to Last Three Days, Is Promise; Showers Help Crops.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 15 . 69 43 . 4 ee. 70 oar 08 «n.-80 ao OF . 80 SE . 82 .. 66 . 83 Indianapolis today had subnormal temperatures and .enjoyed the comfort of a cool wave that moved in over the week-end and is going to stay from “one to three days,” the Weather Bureau forecast. And although only 27 inch of rain fell, according to official measurement, growers and gardeners said that, ‘accompanied by cooler weather, it was quite beneficial to crops. Even with a bright suh and clear

sky, the temperature was only mn at 9 a. m. today.

Crops Aided, Abbott Says

The week-end rains granted a reprieve to Marion County and state crops, Horace Abbott, county agricultural agent, said today.

While there was by no ‘means enough rain, it did ea good to the comm and. vegetable 0 } the pastures; he said." Taare The corn fields were wet to a depth of about an inch in fields inby Mr. Abbott and he said that the present cool weather is at least as beneficial to the corn as was the rain. He urged farmers to plant. substitute crops for those lost, and he suggested that new pastures be seeded with sudan grass for cattle.

Death Toll Increased

The heat accounted’ for at least one more death over the week-end. Peyry Downing, 70, who was watchman at the 8S. Harding-st gravel pit of the J. P. Johnson Co., contractors, and who made his home there, was found dead near a company druck. The coroner gave heat as a contributing cause of death. Utility wires and a section of the wall at the Indiana Woman's Prison were damaged yesterday when a large tree in the rear yard of 350 N. Hamilton-av was. blown down.

HEAT WAVE CLEARED BY RAIN AND WIND

28 States Get Relief From the Excessive Temperatures, By United Press CHICAGO, July 20.—The heat wave and drought, broken in 28 states by soothing showers and violent windstorms, spent itself on five Southern states today. Suffocating temperatures which cost nearly 4500 lives in 33 states since July 3, faded from the weather map before ated draughts of cool air from northern Canada and Alaska. Only in Arkansas, Oklahoma, southern Missouri, southern Kansas and north‘ern Texas were 100-degree temperatures forecast today 0600000 Sorin o has destroyed of crops since 1, appeared to be breaking

slowly. "Thundershowers wetted the

parched soil of all but four of the 28 stricken states. “Local thundershowers are indi Sted fof Southern sections of the

U5 OF NEW GRAND = | JURORS ARE woe ;

for trucks and busses,

Fiscal Year Ends Without State Owing Cent, He Says on Radio.

PROPERTY TAX IS LESS

New Sources of Revenue.

‘Net 24 Millions; Report Is His Last. Gov. ‘McNutt said today there

probably would be no increase in the state tax rate for 1937, after

revealing last night that the state’|

had a cash balance of $10,892,205 in unobligated funds when it closed its books for 1936 on June 30. He said the balance represented the estimated amount needed for the social security program and operation of institutions. “If any money is left, perhaps it would have the effect of reducing tax@s,” the Governor said.

Ih his last financial report as |

Governor, he told a radio audience last night that Indiana ended th year “with all bills paid, not oo cent of indebtedness, and with just $2.47 ‘less than $33,000,000 in the tredsury.” In analyzing the trend in the state’s sources of revenue in the last few years, he said that property tax collections had dropped ' to where they now do not far exceed $2,000,000, He compared this figure to $4, 812. 747 from Property taxation in 1933. The Governor said that total income from new sources of revenue for the year just ended was $24,385,000. He compared this to $17,905,773 for the previous year, and. $1,055,542 for 1933. Of last year's total, the intangibles tax contributed $1,240,000; gfoss income tax, $16,600,000; alcoholic beverage tax, $5,600,000; auto tax, $205,000, and weight tax $740,000. Balance Is Known

Gov. McNutt said that the change in financial system brought about during his administration makes it possible “to, determine at all times with reasonable accuracy just what our financial balance is.”

* “Another feature jot our present| | makes “it possible” for

Morocco, Spain Form Gate‘way. to Mediterranean Where Revolt Flared.

By United Press Spanish Morocco and Spain itself form the gateway to the Mediterranean, Where fighting, revolt. and bloodshed occurred over the weekend in a dozen towns and cities. - Almost on “She- ‘northermost tip!

‘Spanish Moroccoan ‘block house, held: by: pe

PORTUGAL *

of Atrica at the. ‘Siraits of Gibatiar stands the town of Ceuta,’ African pillar of ‘Hercules a a population of approximately 13,000. There, where loyal warships . are shelling, the rebels, the. Spanish a0 held a. foothold ‘in-Africa since 1 ‘Some 30. miles {mand and directly south of Ceuta: lies Tetuan, where,

| according: to fleeing refugees, the rebels under: the command of Gen.

Blast, Flames

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BR sow of .unobligated funds

from those Jungs Shas are Pledge :

for specific LSpectt ‘auditor that in. ‘addition to the more than 10 million dollars of unobligated funds, there is a total of $6,503,232 marked for five definite p “Of this, $1,237,507 is for the. social security program; $364,639 for Federal. PWA and WPA ‘projects; $31,076 for educational Federal participation; partment fees for operations and $3,957,493 for ' distribution to other units.” Other specific’ funds - reported (Turn to Page Three)

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$911,626 for state de-|’

{ tools ‘lost were estimated ‘at $2000.

ONE Stohrer, working on the Miller rac-

? | through ,a door... Kenneth Day,’ 29,

Wishmire Motor || Betvice building’ at 4431 Rockville- | rT /

time of the first blast escaped injury. Eleven passenger cars, three

tank truck also were destroyed.

was ~available immediately. Two

racing cars being prepared for the 1937 Memorial ‘Day 500-mile race here were destroyed at an estimated loss of $7000. The vne-story building was valued at $1500 by E. H. Payne; 4915 Rockyille-rd, owner, andi

An acetyline torch used by Fred Stohrer, 33; of 36 S. Fleming-av, ex-

building” .and ‘starting off the fire.

ing cars owned by . el DeBaets of Chicago, .was blown 15 feet |;

of 4035 Rockville-rd, another mechanic_also was blown out of the building.

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TRAPPED BY POLICE,

Takes Poison. #1 as Officers Close In on Hideout.

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A a double: SxDlosion and fire today |

Six men in the building at the]

racing machines, a wrecker and a| -T No estimate of the total damage |’

ploded tearing away part. of the dren

Others who ‘escaped injury were

SUSPECT ENDS LIFE»

by Fat i Are ‘Reported.

| By: STEPHEN WALL ’ J oprah 1936, by United Press)

] rom the f Jeouarn, zone, . ‘said that. he saw the mass » victims including el “who refused to

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The trouble spots. of the Spanish revolution.

Francisco Franco are in control and

executions.

Forty miles westward along the coast from Ceuta lies the famous old ‘pirate town of Tangier, where about 30,080 people of every race ive and ‘where five warships of .the Spanish navy, taken over from. ‘their officers “crews, lie dt: anchor,

rois~on the west horn of a crescent. ron by a concave coast, line. One hundred and thirty miles away on the east tip of the crescent lies Melilla, where airplanes and ships have rained shells on the

| rebels at this coastal port.

Dir stly across the 15-mile strait, her ‘the Atlantic * Govan the Medi-

ry ”? dg t the poe Spangd town. of Linea De La Concepeion,: Sommonty, called La’ Linea. The nami “The Line” “The Frontier: ” La Linea lies a es 8 -NGIrow. of .neutral ground town of 60,000 people, fighting “between ° the rebels De ‘workers, ‘has resulted ' in 200

ad. ‘119 Rebels Reported Slain

~ Just. across the tip of the. Spanish peninsula from La Linea, 40 miles: away, is Algeciras, where, "according | t0 government. reports, workers have killed 119 rebels. About 40 miles northwest. of Algeciras along the coast lies the important shipping town of Cadiz, where a loyal warship has bombarded the rebels holding the city. Sixty miles inland and

a | northeast of Cadiz is the -eity of | Seville .from which the rebels re-

portedly have broadcast their claims of - countrywide ' successes. ‘Up the coast, to. the northeast of La Linea, is Malaga, city from which the th | grapes come, whefe loyal subma-: | nds are are Teady to suppress rebel ac‘Three. ‘hundred miles northeast of La: lies the capital, Madrid, in ‘the center of Spain far away from the southern country and Morocco, ‘where the revolt Started and is strongest.

REVOLT ISBAGKED Bu COUNT A ALFONSO

Government, He Sats.

Tnited Prose. TORE. July 20—The ob-

have, ‘punished loyalists by mass |

200 killed. killed 119 rebel troops.

country.

a TORN Y REVO

Americans Find Refuge in in U. S. Embassy ‘Madrid; Leftist Government Claims Rebels Are Suppressed.

MASS EXECUTIONS ARE REPORT

Air Line Passengers Arriving in France S Government Forces Are Bom“barding Barracks.

By United Press 3 MADRID—Government announces suppression of reb outbreak in capital. LONDON—Exchange Telegraph Gibraltar corvespo ent reports rebels take Madrid. GIBRALTAR—Rebels ultimatum government to a 'e render Madrid or suffer aerial bombardment. | “LA LINEA—Rebels hold city ; refugees Yeport more tam

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ALGECIRAS—Government sources report that work Rebels hold city. SEVILLE—Rebels broadcast claims of gains all ove

TANGIER—Refugees report mass execution in Spanish

Morocco by rebels who hold country.

CADIZ—Loyal cruiser bombards rebels. - MALAGA—Loyal submarines ready to shell rebels. MELILLA and CEUTA, Morocco—Warships shell rebel

strongholds; airplanes rain bombs.

TETUAN, Morocco—Gen.

rebel

Francisco Franco,

chieftain, warns of punishment unless all factions join him.

.GIBRALTAR—British admiralty holds warships to evacuate Nationals from embattled Spanish ports. BIARRITZ—Entire Spanish frontier sealed. Worke

arming in north to aid government.

| sections reported in flames.

‘TOULOUSE, France—Air line passéngers from B lona report government forces bombarded barracks; se

~~ CANNES—Prince of. Astutias, heir apparent to

oval Cruiser Ra ; Rakes Cadiz] and Melilla, Supported ‘by Air Bombers.

‘By United Press

- MADRID, July 20.—While Amer‘icans were being - invited by the United States embassy to take refuge there, the government announced today that the Right Wing army revolt in Madrid had been crushed. All rebel barracks in the capital have surrendered after fierce fighting, especially at the Montana barracks, which is in the hands of government troops, workers and militia,

tion, the announcement said. There was no direct word of the | situation in other cities, although 4 disturbing reports were received of fighting asd casualties. Airplanes began to fly over the Montana barracks, where the rebels, were holding out at 6 a. m. and be-

gan a: t. militia and loyal storm e barracks and

J guards EA a Tounded the Marracks and ‘barracks

At 11 a. m. the derered «2

representing the Left Wing fac-

and vacant. Spanish threme, in busy conference. with Sr o eng chists, | | VASE INGTON—Maj. Ramon Taktico, séridl . Revere” of the Spanish revolution in 1931 and brother o present rebellion leader, says Spain. will remain a rep regardless of who wins present civil war. :

Rebels Claim Great Gain

but Three Provinces, : Broadcasts Say. |

(Copyright, 1938, oy United Prem LISBON, Portugal, July 20. -Ra flashing out

essage reported that rebers old Cdl as state of war there. Another rebels dominated at Cordoba were attempting to win the g to their side. ‘The rebel movement s strong and unless: the governm able to gather sufficient loyal it may be forced out by the. Wing army rebels and the ely Fascists,

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