Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 July 1936 — Page 3
"OPEN PROBE OF LAW OPERATION
Registration Clerk Choices Result in Study by League Committee.
The Indianapolis League of Women Voters government committee today initiated an investigation of the operation of the voters registration law in Marjon County. _ The action followed on the heels of a demand by Frederick Shortemeier, Marion County Republican Chairman, that G. O. P. registration clerks be appointed at once. Two committee members have in-
terviewed County Clerk Glenn Rals- |
ton on all aspects of the law, Mrs. Virginia Moorhead Mannon, state secretary, said. “The Indiana league is responsible for this act, and if the committee finds it needs amendments, we will propose them,” Mrs. Mannon added.
Transfers to Be Studied
“This committee study is part of “the league's orientation work in bringing new members up to date on legislation for which the organization is responsible. The study is
to be made under direction of Mrs. Lester Smith, committee chairman. “Attention is to-be focused upon the administration of the law over the period since its passage by the 1933 General Assembly. Members are to study the number of transfers made annually in Marion County, how transfer blanks are issued, the provisions made for special registration places; method of appointing deputy registration officers and the number of such officers needed for the county.” Mrs. Smith pointed out that the intent of the law is to protect the average voter,
Committee Members Named
Committee members are Mrs. John WwW. Hillman, Mrs. J. Douglas Perry, Mrs. Louis Belden, Mrs. W. J. La Rue Byron, Miss Margaret Denny, Mrs, Louise Dixon, Mrs. L. M. Dunning, Mrs. Thomas A. Elder, Mrs. Bert C. Ellis, Mrs. C. A. Gates, Mrs. Walter Greenough, Mrs. A. L. Lowdermilk, Mrs. Frederick Malson, Mrs. C. R. Myers, Mrs. Howard Nyhart and Mrs. Frank Ramsey. Mrs. Ernest Rupel, Mrs. Horace Shonle, Mrs. William Snethen, Mrs. Tom Sheerin, Mrs. Joseph Todd, Mrs. Charles Welliver, Miss Ruth Hodges and Mrs. J. R. Lynn. In making his demands, Mr. Shortemeier indicated legal action ~ might be taken to force Mr. Ralston to make Republican appointments. Mr. Ralston said no registration drive is under way now, but would be opened in September. Answering Mr. Shortemeier’s charge that 43 deputy clerks, all Democrats, were authorized to register voters, Mr. Ralston said that, as he interpreted the law, he was not required fo appoint 45 additional deputy glarks from the Republican ranks.
Mail Driver Fined
Lee Riley, postal truck driver, was fined $5 and costs, the latter suspended, by Municipal Judge Charles Karabell today for parking his truck in a safety zone at 200 N. Capitol-av, while collecting mail.
Children who hope to be stage
when they grow up were studying their first assignments today after the organization of a children’s
theater yesterday. The Citizens’ Fraternity Club is sponsoring the organization. Children from 7 to 14
and movie stars officials said.
the register still is open for all North Side children,
Shown above dre two young actresses and their leading man, learning their lines under the direction of Mrs. Edith LaRue, Marion County Recreation Bureau. They are Carolyn Finn, 8, of 4257 Guilfordav (left); Dorothy Ann Holmes, 1144 W. 30th-st, and John Phillip Merriman, 3575 Evergreen-av.
HEARST ISSUE, SAYS WNUTT
Governor Opens Democratic Drive With Attack on Landon Support.
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dress, saying he did not care to discuss national issues. After paying tribute to the Roose-
velt Administration as the agency that restored prosperity, Gov. McNutt launched into a description of the forces supporting the Republican presidential nominee. “The opposition, Socialist, Communists, Fascists, reactionary Republicans and the last infirmity of political minds, the Liberty League, taken together an unholy alliance of Bourbons and Bolsheviki, would now crucify President Roosevelt,” Gov. McNutt said. The country might be wiliing to accept the picture of Mr. Landon as an “honest, plain, homespun character of negative virtues” were it not for those behind him, the Du Pont Liberty League and Hearst, the Governor said. “Neither the Republican National Committee nor the individuals who are doing Gov. Landon’s talking are in ignorance of the implications of the Hearst support,” Gov. McNutt declared. “Who can doubt that in the ledger of the most exacting purveyor of publicity in the — history each item of Hearst's support was entered up as debits against the Republican candidate for which the bill would be rendered
if the Governor ever attained the
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
Lions_ Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Program. recital by Alvin Joslin. Indianapolis’ News Newsboy Band, Major Bowes ateur Hour winner. Boa Talis Club, luncheon. Columbia Club, oon. Program, professional entertainers. Purdue ‘Alumni Association, luncheon, Hotel Severin, noon 2a Sean Lexion Twelfth Distriet, lunch- . Board of Trade, noon ar Chamber ot Commerce. luncheon, Columbia Club, no tual Insurance Association, luncheon, Columbia Club,” Apartment , Frsiinel Hotel Washington, noon. ob " Ct A. Yo Sung Men's Discussion C. Buildin BR Pp. m, bn william Acoilins. Subject, *‘Con-
servation of tural Resources and Mistakes That Have Been Made.”
MEETINGS TOMORROW Rainbow Division Yeterans dinner, Hotel Washington, 6:30 p
Engineering od Juncheon, Board of ade, noon.
Sigma Nu, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
luncheon,
noon. Acacia, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Indiana Motor Traffic Association, luncheon, Hotel Antlers, noon, regular businets S mbeting, erican Business Club, Indianapolis At Club, n Shrine Caravan Club, luncheon, Scottish Rite Cathedral, noon. Illimi Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon, MARRIAGE LICENSES (Incorrect addresses frequently are given te the Marriage License Bureau deliberately. The Times in printing the official
list assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)
Gustave Arnold. 25. Martinsville, ster, a Elizabeth Ellen Gardner, 1 1050 BE. Jackson-st, housekeeper farmers and Direne Alice Hu pp iar Rantown: Nelson-st, telephone operator. i Nefr, 20, of 334 Lincoln-st. Doris Miller, 23, of 36 N. 26. of Je Southern-av. 3 & dindrad C. Habiz, 18, of
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McDanie Nae ee Mar Vas Sl hurie ind ari ih n. 31 of 711 N. Alabamaand Margaret Slinger. 31. uM And Eo
ney Kansas City, Mo.. oy, Thon housekee ie Guyane, 5.
Girls Clyde; Emiline Lindesmith, 1831 N. Hard-
Margareps Miller, 1133 i t Peter. ‘mont. on, 3438 Estell, Maxine Ritter, 43 J
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DEATHS Cora Polk Mueller, at St. Vincent's, acute cholecystitis. Ethel F. Dove, 53, at City, nephritis. Abram L. Block, 71, at Marott Hotel, coronary thrombosis, ary Etta Webb, 40, at City, ruptured
"Frank R. McCabe, 68, at '5360 N. New Jersey, paralysis agitans. Maude Eavern, 43, at St. Vincent's, acute nephritis. Mary DeMar, 49, at City, heat stroke,
BUILDING PERMITS Henry Herbert, 2166 Weber-st, basement,
$30. ay. J. Muller, 2610 N. Meridian-st, stoker,
Dewey-Beaver, 2906 N. Denny-st, garage,
Roy Wilmoth Co., 826 W. Washingtonst, Sanopy, § $50. Henry eymeiels 1025 Yoke-st, dwelling, $2500; ; garage, 3 Clark, 4926 Park-av, garage,
Mrs. L. 8. Clark, 4920 Park-av, garage,
John Huegule, 1722 Spann-av,
Walter Anson, 219 8. Arlington- -av, gara | Keys, 1210 N. Belmont-av, dwelling,
George Body, 2939 N. Sherman-dr, repairs, $225.
ELECTRICAL PERMITS gustice Henery 103% N. Butler-av, $75. Dr. Harcourt, 4915 N. Tilinois-st. $235. Date of aa 1 N. Randolph-st,
L. E. Lunte, 208 N. Rural-st, $25. Winthrope, 2017 Nik Biegiiey Trust Co., PF. Crunk, 969
James eyrmer, > a a: Peville-av, $28. C. Perry. Raymond-st, $50 rae Jack, er S. Delaware, $25.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
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position in which he could discharge the obligations.
‘Demands Subservience’
“Never yet has Mr. Hearst supported a candidate without demanding subservience when that candidate was elected to office.” Gov. McNutt said he did not believe there was the slightest chance for Mr. Landon to win the "presidency in November, “but I am sorry to see any candidate for that exalted office smirched and blighted by association or affiliation with the individual whom Woodrow Wilson characterized as the worst influence in our history since Benedict Arnold.” After describing Mr. Hearst’s attacks on Presidents Cleveland and McKinley and his part in bringing the United States into the SpanishAmerican War, Gov. McNutt mentioned Mr. Hearst's vast business interests. They “are twisted up in a maze of corporations, holding companies and the other expedients of great business which ‘give vast opportunities for income tax exemptions, he charged.
“Very Considerate,’ Charge
“The Income Tax Division during the Republican Administrations of Coolidge and ‘Hoover were very considerate of Mr. Hearst’s returns,” Mr. McNutt charged. “If Mr. Hearst runs true to form
and should realize his hopes in sub-
stituting Alf Landon for Franklin Roosevelt in the White House, the Republican President would have to choose between doing what Mr. Hearst said in the matter of taxes, and perhaps in the matter of war,
or: find himself elevated te the hon-
orable company of those who have been described by Mr. Hearst as betrayers of the people, recreant public servants, imbeciles, or worse.” “The issues of this campaign,” the Governor concluded, “are not confined to the merits or demerits of the New Deal. One of the principal issues, and what might be the paramount issue, is William Randolph Hearst.”
NO NEED FOR STATE SURPLUS—SPRINGER
$10,892,205 in Treasury Held Sign of Too Heavy Taxes. Raymond S. Springer, Republican
Governor candidate, today said the $10,892,205 unobligated surplus in
the state treasury “either is only
temporarily unincumbered or a sign taxes should be reduced.” “The state has no need for such a surplus,” Mr. Springer said, “and if it is truly unincumbered, the tax load should be lessened on the citizens of the state who helped to pile it up. “Of course, June 30 is the time when country treasurers settle their accounts with the state,” he said, “and the state treasury naturally would contain a large sum now.” Mr. Springer said he was confident of a Republican victory in Indiana this fall. He was to leave today for Topeka to take part in the notification ceremonies for Alfred M. Landson.
| CHARITIES’ COST IN
CITY SHOWS DROP
Per Capita Expense Goes From $6.63 to $2.93, Survey Shows. Times Special WASHINGTON, July 22.— Per Sapita cost of charities, hospitals
YS Commerce tabulation disclosed This drop, largely duplicated in $he ether 3 cities of [OLE than 100, 000 population, is attributed to the taking over of relief by the Federal government.
REPORTS ON DROUGHT
CHASE FOLLOWS
AUTO ACCIDENT
Driver Slated on Charges of Assault and Battery After Collision.
An automobile collision which ended in a chase and an alleged attack was reported to police today. George Jennings, 22, of R. R. 13, Box 338, told police his car was in a collision with an automobile driven by Alvin F, Duncan, 40, of 823 Westbrook-av, at Washingion-st and the Belt Railroad today. Jennings said Duncan failed to stop after the crash. Following Duncan's car, Jennings said he finally forced it to the curb in the 1900 block on W. Washington-st. Jennings claimed that Duncan
struck him with a monkey wrench.
Police slated Duncan on charges of assault and battery and operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor.
Cyclists Are Injured
An accident of a type seldom reported to police occurred late last night at Morris-st and Nordyke-av. Two bicycles collided. Clarence Anderson, 19, of 1026 S.
Sheffield-av, and Edward Mueller, 16, of 1017 S. Sheffield-av, were riding their bicycles west on Morris-st at the time of the accident.
Anderson suffered a fractured |:
right collar bone and was sent to City Hospital. Mueller, cut and bruised, was able to return home.
Five Hurt in Crash
Five persons suffered minor injuries when two automobiles collided last night at Morris-st and the Holt-rd. They were Mrs. Luella Poe, 59 of 1514 Kappes-st; Hazel Buchanan, 36, of 1035 rd * Holmesav; James Poe, 21, of 1514 Kappesst: Russell Phillips, 28, Ben Davis, and Willard Hawk, 23, of 38 N. Holmes-av. All were reported recovering today. Mrs. Poe and Mrs. Buchanan were riding in an automobile driven by Mr. Poe: Mr. Phillips was operating the other car.
Driver Is Arrested
Mrs. Gareth Smith, 20, of 2211 E. 10th-st, suffered injuries of the legs and hips last night in an automobile collision in the 5300 block on W. Washington-st. Mrs. Smith was riding with her husband. The other car was driven by Mrs. Louise Yoder, 1145 N. Me-ridian-st, who was arrested on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of liquor, failure to havé a driver's license and failure to have a certificate of title. Mrs. Smith was taken home after the accident.
TENNESSEE TO GET NORRIS DAM POWER
Flow of Electricity Scheduled to Begin Monday. By United Pres:
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Power from TVA’s
Hotel Watchman Late on ‘Rounds, Record Shows, Despite Denial.
By United Press : ASHEVILLE, N. C., July 22 —The paper recording disk of a watchman’s time clock offered the greatest hope authorities had today “of finding the slayer of Helen Clevenger, 19-year-old New York University student. Miss Clevenger was criminally attacked, shot and beaten to death in her room in the Battery Park Hotel at approximately 1 a. m. last Thursday. Daniel Gaddy, 28-year-old hotel night watchman, violated hotel rules by failing to punch his time clock near Miss Clevenger’s room at that hour, the clock’s recording disk showed. He was late when he passed the post at 2 a. m. After five days in which six persons have at various times been ar-
{rested as suspects or as material
witnesses, Gaddy’s apparent deviation from his routine took place as
‘one of the most Imporiani mysteries
ance Brown that. he made his
rounds at 1 a. m. and 2 a. m. Thursday “as usual” but his clock, which records the exact minute at which each post on his rounds is “punched,” testified that he did not. Sheriff Brown said Gaddy was not suspected of committing the crime, but that he expected to obtain vital information from him.
Pass Key Is Clew
Police, it was indicated, hope to obtain from Gaddy additional information about a pass key found in the door of Miss Clevenger’s room when her uncle, Prof. W. L. Clevenger of North Carolina State College, went to awaken her Thursday morning. The key, Brown said, was used by the murderer. The key and other evidence led police to believe the slaying was committed by someone familiar with hotel routine. The new line of inquiry turned the investigation away from Mark Wollner, concert and radio violinist, held for three days. Inquiry into Wollner’'s movements the night of the slaying indicated he was innocent. ; Wollner, his fiancee, Mildred Ward, and two Negro hotel employes remained in jail. No charge has been placed against any of them.
DENY GUILT IN POLICE SLAYING
Three Alleged Brady Gang Members Make Pleas; Trial Aug. 17.
Three alleged members of the Brady gang today pleaded not guilty. when arraigned before Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker on first degree murder charges in connection with the death of Sergt. Richard Rivers in April. They were Alfred Brady, alleged leader; James Polhover and Clarence Lee Schaffer Jr. Trial date was set for Aug. 17. A plea in abatement and motion to quash the indictment against Mrs. Catherine Hart, held as an accessory after the fact, were denied by Judge Baker, who scored the English common Jaw, basis for the abatement plea. 'Mrs. Hart's attorney charged that her alleged activities occurred under duress of her hus-
| band.
“If gangsters were able to hide behind skirts, tough guys could marry flappers and turn their machine guns over to them,” Judge Baker said. “Mrs. Hart must prove to a jury that she actually was under coercion or duress.” Mrs. Hart, Chester Hart and George Whilley, indicted as accessories after the fact, also entered not guilty pleas and their trial will be set later, Judge Baker said. Sergt. Rivers, city police officer, was killed when he went to a South Side home where a doctor reported he had treated a wounded gunman.
Milk Board Sets Hearings The State Milk Board today set July 27 as the date for a hearing on a proposed Fort Wayne milk price increase and July 30 for a hearing
Spain’s First
His Acceptance Might Have Changed History, Simms Says.
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor
WASHINGTON, July 22.—Few are aware that King Alfonso had a chance to be the first president of the Spanish Republic and turned it down. Had he accepted, it is barely
possible that he might have brought about a profound’ change in that sorely beset nation’s history. At a secret rendezvous in Paris on or about July 1, 1930, a few months before he was dethroned, Alfonso
‘sat down at a table with his former
minister of foreign affairs, Santiago Alba. : The King was in trouble. Republicans and other factions of the left were becoming increasingly clamorous. Unless something was done to satisfy them, it was plain to see, almost anything might happen. Offered Premiership
What was said at that table, I was reliably informed a short time Jater, in effect was this: “Senor Alba,” the harried monarch began, “things at Madrid
‘are ‘going from bad to werse. You
are known throughout Spain as a great liberal. The Republicans and other radical elements believe in you.. I need your help. “I offer you the premiership. Will you accept my offer?” “On four conditions,” said Alba bluntly. “First, you must permit me to name a coalition government which will include all the parties, including Republicans and Socialists. “Second, there will have to be a general election in which all the people of Spain will be free to vote precisely as they please. Third, the new parliament must devise the constitution to remodel the government after those of democratic France and Britain.
President Without Power
“And, fourth, your majesty must permit yourself to be named president for life; but president without power. In addition, you must give public guarantees that you will never again attempt to act unconstitutionally.” Alfonso considered ‘the pill too
- bitter to swallow. Had he done dif-
ferently, he might not now be in exile. On April 14, 1931, less than 10 months later, he fled Madrid, probably never to return. ‘The trouble with Alfonso was that he simply could not quit unless it was a case of force majeurs. Though the world regarded him as a playboy, he was one of the ablest statesmen in the country. Since he fled the country there have been half a dozen revolutions. And the end is not yet. But regardless of what happens at Madrid, few believe he will ever remount the e.
on existing prices in Evansville.
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REVOLT UPSETS:
BOWERS’ PLANS
Trip to U. S. to Stump for Roosevelt May Be Abandoned.
BY -DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staffl Writer WASHINGTON, July 22.—Plans of Claude G. Bowers, American Ambassador to Spain, to return here shortly and take the stump in the Roosevelt campaign have been completely upset by the Spanish rebellion, it was learned today. Admitting that it is unlikely that Ambassador Bowers would leave his post while trouble is brewing, State Department officials expressed the view that all may be quiet in Spain long before the November election, however. ~ At present they are not discussing campaign plans with Ambassador Bowers, they said. The Ambassador was not at the American embassy in Madrid when 4he trouble started, but at his summer e at San Sebastian. He is isolated there now, and the U. S. Battleship’ OKlthoma has been dispatched to the north coast to rescue him and his family. Ambassador Bowers is a native of Indianapolis and a graduate of Shortridge High School. He was a well-known Fort Wayne editor and active in Democratic politics before joining the editorial staff | of the New York World. An author and historian, he liked the Spanish post because it gave him leisure to write books, he said on a visit here last year. He explained that he did his writing while others were taking the customary Spanish siesta. “It has been very interesting watching the new democracy develop in Spain,” he said at that time. “They are undergoing an experience somewhat similar to our own government in its formative ays.”
Truck Wheels Stolen
Two wheels valued at $135 were reported stolen last night from a truck parked in the yard of the home of Alonzo Jordan, 2873 N. Olney-st.
TOLL MOUNT! INTO THOUS
| Government Forces Cle
Victories at Toledo and Guadalajara.
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municipal, are mingled, is incalcus lable, Official estimates are that 50 men were killed and 3000° in one fight alone—at Barcelona where the rebels were defeated. A dispatch intercepted from Gens Queipo De Llano’s rebel headquars ters at Seville told of a series of smal] fights in that area, each with its toll of dead and injured. Theres have been many scores, if not hun: dreds, of such fights. In one, in suburbs of Seville, 30 Workers’ Mili= tiamen and an unspecified number of rebel regulars from Morocco were
killed, the dispatch said, in a fight
in the woods. The rebels’ situation in the as contrasted to the north, increasingly serious. It seemed that the death of Gen. Jose San Jurpoy leader of the 1932 monarchist revolt,
in an airplane crash on his way from Portugal to Seville to take
supreme charge of the rebel cause, disheartened officers and men.
LEFT WING SEIZES
CONTROL OF MADRID
Red Flag Hoisted as Government
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Supporters Take Charge, =~
By United Press MADRID, July 22. — The Leff
Wing, supporting the government,
was in control of Madrid today and the Red flag flew from the famous palace of the Duke of Medinheeli,
one of the richest landowners of Spain. Vv
Popular Front committees, unde the ior of the Socialist, Com: munists and Syndicalist Parties, were formed throughout the city, controlled by a Popular Front (gove ernment faction) committee. . The city was divided into dise tricts under control of the militia.
The principal committees were ine"
stalled in the Salesianos Convent and Europa Theater. A battalion of
in the convent.
Another strenghold was the Duke
of Medinaceli’s palace. Red militia with rifles guarded it. troled the streets in command
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el
militia, fully armed, was installed |
cars. The miltiamen were fed from
stores in the working-class
districts ‘land milk was distributed by food
section committees.
Communists seized the plants of the Rightist newspapers El Debate
and Ya, and attempted to publish the Red papers Mundo and Obrero Juventud, but the government seized the editions, as they were ule censored.
REP. HALLECK FLAYS NEW DEAL SPENDIN
Calls on Republicans to Constitutional ‘Government, Times Special .
Second District g Charles J. Halleck, Rensselaer, an address bidding for re-election last night, charged that “more trick
LOGANSPORT, Ind, July 22.— Congressman:
bookkeeping is peing done in Wash.
ington and Indianapolis than has ever been dreamed of before.”
“Is this recovery?” he asked. “In he,
little more than three years,” said, “the New Deal has spent more than $22,000,000,000, but still we have 12,000,000 unemployed and 20,000,000 on Federal relief rolls.” He called upon the Republican
Party to rescue constitutional gove
ernment.
Two Are Sentenced By Unitéd Press
LOGANSPORT, Ind. July 22—
Pleading guilty in Cass Circuit Courf, Frank Tam,
prison for breaking into a grocery store. Herbert Cotner, 22, was sens tenced to one to five years in the reformatory in connection with chicken thefts.
59, was sens. tenced to two years in the state