Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1936 — Page 1
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LSERIPPS HOWARD, VOLUME 48—NUMBER 121
THURSDAY, JULY, 1906
PRICE THREE CENTS |
SPAIN REFUSES SPECIAL TRAIN T0 AMERICANS
‘Evacuation of U. S, Citizens From Madrid Held Up Indefinitely.
REBELS : DRIVEN BACK
Consul Reports Property of Foreigners Hasn’t Been Confiscated.
(Copyright. 1936, ‘by United Press) Developments today in the Spanish revolt:
PERIGNAN, FRENCH-SPAN-ISH FRONTIER—One thousand Loyalists reported killed in rebel machine gun ambush. of columns moving to attack Zaragoza. MADRID—Government decrees - 1200-mile war zone about Madrid in readiness for rebel attack; refuség special train to evacuate , Americans from Madrid. ZARAGOZA—Rebels organized for long siege; townspeople fear . ruin of historic city. ; FIELD HEADQUARTERS, ' REBEL ARMY—Rebels give up "hope of reinforcements from south, prepare to attack Madrid.
§ BY HOBART C. MONTEE } United Press Staff Correspondent i WASHINGTON, July 30. — The Bpanish government today declined fc provide a special train for evacuation of American§ and other forgignerg beleaguered in Madrid. The government said. it could offer bnly two alternatives to the fore eigners trapped amid the civil war. They might: . 1. Remain in Madrid with the danger of being trapped in serious warfare. 2. Attempt to reach Mediterrangan seaports by regular train servce. The government said it needs its ppecial trains for troop movemeats.
‘Claims Service Regular
The. government .added. that no 8pecial guarantees of safety or safe
conduct were ‘required for foreign-'|
ers going io . the , Mediterranean coast because the railway line is open and regular trains are leaving
Eric O. Wendelin, reporting these Yacts to the State ‘Department, said the diplomatic corps was meeting to consider the feasibility of evacuating foreigners from Madrid on special coaches attached to the regular grains to Alicante and Valencia. Simultaneously with his report on fhe evacuation situation, Mr. Wen-, delin declared there has been no confiscation of American properties in Spain other than the comman-
deering of some automobiles for war |
purposes, There has been no con-
is a moratorium on loans and a limitation of bank withdrawals. Property Protected Mr. Wefdelin’s "assertions were supported by a cable from Consul, Lynn W. Franklin at Barcelona. Mr. Franklin said he has been ccessful to date in protecting merican property. a a a oe The Catalonian government today @stablished rigid supervision over all Barcelona banking facilities, giving strict orders with regard to how funds shall be paid out from the panks, Mr. Franklin reported. He said that “rumors that authorJties at Barcelona have taken over foreign banks and confiscated their funds are untrue.”
WAR ZONE DECLARED \ BY MADRID DEFENSE
Planes Sweep Revolt Troops in Preparation for Attack.
By United Presa o * ~ + MADRID, July 30.—A t semipircle of territory west, north and east of Madrid was formally deglared a war zone today in readiness for a stone .wall. def of the eapital against attacking rebels, By the emergency di creating fhe zone, the government military forces qbtain absolute onto] of gvery foot of land in the In preparation for he expected rebel attack, government, airplanes swept be Suadarramas and the area behind 18, harassing [the rebels With bomb and machine- in fre Planes were sent also/
apparent that the fate llion hinged on the beth points—Madrid, Ovi
FORD 73 TODAY
EE RSs 1 —Copyright, Grayston Studios, By United Press r BIG BAY, Mich, July 30.—Secluded from the world in the quiet pines of his Huron mountain camp, Henry Ford, automobile manufac-
turer, today celebrated his seventy-
third ‘birthday anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Ford told friends before they left! Detroit earlier in the week that nothing special was planned for the day. The custom of spending his vacation at the camp on Lake Superior, in ' Michigan's upper peninsula, was established a few years ago by the automobile magnate.
FLORIDA STORM VEERS TO WEST
Small Fishing Villages Now Are Expected to Bear. Brunt of Gale.
By United Press APALACHICOLA, Fla., July 30.— A tropical storm, carrying hurricane winds at its center, swung slightly westward at 10 a. m, today and will probably strike the Florida Coast between here and Pensacola during the afternoon. . The . shift brought some relief from fear here, where merchants
‘were barricading stores after an
earlier warning that the main force of the blow would strike before noon, ; In the storm's probable course west of here lay a coastline dotted
with small fishing "towns afd thel
Iuiibier shipping center of Panama i : :
CRASH TEARS ARM "FROM TAX! DRIVER
Victim Is Reported to Be in Critical - Condition.
A taxi driver's left arm was torn off at the elbow early today when an automobile and a taxi sideswiped on Michigan-st east of the White River bridge. The injured man, Ernest Lane, 41, of 152% N. Illinois-st, was taken to Robert ‘Long Hospital by a passing motorist. His condition was described as critical. Lane was driving with his left arm outside the window. The other car was driven by Frederick H. Foster, 34, of 820 N. Bancroft-st. Both vehicles were damaged badly. Polie investigated, but made no arres a
Jesse Hazelrigg, 5. 53, of 104 S. Davidson-st, who suffered - serious head. injuries when he fell from a truck at New York and Fulton-sts, . (Turn fo Page Three)
WHOSE RIGHT OF WAY?
ANY a driver's tombstone might bear an epitaph reading: “He thought he had the: right) of way.” Maybe he did: have it, too; but what good is it: now? ; : The fact is that the right of way is an elusive possession. Courts ‘have defined it to their own satisfaction, but the average driver often
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LANDON BACKS |
Sustion Panta Right of Unions
(Kansas Governor
By United Press
1 Goods Co., at that time the *New
LABOR'S DRIVE | T0 ORGANIZE]
to Send Organizer Into Open Shop Plants.
WRITES TO SOCIALIST]
Elaborates on Statement About Unionization. :
TOPEKA, Kas., July 30.—Gov. Alf
| M. Landon today amplified his labor |: | policy with a declaration that labor 3
unions and workers should be pro-
tected in their right “to promote | ii % ‘by lawful and proper means the or-
ganization of an unorganized indus-
try, which includes the right to send | [8 in an organizer.”
The Republican nominee’s statement was made in a letter to Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President. Mr. Thomas sought elaboration ot the statement in Gov. Landon’s acceptance address that labor should be free from coercion from all sources. The Socialist: asked if this meant workers must organize spontaneously. Gov. Landon’s reply pledged main. fenance of the rights of free speech and free assemblage and interpreted these rights to include efforts by a union to. organize a nonunion .industry. His statement was considered Of pecially significant in connection with the present contest between steel companies and John L. Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization over. unionization of the steel industry.
KNOX NOTIFICATION
DETAILS COMPLETE |
Republicans Invade Chicago |$
for Ceremony Tonight.
(Pictures, Page 3. Radio story,
Page 27) By United
CHICA to drive out the New Deal into high gear today when 7 workers from every state invaded Chicago to let - Frank Knox know officially that he
Chi
ress
will be-the vice presidential candi- |
date. The hullabaloo, the torchlight parades, the bands and the crowds provided an old-time prelude to the acceptance § of the running mate of Gov. Alf M. Landon. . Simultaneuosly, party strategists swung into action a nation-wide political organization stretching into every county and every precinct and designated to draw to Republican ranks enough voters to wipe out the Roosevelt margin of victory—6,000,000—in 1932. A crowd of 50,000 was predicted by. the arrangements committee for the Knox notification ceremonies.
FRANK HESLER, 51, DIES AT HIS HOME
Served as Examiner for Accounts Board.
Frank W. Hesler, former State Accounts Board field examiner; died today in his home, 1235 E. 72d-st.. He was 51. Funeral services are to be held Saturday afternoon ip the home, with burial in Crown Hill. Mr. Hesler, born in Zanesville, Ind., had lived in Indianapolis for the last 30 years. For 12 years he was associated with the Pettis Dry
York Store, and later with Goldstein Bros. He had been ill for the last. two years. - Survivors are the widow, Edith; two sons, Warren ‘Hesler, Evansville, and Marion Hesler,
Indianapolis; his mother, Mrs. Alice Hesler; two\
sisters, Grace M. Hesler and Mrs. H. E. and & brother, Ralph S. Hesler, all of Indianapolis; a brother, Galen Hesler, on and’ a sister, Mrs. Jess Winnings,
, July 30. —- The Reé-|
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bie Gravestorie Blinks: Solemnly-From Darkness. 3
Times Special TOBLESVILLE, Ind, July %0. —There’s a gravestone here that lights up at night and blinks out of the:dark interior of a cemetery like the listless greenish eye of a tired Buddhist idol. Distinctly luminous as one views it from outside an iron fence, 150
yards away, it stares back. Night after -night people hang on .the fence, fascinated. Some say the light Sqsasionally moves up into low branches of a sheltering tree, then flares . and dies .down. A Mrs. Hare
i it. Nobody here. § remembers any i unusual facts about Mrs. Hare's life that could -
nected with the eerié performance of the stone that marks her grave. . Nobody, that is, except a few. who say that radium used to ease her pain in her declining years now is escaping into the world again.
A But very few persons believe
that. In fact, a straw vote taken among 18 persons huddled outside that iron fence in the stormbroken darkness the other night ‘revealed that 18 had thought of no solution at all for the mystery. One Indianapolis woman confessed that it was her. third consecutive night as'a member of the awestruck group, and that she was exactly as far from the solution as she was when she first incredulously heard of’ it. The - cemetery. ‘caretaker, Who says the stone has been behaving .this way for the last six years, is angered at’ being * disturbed by so many people, and makes a prac-
tice - of locking °
‘himself ‘in his home and refusing interviews to -one: and all,
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“The stone
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light “from. s! Soutinsted to.
But other patois. less’ willing
believe t is nothing new der the oon: ‘point .out that the ‘nearest: street light is ‘at Jeast three: city blocks away, ' brokenfield running over ‘a meadow. : Two adventurous gentlemen the other night climbed - the iron fence, let “themselves down into the cemetery, and walked, without whistling, up ‘to the stone. They returned. : : “It doesn’t seem luminous when you. get close to it,” they reported. One ‘looked a bit: haggard, the other somewhat wan. People in Noblesville don’t bother much about it. They seem surprised at. the vogue the stone is having these nights. -
FAIR WEATHER HERE
TO CONTINUE, REPORT |.
Temperatures: May Increase Slight- © ‘ly, ‘Armington Predicts. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am... 57 10am... 60: Tam ...60; 11 a. mm. ,., 7 8a m. ses 65 12 Noon. I 9a. m. eee 68
Pair weather was forecast for to-
day, tonight and tomorrow, with slightly increased temperatures tomorrow. The lowest temperature last ‘night was 56.
prospect p : ‘hea wave fo tthe tes of the. summer.
PEATS FREED ON BAIL
Union Fost 5000 Bond Pending |
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Give ve Names, Dates in cont | tl & ua
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1 Proposal Advanced as Possible Solution. 1
Miss Grace L. O'Biten, stenographer’ in’ the office of Joseph Scherer, chief ‘inspector in the State Fire Marshal’ s office, the Statehouse, is shown here as she: tried valiantly to answer telephone calls from persons
who
wanted “shacks and fire trap buildings” torn down.
Since the announcement of the marshal’s intention to destroy 500 uninhabited ‘dwellings in Indianapolis before fall, hundreds. of persons
have volunteered addresses of buildings they descr Administration
health ul . Works Dr
d as fire and ficials have been il Hep 10 ¢ fake care of the influx
Battle Over: Chie.
By United Press yo LOS ANGELES, Jily. 30. Screen star Mary Astor and her former husband, Dr. Franklin ‘Thorpe, accused one another of misconduct
today, naming. names and dates. It|
marked a new level of bitterness in their fight over the Custody: of their. 4-year-old. daughter. ‘While Tittle Marilyn's : nurse’ ‘Gentil
‘fied in" Superior. Court last ‘night
that to her knowledge four different |: ‘women had spent nights in Dr. “Thorpe’s bedroom, his his attorneys filed an Amdavit with the court that Miss Astor had been’ “enamored of a certain married man. oT “The affidavit ‘quoted from a diary in ‘which; Dr. Thorpe alleges, Miss Astor recorded her I ne future of her Marilyn's “hurse--Nellle. Richard.
ledged that her observations’ exterided beyond the nursery during the year “shie’ cared for the child, part.of the time .while the father was in charge, part while the mother had the custody. Skiifully by Miss Astor's attorney, Miss said that “many times” she had served break-
son, a bespectacled trim little woman—acknow.
| fast. to ‘Dr. Thorpé and one or an-
other.of four women in Dr. Thorpe’s bedroom.” “Though the room had
participating in a raid on a still.
the ; spots of
A few: days. ago: fe. yeosived ~hand lacerations.’ "while :
) “Last night his daughter “innocently ‘pulled . his ‘pistol
from its holster and shot him a8 he. was driving his automo-
RODSEVELT LENVES
TONIGHT FOR QUEBEC
St. Lawrence Wa Waterway to Be’ Topic at Mic at Parley.
By United Press CAMPOBELLO, N .B., July. 30.— ~Roosevelt made ready for a conference of international sig-
nificance. Tomorrow at Quebec he}
will .meet with Canada’s Governor General and Premier. A special train will carry the chief executive from nearby St. Andrews, N. B., to Quebec, the summer residence of Lord Tweedsmuir, GoverGeneral. { The train will leave st. Andrews tonight. Mr. Roosevelt: told newspaper. men
; that among the subjects of conver-
oso Awe others here on July 17 and a sr.” || South Side ‘drug ‘store holdup on July d
| Willard Miles; abduction victim, also
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buy material for the erection
$4 a month.
SUSPECT HELD IN HERR DEATH
Abduction of Taxi Driver, Local Holdup Confessed, Police Claim,
Indianapolis police today sought to link Chester Arkuszewski, 24-year-old slaying suspect captured near La Porte last night and who already is alleged to have confessed two crimes here, with the killing of Earl Herr, city*fireman. Abduction of a taxi driver and
City Detectives John ‘J. Sullivan and Morris Corbin were to take Mrs. Elizabeth Cruse, 40, Mr. - Herr’s companion at the time of the slaying, to La Porte to view the suspect. ‘Members of the bridge party and
were scheduled to make the trip. Mr. Herr was slain April 28 as he walked with Mrs. Cruse on Fall €reek-blvd, “Détectives. believed at: the time of the slaying that a moron { was responsible for his death. The bridge party holdup occurred when a shabbily-dressed ‘bandit obtained $500 in jewelry and $156 in cash in a raid on the home of Clayor MecCoun, 925 N."Graham=-av, = * Arkuszewski - made a. ‘detailed statement of robbéry activities over the last two w ‘authorities said. He was a ‘first as a suspect in the slaying of Ignatz Pazuchoski, 67, whose body was foulld yesterday in a La Porte park. Arkuszewski obtained $35 from -the ‘slain victim, ‘police quoted him as saying. They also quoted him as confessing robbery of C. W. Jose’s drug store, 202 Madison-av, obtaining $250, and abducting and robbing a taxi driver and another man here. “The taxi driver, J. 8. Newby, was robbed of $1.65 and left bound and gagged with adhesive tape near the Speedway. Mr. Miles was robbed by the same group of men a short tinre' later
was seized by the holdup men. Arkuszewski allégedly "fold 'au-
| thorities he and his‘ companions |
took the woman to her home in In. ' dianapolis. She has not reported tne incident to police.
Pleads Not Guilty
WASHINGTON, July 30.—John 8. | Farnsworth, former U. 8. Navy lieutenant ¢ charged espionage in connection with selling naval secrets to ig ‘ment agents, pleaded. ty ung befols Disteics of Solufubla So.
per cent
and left bound- and gagged. in all
Problem of Uninhabitable Residences - on Defaulted Property. ~
200 PARCELS OF LAND AVAILABLE
WPA Labor Would Be Used to" Construct "Model Home, Which Would Have Sani- | tary Toilet, Running Water. a
(Article on Housing, Page 17)
The Marion County Commissioners today asked the County Council for an emergency appropriation of $350 to:
by Works Progress Adminis
tration labor of a low-cost house to rent for approximately
- The request was made by the commissioners at the ine stance of the State Planning Board and WPA officials seeks ing some solution to the bad housing problem in Indianapelis.
- It also was asked by the commissioners as an experis ment in the solution of the problem of what to do with some 200 odd properties whose titles passed to the county in connection with defaulted school loans. These properties, in the main, are
‘| uninhabitable or insanitary.
State Planning Board officials ese timate that the county now has ape proximately. $500,000 tied up on such. property, and that the county must pay 5 per cent interest on ‘the ine vested money, regardless of Whether the property earns that much, : The commissionets are seeking & way to get the. property to earn the. wc dy out of the Borers) fund, It the County Council aut
the appropriation, the county 0 HHistioners wil buy
wesather‘One of the: Sneliss fund dwel would be torn down and WP workmen would begin constructio immediately. By fall ‘the mo house would be ready for by some family that now is ) (Turn to Page Three)
FLETCHER AMERICAN - + -TO PAY $280,000
Third ‘5 Per Cent Dividend This Year Ordered, by Trustees. * A 5 per cent liquidating dividend,
ly HE 2 Es ey
‘totaling aproximately $280,000, is to trustees
bé paid, starting today, by
“of the Fletcher American National
Bank to sitors and creditors. This will ‘a-total of 15 per. cent paid by trustees this year. Previous &
with | sion