Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 August 1936 — Page 2

JOR PARTY FORMATION, CLAPPER SAYS

sent ‘Activities Point to Organization for 1940 Campaign.

BY RAYMOND CLAPPER . Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, Aug. 3. — Labor taken a .conspicuous place in current political parade and it

m will be born a major labor ly, an American equivalent to British Labor Party. Such a development long has been dream of visionaries. It has now pme a practical possibility. Many rsons in Washington fully expect hat John L. Lewis will be a Labor Party candidate for President in oo, and regard current maneuveras inspired by that objective. erefore the attempt now being ‘made By the American Federation of Labor to curb Lewis in his in1 union drive to organize the 1 industry takes on political meaning of the first importance. Practically no sideline observers Jere believe the A. F. of L. can crush Lewis. It might split the labor movement and thus weaken it on the threshold of its new political r; that is the most that is exd. It is more likely that a working compromise will result. .Or not that, a turnover in the confrol of the A. F. of L. in the next ear or two, which will place the : partisans in command.

Political Activity New

~~ Generally speaking, the American labor movement hitherto has been non-political. It has concerned itself primarily with organizing work-

able to its cause. It has resisted the trend in older European coun- * fries to organize into a political : = party and has chosen rather to ~~ work through existing parties. . But the New Deal has favored labor with legislation and particuhry during NRA awakened it to | opportunities through political acThe United Mine Workers una John L. Lewis made history here last spring when they voted to rt Roosevelt for re-election. : ident Green of the A. F. of L. has announced his personal support Es” of Roosevelt. + Labor's Non-Partisan League, set up under Maj. George L. Berry and dominated by Lewis, is committed

10 the re-election of Rooseveit, but

: Lo says that it reserves all ! regarding 1940. In some quar- | ters here, this agency is regarded a device to permit labor to beits permanent political organiom under cover of the present campaign, ~~ Democratic Split Possible

The most important question raised by the entrance of labor diinto national politics is the effect it. will have on our traditional two-party system. One possibility is that it will rend the Democratic Party after this election. Labor is seeking to throw its massed strength behind Roesevelt. But in the event of his re- ~ eletion the party will undergo a foe for control culminating in

e Democratic Party, in spite of its current domination by the New Dealers remains = latently halfn. From Vice President Garner down, many of the most prominent party leaders are suspected of rendering only lip-service to the New Deal. Republicans in Northern industrial towns have never been e callous toward labor than are 1 Democratic political organizatons toward sharecroppers in the th, toward workers in Southern textile mills, and toward labor in ining and steel making commun-

ndoubtedly labor will attempt to + control of the Democratic

8 ical path to power if it can be Failing that, it is likely to out on‘its own and seek an nce with discontented farmers. labor and the farmer have interests which conflict, parularly concerning the tariff, inon and commodity prices, they & common opposition to r-dominated industrial con-

Labor in Spotlight

Iready the campaign has shown ble evidence of the new politi- |. importance attached to the lamovement. Labor policy bene the first major point of conersy after Gov. Landon’s speech. ament of labor leaders overdowed in importance that of jofessional politicians. The Soovement has split, with one A Joining up behind the Lewis

Interesting Constellations Are Visible to Eye in Entire Month. |

BY JAMES STOKLEY Science Service Astronomical Writer Director of the Fels Planetarium . The Franklin Institute (Copyright, 1936, by Science Service)

During August the planet Jupiter is still the brightest object in the evening skies, shining in west in the constellation of Nearby, to the right, | is red Antares, the brightest star in that group, though greatly r to the planet. Directly overheads is the most brilliant star of the summer evening. This is Vega, in Lyra, the lyre. Next, to the east, is Cygnus, the swan, often called the Northern Cross. The bottom of the cross points a little to the west of south, at the top is the first magnitude star Deneb. This name is from an

the

Arabic word meaning “tail” and it|

marks the tail of the swan. The bird's wings are formed by the arms of the cross, while the foot indicates his long neck, stretched ahead as he flies through the sky.

Aquila Is to South

To the south of Cygnus is another bird, the eagle, Aquila, in which appears the star Altair. Still farther south, left of Jupiter, is Sagittarius, the archer, a figure resembling a tea-pot, the spout to the right, the handle to the left, and the lid (as is should be) above. The stars of the handle and the lid also make up a little dipper, sometimes called the milk dipper, to distinguish it from the Great and Little ones, in the northern sky. The Great Dipper, best known of all the star groups is in the nerthwest, the handle pointing up and to the left. Actually, this is part of Ursa Major, the great bear. As most people know, the stars of the bow! of the dipper opposite the handle are the pointers. Follow their direction up and to the right, and you soon come to the pole star, Polaris, which stands close to the north celestial pole, the point of the sky over the earth's north pole, -and the one around which all the stars seem to revdlve once a day, because of the earth’s rotation on its axis. Polaris is at the end of the han-

turn is part of the little bear, Ursa Minor. Winding his snaky lengths between the two dippers is Draco, the dragon, his head a diamond of stars northwest of Vega.

Called Bear Driver

Directly west at the times for which these maps are drawn (10 p. m., standard time on the first; 9 p. m. on the fifteenth and 8 p. m. on the thirty-first) is Arcturus, in Bootes. This group is also called the bear driver, as it represents the figure of a man with two dogs on a

INDIANA FISH TO BE SHOWN

Conservation Announces Plans for Fair Exhibit.

Plans for the annual exhibit of the Department of Conservation at the Indiana State Fair, which opens Sept. 5, were announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, department

commissioner. Scores of aquariums filled with Indiana fish, pens of game birds and animals common in the state, and cases filled with Indiana snakes are to feature the wild life exhibit. Other items to be exhibited include a typical state park picnic area, a relief map of Indiana showing forested areas; species of Indiana timber; forest fire prevention; insect and plant disease control, including the Japanese beetle and the Dutch elm disease; bee inspection and disease control, and geological information. The steel fire tower with its observation platform is again to be open to fair visitors interested in methods of preventing forest fires, Mr. Simmons said.

LOCAL WOMAN LEADS CHURCH STUDY GROUP

Miss Aspinwall to Preside at Semi- . mar in Chicago.

Times Special CHICAGO, Ind, Aug. 3.—Miss Lura E. Aspinwall, Indianapolis, is’ to preside at the opening today of a student work siminar for Disciples of Christ leaders. Miss ‘Aspinwall is national director of student work for the United Christian Missionary Society. The seminary is held in connection with the fifth annual pastor's institute at the University of Chi-

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leash, driving the bears onward in their constant circuit of the sky. Next above Bootes is a semi-cir-cle of stars, Corona Borealis, the northern crown, a delicate little group that the Indians said was a council of chiefs around a campfire, Between Corona and Lyra is Hercules, the great hero of mythology, who is represented as kneeling on the dragon. According to ancient lore, this beast represents the one that stood waich over the gardens of the Hes~ perides, which Hercules killed in his eleventh labor, in order that he might secure the golden apples that grew there. Six of the brightest stars in Hercules form the figure of a butterfly, its body east and west, one wing to the south, the other to the north. South of Hercules is Ophiuchus, another giant, who is holding a great serpent, and standing upon the scorpion. Sometimes he is identified with Aesculapius, the famous physician of antiquity. Milky Way Stands Out The snake, perhaps because of its wisdom, has long been associated with the medical profession. This is shown even today by the collar device worn by army doctors—the caduceus, the winged staff with its two intertwined serpents. To the eastern sky another planet can be seen quite low. This is Saturn, as bright as a first magnitude star. Higher and farther north, is the Great Square, resting on one corner. The star at the right corner is in Andromeda, and the other three are in Pegasus, the winged

horse, a group just below Cygnus. In the northeast is Cassiopeia, the queen, the stars forming a letter W, Her royal spouse, the King Cepheus, is directly above. To a person away from the city’s glare, August evenings afford a good opportunitly to see the Milky Way, Milton's “broad and ample/ road whose dust is gold and pavement stars.” Extending from . Cassiopeia through Cepheus, Cygnus and Aquila to Sagittarius, this consists of the combined light of countless millions of stars, each 80 distant, and therefore so faint, as to be imperceptible to thé unaided eye. But so great are their numbers that their light combines to give the effect that we see. During the first part of August, the eastern sky will have a special attraction—Peltier’'s comet, the first since 1910, year of Halley's comet, to become easily visible without telescopic aid. The dotted line on the map shows its path through Pegasus, Aquarius and Capricornus in the first 10 days of the month, after which it passes out of view to northern observers. At the end of August, two other planets will be coming into the evening sky, and may possibly bel glimpsed in the western sky as it darkens after sunset. One is Mercury, the other Venus. The latter will be brighter, but both are even then so near the sun that their observation will be difficult. The fifth naked-eye planet, Mars, is in the morning sky, rising mint | two hours before the sun.

Actress Mary Astor to Hear ~Her Diary Read in Courtroom

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Divorced Parents Fail to Reach Compromise in Fight for Child.

(Continued from Page One)

was the George. He and Miss Astor were good friends, he said, but nothing more, There was little possibility that Kaufman would be asked to testify today because Miss Astor was to resume her testimony that was broken off when Judge Knight recessed the trial Thursday night to seek an amiable out-of-court settlement. After her attorney finishes leading her through a recital of events which she believes prove Dr. Thorpe an unfit parent, Dr. Thorpe’s attorney, Joseph -Anderson, will subject her to a cross-ex-amination.

+ As court opened, Anderson hinted that the diary contained other names besides that of ‘‘George.” He said the diary recounted in detail an impassioned romance while she and Dr. Thorpe were man and wife, with pitying | references to Dr.

'| Thorpe being “broken up.” “Many

prominent persons,” particularly in the movie world, would be subpenaed, he said.’

Aims at Diary

“This is only the beginning of our plan to show that Miss Aster is not a fit mother,” re declared. | “You may depend on it that I will lcross-examifie her thoroughly. If ther answers give me an opportunity, the diary most certainly will be inproduced today.” process server found Kaufman BER at Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, just after he had left a ye upon which he had been with Irving ‘Thalberg, Tne production chi®f of Metro-oldwyn-Mayer, and Mrs. Thalberg, e former Norma Shearer. Kaufman returned at once to

with little Marilyn, played with her Teddy bear, and fed her swans. His purpose was to find out if the child preferred, one parent to the other. Loves Them Both “Do you like your mother?” he asked. ‘Yes,” piped the wide-eyed child, startled still by such a large number of visitors. “Like papa, t00?” “Oh—yes. I love them both. » “She doesn’t know what it's about,” Judge Knight said later. He conferred in the house with

opposing counsel. It didn’t last long. He and the lawyers came out shaking their heads. There could be no

peace. Miss Astor seeks custody of little Marilyn, now Thorpe’s by Probate Court order. Thorpe obtained an uncontested ‘divorce last spring. Miss Astor wants Judge Knight to order that ‘divorce void‘ on the ground that Thorpe already was married when he married her. "She also apis a property! settlement set aside.

LEADERS ARE NAMED BY ROOSEVELT CLUB

Alex E. Gordon, Indianapolis, Holds _ Position of Chairman. : Alex E. Gordon, Indianapolis, has been elected state chairman of the Indiana Roosevelt Labor Club. Other officers are Carl Mullen, Hammond, vice chairman; Arthur H. Pierson, Muncie, secretary, and Adolph J. Fritz, Indianapolis, treasurer.

Congressional district chairmen

While Serving Term at. Sate Prison.

By United Press

Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Donn M. Roberts, 69, mer Mayor of Terre Haute, whose

heart disease. Roberts, seriously ill, was returned to his home here Saturday from Indiana State Prison at Michigan City, where he had served two weeks of a two-to-five-year sentence im-

Indiana gasoline tax funds. The charges grew out of Roberts’ operation of a string of filling stations which the State Highway Commission alleged were established os right-of-way belonging to the 8 Setting up the filling stations in

overnight along arterial highways in the vicinity of Terre Haute, Rob~ eris defiled the state body and claimed “squatter’s rights,”

Convicted on Tax Charge

Failing to dislodge Roberts on. the first attempt, the state filed charges alleging embezzlement, of state gasoline tax funds and failure to report on gas taxes. *

pealed to the Indiana State Supreme Court, which sustained his conviction and later overruled a petition for rehearing. Roberts then was taken to state prison. At the time Roberis was stricken at Michigan City. His attorneys were conferring with Justice James P. Hughes of Indiana Supreme Court arranging for an appeal bond which would have given the former Mayor his freedom pending a hearing by the United States Supréme Court. Elected Mayor on the Democratic ticket in 1913, Roberts, along with nearly 100 others, was indicted by a Federal grand jury in 1915 on election fraud charges. He was convicted and served four years in the Federal penitentiary.

150 70 ATTEND C. OF C. MEET

13 Cities to Be Represented at Junior Commerce Convention.

Times Special MARION, Ind, Aug. 3-Approsi-mately 150 deligates are to represent 13 cities at the state Junior Cham-

Sept. 11 to 14. ) Louis Crist, general convention chairman, announced that Walter E. Holman, Portland, Ore., national Junior Chamber of Commerce president, and Joseph Lassus Jr. Fort Waghe, state president, are to attend the sessions. The Indiana roster of the Junior body has grown from 5 to 14 chapters in the last year, Mr. Crist sald, and organization of the fifteenth one is expected to be completed before -convention time. Cities to be represented at the convention are Jeffersonville, Evansville, Bedford, Vincennes, Terre Haute, Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, Auburn, Garrett, Michigan City, South Bend, Elkhart and Marion.

LEGION POST HEADS WILL BE INSTALLED F. C. Hasselbring to Become Robison Unit Chief.

Fred C. Hasselbring is to be in-

| stalled commander of the Bruce P.

Robison Post No. 133, American Legion, at ceremonies in the Central Christian Church at 8 tonight. Other officers to be installed are Moftet Ulrey, first vice commander; Fred De Bordi, second vice commander; Fred Plump, third vice commander; Arthur Roell, fourth vice commander; Ralph Webster,

adjutant; Frank E. Long, personnel adjutant; Homer Asher; finance officer; Fred Wolf, chaplain, and William Laufer, sergeant-at-arms. The executive committee consists of Arthur Baron, Vernon Scott and Ray Parsons. James R. Killian,

state commander, is to officiate. - > —————————————————

29-Ounce Boy Dies By United Press QUINCY, Mass, Aug. 3—A 29ounce son born Saturday ¢ to Attorand Mrs. Harry a day.

DIES OF STROKE | IN TERRE HAUTE

Former Mayor Taken Ili}

“TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 3— for-|

embattled career was ended late| yesterday when he succumbed to

posed after his conviction late in 1934 on charges of embezzlement of

automobile bodies and moving them:

He was convicted in 1934 and ap- |

ber of Commerce convention here |

«Cold-blooded,” police call Donald Wightman (left) and Gladys MacBuichis $1 in Singry Studies made nt their Aaipament 23 Wer.

Great Advance i in Air Travel

Carries F ear to All Parope

Bleriot’s Thrilling Flight Over English chad Is Seen +

~ Symbolizing Threat of Attack From Skies.

(Editorial,

Page 10)

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—Today, as every important nation in Europe has its eyes first on Spain, {then on the skies, wondering “when,” the first man to make them sky-conscious lies dead in Paris.

-* So much has happened

since that July day 27 years ago when Louis

Bleriot first flew the English Channel—forever blasting the peace of mind of national defense officials the world over—that it seems impossible that I, myself, witnessed ‘Bleriot’s preparations.

Since then, Col. Lindbergh has flown the Atlantic in less than 34 hours. Wiley Post has circumnavigated the globe, via the air, in less than eight days. Battles have been fought above the clouds. But it was Bleriot who started the ball rolling in that direction, The first flight across the Channel was very much like Lindbergh's hop across the Atlantic. Several aviators, French and British, were competing for the honor of being the first to succeed in the perilous undertaking—and it was all of that —among them being Hubert Latham and Graham-White.

Frenchman Topped Betting

Hubert Latham, handsome young French sportsman of a weli-to-do family, was perhaps favorite in the betting. Graham-White, an equally young and handsome Englishman, was a close second. Bleriot—-like Lindbergh nearly 20 years later for the Atlantic race—was behind. Both Latham and®White had fine records to their credit, ‘as “flying went in those days, and were first on the scene. ‘. Latham set up “his camp at Gris | Nez; near Calais. His plane was the

most beautiful thing on wings up to.

that time. It was an Antoinette, a monoplane with long, AL low-like, almost transparent wings. And it had a 16-cylinder motor, in line, the only one of its kind I ever

Ww. About the middle of July, while Bleriot was more or less out of the picture and Graham-White, Britishlike, was leisurely getting ready to start, Latham took off. Motors then were not the trusty things they are today. Hardly had he begun the journey than one of his cylinders began to miss. But he had 15 others, so he kept on. Another cylinder failed him, and another and another, and down he came in mid-channel. There he was picked up, nonchalantly smoking a cigaret.

Engine Again Fails About a week later he had his plane tuned up again. And off he went. This time he nearly made it. He came down within a short distance of the chalk cliffs of Dover. His too-many cylinders once more had gone sour. On July 25 Bleriot took off from a field nearby Latham’s. There were no aviation fields thereabouts in those days. And the rest is history. He, too, flew a monoplane, one of his own make. Without compass, he very nearly got lost in the midchannel haze. Out of sight of land, he was obliged to steer by guess work. Striking the English shore to the right of Dover, the “wrong” side for him, he had to turn about and seek a landing on the other side of the port. His plane was somewhat cracked, but he camé out un-

injured. Bleriot a National Hero For some time thereafter his plane, repaired, hung high over the Grand Boulevards of Paris, on wires, in front of the newspaper

Ye Matin. It took a squad of spe-

cial policemen to keep the crowds moving. Bleriot was a national hero. Hubert Latham was killed by a water buffalo in Africa. He was on a big game hunt. He stood be-

CENTRE LODGE HOST TONIGHT

Officers of Local Chapter |

. Will Be Installed at Public Ceremony.

As guests of Centre Lodge 23, F. & A. M,, the Indianapolis De Molay chapter is to install publicly officers of the chapter at the Masonic Tem-

ple at 8:30 tonight. A public dance is to follow. Officers to be installed are Frank Wood, master councilor; Don Ha$ler, senior councilor;; James R. Stout, junior “councilor; - Robert Tucker, senior deacon; Elgin Lee, Junior ‘deacon; Martin, stewards. Jack Mather ‘chaplain; Bill Steinmetz, orator; Robert Millspaugh, scribe; Joe Edmundson, sentinel. Bob Gerow, treasurer: Bob Boemler, marshal; -Bob ' Creighton, standard bearer; Rodney . Hankins almoner; Don Dickson, Bob Stockton; John Currin, Hershell Schuck, Bill:Davis, Dale King, Perry Patton, Earl Justust, Russel Wogqls, ,Bill Hinton and Edward White, preceptors. The installing team is to be composed of John Hutchens, installing master councilor; Paul James, state scribe; Walter Loman, junior councilor. Allen Peterson, marshal, and Bernard Jasper, senior deacon. * Jimmy Miers. and his orchestra are to play for dancing.

NAMED CLUB DIRECTOR

Robert 8S. Burke Appointed to Run Lake Shore Organization.

Robert S. Burke, 4012 Gracelandav, hag been appointed managing director of the Lake Shore Country Club, 4100 Carson-av, according to announcement by 'T. J. Kélly, club president. Mr. Burke, former Hoosier Athletic Club membership sec~ retary, assisted in membership activities at the Lake Shore Club this summer.

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SLAYING, ASKS FATHER FOR AID

{Husband of Hatchet Victim

Employs Attorney. to Defend Daughter.

By United Press BAYONNE, N. J, Aug. 3.—Boyish 17-year-old Gladys MacKnight, repenting that she beat her mother to death with a hatchet, hoped today that her father would save her from

| the electric chair.

“Tell Daddy to come see me,” she sobbed to her lawyer, . Authorities prepared to bring her and her still adoring: boy friend,

| Donald Wightman, 18, to trial early

next month on a charge of first degree murder, Police say both boy and girl confessed that Gladys killed her mother with a small kindling hatchet Friday while Donald held the mother's arms and smothered her screams with his hand. Gladys said she struck her mother, who was 47, in a passion over her refusal to prepare/a special meal for her and Donald so they could keep a tennis engagement. She’s. Sorry Now “I'm sorry for mother and sorry for daddy,” she told a jail matron. ‘Gladys’ father, hiding with ‘his Te year-old daughter, Glenna Jane, from ‘sensation seekers around the comfortable Macknight home, promised help for Gladys even while he completed arrangements for his wife’s funeral tomorrow night. “Of course I defend her,” he sald. “She’s my own flesh and blood.” He asked the lawyer he employed for her, R. Lewis Kennedy, to are range for him to visit his daughter, Wightman's father, Joseph C. Wightman, also employed counsel and planned to visit the jail today. He is steward at the Robbins Reef Yacht Club. Wightman’s mother has not been told of his arrest. She has been ill in a hospital for a month. Psychology an Issue The youth of the prisoners and their exhibitions of strange and contradictory character traits made it certain that the psychiatric impulses and psychology of adolescence will play a large part in their trials. One nationally known - criminological psychiatrist said today that Gladys is “marked plainly” as one of a type of girls who suppress sex instincts until the climax of their adolescence, and then “explode.” She astounded detectives when arrested by revealing nonchalantly that she and Wightman might have been out of the state on a projected flight to Canada—although she said they. were. returning to surrender captured—had they not stopped twice on dark country side roads to pet. Flippantly, she added that she and Donald had talked over killing her mother because she objected to their intimacy. ‘Called Hard and Cold. "Gladys is not beautiful, but has the fresh attractiveness of the athletic type. Police shy Gladys is hard and cold.” While they cross-examined

‘| her from 9 p. m. Friday until 5:30 a.

m. Saturday, she called them ‘‘coppers.” - -She smoked numberless cigarets. The Rev. J. E. Heindel, Protestant jail chaplain, visited her and Wightman and said they are “very fine young people.” “They are not the criminal type,” Be said. “Maybe impulsive, but not al ” Both Gladys and Wightman had been active for years in their churches. Gladys sang in the choir of the First Reformed Church, Wightman in the choir of a Meth= odist Episcopal Church. CUT

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