Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1936 — Page 1

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EDITION

PRICE THREE CENTS

10 CENT RISE INCITY TAXES

HELD POSSIBLE

Estimate for 1937 Based on $550,000 Increase in Budget Requests.

SALARIES ARE BIG ITEM

Promise to Restore Wage Slashes Is Reiterated by Boetcher.

A city tax rate increase of ap- * proximately 10 cents. appeared possible today, with the indication that - budget increase requests would to- . tal approximately $550,000. . The Municipal Airport budget was filed today. The amount sought is $200 in excess of the current budget. Walter C. Boetcher, city controlier, who reiterated Mayor Kern's prcm- . ise of salary increases, averaging about 72 per vent, said the budgets * were not sufficiently near completion to give a full picture of the

« tax situation.

Estimates based on the budgets already filed would bring general department increases to approxi- - mately $315,000. Salaries which last year totaled $3,113,110 are to be increased 72 per cent, or about $235,- + 000.. This would bring the total salaries asked in the 1937 budget to © $3,348,110. Salary and other increases, in- . cluding those in the Gamewell, fire, . police, city engineer, plan commission and other departments would total $550,000 in additional taxes-to be raised by the civil city.

Replacements Held Needed

. Department heads have said replacement is necessary in equip- _ ment. Automobiles now in use in many cases have had as much as 125,000, miles of service, while road i equipment is obsolete and wasteful, is fepasien and, fire ent...pay |. restorations “are “how before - the council as an ordinance. Held in . committee several months, -the measure was kept from vote last : meeting by a request for further consideration. ! A survey of wages and classifications in city positions made for ; Mayor Kern by the Chamber of Commerce showed, he said, many : discrepancies in jobs paying similar . 8alaries. The salary increase asked in the 1937 budget is expected. to equelize some of these wide variations, the Mayor said. Members of the City Council have « pledged themselves to reduce the budgets when they are presented Aug. 17. Controller Boetcher invited council members to several budget sessions, but only four members have attended. He plans at least one more session before presenting the final budget figures to the council.

RAILS AND STEELS

PACE MARKET RISE |

By United Press NEW. YORK, Aug. 8.—The stock market climbed into further fiveyear highs in early trading today, rails and steels again leading the advance; Opening blocks ranging to 4000 "shares appeared with numerous rail issues at new highs for the year. New York Central opened 4000 shares at 42% up %, a new high; Baltimore & Ohio 3000 shares at 23%, up %; Southern Pacific, 1500 shares at 423%, up %, a new high; Union Pacific at 144, up %, a new high: Chesapeake & orn, 1000 shares at 68%, up %; Southern Railway, 1500 shares at 32%, up %., equaling the high; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, 1000 at 88, up 1%, and a new high. (By Thomson & McKinnon)

Soa PRIGES FIRM

IN EARLY ARLY TRADING |

Mrs. Ruby Nix Zioncheck, shown above with her husband, Representative Marion A. Zioncheck, saw her husband leap te his death last night from an office building in Seattle., His body struck the sidewalk in front of the auiomobile where she was waiting jon him.

Harried by Snubs, Grins, Zioncheck Leaps to Death

Representative Who Became Prankster After Girl He Courted Chose Another, Falls Five Stories.

BY WILFRED BROWN (Copyright, - 1936, by United Press)

SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 8—For

34 days Marion Anthony Zioncheck

bore the cold shoulder snubs of former friends and the suggestive- grins of enemies while his political career crumbled. into -nothingless.#This was established today as probably, the only motive that will ever: be’ known

for his suicide.:

Horning Into |

Trouble By National Safety Council

BrEron. button, who's got the button? Well, it’s easy. to figure it out in this ‘case. There's nothing more disconcerting to the driver having trouble with his engine than the inane toot of some ; « impatient nitwit behind. Has the car been ‘stalled just to block traffic? It has not! Is it going to help any in starting the engine? Emphatically no:

Marion os Traffic Deaths

Year to Date—

| quite to the contrary, this sort of | duress arouses

thin the average | man that little germ of stubborn- | ness which we all possess and | after the first barrage of tdots the | driver having the: trouble will take his own good time fixing it.

TRAFFIC ARRESTS (Friday, Aug. 7)

Running red lights - Running preferential street wei Drunken. driving Reckless driving Others except parking TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS

KING STARTS VACATION By United Press LONDON, Aug. 8.—King Edward left his residence at Fort Belvedere by airplane for Calais today, starting: a. month's holiday on the SoNtinent,

| hard-working

¢ night. - in «the

automobile in which his bride and companion of & gayer day, Rubye | Miss Nix Zioncheck, was sitting. Death was instantaneous. : In all parts of the country his congressional associates were shocked by this tragic ‘termination to’ a career, that. until the first of this year had been brilliant: and . gave every promise of ‘carrying the 35-year-old Polish immigrant boy to

‘| the greatest heights.

Something had happened—some- | thing ‘that probably no person will ever know—to transform a .sober, congressman © overnight ‘inito a carousing, madcap personality that went by way of a sanitarium for nervous ailments io self-destruction.

. Heartbroken Guest

In Washington, Zioncheck’s friends recalled a small cocktail party in a Washington apartment a short time before this metamorphosis manifested itself, at which he was a heartbroken guest. The . (Turn to Page Three)

WELL DIGGER KILLED

WHEN BANK ( CAVES IN

By United Press - . TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. 8.—

| william Huddleston, 22, was killed

last night when he was buried beneath tons of sand that caved in as he dug a well. in the back yard of his home. Five hours after the cave-in, rescue -workers, digging frantically in the glare of floodlights, uncovered ‘Huddleston’s. head and shoulders. | ‘He was dead. Huddleston's ' wife, an expectant mother, collapsed’ shortly after the

accident and was reported in a

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landed ‘on his: head in front of an

|Landen’s Running Mate to

Be Met at Lebanon by . 6G. 0. P. Lhiets.

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PLANS BRIEF STOPOVER

Speaks at. Connersville To-| |DUCE AY BACK HITLER

igh at Springer’s - Notification Fete.

‘While Indiana Republicans paraded by motor car to Connersville this morning for the Raymond S. Springer notification ceremonies, Col. Frank Knox, G. O. P. vice presidential candidate, was en rouie to} Indianapolis preparatory to opening

* | his. campaign.

The Chicago publisher was to stop here briefly, confer with local

party leaders, and then move on to

Connersville, where tonight he is to deliver his first speech since the recent notification ceremonies at Chicago. Col. Knox's speech shares the spotlight with one by Raymond’ S. Springer, gubernatorial nominee, who was to speak this afternogn.

. Greeting at Lebanon

The Knox party. is to be met at Lebanon by Géorge A. Ball, Muncie, Republican national committeeman; Mrs. Grace Banta Reynolds, Cambridge City, national‘ committeewoman; Ivan C. Morgan, state chairmén, and Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. -Maurice L. Mendenhall, Indianapolis, pre-convention manager of Col. Knok, snd Mrs. Mendenhall, The party is to rest at the Columbia Club andl later in the afternoon. will to: drive to Connersville, arriving in time ‘for Col. Knox's address

Bn tne , Brown

Rose: Kincaid, Mr. Brown's

| secretary; John’ O'Keefe, Col, Knox's |.

secretary, and Leroy Vernon of the Chicago Daily News.

OWENS HELPS U. S. “WIN HEAT IN RELAY

Quartet Equals World ‘Mark |

in 400-Meter Event.

BULLETIN By United Press * OLYMPIC STADIUM, BERLIN, Aug. 8~—~The nite States, with Jesse Owens in the lineup, today won the first heat of the 400-meter relay. Ralph Metcalfe, Foy Drap# and Frank Wykoft completed the

team. The American quartet equaled

the world record of 40 seconds set

by the United States team at Los Angeles in 1932.

BY STUART C CAMERON United Press Sports ‘Editer ° OLYMPIC STADIUM, BERLIN, Aug. 8—Glenn Morris of Denver seemed the certain winner in the

meter hurdles and won the discus

to amass a seven-event total of 5941 points. An American sweep in the Puclling competition was a possiMorris was apparently saf

cisco and Jack Parker of Sacramento, Cal., were given a thanee to ; (Turn to Page 12)

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Efforts Are Doomed : ‘to Failure. :

Mussolini Said to Be Considering How Far He ~ Can Go.

BY STEWART BROWN ’ (Conyright, 1936, by, United Press)-

- ROME, Aug. 8.—There is growing conviction here that the effort to effect a neutrality agreement in the Spanish revolt. is: doomed to failure, Diplomats believe that failure will bring the gravest crisis

tory. Premier Benito ‘Mussolini was. believed to: be considering today how far to go, in event

ment, in aiding the Spanish

Fascist rebels.

Italy’s sympathies, so far as the Fascist regime goes, are patently with the rebels. Fascists believe that’ fhe situation can be glared aly a ‘quick Fascist. victory. cist victory would an a the

the

Lucky. to. Escape: Trou hie The fear is that the Me iy regimes of fascism-Nazlist and _socialism-communism will: be so committed in the (Spanish aly ir that Europe will lucky if it escapes real re : Italian leaders feel that Russia and the Prench Left Wing forces are using the Spanish revolt as & means of launching - an ‘attack ‘against

fascism. Ttaly dnd Germany are becoming increasingly close together. “It is éxthat Count Galeazzo Cigno, minister, will leave for Berlin at any hour “to attend the Olympic games.” Crown - Prince Humbert, Count Paolo Thaon Di

Alfieri, former cabinet minister, will be there also.

LEWIS’ UNON BEGINS

By United Press WASHINGTON, Siig. 8.-~The United Mine Workers, John . IL. Lewis’ leading rebel union faction, today served notice with a drive to enroll 100,000 coal processing workers that they will carry the.labor war, which has split the American Federation of Labor, straight fo the énemy’s camp. The drive, which will.

now in Federal unions banded together as the National of Gas and Coke Workers, is slated to “within a month,” it was said

} by James. Nelson, couneil president. | U

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Rome Convinoed Al Truce

in all Europe’ s postwar his- |.

there is no neutrality agree- ;

position of aly and Germany in | = . and North

Revel, finance minister, and Dino|

Spanish Officials Seize

DRIVE IN CO IN COAL FIELD}:

probably. ; start by absorption of 4000. members

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: ‘First the loyal troops cut oft the Alcazar from food supplies; here they ‘close ‘in ‘on the beléaguered rebels, advancing through the streets

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Europe’ § Crisis Today

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1 pry of rebels, - SN BARCELONA—Left wing tenders epedidd bo organize new

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a Coa or plasning naval demonstration of

social and: economic regime.

ROME-—Diplomats fear explosion over revolt; Mussolini de-

ciding. on. course.

MADRID—Government defies Nazi-Fascist poweis, turns : Juxury: hotel over to: workers, seizes trans-Atlantic line, plans workers’ West Point for new, army; government

. Starts naval attack on Balearic Islands. LISRON—Intensification of hatred and determination in revolt brings fire and sword to every corner of Spain.

BERLIN—Germany to decide on possible further measures to protect Germans after negotiation ‘with Spanish government; denies plan for naval demonstration.

Property for Wo rkers

popular Front Government Swings Further: Left. as Wrath | could of’ ‘Nazi-Fascis t Powers Mounts.

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By United Press

Aug 8—Spain’s' Popular Front govetineni. Boldly blind

to the mounting wrath of Fascist-Nasi powers, veered further fo the left

today in a series of drastic decrees.

Madrid, and turned it over to its exploited” on a. collective basis. It seized the isnt ron Supe Co., which opera es ping DS Sons Mexico and Cuba. Bited ‘drafted plans for a workers’ “West. Point,” whieh to train os ‘officers of the a to replace officers. “Preddent Manuel Azana suspend

ANY

that starts Monday in The Times. The series will = y reveal the identity of the mystery girl”.in the

case.

Mus. ‘Alice Speed Stoll was abdiioted fiom hée manaion in Louisville on Oct. 10, 1934. The ertdie was distvatt ty:

bers of the family.

‘Mystery Girl’ in Robinson Capture to Be Identified

angle on the Stoll kidnaping case will be revealed exclusively in a series of articles

It expropriated the Aquarium Hotel, the most luxurious Desielry =

Walters and other: employes to

éd by decree ali sessions of parliament until Oct. 1. - Madrid was reminded during the

EE a.ow tow hefore

what it may face

STRATION PARIS REPORTS; [0 AID

REBEL

Goma Protest . Expect by France to Approximate an Ultimatum.

SPLIT SOUGHT, BELIER

Fear Frankly Expressed That Revolt May . Bring War.

BY RALPH HEINZEN (Copyright, 1938, by United Press) :

PARIS, Aug. 8.—Germany is considering the advisabili of a naval demonstration Barcelona as warning to Spanish extremists that fure ther anti-German incidents will bring stern action, it was reported today. A German protest against killing of five Germans, one & girl of 7, at Barcelona, is ex= pected here to approximate an ultimatum—to give a time limit for punishment of men found guilty and for reparas

|tion to Germany, -with the

alternative of a breaking of

diplomatic relations. The situation in Spain is ed “here as one ‘of urgent gray hardly “td ‘be ‘ compared to z diplomatic crisis.

dominate. Such a developn might precipitate an inf : incident which would put the situ ation beyond the limits of mere diplomatic solution. :

Fear Rupture

Some French sources fear that Germany may seek a rupture with Spain; from Rome it 1s reported that Premier Benito Mussolini | considering whether to jettison any attempts at a neutrality pact declare himself for the Fascist rebe els.

Political gg who cuse

fidant of Hitler telegraphed as night to the British foreign office warning that Germany intended # take action at Barcelona and a naval demonstration might 23 made today. From the veiled comments on the identity of Hitler's confidant, ‘he hardly he other ths Joachim Von Ribbentrop, the Fuel rer’s adviser on foreign affairs, Two Problems Involved RE Two grave problems are inve now—Fascismm against Democi among the European powers and renewal in dangerous form of pre-war rivalry in the Med ranear

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