Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1936 — Page 3
TO POLITICS IN |
AIDING F. D. B.
Stokes Asserts Independent Party Is Hinted for 1940 Campaign.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.—Labor stood forth today as a definitely or-
. ganized political unit which has learned to play the game of politics skillfully, The gathering here of the socalled Labors Nonpartisan League embrgcing leaders from each of the 48 eates, men and women who speak for millions in mine, mill and factory, is a milestone in political history. Por labor has d<parted abruptly from its hitherto nonpartisan stand. The “nonpartisan” in its title is a misnomer. Pro-Roosevelt laborites perfected an organization and pledged their resources with singleness of partisan purpose—that is, for this particular election year. And the way the leaders ripped into Gov. Landon’s labor record bodes no good for the Republican candidate. As for 194)—well, little germs of an independent labor party fluttered all around the glittering chandelier of the hotel ballroom and ran through the speeches,
John Lewis Is Leader
And for a leader the observer had to look no further than the massive figure with the gredt shock of hair who sat comfortably in a big leather chair just off the rostrum and smoked a cigar as he watched the machine go smoothly through its motions. It was John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, spearhead of the drive to organize thé steel industry and possibly, before 1940, to steal away the American labor movement from the craft unionists of the A. F. and L., who are throwing him and his industrial unionists out of their order. His chief lieutenant, George L. Berry, who is an official of the Roosevelt Administration as “coordinator for industrial co-opera-ion,” ushered the acquiescent delegates through the most harmonious meeting ever seen here. At the side of Mr. Berry, who was formally elected president of the league, sat Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, who was chosen treasurer. These two and Mr. Lewis, who was named chairman of the board, make up the triumvirate which will, it appears now, be able to lead a large part of labor along behind the President, whatever differences there may be between Mr. Lewis and President Green of the A. F. of L. over organization by crafts or by industries. The assembled labor leaders made it plain that they are supporting not the Democratic Party but Franklin D. Roosevelt. There were two pictures of the President |1l on the platform; one on each side. No likeness of Vice President Gar-
ner was visible. And, making way for a broad labor party in 1940, they enlarged their appeal for enlistments beyond labor to include “liberals” and | “others committed to our philosophy.” The Governor's ears must have
nary heat of Kansas. Landon Is Called Puppet
Mr. Lewis led off the battery by calling the Republican candidate “a pitiful puppet” of the Du Ponts, Standard Oil, United States Steel and the great banks of New York and Chicago; as “the little man out in Topeka who has no more conception nor idea of what ails America or what| to do about it than a goatherder [in the hills of Bulgaria.” The labor leader, who attacked Gov. Landon for calling out troops in the lead and zinc mine strike a year ago, was followed by Finley Bell, . former conciliator for the Labor Department, who told in detail of his participation in arbitration attempts and charged that Gov. Landon could have [settled the strike and there was no reason to call out the troops. "“For the record,” he shouted, “I charge Gov. | Landon with being a strike" breaker. ” The Republican candidate, he deSake, “does not know what colective bargaining means,” and “has ever been far labor and never will ‘be unless he angst his nature.”
IN INDIA
MEETINGS TODAY pd Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel,
Indian apolis He, Ballers Association, dinner, Hoosier A. 6:30 Bo Club, hen. Spink-Arms Hotel, Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, 00! Contr ction League of Indianapolis, Juncheon. Architects and Builders’ Build-
in Universal Club, Columbia
Club, Purchasing Agents’ eon, Hotel Washington. n Hoosier Republicans, Ine.. lumbia Club, noon. Allied Investwents, Wethington no National Chiropractic Association, Jention. Lincoln and Claypool Hotel, ay.
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon. Speaker, Donald J. Angus, secre-tary-treasurer, Esterline-Angus Co., an dizector of the Citizens Gas Co. Subject:
iuncheon, Association, lunchluncheon, Coluncheon, Hotel
conall
“The Present Status of the Gas Co. as to [St
Profits, Future Plans, Cheap Gas, etc.” Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. Informal round table meeting. awima ming hry Hoosier Athletic Club Tweltth District’ American Legion, lunch. eon, 136'2 North Delaware-st, noon. National Chiropractic Association, ~convention, Claypool Hotel, all day. Educational and business sessions. Speakers, Dr, Charles C. Lemly, Waco, Tex., Judge Ponath, Wahpeton. N. D, and Dr. C. B. McDonald: Benton Harbor. Purdue Association, luncheon,
n. Cost Accountants Board,
luncheon, Hotel Washington, 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.)
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Edward Johnson, 27, of 3302 Kenwood-av, restaurant manager, and Antoinette Hahn, 32, of 22 W. 34th-st, school nurse. Paul Harold McDowell, 26, of 808 N. Delaware-st, salesman, Md Ida Gertrude Janben, 24, of 603 E. McCarty-st, factory
David Sheldon Lampe Fort ig Harrison, 1 PPR 30, of 937 Mil t, ey-st, mechanic, and Inez Phiili 2%. . Tia Hi. Meal oy f ey mills alure, 0 N. Capi-tol-av, laborer, and Mattie Toliver, 20: Pat 1129 Lafayette-s John Goad, 2% “of 148 W. 18th-st. salesjoan, ! and Mélba Terry. 20, of 332814 ClifLeRoy McClary, 27. Kew Garde N. Y. market Teste ron d inves Es “and Catherine Silliman, 22, of 6154 -a © Albert E. BPoeldt, 28, C ent finisher, and
, of 1020 E. W -av,
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Boys Bernard, Mildred pel St_ Rs St. Francis. Benjamin, Edith Max, 3 Hart, St.
Alonzo, Ageine Morgan, 15 Harris
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NAPOLIS
pital, premature birth. Thom oseph Magers. ob Riley Hospital, valvular eart diseas s Charles H. caneman, %s. L053 N. Jef ferzon, ov ute dilatation of hea effries;, 7 months. ity Hospital, enteritis.
Stephen Mathes. 48, 10th and Pershing, coronary occlusion (George McCammon. 87, 25 Schiller. carcinoma
BUILDING PERMITS
$200 Ha)l-Nea), 5357 N. Iilinois-st, furnace, Hall: Neal. $200 Marion Materials Co.. wrecking, $40. Marion Materials Co., av, oy Tecking, $
944 N. Laymon-av, furnace,
2406 Talbot-st, 245 8. Arsenal-
ss Sr., 508 © Pennsylvania-st, fagiory bung. $2000. ge Bojehitam p, 2766 N. Shermandr, po $250 Railroadmen’s Bi Building oo Losh Co., 35 LaSalle-st, repa rs, $100; 1525 S. New 1 Jersey st. garase $150; 2526 N. New JerseyN. New Jersey-st, repairs, In-st, Sopairs $200; 2 rs, $200; 1384 N. Oskland- , repairs, 150; 3306 Or-chard-st, repairs, $250; 5909 Rawls-st, repairs, $350; 18 [E. Raymond-st, repairs, $250; 2510 Sou Sout! isnctorn-ay, repairs, $300: pencer-s arage, 37s eas repairs, $450: N. Temple av. : SRO 200; 815) Udell-3t, repus, $300
dell-st,’ repairs, $350, Ww 30:h-s t. repairs, $200; fe airs, 500, {1126 N. LCearborn-st, rooftow Carroliton-av, altera-
$5008 gH Newt Oakland-st,- repa st, garage, $150
Elmer Cassidy, ing, $300. J. C. Stronn, tions, $60.
ELECTRICAL PERMITS
James A. Londe, 5802 5 hikrope.ay, 3%, Arman McKinley, 5275 Cap iiol-av. $100 Mrs. Craig, 93 Y Sheftield, Psse
Jel Construction Co., 6076 st. JosephGreenslade Construction Co., 434 Blue Road, $125.
Ri C. Ardrey, 5130 N. Illinois-st. $35. THe Shade Co., 1142 N. Meridian-
t Brothers, 1525 Central-av, $300. Brand oil Qo.
Standard Oil Co. McCarty and Madisonav, $180.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
L—Onited States Weather Bureat ee :53 | Sunset
burned with more than the ordi-|’
Linois and 38th-sts,
PROBE PERJURY IN ASTOR CASE|::
Aids of District’ Attorney Watch Testimony at Thorpe’s Request.
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with District Attorney Buron Fitts regarding the possibility of de= veloping perjury charges in the case. “While neither I nor my counsel feel at liberty to discuss the details, it is true that Mr. Fitts conferred with my lawyers and myself regarding- possible’ charges in connection ‘with this trial,” said Dr. Thorpe.
Will Check Testimony
“From now on. the district attorney has a hand in this trial and will check on statements made from the witness stand.” Miss Astor returns to her courtroom ordeal today and persons close to her said she was “out for blood.” While court officers armed with a warrant sought George: S. Kaufman; famous playwright, the -—one ‘lover she had sadmitted; ‘Dr. « Thorpe’s lawyer, Joseph Anderson, duelled all day yesterday with the beautiful, sharp-witted and sharp-tongued | actress without gaining appreciable advantage. He flung ‘at her the names of eight men—many of them prominent in the: theatrical and business world—and ‘demanded to: know if she had entertained them in her bedroom. The answer in each case was negative. Once she said, sarcastically, “I didn’t entertain him in my bedroom, either,” before Mr. Anderson could put his question.
Kaufman Disappears
Mr. Anderson's purpose was to prove that Miss Astor was an unfit mother.
The playwright had disappeared, though a.subpena had been séPved on him and Dr. Thorpe’s counsel was very anxious to question him concerning his attentions to Miss Astor during the period when she and Dr. Thorpe were living together as man and wife. He was reported variously as aboard a yacht at sea
and on a train bound for New York. {i Cg ANNIVERSARY TO BE MARKED
Mr. Anderson made no effort to introduce Miss Astor's ‘diary, in which she confessed her love for “George.” That will come today When Miss Astor's cross-examina-tion is finished, it was intimated.
by. the nature of Mr. Anderson’s cross-examination, and it was intimated that when her turn came she would introduce evidence that will pale anything Dr. Thorpe has so far offered. Many times while Mr. Anderson hammered questions at her, her attorney, Roland Rich Woolley, ‘objected bitterly. Asked About Barrymore Foremost of the names that .figured in .the cross-examination was that of John Barrymore, famous screen lover now ill in a rest home. Mr. Anderson wanted to know if Barrymore had become so intoxicated in Miss Astor’s home that he stumbled over 4-year-old Marilyn. Indignantly, she said, “No.” The other men who figured in the cross-examination were George Op-
penheimer, New York and Hollywood
writer; Daniel Silberberg, a business man; Bénnett Cerf, New York publisher and former husband of Sylvia Sidney, an actress; Italian Count Arturo Carpegna, Carlos Paraga, of Havana; John Eldridge, movie actor, and Irving Thalberg, movie executive and husband of Norma Shearer. She admitted that Mr. Oppenheimer had visited her at her home. “Did you ever go into the bedroom With Oppenligimer?” Mr. Anderson
A--Possibly. Just as he was in other parts of the house. Q—Did he ever stay all night? A—Never,
‘Bannister Denies Blackmailing Wife By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 11.—Harry Bannister, former husband of Ann Harding, screen actress, was recalled for cross-examination today in the unexpected position of defending himself against accusations of blackmail in a trial of three men whom he accuses of the same crime. Attorneys for Jerome A. Jacobs, Harry S. Hechehimer and Raymond Derringer, the defendants, made the counter charge when Bannister testified yesterday. “Did you ever blackmail your wife for $100,000?” Defense Lawyer David Slade asked. Bannister said “No,” cally. “Did you at any time obtain money from your wife on the threat of exposing some intimate relations between her and Gene Fowler?” (Fowler is a well known author and scenarist.) : “No, never, and I never attempted
emphati-
SHELBYVILLE, Aug. 11.—Mr. and Mrs, Harry Nail, well-known Shelby County residents, are to
Miss Astor was reported enraged
SLASHING REDUCTIONS IE
celebrate their golden wedding anniversary tomorrow.
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| tration although
TEST NEW DEAL|
Robinson of Arkansas Faces :
Battle Today to Keep Senate Seat.
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one outstanding critic of the New Deal, Senator Car-
velt's principal lieutenants, is op- | | posed for renomination today in
Arkansas by two Democratic candi-
dates. W. F. Denam, a former law
partner of the late Huey P. Long, withdrew from the race so "the vote would not be split so much. Still in the contest is J. Ross Venable, Little Rock.
Cleveland Holland, the third can-{
didate, is an anti-Roosevel: Democrat/ who denounces Mr. Robinson for supporting New Deal legislation. Rejection of Mr. inson in Ar-
- | kansag would hit the Roosevelt Ad-
ministration amidships and do tremendous. damage. The next. Southern primaries will take place Aug. 25 in Mississippi and South Carolina. Senator Pat Harrison, as ch n of the Senate Finance Co tee, and Senator James F. Byrnes, unofficial Roosevelt spokesman on the Senate floor, are up for renomingtion in those states. Defeat for either would be interpreted as a repudiation of Roosevelt leadership although the New Deal issue is not precisely drawn in Mississippi where Mr.
| Harrison is a candidate.
The Mississippi campaign is an old-time Democratic shindy in which Senator Theodore CG. (The Man) Bilbo is battling to unseat his colleague. Senator © Bilbo’s candidate is former Gov. Martin S. Conner, a young and astute statesman whose pre-campaign maneuvers began‘ to worry « Mr.
Harrison three years ago. Senator | ‘Bilbo and Mr: Harrison were politi-
cal pals at one time. As ‘Mr. Harrison’s protege, Mr. Bilbo was given a $6000 job in' the Agricultural Adjustment Administration where much of his time was alleged to be devoted to clipping newspapers. Mr. Bilbo subsequently was elected to the’ Senate and ‘split with Mr. Harrisori in a dispute over patronage. Travelers from Mississippi report Mr. Bilbo is publicly charging that Mr. Harrison plays golf at a millionaire’s club in Washington. Mr. Harrison is represented as replying in his campaign speeches that he does play golf but does not play well. Senator Byrnes is opposed by Mayor Tom Stoney, of Charleston, and Col. W. C. Harlee, both of whom have made the New Deal their principal issue. Like Mr. Harrison, Mr, Byrnes is depending for votes on his loyalty to the Roosevelt Admipistration. Gov. Eugene Talmadge’s plan to run for President as a constitution to a Senate “on. .an an yu-Roceevels The pri ary will take place Sept. He opposed Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. of Georgia, who is a 100 per cent Rooseveltian.
WOMAN IN RIVERS * GASE ASKS RELEASE
Had No Knowledge of Murder, Habeas Writ ‘Pleads.
A hearing on 8 habeas corpus pe-
‘tition seeking the release under bond of Mrs. Catherine Hart, |
charged with being an accessory after the fact in the slaying of Sergt. Richard Rivers, opened in’ Criminal Court today. The hearing was continued until
tomorrow after Mrs. Hart testified |. she had no knowledge that a mur= |
der had been committeed when several alleged gang members implicated in the slaying came’ to her home. She has been held without bond since she was indicted several months ago on charges of harboring slaying suspects. The hearing was continued to bring in more witnesses.
'MAROTT S... Final
This is the catfis was hoisted from his
few minutes earlier on a craw tail.
PLEADS FOR CHURCH
TO DEFINE PURPOSE
Dr. J. W. Behnken Speaks at Banquet of Lutherans.
Dr. J. W. Behnken, Chicago, told an audience of Lutherans last night that one of the greatest difficulties with the church today was the lack of information as to what
constitutes its real purpose. The address was made at a banquet held by the Indianapolis Lutheran Laymen’s Advisory Council in connection with the Evangelical Lutheran. Synodical Conference ‘which i5:to close § six-day session. inthe: “Parish Hall Auditorium. today. Dr. Behnken said that the fundamental trouble was not financial but spiritual. no “When we once restore the family altar, the Bible; as a living book, the spiritual attitude that makes Christianity a living thing, then we shall find the way out of 4 ht confront the
In an the Fort since it has been resurfaced, Herbert Bloemker, county surveyor, has ordered deputy sheriffs to patrol thé road between the city and the fort. Warning signs, he said, have been 1 ignored.
0 keep trucks ¢
“BAR TRUCKS 48 enjamin Harrison road
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“that almost “catched” Clarence Wheatley. He porary home in Julietta Hospital pond, where he is anchored with the rope you see here, to pose with Mrs, Harry Barrett, wife of the hospital superintendent. “Bring ’Em Back Allive” Wheatley explained that he “catched the catfish on a three-and-one-half-inch crappie” which he had snagged a
According to Mr. Wheatley, the 32-pound fish, 38 inches from stem to stern, broke his bamboo pole right in the middle. But Mr. Wheatley did not give up. He didn’t know what he had, but he knew he had something. He grabbed the line, and the catfish pulled him into White River, head first, somewhere between Sanford and Bicknell. s “I. went down twice,” beamed 200-pound Mr. Wheatley today, “but he didn't get away.” Mr. Wheatley, who couldn't be found when picture-taking time arrived, said it was a Mississippi catfish which evidently got lost on a detour. “The ' Conservation Department said there ‘were no Mississippi catfish in these parts. . The fish wouldn't talk.
DEMOCRATS ACQUIRE CAMPAIGN . TRAILER
A white automobile with trailer attached, known as the. “Roosevelt caravan,” arrived in Indianapolis
‘today, and is to be used by the In-
diana Democratic state committee for ‘the remainder of the political campaign. It was inspected by State Chairman Omer 8, Jackson, Gov: McNutt, M. Clifford Townsend, 8 Jidatey ‘and: other
he hound equipment for presenting music and speeches. It was designed and delivered to Indianapolis. by a former Hoosier, Lloyd Back, of the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Back is national director of 20 of these caravans now moving into many states.
NOMINATE
FOR PRESIDENG
San Antonio, Grand Ran Rochester, N. Y., Bid for ’37 Meeting.
F. Loren Wheaton, New Haven,
cers is to be be held tomorrow afters noon. Others nominated were Wayne
Crider, Baltimore, and Lillard T.
vention and clinical conference im San Antonio, Tex., was arts to the convention today by Arthur Pfeil, manager of the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
general telegraphed a special invis tation for a post-convention trip into Mexico if the chiropractors choose the Texas city. Two other bids for the convention have been received, one from Grand Rapids, Mich., and the other from Rochester, N. ¥Y.
Speak on Program Today
Speakers on today’s program were to be Dr. Charles C. Lemly, Waco; Tex. council of clinics and sanie taria national president; Judge A; W. Ponath, Wahpeton, N. D.; Dr, C. B. McDonald, Benton Harbor; Dr. J. F. McGinnis, Santa Barbara, Cal} Dr. Howard A. Post, Oakland, Cal. Dr. James E. Slocum, Des Moin Dr. J. N. Firth, Lincoln Collegé dean; W. N. Montgomery, Chicago; Dr. J. V. McManus, Kirksville, Mo, Dr. H. G. Beatty, Denver; Dr. L. J Steninbach, Pittsburgh; Dr. L. M Tobison, Chicago; Dr. S. H. Burich; Indianapolis; Dr. C. M. Gyselman; Jackson, Mich.; Maxwell Droke, In« dianapolis, and Dr. F, J. Kolar Wichita, Kas. Educational sessions are to be held
counselors is to be held in the Line coln Hotel.
Local Woman Named Officer
Dr. Gertrude Hindshaw, Indians apolis, was elected National = of Women Chiropractors secretarye treasurer in a session yesterday. Dr, Gladys’ Ingram, Chillicothe, Mo, was re-elected president and Dr, Olive Piper, Columbia City, Ind, was elected vice president. The women’s group was to give 5 noon luncheon in the Lincoln and clinical conferences were. to be held in the Claypool this afternoon. The state board of examiners and the national council of educational institutions were to hold sim taneous meetings in the Lincoln this afternoon. ; The evening general assembly § to be held tonight in the Claypool Riley Room.
NAMED LONDON AMBASSADO BERLIN, Aug. 11.—Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi emissary to the capitals of the world, today was appointed ambassador to London, He is one of the most trusted aids of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler.
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