Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1936 — Page 1
Senator Says ve PONE Firms
Have Congressmen on Their Pay Rolls.
10,000 AT CONVENTION
N. U.S. JL Ready to Indorse ‘Lemke and Organize for Political Campaign.
By United Press \ PUBLIC HALL, CLEVELAND, Aug. 14.— Senator Rush D. Holt, youthful antiNew Deal Democrat from West Virginia, today charged in his keynote speech at the first convention of the Na-
tional Union for Social Jus-
tice that public utilities control the United States government and have members of Congress on their pay rolls.
Nearly 10,000 delegates, alternates and . visitors to the convention of the Rev, Charles E. Coughlin’s organization boged their enemies and cheered’ their friends as the meeting opened, Boos swelled from the audience when speakers mentioned Former President Herbert Hoover, Sen. Carter Glass (D,, Va.), and Samuel Insull, one-time utilities mogul. Cheers Greet Coughlin There were cheers for William Jennings Bryan and Thomas Jefferson, and for Father Coughlin a tumultuous | demonstration that : matched and perhaps exceeded the wildest ' enthusiasm during recent Republican and ‘Townsend national conventions ih this same hall.
Father Coughlin spoke briefly. He
pledged the national union to support the Constitution. j His speech was a prelude to.the big political business to come when the thousands of af delegaien gathered here are expécted to indorse William Lemke, of the New Union Party, Zon President. Father Coughlin is 1 his’ cheering army right into the 1936 presidential campaign.
“If you ‘don’t Melieve the utilities |
run ‘the government of the United States,” shid young Holt, a gesticulating, emphatic and skillful speaker, “then check the members of Con‘gress who have been or are on the pay roll of the utilities of the United States of America.” Assails WPA Cheers swept the hall when he argued that “agriculture has never received a fair profit.” “We can not ‘have prosperity.” Senator Holt said, “as long as the farmers of America can not purchase, and they can not purchase as long as they have no money to'spend and are confronted with an unbear- — able mortgage debt.” Senatbr Holt took the opportun to arraign the Roosevelt Administration without mentioning the President by name. He ridiculed the “alphabetical agencies.” "“Now,” he said, “I am coming to my favorite subject, the WPA.” The crowd booed. “Let me tell you,” he continued,
“the WPA as administered by Harry | for a:
L. Hopkins is one of the most disgraceful episodes in America. K We have seen a large part of the money appropriated for those in need of used to reward political bosses. of dollars of this fund for the needy of America has gone for political Father ‘Coughlin expects at least 185—more of the next House of Representatives to be pledged to his N. U. S. J. program, The priest believes it possible, even probable, that the next ‘occupant of .the White House will
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than one-third—members.
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Senator Rush D. Holt
F.D. R. VISITOR “AT CLEVELAND
President Allocates WPA ‘Funds - for Flood Control Survey.
(Detajls of. the President's radio address tonight on Page 29.)
By United Press ' CLEVELAND, Aug. 14.—President. Roosevelt arrived in Cleveland aboard his special train at 9:24 a. m. today, inspected two WPA projects and visited the Great Lakes Exposition celebrating: the’ ‘hundredth anniversary’ ot: the’ city’s incorporation, ‘Mr. Roosevelt’ met ‘Gov. ‘Martin |” Davey and other. Ohio. Demceratic | leaders and Gov: Paul V. McNutt of
come and ticker tape fluttered from qffice | buildings as the . President SE dln the business: district. od ® will leave this afternoon for Mayville, N. Y., from where he will
night The| President approved allocation 61,000. of WPA funds for flood suryeys around “Johnstown
yestert ay with Gov. George Earle and Senator Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania,”” Maj.: Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army engineers, and officials of the WPA and CCC. He also approved -use of $500,000 for an/immediate beginning of flood control work. on the Monongahela and Alleghgny Rivers, which last spring | flooded great areas of Pennand from their junction terrifically damaging floods Ohio. | Barle described the Presition as “a Bo! ‘ahead signal
LK FOLLETTE GROUP MAY ASK REFORMS
Five. Laws Listed Affecting Civil | Liberties.
(Copyright; 1936, »' United Press) | WASHINGTON, ‘Aug. 14.~— Revision of- five - Federal statutes to bolster civil liberties and protect labor's right to organize may be’ asked of Congress next’ session, it was learned today.
Indiana. Thousands shouted a Wei- |
mo to Chautauqua to speak to- A
Baker ruled today.
T. Ernest Maholm had filed the motion for release of Guy Chester, alias Ernest Dryor, ‘serving a one
to five-year term for check fraud.
Mr. Maholm contended that failure of jury commissioners fo take the constitutional. oath invalidated all Juries drawn by them. Makes Study of Law 3 Mr. Brennan, . in his: demurrer, claimed that: jury. commissioners were not constitutional officers and therefore were not required to take constitutional oaths. Judge Baker said he had made a thorough study of the law governing jury commissioners and it was his opinion that commissioners were not required to take constitutional oaths. Jury commissioners were called into court Tuesday and given constitutional oaths both in Cireult and
: ‘| Criminal courts.
By United Press MOSCOW, Aug. 14~The Soviet Russian government . today: an"nounced that the followers of Leon Trotzky and Gregory Zinoviev have been: preparing under the direct orders of Trotzky a terrorist plot against leaders of the * Communist Party and the Sqviet government. The NKVD, or peoples’ commissariat for internal affairs, ordered the trial of Zinoviev, Kameney and 14 others. Trotzky is injex- | ile in. Norway. Kamenev and Zinoviev are veteran Bolshevists. They broke with the ‘orthodox elements of the : pasty and In 1935 were sentenced for a counter-revolution-. bt plot to. overthrow Josef Stalin. They. are now serving from five: 4 10 years in prison.
JUDGE BARS REVIVAL
‘Case Must Stand.
Ls BULLETIN By Un ited Press > LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. He Attorneys for ~ Dr. Franklyn Thorpe announced they would go into court today and start legal action: that may re-open the action between him and his divorced wife. over custody of their minor daughter.
By United Press : LOS ANGELES, Aug. 14.—Judge Goodwin J. Knight squelched a new outbreak of bitter recrimination between Mary Astor and her divorced
husband, Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, today, soon after he awarded them
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daughter under the strict .supervision of the court. He ' announced that . his order ould stand, whether they liked it or n
very plain opinions of the parents and their litigation, gave possession of little. Astor nine months of the year and and Dr. Thorpe the remaining three
torney, John Anderson, anuounted that he would attempt to
| the case:
* “You may say for me,™ Judge Knight told the United Press, “that |: the Thorpe-Astor case is closed.”
while the spectators who had lisstill: were in the
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signed today to. bility of pollution in
Tippecanoe River in: Josciusko - and counties,
Verdicts of juries drawn by Marion County jury commissioners did not take constitutional oaths are legal, Criminal Cours. Judge: Frank | |
GOVERNMENT Is ANXIOUS ] IStaughter Feared’ as Hate. ;
Joint custody of their 4-year-old |.
peratures. up to a. _record-breaking hostages aboard British ‘mark of 98 degrees late ‘yesterday. | er Crade She
tened to the official hatchet bury-|
courtroom. | ® ugh her attorney, Roland R.| YOR& that Dr. | aK,
on. Out ths for Commissioners J .
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Criminal : Court Tigo. Finds Statutes Do Not Require L ‘Constitutional Pledges by Officers: Who 1 Select Venires. “ :
Judge Baker upheld s demurrer of Deputy Prosecutor Edward Bren-| nan against a motion asking release of a convict from Indiana State Prison on grounds the Jury whlch convicted him was drawn flegaly |
FORECASTS RISE
C. of C. Sees Sees 35 Per. Cent Increase on Basis of 1937 Requests.
school city tax rate would: result ‘if
is adopted as it. now stands, the Chamber - of Commerce estimated today in a special bulletin. -
Chamber’s-
crease in expenditures for the school year ending next June 30, as contemplated in the new budget, would: amount to $1,168,294 more than in the year ended last June 30, a gain of 1:20" per cent. Of this ' total, the bulletin said, the major increases are for higher salaries and-a plan to construct new: schools. and additions: next ' year from direct: taxation: ? Salary increases and additional personnel would call for .the ‘expendituré of $332,581 more than in. 1935-1936, according fo the bulletin. “New . school - construction would amount to : $875,000, but, with the addition. to :the ‘budget of other capital ‘outlay requests, and the elimination of an item completing the payment. on an annexed town-
gapital ouday 1 amounts to sean :
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in the northern: of Indiana
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IN SCHOOL RATE.
1. 'ex~King Alfenso’s A 3 ‘per. cent increase in the ;
the Indianapolis school city budget |’
The - bulletin, : compiled by the|. governmental research | bureau, stated. that ‘the total n=
ship school, the net. increase for|
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‘By United Press an MADRID; Aug. 14~Rebels and
‘Loyalists, - their hatred whipped to ‘white-hot. pitch, tought savagely for
supremacy and life in. every. quarter :
of the country today.
The rebellion had become: a civil |
war. in which the: ‘humanizing code of normal warfare was forgotten. Around Malaga in. the far south, before San’ Sebastian in the far north, -in the Estremadura country on the Portuguese frontier; in Zara.goza Province in: the northeast, in Teruel Province on the east coast, . dt Oviedo in: ‘the northwest, in Teruel Province on, the east coast; at. Oviedo in the northwest, battles of importance Were progressing. Loyal": forces ‘have occupied ‘Pozoblanco’ in “Cordoba,
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only. Trace Falls Hore, but P
Rains relieved dro a, ‘conditions
early today, the Wea er Bureau re-|
Neither liked Judge Knight's or- | Por der, which, after expressing some |
| Moves to Protect U.S. | Ciitzen Held-in Spain.
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Aug. 14—The tent today instructed
‘The Weather: Bureau announced J
Miss Astor began the new fighting | 804
POLLUTION SURVEY ORDERED T. G. Croom, engineer of the State | 87 Division ‘of Public Health, was as- |W te -ossi- | hig
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NOTORISTS WARNED [2° OF LEFT TURN BAN|
six Are Arrested by Police
Rebels drive on. Badajor and ex-|
‘transfusion from, her’ sO
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Injured. in: Crash, a on Keeping Engagement on. Transfusion.
! Mrs. ‘Elizabeth. Hartman, 'Moorefield, ill for more than two. weeks, was reported improved . at Robert Long. Hospital toddy after a blood ,- Wayland
Hartman, 30, Vevay, who narrowly | escaped death in an: automobile; collision While rushing to his mother’s bedside.
Mr, Hartman was bruised and shaken ang Carl Miles, 57, of Ben‘nington, ‘driver, received head in-
: juries, Jaceérations and bruises, when
their car struck another at the intersection: of the ‘Post-rd and U. 8. highway No. 52, last night. v ‘Despite his injuries, Mr. Hartman was ‘tdken ‘to. Long Hospital: in an. ambulance; where, ‘still: trembling and ‘suffering from .shook, he’ went through with the transfusion. = "Mir. Miles was: taken to. Methodist Hospital where attendants today reported his condition good. _JRalph Rosenberg, 20, of or Asheville, Eo {Tun 10 Page: Two
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| Eastern University, Bible Professor, Nati
. Hoosier, Elected by Board to Succeed Bishop Oxnam.
HE IS THIRD ALUMNUS TO HOLD PO
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General Approval; New Leader Praised ] by Retiring President. .
Clyde Everett Wildman,
D. D., a native Hoosier -
De Pauw University alumus, today was: elected presiden of the Greencastle institution by the Board of Trustees
Visitors.
Election was held in hs Columbia Club, and was af tended by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, who resigned as presis dent when he became: Methodist Episcopal bishop of Omahas
JUDGE HOLDS COURT IN SIGN LANGUAGE
‘ Mrs. Thelma Gouker, 1306 W. Pruitt-st, signed an affidavit that her husband, Carl, struck her, and this morning they came into Municipal: Court to try the case. ‘It turned out. that they were deaf sputes, and Floyd: Mannon, judge pro. tem., surprised every one by being fluent in the finger language. - The utor, not versed in the language, took little part in .the hearing. Mr. Gouker ‘promised’ to quit Srinking's and was allowed to go free.
HANGING oF SLAYER | DIRECTED BY ED BY WOMAN
15,000 Look On as Female Sheriff _ Gives Order.
Devil’ Dick.” "He y volumtesred to do
=1 | the job ‘for Mrs. Thompson and |; she, changing her mind at the last A
minute, accepted the offer. The crowd was in a holiday mood. Only a moment before the arrival of
‘Bethea, venders of hot dogs and
lemonade shouted their wares and found many willing: purchasers.
WILLIAM H. CUMMINS | RITES T0 BE SUNDAY
{tong lines eg Fatal to Realty Co. Officer.
Dr. Wildman, professor" Bible and religion a Bostor University, ‘was not at the meeting. ~ He is expected arrive at Greencastle ear September to meet with: board that elected him ‘to and to take active ‘charge of the school. : He also will have charge of celebration of the school’s J nial this year, £ Dr. Wildman was. recommended a » ommuiiijge which included’ : , Chicago; Bishop p. Bt I Washington, and Hogate, New York, Wall 8 Journal editor. Possibility of a return of N
“That's sald the former’ De Fai
responses.’ We feel confident DN Pauw alumni and members of the ghurely will be pleased with his ection.” dil
Dr. Oxnam Is Pleased said the unive
Bowed. | friends of De Pauw.
happy they kept the. tradit the school by electing a cler for president. I know Dr.. ont Beiles pre educator.” :