Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1936 — Page 3
SHE'LL FIRE ON
SPANISH PLANES
Both Sides in Revolt Told Not to Fly Over Gibraltar.
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terference and will fire on any airplanes that persist in flying over Gibraltar.
If Spanish airplanes fly over Gibraltar, British guns will fire three warning shots. Then, if the airplanes have not made off, they -will fire at them,
The order, by a government that itds understood would regard a victory for Loyalists as a lesser threat to peace than a Spanish Fascist state, was regarded as dramatic evidence of the grave alarm Britons feel,
The stoppage of a German steam- . ship by Loyalist warships, and a consequent warning by Germany that it would meet force with force to protect its ships in Spanish waters, brought to the urgent point fear that there may be an international explosion.
May Urge Apology
‘So great was the alarm that. it was understood the government would urge ‘Spain to apologize at once for stopping the German ship and that France might join in the appeal. It was evident that Britain's warning was closely in line with Germany's—an indication that Britain refuses to recognize the Spanish government's right to proclaim a blockade. «, Britain takes the attitude, it is said on reliable .authority, that Spain is in the wrong in the incident precipitated by its detention of the German steamship, Kamerun. It hopes that the episode will be settled peaceably, but fear persists that the Spanish blockade of the Moroccan and Spanish coasts forebodes further incidents which, in the tense atmosphere prevailing, would entail danger of a major international cjash.
U. S. Refuses to Join in Mediatory Efforts
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — The United States today stood firm in its determination to keep clear of European wars, even to the extent of refusing to join in proposed international mediatory efforts to stop Spain's bloody civil war. While the principal European nations apparently were being crowded closer to the precipice of a general Furopean war by the trend of events in the Spanish crisis, the United States repeated its previous declaration that it would adhere strictly to its long-established policy of non-interference in the affairs of other nations. William Phillips, acting Secretary of State, courteously declined an invitation from the Uruguayan Foreign Ministess#o join in.praposed joint mediatory discussions, took the position that the Unted States could not paricipate in such a maneuver without departing from its policy of strict neutrality.
Report. of Revolt in Portugal Denied
By United Preas LONDON, Aug. 21.—Excitement was caused in European capitals last night and early today by reports that there was a revolt against ithe right-wing Portuguese government and that President Antonio Carmona had been killed.
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Susan and boy friends {
Coos and Smiles Reward + Policemen Who Speed to Her Aid.
. Susan Jane Hardy is back home in Seymour today, having made an exciting debut in Indianapolis yesterday that involved policemen, photographers and maybe a bystander or two.
She was in the rear seat of her parents’ car parked in a downtown garage, when a woman, whose car
SHOOTING SUSPECT FAGES NEW COUNTS
Charles Dourke Rearrested on Grand Jury Charges.
Charles Dourke, 40, of 16th and Pennsylvania-sts, was rearrested today ‘on a grand jury indictment charging assault and battery with intent to kill, kidnaping and carrying a gun without a permit.
The charges. resulted from a shooting at 1202 N. Capitol-av, May
30, police said, when Miss Ethel]
Grubb, of that was wounded in the leg. Dourke, police said, fired shots at residents in the building. He has been at liberty under $5000 bond since his arrest at the time of the shooting. The kidnaping charge, police sald, was based upon reports that Dourke forced a truck driver to take him to the Capitol-av address.
address,
IN INDIANAPOLIS
MEETINGS TODAY
National Rural Letter Carriers’ AssociaHa convention, Hotel Lincoln, all day. Closing session
Sxehanre Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, ne . Opitmist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, Toni Delta Theta, Columbia Cl ata Th Theta Pi. luncheon, Board of Trade, Tosa luncheon, Grotto Club,
Sahara Grotto, Association, luncheon,
luncheon,
no Reserve O Officers nn Be arvard Club, Tancheon, Hotel Lincoln,
noon,
MEETINGS TOMORROW
Alliance Francaise, luncheon, Washington, noon.
MARRIAGE LICENSES (Incorrect addresses frequently are given + te the Marriage License Bureau deliberately. The Times in printing the official fist assumes no responsibility for such addresses.)
Hotel
Edward Earl Luessow, 24, Hammond,
Ind., druggist, Poy, 22, © : 233 N,
pher Stark. 25, Marion County. laborer, and Mary Cooney, 25, Marion County. Hubert Suddeth, 28, of 1128 St. Paui-st, and Charlotte DeCoursey, 22, of 1440 N.
st. Worthington, 21, Newwave fa Helen Louise es-av.
Jefferson-av, stenogra-
mechanic
HH rd HA waitress nF. Wood, 23. of 372 Pros joo! maker, Pine-n Rosemarie C. 5, 0 . ne-st John M. Powers, 33. Detroit, Mich.. automobile worker. and Sylvia Holmes, 30, of ork-s 1 White, 25, of 3797 Prospect-st, clerk. and Margaret Wilma Adams, 23, of 1130 8. Grant-av, soda fountain clerk.
BIRTHS Boys
Harold, Edna Hoard, at 620 Lockerbie. Everett, Eunice Stroup, at 78 Cortage, ¥
2eph Edith Deal, at City > Rosem Faulk, Yo City. si nN Betty at City. Hg Ry Eh ne nger, a Ys Joseph, Francis Macy, at City. Raipn. Ruth Thomas, at City Vivian, Hazel Chapman, at Cry. Francis, Maudie Cry Cleave, at uy. Gerald, HY Hildreth Burns, at 133% velt
Glen, Yuella Burkhards Sy Methodist. Newlyn, G at. Me ethodist.
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Squire, P ear] Kimbro t = Mari \ A arion. Ri ank, Hizabeth Murphy, at 1203 W
JRA Clarabélie Cook at St. will
Pa at. Shah A Joseph, Elizabeth Rhea at St. Francis. Twins
Saben. Loretta Mitchell, at St. Francie
¥, Frances ah
and Florence Mildred De- |
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Arthur, Margaret Zipp, at St. Francis. Carl, Eunice Darnell, at St. Francis. Paul, Martha Doan, at St. Francis. Harry, Dorothy Stow, at St. Francis. Leonard, Aileen Weghoft, at St. Francis.
DEATHS
Emma H. Welling, 84, at 2237 Winter,
enterocolitis.
Margaret Ellen Hackleman, 83, at N. Pennsylvania, chronic myocarditis.
Mitehen Manita, 14, at Riley, chronic mastoiditi It Fdgar William, 48, at City, diabetes mel-
alien McCain, 76, at Long,
2409
hypostatic pneumonia. Patricia Lee Tope, 3, at 3933 Caroline, influenza Navada Piercy, 64, at’ 667 Arch, acute cardiac dilatation. Robert F. Mean, 82, at 325 N. Keystone, carcinom Izora Bingham, 58, at 951 W. Vermont, diabetes mellitu Leah Williamson, 69, at 806 Fayette, chronic myocarditis. Horace Hughes, 48, at 1122 Myron, aortic insufficiency. Isaac Jreeman, 79, at City, broncho pneumonia Edward “Hubbard, .29, at 1919 Yandes, myocarditis. Jesse Bowles, 42, at City, internal hemorrhage,
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OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Burean..__ 5:02 | Sunset ........ 6:34 TEMPERATURE
Sunrise
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. Total precipitation since 5 : m: Deficiency since Jan.:1
MIDWEST FORECAST Indiana—Fair south, it nostly clou
portion Jonight and tomorrow; change in Jeperatiye
XE south. mostly Slouds north 4 tomorrow;
north much
cloudy, showers
probable “eRe tonight ang toand n northeast. po portion tomorrow. i, Ohio—Generally fair : slightly warmer Borin’ partidn tonight. +s warm tonight and lly tair ind sontinued
WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M. Bar. Temp.
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was parked. in the next space saw her and made some passes. Susan cooed. -The lady cooed. And that went on for a while until the lady decided to report Susan’s presence to the garage manager, Jack Hack. The baby cried when the lady left to do that.
Policemen Get Rewards Mr. Hack called police and said there was a baby in his garage and would they come get-it because he had no baby tackle around the place and couldn’t take care of it. Two policemen came over and first one held the baby a while and then the other. Susan rewarded them impartially with smiles and coos. But that wasn't getting them any place, so they called headquarters and were told to take the baby to an orphans’ home while police thought over what to do. Just as they were ®bout to place the child, basket and all, in a police car, a man stepped up and said it was his child and he would without further ceremony repossess it. The mother took it, cuddled it, and said: “Why, you're a good baby. You don’t need all these policemen.” The parents, Mr. and 'Mrs. Ned Hardy, said they left the child there and expected to get back after a short shopping trip and start back home. But, they said, their shopping trip was more protracted than they had thought. Mr. Hardy is a state policeman. Susan is 4 months old.
PENS POEMS
"A new book of poems, “The People, Yes,” by Carl Sandburg, “the good, gray poet of the Middle West,” was released by publishers today. The latest work of Mr. Sandburg, a native of Illinois, is described as equaling his “Chicago Poems’ in literary merit. “For years Mr. Sandburg has saturated himself with the forces, the human materia}, the sights and sounds—above all, the voices —of America, and it is no surprise that this work comes at a dramatic moment of public consequence,” the publishers wrote. Other works of Mr. Sandburg include: “Smoke and Steel,” “Slabs of Sunburnt West,” “Good Morning, America,” and “Cornhuskers.”
/ T0 SCAN WORKS
BOARD BUDGET
Department Heads Asked to Appear for Explanation of Requests.
the Works and Sanitation Board of the city are to be considered in the second preliminary session of We
tion, Municipal Garage, Public Buildings and Street Commissioner department heads are fo appear to explain budget requests. At the first four-hour session yesterday, the Council heard heads of financial and ad istration divisions including City Engineer, Clerk, Controller, Barrett Law, Legal, City Plan and Purchasing. In what appeared to be the opening of an Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce effort to lower property taxes, William H. Book, executive vice president, told the council he felt every possible item in the budget, allowable by. the State Board of Tax Commissioners, should be paid from gasoline tax.
Balance Is Anticipated
Expecting more than $800,000 to be paid the city during 1936, he said a substantial balance should remain in the fund at the beginning of next year. City Engineer Henry B. Steeg, who agreed with Mr. Book that the distribution of line funds was unfair to Indianapolis, pointed out that diversion of gas tax money would result in a future heavy tax on property for new paving. The only actual suggestion of a cut in budgets was made on a minor'item in the City Plan budget, one of the smallest submitted. It tentatively was reduced $25.
REVEAL DETAILS OF SOVIET PLOT
Admitted in Trial of 16 Bolshevists.
B+ United Press MOSCOW, Aug. 21.—Unexpected histrionic ability by minor mem: bers of the cast robbed the stars of their spgtlights today in the trial of 16 prominent Bolsheviks for complicity in a plot to overthrow the government. _ Gregory Zinoviev and Leo Kamenev, once two of the most im-
portant men in Russia, had confessed their eagerness to climb to power over the bomb shattered bodies of present leaders, As the trial resumed today, the audience of 200 in the “little court room in the former Nobles’ Club had before them a. confused. picture of a group of conspirators:all
visualizing himself “as the chief villain of the piece.
GOVERNOR REFUSES 1 T0 MOVE IN STRIKE
Newspaper Management and Employes Deadlocked.
By United Press SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 21.—The management of the Seattle PostIntelligencer and its striking editorial workers remained deadlocked with positions unchanged today while the oldest Seattle newspaper failed to publish for the eighth consecutive morning. Gov. Clarence D. Martin in a radio speech last night said he would not intervene until all others means of settling the dispute failed. Je “A few extremists on both sides, aided by political opportunists; are making it an issue to disturb the people throughout the state,” he
4 said. “Law and order have not failed
in Seattle. There is no occasion to talk of the use of the state patrol (police). There is no occasion to even think of the National Guard. The Governor is not responsive to the excited or purposeful calls of the extremists.” : He said there was a_ widespread belief that the strikd had been violent. This was caused, he said, |« by “an inflammatory newspaper editorial declaring disorder prevails in Seattle, that the freedom of the press is abridged, that the Governor is delinquent, and that the Governor is submissive to the Mayor and certain labor leaders of Seattle. “The strike should not be of statewide concern. It should be confined to that particular plant, and settled by negotiations between employes and the owners, or their representa-
tives.”
Five department budgets under |
the Mayor's office,.
Conspiracy to Kill Leaders.
eager to kill the leaders, and each |
By United Press 1
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 21.—Romantic Hollywood beamed its approval today as the engagement of gp Jeanette MacDonald to Gene Raymond was announced by the red-haired singer's mother. The biond actor and Miss MacDonald have been
“keeping company” for nearly a year and a half and
home.
shyly.
the engagement did not surprise the film colony. The announcement was made by Mrs. Anna MacDonald at a gathering of friends in her Beverly Hills Neither the time nor place of the marriage was set. Raymond appeared embarrassed and grinned
Took the Examination 20 Years Ago Just to Test Knowledge.
BY TRISTRAM COFFIN J. Ed Cooper, drawling, middleaged superintendent of rural mails, is the idol of his “boys.” ’ A former president of the National Rural Carriers’ Association now convening here, Mr. ‘Cooper is the
the ranks to the superintendency of the Postoffice Department. “The boys,” as Mr. Cooper affectionately calls the rural carriers, stop him in the halls and pump his hand warmly and talk among themselves about the “square fellow” that is their chief. Former School Teacher A school teacher in Illinois, Mr. Cooper had little intention of entering the mail service when he took an examination in 1916. He took the test more to test his own general knowledge, he said. Winning first place in the exam-
service May 1, 1916, carrying letters to the “folks” on rural routes near Shobonier, Ill. He worked up through various offices in the carriers’ association and was elected president of the rural organization for 1935. He resigned to accept his post as superintendent, division of rural mails. ’ One day Mr. Cooper came home and found a note tacked on the door: for him to call ‘Washington. Harllee Branch, “Sécond assistant postmaster-general, told him, “You're the man we're looking for.”
' Surprise to Mr. Cooper
Is was so much of a surprise to Mr. Cooper he answered, “I'd like to think it over. I want to talk to my wife about this.” In considering the position, Mr. Cooper thought. about his boys. “It was a pretty serious question,” Mr. Cooper said today. “If I don’t succeed at the job it would be a bad reflection on the boys. So I'm trying to be the best superintendent the department ever had.” - Mr. Cooper regards the civil service for rural carriers and the improvements in transportation as the greatest advancement in rural letter carrying.
PLAN DAHLIA SHOW
Dahlia show artengemeais are to be discussed tonight at a meeting of the Indianapolis Dahlia Society in the Brookside Community House. H. T. Smolenski, horticulturist, is to speak on “Water Gardening.” Dr. W. E. Kennedy, society president, will preside. ;
G. 0. P. CLUB TO MEET
C. H. Wills, Kokomo city attorney, is to speak tonight at a meeting of the First and Second Ward Republican Club'in ‘the home of Mr, and Mrs. O. D. Lee, 2850 Station-st. His address is to be “Federal Interference in Local Government. ”
CIVIC LEAGUE MEETS
A fall festival and card party was "planned today for September by the
. The league held a meeting iast night at. the home of Robert ‘Harriott, 2116 N. Wallace-st, its president. ng of Bosart-av, from 16th to 21st-st was. discussed.
ATTEMPT TO ENTER SAFE Police were told today that some ttempted
one unsuccessfully a Oe Ee er The |
Co., 838 N. ~Delaware-st, | last night.
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Bemonsirators
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East Twenty-First Street Civic}
Rural Carriers Fond of Chief;. Ed Cooper Came From Ranks
first rural carrier to come up through |. §=
J. Edgar Cooper
EXTENSION SOUGHT ON LIGHT CONTRACT
Appraisal of Utility Not Ready, Kern Says.
A request for another extension of the city’s lighting contract with the Indianapolis Power and Light Co., which expires Sept. 1, was considered by the Works Board today. . Mayor Kern, conferring with the board; said‘ negotiations for a new
contract ‘at this time would ‘be un-'f
wise because the Pudblic Service Commission had not completed ity appraisal of utility properties. Officials indicated that rates to the city would be higher under new appraisal figures.
YOUTH, 24, HELD IN THEFT CASE PROBE
Cecil Smith, 24, Negro, 1427 Millst, was held today under $5000 bond in connection with a theft from the home of Mrs. Delores Blakely, 1141
Kentucky-av, and an assault upon
Mrs. Blakely,
Mrs, Blakely told police she was.
asleep in her front room when some one entered her home, ransacked the bedroom and stole two wrist watches. + She said the prowler then attempted to choke her and attack her, but ran when she kicked and screamed. Smith was captured by police when they saw him running in the neighborhood, officers said.
ANSWER SOS CALL
By United Press SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 21.—Navy destroyers and a Coast Guard cutter searched the open seas today for trace of the ship San Joao, reported in distress off the Guadalupe 1Is‘lands.
The motorship Pride of Frisco re- |
ported it received a message from the San Joao reporting that the
crew had taken to lifeboats and that |
the ship was sinking.
INSIST ON THE ‘GENUINE,
Flee Fleas
By United Preas WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.— Six hundred employes in the United States Internal Revenue Building fled from fleas that invaded the building yesterday. An army of janitors laid down a barrage with insecticide guns. /
PURDUE PRESIDENT ON WESTERN TRIP
Times Special LAFAYETTE, Ind. Aug. 21.—Dr, E, C. Eliott, Purdue University president, and Mrs. Elliott were en route today to Los Angeles to meet Amelia Earhart. They are to confer on plans for the first visit of Miss Earhart’s “flying laboraiory” plane to the uni-
E | versity airport, soon to be the lab< f | oratory’s home base.
STORM APPROACHES FLORIDA By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 21.—Northeast storm warnings were raised today along the Atlantic Coast from Fort Pierce, Flai, north to Charleston, as
a tropical disturbance, increasing in intensity, moved in a northwesterly direction about 150 miles off the Florida, East Coast.
DUI
%, L I I REPORTS
Retail Trade Bright Spot in State During Month, — Bureau Says.
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Aug. 21. July as a business month was better
than one year ago, with department
store sales “seasonally the best of the year,” the Indiana Business Ree
view reported today.
The review, issued by the In=
the bright spot in the Indiana busi= ness picture during July.” Discounting the weather, vaca= tions, changing of models and usual slow pace of July, the review de« clared: “Many lines declined in July, but the decline was so much less than usual, that after allowances were made for seasonal changes, with few exceptions, the indexes were above normal.” “With the single exception of building, the July curtailment in trade was much less than would be expected. Building, as measured by the value of contracts awarded, continued to fluctuate around the level of the past three months. Re= ports of permits issued in 37 cities in the state confirmed the slight de< cline which is taking place in builds ing.” the report averred. x Indianapolis business conditions were reviewed as follows: Thé number of employes was 3 per cent less than in June, while weekly pay rolls and man-hours worked declined a little. more than 10 per cent. Vacation schedules were undoubtedly responsible = for the larger decline in the pay rolls and man-hours worked than in the number of employes. Total employ ment, which covers both trade and manufacturing as well as many service establishments, declined only 2 per cent from June. Wholesale trade employment, as might be anticipated, showed an increase of about 3 per cent, while pay rolls and man-hours rose about 2 per cent during the month. “Among the manufacturing indus tries iron and steel, machinery and chemicals made the best showing in July in comparison with June, Building, as measured by the value of permits issued, increased about 20 per cent over June. This was the fourth consecutive month that the value of building permits continued to expand. “Newspaper advertising was 13 per cent lower than in June and 16 per cent below July of last year, Bank debits were 11 per cent above and 27 per cent over July, 1935, Poste
office receipts were 2 per cent une. der June. .
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