Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1936 — Page 1
FORECAST: Partly cloudy; possibly occasionally unsettled tonight or tomorrow; not much change in’temperature.
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RAN IN SIGHT, SAYS BUREAL 1 DEAD HERE
Occasional; . Thunderstorm Possible, Is Forecast of Armington.
NORTH GETS RELIEF
Drought in Southern Areas Unabated; Mercury 87 at 9 A. M. TEMPERATURES 10 am ... 88
12 noon ... 94 lpm ... 9
CONDITION ‘WORSE
6000 Veterans, Auxiliary Members March in Annual Procession.
LOCAL BANDS REVIEWED
Indianapolis Post 262 Wins Ralph Gates Trophy for Membership.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The condition of Secretary of War . George H. Dern (above), who has been under treatment for some weeks at Walter Reed - Hospital was reported by physicians today to be a little less favorable. Dern is being treated for complications which developed after an influenza attack last winter. Physicians said Mr. Dern spent a restless night and was restless and uncomfortable today.
5 MINERS DIE IN EXPLOSION
Bodies Taken From Shaft After Rescue Workers Dig Four Hours.
HOURL a.m. ... 78 m,.. 17 m. ... 84 m. ... 87
As-a burning sun pulled the temperature up to 94 degrees at noon today, the Weather Bureau forecast the possibility of an occasional thunderstorm as the only relief from Indianapolis’ 17-day heat wave. Ariel ©. Hedlee, 49, of 450 S. Key-stone-av, died yesterday at City Hospital from effects af heat prostration Saturday. Rain sprinkled the northern sections of the state again last night, but the drought in Indianapolis and southern sections continued unabated. J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, said if the warm lower air could be elevated on a bank of denser air there would be a pos- . sibility of rain in Indianapolis. The mercury climbed to 96 degrees yesterday, 23 degrees above normal temperature. The record temperature for Aug. 24 is 94 degrees, reported in 1873. Mr. Armington said that a local weather turbulence might bring light thundershowers {0 Indianapolis within: the next 24 hours. Little change of temperature is expected. Seven heat prostration cases were reported over the week-end. , s
16 COMMUNISTS WAIT EXECUTION IN RUSSIA
Ry United Press . MOSCOW, Aug. 24.—Sixteen Communist ‘leaders including two of world renown waited hopelessly in their cells today the brief hours that must elapse before they face a firing
squad 8 traitors, They were con- \ ted of mplicity ‘in plot to kill governn
BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer ; MUNCIE, Ind,, Aug. 2¢.—A crowd | estimated at more than 30,000 jammed downtown streets hére today for the annual Indana American Legion convention parade of 6000 . Legionnaires and auxiliary members. RR Floats, bands and drum ' corps were lined up for several miles at 1:30 p. m. for the procession that was expected to take three hours to pass the reviewing stand. Dr.’ A. R. Killian, state commander, headed a group of 13 past commanders on the reviewing stand. Banks included two from Indianapolis posts and a fife and drum corps of the Tillman Harpole Post, Indianapolis. # Fifty carrier pigeons, symbolizing peace, were released by South Bend Legionnaires at the reviewing stand before the start of the parade. Alvin Owsley, former national commander, and United States Ambassador to the Irish Free State, was guest of honor at business sessions this morning. He said President Roosevelt was liked generally in Europe and that “anything can happen in the Eyropean situation.” Other guests of honor included Gov. McNutt. and Raymond Springer, G. O. P. candidate for Governoz, who were to attend a commanders’ dinner at Hotel Roberts tonight. During sessions this morning, the Ollie Davis trophy for post activities was awarded to Everett Burdette Post, Evansville. The Ralph Gates membership trophy was awarded to the Indianapolis Post 262, and the Floyd Young membership trophy was awarded to the Rexford Ballard Post, Dugger. . Terre Haute appeared to be leanding as the choice for the 1837 ccn«(Turn to Page Three).
By United Press WILKES-BARRE Pa. Aug. 24.— The bodies of five miners were found in a shaft 200 feet below the surface today after fellow-workers dug through earth, stone and timbering for more than four hours to reach them.
Authorities did not determine immediately whether the explosion which trapped the men in the Sul- + | livan Trail Coal Co.'s West Pittston mine, was caused by dynamite or gas. . Epp The dead were: Charles Dj Samoney, 43, Old Forge; Patsy Soriceli, 37, West Pittston; Edward Rakar, 32, Pittston: Michael Tratlia, 29, West Pittston; Andrew Stefanko, 20, Old Forge. Two other men were taken to a Pittston hospital. One was John Smith, 35, Old Forge, who was working {n ‘the nine when the ex‘plosion occurred. ‘He suffered burns. | The othér man in the hospital was Theodore Nalanie, 27, Scranton. Nalanic, among the first rescuers to enter the mine, was overcome by black damp. His condition was serious.
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go ent of convictions followed confessions by all the men, It was expected that the next announcement would be the usual brief communique saying that the sentences had been executed. Among the doomed men were Gregory Zinoviev, former secretary general of the Communist International, and Leo Kamenev, diplomatist, both of the little group that made Russia Communist. It was believed that a new group of defendants would follow.
NEW CROSSING MARK SET BY QUEEN MARY
By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 24.—CunardWhite Star officials added the word “fastest” today to the superlatives plastered on the giant S. S. Queen Mary. : The big ship won the blue ribbon of Atlantic supremacy from the French liner Normandie last night by passing Ambrose Lightship four days seven hours and 12 minutes after clearing the breakwater at Cherbourg, France. Her average speed was 30.01 knots. The Normandie had held the North Atlantic speed pennant more than & year with a record of 20.64 knots from Cherbourgh to Ambrose, her championship voyage requiring 31: hours more than the Queen Mary's.
BUILDING PERMITS INCREASED $27,580
Permits were issued last week for construction of new buildings worth $72,117, an increase of $27,580 over the same week a year ago, George Popp, building commissioner, reported to the Safety Board today. The total for 1936 up to Aug. 22 is $4,216,779, an increase of $2,124,992 over the same period last year, the report showed.
PHILLIPS BECOMES
KILLS MATE, SELF ~ WITH CHLOROFORM
By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 24.—Mrs. Emilia Lynch, 48, administered an overdose of chloroform to her husband, Arthur, while he slept, police believed today and then committed suicide by breathing the fumes into her own nostrils. The couple figured sensationally in 1932 when Mrs. Lynch obtained a warrant against Mrs. Beata Brucer, president of the Cook County W. C. T. U. charging her with alienation of affections. Mrs. Lynch conducted an exclusive private school under the professional name Emilia Bournue.
Antiquity BY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
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| Des Moines Is Other Choice for ‘Drought Talk.
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dent Roosevelt probably will make one major address on his western drought inspection tour, close friends said today, indicating the speech will be delivered either at Des Moines or Indianapolis. Mr. Roosevelt will be in Des Moines Sept. 1 and will confer there on drought region problems with his Republican opponent, Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas and three other midwest Governors. After the Des Moines conference Mr. Roosevelt will go to Indianapolis where he meets four more governors for a discussion of problems in their states. The subject of Mr. Roosevelt's]. projected address was not indicated. However, he has said that he does not consider his drought inspection tour to be politicdl and that he plans no “political” speeches until Oc- |, tober. : .! Mr. Roosevelt returned to the White. House today after a 12-day absence from Washington) during which he toured the eastern flood area and spent some time at the summer White House at Hyde Park, N. Y.
OARP TO FACE TEST IN CALIFORNIA PoLL
Enters House Candidate in Each of 20 Districts.
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NINE DIE IN EARTHQUAKE KOTARAJA, SUMATRA, Netherlands East Indies, Aug. 24.—Nine natives were killed and 20 injured in a severe earthquake last night.
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You Car’t Win By United Press sos MARSHFIELD, Mass., Aug. '24.—A pants-pocket searching contest for women has been .. scheduled for Marshfield’s annual fair opening Wednesday. . Speed and thoroughness will determine ‘the victor. : No professional pickpockets "will be ‘eligible, and to make “sure, the judge will be a Boston police inspector. . Single girls will be “amateurs.”
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Spdin’s Civil
as Long-Drawn Struggle
Intefnational Situation Brightens as Germany, Russia Agree to Ban Export of Arms to Either Side.
War Seen
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor
Spain’s civil war continued today with. ubrestraindd savagery which has shocked -the world, and there were no signs of anything but a long-
drawn struggle, Zo ) It is war to the death with each side, inflamed by ‘hate, determined never to give“in. On the one hand are the rebels, consisting of the conservative element; Fascists, Mon;archists, clergy and men of property. On the other is the liberal and radical ‘governrhent, supported: by the
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Flames From Two-Alarm Blaze Spread to Nearby Homes as E. Washington Street Car Traffic Is Delayed for Over Hour.
ORIGIN OF EXPLOSION UNEXPLAINED
Neighbors Form Bucket Brigade to Aid Fires men; Seven Are Forced to Flee Homes;
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Is Diverted.
An explosion at 7 a. m. today wrecked and set fire to the ‘Schnull & Co. warehouse, 2603 E. Washington-st, did $18,000 damage to it and $5000 to surrounding structures, and tied up the E. Washington-st car line for one hour. It was the third and most serious fire in the building in the last four years. Firemen spid there was no salvage
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While firemen were fighting the blaze and had E. Wash ington-st crossed and recrossed with hose lines, the doubie= tracked street car line was closed, and approximately 15 cars
MORE FEDERAL WORK PROPOSED
Union Requests Increase of One Million Men on Pay Rolls.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Addition of another 1,000,000 persons to the Federal work-relief pay rolls— with a return to doles the only aternative—was proposed today by the Workers’ Alliance of America. The request was made indirectly to President Roosevelt. The Allj-
5 ance; a new union” with. 800,000 un- “| employed niétbers, claimed sup-
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‘The organization also sought 20
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workers now employed on govern-ment-financed projects. It asked for other benefits that would boost
‘government _ work-relief costs to
$6,000,000,000 a year. - The requests, based on the statement that “millions of those on the relief rolls are not likely to be returned to private industry in the near future,” were: 1. The $1,100,000,000 unspent from last year’s $4,000,000,000 program be used to make jobs for another 1,000,000 persons in addition to the 3,400,000 now employed, or be distributed as doles. : 2. The 2,300,000 persons now on WPA be paid a minimum of $40 instead of $19 a month; that all wages be raised immediately by 20 per cent; that workers be paid the union
scale. 3. WPA recognize the Workers’ Alliance as a cgllective bargaining agency for WPA ‘workers. Deputy WPA Administrator Aubrey W. Williams recently announced WPA would recognize the union and negotiate with it in the 43 states where it claims members.
‘PROBLEM CHILD,’ 16, ELOPES TO INDIANA
By United Press : CHICAGO, Aue. oY May Belle S; r, 16, em C who was Fo to do as she pleased, was honeymooning today with J. Edward Wright, 21, her handsome childhood sweetheart. } The daughter of Attorney Mary Belle Spencer and Dr. Richard
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By United Press DETROIT, Aug. man grand jury
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full of inbound passengers were forced to transfer to the
E. New York-st bus lines.
Neither firemen nor company ofe ficials were able to explain the cause of the explosion. The building was of cement block, 165 by 43 feet and one story high/ ' The explosion preceded the blaze, firemen were told by David E. Sommerville, 2321 E. Washing~ ton-st, who was in the neighborhood when it occurred. He said the roof seemed to burst into flames almost immediately and that a se= ries of minor explosions followed. He turned in an alarm, and when Chief William Clune of Station No. 4 arrived, he immediately put in the second alarm. The cement block wall was pushed against structures to the east and west of it, and the explosion showered burning brands on roofs of nearby structures. Neighbors soon formed bucket lines and put some of the minor roof fires out, and firemen. conc trated on preventing des buildings nearest. to-the ware
A large crowd gathered to the fire fighting, and were re= strained from the danger zone by. & force of police. Auto trafic was diverted to E. New York-st and caused a minor traffic tieup. % At 10. 8. Temple-st, east of the burning building, Mrs. Nora Hap ner, sons Frank and Henry, and daughter Audrey, fled from their burning home when the explosion awakened them. Mrs. Hapner said the damage to her home exceeded $1000. hd On the other side of the same structure, a double house, lived Mr, and Mrs. Fred Neutzenhelzer, and the damage, he said, to his furniture was $500 and to the structure $1000. | The Electric Appliance Co., a one= story structure in the rear of 2607 E. Washington-st, was damaged to the extent of $150, its proprietors said, and the Golden Inn, a tavern east of the warehouse facing E. Wash= ington-st, was damaged only by water and smoke, its proprietor, Thomas O'Gara, said. i;
Flee in Night Clothes
Mrs. Myrtle Boucher was in the kitchen of a restaurant at 2533 E. Washington-st when the explosion occurred and she called to s Huber, who was in the front pars. Mr. Huber turned inJan alarm, Mrs. Boucher went to warn Mr. ane Mrs. George Howerton, and Mrs, Nellie Whitney, who live in the rear and were asleep. : They fled in night clothes, Mrs; Howerton rescuing her cat, Boy, and Mrs. Whitney her dog, Toots. Mr, Howerton, who owns the structure, and a double garage that was nearly destroyed, and a car : ;
CRITICISM MADE OF 1937 TAX ANALYSIS
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