Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1936 — Page 1
at Wabash
FORECAST Showers and warmer tonight and tomorrow.
FINAL HOME
STATE RETAL ~ SALES GO UP 18 PER CENT
Increase in Business for August Over 1935 Reported by U. S.
GARY HAS BIGGEST RISE |
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61 Indianapolis Stores Equal Average Hoosier Gain.
Retail sales increased 18 per cent in Indiana last month over August, |
1936, a bulletin issued here by the
United States Department of Commerce disclosed today. The report was based on the sales | of 431 independent stores in the state.
Indiznapolis, with 61 retail stores reporting, showed an 18 per cent increase in sales over August, 1935. “Without adjustment for seasonal! influences, August sales in the state | showed an increase of 4 per cent | over July, 1936. °
Gary Has Biggest Gain
“The city of Gary reported the greatest gain’ in total sales August of last year with an ind crease of 25 per cent. Other | rhanges for the cities shown range down to a 9 per cent increase reported at Terre Haute,” the bulletin stated. In a comparison of the types of increases in retail sales, according | to the character of the business, the | report shows that motor svehicle | dealers led the parade of “better | business” with a 33.8 per cent in- | crease last month over August, 1935, | with lumber and building material | dealers ranking second with a 28 | per cent jump. Department store sales increased 24 per cent in August over July. Furniture, hardware and household appliances, averaged from a! 19 per cent for furniture to a 15 per cent increase for household | appliance dealers.
Grocery stores reported a 62 per cent increase in sales with drug stores showing a slightly higher volume or a 9 per cent increase.
Rubber Plant Planned
By United Press AKRON, O., Sept. ‘Tire ‘and Rubber Co. nounced plans to enter the mechanical rubber goods field with . opening of a plant at Wabash, Ind. Present plans do not contemplate production of tires there. Production is expected to start by-Jan. 1.
SEAMEN TO PROTEST HOLDING OF SIMPSON
Buy United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—The Seamen's Defense Committee, headed bv Joseph Curran, today announced that it would try to call a one-day cessation of work Monday in all Fast Coast and Gulf harbors and in ports ‘in Europe in protest against the Nazi imprisonment of Lawrence Simpson, American seaman. “We expect to tie up all shipping in New York harbor,” Mr. Curran said. “There should be 60 to T0 ships in port that day with 4000 to 5000 seamen aboard.”
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WOMAN BELIEVED ~~ MISSING IS FOUND
By United Press RICHMOND, Ky. Sept. 26— Mrs. Alice Underwood, missing since Aug. 13 and at first believed a victim of a mutilation murder here, has been located in Cumberland, Ky. -Deputy Sheriff A. P. Gwinn was informed today. The sheriff was told Mrs. Underwood has been living in Cumberland under the name of Allie Kahlbaugh. She was principal witness in a murder trial last February.
TRY TO SAVE GIRL ATTACKED IN HOTEL
By United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Physicians today fought to save the life of Alda Deery, 24, pretty brunet victim of -an attack which contained many of the elements of three hotel room murders in the last five months.
Miss Deery, New York actress was garroted in her room in a Loop hotel. The intruder set fire to her stage clothes and fled. Her roommate, Dorothy Ryan, found her with a silk stocking knotted about her neck, her dress in ribbons.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1936
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Upper—He flies through the air —and pity the ball carrier who gets in his way. This is a worm'seye view of Jake Weger, 235 pounds of Butler University lineman, on his way to a flying tackle. Lower—Purdue’s Gift to football —Wayne is the first name and he does a first class job of quarter backing.
PURDUE, BUTLER
OPEN SEASONS
11 Other Hoosier Teams
Swing Into Action on Gridirons.
(Editorial, Page 10: Other Stories, Page 6) Football .takes the spotlight in| | Indiana today, with 13 Hoosier collegiate elevens launching campaigns, Chief interest is centered at La- | fayette, where the hastily-assembled Purdue warriors are to “carry on” for two teammates killed in a preseason dressing room tragedy. Three | other outstanding candidates will be missing from the squad today, recuperating from injuries received in the blast. The Boilermakers ‘opening foe is
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the vaunted Ohio University Bob- |
cats, one of the nation’s few unbeaten teams-in 1935. 4 Other members of the “big three” —Notre Dame and Indiana—are to open next Saturday. A dozen Indiana Collegiate Conference teams were groomed for action, with Butler University starting defense of its 1934 and 1935 conference titles by opposing Evansville College at Fairview Bowl. In other conference engagements, Rose Poly , is at Earlham, Oakland City at Franklin and St. Joseph at (Turn: to Page Three)
600 TAX OFFICIALS T0 CONVENE HERE
Six hundred tax officials from 40 states are to meet in the Claypool Hotel Monday for four days of sessions on phases of governmental taxation. Gov. McNutt is to speak at the opening of the assembly of delegates, who are members of the National Tax Association. Mayor Kern is to deliver the address of welcome. Twelve sessions, each on a separat» phase of tax legislation, are scheduled. Philip Zoercher, chairman, Indiana State Board of Tax Com1 ‘ssioners and tax association president, is to preside. Mr. Zoercher said between 500 and 60C¢ tax experts and officials attended last year’s meeting in Oklahema City.
HOLDS NO FEAR OF PARALYSIS SPREAD
A eeiing of of 211 scho school nurses was called yesterday by Dr. Herman G. Morgan, health board secretary, to discuss reports of three cases of infantile paralysis and one death from the malady during the last 72 hours. “There is no cause for alarm,” Dr. Morgan assured parents, “since the sporadic outbreak comes this late in the season. Climatic conditions in the late fall and winter apparently are not conducive to spread of the disease.” Five cases have been reported during September, Dr. Morgan said, and four other Marion County cases are under treatment.
SHOWERS, WARMER WEEK-END FORECAST
Gam... 5 10 a.m. ... 69 .3 lam... ,60 12noon .... 73
are forecast for the week-end by the United States Weather Bureau. Temperatures were rising today after the mercury hit 42.8 yesterday May 21° the lowest since last
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U.S. MAY ACT IN SHIP STRIKE
New Maritime Bo Board Likely to Seek Peace in Coast Crisis: (Editorial, Page 10)
By Scripps-Howard Newspaper ‘Alliance WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Disturbed over zn impending Pacific Coast shipping crisis that may tie up all séa-borne commerce under the American flag, the Administratioh may invoke the immediate services of the new Maritime Commis-
sion to postpone a show-down and arrange a lasting peace between ship owners. and workers on seaways and waterfronts. The crisis comes to a head in San Francisco next ‘Thursday, the expiration date of a set of arbitration awards entered into two years agogpt the time of the San Francisc@ general strike. Two years of troufled peace under these awards ma broken then, when organized st Coast ship owners have warn@® that certain of the awards’ terms@Musi be submitted to a new arbitration at once. The 35.000 longshoremen, seamen and other workers of the Maritime Federation are satisfied with the awards, and are virtually certain to refuse to arbitrate their terms, it was reported. If neither side gives in a strike or lockout will result. The longshoremen have voted 18 to 1 against arbitration. The Maritime Commission has no mediatory powers, but is. has powers to investigate and fix labor conditions on’ vessels -receiving- government subsidief. By United Press MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. . 26.—The grain elevator and flour mill strike, which “has pardlyzed Minneapolis’ vast milling ust, ended oday,
By United "ress . WASHINGTON, Sept 26. Assistant Secroiary of Labor Edward F. McGrad); ea 1qute to San Francisco in a last-minute effort to prevent the f{hreateiied maritime strike. informed his office hers today that a snowstorm liad grounded his plane at North I’latte, Neb. He said he prok:ibly could not reach San
Francisco urnitil {omorrow.
Rebels Nearing Toledo; Sino-Nippon Pact Sought
Shanghai Outwardly Calm but. Tense During. - Negotiations. -
By United Press SHANGHAI, Sept. 26.—Shanghai
was outwardly calm ‘today, but-ten-sion between Japanese and Chinese
had not relaxed.
While Japanese warships stood off
the Bund and more. than 3000 Japanese troops patrolled their section of the international settlement, diplomatic conversations went forward here and in Nanking ‘to seitle aifficulties between the two nations. Hard feeling between Nanking and Tokio has been engendered by the slaying in China within the past few weeks of six Japanese citizens. Emperor Hirohito, because of ithe Chinese-Japanese crisis, cancelled his plan. to witness the naval maneuvers off Hakkaido today and will return to the capital.
HEADS ASSESSORS By United I'ress DETROIT, Sept. 26. John A Zangerle, Cleveland, O., was -named president of the National Association of Assessing Officers at the conclusion of the organization's three-day convention here last night.
President Azania _ Reported
‘Ready to: Flee Country on Argentine Ship.
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) GIBRALTAR, Sept. 26.— The thunder of Spanish rebel guns echoed close to Toledo today.
Rebels hoped to réach the city, from
‘their lines a few miles away, some time today and continue on to take the city. As the battle developed the Argentine government announced that its cruiser, the Veinticinco De Mayo, was standing by in Alicante harbor to embark government officials. President Manuel Azana was one of those named in Buenos Aires as having asked protection of the cruiser for escape in event the rebels neared Madrid. . Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, “telephoning from Madrid to Julio Alvarez Del Vayo, chief Spanish delegate at the League Assem-
bly, deniéd as ridiculous the report |
that high officials would flee. Dispatches from Toledo said the loyalists forced the rebel columns back more than a mile along the Torrijos-Toledo highway and that two government pursuit warplanes brought down a rebel tri-motored bomber at the gates of Toledo. .
| Adjustment Board Weighs
Plan in Effort to Slash 46-Cent Levy.
8-CENT SAVING SEEN
Welfare Program Financing Proposed Informally at Hearing.
Casting about for a way to slice the county tax levy 46 cents to nearer this year’s levy of 38 cents, the Marion County Board of Tax Adjustment today considered the issuance of bonds to finance the county welfare The discussion, ‘informal in its content, came up as the board considered the welfare budget and heard it analyzed by I. C. Spencer, assistant county welfare director. Mr. Spenced said: “It’s no concern of mine nor the welfare department whether the welfare program is supported by taxes or partly by bond issues.” Board members discussed the possibility that several -cents might be cut off of .thé county rate by issuing bonds in connection with the welfare program. The extreme view is held by some county officials that it might even be possible to bring the county tax rate down 8 cents to the current rate of 38 cents, through bonding some of the welfare program. Under the proposed welfare budget an estimated $900,000, or a 17-cent levy is needed for 1937, according to Joel A. Baker, welfare director. A protest against. tax increases (Turn fo Page Three)
NEW COUGHLIN APOLOGY ASKED
“1 McNicholas “Wan ‘Wants Priest
to- Retract- ‘Anti-God’ ; _ Statement.
2y United Press : ; CINCINNATI, Sept. 26. — The Most Rev. John T. McNicholas,
| Roman - Catholic = Archbishop of Si said today he hoped the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, who only a few weeks ago called President Roosevelt a “liar” and then apologized, would also retract a statement he made here Thursday night that the President is “anti-God.” Archbishop McNicholag said that Father Coughlin probably made his statement only because he was
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‘heated by the subject of an address
he was making, and would withdraw it in a calmer moment. The Archbishop took particular exception to Father Coughlin’s statement that bullets would be justifiable weapons against any “upstart dictator.” Such words, the prelate said, give the impression that their speaker advocates force.
Coughlin Expects
| Vatican Reprimand
By United Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 26.—The Rev. Charles E. Coughlin said today he has no intention of ‘pulling his punches against President Roosevelt, - although the official Vatican newspaper, the Bishop of his. own diocese and the Archbishop of Cincinnati have condemned his language. He said he would not be surprised if the Vatican reprimands him for his advocacy at Cincin-| nati of “bullets for an upstart dictator.”
OWENS COMING HERE FOR LANDON SPEECH
Jesse Owens, Olympic sprint champion and now on a political stump tour in’ behalf of the election of Gov. Alfred M. Landon, is to speak in Indianapolis on Oct. 8, ac-
| cording to word received here today
by the Republican state committee.
Site of the meeting has not been
decided.
Reporter Plans to Circle Globe in 22 Days by Air Lines
EPARTURE of the Hindenburg from Lakehurst next Wednes-
day niglit will mark the inception of the first attempt to circumnavigate the world hv means of regular commercial air Ii . The ia trip, impossible until tra fic passenger operations by Pan-Anerican-Airways had completed the Ist great over-water link, will be made by H. R. (Bud) Ekins, 2:5 correspondent of the New York Viorld-Telegram. The globe, since the five barnacleencrustad galleons of the slain
port afler more than a thousand days of westward voyaging, has grown :teadily snialler. Past passages ¢f the clipper ships,’ the development of rail and steamship transportation, cut days and hours from iis ¢ircumference until |e in the late years of the past cen-
-In 1913 John H. Mears cut Nellie Bly’s two and a half months to a matter of 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes; by 1926 Edward S. Evans and Linton Wells had cut this time by more than a week. Mears, in 1928, accompanied by Capt. C. B. D. Col-
lier, reduced the time for the trip— and the size of the world—fo 23
R. Ekins, whose work for the
Scripps-Howard newspapers -
during the Sino-Japanese War of
1932 and later in Ethiopia gained an
international reputation, will leave
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PRICE THREE CENTS |
Paris Prepares Bills to] Million Pounds Dumped by
Reduce Gold Content of the Franc.
SWISS TO FOLLOW suv
Financial Experts Report Similar Action May Come in Italy.
(Simms Story, Page 11) (Copyright, 1936, by United Press)
PARIS, Sept. 26.—The government today drafted bills effectuating its decision to devalue the franc by about onethird while other nations
Russian Bank Bought by Morgenthau.
ACTION COMES SWIFTLY
Takes Step Under British«
‘French Accord Which Wins Hull Praise.
By United Press
WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. —The United States served notice on the world today that it is ready to go to the limif in protecting the integrity of
| its new tri-partite agreement
swiftly acted to join France, | with krance and England to
Great Britain and the United stabilize
States in working toward gen- |
eral stabilization the
world’s currencies. The Swiss Federal Council decided to join France in devaluating its franc. Switzerland, France, and Holland had been alone in adhering
to the old gold bloc. Belgium, which previously had devalued its money. followed the United States and Britain in giving France assurances that it would refrain from any measure hampering the French adjustment program, which will be presented to parliament Monday. Italian financial experts indicated that, if the international agreement can be extended, it is likely to follow France in devaluating its currency. The basic agreement between France, Britain and the. United States, which set the tempo that virtually all the world was bound 0 follow, was hailed by Financé Minister Vincent Auriol as “the beginning of an economic and monetary peace—monetary peace being the condition for economic peace that is essential for human peace.” The government's bill to devalue the franc to between 43 to 49 milligrams of gold, compared with the present Sontent of 65.05, will be preséntéd to the finance committees of parliament tomorrow. Another bill will empower the government to requisition’ gold at the present rate.
MARKET RISES ON BULLISH REACTION
By United Press NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Bullish interpretation of the French and Swiss decision to devalue their currencies sent the Stock Market soaring today in the most active trading
of
since July 27.
Losses sustained early in the week when the market was discounting the French devaluation were wiped out. - The list opened quiet as’ traders cautiously felt their. way. Then shorts rushed to cover. Before the first half hour was over prices had been bid up more than 3 points in the main list and as much as 8 points in a stock like Allied Chemical. The tape fell behind. Buying lightehed before the end of the first hour and prices reacted from the highs. When the list had consolidated its position it set off on another advance just before: the ciose that carried the automobile issues to new highs on the movement and brought sharp advances in railroad issues. Steels mountsmall
if gains. .
Oils, mercantile shares and special issues were firm. Very little business was done in foreign exchange markets. The franc, which closed last night at 6.58% cents, was nominally quoted around 5 cents in the first hour. Toward noon the nominal level was advanced because of uncertainty over the exact extent of devaluation. There was some business done in sterling. Prices wavered a bit at midsession and volume lightened. Another buying rush just before the close was believed to have been influenced by intervention of the United States Treasury Department to prevent a Russian raid on the pound sterling.
CHARGE VIOLATION OF CONTAINER LAW
AUTO OVERTURNS;
. DRIVER Is IN
international
rency markets.
Striking with decisive swiftness: when informed that the Russian state bank was attempting to depress sterling by offering one mils lion pounds “at the market” on the New York Exchange Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau carried out this government’s part of the “gentlemen’s agreement” by using the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund to frustrate the move. Simultaneously, = Secretary of State Cordell Hull hailed the new monetary accord as a boon to world trade and peace and said the aca tion had brought world-wide stabilization of currencies a step nearer. The raid on the pound sterling came little more than 12 hours aft. er the United States, England and France agreed to pool their coms
cur-
fort to prevent wide fluctuations in currency quotations, coincident with abandonment by France of the gold standard. ii
Foreign Markets Closed
"London and ‘Paris. money mars kets were ‘cl On the New York: market the -sterling guotation, swiftly from $6.05. to. $4.91 short after the Opening. “As- -American. - markets were the only ones affec it was up to the United States act under the new agreement. Retaliation came swiftly when Mr. Morgenthau was informed that dumping by the Russian bank had caused the decline. Digging into the stabilization fund , for $5,000,000, Mr. Morgenthau bought the entire offering and bolstered the sagging currency market. The transaction. resulted ‘in’ a profit for this government; he said, and served to warn other nations that the three greatest money nae tions will not tolerate tampering with the objectives of the new agreement. “I sincerely hop2,” Mr. Morgens= thau said, “that no one will try this again.” He. said this government was prepared to throw its entire $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund into the money markets if necessary to maintain curtency levels. - . The Treasury secretary said the. accord was reached with active coe operation of President Rookevelt. America’s action in | connection with the raid on the pound was-res ceived favorably in France, Mz, Morgenthau said. He said the dumping had not affzcted the agrees ment in any way and that “as far as the gentlemen are concerned, we ‘Te all still gentlemen.” :
Fear New Locarno Pact Doomed
By United Press’ LONDON, Sept. 26.—Foreign dip lomats informed their governments today that hope of a five-power meeting this year to draft a new Locarno treaty had virtually been abandoned. They believed that a generzl settlement with Italy and Germany had become, for the present, uns attainable, these two countries, both of whom have expansionist ‘policies, would have ‘been asked at the cone ference to co-operate in guarantees ing the froptiers of Europe. Among the factors believed blocks ing the conference is continued Anglo-Italian tension.
WOODRING BECOMES - SECRETARY OF WAR
By United Press
bined resources in .co-operative efs