Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1936 — Page 1
FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and probably bly tomorrow To v; cooler tonight.
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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 180
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BROWDER SUIT ASKS $100,000 FOR DAY INJAIL
Mayor and Police Chief of Terre Haute Named in Action.
BEECHER STANDS FIRM
Local Attorney Represents Communist Candidate in Vigo Court.
By United Press TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Oct. 7. — Two suits demanding $50,000 from Mayor Sam Beecher and Police Chief James C. Yates were filed in Vigo County Superior Court today charging unlawful imprisonment and malicious prosecution of Earl Browder, Communist candidate for President. Mr. Browder was seized upon ar- | rival here Sept. 30 and held in jail 25 hours to prevent his delivering a campaign speech. The suits were filed less than 24 hours after Mayor Beecher challenged the right of the Communist Party to claim protection under the Constitution of the United States and reiterated intention to prevent Mr. Browder . from fulfilling a scheduled speaking engagement here Oct. 19.
Officials Named Jointly
The Mayor and police chief were named jointly in two suits, filed by David J. Bentall, Chicageé, and John H. Kingsbury, Indianapolis. One suit pointed out that the 25hour incarceration prevented Mr. “Browder from fulfilling scheduled ‘engagements and caused him $1,000 expense for attorney fees. The other asked $25,000 damages for “malicious prosecution,” citing his detention and subsequent ar1aignment in City Court where the vagrancy charges against Mr. Browder and four companions were dismissed. Mr. Beecher said today he would - not interf with a scheduled speaking engagement here Oct. 17 of Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, but reiterated his determination to halt Mr. Browder. “Communists claim the protection of our Constitution to allow them free speech, while they teach the overthrow of our government ‘and Constitution by: force, thereby destroying the very source from which they claim their protection of free speech,” the Mayor said.
ROTARY CLUB ELECTS ° BOARD OF DIRECTORS
The annual election of Rotary Club directors was held in the Claypool Hotel last night. Directors elected were Benjamin N. Bogue, director of Bogue Institute for Stammerers; Fred W. Case, president of Central Business College; Rex A. Hayes, general nmanager, Indianapolis plant of the Ford Motor Co.; Harry E. Rassmussen, president of - Peerless Electric Supply Co.; Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of city schools; O. K. Van Ausdall, partner of Dolbey & Van Ausdall; Isaac E. Woodard, president of the AcmeEvans Co., and Albert R. Worm, president of Hoosier Abbatoir.
TRUCK AND TROLLEY" COLLIDE, 1 INJURED
One persen. was injured, another had a miraculous escape, street car passengers were showered with ‘broken glass and a truck was demolished in a street car-truck collision near 944 E. Washington-st at 9 a. m. today. The injured man was Ernie Lepper, 55 of 219 S. Summit-st, a passenger m the truck driven by Morris Kestenbaum, 3022 Central-av, who escaped with cuts and bruises. Lepper is in City Hospital with a fractured hip. Services 1 was held up for 20 minutes. ttn
KARL RADEK, SOVIET WRITER, ARRESTED
By United Press MOSCOW, Oct. 7.—Karl Radek, internationally known Soviet journalist and personal friend of Nicho-
lai Lenin, has been arrested by the].
Soviet secret police, it was learned today from authoritative sources. Although he has-been high in the ranks of the Communist Party for years, his personal relations with,
Kansas Governor Expected to Give Address Here on Oct. 15 or 16.
The date of the appearance here of Gov. Alfred M. Landon, Republican presidential nominee, is expected to be learned later today, it was said at Republican headquarters here. ; While an announcement was awaited from Republican national headquarters in Chicago, it was believed by state party leaders that the nominee will speak here either Oct. 15 or 16.
Republican Campaign Picks Up Speed
By United Press TOPEKA, Kas., Oct. 7.—The Republican, presidential campaign gathered speed today as Gov. Alfred M. Landon completed preparations for a final two-part drive toward the East, where he will hammer on the issues of budget balancing and efficient relief administration. The first offensive in his last month of campaigning will start Thursday evening when he leaves for Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and many points between. ‘The groundwork for that swing already has been laid with a renewal ‘of his declaration in favor of the St. Lawrence-Seaway, his reiteration that states must have the right to decide their own prohibition. question, and his renewed emhasis -on religious and racial tolerance. .
FASTER MOTORS ARE PREDICTED
Dr. G. A. Young Saye That They Will Be Lighter Than Today, Too.
(Photo, Bottom of Page)
BY NOBLE REED Faster running motors, lighter in weight than those of present design, will whirl automobiles of the future over the highways, Dr. G. A. ¥oung, head of the Purdue University School of Mechanical Engineering; predicted today. . ‘ Dr. Young discussed the trends of motor designs in connection with the opéning here tonight of the General Motors Parade of exposition -in | Obelisk ‘Square, World War Memorial plaza. Smaller cylinder units probably will be ‘developed in the near future,” Dr. Young said. “This development will make higher speed motors possible with less weight. “I think the future trend of automobile design will be toward installation of motors in the rear end of cars for more even distribution of weight.” Dr. Young listed as one of the ‘more important developments in auto engineering the “knee action” improvements in 1936 cars for riding comfort. “The new axle development. permits each wheel to vibrate independently of the others on rough highways,” he explained. Reproduction of the sound waves of a human voice on a glass dial was described by Dr. Young as one of the most interesting Parade of Progress exhibit demonstrations. He said demonstrators speak into a microphone and a column of flash-
waves across the face of a dial. Another outstanding demonstration, he said, was the transmission of music over a beam of light to an “electric eye” which in turn records it through an amplifier.
CONTINUED CLOUDY FORECAST FOR AREA
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 62. 10a. m.... 63 7am.... 62 11 a.m... 65 S8a.m.;.. 63 12 (Noon). 66 9a. m.., 64 1pm. 67
Continued cloudy tonight and.tomorrow with dip in the temperature tonight was the weather forecast for Indianapolis and district, drenched by heavy downpours last night and early today. Rainfall was heaviest, according to the weather man, in the vicinity of Seymour, where a downfall of 1.78 inches was recorded. Noblesville reported 1.26 inches while the fall here amounted to .54 of an
Stalin never have been icasns:
put out AS CAR BARGES: IN .
inch during a five-hour period.
.church services
Roosevelt to Head for West While Landon Invades Fast as Political Drives Warm Up|
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Gov. McNutt and Senators to Greet President in Cincinnati.
Gov. McNutt and Urited States Senators Frederick Va2aNuys and
Sherman Minton are to confer with President Roosevelt on his campaign train in Cincinnati Friday morning, advices from Washington today said. The Presiden is scheduled to stop in the Ohio city for a half-hour on his jaunt into the Midwest. Besides the Indiana party leaders, others from Ohio and Kentucky are to join in the Cincinnati conference. Democratic headquarters here still are without definite information as to whether the President. will be in Indiana again before "the election.
Roosevelt io Invade Landon’s Home State
By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 7. — President Roosevelt will invade Kansas, home state of his opponent for the presidency, on a 10-day campaign swing through the West beginning tomorrow noori, the White House announced today. Mr. Roosevelt is to go first to Dubuque, Ia. arriving Friday at 9 a. m. anil leaving later for St. Paul, Minn.~ At St. Paul, he is expected to deliver a major campaign speech. Leaving St. Paul, the President will proceed to Lincoln, Neb., arriving Saturday afternoon. The next stop will be Omaha, Neb. where another major address is to be delivered. Departing at midnight. Mr. Roosevelt will move Westward to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he will attend Sunday. He will leave Monday morning for Denver and the Kansas visit will come en route back East. To Speak in Chicago His campaign special will head for Dodge City, Kas., Wichita and Emporia. © From Emporia, he will reach Kansas City, Kas, and after a brief visit will motor to Kansas City, Mo. He will depart Tuesday night for St. Louis, arriving Wednesday, after which he will entrain for Chicago for a speech in the stadium. The next day, Oct. 15, will find him in Grand Rapids, Mich. He will reach Detroit for an afternoon
meeting. Oct. 16 will he given over |. to appearances in Ohio. The Pres-
idem will reach Cincinnati about
10 a. m. for a brief visit and thence
will move ‘northward to: via Middletown, and Columbus. ‘He will
hour in Cleveland.
spend an
On Oct. 17, the final day of the
tour, Mr. -Roosevelt will be in upstate New York, stopping first at Njagara Falls and motoring to Buffalo. From there he will head for Rochester and thence to Albany via Syracuse and Utica. From ‘Albany, he will motor to the Hyde Park summer White House.
REPORT ON STICKERS MAY BE WITHHELD
While reports were current that all was not well with the city’s “fixproof” stickers now being examined by the State Accounts Board, William P. Cosgrove, chief examiner, said today no report would be made until after the Nov. 3 election. . Under an old Accounts Board rule, reports by field examiners are not made public record during the 30 days preceding an election, he i )
Meanwhile, Daniel J. O'Neill, city clerk, said “the present sticker system has not been working, and will not work.” ; : “I have examples here when people have come in with second notices on stickers and they already have paid the fine. This may be caused by delay in serving the second notices. A new system is needed to make the sticker ‘fixless.’” The Accounts Board study was asked by Chief Morrissey. last July, according to the police head, who denied political -implications.
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NYE DEFENDS ATTITUDE IN FOKKER CASE
Contract With Son . of. Roosevelt Not Fulfilled, Prober Says.
RELEASE IS EXPLAINED
Affidavit ‘Made Public - to Allay Criticism Leveled at Committee. By United Press er WASHINGTON, Oct. ' 7.—Chair-
man ‘Gerald P. Nye of the Senate munitions committee, . today vigor-
‘| ously defended his action in decid-
ing against hearings on charges that Elliott Roosevelt sought a $500, 000
commission for selling airplanes to!
Russia. After studying ‘° documents: sub-
mitted to it, Senator Nye said, the committee decided that if there ever was a contract between the President’s son and Anthony Fokker “it never was fulfilled and nothing: was done under it and going into -it would have resulted only in one thing—smearing of the President— one thing which no member of the committee wanted to do.” Mr. Nye also held that “in the interest of fairness” he had considered it necessary to release yesterday the affidavit of Mr. Fokker filed a year ago alleging that at one time he had held a contract with Elliott for proposed sale of 50 military planes to Soviet Russia. In the deposition, dated: Sept. 18, 1935, Fokker said the agreement entered into Feb. 28, 1934, covered
.| the expected sale of 50 planes of
Lockheed make to Russia “at an expected price ta allow a commission ‘of $500,000 to myself and $500, = 000 to [Elliott Roosevelt.” Mr. Fokker said young Roosevelt was paid $5000 in cash to sign the contract, but that the price sought for the planes ‘by Elliott Roosevelt and an associate was “so high that the Russians would have nothing to do with /the whole business and had not bought any of the planes.” |, The committee made public the
deposition on orders of Senator |
Nye (R., N. D) chair: aDublished charges
Chap’) 1 Deplell’ eT
‘At his ‘home: in" Fort Worth, Tex. 4 young Roosevelt said the charge he was “connected with:any group to sell war planes in Europe” was, untrue. “Three years ago when ‘Fokker came out with a new DC-2 type of
transport,” young Roosevelt said, “I.
was given a contract to sell planes in Europe. By no stretch of - the imagination could those. planes be construed as wag planes. 3 He said that after signing the. contract he decided that the job of selling planes would mean dealing with European governments, “which I thought I had better not do,” and that he asked to be released from the contract and was. He said his associate, G. W. Stratton of Los Angeles, under a similar contract, received $5000 for his work, but that “I received nothing.” The charges, he said, “look. like an effort to. embarrass my father.”
STOCKS ADVANCE TO | "MORE: THAN HAN 2 POUNTS
By United Press % NEW YORK, Oct. 7. —Stocks to-
day advanced fractions to ‘miére’
than 2 points to the highest levels since early 1931, wavered momentar-
ily on profit-taking sales, and re<|
sumed the rise before noon.
Trading was heavy enough to y
cause several. delays in the ticker service. Blocks ranging to more than 17,000 shares in in: Packard appeared.
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“Rebel Gain: ‘Claimed in ‘Madrid Area
‘By United Press . GIBRALTAR, aot 7.—Spanish insurgents, the preliminary phase of * their . attack on Madrid under way at last, — claimed important local victories today on two fronts. = The insurgents reported that . their men advanced their lines at Navalperal, west-northwest of Madrid, and routed loyalists : from the triangle bounded by Torrijos, Maqueda and Santa Seva, De Retamar, west of To-' le . . Madrid . countered, however, with the positive assertion that “the “rebels were. repelled with losses in both areas. New contingents of men who . have done. their: compulsory army service were called by the ' Madrid government. An appromi of . $700,000 was made by, ‘Madrid for wages and materials for the fortifications now being erected : Though both sides agreed that the big push for Madrid was yet only in the preliminary stage, they agreed also that the insurgents massed in the Toledo area were ready for their 40-mile march northward.
RILEY BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATED
School Children Take Roles of Characters Created by Poet.
(Photos, Page Three; Our Town, Page 17; Editorial, Page 18)
Characters who laughed and played in the immortal verse of James Whitcomb Riley came to life today in a program commemorating the eighty-seventh birthday anniversary of the Hoosier peet. Because of weather conditions, the progiam scheduled on the lawn of the late poet's Lockerbie-st home was held at Clemens Vonnegut School, Vermont and Davidson-sts:
Children participating in
he and recitations. included Roy Johns- | Jon, aia UMS! 2 aisg a -1 Ekins
The gi op gio be the boys’ glee lub of Technical High. School -and the Vonnegut 4-AB speech choir: ‘also’ ‘participated. The Rev. ‘William F. 'Rothenburger, Third. ‘Christian Church; gave ‘the Invocation and George B. Hitt, a friend, recalled incidents in ‘the poet’s life. After the school program members of the: Riley. Mémorial Associ-
ation placed a wreath on his grave in Crown Hil Comets. :
"| [EKINS ARRIVES IN RANGOON ON GLOBE FLIGHT
| Times Reporter to Rest
Before Start Tomorrow for Siam.
DAY'S TRIP 1650 MILES
Soars Over Bay of "Bengal
~ After Roaring Through Heart of India.
. BY H. R. EKINS Times Special Writer RANGOON, Burma (via K. L. M,, Orient Air Express) Oct. 7. — We came across the brilliant waters of the Bay of Bengal late today to Burma's famous city of pagodas and dropped to Mingaladon Airdrome at 3:50 p. m,, local time (4:20 a. m,, Indianapolis time), having put another 1650 les behind us in journalism’s e around the globe. The blunt-nosed K. L. M. airliner roared through the heart of India through. the day and reached here a little more than 11 hours after our take-off at dawn from Jodhpur, in Rajputana, last night's stopover point. - We left Jodhpur at 4:34 a. m., and stopped at both Allahabad and Calcutta before the flight on to this city, From Jodhpur this morning our big Douglas $hot us across. the Aravilla Mountain range, then over central India’s flat table lands to the “City of God”—Allahabad. Our plane made. the 542-mile journey in one minute over three hours,
Next Door to Siam
Fifteen minutes later we were high over the sacred Ganges, and then
roaring across the snow-capped |
peaks of the Hazaribagh Mountains. Just before noon we came down at Calcutta’s flying field, known as Dum Dum Airdrome after the nearby munitions factory. Now we are in Rangoon—one of the’ places Kipling ‘sang about—ready to streak away at daylight again tomorrow, headed. toward Manila, the broad Pacific and the great China Clipper, which later will carry us over the long water route to California. We are next door to Siam and only 360 miles from. Bangkok.
By Uilited Press Be NGOON, Burma, Oct. Sivine, Spores, asd Royal Dute M
“RR. in a
prs fine odors Gaming 4 | today
lead of almost 4000 miles over ‘two rivals in a race around the world.
Two days flying. time behind Mr. Ekins, Miss Kilgallen and Mr. Kieran landed in Gaza, Palestine, at 8:10 a. m. (1:10 a. m. Indianapolis time) and took off one hour and two minutes later for Baghdad, Iraq, 603 miles away. The plane was scheduled to stop overnight at ‘Baghdad, but may continue down
the Euphrates River to Basra,
Sn —— Pinky ‘Si ts a Record’ ‘Cotton Field” Worker, Grasped by Ambition, Is Rewarded by Cheers—and Death.
By: United Press ARTERSVILLE, Ga., Oct. T—
Ambition grasped Pinky Frazier,
‘a cotton fleld Negro, and wouldn't
let go. Pinky had lived into middle
age, content ‘with the small things.
-| Nothing of the sort had ever hap- | pened to. him before. Early yesterday he came into this town, across the state from his starting place. Agaipst the dawn-
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shouted regally. “I'se a smoke-stack sitter.” “Come down,” shouted authorities, angry now, “or we’ll build a fire under you.” “I'se not comin’ down,” Pinky replied, “until ah sits mah-self a record.” » ”
- FIRE was lighted in the base of the chimney but the flues were choked and the wisps of smoke that reached the top caused Pinky no discomfort at all. He made playful gestures and laughed and en-
| gaged in repartee with the crowd.
Eleven o’clock came and Pinky
| was getting cold and hungry. Des-
tched his audience had to do something to raise his own stood up and walked,
‘pairingly he drift away.
| wavering, around the edges of the
‘Then he tried a dance step
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SWEDISH
AVIATOF
STILL UNREPORTED;
First. Passenger- Service on Trans-Pacific Route Starts Today.
REPORTERS GET CALL
Six Aviation Writers to Be First to Travel in ~ Official - Flight.
BY HARRY W. FRANTZ United ‘Press. Staff Correspondent
SAN FRANCISCO, Oet.-T7. —A group of newspaper men will take off at 3 p. m. today in Pan-American Airways’ China Clipper, bound for Manila in the first official transPacific passenger flight. The flight will be a “preview” to regular passenger service which will begin Oct. 21. It marks the end of the era of experimentation in trans-Pacific air transport, and heralds the beginning of scheduled service over the Alameda-Honolulu-Midway-Wake-Guam route, Pan-American’s first passengers will include this correspondent; C. E. Harner of Associated Press, New York; W. W. Chaplin of Universal Service; C. B. Allen of the New York Herald-Tribune; Lauran D. Lyman of the North American Newspaper Alliance, and William Van Dusen of the Pan-American Airways Public Relations staff. The passengers will make a study of facilities and methods used by Pan-American in its hops from Alameda to Manila, inaugurated last November
RUTH IS SIGNED AS DODGER CHIEF, CLAIM
"(World Series : = Staiy, Page 22)
1'By United Press
NEW YORK, Oct, 7—Babe Ruth,
oe of the greatest ball players of |
.‘crities Who 2 washed 1
by ig Back into the national sports | as. potential manager. of the Brooklyn ‘Dodgers. Wit 8 puckish grin on his face, baseball's erstwhile bad boy showed up at ‘the victory party of the world champion New York Yankees last night to help ‘them ‘celebrate. He shook hands with his archenemy, Manager Joe McCarthy, had a drink with Col. Jacob Ruppert, with whom he had clashed bitterly, and generally expanded an air of geniality.
Sports “circles; ‘however, were din- |.
formed the deal has already been made but can not be announced until certain litigation in which the Brooklyn club is involved with various banks and estates can be cleared
up.
AUTO STOLEN FROM DEPUTY RAMS HOUSE
Deputy Sheriff Claris. McCallister is negotiating. with junk men today, and Perry W. Purvis is considering remodeling his home at 1702 Linden-st, all because a robber attempted to go into the automobile stealing business before he learned to drive. Shortly before midnight, Mr. MeCallister’s automobile was stolen from in front of his home, 65¢ E. 13th-st, while the deputy sheriff
was asleep. Radio Patrolmen Roy Conaway
‘and Mowray Johnston picked up
the trail at State and English-avs. The robber nearly rammed the squad car in making a getaway, and. the race was on. Finally the driver lost control of the machine. It crashed into Mr. Purvis’ house in Linden-st. Climbing from ’ the wreck, the robber continued his flight afoot,
.| shedding his raincoat and suit coat |
as he ran. Police fired one shot at the man before he escaped, and then reported Uie matter to Mr. MecCallister
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Rencit Airman Sighted oft Norwegian Coast Proves - Error.»
LEFT N.Y. YESTERDAY,
Crowds at Stockholm Airport -Anxiously Await Word From Birdman.
‘| By United Press
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Gets 7.—Kurt« Bjorkvall, . Swedish flier attempting. a nonsiop flight across the Atlantic from New York to Sweden, vas eagerly awaited here tonig ht
but had not been sighted.
A report was-issued that’he had appeared off Christiansand, off the southern. tip of Norway, but the plane believed to be his was later identified as a Norwegian ary plane. The British air ministry said that Bjorkvall would encounter only ihe ‘the - most ‘favorable ‘weather from mid-Atlantic to the Irish Coast.” He planned to fly from New York to Newfoundland and then foliow the great circle, across the Atlay ic to’ Ireland and then to Stockholm by way of England, Holland sad Germany. Leaving New York at 7:30 a. m. (6:30 a. m.: Indianapolis time), he expected 2 arrive’ in Stockholm by 5:30 p. m. tonizat, making the flight in 34 hours. Bjorkvall, who has been. fi ng since 1929 and has a record of 1900 hours. in the air, operates a fitin service in Sweden. Several res: of skiing parties lost in the sow have been made by him. He carried a radio receiver. has no sending equipment. 1p e wings of his airplane were fi with table tennis balls to give xe
machine more buoyancy in cat> 46 was forced ‘down at sea, and he is
equipped with a life preserver. 4 ‘The airplane carried’ 745 gal gallons of gasoline and’ 35 gallons of oll,
Loans and ‘Srants. totaling 046 to 22,099 farmers for dro: relief in five states, including diana, have been approved by the Resettlement Administration, ree gional officials = announced ‘here. today. Abaiications approved included only those submitted between .July 1 and Oct. 5. Officials said 5000 more applications ror aid ‘retain to be considered. Direct ‘grants totaled $247,703 and loans, payable in 18 months with § per cent interest, totaled $437.343. Other states besides Indiana in this region are Illinois, Ohio, Missousg and Iowa. :
VALUES PLACED ON FIRW'S LAND DIFFER
A wide variation appeared : mn values. placed on coal land owned by the Indianapolis Power and Co. today in a rate case hearing fore the Public Service Com The hearings followed an for the company to show cause Why electric rates should not be reduced, Objecting to separation of stesn and electric
of steam property at $5,244,637. Coal lands -in Sullivan fd were valued at $168,633 by. Commis
while company valuation set figures at $568,722. ; figures valued the Pike County cea land at $641,678. H. O. Gorms: company engineer, set -the value $1,564,982,
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