Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1936 — Page 1
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[Soares owas} VOLUME 48—NUMBER 207
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy and unsettled tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1936
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
FINAL HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
BUSINESS BEST IN TEN YEARS, C.0FC. C. CLAIMS
Momentum Carn Carries Great
Elements of Strength, Report Says.
SETBACK PERIL SCOUTED
Steady Improvement Noted Since May; Finds Gain in Pay Rolls.
Bu l'nited Preas WASHINGTON, Nov.
' Roosevelt’ S
~ Margin Now 10,107,473
| By United Press - NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—President Roosevelt's margin of popular votes over Gov. Alf. M. Landon stood today at { 10,107,473, with returns from | 9800 straggling precincts still to be tabulated. The United Press tabulations for 112,731 precincts totaled: ‘ 26,
PROGRESSIVES RETAIN POWER
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‘MERCY ARMY
T0 PUSH DRIVE FOR $745,000
Community Chest Workers to Carry On Campaign Over Week-End.
CHAIRMAN CITES NEED
Drive to Center on Homes, Industries and Employes Next Week.
There will be no rest this week-
end. for 3000 volunteer workers in
United States Chamber of Com-| Congress Bloc Breaks About|
merce today
business has made ine most substantial recovery in the period since May, 1935, that has been noted in any period of the past 10 years. “It, is necessary to back a decade.” the Chamber said in its summary of business conditions, “to find another period in which business momentum had within itself equal elements of strength.”
The Chamber said that despite |
the consistent improvement in business conditions there was small chance of any immediate setback.
Momentum Called Impressive
“The momentum which has been |
gained in business actviities is im- | pressive, both in its extent and in | its promise fo rthe period ahead,” the Chamber said. The chamber declared that “When all the evidence is brought together | . it appears unmistakably that | since the summer of 1935 there has been steady progress. “Such a prolonged advance, although gradual from month to month, might suggest at least a temporary recession in the near future. But consideration of the elements which enter into national activity, both by business fields and hy areas, makes it clear that durIng the last 17 months the most gignificant’ development has been improvement in balance, among fields of enterprise and among areas of the country.”
Pay Rolls Also Up
The Chamber pointed ouf that -in | May, 1835, the ratio of ‘capital goods production to consumers goods pro~ duction was 53.5 to 88. “This ratio has now hecome approximately 90 to 100,” thie Chamber said. “There has been an accompanying increase of more than 20 per cent in pay rolls in production of capital goods. “An advance which permits such improvements in balance among fields of enterprise obviously produces an increasingly strong basis for the future. “The evening-up process gives stamina and vigor to an economic structure as surely as averaging down spreads weakness.”
Market Has Strong,
Active Session By
I nited Press NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Mercantile | shares, amusements and motors— | stocks that were expected to ap-| preciate by heavy dividend distributions and wage increases—featured a strong, active stock market ses- | sion today. The only mar on the list was the railroad group, and even that met meager support just before the close. Chrysler Corp. reached 136% up| 13% and a new high since 1928. General Motors made .a new high since 1929 at 853% up 1's.
‘BIG THREE’ TO MEET EASTERN OPPOSITION
Eastern teams were to furnish opposition today for Indiana's collegiate “Big Three,” with one of them invading Hoosierland and two others facing Indiana opposition on
-their home grounds.
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Syracuse was at Bloomington for a clash with Coach Bo McMillin's Indiana University eleven in which the down-staters were slight favarites. Elmer Layden took his Notre Dame Irish to Baltimore to meet the Navy Bulldog in a contest the South Benders are favored to win.
CHIC SALE, VETERAN ACTOR, HAS RELAPSE |
By United Prisms. - HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 7.—Charles | (Chic) Sale, veteran comedian of stage and screen, suffered a relapse today after a brief improvement in | his fight against lobar pneumonia | and physicians described him as “very much weaker.”
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Even in Election, Survey Shows.
BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Progres- | sive blocs in the Senate and House | broke even in the election. They suffered a few losses but made ‘ proportionate gains. In the seventy-fifth Congress they will wield just about the same power as in the seventy-fourth.
Senator Edwara P. Costigan’s re- | tirement because of ill health, the | defeat and subsequent death of | Senator James Couzens, and the re- { tirement of Senator Elmer A. Benson to become Governor of Min- | nesota leave a big hole in the vro- | gressive ranks. But Ernest Lundeen. another Farmer-Laborite, succeeds Senator Benson; Prentiss March Brown, a New Dealer, succeeds Mr. Couzens; and reactionaries from Delaware, Iowa and Oklahoma have been replaced hy James Hurd Hughes, Clyde L. Herring and Josh Lee respectively, the first a mild supporter of the President, and the others more ardent ones. In the House, progressive forces are depleted by the loss of D. J. Driscoll of Pennsylvania, Fred Sisson and Vita Marcantonio of New | York, Mr. Lundeen, who moved on | to the Senate, Joseph P. Monaghan { of Montana, and Randolph Carpenter of Kansas, as well as the late Marion Zioncheck, who was an aggressive liberal . during .the.-early part of his incumbency.
Liberals Number 50
But Warren G. Magnuson, who is familiar with problems of the worker, is ‘coming in Zioncheck’s place, Ross ‘Collins of Mississippi, a House progressive for years, is returning, and Franck Havenner, who has fought labor's battles in San Francisco for years, is succeeding Florence P. Kahn. Nanny Honeyman, a girlhood friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, is coming to the House from Oregon, Norman Hamilton, new member from Virginia, is a New Dealer, William J. Fitzgerald of Connecticut has a long labor record, and Alfred N. Phillips Jr., also from Connecticut, is said to have liberal | leanings.’ All the other Republicans, Demo- | crats, Farmer-Labcrites and Progressives roughly classified as lib{eral were returned to the Mouse with little opposition. Altogether { they number about 50, yet they have | never managed to wield any great legislative power since they seldom | vote as a unit. An attempt to form (them into a cohesive bloc to’ fight | for modification of House rules, a | year and a half ago, failed.
SUNDAY MOTORISTS TOHAVE DRY ROADS
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 39 10am. ... 47 7a.m.... 39 1lla.m. . 50 S8a.m.... 40 12 (Noon) ER Sa.m.... 45 lpm... 8
Hopes of motorists for a dry driving Sunday are to be fulfilled, although sunshine 1s to be lacking, according to the weather man’s explanation that “unsettled” is a “dry” word. His prediction was that tomorrow will be “cloudy and unsettled.” The forecast said there would not be much change in today’s temperatures, which are to hover around | the fifties. v
SET TAX HEARINGS
Dates for third heari hearings on Marion County tax rates were set today by the State Tax Board. County and civil city rates are to be reviewed Friday Nov. 13, and school J city J are to be discussed Sat- | urda
IN MADRID STREETS
the Community Fund's drive for $745,742. In an effort to make a good showing at the first report meeting Monday noon in the Claypool Hotel, the “mercy army” plans to continue solicitations tomorrow, it was announced today. The campaign, which ends Nov. 16, is to center its drive next week on industries and employe solicitations as well as homes. Harold B. West, general chairman, reiterated his belief that Indianapolis would meet the fund’s needs. He stressed that hunger is not the only hazard in life, but that delinquency, .diseasé and despair were dangers equally to be avoided. “Fifteen thousand boys and girls were provided youth guidance through fund agencies last year. The needs of these youngsters must be met and friendly guilance must be continued,” he declared. Fred Hoke, former fund organization president, and Col. Earle F. Hites, Volunteers of America directcr, were speakers at a meeting yesterday of 500 fund workers. They stressed the necessity of poverty prevention an dthe building of morale in homes.
President Urges All to Share in Drive
Bu United Press CLEVELAND, Nov. 7.—President Roosevelt launched the 1936 mobilization for human needs in 350 cities today with an appeal to all to share their increasing prosperity. He spoke over the radio, from the White House last night as the fundraising campaign got under ‘way here with an inaugural rally, urging { & generous response to the Cora hmu- | 7 nity Chest campaigns. “This appeal,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “comes at a time when the national income is rising and the number of (Turn to Page Three)
GUN ACCIDENT KILLS FRANKLIN TEACHER
Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind. Nov. 7.—Neles Benson, 41, Franklin High School faculty member, was killed accidentally at his homes here today while attempting to remove a rusty shell from a shotgun. Dr. W. L. Porteus, coroner, said the full charge struck Mr. Benson in the chest, killing him instantly. He held the death accidental. Mr. Benson, who served: in the Navy during the World War, came here from Clayton a year ago. He formerly was grade school principal at North Salem. He attended James Milliken University and the University of Illinois. Survivors include the widow, a daughter, his father and two brothers. Funeral arrangements have not been completed.
No Profits in Snow Imports, Youths Learn
The charge in Municipal Court was that two boys were throwing stones at passing autos from the Illinois Central track elevation at West-st. “Judge,” said Carl Wilson, one of the accused. “That's not true and the officer knows it isn’t. I told him so yesterday when we were arres 2 “What were you throwing then?” Judge Dewey Myers asked. “Snowballs,” said Wilson. “What! There was no snow in Indianapolis yesterday.” ~ “Yes there was. On top of box cars that came from the snow storms outstate, That's what we were throwing Judge.” Judge Myers suspended fine and costs on promises of good behavior — including pledges not to throw imported snowballs.
PEACE GROUP LEAVES TODAY
American Delegation to
Conference on Way to Buenos Aires.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. — The American delegation to the PanAmerican peace conference, headed by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, “pushed off” today on the long trek to Buenos Aires, pidsummer weather and possibly ‘a new high in international peace accords. Leaving Washington at 9 a. m,, the delegates will arrive in New York shortly after noon, and sail
Legion for Buenos Aire. They took with them high “hopes for an agreement among the nha-
tions of the Western Hemisphere |
to maintain peace on the two continents. Efforts to construct such peace jmaciiney will be given a material boost, delegates believe, by
‘Presi velt’s expe vigit - ry ~for one day on
Dee. 1—~thé day on which the con‘convenes.
It is believed Mr.
ference ‘Roosevelt will address the opening session of the conference, and that
.| he will address his remarks as much
to the statesmen of Europe as to the delegates of the 21 American republics gathered at the Argentine capital. Both the President and Secretary Full believe that efforts in Europe to forestall threatened war can be strengthened greatly by the example of 21 independent nations living in this hemisphere on terms of peace, friendship and trust, and.ky further efforts by these. governments to. consolidate and maintain the peace which now reigns throughout the new world. The selretary and his delegates hope that the conference will consoclidate all existing neutrality and peace treaties and peace machinery, and possibly that a new treaty will be drawn at the meeting.
MILITIA AMENDMENT FAVORED
The Election Board today announced the vote for 65 counties on the proposed - constitutional amendment that would. permit Negroes to Serve in the National Guard. It was 273,225 for, 247,156 against, a majority of 26,069.
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STEEL CHIEFS
CAPITULATE IN WAR, IS CLAIM
Unions Offered One-Year Work Plan; Pay Raised 10 Per Cent.
GARY’S WORDS RECALLED
Negotiations With Unions Seen as Change in 35-Year Policy.
BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—A 35year era of individual bargaining krtween workers and employers in the steel 9 auuy apparently was
ended toda Shades Ry the old-time steel mas-
ters must have shivered when the biggest unit of the United States Steel Corp. offered its - company unions a one-year contract carrying wage increases averaging 10 per
cent.
It was Henry Clay Frick, partner of ‘Andrew Carnegie, who broke the ranks of organized labor in the steel industry after the bloody Homestead battle of 1892 between strikers and’ company-hired Pinkerton detectives. The men had struck because the company refused to renew their contracts. Gary Completed Job
It was Judge E. H. Gary who took over the giant U. S. Steel Corp. and completed the job. of eradicating unionism. The great 1919 strike failed to break the owners’ policy. During an NRA conference in 1933 on the steel code, industry officials marched from a room when President Green of the A.'F. of L. appeared, lest their continued presence be interpreted as recognition of the union. During this period, however, the steel corporations departed from their attitude of years and fostered company unions, which devoted themselves to adjusting minor grievances. * Now the company unions, some: of them spurred by John L. Lewis’ unionizing ‘drive and some of them even joining in the Steel - er Organizing Committee sponsored b Lewis, are negotiating directly. o wage increases,
And one powerful alliance of these | HO; company unions yesterday..rejected
the : man Ie C. IL 10. in Session Today
Lewis’ Committee for Industrial Organization, which is meeting today in Pittsburgh, claims to have enlisted 82,000 workers, one-fifth of the whole industry, in four months of. organization —many of them brought. in by wholesale enlistments of the company unions. Many see in the steel companies’ overtures an effort by the employers to prevent the workers from joining the outside unions fostered by Lewis. The development will not, however, affect the industry's intention, announced ‘through the Iron and Steel Institute last summer, to oppose Lewis’ drive for a single industrial union. “The steel industry will oppose any attempt to compel its employes to join a union or to pay tribute for the right to work,” it said then, charging that Lewis was attempting to force the “closed shop” on the industry,
posed increase and dea 15 per cent flat wage
Lewis Opposes Steel Wage Offer
By United Press " PITTSBURGH, Nov. 7.—John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, today warned the steel industry that its wage increase offered yesterday will be protested by the C. I. O. because “under the wage agreement
the worker is bound tc the wheel
of economic circumstance.” The steel industry’s offer of an approximate 10 per cent increase will satisfy neither the steel workers nor labor because the workers are not given “the benefit of increased productivity,” Lewis said,
his eyes flashing under his heavy
eyebrows.
28,500 Employes
_{Granted Increases
By. United Press . PITTSBURGH, Nov. 17 ~Wage
employes of the National Steel Corp. effective “the middle of this month,” the board announced.
By U nited Press
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 6.—Republic Steel Corp. today. announced ‘wage increases for 5500 employes in the Cleveland district of 5 cents an hour.
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State Champ
‘Benton County Husking Expert to Compete for U. S. Title.
' BY JOE COLLIER Times Staff Writer
OXFORD, Ind., Nov. 7.—Ears of all corn fields in the neighborhood burned today because Albert was in town—back from the corn husking wars for temporary respite. Yesterday Albert Etter won the state “championship near Marion, Ind, and tomorrow he leaves for ‘Newark, O., where, on Tuesday, he will carry the Indiana banner in the
| national contest.
What with all the husking contests he and his two brothers have taken part in this year, it’s begin(Turn to Page Three)
BUDGET STUDIED BY PRESIDENT
Lays Preliminary Work for Message to Congress; Meets Cabinet.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.— The task of budgeting governmental funds for the next fiscal year occupied President Roosevelt's full attention today in his first full -day of executive work since he was overwhelmingly re-elected for a second term. In a conference with Acting Budget Director Daniel Bell, the President began to lay preliminary groundwork for the executive message to the forthcoming Congress making recommendations for use of the nation’s revenues.
Sees Balanced Budget
His hope, it was learned, is to place the budget in complete balance by the end of the fiscal year which begins next July 1-—in other words, by the middle of his second term. After conferring on the budget with Bell, Mr. Roosevelt planned today to discuss farm problems with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace and the relief situation with WPA Administrator Harry L.
He declined to see any visitors
‘except. those with official business,’ in order
clear his desk for des parture Nov. 17 on a southern cruise ‘which probably will include a brief visit to the Pan-American Peace Conference in Buenos Aires on Dec. 1.
NEW JUDGE TO TRY CURFEW GIRL’S CASE
By United Press WISE, Va. Nov. 7—Juage H. A. W. Skeen disqualified himself today when: attorneys for Edith Maxwell presented : a petition for a change of venue for the second trial of the former school teacher on charges of slaying her father with a slipper during a family quarrel. Judge Skeen’s action followed, presentation of the defense petition in which it was stipulated that the jurist, who presided at Miss Maxwell’s first trial last year, was a fourth cousin, once removed, of Trigg Maxwell, her father.
DATE SET FOR SALE OF SEVERIN HOTEL
Sale of Severin Hotel property, which has been in receivership for some time, was ordered today by Superior Court Judge Herbert E. Wilson. The sale is to be made to the highest bidder at a public auction in the Courthouse Nov. 30 The order to sell was made on the petition: of Frank Bopp, receiver, and a group of hotel stockholders.
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GENERAL VIEW OF STRIFE-TORN CITY
standstill, it was believed here only | intervention by President Roose-
LONDON ADVISED
Heavy Fighting on oo Ouikints ‘of Capital Is Reported by British . Envoy in Phone Talk to Foreign Office.
APARTMENTS CONVERTED INTO FORTS
Attack on Air Raiders;
City Is Renewed by Government. Airports
Rebel :
Are Captured by Enemy,
(By United Press) LONDON—G. A. D. Ogilvie-Forbes, charge d'affaires of the British embassy at Madrid, telephoned the foreign office that the
were entering the Spanish capital.
He said that heavy fighting was
in progress on the Western and Southern outskirts. MADRID—Last word from the beleaguered capital was that a war come mittee had taken charge of the city and had turned 4000 apartment houses into fortresses for a finish fight. PARIS—A message from the rebel radio station at Jaca announced that. Col. Ascensio’s rebel column had entered Madrid. LISBON—The Radio Club claimed to have received word that Gen. Jose Varela’s rebel forces had entered Madrid at 4:40 a. m. (Indianapolis
time).
HENDAYE—Advices received here said that the rebels were fighting the loyalists in the streets of Madrid this afternoon.
HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Border, Nov. 7. Spanish : rebel troops were fighting Loyalists in the streets of Madrid this afternoon, according to accounts from the rebel front. Gen. Jose Varela, commanding the offensive at the gates: of the capital, said that his troops had gained all of their
FEUD BLAMED IN BALLARD DEATH
Hoosier Killed by Detroit Man Who Ends Life, Police Say.
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By United Press HOT: SPRINGS, Ark. Nov. T7.— The fatsl shootings of Edward Ballard, 58, of French Lick Springs, Ind, ‘and Robert Alexander, 65, of Detroit, former business partners and well-known sportsmen, were classed by police today as a murder and a suicide. Police - said Alexander shot and killed Ballard in the former’s hotel
room here last night and then turned his pistol upon himself. Alexander died a short time later at a hospital with two bullets through his left lung. Ballard «was not. armed. The men had ‘quarreled over: business differences for some time, police said. Last year Alexander sued Ballard, one of the organizers of the American, Circus Corp, for (Turn to Page Three)
SEA STRIKE SPREADS TO NEW INDUSTRIES
By United Press SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 7.—Einar Koppen, a striking seaman, was slain today, but fears that his death marked the outbreak of violence in the coast-wide strike were allayed when police said it had no direct connection with. the strike. The strike, in which thousands of other seamen are involved, spread into other industries and fears increased that more violence was mn slore. With ‘mediation efforts at a
velt can drive a wedge into the shipowner-union deadlock. Alaska, where the food supply is said to be adequate for 30 to 60 days was cut from freight terminals. ;
By United Press 3 NEW YORK, Nov. 7.—Insurgent seamen called for a maritime strike -today as\ ship owners began. 10 to = their ls away on
20 United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—Pederal agencies began co-ordinated efforts
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objectives after an attack
which began this morning. At 2:30 p. m. the last government airport was captured, he said, Loss of the airports forced the government to move Loyalist
to a new base 30 miles northeast of the capital. Meanwhile, 30 rebel planes began a prolonged attack on Madrid. Lauding particularly We Dia of the Foreign Legion, whic caps tured eight government tanks bare~ tossing grenades int cpenings in their shells, Gen. | rela announced that all of his columns had obtained their ob,
tives. - oe Fears for Hostages
The rebel general reported: “The aharchists now. are wildest disorder In dow Madrid ‘and are emptying arsenals. and ‘shooting hostages, and threats: en to blow up whatever munitions they can not remove. y “We have reason to fear for the safety of 30,000 hostages held prisons throughout the city. understand that many foreign are safe in their embassies. British embassy has sufficient and food stored for 15 days.”
Cabinet in Flight, Lisbon Reports
(Copyright. 1936; by United Press) LISBON, Nov. 7.—News from Madrid today in diplo and unofficial dispatches that B rebels had entared Madrid and cabinet had fled by airplane Valencia. A war committee was left the dispatches said, to defend the city and, if the rebels could nok be, stopped, to fight a rear guard ace tion that would delay them as lo as possible. ’
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city proper, it was asserted, almost unopposed, moving first along the bank of the Manzanares River from Carabanchel Barracks in the subs urbs, and crossing the T Bridge at the southern side of tk city. :
VATICAN ART WORK 1S ORDERED DRAP
By United Press VATICAN CITY, Nov. 7 Vatican announced today that Pius XI ordered drapery p on several nudes of Michel gelo’s famous frescos in the 8 Chapel, considering them od 2 and offensive to Catholic morals. Biagio Diagetti, artist, already, mounted an immense and started painting flowing and draperies around parts of nudes and expects to finish his shortly before Christmas.
BOY KILLED BY AUTO GOSHEN, Ind, Nov. 1. Gray, 10-year-old son of Mr. Mrs. Arthtur Gray, was killed terday when struck by an mobile driven by Bert Wo
Goshen.