Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1936 — Page 1
[scuipes “wowaRY VOLUME 48—NUMBER 214
2 SAVED FROM BURNING HOME BY NEIGHBORS
Rescuers, Some Barefooted, Remove Mother and Son in East Side Blaze.
FIRE CAUSE NOT KNOWN
Pair Lifted to Safety as
They Seek Refuge From Flames.
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(Photo, Page 2) Neighbors, some barefooted, early today rescued a mother and her 10-year-old son from a fire which damaged an East Side home. The two rescued from smoke and flames were Mrs. Lena H. Krauthamer, 2816 Meredith-st, and her son, Harold, fifth-grade pupil at School 21. Mrs. Rose Samuel, 80, Mrs. Krauthamer's mother who makes her home with the daughter, had spent last night at the home of another daughter, Mrs. Sarah Mihlyi, 3005 Meredith-st. Mrs. Krauthamer estimated damage at $5000, of which $3500 is covered by insurance, she said.
Awakened by Smoke
Mrs. Krauthamer said when she was awakened by smoke she called to her son and told him to put on his trousers and get out of the house. She ran to the top cf the stairs, but was driven back by smoke and fire. As she ran back into the bedroom in which both she and the boy were sleeping, she screamed for help and then looked out of the window to see the boy hanging by his hands from the three-inch ledge around the porch. He had climbed out the window, clad only in pajamas. The room in which he was asieep Is directly over the porch. His mother’s screams attracted Mr. and Mrs. George Armour, who live across the street. Mr. Armour rushed across the street in his bare feet and his wife in scant attire.
They climbed up on the porch rail and lifted the boy down.
Blaze One of 10
Meanwhile Mrs, Krautheamer-had}
climbed out the window and stood on the narow edge of a porch pillar
Rare Malady Is Fatal to. Infant Boy
Times Special VINCENNES, Ind., Nov. 16.— A rare bleeding malady known to medical science as haemophilia, has brought death to 3-weeks-old Larry James Harlow. The infant died Saturday afternoon after bleeding for 11 days at the mouth and at the source of a minor operation. Six phyisicians had been called in the fight to save the baby’s life, but constant loss of blood and inability of the infant to take - nourishment defeated them. . The father, James Harlow, a city policeman, was to give his twelfth blood transfusion Saturday afternoon, but it was abandoned because. of .the baby's weakened condition. He had given an ounce of blood in each of 11 previous transfusions. Mr. Harlow said today that nearly 200 persons called at the home yesterday to view the body. Services are to be held at 2:30 p. m. today by the Rev. C. J. Schirtzer, St. John’s Evangelical Church, at the home of the baby’s parental grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Harlow. Burial is to be in Fairview Cemetery.
11 ARE KILLED OVER WEEK-END
3 Die in County Mishaps; 11 Others Are Injured Seriously Here.
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Three persons dead, 11 seriously injured, 17 slightly hurt, 30 arrested for alleged violation of safety laws— that's Marion County's week-end traffic record. Eight others were killed in other Indiana traffic sccidents over the week-end. Twelve persons Have been killed in county accidents since Nov. ‘1, reports show. The 1936 Marion County toll today stands at 140. The dead here: Bernard Drew, 21, of 1501 st, former staf tackle on
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Meredith, and the Armours lifted her to safety. Firemen have not determined the cause of the fire, one of 12 in the eity over the week-end. The majority were caused by chimney sparks or furnaces overhcated as the mercury dropped to one of the lowest marks of the season. A blaze, so hot it cracked the windows in an adjoining house, today caused approximately $2000 damage to the home of H. A. Speers, 1708 N. Pennsylvania-st. The fire which started in the upper part of the house, was said by firemen to have resulted from chimney sparks. It required more than an hour to extinguish the blaze. Firemen estimated damage at $400 in a fire at the home of Mrs. Althea Johnson, 3126 N. New Jer-sey-st. They said it was caused by an overheated smoke pipe running through the kitchen.
Sparks Are Blamed
Sparks from chimneys were blamed by firemen for firés which caused damage of $1800 at the home
of William Meyer, 1202 Dawson-st. |
Five other fires causing a total of $25 damage, according to firemen, were attributed to the same cause. They were at the homes of J. McGinty, 601 N. Dearborn-st; W. E. Robinson, 5915 College-av; H. E. Siler, 115 E. 24th-st; C. M. Halstead, 14 W. Wilkins, and John Diehl, 977 W. Washington-st. ‘Overheated furnaces were blamed for two other small fires at the home of George Likens, 3518 North-western-av, and Paul Cooper, 514 S. Keystone-st. An overheated stove was blamed by fireman for a $50 fire at the home of Al Baker, second floor, 1546 North Senate-av. Fire under the floor of
starting fhe blacksmith shop of E. C. Atkins
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st, Washington High Schaal pupil and carrier for ‘The Tani Tr "Drew was injured fataily| when the car he was driving -collided with another ‘at Southeasternav and Pleasant Run-blvd yesterday. Elmer J. Fechner, 38, of Shelbyville, driver of the other car, “is in City Hospital with injuries received in the crash. Mr. Drew is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Drew; a brother, Robert, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Geiger, Mrs. Beatrice Grismore and Mr. Schwier Miss Geraldine Drew, all of Indianapolis. He was a member of St. Patrick’s Church and the Holy Name Society. He was a member of the Cathadral High School football squad from 1932 to 1934. Funeral services are to be held Wednesday morning at 9 at St. Patrick’s Church. Burial arrangements have not been completed. Struck by an automobile at New York-st and Hamilton-av, Mr. Schwier died in City Hospital Jate Saturday, night. Robert N. Moore, 44, of 5373 E. Washington-st, told police Mr. Schwier stepped backward into the path of his car. Mr. Schwier is survived by three
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PEGGY HOPKINS JOYCE IS NAMED IN DIVORCE
By United Press LONDON, Nov. 18.—~The Mrs. Charles Vivian Jackson, Ha ter of Lord Newborough, ‘has filed suit for divorce, the law firm .of Forsyte, Kerman and Phillips. said
today. The solicitors said she named
FORECAST:
OF INCREASE IN SOHO. LEVY
Desire for Favorable Budget Action.
MESSAGES SENT BOARD
Tax Commission Verdict Is to Be Reached This Week.
Telegrams urging approval of the 1937 = Indianapolis school budget, providing approximately $875,000 for a building program, were received today by the State Tax Board from 39 organizations. As requests for passage were received, Tax Commission Chairman Phillip Zoercher said the board probably will take final action on the budget the latter part of :he week.
Included among the telegrams were those from Parent-Teacher Associations at Schools’ 69 and 170, Washington, Crispus Attucks and Broad Ripple High Schools. Another was received from Judge Wilfred Bradshaw, Twelfth District
American Legion commander. Other |-
requests came from Legion posts and
| auxiliaries.
The budget being considered calls for a school city tax rate of $1.10 as compared with a current levy of 89 cents. The higher rate, already approved by the Marion County Tax Adjustment Board, is due chiefly to the proposed building program and salary increases, school officials said.
MAILMEN DISTRIBUTE SECURITY ACT FORMS
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Two hundred and forty thousand post men set out from 45,000 postoffices throughout the nation today to inaugurate the government's : -Social Security program to’ protect :26,000,000 American workers against the economic misfortunes of old age.
Before nightfall, they will have 3,500,000. pieces of ‘Federal 1, one for every industrial and ercial employer in the whose employes : might for monthly United States Treasury Ea when they retire at the age
On November 24; the same 240 ,000 *} letter carriers will set out again with 50,000,000 more Social Security blanks, this time one for every em'ploye Federal census officials think might come under the new law’s provisions,
U.S. MADE FRIENDLY | PARTY TO GOLD SUIT
By United Press ’ WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—The government today was authorized by the Supreme Court to intervene as & “friend of the court” in the American writing paper gold clause contract case, involving new interpretations of the Gold Clause Act, which is to be argued shortly. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, on the plea of a representative of the solicitor general, authorized the government not only to file a brief in the case but also .to participate in all argument. The New York insurance commissioner was denied a review of his ‘action in Ohio to compel the Ohio superintendent of insurance to turn over to him. $50,000 which was on deposit in Ohio for the Southern Surety Co. of New York which is in liquidation.
YOUTH MISTAKES ‘WARNING, LOSES LIFE
Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., Nov. 16 ~—Failing to understand the warning of railroad detectives yesterday cost the life. of a youth tentatively identified as Hobart Payne, 18, Crawford, Tenn. His head struck a steel bridge while he was riding on top of a C. & O. Sere car. * detectives "motioned a ve oan to lie down, 3he youth re-
* | Peggy Hopkins Joyce, American, now
in England, as co-respondent. i
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country | ; be eligible
Fair; nob: quite 80 cold ¢ tonight; tomorrow fair aod ‘warmer.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 193
Validity of Income Tax
Is Attacked
Suit attacking the constitutionality of the Indiana. Gross Income Tax Law was filed in Circuit Court today by the H. Smith Poultry Co., Inc,, 337 W. New York-st. : The plaintiff claims in its petition that the section of the. law levying the tax on gross income from business done with firms in other states is unconstitutional. The company contends that taxing that branch of business should not be done without permission of Congress. > Named as defendants are: the Indiana Treasury Deparisient, composed of Gov. McNutt, State Treasurer Peter “PF. Hein and Lawrence Sullivan, treasury board member; Clarence A, Jackson, gross income tax division director; Atty. Gen. Phillip Lutz Jr. and Sheriff Ray as tax enforcement officer.
MADRID FORCES RESIST ATTACK
Planes and Artillery Keep Up Rain of. Terror in City. By United Press
The fate of Madrid was in doubt today as loyal defenders
resisted with a ferocity ° which |
matched the fury of a rebel attack. Apparently authentic advices dis counted rebel claims of a great victory in which they occupied the northwest quarter of the city. An uncensored telephone conversation with an unimpeachable neutral source in Madrid indicated that the rebels were not in the city, despite rebels’ statement to the contrary. Defenders Hard Pressed
Nevertheless, news from Madrid itself showed that the defenders were hard pressed. If the rebels were not actually in the city, they were driving ahead. in its outskirts all along the western edge, aiming for the Montana Barracks, the model prison, the North tSation, the National lace and. Bi Puerta Del “Sol; Hoge the ‘erty. =~ ‘Rebel oom and rie rained more bombs and shells on Madrid today in the wake of yesterday's bombardment in: which 150, mostly women and children, were killed. Shells fell -around the National Palace near the center of the city today, causing more victims.
Sino-Japanese War Seen “Inevitable
PRIOING, China, Nov. 16—Eight Japanese warplanes were reported
to have dropped 80 bombs in an
air raid over the Suiyuan provincial
forces ‘during a new clash on the Chahar-Suiyuan border today.” The air raid was said to be part of an attack launched by 3000 Chahar province irregular troops on the Suiyuan frontier in what seems to be an effort to add Suiyuan to Japan’s growing control of a buffer state against threat of attack from Soviet Russia through Siberia or Mongolia, The Suiyuan province situation in inner Mongolia appeared niore critical than at any time in recent troubled weeks in that area. The Japanese charge d’Affaires here, D. Kato, or his return from a visit to Changpei last night told Chinese .newspapers that’ “the situble is serious and war is inevitae ” 3 >
TAX LAW CHANGES MAY BE REQUESTED
BY! ‘ARCH STEINEL Doubling . of ‘the ‘intangibles tax and elimination of the word “emergency” in the $1 and $1.50 tax law may be. proposed by 6000 Indiana
Farm Bureau members when the |
General Assembly ‘meets in Janui
INDIANA MOVES T0 CENTRALLZ PAROLE WORK
Frank D. Hope, Blo Bloomington, Named Supervisor for Welfare Division.
COY MAKES SELECTION
Institutions to Be Relieved of Supervision of 1700 ~ Persons by Jan. 1
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The first step in centralization of Indiana's parole system was taken today with the appointment of Frank D. Hope, Bloomington, as paroles supervisor in the State Public Welfare Department. In announcing Mr. Hope's selection, Wayne Coy, acting department administrator, said - the reorganization move ‘was being carried out in accordance with provisions of recently enacted social security legislation. For the last three years, Mr. Hope has been in: charge of the Indiana Reformatory parole department. In his new post, Mr. Coy explained, Mr. Hope is to be responsible for supervision ‘of approximately 1700 persons now on parole from state institutions. Each separate institution has been doing the work. “Every one familiar with conditions under which this work now is being done is in agreement that the number of persons on parole ftom state. penal and correctional institutions is far beyond that: which can be efficiently supervised by the limited facilities available to these institutions,” Mr. Coy said. Mr. Coy explained that it would
take until Jan. 1 to prepare the
necessary records and do the other work preliminary to actual change of responsibility for parole supervision from the various institutions to thé Welfare Department. Coy Is Optimistic “By placing the direction of parole supervision under one head, and by making use of a limited amount of assistance from the county public welfare departments, we expect. to
develop, at a minimum additional ;
expense, a parole system which will be gecond to none in the éountry,” he ‘said.
Mr, Fiope fs to serve as & member
of frisions, of corrections staff, of” Rh eer If dives
tor, He 7 pie me School and attended ‘Purdue U:
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Mai order and the Scottish Rite, and is former commander of Burton ‘Wollery Post No. 18, American Legion, at Bloomington.
ROGERS-PICKFORD
TROTH ANNOUNGED
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By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 16.— Mary Pickford and Buddy Rogers, screen star and orchestra leader, will be married i the spring, ‘it was learned today after Rogers’ father, Bert Rogers, Kansas Probate Judge, provided first news of; their engagement. The wedding probably will be in Hollywood. Rogers 4s. scheduled to return to England this winter and make a picture for British. International Studios. : He probably will not conclude his, Work ‘there - until February. ' While Rogers divides his time between the moviesiand his orchestra, Miss Pickford, 42, ‘has abandoned screen work and recently has devoted all her time to production activities at United Artists Studios.
INDIANA CASE SET BY SUPREME COURT
By United Press’ = | WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—The Supreme Court today advanced to Dec. 7 the date for argument of a suit attacking validity of Indiana Milk Control Board orders removing the differential between store sales and delivery sales in the Fort
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Entered at Post dianapolis, Ind.
Seek U. 3 Aid
Mayors wil Demand Action in Strike of Seamen.
By United Press
intervention in the maritime strike | paralyzing the Pacific Coast and impeding the commerce of Atlantic and Gulf ports will be demanded today by the mayors of three cities. Angelo Rossi, mayor of San Francisco, and Joseph K. Carson of Portland, Ore., will plead with Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, and pos-
'| sibly with President Roosevelt, for
strong Federal action to end the strike that is costing the Pacific coast $7,000,000 a day. Mayor Fiodello H. La Guardia of New York City, planned to make similar representations for intervention in the outlaw strike on the east coast that has tied up a number of American flag vessels, interfering as | seriously with the normal business. of the port of New York and smaller east coast ports. It was believed that the Pacific ccast mayors would be joined in their pleas by Mayors John F. Dore, Seattle: Frank McCracken, Oakland, and Frank Shaw, Los Angeles.
KREML TO MAKE SAFETY SURVEY
Purdue Expert Also Asked to Head Traffic School During Visit.
Lieut. Frank Kreml, nationallyknown traffic expert, is to conduct a general survey in Indianapolis soon, Chief Morrissey announced today. Mr. Morrissey said he also invited Lieut. Kreml to conduct a school for local traffic officers, to instruct them in investigation of accidents and in prevention work. Approximately 50 officers are to attend the school, the chief said. “They will be taught how to present evidénce in court,” Chief Morrissey 7. sald. “Lieut. Kreml is an expert: in g the cause of an accident: - He will instruct local officers in this type of work.” Personniéd- recommendations made by the Evanston, Ill, expert; also Yt Reem considered, the chief said. | With nase University Research it. 0. served as
rn, Harvard ‘Universities. He recently conducted a survey of the South Bend tion and recommended changes. As
the safest of its size in the state. The date of Lieut. Kreml’s visit is to be announced later. | :
STOCK PRICES UP IN * MODERATE TRADING
By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The stock market advanced fractions to 2 points today in moderate trading, with all Svisions sharing in the improve Merca an ‘shares led an early advance; amusement shares were active and strong. Brief flurry of buying came into aircraft shares; metal shares strengthened. Motors gained fractionally, while rails and utilities lagged behind the market.
FUND WORKERS PUSH DRIVE FOR $274,000
More than 3000 workers in the Community Pund campaign today. inéreased efforts in their city-wide canvas to reach their goal of $745,742.
Originally scheduled to end today, the drive has been extended through Wednesday to enable the workers to Taise the $274,031.85 yet
nesdgd. : ~The $471,710.15 reported to date represents 63.2 per cent of the amount sought. Drive leaders are hopeful that today’s report will boost the total to. at least 75 per
cent of the goal.
Tncreased ‘giving “and gilts: from $hose Who scver Lave astiiq in
" WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—Federal
rem] is ‘now connected: Northwest-
trafic situaa result, that city now. is considered
PRICE THREE CENTS
Rival Organization Planned Despite Effort -to Heal Breach.
EXPANSION IS PREDICTED
Expect -Call for Conference This Month; May Buy Office Quarters.
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BY HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.— Events moved swiftly on the labor front today. In three more months the whole traditional setup of American labor may have been irre-
vocably changed. The ferment started by John L. Lewis with his A. FP. of L. rebellion and his steel organizing drive appears to have quickened with the
*| election results and the wave of
wage increases. It is already certain that Lewis will expand his committee for industrial organization into a formal rival of the A. F. of L. The call for a conference to this end may go out next month, : The Lewis group, dominating labor’s non-partisan league, is converting this pro-Roosevelt campaign unit into a legislative lobby, which will . rival the A. F. of L.'s efforts ‘in the advancement of labor legislation. The league also is expected to call a national conference here, probably next month, to. prepare its program. C. I. 0. Admits Groups The C. 1. O. took an irrevocable step toward permanency when it admitted two non-A. F. of L. unions, the .radio and the shipyard workers, into its midst. Then the United Mine Workers, which Lewis
membership William Green, Presi- |i dent of the A. F, of L., for his part in suspending the C. I. O. unions. ‘The miners’ national board, meeting here today, is scheduled to act - We ~on this “of ras taliation. Meantime the board today ay. complete purchase of a $375,000 - downtown Washington building ‘as headquarters, for the miners, the C. I. O. and ‘the nonpartisan. league The split was ‘accentuated today by the A. F. of L. executive council's annual report on legislation; which omitted the many proposals for federal regulation ' of industry, for which the Lewis group has plugged consistently since the rise and. fall of NRA. These events have made it almost an academic ‘question whether the A. F. of L. convention at Tampa expels the C. I. O. unions or merely confirms their suspension. The real question at Tampa, as far as the C. I. O. is concerned, is whether the convention will order city central labor bodies and state federations to expel delegates from the rebel unions. Such a step would extend the present warfare from Washington into the 700 or more cities in which central labor bodies exert considerable influence both industrially and politically. The same question applies to the state federations of labor, which are active in state legislation.
FINE FALL WEATHER TO CONTINUE, BELIEF
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
‘6a.m.... 26 10a m.... 34 7a.m..,. 25 1llam... 36 S8am.... 26 12 (Noon). 38 S9a.m.... 30 l1p.m 41
The beautiful fall weather Indianapolis enjoyed today is to continue tomorrow, the Weather Bureau said today. for “fair and warmer.” The thermometer probably will not go below 30 tonight, the bureau predicted. Although the current tem are slightly below normal, the ‘weather otherwise is typical, the bureau added. BURNS FATAL TO CHILD HARTFORD CITY, Ind., Nov. 16. —James Master, 3, son of the Rev. - | and Mrs. William Master, died yesterday from burns received SaturSay When 1s fell duo, a: pan cof
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— GREEN DENOUNCES LEWIS REBELLION URGES ARMISTIC
Labor Head Makes Appeal Insurgents to Come Back to Ranks.
NO SURRENDER, HE SAY
Charges ‘Rebel Leader's Motives Are Open to.Sus-, picion for Attack.
By United Press
CONVENTION. HALL, TAMPA, Fla, Nov. 16.— President William Green des nounced the John L. Lewis rebellion in stinging word before the American Feder tion of Labor convention to day but added an appeal fo the insurgents to “come back and let us fight our different
in democratic, manly fashi
Shaking his fist and shouting to the microphones as he faced al: most 500 delegates at the fifty-sixth annual labor convention, Mr. Gre delivered a vigorous opening a dress that was in line with the | forts of moderate Federation lead: ers seeking to stem the dem for expulsion of unions that jo Mr. Lewis’ rebel Committee for dustrial organization.
Mr, Green declared that the coun cil, in suspending the C. I. O. had followed orders of the convention and that it was now 1 to the convention to decide whe! the suspension merely should confirmed or whether the should be expelled on the grour that they are setting up a ri labor movement by seeking to i ganize one big union in each ins dustry.
Lewis’ Motives Assailed
& using ¥ fo decision: ope convention and with t ing to
the Federation always has’ both --oraft and industrial
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unions and that Mr. Lewis’ were open to suspicion when serted that the A. F'. of L, posed to industrial unionism. Then, in a dramatic dec Mr. Green asserted that eration never would surre democratic principles to the mands of a minority using 0 Mr, Green was applauded v as he finished on the high 3 ng “no surrender.”
WARN DENHARDT _ TO AVOID LA GRAN
By United Press LOUISVILLE, Ky., Nov. 18. torneys preparing to defend Gen. Henry H, Denhardt charge of murdering his Mrs. Verna Taylor, considered ing for a second autopsy today, warning the General to stay from his home town. Denhardt, former lieutenant ernor and adjutant general, cautioned that while he has be popular in Kentucky political civic circles for years, there many in the neighborhood rounding his 800-acre estate La Grange who recall that he manded troops in the Newport of 1921 and resent it,
REPLY SUPPLEMEN IN GAS FIRM §
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