Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1936 — Page 1
Scmrrs -wowardl VOLUME 48—NUMBER 216
WORK TO BEGIN ON NEW HIGH SCHOOL SOON, BOARD SAYS
Irvington Building, 7. Additions to Two Existing Structures Made Possible as Budget Gets Tax Commission Approval.
TEACHERS PLEDGED INCREASE IN PAY
$1.07 Levy Established by Action of State Officials Is 4 Cents Below Request; Gain in Revenues Expected.
With approval of its $875,000 building program by the State Tax Board today, the City School Board announced it would soon authorize construction of a high scnool buildjing in Irvington and additions to Washington High School
and School 26.
A 81.07 tax rate, 18 cents higher than this year but 4 cents below the original request, was set by the state of-
ficials. the fequested rate 1 cent.
The County Adjustment Board previously had cut Both the state and county boards
based the cuts on “anticipated additional revenues.” A. B. Good, School Board business director, said that
while architects would draft early date, it probably will be several months before bids are asked. Construction is expected to begin in May or
June. The $275,000 partial-pay restoration for teachers included in the budget also will be carried out, Mr.
Good said. In approving the building program, the State Board specified that none of the $450,000 for the Irvington project be used for real estate. “We find that ground was purchased for the school location some years ago and to open the question of locatjon would lead to controversles that were settled when the ground was purchased,” thé board said. Bid Supervision Specified It also specified that when bids are advertised for the three projects and the contracts are ready to be made, they shall be submitted to the tax board for approval. “We will not obstruct,” the board said, “but assure the -school city that if the contracts are awarded to the lowest and best bidders its approval will be given. If these buildings were to be erected with funds raised by a bond issue, this board would have such authority and we can concieve of no reason why the same supervision should not be exercised in this case. “This board further suggests,” the report said, “that the school city make application for government aid by applying in each individual case, and any aid so received will effect a saving for all taxpayers in the city.”
Wages Set at $265,000
Architects for the three buildings are to be employed on approximately. a 6 per cent fee, based on the cost of the buildings, Mr. Good said. He estimated. that during the year required for construction, $265,000 will be spent on wages and that 250 men will be employed daily. Limestone, brick and other materials for the buildings are to be purchased from firms within the state, Mr. Good said.
PRICES STEADY AS TRADING SLACKENS
By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—Trading quieted early this afternoon on the Stock Exchange with prices steady around noon levels which showed about as many losses as gains. Profit-taking in sizeable amounts
building specifications at an
COUNTY INSANE HOSPITAL TO GO
Commissioners Order Bill Drafted for Submission to Legislature.
BY NOBLE REED County commissioners today took steps to abolish Julietta Hospital
for the Insane, the only countymaintained institution of its kind in the United States. The commissioners -instructed County Attorney John Linder to prepare, for presentation to the 1937 General Assembly, & bill authorizing the county to abandon t hospital and to transfer 350 me patients to the Central State Hospital on W. Washington-st. } “Decision to abandon the hospital was reached after a study of the institution convinced us the county can’t afford. to maintain it any longer and give patients the proper medical attention,” John W. Newhouse, board president, explained. He pointed out that Marion County taxpayers are required to pay twice for the care of mentally ill patients. Established 35 Years Ago “Taxpayers have to pay a county appropriation of about $60,000 annually to support Julietta, while at the same time they pay their share of taxes to maintain state hospitals for mental patients,” he said. Mr. Linder said the bill for authority to abandon the hospital would be based on a section of the state constitution “which provides expressly that the state shall care for all mentally ill patients.” He explained that Julietta was established more than 35 years ago to care for incurable patients, and no provision ever was made at the hospital for modern, scientific treatment.
GEORGE ADE PASSES CRISIS IN HIS ILLNESS
By United Press MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Nov. 18.— George Ade has passed the crisis
{of his illness and physicians be-
followed a runup after a strong, lieved today the Hoosier playwright,
active opening. During the morn-
| newspaperman and author would
ing, 1,530,000 shares were traded—a | recover.
rate of more than 3,000,000 shares for a full day.
DENHARDT’S LAWYERS FIGHT FOR EVIDENCE
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Improvement was noted today when Mr. Ade's physicians examined the 70-year-old writer at his winter home here. Mr. Ade became critically: ill yesterday, with tic pneumania, but gradually gained throughout the day and last night. ' Administration of oxygen was discontinued last night after Mr. Ade showed gradual .improvement. His condition apparently had been aggravated by effects of a fall of three weeks ago and he suffered a heart attack early yesterday.
SINGER, FAMED ‘WAR MOTHER, 1S DEAD AT 75
Schumann-Heink Dies of Blood Ailment in Hollywood.
‘NO FEARS, NO REGRETS’
Idol of U. S. Soldiers Died Peacefully, Her Son Says.
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By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18. — The mellow voice of Madame Ernestine
Schumann-Heink, for three gener- |
ations acclaimed by music lovers, was stilled today by death. She was 75 years old. The motherly Diva informed her physician a few. hours before she died last night that she went “without fear or regret.” The idol of American soldiers during the World War, Madame Schumann-Heink always maintained that she was a mother first, then a singer.
Children at Bedside
As she had desired, her children and two grandchildren were at the bedside when the contralto died last night. Although given no hope for recovery from ‘the blood ailment with which she was stricken last Saturday, the plump singer's life was maintained in the last days by her dynamic will power, her physician, Dr. Samuel Alter, said. Surrounding the singer when she died were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schumann-Heink and their daughters, Barbara and Katherine; Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand SchumannHeink; George Schumann, who does not use the last part of his name; a daughter, Mrs. Charles Fox, and two grandchildren, Ditti and Hans Schumann-Heink. Madame Schumann-Heink died of a blood ailment, which had botaered her periodically for several years. She was given several blood transfusions.
No Fear or ‘Regret
“I did -not tell Madame Sghu. |
mafn=-Heink the extreme gra ; her condition,” Dr. Alter, who was her physician: for 19 yess, said,
and said she had no fear or ‘regret. Some time later, George Schumann of Hollywood, one of her sons, ‘came from her death bed. “She died very peacefully,” he said. “We were called into the room (Turn to Page Four)
DOCTORS ABANDON HOPE FOR FAY WEBB
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By United Press SANTA MONICA, Cal., Nov. 18.— Physicians who failed to rouse her from a coma today abandoned hope for Fay Webb, dark-haired former
actress and divorced wife of Rudy.
Vallee. She has been under an oxygen tent since yesterday. Her failure to respond to treatment led physicians to believe death was near. Dr. Leo J. Madsen said she had passed from a delirious condition to a state of semi-consciousness as peritonitis, which followed an operation ad Friday, took a firmer grip upon er.
$172,000 IS NEEDED FOR FUND GOAL HERE
Weary, but determined Community Fund campaign workers were to hold their seventh report meeting at noon today, hopeful that it will find them neater their goal of $745,742, As the pledge solicitors prepared to meet, reports showed them still $172,799 short of their goal. They had only today, tomorrow and Friday in which to raise that sum. Failure to reach the goal threatens curtailment in services by social agencies here next year, General Chairman Harry B. West said in a new appeal. He pleaded for increased giving over last year by persons who have not yet been contacted and for subscriptions from persons who were unable to give in recent years.
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Father Sick, Boy Burned Tending Fire
Herbert Hayes, 12, of 524 E. New York-st, was burned seriously today while firing the furnace for a sick stepfather. His mother was out, of the city looking for a runaway 14-year-old son. The boy is in city Hospital with serious burns on the face, arms and upper part: of the body. He stayed home from School 9 to care for the. furnace because . his stepfather, Mack Kade, 50, a World War veteran, is unable to do so. He was shot in the spine with a machine gun bullet during the war. The bullet never was removed. } The father told members of the fire department first aid squad who responded, that he saw Herbert enter the basement with a milk bottle which he thought contained water. It proved to be kerosene, he said, and the boy was burned when he threw the liquid into the furnace. The screaming boy ran upstairs. The stepfather ripped off the boy's burning clothing and summoned aid, he said. Mr. Kade said that Monday night his wife found a note left in the mailbox by her other son, Alvin Hayes, 14, saying he was going to French Lick. He said she believed, however, that he had gone to New Albany hd she went there to look for m.
MILKMEN SUED BY STATE BODY
Indiana Board Alleges ‘Defendants Here Did Not Renew Licenses.
Charging that their alleged refusal to apply for new licenses is jeopardizing enforcement of milk control laws in Indiana, the State Milk Control Board today filed in"junction suits against 12 Marion | County : distributors.
Claiming that the defendants |
without renewing their licenses, the board asserted that such action has
to continue in business without renewed licenses. Failure of distributors to renew their permits constitutes a conspir‘acy to defeat the.purposes of the Indiana milk control regulations, the board claimed.
Violations of the milk control act will result in low prices to producers and possibly milk of lower quality, the petitions asserted. Defendants ‘named were: Frank B. Dowden, Milford Via, Nola K. Plouehe, Malcolm Tracy, Horace Mitchell, William Blueher, Jess M, Fisher, James Johnston, George Rodgers, Darrell Garrigus, Elmer Kissee and Jerome Compton.
‘By United Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Nov. 18. — Favoritism shown nonunion employes was blamed by union leaders today for the dramatic shutdown of the Bendix Aviation Corp. The statement was - made by Homer W. Martin, Kansas City, United Automobile Workers of America president, upon arrival here to attempt adjustment of a dispute which halted all operations at the plant yesterday and left approximately 1000 employes standing resolutely beside idle machines overnight in protest against wholesale discharge. > It was the first labor answer to a statement of Vincent Bendix, company president, that agitation for a closed shop had closed the auto-
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caused about 100 other distributors |
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Administration to Extend Program, Says President - in Statement. ©
MAY ~ ASK $500,000,000
Executive Puts Problem Up to Industry; Census Is Planned.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—President Roosevelt, finding the rapidly incréasing gains in private re-em-pioyment insufficient tq solve the relief problem, announced today that he would ask Congress to finance the Federal Work Program until July 1, 1937. Point-by-point, the President checked the unemployment and reemployment situation—past, present and future — with the. conclusion that industry must hire a greater number of older and unskilled workers to reduce the government's burden. These five paragraphs provided the highlights of a: surprise statement issued by the White House for publication 12 hours after Mr. Roosevelt left for his South Amerfen “good ‘neighbor” cruise: 1. “Re-employment has been increasing’ rapidly during the last year, and reports from industry are to He effect that further gains in employment can be e ted d the coming year Xpes ig 2. “Unemployment relief has reflected this improvement in employment. From the peak of 5,316,000 ‘unemployed families and single persons in January, 1935, the number Selivieg 28 per cent to August, 1936. 3. “Despite this decline a large
: number of unemployed remain on
the WPA and other governmental agencies . . . to reduce substantially the unemployment relief rolls, industry must hire a larger number of the older workers and the unskilled Workers.
4. “Obviously industry has not |
employment |. sufficiently to permit the govern-
vet - increased its ment to withdraw its aid tothe un-
employed. Moreover, , the . severe of “this summer requ
THe’ bohrd, in its. petition, filed 1 | the Superior” Court, -asked that the 12]
| deféndants' be compelled cease “but she realized her end was near | operations. py ‘o
program ig fiscal. ‘year 1937. (ending June
i Ask ,$500,000,000
Observers believed the Président would seek a $500,000,000 appropriation: soon after Congress meets to continue Harry L. Hopkins’ WPA. That was the figure he mentioned in preliminary - budget - discussions last summer. +8 “The President’s . whole discussion of unemployment, however, placed the responsibility for the future of relief spending squarely up to industry. He said: “The relief &stimate and plans for the fiscal year 1938 (from July 1, 1937, to June 30, 1938) will be made known later. It is as true now as it was last March when I stated: “ ‘The ultimate cost of the Federal Works ‘program will , . . be determined by private enterprise. (Turn to Page Three)
Bendix Shutdown Due to Favoritism, Union Charges
ir union headquarters at Detroit, refused to go into details before conferring with local union leaders but said: “Favoritism shown company union employes by company officials is an_ issue in this dispute. Company Tories have been given the better 0 ” Fed and warmly clothed through willing co-operation of fellow workers outside, the group remaining inside the plant turned to gayety to relieve the grimness of their vigil. Thomas Jeffets, president of the Bendix local of the U. A. W. A, a C. I. O. unit, engaged in a duel
with the music from a public. ad-| dress system. Mr, Jeffers frequently | mounted workbenches to ‘deliver{
speeches. Each time he
cheering t | spoke, the public address system,|in controlled in the office, blared forth |
jam, classical and military music
{from phonograph records.”
CARRIES ROOSEVELT souTH a.
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Workers Accuse Green of Disloyalty
i By United Press Wi TON, Nov. 18. — John L. Lewis’ United Mine Workers today ordered William Green, mine union member and president of the American Federation of Labor; to “cease and desist” alleged anti-union activities or “assume the full responsibility of his disloyalty.” After assailing Mr. Green in an informal “trial” and stating that “at the moment he is in convention with the-adversaries "of his own union,” Mr. Lewis declared: “If, after time for consideration he elects to cease and desist from his present acts and associations, he will be made welcome by this union in accordance with his rank and accomplishments. “If he decides to continue his opposition to its policies, he must, henceforth, assume the full responsibility. of his disloyalty.”
Miss Perkins Speaks
to A. F. of L. TAMPA, Fla. Nov. 18.—Employment in the United States is “approximately” at 1929 levels, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins told the American Federation of Labor’s annual convention today. Miss Perkins asserted a gain of 1,400,000 had been registered in employed rolls during the past 12 months, . exclusive of agricultural and emergency government workers. If these latter classes are included, she added, “employment will approximate the average employment of 1929.” :
OTHER SOURCES OF TAXES URGED
Taylor Proposes A New Types of Levies in Talk to Farm Bureau.
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New tax. sources to lift burdens from property were :proposed today as part. of the Indiana Farm Bu. lative i Froeram by Lewis
Lo win whi
‘Shortly before Governor-elett Townsend was cheered when he declared: “I'll veto every law the Legislature passes that places the burden of taxes back on property and gives a sales tax to homes starving for the necessities of life.” The legislative program, expected to ‘be .included’ in resolutions passed
Friday, was outlined by Mr. Taylor
as follows: . 1. Strike the word “emergency” from ‘the $1 and $1.50 tax limit law and fix property rates at a definite maximum, 2. Pass legislation for a soil conservation act to supplement the Federal laws. The state act would (Turn to. Page Three)
TUGWELL RESIGNS AS NEW DEAL AID
By United Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., Nov. 18.—Rural Resettlement Administrator Rextord Guy Tugwell confirmed today that he has submitted his resignaton to President Roosevelt. Dr. Tugwell, here with Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace on an inspection of resettlement proj-
ects, said he was resigning to ac-.
cept an executive position with a large New York business firm. Dr. W. W. Alexander, assistant résettlement administrator, will re=place him, Dr. Tugwell said.’
NEW YORK, No Nov. 18-—Rexford G. Tugwell, who has resigned as Resettlement ‘Administrator, will become an executive in the American Molasses Co., Charles William Taussig, company president, announced today.
AUTO VICTIM DIES FORT WAYNE, Nov. 18—Dale
dlanapolis Toad about a “mil from
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| streams of living, livid green fire
PRICE THREE CENTS
ANISH
Madrid Spends Night of Terror as Bombs Rain Down on City.
BUILDINGS IN RUINS
Troops Gain Little Ground Despite Desperate Fighting in Streets.
By United Press
" LONDON, Nov. 18.—The Spanish ambassador was advised by telephone from Madrid at 2 p. m. today that the Puerta Del Sol, the great square which is the heart of the city, was in flames. 300 persons were killed and 800 wounded in last night’s shelling of Madrid, official sources said today.
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MADRID, Nov. 18.—Madrid has survived a night such as no city in the long history of wars ‘has endured, and her militiamen still hold fast against wave after wave of rebels who struck at dawn today in the west and north-
west sections.
In 24 hours the rebels had not gained an inch.
But their bombing planes and artillery had added new stones to what will be an enduring monument of the ruthless ferocity with which this civil war entered today. into its fifth month. There has been seared into. the: brains of the 1,500,000 people who went through it a madman’s dream eh the blinding flare of in‘céndiary bombs lit up the city and the country for miles around and
crept through the stréets as women and ' children looked on in entranced horror. Like Roaring Furnace
Flames from the roaring furnaces of which bombs had made working men’s homes, office buildings, churches, palaces paled in the dawn. People’s ears rang still with the terrific noise of the explosions of the bombs and of artillery shells, and with the strieks of their delirious victims. There never had been a night like it because in no earlier war had there been the weapons to fake it what it was. This morning, the planes were back again. Five bombers and three pursuit planes flew over the city this morning. Anti-aircraft guns crashed out to keep the planes from the center of the city, and is was believed that the bomb loads were dropped in the suburbs. Throughout a night that seemed as if it could not end, Madrid was a city of unearthly beauty and terror. Loyalist troops held back the rebels in University City, in the northwest suburbs, and in the Western Park (Parque del Oeste) in the city proper, on the west side just north of the national palace. During the night thousands of fresh rebel troops took their positions for the attack which started at dawn, the thirteenth day of the battle for Madrid. Loyalist leaders believed that today might be the climactic one. Infaniry, tanks, machine guns, artillery, airplanes combined in. the "(Turn to Page Three)
AUTO SHOW ENJOYS LARGE ATTENDANCE
It appeared today, officials of the Indianapolis ‘Automotive Trades Association said, that this year’s auto show, now in progress at the State Fairground, will: have an attend-
REBELS
GNIZED BY GERMANY, ITALY
Eyes Focused on Soviet Move; Austria, Hungary May Follow.
BLOW AT COMMUNISTS
Geneva, Uneasy Over Latest Step, Fearfully Talks of Repercussions.
By United Press : GENEVA, Nov. 13, —= Alarmed by German and Itals ian recognition of the Spanish * Fascist government, League of Nations circles today feared that the latest move had introduced grave compli= cations in the international . situation surrounding the civil war. The action of Italy and Germany in extending diplomatic recognition to Gen. Francisco Franco's junta, it was believed, has committed the two governments so deeply in the
Spanish struggle that they can not now permit Franco to lose.
International observers therefors
are wondering whether Soviet Ruse sia will back down now or engage in an open, struggle with the two Fascist states on the Spanish bate | tle ground. Diplomatic circles expect that
, Austria and Hungary soon will rece
ognizé the rebel government. The cue for suc action by Latin American governments of Fascist sympathies aiready has been given | by El Salvador and Guatemala, Central American countries which announced .recognition some days
ago. : Heretofore it had been expected that Italy and Germany would wait until Franc¢o’s forces were 'in control
Northwestern section, but a ma ity of the city still is occupied loyalist _troops.Common cause against Con nistic influences is the reason cist Italy and ‘Nazi Germany’ anxious to see the rebels succeed Spain. International observers specula whether Italy and Germany did not decide on recognition forthwith’ be able better to aid the insurrece tionists.
Italy Follows Germany
in Move Toward Spain
BERLIN, Nov. 18. —Germany, to« day, recognized the : revolutionary regime of Gen. Francisco Franco ag « the official government of Spain,
ROME, Nov. 18—T) —The Ifalian gove ernment, acting in concert and com plete accord with the Nazi regime in Germany, announced today tha B is recognizing the Fascist regim f (Gen. Francisco Franco, rightist tor of Spain.
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German and Japan
Ban on Communism
LONDON, Nov. 18.—Germany and Japan have reached a three-point agreement against communism, it: was reported today, with Soviet Russia their principal concern. Diplomatic circles reported that they would announce soon a joint declaration agdinst communism but that behind tHis declaration there would be an agreement as follows:
WEATHER TO REMAIN CLEAR, DRY TONIGH
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a.m.... 35 Wam.... 33 T7a.m.... 35 lam.... 3% 8a.m.... 32 2 (Noon). 32 9a.m.. 32 Tp m 33
Heavy coats apd mufflers are to be the vogue for comfort tonight ace cording to the weather man’s pres diction. He predicted that it will be
continued clear and dry with mercury sagging to as low as 28. |
ance with the 1929 show. BES comparable wil Building has been filled each night of the show
‘NEAR DEATH
with people. inepecting the new models.
BOB BURNS