Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1936 — Page 1
Franco Refuses to Follow Up Request of British at Barcelona.
EMBASSY MOVE HALTED
Lack of Transportation in Madrid Prevents Exodus of Americans.
By United Press PARIS, Nov. $4.—Cen. Francisco
Franco has ignored™a British request to establish a neutral zone ai
‘Barcelona and Great Britain hag repeated its request that he do so, Sir Henry Chilton, British ambassador to Spain, advised the United Press today by telephone from Biarritz. “Consequently,” said Sir Henry Chilton, “I again requested him to state specifically his intentions regarding Barcelona.” Just before Sir Henry telephoned, the San Sebastian rebel radio asserted that Franco had refused {o concede a neutral zone at Barcelona and added that Britain had requested a delay in the blockade so that Rritish citizens might be evacuated from Barcelona.
Transportation Shortage Halts Embassy Move
By United Press WASHINGTON, Nov. 24. — The staff of the American Embassy in Madrid must remain in the wartorn Spanish capital for two more days, Charge d’Affaires Eric C, Wendelin notified the State Department today. : Because of lack of immediate transportation facilities, Wendelin and his staff will be required to submit to the dangers of aerial bombing and artillery firing until Thursday.
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The State Department has or-
dered Wendelin to evacuate the embassy as soon as possilbe, setting up new headquarters at the seaport i of - Valencia, now ‘the ‘seat of
Spanish Joyalist: government which fled Madrid so some ‘time 280.
Loyalists Voice Charge: on Cruiser Attack
VALENCIA, Spain, Nov. 24.—The Spanish loyalist government, in a carefully phrased declaration to the -world, voiced plainly today its suspicion that a German warship torpedoed the| loyalist cruiser Miguel] co de od Se oga in Cartagena Harbor Sunday. Both Italy and Germany were charged directly with permitting their warships to act in Sosoperation with the rebel war fleet. But as \regards Germany the govt ernment butlined a chain of statements that left no possible doubt of its intentions to intimate that it was a German torpedo which damaged the cruiser. Links in the chain were: 1. The rebels have not a single submarine of their own—that is, a submarine belonging to. Spain. 2. Pieces of a torpedo which, the statement said, damaged the Miguel de Cervantes, were discovered and proved to be neither of Spanish | nor Italian manufacture. + 3. After the attack on the Miguel | de Cervantes, a German warship, | which ‘was visible while the ship was | being attacked, approached the en- | trance to Cartagena Port and, “after examining the effects of the aggression,” went away,
Talk of European War Heard in Madrid
MADRID, Nov. 24—Talk of a war over open foreign aid
European to the rebels took precedence in :
Madrid today. Women, children and aged men lined up in the wet streets, under a gray sky, to await tion to the east coast. Out in the suburbs, artillery and even the machine guns and rifles were quiet after a repulse of two desperate rebel attacks on the foyal- | CHS ist positions. But in the streets of the i the talk was of the possibility —
Russia Considers Plans Piotect Vessels
| rescue of “1 empire “plied severd millions to ance the
- fo Vagrant in-Easy .
In Nashua, N. H., they called him
Willie Callahan. In Lowell, Mass, they called him a great fighter. At Hampton Beach they called in an Adonis. In Indianapolis they called him a vagrant, That was the general theme of a story Mr. Callahan told Municipal
Judge Charles J. Karabell today. He .| produced clippings to show he had done all right against Mickey Walker in Lowell when Mickey also was doing all right. : He produced clippings with pictures showing him doing all right with bathing’ beauties at Hampton Beach. He produced clippings showing that Bernarr McFadden called him the - “most perfect physical specimen in his class.” ° He produced clippings showing that he was Hollywood-bound when he was arrested here several days ago, to get a job as bodyguard ior a movie queen, Judge Karabell produced policemen who said they wanted him held a few more days. A policeman, doing all right, led Willie morosely back to 0 higoeell. o-oo cell.
BALL BECOMES | RAIL LEADER
Hoosier and Associate Gain Control of Vast Carrier Empire.
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By-United Press CLEVELAND, Nov. 24. — Control of the vast Van Sweringen railroad empire passed today to other. financial interests following the death of Oris Paxton Van Sweringen, last of the two brothers who- built it. The organization which was directed for 20 years by “O. P.” and his brother, the Tate Mantis James Van Sweringen, now will be controlled by George A. Ball, Muncie (Ind.) glass manufacturer, and George A. Tomlinson, ‘ Cleveland ship owner. Ball and Tomlinson came {0 the “the Vans” when their red last year. They stip-
satisfy igi to J. P. as & Co. and other financial interests. The Van Sweringen brothers continued to direct operations and there was an agreement that they should take over a majority of the controlling stock when troubles and tangles were dissolved.
| Neither Has Rail Experience
ancial circles speculated don- ¢ g a successor to “O. P.”, who directed the railroad organizations until his death of a heart attack yesterday in Hoboken, N. J. Neither Ball nor Tomlinson has had any railroad. experience. The elder of the two brothers was en route from his home here to a conference at the New York Morgan offices when he died on a private car in the Hoboken yards of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad. Van Sweringen’s body was returned here ‘today in a private ‘car. Funeral arrangements are incomple
MOTORIST IS KILLED
By United Press Sd SULLIVAN, Ind. Nov. 24— Thomas Hall, 65, was crushed to death last night when his automobile skidded from the road, plunged. into a creek and overturned.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Great Fighter to Adonis ||
Job Vairancs Ruling’ to Delay ‘Showdown,’ Is Capital View.
CHIEF ISSUE WEAKENED
Balance of Social Security Laws Now Expected to Win Approvah
BY RUTH FINNEY ° - Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Prospects of curbing the Supreme Court's power may have been set back for
New York unemployment insurance law. The 4-to-4 decision is interpreted widely here as presaging approval of other Social Security ‘measures, including the Federal act of 1935. The Administration, in so far as its
“go to ‘the country” on the Social Security issue. If the court had turned thumbs down - on old-age pensions and unemployment insurance the New Dealers thought public ‘reaction would have insured either action by Congress to curb the court or adoption of- a constitutional amendment accomplishing the same purpose. Few other measures command such public support. Ever since ‘the election there has been much speculation here as to. whether the country’s overwhelm-
ministration would be reflected in Supreme Court decisions. Not many New Dealers expected that it would. They have been laying their: plans for action to end, once and for all, the court’s assumption that it has power. to call legislation unconstitutional. » : However, if the court spikes the New Deal guns by approving this fundamental part of the Roosevelt program, it may : postpone action until the present wave of popular feeling has subsided and thus escape curtailment of its powers. To win any fight he might launch against the court President: Rooseweit ‘would: have to: win if: fast. - 1 The Senate ‘and House are both more conservative than el tiirhs would indicate and the
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LABOR CHEFS DEATH
By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 24—An attractive blond who police said was the last to talk with Michael J. Galvin, slain political and I boss, was seized for questioning today Galvin, storm center in Chicago labor wars for a generation, and president of the outlawed Chauffeurs and Truck Drivers’ Union, was shot. to death by sawed-off shotguns four blocks 1 the Loop just before midnight. e was dead when he reached the hospital. The blond, identified as ‘Jean Draper, 22, admitted being with Galvin, police said.
SUSPECT BEING HELD IN GEORGIA SLAYING
By United Press ALBANY, Ga., Nov. 24.—Sherman Logue, 35-year-old truck driver, was held today charged with the murder of Mrs. Bertha Owens, whose body was found Sunday in a ditch near Bainbridge, Ga. Her 22-month-old baby, cold and whimpering, lay beside the body. Logue maintained his innocence, but admitted he had been with the woman late Saturday afternoon. Deputy Sheriff H. G. Pollock said he had evidence tending to prove Logue was with the woman late Saturday night.
Smet AEC RACING FAN VICTIM
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plans had been formed, expected to.
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OF HOOSIER ACCIDENT
All Co Coasts | ha
By United Press | ~~ Maritime strikes on all coasts were intensified today as hopes increased for settiement of the : Products
or masters’, mates’, pilots’ and eh gineers’ associations joined Pacific coast strikers and placed the tieup on a national basis. Arbi-| il ent of Labo oboe | ‘by Department o. were at a standstill, { New York—Ship owners ad-/ mitted Atlantic coast lockout;
g increasingly difficult -
becomin to solve. United States Lines announced -the President Harding will sail for Europe tomorrow carrying only mails and freight. Strikers prepared to picket the; President Roosevelt by airplane as the liner came up the bay. Heavy picket lines were. placed, around the Roosevelt's pier, i Houston, Tex. — Officials. of masters’, mates’, pilots’ and en-| gineers’ associations said ship. owners refused to negotiate with union representatives on de-' mands for $20 a month wage in-|
crease and an advance of 25 :
cents an hour for overtime, Authorities ~~ investigated out to break of waterfront violence. | South Bend, Ind. — Union leaders ordered = withdrawal of | 1100 = workers ‘who conducted i “sit-down-siege’” in Bendix plant | since last Tuesday. Conferences: to end labor difficulties resumed. | Buffalo, N. Y.—Several hun-~ ; dred worker: in Duffy Silk Co. | mill here on strike demanding | recognition of ‘their union and | “return to NRA standards. » ! it
KING MAY DENY | HEWILL MARRY
Persons Close. to Court say| Friendship With Wallis | |
| Press correspondent:
“Has Reached Peak.
By United Press ;
LONDON, Nov, 24—Persons wil
informed on’ court Batters Xp
dicted that: there might be alsa} some plain. sign that the friendship &
itself was to be a more formal one in future. The informants were most puss ed in their statements. But they said that a real that the kingdom and the em
faced a most difficult period an it ,
that the King himself was closely, inescapably “bound to his duties, entered into an altered situation. = It must be remembered that friends of Mrs. Simpson have said all along that she had no thought of marrying the King even if he asked her to, and that frierids of the King have said that he did not contemplate marriage.
‘Well informed people said today
that not only was there no question
, | of marriage, ‘but that—perhaps by an agreed decision—~the King and Mrs. Simpson were likely soon tof
see less of each other. The informants did not profess to. know by what means, if any, a de-
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Chief Insulter.in Hand at 15 Paces.
MISSES SECOND aT ‘20
| Both Embrace and Make Up: ||
Other Fights Promised ‘With Sabers.’
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By United Press
Dr. Franz Sargas, who felt that his
that he married for money, Sought two pistol duels: today, adversary in the hand and’ ie the other. - Then he: announced that he is g0ing to carve his initials on -other traducers with heavy: military saDexs instead of the mere effete pis-
Titiere was ‘actually ‘little blood
: shed in ‘today’s duels. The adversary
shot in the hand was Szandor Cowac, an official in the bank of which Mrs. Sargas wealthy ‘grand- | father is managing director. A doctor attended Cowac on the field and. found a slightly scratched hand, which he bandaged: : The duel was fought at 15 paces, because Sargas considered Cowac his | chief traducer and wanted a better shot at him. ‘In the other duel, against Aladar Hosmetl, an official of the same bank, both missed and then embraced, honor satisfied. It was fought at 20 paces because Hosmet] had not offended Sargas to quite the same degree as Cowac did.
Other Fights Tonight
After ‘he had arrived home to be embraced by his worried young: wife, ‘who is an expectant mother, conferred with his seconds and. said fiercely to: “the United “I may have other fights tonight p. m* The duels were fought in. a small meadow near a wood
would|{ “The duellists’ rate automobiles by. Safed Tote from |" 4 ‘Budapest, to avoid police. -A United | 3 sorrespondent Jsccompanied |
i Only 10 Persons Preset
: Sargas arrived carrying ‘duelling pistols. Because of ‘a Be ellie change in plans. for the site of the: hatate. “only 10. persons were press ent. instead of ‘the big crowd exsted, and a; projected : goulash | | feast of gargantuan proportions: for | the: gallery’ tailed ‘to. materialize. - “When Sargas and his first. “op+ ponent Hoot 5 ‘up, the umpire told them: “Hungarian law prohibits duels. 1 advise that you become recon-
Neither replied. Pictures Are Taken = It was a gloomy day. In the semi-
darkness, jie Jumpire. signaled, “one. ~two—three,” ana the. shots were.
exchanged. The second of todap's duels vas fought in such ‘darkness that the fighters were scarcely able to see
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cision that the King's duties were | one another. The second had fo use
paramount, and Tesirietive, would ve
made known.
WEISMULLER DENIES NIGHT CLus BATTLE
By United Press : ~NEW YORK, Nov. 24. — Johnny (Tarzan) Weismuller was , busy today denying that he sl anybody at the Stork Club last night but Lieut. Cameron Winslow was just as busy having his bruised ‘ace
X-rayed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. i
automobile headlights to see to refill
| the pistols, The duels! lasted for 15 minutes. | | Then every one hurried off to avoid |
1 the police. Photographers snapped | pictures. of the duels with flashlights. -
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BUDAPEST, sonia Noy. 24— |
honor and that of his wealthy wife } has been smirched by insinuations:
ihe figure athe Buenos Aires Pesca ark nference toward w t | car, whether proved he:
i) Whol than last year, the Tn Sampolis_ American Red Cross TRADING ISDULLAS | | MARKET ADVANCES!
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6a m.... 2 10am. Tam. % 11a. m.. 8 a. mm... 28 12 (Noon) .. Sam....2% 1pm...
The Thanksgiving eve weath-
aE a “heavy fall if there is snow.
“winterize” ators. against
NOBEL PEACE PRIZES GIVEN
Receive. Awards for 1935 and 1936.
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Ossietzky, German pacifist, and Dr. Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign. minister, were awarded the Nobel Peace prizes for 1935 and 1936 today, it was announced. Ossietzky, enfeebled, white haired, broken in health, was released only
centration camp. He is! believed to he under treatment at a Berlin hospital after three years as a Nazi prisoner. Dr. Saavedra Lamas: has won dis
T|tinction in Europe and on the
FAmeriéan continents for his ‘work for peace. Author of the Saavedra
h | Lamas Peace Pact, a pre. worker
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! NT CONTRACTS APPROVED BY REA
Times Special WASHINGTON, Nov. u —Four Indiana contracts were approved today by the Rural Electrification Administration calling for a total expenditure of $1,060,000 for con-
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|struetion of 1033 miles of line to
| serve 3836 farm consumers.
Rural Electric :Membership Oorp., Plymouth, may use up to $185,000 to build 150 miles of line to serve 526 customers in Marshall, Fulton, Pulaski, Kosciusko, St. Joseph and Starke. counties. Rush County REMC, Rushville, use up to $170,000 for 150 miles 580 in Rush, Fayctte. Henry, J Hancock and Shelby counties. Hancock County REMC, Greenfield, $325.000 for 333 miles serving 1130 in Hancock, Rush, Madison,
" | Hamilton and Marion counties.
It also was announced by REA that the Johnson County REMC, | Bdinbure, has issued invitations to
| Marion ‘and : ar 3 tote seed wll 4. 1.
, RED CROSS REPORTS
- MEMBERSHIP GAIN
vite enrolment fon reported 30 per
| : Thanksgiving I
OSLO, Norway, Nov. 24.—Carl Von
recently from a. German Nazi con- |
et the contracts. Marshall |
Jacobs’ Conviction Obtained on Faulty Affidavit, Cox Rules.
STICKER DRIVE PUSHED
Board to Move Collections From Police Department to City Clerk.
Sustaining the demurrer of Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis attorney convicted in Municipal Couit several months ago of overtime parking,. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox ruled today that the original conyiction was obtained under a
faulty affidavit. At the same time, city officials, in a Safety Board meeting, planned to tighten up on “sticker fixing.” Sticker collections are to be taken out of the hands. of the Police Department and given exclusively to City Clerk Daniel J. O'Neill. An ordinance asking for appointment of another clerk to Mr. O'Neill's staff to handle this work is to be introduced in City Council Monday night. Mayor Kern and Chief Morrissey also plan to make a study of Louisville traffic regulations with a view to amending present fining provisions of city traffic laws. “A fixless sticker system will pay for itself,” Mr. O'Neill said. “Under the plan used this year, we. collect‘ed $15,000 more in fines during the first six months fhan were taken in
all last year.”
Wrong Hours Slated Mr. Jacobs originally entered his
| appeal {o the. higher court attack- , | Ing: the provision of the ordinanee) V4 which makes the owner rima ‘facia are:
responsible -for thei
piri did not teuch that point.
The affidavit fixed the limit time from 8 a. m. to 7 p. m. in the downtown area where Mr, Jacobs was alleged to have parked his car illegally. . The actual city ordinance, Judge Cox held, fixes the limit Tor this particular ‘area at 9:15 a, fo 7 p.m.
Time Element ‘Essential
“When the tine element is an essential part of the case, then you can’t charge something in the amdavit that does not correspond to the wording of the original ordinance,” - Judge Cox ruled. Without mentioning this specific ordinance, Judge Cox said he was convinced a valid ordinance con-. taining the prima facia owner's responsibility ‘section could be written. John Coleman, assistant city attorney, represented -the city in the hearing, City Prosecutor Albert Thayer said today’s ruling expunged the Jacobs case from the dockets. The suit is not to be re-filed in order to obtain an opinion on the constitutionality of the prima facia section. “It was simply a casef” he sa “of some one in my department us= ing the wrong affidavit form.” There are several different affidavit ‘forms, it was explained, on
in each is different according to the section of the city where the alleged violation occurred. James Deery, corporation counsel, explained that the City Council constantly’ is changing the parking time ‘in downtown areas, and it is possible for an assistant city picsecuter_ to A out: su sida:
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overtime parking. The time element |.
Karabell and Morrissey S ~ They Favor Move for Indianapolis.
DRIVERS SENT TO FAR
100 Motorists Arrested Safety Campaign Continues.
MARION COUNTY TRAFFIC TOLL TO DATE
Running red light Running preferential street Reckless driving Sets stress Drunken driving . sescss enna Parking . . “Improper lights ........... Oth
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
Accidents S80 Psat anna e Injured ........
While police continued. traffic drive with more 100 arrests, the, creation of municipal traffic court
suggested by officials toda “It would simplify and speed matters greatly; 'Karabell sai
judges operati acciden! io Sia Johnson, head Mc department, said: “I | sdvocaied a trafic court. It
jn our efforts to |
*| arrested for traffic violations i last seven. ‘Chief day reiterated that “in the . sense of the ‘word, this is not : or campaign.” A permane: has been issued for all bran force to “bear down” on tra Under e pr sevup, cases and s Seni a , of SF Meridian-st are slated in Municipal Court room for a month period, while cases in arrests are made west of ) di st are slated in the other room. the beginning of each month [schedule is reversed. Fifty motorists were con : fined in Municipal Court today | ‘an attorney was barred by Charles Karabell from app further in his court. . The heaviest sentence was m out to Harvey Janes, truck dry of 1517 Laurel-st, for : . Arrested after police ¢ he drove his truck into the 5 an automobile driven by Gene E dricks, 1731 8. High Schoo Janes was given $1 and costs for ing drunk, $25 and costs and 60 on the state prison farm for ing while intoxicated and his d -er's license was suspended 1a
year. Refuses His Plea
The judge refused his plea suspend the farm sentence. J Judge Karabell told oney Louis Moore, “I'm going to | your case over to the grand fi
lice claimed, attorney had told an alleged violator not to appear in co
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