Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1937 — Page 1

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MUSSOLINI AND BRITISH STAND

Seek Best Formula Continuing Help. to Spain’s Rebels.

SKIRT DANGER OF WAR

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Desire Assurance Russia Will Be Barred From Helping Madrid.

By United Press

MADRID—Gen. Francisco Franco begins new offensive in desperate attempt to capture Madrid.

SEVILLE—Fascist Southern Army, aided by Moorish cavalry, slashes its way almost to the suburbs of Malaga in drive on Spain’s second largest seaport. The U. S. consulate at Malaga was wrecked by an aerial bomb.

ROME—Mussolini and Col. Gen. Goering continue their discussion of Fascist-Nazi aid to Spanish insurgents. By United Press - ROME, Jan. 16.—Premier Benito Mussolini and Col. Gen. Hermann Goering of Germany, their countries already bound by an anti-Commun-nist pact, prepared to confer this

afternoon on details of a joint Italian-German . program designed to remove the so-called “Red menace” from Spain and Western Europe. In two previous conferences they agreed on the necessity for smashing the leftist forces in Spain at any cost. Today and tomorrow their task was to discuss how this program might be carried out without endangering European peace. Aid to Be Continued It was understood that they would try to do this by drafting a reply to British proposals for nonintervention in the Spanish civil war in such a way as to make their cessation of intervention in Spain dependent on the promise that no foreign nation

for political operation in Spain— meaning Russia. : Until they are assured that all direct and indirect assistance to the Spanish Loyalists will be stopped, it was understood, the Italian and German Governments will continue to aid the Rebels.

Blum Maps Debt Stand With Envoy

By United Press PARIS, Jan. 16.—Premier Leon Blum and Georges Bonnet, prospective ambassador to the United States, began today to draft the general lines of financial and economic policy to guide Bonnet's conversations in Washington.

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 267

Ariel Admits Caliban Has Her Beaten

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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 16.—A school girl's dreamy ambition to stem the raging Barrymore temper and make an “ideal husband” of royal Jack ended today with the filing of a divorce complaint. Elaine Barrie, pouty-lipped Hunter College coed with a desire to be an actress, had hoped to succeed where three other women had failed. The dark-eyed girl, whose “Ariel and Caliban” romance was climaxed by their marriage at Yuma, Ariz, last Nov. 9, followed her three predesecsors in admitting she could not cope with her husband when he went into his Barrymoresque tantrums. : She accused the aging “great lover” of a number of things, including: 1. “Inhuman conduct extreme mental cruelty.” 2. Calling her “indecent, profane and opprobrioils names.” 3. Threatening to “kill or maim” her. 4. And striking her at a New Year’s Eve party.

COURT UPSETS PIGKETING BAN

Kokomo Ordinance Illegal, Highest Tribunal in State Rules.

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While repeal of the City antipicketing ordinance still was held in committee by City Council, the In-

diana Supreme Court today ruled that antipicketing measures are invalid. The Court ruled in favor of Local 26, National Brotherhood of Operative Potters, reversing a Howard Circuit Court decision on a Kokomo ordinance. The Indianapolis repeal measure, introduced by Adolph Fritz, labor leader, has been held in committee since last July. No committee report has been made. Similar measures, intended to eliminate antipicketing clauses from the City code, have been defeated. Meanwhile, Senator Jacob Weiss (D. Indianapolis), announced prior to the Supreme Court ruling that he was preparing a Legislative bill for the State Federation of Labor outlawing .antipicketing ordinances. The court wrote in part: “Kokomo possesses no power not conferred upon it expressly or by fair implication by the law that created it. The powers exercised by the City must be consistent with the general laws and public policy of the state. Mr “The City ordinance now before the Court make all picketing of ihe

It was expected that M. Bonnet would leave in time to start the | talks early in February.

Spanish Loyalists Drive Back Rebels

By United Press MADRID, Jan. 16.—Gen Francisco Franco threw his main army against the Loyalist defense lines «cn the west and northwest early today in another desperate attempt to capture Madrid. After 10 hours of continuous fighting, accompanied by an incessant roar of the heaviest artillery on both sides, the government lines still held.

U. S. Consulate at Malaga Wrecked

By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. '16.—The unoccupied American consulate at Malaga, Spain, has been wrecked by an aerial bomb dropped by.an unidentified plane, the State Department was advised today by Consul Herbert O. Williams at &ibralter.

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there is $6 much crime in this

country is because it's so easy to commit crime. Of course, we have laws against crime and a certain amount of lawbreakers do git punished after a long time and after a lot of redtape, but that don’t do no good. That’s something like lockin’ the barn after the horse is stolen. My Uncle Sanky used to be .*sheriff down home in our county and I've always thought he had the right idea. He believed in _ gittin’ right down to the bottom of things and makin’ crime hard to commit. One day a bad man came into town and got loaded up with that terrible liquor and he climbed up on the telephone pole in the middle of Main St. and started takin’ pot-shots at all the citizens. After he'd emptied his gun, he come down the pole and went back in the bar again and started to drink some more and he says, “This time I'm gonna take two guns up on the pole and really do some shootin’.” = A committee of citizens ran to uncle and says, “What are we gonna do? This man’s goin’ back up that pole again and start takin’ pot-shots at us.” And my uncle says, “Well, in a case of that kind I think we’d better grease the pole.” (Copyright, 1937)

employer’s premises, or the approach thereto, unlawful. No force or violence is necessary to make the act of picketing unlawful and punishable. “The (State) Act of 1933 authorizes the doing of all acts alleged in the ¢ommplaint. The act of striking or picketing necessarily involves compulsion and coercion, and unless same is performed by acts of fraud or violence, is lawful and permissible under the statute. “The ordinance is repugnant to the declared purpose and object of the statute.”

TRIPLE-A FOR STATE WILL BE DISCUSSED

Governor Townsend said today that while in Washington for the Presidential inauguration he wili confer with Henry Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture, on the advisability of Indiana enacting a triple A law. : If enacted, he said, the law ‘probably would cover soil conservation, and perhaps crop insurance. He said he also will attend a Federal Housing Administration conference while there. The Governor said he considers a safe balance in the State treasury to be between five and seven million dollars. He said the question -of new :taxes was entirely dependent on whether the Legislature places the Social Security burdens now on the counties, on the State.

KIDNAP COUNTS IN STRIKE RIOT ARE DISMISSED

Clears Threat to Peaceful Negotiations of Truce Between, Factions.

OFFICIALS MEET TODAY

Workers Are Asked to Approve Pact; Martin Assures Quiet Evacuation.

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By United Press

DETROIT, Jan. 16.—One of the chief threats to peaceful negotiation of the General Motors strike was removed today when Joseph R. Joseph, Flint prosecutor, withdrew 300 warrants charging kidnaping issued against members of the United Automobile Workers. National Guardsmen still occupied Flint, and ‘some will remain until “sit-down” strikers march out of Fisher body plants Nos. 1 and 2 tomorrow. Half of them had been ordered demobilized, but. the order was canceled abruptly last night. Authorities said, however, that all of the 126th infantry would be out of Flint by Tuesday. Several hundred guardsmen from other units will remain during the Detroit negotiations on the strike.

Request of Governor

Mr. Joseph said he would withhold the serving of the 300 John Doe warrants at the request of Governor Frank Murphy. They were issued after a battle Monday night in front of Fisher Body Plant No. 2 where 28 persons—police, strikers and bystanders—were injured. Homer Martin, union president, and William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, met today in the corporation's offices to lay the groundwork for negotiations on wages, hours and working conditions, starting Monday. Strikers were ' asked today to ratify the truce between General Motors and the United Automobile Workers so plants can be emptied and wage and hour negotiations started. Mr. Martin stood pledged to have all sit-down strikers out of six General Motors’ plants by Monday morning. He predicted his men would approve the truce and leave willingly. Threats to Truce Three things threatened a speedy agreement. 1. Mr. Lewis, head of the C. I. O,, said in Washington that he would insist the United Automobile Workers be recognized as the ‘“exclusive” bargaining agent for all General Motors employees. 2. Mr. Knudsen replied: “That’s not my kind of collective bargaining. We don’t believe in one exclusive bargaining agency representing all the men. Why should Mr. Lewis represent someone not . a member of his union?” 3. Adolf Germer, C. I. O. representative, told 500 strikers at Flint that “under the terms of the truce we still have the right to close down every General Motors plant in the United States to demonstrate our solidarity and force a final settlement favorable to us.” The union announced the follow-

ling schedule for abandoning plants

held by sit-down strikers:

Guide Lamp Co. Strikers To Leave Plant Today

Times Special ANDERSON, Jan. 16.—Marching to the tunes of a Cleveland auto workers band, approximately 200 sitdown strikers who have been occupying the Guide Lamp Co. plant for 16 days were scheduled to leave this afternoon. They were to head a parade to the Armory, where a mass meeting was scheduled at 2 p. m. Hugh Thompson, local strike leader, and Ed Hall, United Automobile Workers of America vice-president, were scheduled to speak. : Mr: Thompson said sitdown strikers in the plant received a telegram from national headquarters in Detroit last night asking them to leave the plant, as agreed in a truce with General Motors, to permit negotiations to start Monday. The sitdowners voted on ratification today.

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ANN HARDING TO WED AGAIN

Film Actress to Be Bride of Werner Janssen, Conductor.

By United Press

LONDON, Jan. 16.—Ann Harding, American actress, whose court fight for the custody of her 8-year-old daughter at the time of her divorce from Harry Bannister caused na-tion-wide interest, is to be married to Werner Janssen, distinguished symphonic conductor, it was revealed here today. Mr. Janssen is an Indianapolis man. . Notice of the intention to marry was filed at Caxton Hall Register Office. Janssen’s age was given as 36 and Miss Harding’s as 34. Janssen listed himself as ‘having been divorced from Elsa Janssen, nee Smith.

JURY TO INVESTIGATE UNDERWOOD CHARGE

Continuance to Be Asked In His Trial.

A new Grand Jury investigation is to be started next week into facts surrounding the embezzlement case against Harry Underwood, real estate man, Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer announced today. Trial of Underwood on embezzlement charges recently was set for next Monday, but Prosecutor Spencer said a continuance would be asked by the State to “present some new facts to the grand jury.” Mr. Spencer said the present affidavit, under which Underwood is being held on $25,000 bond, is faulty because it does not bear the signatures of persons whose money was involved in the case.

Prosecution Aided

“Until yesterday Brandt Brothers & Co. was not willing to support prosecution of. the case,” Mr. Spencer explained. *‘But company officials now inform me they are willing to push the case.” A new affidavit is to be filed in Criminal Court Monday and new facts presented to the new Grand Jury as soon as it convenes, Mr. Spencer , said. At the time of his arrest last June, Underwood is alleged to have made a statement to Sheriff Ray, charging that he had lost about $60,000 to Indianapolis gamblers. The alleged statement is said to have blamed gambling for losses of rent money he collected for other firms. : It was reported today that Underwood may retract part of the alleged statement.

RUSSELL J. RYAN GETS REVENUE POST

By United Press fo WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Russell J. Ryan, former judge of the Marion County, Indiana, Superior Court, today was named by the Treasury as assistant to the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Bureau. Ryan was on the Marion County bench until the close of 1934 and since has been engaged in private law practice in Indianapolis.

STATE SENATE T0 GET LABOR BILL MONDAY

Union Leaders Announce Plan After Conference With Townsend.

HOMESTEAD ACT FLAYED

$3000 Exemptions Would Wreck State System, Walsman Says.

State Federation of Labor officials announced today that a bill creating

a State Labor Department is to be|d

introducea in the Senate Monday afternoon when the Legislature reconvenes. The announcement followed a conference of labor leaders with Governor Townsend, who recommended such action in his message to the Legislature. Officials of the State Federation are anxious that all features of. the bill conform with .the Governor's wishes in order that there be no doubt of its passage, they said. Meanwhile, political observers analyzed Republican strategy in presenting an Administration recommended hill in both Houses yesterday. Utilities Bill in Working

The measure, providing for reassessment of real estate for taxation every four years beginning this year, was mentioned in the Governor's message and recommended by the State Tax Board. A Municipal Utilities bill also was being prepared for introduction soon. This is an “independent”

measure, and is not sponsored by |

the Indiana Municipal League. The skeleton draft of the Labor Department Bill was worked out by labor leaders and the United States Bureau of Labor Standards. Main features of the proposed measure would: 1. Create a State Labor Department under the administration of a Labor Commissioner. 2. Consolidate powers and duties now assigned to the Industrial Board, Mines and Mining Department, State Inspection Bureau and Women and Children’s Department under the Labor Department.

3. Authorize the Commissioner to

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LEADERS SPUR DRIVE FOR REORGANIZATION

Heartened by Defeat of Byrd Proposal.

By Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—The crushing defeat of Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va) in the first Senate test between the Roosevelt and Byrd

: plans of government reorganiza-

tion apparently has won over Administration leaders to the “one big bill” method of accomplishing the President's program. Senator Byrd's program included the scrapping of the RFC. The Senate voted 52 to 22 against his motion to limit the RFC’s life to one year, and then by 73 to 1 voted to extend its existence to June 30, 1939, as asked by the Administration. A bill embodying the entire Roosevelt reorganization: plan has been written, and in view of the Byrd fiasco its introduction is said to await only the naming of House and Senate members of the new joint Congressional Committee on Reorganization.

SPENCER TO HELP IN BRIGHT MURDER CASE

Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer has. accepted an invitation to assist in the prosecution of the two youths charged with the slaying of William H. Bright, Indianapolis druggist, at Shelbyville. John Kelley, deputy prosecutor, who has been assigned to the case, said he was preparing all evidence available from Marion County and will take an active part in the trial when it opens in Shelbyville. The two held are Vurtis Neal, 21, Madison ex-convict, and Hugh Marshall, 19, of Indianapolis.

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Floods R ecede; Refugees Turn Toward domes

By United Press { CHICAGO, Jan. 16 Floods which followed torrential | winter rains crept back over lowlinds of half a dozen states today aiid chilled refugees hoped to deser their temporary shelters and icturn to their homes by Monday. A cold wave settlec! over Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kent cky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri Freezing temperatiires added to the suffering of huniireds of families, many of whom f :d their homes with only small bunt les of clothing and what valuables hey were able to save. Weathermen forec: st rising temperatures for most ¢{ the area tomorrow. More than 100 fan lies re-entered their homes at Har isburg, Ill, as the flood receded fc ir feet in one

ay. Nearly 100,000 aces in half a dozen ‘counties of Keitucky and Indiana were under witers from the Ohio River near Evansville, Ind, today. The crest wis expected tomorrow. Thousand of acres remained under water ‘n the Wabash, White and Patoka ! vers vicinities. Rising waters at tie junction of the Wabash and Ohi: Rivers forced families to flee thei: homes. The Red Cross aided ev: cuation. Posey County residents sa d it was the worst flood since 191; A sleet storm disrupted telephone and electric service.

YOUTH IS HELD

AFTER WRECK

Faces Manslaui hter Count Following Fa'al Accident Hire.

MARION COUNT! TRAFFIC

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Loren Fisher, 29, of 2204 N. Pennsylvania St., was hid today on charges of involuntary manslaughter in connection with {ie death last night of William La ie, 55, Negro, of 1044 N. West St. ! Mr. Lane was struck in the 1100 block in N. West St. by a motorist who did not stop, pt ice said. Almost every bone in ais body was broken by the impact Deputy Coroner Ezra D. Alexan¢ er said. Forty-five minutes iter the accident, which brought |/farion County’s 1937. traffic fata ties to four, (Turn to Page Three)

BLOODSTAIN TESTS ORDERED B 6-MEN

Clothing Believed Worn by Kidnaped Matt on Boy.

By United Press EVERETT, Wash, Blood-stained clothing have been worn by Ch: 10-year-old Tacoma |! perverted kidnaper m were sent to a laboral examination. The clothing was £ abandoned shack no where a hunter Charles’ body Monday A child’s scream rai snowy wastes north of a. m, Jan. 6, five da; boy's: body was fo learned. This new informati today with a state po. the detention of a me:

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STREAMS NEAR PEAK MARKS IN (ITY AND STATE

More Families Leave Houses in Rocky Ripple Area.

CREEKS FALLING

New Rain or Snow and Rise in Mercury Predicted.

A crest of 18 feet, exactly flood stage, was predicted by the Weather Bureau for late today in White River here.

Rising temperatures -and rain or snow forecast for tomorrow will have no effect on the flood waters, J. H. Armington, U. S. meteorologist, said, because “if it arrives, it will not amount to much.”

HOURLY TEMPERATURES

17 10a. m... 25 183 11a. m... 27 19; 12 (Noon) 30 27 1ipom. 29

While River today was falling at Anderson and Noblesville, above Indianapolis. Levee workers in Indianapolis along White River in Warfleigh, to the northwest, and Sunshine Gardens, to the southwest, reported at noon that banks were thawing and the vigilahce was increased. Families in Safety

All families that were marooned with no boats in the Rocky Ripple district have been moved to safety, deputy sheriffs reported. The river was at 16.7 feet at 10 a. m.

Sunshine Gardens .workers said the levee would stand a two-foot rise before overflowing. Warfleigh workers said 1.3 feet would wash the water over in some sections.

The Weather Bureau said that once the crest was passed, the river would fall rapidly and that by tomorrow evening lowlands probably would be drained. ! Approximately 200 acres of Rocky Ripple were under: water, Deputy Sheriff Max Meith said. With Deputy James Brundage, he had been on duty in the district for more than 40 consecutive hours. All of the 200 inhabitants except those with boats of their own, have been removed, Deputy Meith said.

Inundation Not Feared

The Warfleigh levee protects several hundred acres of pasture and farm land in the Crow’s Nest area. Noyhomes there would be inundated or A eroonsd if the levee broke. The Sunshine Gardens levee protects several thousand acres of farm ijand and 119 homes in the area. The water there was higher, oldtime residents said, than at any time since 1913. Both levees were patrolled by WPA workers who spent last night placing sandbags over weakened parts in the dike. There were two large breaks in the Warfleigh dike at 4 a. m. today. One was about 35 feet wide and another between 40 and 50 feet wide. A steam shovel near one of them was two-thirds covered with water. The current was swift and carried much debris with it. However, because of their peculiar situations, the breaks did little damage, the water rushing through one opening into the lowland, and ou‘ into the stream again through the other. Most of Ravenswood was covered with water as it is every time the (Turn to Page Three)

INDUSTRIALS LED TO NEW HIGH BY STEEL

By United Press NEW YORK, Jan. 16.—United States Steel common stock today soared more than 3 points, bringing its gain for two sessions to more than 5 points. Its gain helped. carry the industrial average to a new high since 1931. Farm shares continued to gain.

WEARY CONFEREES

REACH BASIS FOR BARGAINING IN AUTO STRIKE . .

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A basis for collective bargaining reached at last, following days of strenuous parle th officials are shown after the agreement had been made that brought peace nearer in the General Motors Deyn ae Agi hot office at Lansing, Mich,

are, left to right, William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors

J iliator; and Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers of America.

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ROMANCE IN COURT

The hectic roman ¢ of Elaine Barrie and John Barrymore reached the divorce court tod::y when Miss Barrie filed a complaint in Holly-

wood. She admitted : 1e couldn’t cope with the aging actor’s The separation dated ‘rom a New Year’s Eve party.

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Water Begins to Drop In Upper Reaches Of Streams.

BOLSTER LEVEES

100,000 Acres Bathed by Overflow of ~ Ohio River.

By United Press Muddy flood waters overs flowing Indiana farm lands neared their crest today and some lowland residents planned to return to their

homes over the week-end.

Cold weather and cessation of rains ‘had halted the rapid rise and . water already had begun fo recede in upper reaches of most streams.

Seek Missing Man

A search of White River at the edge of Brownstown was begun today after disappearance of three men in two automobiles at a point where flood waters have washed oug a section of U. S. Road 50. One car, driven by Roy Dugan, U. S. forester, when he left Bedford about midnight last night, was found in the stream. Mr. Dugan was not found. :

Road 37 Open

Highway 37 south of Indi- _ anapolis is still open all the way to the Ohio- River, the State Highway Commission reported today. Although there is four inches of water over the road south of Martinsville and near Waverly it will not interfere with traffic, highway - officials said. Sand has been placed on ice formed where flood waters have left the highway. Heavy traffic is expected tonight from Indianapolis to ° Bloomington for the IndianaPurdue basketball game.

Anxiety was expressed for the safety of Harry Matthews and Ben Rechter, both of Brownstown, who left Bedford in an automobile last night but failed to reach home. The hub cap from a car of their make was found on a bridge abutement at the edge of the washout. Water from White River was flowing swiftly at the scene and State Police ordered a motorboat * to continue the search. : In Southern Indiana, according to the Weather Bureau, rivers have not reached their crests and serious floods still are threatened. WPA workmen still were active, reinforcing levees along the White Rivers at [Indianapolis and the Wabash River from Terre Haute south. 100,000 Acres Under Water

Approximately 100,000. acres in more than half a dozen counties in Kentucky and <Jdndiana were under overflow waters from the Ohio River in the Evansville area, where a crest of 43.8 feet was expected by tomorrow. Thousands of acres of lowland in Gibson and surrounding counties was inundated by the Wabash, White and Patoka Rivers. Posey County, recovering irom a severe sleet storm which wrecked communications last week-end, faced a new peril in overflow of the Wabash and Ohio Rivers. At the juncture of the two major streams residents were fleeing to higher ground and the County Red Cross aided in evacuation of homes,

week. Forecasts threatened one of the most complete inundations of Posey County lowlands since the flood of 1913, but no towns were in danger. Telephone service still was diss rupted as result of the sleet storm but - electric current had been restored partially. ’ Improvement was noted, however, in most other sections. The Ohio River along the southe (Turn to Page Three)

W. A. JUTT IS DISMISSED

Wallace A. Jutt, secretary to Paul P. Fry, State Purchasing Agent and Excise Director, today received notice of his dismissal from Dick Heller, executive secretary to Gove ernor Townsend.

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