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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 6

$5710 ASKED _Hencomeoncs PROCTOR HINTS

FROM WPA FOR TRAFFIC STUDY

City Would Put Up $3400 For Survey Linked With Krem!'s Visit.

KERN SIGNS APPLICATION

Officials Confident Grant Will Be Approved: Plan 205 Jobs.

The

City the Marion

filed application WPA for traffic survey the project would remaining $3400 to

today

with County

$59.210 to conduct

] Total

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cost of

he the by

[afety

the city from pifts

purposes

be supplied donated

for

The survey would be conducted

in to

connection with a traffic study be made by Lieut. F. M. Kreml, nationaly known safety expert who = coming here at the invitation of Chiel Morrissey

Signed hy Mayor

The application was signed hy Mavor Kern and City Engineer Henry B. Steep, City officials, confident the request will be granted, said the survey would be started immediately after favorable action, expected in about {wo weeks. The City Council Planning Commission, Board of Safety, Police Department and Safety Commission have approved the srrvey as a proj- | ect to check traffic deaths here. | Forty-one persons, more than half them pedestrians, have been killed in Marion County this vear, Undzr plans already drafted, the study ‘would be supervised by Lieut, | Fugene Shine of the Traffic Department, and FE Johnson, assist ant city engineer

205 Would Be Emploved

Plans persons

[or empdloyment of 205 but five who would serve in supervisory capacity, would he taken from relief rolls Both men and women would be employed The survey

call All

would require about wn months, It would include an accident analysis, study of speed | regulations, enforcement, a ve-| hicular and pedestrian” count ®nd observance of school children's part n traflic, i An ultimate aim of the survey! would he to determine a basis for establishment of a permanent traf. fic department with a8 superintendent, officials said.

ALIENISTS READY TO EXAMINE NEAL

Unit !

FB d Press SHELBYVILLE. Ind., March 18. Two Shelbyville doctors planned today to examine Vurtis Neal, 21, Madison, after the vouth entered a plea of insanity in connection with | the slaying last Jan. 4 o1 William | H. Bright, Indianapolis pharmacist. | Dr. W. W. Tindall and Dr. B. G.| Keeney were appointed by Shelby | Circuit Court Special Judge Roscoe C. O'Byrne to examine the prisoner and report their findings at the trial set for March 28 Hugh Marshall, 19, Indianapolis, named with Neal in the murder in- | dictment entered a similar insanity plea a week ago. j Prior to Neal's plea, Judge O'Bryne rejected 8 motion by the vouth's attorneys for separate trials and also a request that the case be remanded to Judge James A. Em- | mert of Shelby Circuit Court.

CHILD LABOR BILL DEFEATED Bul anited Pre HARTFORD, Conn... The Connecticut House of Representatives today refused to ratify the Pederal Child Labor Amendment bv a vote of 174 to 83 after hitter debate on the floor,

BOB BURNS |

Says: March 18. —1

hon blame a person for trvin' to improve himself or herself but nine | times out of ten, when you find one of those ultra-ultra persons that “put on the dog” and talk with an affected speech, if you go back to their home town and visit their home, you'll find their old man sittin’ around the house in his undershirt and in his sox feet. I knew a girl like that down home one time. Nobody ever paid any attention to her until one day she won a beauty contest and she went to the city and got in the show business. There she married | a rich man and got into society. Shortly after that she came home | on a visit and brought her society husband home with her. When she got off the train, it look the porter 15 minutes to unjond her suitcases and hathoxes, Henry Hink, the old station agent, | went runnin’ up to her to greet her but she gave him an icy stare. She arched one evebrow and says, My good man, isn't it possible to get a taxicab to carry our luggage to the hotel?” Henry Hink says. “You don’t have to bother about that, Maggie—here | comes your Paw around the corner | with a wheelbarrow,”

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OLLYW OOD. |

| and

| lower temperatures. J) | Was predicted tomorrow after it dips | paternal sympathy,”

The Indianapolis Times

PORBCAST-—Fair and somewhat colder tonight with lowest about 30; tomorrow fair with rising temperature by afternoon,

| why | aside, will appear tomorrow morning

Mr. and Ry United Press LOS ANGELES, March 18 Allan Henry Hoover, son of exPresident and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, and Margaret Coberly, daughter of Mr, and Mrs, William B, Coberly, today were on their honevmoon in Santa Barbara, Cal. They were married last night at the home of the bride's parents. The groom's parents drove from Palo Alto for the ceremony. The bride was attended as matron of honor by her sister-in-law, Mrs. William Coberly. Herbert Hoover Jr. was best man. They will make their home at the Greens field Ranch, south of Bakersfield.

BANGS UTILITY BOOKS ASSAILED

Records Fail to Account for Expenditures of $15,662, | Auditors Say.

Mrs. Hoover

Bul wuilted Press HUNTINGTON, Ind. March 18. An audit of the Municipal Light & Power Co.'s books revealing that expenditures of $15,662.11 could not be traced today was available {or the Council in impeachment proceedings against Mayor Clare W. | H. Bangs. Examination of the utility's finan- | cial records was conducted by the | State Accounts Board at request of | thesCouncil. | In a 40-page report, the board's | utility specialists, T. M. Hindman | and H. BE. Waltz, heaped criticisin on the power company's bookkeep- | ing methods. “If this office had been operating as an authorized department of the City, each and every disbursement

City its

| made was irregular and illegal,” the

report said. The examiners said they found that cash collected by the City utility from Jan, 1, 1935, until Jan. | 1, 1937, totaled $24,027.15. Act receipts for known disbursemen

on hand was $4160.38. Examiners said they could not determine definitely how the other

1£15.662.11 had been spent.

In a statement issued [rom a cell in the Huntington County jail, which he has occupied since last July 6, Mayor Bangs said the miss= ing funds were used for construction work, “It. went for stringing lines, purchase of meters and transformers (Turn to Page Three)

FAIR WEATHER DUE HERE LATER TODAY

LOCAL TEMPERATURES BW 10 a. m.., 11 aa m 12 (Noon) 1pm.

41 BM. 41 n. Wh... 40 A. m 40 A tomorrow was the Weather Bureau's prediction. The forecast said the rain-bearing clouds are to pass away for clearer skies and

A mercury rise

to a low of about 30 tonight.

| the basis for intervention, | were considered sufficiently justifi- |

‘OPPOSITION TO [TBY WALLIS

‘Cause List Item Indicates

Effort Will Be Made to Block Divorce.

INTERVENER NOT NAMED

British Official to Appear

In Court Tomorrow for ‘Directions.’

nirted Prete LONDON, March 18. Impending legal action to annul the divorce of Mrs. Wallis Simpson and prevent her marriage to the Duke of Windsor. who abdicated as King Edward VII for love of her, was indicated today bv a brief item in tomorrow's cause list of the law courts The item did not name the inter. vener. who was understood to be a private person, The announcement merely said that the King's Proctor, who has the power to step in and show cause a decree nisi should be set

in chambers before the president of the divorce courts, Sir Boyd Merriman, to ask for “direction.” It is understood that the intervention is of the “common informer” tvpe of action in which any member of the public may appear to give information. A reliable source said the intervenor is not an individual

{of prominence and is not directly

involved in the case, Po. ~ibilities Are Outlined Mrs, Simpson's divorce is not due to become final until April 27. It was expected the King's Proctor probably would present details of | If they

able, the Court probably would instruct the Proctor to advise tre intervener that the Court is v villing to proceed Thereupon it would be up to vhe Intervener to decide if he wished to proceed with the Proctor's assistance Legal authorities said any “interested member of the public” may hire his own lawyer to take technically the place of the King's Proctor and show cause why the divorcee should not he made absolute The lawyer would try to prove that some technicality had been vio |

{lated or overlooked when the decree |

nigi was granted, or that there had heen collusion and undisclosed adultery by the petitioner, The Court's procedure then must be just as though the Proctor had intervened,

COLUMBUS WOMAN IS KILLED IN WRECK

Timer Specinl FRANKLIN, Ind, March 18 Norma Armstrong, 22, Columbus, Ind. was killed instantly. and four | companions injured when their | automobile struck a bridge abut- | ment on State Road 31 near here last night. The five young women, all employees of the Alliance Manufac- | turing Co, Columbus, were return- | ing from Indianapolis when their |

car skidded and crashed. The injured were Ruth Car- | michael, Olive Seward, Mary Mec-

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COMMUNISM FLAYED AGAIN BY POPE PIUS

‘Endangers All Nations, He Says in Encyclical.

By United Press

VATICAN CITY, March 18.--Pope | Pius in an encyclical today denounced “atheistic communism” and | warned that it exposed all nations | to grave dangers. There was necessity, the encyclical said, for a new, solemn document | exposing the errors of communism | and contrasting them with the salu- | tary truth taught in the church. The sad effect of the communisti

evils, the ‘encyclical said, already hours this morning on points of law and prepare to bargain under

had been made evident in several | | nations—Mexico, Spain and espe- |

| to speak, as a testing ground for this | new doctrine.”

| dened and oppressed, the

said the en-|

| cyclical.

| districts

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TWO CLIPPERS INTO HONOLULU

=Acme Phala,

Miss Earhart's “Flving Laboratory.”

New Strikes Close Flint G. M. Plant:

Special Police Halt War In Cab Drivers’ Strike,

ETE) CHICAGO. March 18. -=Police called out emergency patrols today to halt bloody warfare between

ted Presse

strikers and nonstriking drivers of |

the Yellow and Checker Taxi Cab Cos Acting Police Commissioner John Prendergast ordered 14 squad cars of two men each to leave outlying and take up special patrols at 7 a. m. today around downtown cab stands and railway stations. Regular weekly leaves were cancelled for all officers. Detective bureau squads and 75 student policemen stood by for emergency duty, Early morning brought quiet to the downtown “loop” where marauding bands vesterday smashed

seven ears, sot fire to three of them, |

injured at least seven persons seriously enough for hospital treatment. An estimated 30,000 shoppers,

| workers and strollers looked on as

the marauders whirled through the Loop. attacking cabs and drivers and fleeing only when attacked by police and firemen, Police and Fire Department sirens wailed almost continuously for two hours. At least one shot was fired, while bricks and metal objects crashed through taxicab windows, Police said it was one of the worst strike riots in Chicago in years,

SLAYS WIFE AND 2

CHILDREN, ENDS LIFE

De Payw Graduate Despondent, Authorities Say.

I'nited Press TACOMA, Wash, March 18 -—Au{horities said today that despondency apparently prompted James Merritt Arthur, 43, to shoot his wife and two daughters to death and then take his own life, Both Arthur and his wife, Anna, 40. were graduates of DePauw University, Apparently Arthur, manager of

here, shot his wife late yesterday outside their luxurious Lake Steilcoom home,

Then he killed the | children, Mary Ann, 15, and Janet, |

U.S. POWERLESS,

BANKHEAD SAYS

‘Congressional Leader Fearful Over Wave of Labor Troubles.

By United Press

WASHINGTON, March 18. Speaker Bankhead (D. Ala) said

today that he felt the Federal GGov- | Writ

ernment is powerless” to intervene in the wave of sit-down strikes at present, His statement wag the latest in a series by | sional leaders expressing apprehension concerning the wave of sitdown strikes They came as Federal efforts were | underway to arrange a conference at | Detroit of Walter P, Chrysler and | John L. Lewis in an effort to end the extensive Chrysler automotive strike, Senator Bankhead said felt, that Federal power down strikes could not be deters | mined until the Supreme Court | passes upon constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Act, Mr, Chrysler and Mr, Lewis are in New York, Government mediators, working In secrecy, so far have been unsuccessful in their attempts to arrange a meeting, They | mre acting in co-operation with | Governor Murphy of Miehigan, who has heen trving to induce Mr, Chrysler and Mr, Lewis to come to Detroit for eonferences similar to that which ended the General Motors dispute Prom sources close to Mr. Chrys{ler it was learned that he desires to make no move at this time, | feels that it is time to test the [ authority of courts in dealing with sit-down strikes and expects

that he over sit-

t the strikers in his | taking any action, | -

MICHIGAN'S SENATE GETS LABOR BILLS

| an automobile tire company branch |

'Sit-Downs Would Be Banned | Under Program.

8 when they rode home from school |

on their bicycles.

After taking the three victims to |

an upstairs bedroom where he placed each on a bed, and folded their arms, he telephoned a friend asking that he send a hearse to the home. Then he killed himself. Arthur left a note to relatives, Fdwin G. Arthur, Chicago, a brothFreda Arthur Bosmer, Muncie, Ind. a sister, and Mrs. 1. E. Avery, Columbus, O., mother of Mrs, Ars thur.

HEARING ON VEHLING PLEA TO CONTINU

Hearing on a coram nobis

er;

plea

fon County Coroner convicted six vears ago of soliciting a bribe, was

involving the alleged insanity of a member of the jury which convicted

fair weather fare for later today | cially Russia, which “was chosen, so A Vehling.

Prosecutor

Holy | motion to commit Vehling to prison [tinue until an agreement is reac | Pather offers the expression of his|at once. His sentence was upheld |or “the impossibility ther last

by the State Supreme Court year.

| By United Press LANSING | Legislation

March 18.— sit-down

Mich.,

to prohibit

Administration Congres- |

~ Chicago Calls Out Emergency Patrols

> | Union Leaders Served |

With Injunctions At Detroit.

By United Presse

DETROIT, March 18, -- Strikes plant today while the union and Ohrysler Corp. moved closer to a showdown on the issue of whether 8000 git=downers would be evicted from nine factories,

Homer Martin,

president,

dent of the United Automobile

Workers, today were served with a | commanding |

of injunction, them to remove sit-down strikers from nine Chrysler plants, The writ already has been served on the men in the factories, Fisher body plant No, 1 at Flint was closed after a series of sit-down strikes involving more than 500 women. Closing of the factory threw 4800 persons out of work, First strike occurred in the sew= ing division of the south unit where 200 women struck because of =a “wage grievance.” An hour later 380 women in the north unit joined the strike in sympathy but then re-

[turned to work, The south unit was

He |

to | | await, results of legal efforts to eviet, | plants before |

| physicians.

| | | {

| Mind wanders to minnows, baseball | umpires, and radish-planting.

| strikes and to require bargaining be- |

was introSenate to-

employees |

Sen- | | discovered in this eentury by radio the | Bock beer

One of the bills aims against sit- |

‘down strikers by making seizure of | property and interference with its

[ free and unimpeded use hy the own- |

ler a felony, with offenders liable

‘filed by Fred Vehling, former Mar- to five years’ imprisonment or a

| fine of $2500, a | Any employer or employee desiring

| to be resumed this afternoon. State to change working conditions would c land defense counsel argued for two | be required to give 10 days’ notice | the

|other Palmer bill. The measure | would prohibit the employers from

striking Bargaining conferences would

beyond reasonable doubt,’ ure proposed.

con- | hed | eof develop [the Sullivan Admini ' the meas- | was reappointed when Mayor Kern |beat St. Teresa of Decatur, Ill, 40

| chert:

| chair-warming | ing to onslaught of disease. Victims

closed and 1200 employees were sent home,

Toward mid-afternoon 80 men in | the north unit joined the strike, and | was closed, Com- |

| the entire plant pany officials asked the 60 men what ("urn to Page Three)

BEWARE OF YAWNS, OR, MORGAN WARNS

Greeks Had Word but No Cure for Spring Fever.

Grandma's remedy fever'——gulphir ang molasses or | sassafras tea—has no clinical | standing. But neither has “spring | fever” in the eyes of Indianapolis

for “spring

| With March 21 the starting date [tor the annual epidemic, an early sufferer sought relief from Dr, Her= man G. Morgan, City Health Direc~ tor, and received the following

“Diagnosis: -- Generally affects dotards, ingenues, fishermen and even doctors, Sudden attack of is common warn-

again flared in a General Motors |

| |

Famed Woman Flier Completes First Lap of

Globe-Circling

Hours and

PLANS BRIEF REST

Howland Island, 1800

Attempt in 15 47 Minutes,

AT HAWAIIAN STOP,

Miles Off, Next Objecs

tive of Her Flight in Purdue's ‘Flying Laboratory.’

(Editorial, Page 18)

| By United Pree | w

| Wheeler Field at 8:25 a, m. | dianapolis Time),

| |

‘by Purdue University, were { ‘the Philippines. After three days of delay Mrs. Putnam took oft from

SCANS NEW LAW IN BAKER CASE

Spencer May Proceed Under Its Provisions to Get Special Judge.

| Prosecittor Herbert MM. Spencer

| sajel today he might make use of

(a new State Jaw on the selection of |

| special trial judges in the case of [Joel A. Baker and his associate, Peter A, Cancilla. Joel Baker, deposed Marion | County Welfare Director, and Canleila, are free under ‘awaiting arraignment in Criminal Court Monday on grand jury in[dietments charging malicious may[hem and assault and battery with

intent, to murder Wayne Coy, State

| Welfare Director. Mr. Spencer sald he would study the new law today and if he found it, practical in this case he would follow its provisions, The law provides in substance that, if the prosecutor or the defendant, objects to the regular judge submitting a list of names from which a judge may be selected, the Oriminal Court Clerk shall certify this fact to the Indiana Supreme Court Clerk, The Supreme Court Clerk then fis obliged to select “three competent, disinterested persons,” [rom which

become over-heated playing tiddley« | winks, Mental balance unstable, | “Treatment: -—Permit disease run its course--of course, Chronic vietims incurable and prevalent in all walks of life. Disease is com- | municable, A yawn may infect an entire office-—even the boss, “Clinical Notes: —Germ discovs | ered by Eve as she watched Adam | sleep in the Garden of Eden, singers with their ‘Lazy Bones’: | injections futile and prone to heighten attack of dis- | ease.” In closing Dr. Morgan reiterated | that the Greeks had a word hut not | a cure for it.

KINNIE WATTS NAMED TO CITY STREET JOB

stration and |

| took office. |

Re- | -

the prosecutor would strike one name and the deiense counsel an(Turn to Page Three)

« IRISH MOTTO HAILED

IN SPEECH BY F. D. R.

(Text, Page 13)

By United Presa WARM SPRINGS, Ga, Selfishness is the “greatest danger that confronts our country today, President Roosevelt sald in a St, Patrick's Day speech last night. He said that the old Irish motto ‘not for ourselves but for others” might well be the inspiration of all Americans, Mr. Roosevelt spoke by telephone to the Charitable Irish Society ‘banquet in Boston and to the Hibernian Society meeting In Savannah, Ga. The address was transmitted from Georgia Hall, administrative headquarters of the warm Springs Foundation.

REITZ BEATS DECATUR

CHICAGO, March 18.-—Reitz Me-

morial of Evansville and Marquette High School, Milwaukee, were winners in first-round games of the 14th National Catholic High School basketball tournament today. Reitz

to 386,

. NEW BOOTS FOR THE KING

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$2000 bonds, |

| March 18

HONOLULU, T. H., March 18 —Amelia Earhart Puts nam completed the firgt lap of her globe-circling flight today hen she brought her big Lockheed Electra plane down on

Pacific Time (10:25 a, m. In=

She led an aerial parade across the Pacific which started and | late yesterday from Oakland, Cal, Wyndham Mortimer, first vice presi- | a virtual flying laboratory that cost £90,000,

Trailing her swift plane, financed partly wo giant Clippers of the Pan-

American fleet, one bound for New Zealand, the other for

due to storms over the Pacific,

Oakland at 4:38 p. m, (6:38

meen 1), TH, Tndianapolis Time) yes-

terday. She made the 2410 mile flight here in 15 hours and 47 minutes, After a few houre of rest the fae [mous woman flier will take off for Howland Island, a tiny spot in the Pacific, 1800 miles sotithwest of here, the second phase of the flight around the world,

Cuts Down on Speed

Her average speed wag 157 miles arn hou During the first stage of the flight she averaged 170 miles an hour but half-way to her destination &he throttled down so that she would arrive at Wheeler Field, {the Army's largest air base, after dawn Accompanying her were Paul Mantz, her technical adviser; Capt, Harry Manning, marine and alr navigator, and Fred Noonan, former | Pan-American pilot who has made | 18 round trips from California to | Manila, Miss Earhart brought her (wo= motored ship down on the field at 10:25 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and taxied down the field. Then she took off again to break the plane's mo= mentum, and finplly brought the | ghip to a perfect, three-point land= [ing at 10:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time),

Plane Barely Visible

Her plane barely was visible as sha | flashed past Diamond Head in the [early dawn, Large clouds dotted (he [sky. One hundred fifty persons [waited at the hangars of Wheeler | Field for her arrival, An additional 250 waited along the highway. | The field, a grassy plain, is 28 miles west of Honolulu and is shel= tered between two mountain ranges, lone of which, the Wajlanae Range, | is the highest and largest on Oahu Island, A light drizzle fell. The field was flood=lighted prior to her landing.

“Knew She’d Make It,’ Putnam Says

Buy United Press OAKLAND, Cal, March 18 «= | Creorge Putnam, husband of Amelia Earhart, was delighted today at his lwife's safe arrival in Honolulu on her round-the-world plane “1 knew she’d make it easily,” hs said. “In fact, she arrived five mine utes hefore her scheduled arrival.”

‘Wish | Could Go,’ Mother Says

Bry United Preas MEDFORD. Mass, March 18 Far from fearing for her daughter, Amelia Earhart Putnam, Mrs. Amy | Earhart, 67, today told newsmen: “I wish I could go with her.” The fiier's mother was here at | the home of another daughter, Mrs, | Muriel Morrissey, with whom she | has stayed since coming by plans | from California eight months ago.

MARKET TURNS QUIET

By United Press NEW YORK, March 18-Two sharp selling movements carried the stock market fractions to 3 points lower today after which trading | turned quiet.

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