Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1937 — Page 1

FORECAST:

Thunder showers probable late tonight or tomorrow;

somewhat warmer tonight, cooler tomorrow.

Final Home Late Stocks

VOLUME

‘SCREEN STARS VOTE TO ORDER

5600 ONSTRIKE

Actual | Walkout Promised Tomorrow if Pay Raises Are Denied.

STUDIOS SEEK ACCORD

Film Technicians Act to Boycott Theaters Throughout United States.

(Cartoon, -Page 10)

By United Press "HOLLYWOOD, May 8.— The secretary of the Screen Actors’ Guild announced today that 5600 actors would call a strike tomorrow night and close every studio in Hollywood unless demands for union recognition and better pay for minor players were granted at once.

The stars have: been casting ballots for two days at secret meetings in the homes of James Cagney, Frederic March, Chester Morris and others. Aubrey Blair, guild secretary, said only 25 more votes were needed to authorize the strike. He said the _ vote was running 99 per cent in favor of the strike, and the needed ballots would be cast today. The .guild claims 5600 actormembers, including 1200 seniors who earn more than $250 a week. These seniors are the only ones entitled to vote. The guild’s constitution requires a 75 per cent vote to approve a strike. Strike Vote Tomorrow

Blair said an already-authorized strike resolution would be presented to the guild tomorrow. He warned “not a studio will open Monday” unless producers comply with- the demands. The guild demands a. minimum of $25 a day for bit players. It also demands to be recognized as the representative of “all minor players. Salaries of some of the stars involved run into hundred thousands of dollars a year. $ The secret balloting has been official, Blair said, and at the meeting tomorrow the guild will be in position to call the strike. It was learned that 100 “strike” votes were obtained at a. meeting in Fredric March’s- home Tuesday night. At Morris’ home Wednesday, 101 voted unanimously for the strike plan. Meanwhile, the Los Angeles Labor Council demanded that nine major studios be placed on an “unfair list” for resisting the demands of striking technicians, who walked out a week ago insisting on a closed union shop. Copies. of the resolution were sent | to labor councils throughout the | country with a request they take (Turn to Page 12)

COUNTESS DIVORCES KING ALFONSO’S SON

| Ly United Press HAVANA, May 8.—A judge in the Court of Instruction today granted a divorce to the Countess Covadonga on the grounds of “abandonment of the home.” The Count is"a son of former King Alfonso XIII of Spain. The ourt decreed that the Count loses the right to all property he left with his wife. This includes jewelry val valued at about $3000.

COAST GUARD SAVES 21 ON SINKING SHIP

ABERDEEN, Wash, May 8—A coast guard crew today rescued 21 members of the crew of the lumber schooner Trinidad after it went aground 30 miles southwest of here in Willipa harbor. One man was drowned. "| The second .mate was washed overboard soon after the schooner, San Francisco bound, grounded last night on a sand spit.

BOB BURNS

Says: | Say May 8.—Livin’

a good straight life has two advantages. First, it gives you a clear consicence, and then it's mighty handy to be able to point at your clean record in case the question ever comes up. Out here in Hollywood where there are so many rich homes, the servant problem has become pretty risky on account of a lot ta crooks have been known to forge

their letters of |:

recommendation jest to get in. When my Cousin Perdy was out here not long ago, she took a job in one of them big homes as a cook. One day she was out workin’ in th garden and she come in and starte to set the table without washin’ her hands. The lady of the house says “Perdy, do you know youre leavin’ your fingerprints all over them plates?” and Perdy says “Oh don’t worry about them fingerprints—I ain't got nothin’ to hide!” (Copyright, 1937)

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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1937

Grass Cuttin’ Boys Herald Circus

Alla-oop!

famcus wild-animal trainer.

DUCE'S WARSHIP FLEES PLANES

Spanish Loyalists Pursue Italian Patrol Boat Along Coast.

By United Press BARCELONA, Spain, May 8.— Loyalist airplanes today .drove an Italian warship from Spanish territorial waters near Tarragona, government reports said today. The reports said that the warship,

one of those patrolling the Mediterranean coast from Cape Oropesa to the French border in behalf of the International Nonintervention Committee, had followed the Spanish: merchant ship Torres y Baged inside the three-mile limit. Several Loyalist planes. immediately left their base nearby “and put the Italian ship to flight,” the reports said. It was not clear from government accounts’ whether the planes had attacked the warship. The Torres y Baged entered Tarragona Harbor, 52 miles southwest of Barcelona, without incident. Tarragona is the capital of the Catalan province of the same name.

TWO STEEL UNIONS

AUTHORIZE STRIKE

' Republic a Youngstown "Sheet and Tube Hit.

By Uniled Press YOUNGSTOWN, O., May 8.—Steel Workers’ Organizing Committee officers in lodges of the Republic Steel Corp. and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., were authorized today by their membership to call strikes if necessary to obtain written contracts. A resolution by the Republic Lodge last night followed similar votes in lodges of the suburban Campbell and Briar Hill plants of Sheet & Tube. L Steel’ Workers’ Organizing Committee said any actual strike ca!l would - have to originate in Pittsburgh. They emphasized that strike authorization made to their officials

{ was contingent on the exhaustion of all other means to obtain written

working agreements. Youngstown Sheet & Tube officials last week refused to sign a collective bargaining agreement with the S. W. O. C., affiliate of the Committee. for Industrial Organization. Republic Steel officials agreed to meet with an S. W. O. C. committee, but said they saw no necessity for a written contract. The S. W. O. C. has filed with the National Laber Relations Board charges of Wagner Labor Act violation against Republic.

And through the flaming ring leaps Leo, at the command of Harriet Beatty, wife of the Mrs.

Beatty will be a Monday. D

Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Show Moves Into Town Tomorrow for Two-Day Stand in Keystone Ave.

By JOE COLLIER

All over town today small boys were mowing lawns and weeding gardens on their own initiative, wit a nice sense of timing that brought their activities sharply to the attention of parents. The pink lemonade market was strong, and sand lot baseball sagged; fishing was weak and marbles hit a seasonal low. At first glance this situation didn’t make sense because today was one of the brightest of the budding summer, made to order for just the things small boys do when it gets to be a bright Saturday and they have to counteract that algebra pallor. A good deal of delving around into this and that disclosed, just before press time; that the Cole 'Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus is due here tomorrow for two days, and a symposium of persons close to the small boys, and in their confidence about the matter agreed: that was a prime factor. These persons included mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, neighbors. policemen on the beat, sérvants, the rag picker, casual pedestrians, playmates, the corner drugstore clerks, and total strangers. The circus is to arrive early tomorrow—so early that all but the elephants and one lion with insom-

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"COUPLE WILL TREK 1000 MILES FOR JOB

By United Press

OGDEN, Utah, May 8—W. L. Quillen, 56, a Wyoming miner who couldn’t get a job because of his age, and his wife, 52, started today on the second lap of their 1000-mile walk to Califorina.to find a job. They. have walked 200 miles since April 25, when they packed all they owned into a two-wheeled cart and left Rock Springs, Wyo. pushing their cart.

DEATH IS BLAMED ON INJURIES IN FALL

Mrs. Kathryn Kavanaugh, wife of Patrick Kavanaugh, 4350 Carrollton Ave., died at St. Vincent's Hospital early today. Hospital authorities said death evidently came as a result of injuries received when Mrs. Kavanaugh fell in her home. Mrs. Kavanaugh was 65. BLUM WINS CONFIDENCE By United Press PARIS, May 8.—Premier Leon Blum and his Popular Front government received a vote of confidence in the Chamber of Deputies today, the: vote showing the leftist regime retained a large majority in

the : Chamber.

featured performer in Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty Circus at Southeastern and Keystone Aves. tomorrow and

‘MOTHER, DEAR, WE LOVE YOU'

Homage Tomorrow Coupled With Plea for Cut in Childbirth Toll.

(Editorial, Page 10; Photo Page 3)

By HELEN WELSHIMER (Copyright. 1937. NEA Service, Inc.) Too large” a percentage of the white flowers which appear in buttonholes on Mother's Day are worn in memory of a woman who died in childbirth—died needlessly, men of science say. At this time when we would honor motherhood, we can do no finer thing than to renew our vc s to check maternity mortality. Waen we realize that 16,000 mothers die in childrbirth every year in our land, and two out of every three could be saved, we realize the im-

mensity of the -challenge that is

given us. An enviable. list of lifesaving discoveries for mothers in childbirth has been presented by medical science in recent years. Doctors have learned how to detect any of the serious complications of pregnancy as soon as they develop. They

know how to relieve pain, how to

make maternity safe and comfort(Turn to Page Three)

ZONING CHANGE FOR MUSEUM IS SOUGHT

Appeal Made on New Site of Children’s Institute.

A petition asking for variance of use from zoning law requirements was ' filed with the City Building Commission today by [the

Children’s Museum, to permit (the!

erection of a $60,000 museum at 3619-37 Washington Blvd. | Plans for the construction of the building, to house the museum now located at 1150 N. Meridian St. came after Mr. and Mrs. William Moore Rockwood had donated real estate at the Washington Blvd. address valued at $30,000. The property, 200 feet by 280 feet, would have to be zoned for business before the building could be constructed. A hearing on the petition will be held at a meeting cf the Zoning Appeals Board, May i7, in the afternoon. According to plans, the new build-

ing would be a modernistic two-| story affair, 101 feet by 85 feet.

There would be a central auditorium and two front offices.

as much natural lighting as possible. :

The | architecture is to be of the latest! type, with corner windows to allow!

RECORD CROWD "EXPECTED TO GREET DERBY

‘Spectators Start to Pour Into Churchill at Break of Dawn.

MONEY FLOWS FREELY

20 of Nation’s Best to Shoot for Top Purse of $62,575.

(Joe Williams’ Derby story, Page 6) By HENRY M'LEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent | CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 8—With blue skies above and blue grass below, the greatest crowd in the history of American horse racing today moved on Churchill Downs for the 63d running of the Kentucky Derby. | Not since the lush days of the late Twenties has such a gay, gaudy, spending crowd poured through the

| gates of the old Downs track. They

started at dawn—the unreserved section was jammed by breakfast time—and they still were coming long before the first race field went to the post. By Derby time (around 5 p. m.) the attendance record of 62,000, established a year ago, appeared certain to be broken. Weather conditions were perfect. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky, and a warm sun shone. The racing strip, over which 20 of the country’s top colts and a gelding will shoot for a gross prize of $62,575, was lightning fast.

War Admiral Favorite

The field, one of the best in years, and with no absolute standout, promised to produce one of the hottest races in years. Samuel Riddle’s War Admiral, a son of Man o’ War, was the favorite of the form players, being held at 2 to 1, ‘with the Milky Way entry of Reaping Reward and Military next in line at 4 to 1. | War Admiral was the No. 1 hoss in the post positions—the No. 1 hoss in the derby betting. He had only to |break away from all trouble, hit his | stride, run his race, and pick up his dough. Or so a majority of the experts decreed. : But there were 19 other horses in the Derby field whose backers were convinced that War Admiral would

Inot get all of these breaks in his

favor—a clean start, a winging race, and a decisive Derby triumph. There were many who believed that Mrs. Ethel Mars, who makes candy bars with her right hand and thumbs winners to the post with her left, had the winning combination in the powerful entry of Reaping Reward and Military.

Can Run Fast

Reaping Reward can run fast, Military can run far. Between them they may hold the magic combination that will whipsaw little War Admiral into defeat. Reaping Reward is tabbed as the derby winner by the Mars Stable, but the turf critics believe that over a distance the Soldier can carry a knapsack of 126 pounds better and faster than his ‘more famed stable mate. Military is the derby dark horse, the truest router in the biggest field since Reigh Count’s derby in 1923. Twenty-two went to the post then. Even with ' unexpected scratches, the field will number no worse than 17 when the bugle blows at 5 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) this afternoon. An amazing angle to this 63d derby is the almost total absence of Bradley ballyhoo. In any derby, any year, there is always the cry of Bradley. Whatever he runs, it draws a play on the mere Bradley luck that has won four previous derbys for the old colonel. This time, however, he has only one horse, not a

helluva name, but not much horse. And yet, Bradley always must be watched in a. Kentucky Derby. He is

||a gambler and he did not pay the

$500 starting fee for nothing. Never does the colonel play a loser knowingly. No gambler does. : So Bradley will be there, too along with Pompoon, the early winter book favorite, which flunked out in the Wood Memorial, but which has. heartened his backers. by sensational dawn workouts.

well regarded one, in Billionaire. A |.

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

Backs Director

Sidney Miller

ZEPPELIN BLAST DEATHS NOW 35

Sabotage Probe Pushed; Formal Inquiry to Open Monday.

(Cartoon, Page 10)

By United Press LAKEHURST, N. J, May 8—The 35th victim of the Hindenburg dis-

aster died today while a Federal Board of Inquiry pried into its mysteries, promising a thorough investigation of all possible causes, including suggestions of sabotage. William Speck, the Hindenburg's chief radio operator, died in a New York hospital early today. Soon afterward, Erick Knoecher of Zeunenorda, Germany, a passeriger, died in another hospital. They followed by 12 hours the death of Capt. Ernst Lehmann, successor to the dirigible fame of Dr. Huggo Eckener. The new deaths speadedd the Federal investiation in which the Bureau of Air Commerce enlisted the aid of Navy and Army experts, congressional technicians, New Jersey officials, and a representative of the German Ambassador. A second inquiry will be undertaken by a German Government commission headed by Dr. Eckener, chief of the Zeppelin works, which sails for the United States today aboard the liner Europa. “If there is plausible evidence of sabotage in connection with the explosion which destroyed the Hindenburg we will thoroughly investigate that angle of the disaster,” said Assistant Secretary of Commerce Monroe Johnson after announcing that public hearings would open here on Monday. First mention of sabotage had come from Dr. Eckener, but after a study of more complete reports (Turn to Page Three)

ROOSEVELT RESTS BEFORE TRIP HOME

By United Press GALVESTON, Tex., May 8.— President Roosevelt cleared his desk of all emergency work today in preparation for a week-end of rest before starting back to Washington Tuesday. The Chief Executive spent the morning in his cabin attending to official communications from Washington. Mr. Roosevelt's fishing trip will end Tuesday when he leaves the Potomac at Galveston to board a special train for the trip home. He will review the Texas A. and M. cadets at College Station Tuesday afternoon. The President will be in Ft. Worth Tuesday night and Wednesday, at the home of his son, Elliott. He will arrive in Washington Friday morning.

FAIR WEATHER TODAY; “RAIN IS DUE TONIGHT

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a. m.. 530 19 a.m... 6 7 a. m 54 11 a. m... 8a. m... 58 12 (Noon) 9 am 60 1p m... A fast Kentucky Derby track will be faster if the forecast for Indianapolis has anything to do with weather in Louisville. The Weather ‘Bureau forecast thundershowers for late tonight or tomorrow, but the

day will be clear.

PRICE THREE CENTS

WELFARE BOARD SLAPS POLITICS, VOTES NEAL PAY

New County Agency Breaks Factional Dead-

lock in Approving

Director’s Salary;

Denies Receiving Linder Opinion.

STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY MEMBERS

County Attorney Declines to Say to Whom His Finding Was Submitted; ‘I Have No Further Comment,” He Declares.

Attacking political maneuvering in relief activities, the new Marion County Welfare Board today broke .a factional deadlock by unanimously approving a $4000" annual salary for Thomas Neal, County Welfare Director. The Board, which had asked County Attorney John Linder for an opinion on the State Welfare Act, announced that it had not received any opinion, although one was issued.

publicly last night.

Mr. Linder said he wrote ¢

an opinion in which he held that the 1937 amendments to the State Welfare Act were unconstitutional. He declined to say to whom he submitted the opinion. :

“If the Board said I didn't stbmit an opinion I have no further comment,” he said.

Director Named March 12

Passage of the Welfare Act amendments by the 1937 Legislature resulted in appointment of Mr. Neal as director to succeed Joel A. Baker on March 12. Legislative action ousting Joel Baker followed the slugging of Wayne Coy, former State Welfare Director, by Peter A. Cancilla, associate of Joel Baker. Four members of the old County Welfare Board refused to approve Mr. Neal's salary and resigned last week, charging “State House political domination.” They were Superior Judge LL. Ert Slack, the Rev. Linn A. Tripp, Mrs. Margaret Ruddell and Mrs. 'Kenneth K. Woolling. : New members of the board, which voted Mr. Neal's salary today, are: Sidney S. Miller, president; Al G. Feeney, Mrs. Amelia Hooton, and Mrs. Mariah Ferger. F. O. Belzer, fifth member, refused to resign at the request of Judge Earl R. Cox, who appoints the Board. The Board’s statement in full: “The County Department of Public Welfare of Marion County in its

BRITISH PAPERS BANNED IN-ITALY

Duce Opens Empire Fete Glorifying Contes;

By United Press ROME, May 8.—Premier . Benito Mussolini opened a two-day cele-

‘bration of the first anniversary of

the “Italian Empire” today with announcement of a ban against all except three English newspapers and the recall of all Italian correspondents in London. II Duce, consolidating Italian Nationalism on the anniversary of his conquest of Ethiopia, revived the - controversy with the British which a year agn threatened peace in the Eastern Mediterranean. The Government order officially banned for sae and distribution all British newspapers except the London Daily Mail, the Evening News and the Sunday Observer. (These two Rothermere papers in London and the latter, controlled hy Viscount Astor, have been favorable toward Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.) . The action against the British press was taken because of its alleged anti-Fascist campaign in recent months.

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THE LINEUPS

By United Press

CHURCHILL DOWNS, LOUISVILLE, Ky., May S--Eniries in today’s

63d Kentucky Derby:

Post Horse

War Admiral Dellor Melodist Fairy Hill A-Military Court Scandal Merrymaker B-Fencing Billionaire Heelfly Grey Gold B-Sceneshifter Clodion Pompoon Burning Star Bernard F. A-Reaping Reward Sunset Trail II No Sir Sir. Damion

Jockey C.

M. Peters | C. Corbett E. Steffen H. Dabson . G. Woolf J. Rosen J. Stout C. Parke L. Hardy R. Dotter

E. Yaeger

Kurtsinger B. James | J. Longdon

J. Westrope W. D. Wright

1. Anderson H. Richards

A. Robertson H. Leblanc

Owner

Samuel D. Riddle James W. Parrish Mrs. H. C. Phipps William du Pont Jr. Mrs. Ethel V. Mars T. B. Martin Miss E. G. Rand HB. Maxwell Howard E. R. Bradley - E. P. & G. L. Waggoner E. W. Duffy H. Maxwell Howard Walter A. Carter J. Loucheim : P. A. & R. J. Nash 1. J. Collins ‘ Mrs. Ethel V. Mars Raoul Walsh Mary Hirsch Marshall Field

Prob. Odds.

A—Mrs. Ethel V. Mars entry. B—H. Maxwell Howard entry.

Post Time—About 5 p. m.

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Gross value of purse, if 20 start, $62,575; net to winner, $52,575; second, $6000; third, $3000; fourth, $1000.

The Field—No Sir, Court Scandal, Sir Damion, Merrymaker, Burn-

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meeting held this morning unanie mously voted Thomas Neal, Director of such Department, a salary of’ $4,000 per year, payable monthly, to be effective from the date of his appointment, March 12, 1937. “In taking this action the Welfare Board took the position that it is purely an administrative body appointed to carry out the existing provisions of the Indiana Public Welfare Law as originally enacted and as amended by the Legislature in 1937.

“While the members of the Board do not desire to express themselves as to the wisdom or necessity of the 1937 amendments giving the State Department of Public Welfare the power to appoint the Director of all counties having a population of 400,000 or over, according to the last United States Census. they feel

that until such amendment is adjudicated to be unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction they are required under their oaths of office to observe the law and comply with its provisions as it now stands. Attack Attorney's Action “When the four membets of the Welfare Board recently appointed qualified and assumed their duties they learned that Director Neal Lad been duly appointed by the State Department of Public Welfare pursuant to the 1937 amendments as director of the . Marion County Board; that he appeared before the judge of the Circuit Court, was duly sworn by him under the law, presented his $5000 bond, which was duly approved, and assumed his duties as such director, which he has continued to perform since the date of his qualification, a substan tial part of such dutiés having been performed by him under the direct supervision of the Marion County Board as constituted prior to the resignation of four of its members recently. “While the County Attorney, who is designated by the law as the. attorney for the Board, was requested to submit an opinion as to the legality of the 1937 amendments, and while an opinion purported to have been written by him has appeared in the public press, such opinion has not been submitted to the Presie dent of the Board, who requested it, nor to any of its members.

‘Cannot Be Influenced’

“The Marion County Board in all its actions cannot and will not be influenced by any demands made upon it by any person or any group and will be governed in everything it does solely by what it considers to be for the best interests of the honest, efficient and successful ope eration of the local Welfare office.” County Department of Publig Welfare of Marion County, By SIDNEY S. MILLER President. AL FEENEY . MARIAH BRADLEY FERGER AMELIA HOOTON F. O. BELZER, Members of the Board. Explaining his opinion that the welfare act is discriminatory in violation of the Constitution, Mr. Line der earlier today. “The amended law provides that the county welfare director in coun= ties having a population of 400,000 or more shall be appointed by the State Board of Public Welfare. “It is obvious that there is only one county having a-population of over 400,000 and | that is Marion County and that is a local and discriminatory act, in that it only ape plies to Marion County.”

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