Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1937 — Page 3

~ since the Armistice was signed.

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FELLER SCORES ‘STRIKEOUT’ IN SCHOOL EXAMS

Van Meter, la, to Celebrate Horatio Alger Success Of ‘Our Boy Bob.’

By United Press VAN METER, Ia, May 14—Bob Feller pitched four fast ones and retired psychology, physics, English and United States history, his ! high school principal announced today.

dians’ pitcher will receive his diploma at Van Meter High School | tonight as a result of his curricular ! strikeout Principal O. E. Lester an- i hounced. i Bob scored 79's in psychology and physics; 74 in English, and 70 in| American History. While he failed to make the highest grades in his ' class, the husky farm boy. did better than/three or more of his classmates in each subject.

~ Graduation Tonight

Graduation exercises are scheduled for the class of 20 tonight.

He will make a speech over a national radio network. Movie cameras Will record his words and deeds. Reporters have come as far as 1000 miles to witness the event. Hundreds of out-of-town folk have come to Van Meter to watch the goings-on, the like of which has not been witnessed here

Center of it all was the youth who only several summers ago was just another farm boy with a great smile, an arm of iron, and a penchant for playing catch with his father, William Feller. He won local fame as a pitcher for Ven Meter teams. A big league scout saw him. Bob took a chance, went to the big city, and last fall as a member of the Cleveland Indians struck out 17 Philadelphia Athletics to set an American League strikeout record.

He's a Hero Now

Today he is a hero, his right arm a “million dollar arm.” He received $10,000 fer signing a contract with the Indians which gives him $10,000 a vear. But he was still a high school student. He had to leave school to go with the Indians on their training trip, and hasn't been in a classroom since. He had a tutor instead. He wrote his psychology and physics examinations Wednesday, his English and history tests yesterday. His grades will be announcd today. He hasn’t thrown a baseball since he came here, except for a few tosses to his 8-year-old ‘sister, Marguerite, because him arm is sore. But he did go to a theater party in Des ‘Moines Tuesday night, to a weiner roast Wednesday night, and a junior-senior banquet in Des Moines last night.

Can't Play Catch

His father hoped to. “play catch” again, but explained that Bob “promised the boss in Cleveland he wouldn't throw any and he hasn't.” So Bob stayed at home resting his arm and memorizing the speech he has to give tonight because his fellow-seniors elected him class president last fall when he set his strikeout record. Bob was still “one .of the boys” to the 19 seniors who #111 be graduated with him. ‘He'll probably take one of the girls home after tonight’s festivities, his mother said. Clarence Dunn, school board president, will pick the diplomas out of a big paper baseball and present them to the graduates. :

GRAND JURY INDICTS 2

The Marion County Grand Jury today returned 15 indietments against 21 persons. Among them was an indictment charging Georgia Helen Bell with the first degree murder of Russell Wilson.

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Times Special LOGANSPORT, May 14.—Things are easier this week for 106-year-old Mrs. Rebecca Kerns. She smiles each time she passes the little living room table, for it’s heaped with Mother's Day greetings. She is Logansport’s oldest citizen, oldest mother. She has been out of this vicinity only once in her life and that trip was to Indianapolis with her husband, William Kerns,

| who died in| 1921 at the age of 93.

She prizes the Mother's day greetings, sent to her from ladies’ societies and friends, and the gifts from her 62-year-old son, Luther Kerns, for whom she keeps house. He is

Mother, 106, Cheered by Greetings

the youngest and pnly surviving member of her family of 10 children. Born in a log cabin along Big Rock creek south of here, Mrs. Kerns has watched Logansport grow from a two-year-old settlement to its present size, she has witnessed the construction and disappearance of the Wabash and Erie canal. She has watched river fords give ‘way to covered bridges and those in turn to concrete structures. Her step is lighter, her smile brighter this week because of the remembrances. Throughout her long life Mrs. Kerns has shown a deep interest in all current events. And having watched them she steadfastly refuses to vote.

Indiana Railroad NLRB Case Proceeds Slowly on Two Fronts

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ner Labor Relations Act dragged as company attorneys refused to stipulate tedious and repetitous testimony. The Government lost a skirmish when Examiner William Seagle ruled that other defense witnesses

need not leave the courtroom while

those preceding them testified. Manager Testifies

L. M. Brown, company’s general manager, testified that he was in Anderson the night of Jan. 25, when a near riot was staged, but that he was there solely on his own initiative and to protect company property. The union previously had charged he was there to pack the union meeting at which a strike vote was expected to be taken.

The union today had turned down a tentative agreement to settle the strike on the railroad with its Anderson shop employees. Robert Armstrong, union international representative, said the agreement | was rejected because Bowman Elder, company receiver, failed to include the ‘‘check-off” and closed shep in its provisions. The agreement offered a 7!2 per cent wage increase above an existing 12%: per cent increase for Anderson employees. Claims Sections Unmentioned Mr. Armstrong declared the receiver, in announcing the proposed agreement, failed to mention several sections. One was that the union and company would seek to halt the NLRB hearing as well as a hearing in Madison Circuit Court, he said. The Madison County hearing, postponed today, was to have been on a temporary eviction order which the company obtained to oust strikers from its Anderson power plant. The agreement section, as quoted by Mr. Anderson read:

~ IN INDIA

MEETINGS TODAY

Associated Press, Indiana spring meeting. Columbia Club, 3 p. m. and 8 p. m. Fifth District Conferénce Printing House Craftsmen Clubs, meetings, Claypool Hotel. all day. e Associated Harvard Clubs, meetings, Hotel Lincoln, all day Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington. noon. : Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, oon

Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade. noon. : Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Hotel Washington. noon. y i Delta Theta; luncheon, Board of Trade. noon. Li Tau Delta, ub, noon. L Beta Tketa Pi, luncheon, Board of Trade. crn.

luncheon, Columbia

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records at the County Courthouse. The Times"* is not responsible for any errors of .names or addresses.)

K.. Dunn, 20, Catherine Black. 20. of 922 E.

St. Paul E. Smith, 30. Indianapolis; Lillian M. Wilson, 30. of 3674-Rockville Road. Don W. Gardner, 24, of 363 W. Washington St., to Fannie E. DeSauchet, 37. of 363 W

. Washington t. Patrick McHugh, 24, of 1108 N. Tacoma 21, of 1608 W.

Ave.: Marjorie Butcher, Morris St. Wilbert Morton, 23. 2257 Yandes St.: Edith Taylor. 18, of 2336 Baltimore Ave. 2 vis, 54. of 1102 W. Vermont St.; -Addie Jones, 58. of 1102 W. Vermont

St. : Maurice Jonquet. 22, of 307 E. St. Clair St.; Nola Sayers, 26. 325 N. Delaware St. Albert Calderon, 24, of 1029 S. Illinois St.: Florence Sarfaty, 21. of 1006 S. Capitol Ave. Norman R. Long. 23, Indianapolis; Rose Marie Tatone, 18. Indianapolis. Luther Paul Green, 26. Indianapolis; Grace Dokus, 23. Indianapolis. : George E. Talmage, 24, Indianapolis; Florence Janette Wieland. ‘24, Indianapolis.

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BIRTHS Girls Ora, Lillian Wilson, at 417 W. Henry. Charles, . Ernestine. Peck, at 18 N Greeley. ; Fred, Helen Smith, at 3655 W. 10th. Clarence, Dorothy Byrum, at 2907 Moore. Norbert, Dorothy Lorenz, at St. Vin-

cent’s. Samuel, Kathryn McGarvey, at St. Vin-

cent’s. George, cent’s. : Carl. Martha Champion. at Methodist. Dwight, LaVenia Graves, at Methodist. Wilbur. Josephine Messick, at Methodist. Ovid. Ruth Leonard, at Methodist. Harold. Marcelline Roney. at Methodist. Michael, Helen Pollak, at Methodist. Harold. Mildred Pflum. at Methodist. Mitchel, Ruth Stewart, at Methodist, Ernest, Magdalene Bartling, at Method-

ist. Gilbert, Dorothea Mercer, at Methodist.

Caroline . Ziegler, at St. Vin-

Boys Vollie, Dorothy Rifner., at St. Vincent's. Thomas, May Brown, at St. Vincent's. Vern. Naomi Julian, at Methodist. Herein, Frieda Henselmeier, at Methist

0 : Richard. Annebelle Uhl. at Methodist. Carl, Edith Grigsby, at Methodist. Leibert, Thelma Sedgwick. at Methodist. Max. Hazel White, at Methodist. Harlan, Evelyn Duke, at Methodist.

DEATHS Sally Hall, 74, at 1001 S. Senate, arterio-

sclerosis. William Eudsley. 53, at 945 S. Senate,

pulmonary tuberculosis.

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NAPOLIS

Joseph = Abbott, 78, at 1521 cerebral hemorrhage. Charles ,Schey. 81, at Illinois and 19th Sts.. chronic myocarditis. . Sarah F. Judd, 88, at 767 N. DeQuincy, cerebral hemorrhage. Emma onroe, 33, at Long, matic heart disease. Marion Summerfield, 59, pernicious anemia. Henry T. Lindemann, 75, at 414 N. State, arteriosclerosis. Avis Blithe Anderson, 1.day, at 1935 New, asphyxiation. athew Campbell, 43. at City. pellagra. Eugene Howard, 2 days, at City, bron-cho-pneumonia. Addie E. Harris. 57, at 1015 N. Delaware, cardiovascular renal disease.

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

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INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Cloudy and continued cool tonight, becoming fair with possibly frost; tomorrow fair with rising temperature.

1:30 | TEMPERATURE

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BAROMETER fa m.... 30.04 1pm... .

Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. : Total precipitation since Jan. Excess _since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER

Indiana—Cloudy, becoming fair, preceded by light showers extreme northeast; continued cool tonight, light to heavy frost north and east central portions; tomorrow generally fair, rising temperature, Illinois—Generally fair tonight and morrow, continued cool tonight, north portion; = rising morrow. Lower Michigan—Generally fair north: cloudy, becoming fair south, except light showers southeast early tonight; heavy to killing frost tonight; ‘tomorrow generally fair, not so cool in afternoon, : Ohio—Light local showers this afternoon, generally fair and cooler tonight; tomorrow, fair with slowly rising temperature; warmer Sunday.

Kentucky—Fair, slightly cooler in east and central portions tonight; tomorrow, fair with slowly rising temperature: day, fair and warmer. > WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT j A. Station. Weather. Bar. | Amarillo, Tex. 0.08 Bismarck, N. Boston Chicago ... Cincinnati .-.. Cleveland, O. Denver Dodge City. Kas. Helena, Mont. Jacksonvill2, Fla. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark.

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Mobile, Ala. .. New Orleans . New York Okla. Omaha, . Pittsburgh Portland, Ore.

an St. Tampa, Fla. ......... Washington, D. C.

the State of Indiana and the Amgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America together with Bowman Elder shall cause to be dismissed any action in the Madison Circuit Court or an ‘action on the complaint before the National Labor Relations Board which might cause inharmonious conditions to exist between the receiver and the employees affected.” Mr. Armstrong also said the agreement provided increased wages should be paid through a 1l-cent increase in the fare on Anderson City transportation system, if approved by the Public Service Commission. Anderson City officials, according to the proposed agreement, were to aid in the fare raise and seek to have the city car lines supplanted by bus service. The agreement, Mr. Armstrong said. was similar to the settlement made with union employees in the recent Terre Haute strike.

Hearing Not Affected

Labor Board attorneys said any agreement reached in settlement of the strike would not affect the present NLRB hearing. Martin Miller, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen representative, said the only interest his group had in the strike settlement was to protect the right of his unit for collective bargaining for train service employees of the railroad, The Brotherhood also seeks to become a representative of train service employees holding seniority rights. A few train service workers with seniority are members of the Amalgamated. At yesterday's NLRB hearing the receinver’s attorneys through Walter F. See, tariff clerk, sought to refute charges of company unionism and that a wage increase petition was guided by the receiver. Mr. See testified that he and several other employees were responsible for an employees meeting on March 28. Union officials charge the meeting® was for the formation of a company union. Mr. See denied that the receiver or his supervisory employees dictated the time, place or organization efforts of the employees. Harry West, Richmond shop worker, testified that he circulated a wage increase petition but denied he urged employees to sizn the petition with statements that they might lose their jobs.

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: Frances Michael, 3310 N. New Jersey - St. today was reported missing from her home. Story Page One.

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FARLEY THINKS VANNUYS FACES GERTAIN DEFEAT

Postmaster Refuses to Propose Opponent for Hoosier Senator.

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brose O’Connell, Farley's executive assistant, : Later they were joined by R. Earl Peters, former state chairman and present Indiana Federal Housing Administrator, and Mayor Kern, who has been mentaioned as one of two candidates to succeed Mr. VanNuys. The other is Sam Jackson, Ft. Wayne lawyer and keynoter at the Democratic State Convention last year, who has formidable support in the northern part of the state.

Mayor Aware of Possibilities

Mayor Kern, is was learned, is well aware of his. possibilities. ‘On the Union Station platform here he was heard to say to Mr. Farley: “There has been some talk in the newspapers about my running for some office other than Mayor next year, but— ” and then someone interrupted the conversation.

Asked later what his exact intentions were regarding running for Senate, Mr. Kerns said: “I haven't anything to say. That's too far off now.” When President Roosevelt arrived, those who boarded the train and chatted with him briefly were Mr. Heller, Mr. Elder, Mr. Hale, Mayor Kern and Dan Tobin, president. of International Teamsters Union.

Waves to Crowd

After the political handshakes on

the car someone raised the window that had hidden the President from a small crowd outside. Someone in the car called his attention to the fact, and he smiled and waved his hand twice as the train was pulling out. Elliott Roosevent stood on the rear platform and called a goodby. ? Mr. Farley also was asked by the United Press if his visits to Indiana, coupled with the President's trip to the state, had any particular significance. Hastily he asserted that he was dedicating postoffices on his trip two weeks ago, that this time he had to meet Mr. Roosevelt to discuss congressional affairs and that the President merely was on his way back to the Capital. i But Governor Townsend had been mentioned as a possible vice presidential nominee in 1940. Mr. Farley “inspected’ the Governor for hours on his last trip. And today Mr. Roosevelt spent two hours looking him over. Consequently, Indiana may hold a prominent position when the 1940 heirs of the Roosevelt regime are selected.

Roosevelt Confers On New Deal Issues

By United Press WASHINGTON, May 14.—President Roosevelt, immediately on returning from his Texas vacation, today summoned his legislative lieutenants for White House conferences on New Deal strategy.

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Miss Aline Marshall, Indianapolis,

is shown above being crowned

queen of the May at Purdue University by William Hodgdon, Ben

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engineering senior who is acting as courtier.

Miss Marshall is a senior in science at the university. >

BLAME TORPEDO FOR SHIP BLAST

Spanish Loyalists Charge Cruiser Was Attacked By Germans.

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man submarine. It was denied that there were any mines in the Almeria area. . (The United Press correspondent at Salamanca, Rebel “capital,” quoted sources close to the Rebels as saying: “We have trustworthy information that establishes that the ‘Reds’ were planning to torpedo a British ship in Bilbao waters intending eventually to blame the Loyalists and force British intervention in Spanish affairs.—Ed.). Rear Admiral Lionel Victor Wells, commanding the Third British Cruiser Squadron, was steaming at full speed down the east coast in the cruiser Arethusa from Barcelona for Almeria. The British consul at Alicante was on the way to take charge for the foreign office, and the destroyers Hardy and Hyperion were on the way from Gibraltar. The commander of the Loyalist battleship Jaime Primero at Almeria sent the following to the British ministry of Marine: “About 3 p. m. Thursday a loud explosion was heard. It was im-

mediately realized that the British destroyer H-35 (the pendant number of the Hunter) which was some four miles from the port of Almeria nad suffered an explosion. “Immediately I ordered the destroyer Lazaga (1145 tons) and four coastal patrol boats of my command to go help the ship and its crew.” :

BALL SEEKS DELAY IN ACTION BY G. 0. P.

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had been deadlocked while Gene Scamahorn, Rockport, and Chester Lorsch, New Albany, fought over the Eighth district chairmanship. Scamahorn finally won, facilitating the compromise in. which Mr. Morgan ascended to the state chairmanship. G Mr. Wright, allied with former Senator Watson, became party treasurer five years ago. Under fire on “bi-partisanism” * charges for accepting a job as attorney for the Indiana - Brewers Association and lobbying in behalf .of the Administration liquor bills, he announced his resignation yesterday “in the interest of party harmony.” Commenting on the interparty strife, he said: “To me this situation seems to be not only most untimely but much like fighting over a corpse.” The move to oust him was brought to its climax April 10 when the Republican Editorial Association adopted a resolution urging that he be replaced. -Mr, Fenton, a former newspaper man, has been secretary of the state committee for 12 years.

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Imperial - Conference Study Territorial Problems.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor LONDON, May 14.—The question of returning to Germany some of the colonies which were the British Empire's spoils of war will come before the imperial conference Wien was opened formally here toay. The answer almost certainly will be an emphatic ‘‘no.” It is unlikely that the issue will be aired publicly. For the problem is both delicate and provocative. Nevertheless, Hitler's clamor for more territory is of vital concern to the dominions as ell as to Great Britain, and a definite stand by the empire on the question is imperative. For the Nazis, from the Fuehrer down, have warned that war, may result unless Germany's ter-

ritorial demands are met.

Lord Rothermere, the publisher, is urging a deal with Germany. Lord Rothermere suggests in this connection the return of colonies. But he is virtually alone in this stand. Almost the -only former German colonies worth having are mandated to Britain and the British Dominions. The cream of these are in Africa. Southwest Africa, mandated to the Union of South Africa, has now been virtually annexed. The union bluntly says it won’t be returned. Tanganyika, between Rhodesia and Kenya, is mandated to Britain. And Britain won't let the Nazis have it because—if for no other reason— it would put Germany once more astride the all-British Cape-to-Cairo route. 1 France, Belgium and Portugal al-

so hold mandates, but Hitler would

scorn these less valuable slices unless he also was given the richer British ones. : There is still another obstacle barring the return of the coionies. British statesmen admit they desire a rapprochement with Germany, but they say they won't buy friendship. Moreover, they say, such friendship wouldn't stay bought. | : Hitler's appetite, they observe, grows bigger the more he eats. They point out that he already has obtained far more than he originally demanded, yet his demands today surpass all the previous ones.

FLOOD SAFETY SOUGHT By United Press WASHINGTON, May 14.—Mayor Shields of Johnstown, Pa., and a group of other Johnstown officials urged a House appropriations subcommittee today to approve an eight-million-dollar channel improvement program in addition to an impounding dam plan to protect

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5 Sorrow Sight of Zep’s Ruins

Shakes - Eckener, in U. 8. for Probe.

By United Press AKEHURST. N, J, May 14.— Dr. Hugo Eckener, Germany's No. 1 dirigible expert and head of - a German Government commission to investigate the Hindenburg disaster. inspected the ruins

. of what was his greatest achieve-

ment today. Resumption of the hearing on the explosion, was postponed until afternoon to give Dr. Eckener an: opportunity to examine the wreckage, see motion pictures of the disaster and read a summary of testimony already taken. Dr. Eckener arrived at Lakehurst shortly after midnight. He spent the night at the quarters of Comm. Charles E. Rosendahl with a detail of Marines guarding the house. Pale and visibly affected by the sight of the twisted remains of the huge airship, Dr. Eckener, who is chairman of the board of the Zeppelin Transport Co. and the other five members of the German commission will attend today’s hearing of the Department of Commerce committee investigating the crash which killed 35 of the 97 persons aboard. 8 ” 2 3

RRIVING with the commise sion aboard the liner Europa at New York was Mrs. Ernst Lehmann, widow of the technical adviser of the Hindenburg on its fatal trip. She plans to return to Germany with her husband's body on the Europa tomorrow night. Dr. Eckener refused to comment on the accident on his arrival in New York, but issued a statement that the commission was ready to accept the findings of the Amer ican investigating groups. The commission in addition to Eckener includes Dr. Ludwig Duerr, chief construction engineer of the Zeppelitr-Co.; Dr. Guenther Bock, professor of aerodynamics at Charlottenburg Technologisal Institute; Prof. Max Dieckmann, radio expert; Walter Hoffman of the National - Research Bureau, and Lieut. Col. Joachim Breit haupt of the Reich Air Ministry,

FR. DIVINE FREED AS DISCIPLES CHANT

Br United Press NEW YORK, May 14.— “Peace, it's wonderful,” chanted followers of Fa« ther Divine today when he and three. of his ‘‘angels” were freed .in Felony Court of charges they had stabbed a white man at “Heaven No, 1” in Harlem. The charges were filed after Harry Green, Weehawken, N. J. contrace tor, had heen slashed and beaten in the turmoil that followed a process server's effort to serve the cult leader in a aw suit. ern Leonard McGee held there was insufficient evidence.

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