Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1937 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1937 : Roosevelt Counts Score

VAN DEVANTER RESIGNS POST “IN HIGH COURT

Retirement Announced as Senate Committee Rejects Reform.

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of Justice Van Devanter's retirement upon the judicial controversy. No immediate official comment - was forthcoming from Mr. Roosevelt. He was represented unofficially, however, as hailing the Van Devanter retirement as making the score “one up and five to go”"—a phrase referring to the fact that the President's program was designed to add six new justices to the Supreme bench if sitting members over the age of 70 fail to retire. _ The Van Devanter retirement gives Mr. Roosevelt one appointment to the Supreme Court. Because of the Court’s frequent narrow 5 to 4 decisions, appointment of a jurist sympathetic to New Deal aims was expected to have wide effects in Court determinations of closely disputed issues.

Changes Balance of Power

Appointment of a “liberal” justice would shift to the liberal jurists the balance of power exercised by the “conservative” group over the last seven years. : It was just seven years ago this spring that Chief Justice Hughes and Associate Justice Roberts were appointed. Since then they have been the balance wheel which often controlled the outcome of decisions by the Court. Justice Van Devanter's impending retirement will materially reduce the importance of the impending Social Security Act test cases. Should unemployment insurance and old-age pensions be condemned by a 5-to-4 vote, a rehearing petition could be granted in the fall by a 5-to-4 vote, which might well result in a reversal of the spring decision. : The conservative group of four justices has been predominant in its influence in recent years because the vote of either Chief Justice Hughes or Justice Roberts gave them the power to dictate the decision in cases which divided the Court five to four. The conservative members have. been Justices Van Devanter, MgReynolds, Butler and Sutherland. There have been but three consistent members of the so-called liberal group. They are Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo. To | carry the Court in a five to four vote these three had to be joined by both Chief Justice Hughes and Justice Roberts. With a liberal member in Justice Van Devanter's place, the “liberal” bloc will consist of four members, the same number that hitherto has comprised the ‘conservative” bloc. They, then, will need only the vote | “of either Chief Justice Hughes or | Justice Roberts to carry the Court.

POLICE AWAIT PAPERS TO TRANSFER SUSPECT

Local authorities today were awaiting a capias from Toledo, O., police ordering the return of Stewart Donnelly, 42. of 3710 Robson St, alleged confidence man, to that city in connection with a case pending there. Mr. Donnelly was arrested at his home yesterday on a fugitive . charge. He was released on $1000 bond. His case was continued this morning until the afternoon of June 4.

| Helmuth Lau, member of the crew,

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On Court Reform Plan At ‘One Up and Five to Go’

Chief Justice Hughes Deplores Loss of His Associate.

(Continued from Page One) expressions of regret and praise from other members of the court. ; Hughes Cites Loss Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes expressed regret at the retirement of Associate Justice Van Devanter in a formal statement praising the retiring jurist for his “acumen” and his “unfailing kindliness.” Chief Justice Hughes’ statement said: : “The retirement of Justice Vad Devanter is a most serious loss to the Court. His long judicial experience, his extraordinary memory and grasp of precedents, his acumen and fairness enabled him to render a service of inestimable value in our deliberations, while his equable temperament, his tact and unfailing kindliness made him an ideal associate. We shall greatly miss him.” : Justice James C. McReynolds, the Court’s next oldest member and one of those whose impending retirement has been rumored said: «Justice Van Devanter’s retirement will mean a very serious loss to the Court and to myself personally.” Justice Pierce Butler, another member of the so-called rconservative group in the Court, said, “I beg to be excused.” Justice George Sutherland, in a

joint statement with Justice Pierce

Butler, said that Justice Van Devanter’s retirement “will be a great loss to the Court.” Other comments follow: SENATOR SHERMAN MINTON (D. Ind.)—‘“Justice Van Devanter’s resignation ought to have no effect on the President's court plan. There is a principle involved in that plan that ought to become law of the country.” 3 SENATOR VANNUYS (D., Ind): «I pelieve Justice Van Devanter retired for the sake of the Court—to preserve the Court. His retirement will not hinder, the opposition to the Court bill.” SENATOR BURKE (D., Neb.): «Jt couldn't have any effect. When a bill is dead nothing else could happen to make it more dead. We have this bill defeated now.” SENATOR WHEELER (D, Mont.) : “It’s time for the President to withdraw his bill, but I. don’t think he will because I think they want to make the Supreme Court completely subservient. SENATOR NEELY (D. W. Va,)— “I hope some others will follow his good example—promptly.” SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE BANKHEAD—" The decision of Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter to retire is unlikely to change the Supreme Court situation at all,” : REP. MAURY MAVERICK (D. TEX.) — “Other justices in good grace who should resign because they also have been repudiated by the American people and also by the Court itself, are Justices McReynolds, Butler, Sutherland and, as far as I am concerned, Brandeis on account of his age.

Motorist Must Pay $250 For Making Faulty Lett Turn

Motorists who make left-hand turns without regard for a few simple rules of driving etiquette are flirting with jury verdicts for heavy dam-

ages in case of an accident.

: This was demonstrated in Superior Court yesterday when a jury awarded Mabel Grubbs $250 damages against Richard Wilkerson Jr.,

who was involved in a turn tangle. * “Few motorists are familiar with | the letter of the law on left turns in traffic,” Judge L. Ert Slack said after hearing evidence in the case. It was Judge Slack’s instructions to the jury on what the law requires in good driving etiquette that | resulted in the verdict. The judge's instructions on the law follows: “Where a person approaches a street intersection and desires to turn to the left on the street intersected by the one on which he is traveling in a vehicle, it is his duty not to turn left until his vehicle has passed the center of the intersection and it is also his duty before turning left to observe that if any vehicles may be coming toward the intersection along the line of traffic he is about to cross, they would have the right of way to proceed along that line of travel before he would have a right to cross that line of traffic.”

TELLS OF ZEPPELIN FIRE By United Press LAKEHURST, N. J, May 18.— Fire on the dirigible Hindenburg started in Cell No. 4 and quickly spread to other hydrogen containers,

told the Department of Commerce investigation board today. :

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY

Indiana State Dental Association, vention. Claypool Hotel, ail dav. Indianapolis Medical Society, Hotel Antlers, 8 p. m Su Indiana Funeral Directors Association, convention, Indiana State Fairgrounds, all day

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meeting,

Alpha Tau Omega, luncheon, Board of

Trade, noon. : Gyro Club. luncheon, Spink-Arms Hotel,

noon. ; Mercator Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

noon. ! Construction League of Indianapolis, luncheon, Architects and Builders Building. noon. University of Michigan Club, Board of Trade, no Universal Club,

"Association, ‘Washington. noon. . Sigma Delta Kappa, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon. : Kappa Psi, dinner, Hotel Washington, 130 -p. m.

luncheon, Columbia Hotel

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MEETINGS TOMORROW

Indiana State Dental ‘Association, convention. Claypool Hotel, all day. yy Indiana Funeral Directors Association, convention, Indiana State Fair Grounds, all day. : zis National Conference of Jewish Social Welfare, meetings, Severin Hotel, all day. Lions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington,

noon. : : National Association of Cost Accountants, dinner, Hotel Washington, 6: p.m. Kiwanis Club, luncheon, Columbia Club,

oon. . Bang Men's Discussion Club, dinner, Y.M. C. A, 6 p.m. Sh Purdue Alumni Association, Iuncheon, Severin Hotel. noon. Sigma Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of Trade. noon. Property Managers, Hotel ‘Washington, noon. ay Club, luncheon, Claypool Hotel, noon.

luncheon,

MARRIAGE LICENSES

(These lists are from official records at the County Courthouse. The Times ts not responsible for any errors of pames or addresses.)

Oliver Morton, 21, Indianapolis; Vera Nunn, 18, Indianapolis. John Otfinski, 25. of 735 N. Concord St.: Bernice Kincaid, 30, of 239 N. Illinois St. Fred Davis, 36. Hamilton. O.: Mary Echwartz, 22, of 636 N. Beville Ave. LeRoy Stutsman, 21, of 323 S. Lynhurst Drive; Ada Lee Zook. 19, of 5206 W. Wayne

Ave. William H. Ellis, 22, of 1877 Shelby St.; Katheryn Rose Dillon, 25, of 1519 BE. E. 56th St.;

"Tabor St: a Neall H. Noble, 27, of 922 E. Jean A. Hutchins, 21, of 2332 College Ave. Clarence Terry. 24 of 2425 Ralston Ave.; Leona Hayes, 18, of 2204 Hovey St. Robert L. ume, 22, Boston, . Mass.; Helen Elizabeth Ginet, 23, of 1905 E. Mint: ne ors Weber, 23, of Colonial Margie Jones, 21, of Colonial Hot Albert Rippey. 31. of 520 N. Alabama st.. Eugenia May, 22, of 516 N. Alabhania

, 25 of 178 Brig it St. : Thomas, 19, 0 . Sena Ave. Heleh Millen, 41, of 634 Ft. Wayne Ave.; Mary Pemberton. 34, Cincinnati, ol Edward C. Miller. 22. of 3021 Ruckle St.; virginia R. 19, of 4056 Grace-

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Meyers,

BIRTHS

Girls

Paul. Mildred Cheba, at 2222 Duke. william, Dorothy Johnson, at 2121 Bar-

tt. Feil vid, Lucille Erenson, at 1946 Valley. Herman, Helen Wolf, at 336 N. Holmes. Robert, Irene Gantz. at Methodist. Thomas, Dorothea Minett, at Methodist. Joe. Henrietta Swope, at Methodist. Clifford. Mildred Crowe, at Methodist. Frank. Thelma Leibold, at Methodist. Ross, Willetta Peters, at 1520 Blaine.

Boys Lawrence, Martha Chadwick, at 2010 uff Ri

-" Philbert, Carrie Akers, at 2123 Howard. Vernon, Lillian Roth, at 1023 Colton. Charles, Katherine Shrout, at Methodist. James, Lucille Skaggs. at Methodist. :. Francis, Lois Ward, at Methodist. Jack, Helen Hill, at Methodist

Ferdinand, Ethel Born, at Methodist.

DEATHS

Gerald Sullivan, 1, City, bronchopneumonia. ~ William Henry Lininger, 83, at 1427 N. Delaware, pulmonary edema. Elizabeth Koss, 82, at 1866 Applegate. cerebral apoplexy. : arvey Oscar Dean, 63, at 204 N. Walcott, cerebral hemorrhage. Mary Frances Stewart, 63, at Methodist, appendicitis. Mary Cain Fadely, 79, at 1308 Central, coronary thrombosis. Edward Pierce, 63, at 1158 35th, mitral at 1804 Yandes,

insufficiency. Marshall Russell, 49, arteriosclerosis. Mary Ann Arnold, 58, at 2341 Wheeler, carcinoma. at 1550 S. Belat 1251 S. East,

Stephen Holcomb, 70, 40, at City, cerebral con-

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mont, arteriosclerosis. Flora B. Feming, 76, arteriosclerosis. arie Guire, cussion. Mary E. Hannon, 88, at 2120 Broadway, hypostatic pneumonia. Martha L. Springer. 84, at®1731 N. Capitol, chronic myocarditis. Russell Woods Johnston, 46, at Methodist, acute ‘hepatitis. George Willis Hickok, 86, at 826 E. 44th, chronic nephritis. : Lulu O. Goodall. 68. at 4158 Washington Blvd., chronic nephritis. _ Harry Kleifgen, 52, at Methodist, chronic interstitial nephritis. Lizzie Leoia Pruitt, 27, at Real Silk cerebral embolus.

Hosiery Mill, Roberta Follett Smith, 30, at Methodist, renal tuberculosis. Helen Smith, 6, monia.

at City, broncho-pneu-

OFFICIAL WEATHER

United States Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Showers

this afternoon and tonight, becoming fair and cooler tomorrow.

Sunrise :2% | Sunset ........ 6:56

TEMPERATURE —May 18, 1936—

BAROMETER a. m....... 30.08 1:poMeis... 29, Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m... Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Excess since Jan. 1

Indiana—Showers this afternoon and tonight, somewhat. cooler northwest tonight; tomorrow becoming fair, somewhat ‘cooler. Illinois—Showers" this afternoon and tonight, somewhat cooler north and west central portions tonight; tomorrow generally fair, somewhat cooler. Lower Michigan—Mostly cloudy, showers south portion tonight; tomorrow generally fair, except showers extreme southeast in morning; not much change in temperature.

Ohio—Cloudy with showers tonight and in east portion tomorrow: morning; cooler tomorrow and in extreme north portion tonight. Kentucky—Showers - tonight. = probably ending tomorrow morning; warmer in east portion tonight, cooler tomorrow.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES

Station. Weather. Amarillo, Tex. ........ Clear Bismarck, N. D Boston Chicago Cincinnati Clevelana, O. Denver Dodge City. Kas. Helena. Mont. Jacksonville, Kansas City, 0 Little Rock, A Los Angeles Miami, Fla. Minneapolis Mobile, Ala. New Orleans New York . Okla. City. Okla. Omaha. Neb. Pittsburgh _ .... Portland, fOT¥. San Ant San Francisco St. Louis

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FOUGHT RAIL UNION

Reteiver Tells NLRB He Did Not Fire Members.

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been held with Anderson union representatives but not with Mr. Armstrong, and that Thomas Hutson, State Labor Commissioner, had attended. : Mr. McHale charged that an attempt was being made to “impugn the good faith” of the company. Mr. Elder, in testifying, said his first conference with the Amalgamated was on July 22, 1935, and at that time, he said, Mr. Armstrong talked to him about the Terre Haute strike. : _ Unopposed to Union

Mr. Elder said he told Mr. Armstrong that he had no objections to anyone belonging to the union. He said that in more than % conferences, he told union officials their men would get wage increases ‘as soon as profits justified it” and that “no one” needed to urge him to grant the increases. Mr. Elder declared that he “assisted” the Amalgamated in organizing—that he sent letters to employees telling them they were free to join the union if they wished. Testifying in regard to Judge Charles Karabell, who was the third arbiter appointed to the three-man commission which granted a 20 per cent wage increase about nine months ago, Mr. Elder said: “I never met him, and wouldn't know him if I saw him.” In cross-examination, Mr. Dorfman asked Mr. Elder: “Why did you turn down former Myo Reginald Sullivan as an arbier?” “Because I thought he might have a grudge against me,” Mr. Elder replied. ; “For political reasons?” Mr. Dorfman asked. “Yes,” said Mr. Elder.

$30,000 SUBSCRIBED IN Y. W. FUND DRIVE

The Y. W. C. A. mortgage-lift-ing campagn today had passed the $30,000 mark with more report meetings scheduled tomorrow. Dr. Jean S. Milner is to speak at the report session tomorrow noon in the Central Y. W. C. A. The division headed by Mrs. Dwight S. Ritter was winner yesterday with pledges totaling $1227. The largest single gift was $1000 from the State Automobile Association. The third radio program of ‘the campaign is to be heard over WFBM at 10:15 p. m. tomorrow when Robert A. Adams, general campaign chairman, is to speak.

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MOTHER BLAMES

LOVE PLOT FOR

SLAYING GIRL, T

Tells How Pair Attacked Daughter and Son in Woods.

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tinued, the children started picking flowers. ; “Helen came over with a handful of flowers she had picked,” ‘the statement, as released by the police, read . “George grabbed the hatchet and hit Helen three times on the head. Helen fell down on her back. I took the knife and cut her throat.” Then Jimmie, who had heard his sister's screams, came running up, crying, “Mommy, what hapened?”

Boy Struck on Head

“George hit Jimmie twice on the head with the hatchet,” the statement said. “When he fell down I cut his throat.” The mother removed traceable items of clothing, the statement continued, and refurned to Manhattan by train, George following in an automobile. The statement concluded, “I threw Helen's shoes in the garbage can.”

Insanity in Mother Told

Police believed it unlikely Mrs. Tiernan would ever pay the extreme penalty for her unnatural deed. They revealed that her mother was a psychopathic case for the last 15 years of her life. George Smith, 60, her father and an unemployed machinist, said the mother died eight years ago in the State Hospital for the Insane at Central

Islip, N.Y.

Jimmie, left for dead in the thorny underbrush a few yards from "a main highway, suffered concussion of the brain. But he sat up in a hospital bed, and his confused, baby mind poured out the story that sent detectives after his mother.

Tells Attack Story

Gently, detectives questioned the boy. “Then what, Jimmie?”

“Mommy took us along the road

and into some woods.” “Did mommy hit you.” “Mommy hit sister.” “Did George hurt you?” “George bought us ice cream. Then he hurt us.”

WOMAN'S $6 MISSING: POLICE SEEK 4 BOYS

Four boys who supposedly stole £6 from the home of Mrs. Anna Katz, 43, of 36 E.. Arizona St, were sought by police today. Mrs. Katz told officers that about 8 o'clock last night three of thém came to the back door of her home and inquired if she could give them a job. As they were leaving, she heard the front door slam. She discovered her purse containing the money had been taken. BANDITS ROB TWO BANK By United Press i EAST LANSING. Mich., May. 18. —State police mobilized in the La-peer-Oxford-Flint area today in a search for three bandits who held up banks in two cities within 20 minutes today and escaped with loot estimated at between $3000 and $4000.

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Tells of Attempt to Slay Son

Mrs. Helen Tiernan

Jimmie Tiernan

THIEVES TAKE CLOTHING N. Blackford St., and escaped with Burglars early today ransacked |clothing valued at $147.50 and $60 the home of John Henry, 32, of 331 'in cash, it was reported to police.

MRS. JAMESON DIES IN FAMOUS MANSION HERE

Booth Tarkington’s Sister to Be Buried Thursday; Author to Attend.

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with that measure of horror which you should, for consistency’s sake, exhibit; and so,

Likened to Theater

“I make bold to offer you this play of ‘Monsieur Beaucaire,” bespeaking you attendance for an hour, to watch, if you will, the faces in which I would have, for your pleasure, a little theater, and begging you during just the time of performance, to believe the actors real, as they move across the stage, dancing in the candlelights of long ago, ‘while your kindly fancy brings to you some faint waft of the Frenchman's roses, with the echo of the crumbled and forgotten fiddle which 'I have wished would play again for you, my dear sister.” The story goes, and there are many who insist it is true in every last detail, that after Booth had sent the manuscript around to editors with no success, Mrs. Jameson, who believed in it completely, put it in her luggage and went to New York City.

Gets Editor's Promise

There she interviewed the editor of McClure’s Magazine. . She extracted from him a promise to read

the manuscript and made an ap- |

pointment when she was to: receive his answer. She returned and the editor was sorry. . “It is not the kind of stuff we use,” he said, and Mrs. Jameson picked up the editorial dirge and said: “Yes, I know. Take that scene in Chapter 23 on page 76 where the heroine wears a glass dress——" “That was one of the things I wanted tc talk to you about,” the editor’ is supposed to have said. Mrs. Jameson then pointed out that there was no chapter 23, no page 76, no scene with the heroine in a glass dress.

Book Made History

The editor then, for the first #fime, read the manuscript and accepted it. It made literary history instantly. Never after that was Booth Tarkington an unknown author. Mrs. Jameson also was an author. Among her published works are “The Play Actor,” and “The Lost Witch,” both of which appeared in Cosmopolitan magazine, and her

book, “The Pennsylvania Street Car,

.a Christmas Carol,” published last year. Booth Tarkington illustrated it and it was dedicated to him. Mrs. Jameson was interested in women’s suffrage when the. movement first began, and was long an active member of the Republican Party. In 1930 she was appointed acting vice chairman of the Republican County Committee. She also was active in.the W. C. T. U. and the Flower Mission. She was known to have many private philanthropies.

. Club Affiliations

She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, Women’s Press Club, Penwomen of America, Indianapolis Woman's Club, Art Ase sociation of Indianapolis, Contemporary Club, Dramatic Club, Fort» nightly Literary Club, Propylaeum, Progressive Club, Woodstock Club, Society of Indiana Pioneers, Cornelia’ Cole Fairbanks Chapter of the D. A. R.,, Colonial Dames of America, and the Women’s Rotary Club, Mrs. Jameson was a social leader all her life and her parties were fa= mous for the games of gharades. She was especially clever at them, and was renowned for one illustrating the name of another famous Indianapolis person. " She placed a glass of cider on the floor. It meant A. J. Beveridge. The cider, she said, was a jay, or rustic beverage. With rare humor, Mrs. Jameson once wrote a letter to a mouse that made, in spite of everything she could do, nightly raids on her kitchen. She wrote the mouse, she told friends, that she was sorry, but . that she would have to ask him to leave; that she had been a patient and unstinting hostess for a long time; that the neighbors would be happy to have a visit and that they were well known for keeping a cere tain brand of cheese. She insisted that she left the lete ter in the kitchen one night and that thereafter she never heard from the mouse. When Booth Tarkington returned to his Indianapolis home from Kennebunkport, Me., for the winter, it was Mrs. Jameson who arranged for the annual newspaper interviews with him. .

Also Arranged Receplions

One would call Mrs. Jameson, state the request for an audience, and Mrs. Jameson then would call her brother and consult with him. Once Mr, Tarkington, because of some special circumstances, agreed to allow Mrs. Jameson to give his unlisted phone number to a reporter. “And I want you to understand, young man,” she said briskly and with humor over the phone, “that Mr. Tarkington is making an exiraordinary exception in this case.” Mrs. Jameson, in spite of advance ing years, rarely missed a young peo ple’s dance at the Woodstock Club, Besides her sons and brother, Mrs, Jameson is survived by grandda-igh-ters, Miss Susannah Jameson, Miss Florence Jameson, Miss = Patricia: Jameson and Miss Margaret Jameson, and two grandsons, John Jamee spn and Fenton Jameson, all of Ine

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