Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1937 — Page 1

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 87

MONDAY, JUNE 21,

1937

Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoftes, Intianareiis. Ind.

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LABOR-CAPITAL

PEACE VITAL KIWANIS TOLD

- Whiting Williams Declares C. I. 0. Aim Perils Freedom.

ARTHUR BESTOR SPEAKS

Florida Senator to Talk at Tabernacle Session.

Class consciousness will develop in the United States as never before if emphasis on workmen’s security rather than opportunity to advante is * continued, Whiting Williams, Cleveland: industrial writer and consultant, said in an interview today. Mr. Williams, who has witnessed most of the recent major strikes, spoke at the Kiwanis International convention today in Murat Temple on “Worker-Employer Contact.” “John L. Lewis, Committee for In- | dustrial! Organization leader, is becoming more and more politicalized;” Mr. Whiting said in the interview. “His policy is making more and more labor excitement in the field of

politics.” Workers Held Unwilling

He noted that no steel workers have been known to make state- | . ments in regard to current steel strikes. “Coal miners’ used to organize against their own will, charged. ° He said a “change is developing in the while field of labor relations, thanks to mass picketing.” ; C. I. O. leaders ‘are hiring pickets, Mr. Whiting charged, and recently “some of them have been striking for higher wages.” The country’s labor troubles will not end until closer contact has been re-established between jobgivers and job-takers, the speaker said in his address.

Laborer’s Demands Simple

“The closer’ you get to the worker, the more you find that he is interested not in perplexing class issues, but in seeking the maximum (Turn to Page Three)

money is being steel workers

” Mr. Whiting

Program Today 12:15 to ‘4 P. M.—International council, Hotel Lincoln. 12:15 to 2 P. M.—District sec-

retaries’ luncheon and conference, Hotel Lincoln.

2 P. M.—Ladies’ entertainment, Marott Hotel. 2 to 4 P. M.—Lieutenant governors’ conference, Hotel Severin. 2 to 4 P.M.—Conferences onclub activities, Claypool Hotel and Columbia Club.

Evening

7:45 P. M.—All-Kiwanis Night, -. Cadle Tabernacle, Senator ‘Claude Pepper, Florida, speaker. : 10:15 P. M.—Informal Murat Temple.

Tomorrow

9:15 A. M.—Convention session, Murat Temple, Barclay Acheson and Col. R. L. Calder, speakers. 12 Noon—Ladyship luncheon, * Scottish Rite Cathedral. Miss Paula Le Cler, speaker. 2 to 4 P. M.—Conferences on club activities. Section A, Claypool Hotel. Section B,. Columbia, Club. Section C, World War-Memorial auditorium. 4 P. M.—Open forum posed amendments Temple. 6:30 to 9 P. M.—District dinners. 9 P. M.—Conference on nomination recommendations, Lincoln Hotel. 9 P. M.—Reception for International President and Mrs. A. Copeland Callen, Scottish Rite Temple.

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Heroes of Soviet Flight To Tour United States After San F rancisco Visit

Trio, Fully From Ordeal of 63-Hour Trip ‘Over North Pole.

By United Press PEARSON FIELD, VANCOUVER, Wash., June 21.—The three Russiah fliers who made a nonstop flight over the North Pole from Moscow to America will tour the United States for a month before returning to Moscow, Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky said today. The tour was to start from Swan Island Airport in Portland, Ore, this afternoon when the party embarks on a chartered plane for San Francisco, the Ambassador said. The plane which made the 5500mile flight which ended here at 6:22 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) Sunday when a dense fog prevented the fliers from reaching San Francisco, 592 miles farther south, will serve as a laboratory speciman in the interests of Soviet aviation. It will be dismantled carefully Here and crated for shipment to Russia, where each part will be scientifically inspected and studied by Soviet technicians. In this way, Troyanovsky said, the effects of the epochal flight on the ship will determine future development of Russian aviation.

Eat Hearty Breakfast

The three flying heroes—Valeria Chkalov, chief pilot; G. P. Baidukov and A. V. Beliakov—arose this morning; fully recovered from the hardships of their 63-hour 17-minute flight. They donned civilian clothing. Their first thought was to thank their host and hostess, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Charles Marshall, for the hospitality which was shown them since they landed here unheralded Sunday morning. They ate a hearty breakfast, then strolled through the garden of Gen. Marshall's home. They appeared extremely interested in the trees and atempted futiley to question the soldier orderlies who were escorting them. The fliers could speak no English. Later they slipped out the back door of Gen. Marshall's home and went downtown where they purchased raincoats. Before proceeding to the field where the instruments were in(Turn to Page Two):

$5,000,000 BUDGET FIXED FOR SCHOOLS

|Board Passes Resolution

Without Dissent.

The School Board today unanimously adopted a resolution fixing the public school budget for the 1937-38 fiscal year at $6,974,933. The Board also fixed the tax rate for the school city at $1.07. " The budget is $300,000 less than that for this year, but the tax rate was unchanged fo take care of a deficit, according to Alan Boyd, Board president. ’ The Board adopted another resolution providing for an emergency appropriation of $3,005,533 for general expenses from July 1 to Dec. 31, 1937.

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Valeri Chkalov

ASKS RULING ON SOLDIER BRAVES

{Legion Seeks to Preserve

Burial Places for Buddies in France.

“In Flanders fields the poppies blow, Between the crosses, row on row—"

Beneath some of these white crosses in France lie the bodies of 200 American soldiers, which may

be dumped into lime pits unless there is quick action on the part of the American Legion, it was charged today. Indianapolis Post 4 of the Legion today asked Probate Judge Smiley Chambers to settle a question of law on the right of a Legion committee to spend $15,000 to provide the slain soldiers with permanent graves. The suit said that leases on the ground where the soldiers are buried were signed for 15 years, and that unless the leases are renewed or new cemeteries found, “the bodies will be exhumed and dumped into a lime pit.”

Argue Word “Preserve”

A controversy has arisen over the word “preserve,” as it is used in a clause of the trust fund agreement for overseas graves set up by the Legion. The clause reads, “The income shall be used exclusively to honor, preserve and decorate the graves and for no other purpose.” The suit asks that the-Equrt place construction on the clau oy enable trustees to use the funds’ tq transfer bodies to a permanent resting place. The local post filed the action on behalf of itself and all other U, S. Legion posts which contributed to the Overseas Graves Decoration Fund. Defendants are ry. W. Colmery, national commander; J. Ray Murphy and Frank Belgrano Jr., former commanders; Frank E. Samuel, national adjutant; John Ruddick, national treasurer, and Sam W. Reynolds,, National * Finance Committee chairman, who are acting trustees.

Can Braddock Do It at 31? Age Is Biggest ‘If’

By JOE WILLIAMS \ Times Special Writer CHICAGO, June 21.—Jim Braddock has everything he needs to beat Joe Louis in the battle of the slightly shopworn heavyweights here tomorrow night—that is. everything except youth. If he is beaten it will be because he isn't as young as he once was. And, come to think of it, who is? The Jersey Irisher, has more guns in his arsenal, a sharper fighting instinct, a great deal more experience and nobody has yet been moved to question his courage. But as fighters go he is an old man and old men do not bounce back from the shock of a crushing punch as quickly as young men do. This is the quality that makes him an uncertain proposition and accounts

for the faci that, with nits his well~

IWANANS COME FROM SOUTH . . . . .

From Clarksville, Tenn., “Queen City of the Cumberlands,” come Mr. illiam B. Nicholson, to attend the five-day Kiwanis International They're shown registering. ’ >

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rounded ability, he is the shortender in the betting at 2 and 21: to 1. Not only is Braddock gn old man in ring reckoning but he has heen out of action for two full years. Generally these inactive fighters prove poor speculative risks. Jim

Jeffries was a shell after a six-year |

layoff. Jack Dempsey came back after three years and was a floundering flop against Gene Tunney in their first fight. Only a mocking echo answered Benny - Leonard's prayer for a modest slice of his old vitality when he returned to the ring against Jimmy McLarnin. Precedent, in this respect, 1s all against Braddock. The champion claims to be only 31 years old. And it’s a certainty he is no younger. Thirty-one is plenty

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GIRDLER KILLS HOPE FOR PACT IN STEEL FIGHT

Futile to Even Consider Signing With C. 1. 0., He Tells Board.

NEW . CLASH FEARED

Attempt to Be Made to ‘Reopen Youngstown Mills Tomorrow.

(Editorial and Gen. Johnson, Page 10)

By United Press

Chairman Tom Girdler of Republic Steel Corp. today told the Federal Steel Mediation Board in Cleveland that discussion of a signed contract with the Cammittee for Industrial! Organization—sole issue in the seven-state steel strike—was “futile.” As the Republic and Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. officials announced plans to defy picket lines and reopen plants in the Youngstown area tomorrow, Girdler and executives of three other struck companies appeared before the Mediation Board an hour after the Board had conferred with C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis and his aids. Girdler said his company would not enter into an oral or written agreement with the C. I O. and added that ‘any discussion of this is futile.” : In regard to maintenance of the status quo pending negotiations, as suggested by Secretary of Labor Perkins, Mr. Girdler said his company “will not be a party to any such arrangement.”

Calls C. I. O. Irresponsible

Girdler said his company would not sign a contract with any irresponsible party and that he regarded the C. I. O. as “utterly irresponsible.” The Republic chairman's statement said that while he would “cooperate” with the Board in any effort to disclose the facts of the situation, his presence at the conference table should not be taken to mean that the company would sign anything “promulgated” at the sessions, i Girdler, who recently said he had never met Lewis and “I hape to God I never do,” made his position clear in a formal statement read to the Board and released by his representatives after the| company officials entered the conference room. Even more vigorous preparations to fight the strike were pressed, meanwhile, in the Youngstown district, strike leaders announced that they would fight back. The strike, which has resulted in a total of 12 deaths in 26 days, made around 80,0000 men idle in (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS Sy SFr

don’t think people squawk about anything more than they do about havin’ to pay taxes. Jest because they never had to call a policeman, they don’t see why they should haveto help maintain a large police department. My Uncle Skinny Flint was one of them people. He even lectured to have the police force cut down, but when he found he needed an officer, he was mighty glad the. big force was kept up. One night he woke up and found there was a burglar in his house and in a trembling voice, he called the police station and said, “There’s a burglar in my house! Send a squad out quick!” The Captain said, “Well, I ain’t got a man to spare right now. I got two men censorin’ plays, four men out selling tickets for the Policemen’s Ball and two men are actin’ as judges at a Tango Tea, but if you'll be patient, I might be able to send one of the boys out there in about an hour and a half!” (Copyright, 1937)

Tom Archer, Texas-Oklahoma District governor, is shown as he signed up at headquarters. Mrs. Archer and E. D. Elliott, also of Texas, : are with him., Some SOIBIeEDs, eh?

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Gets 20 Years

By United Press RIVERHEAD, N. Y., June 21.— Justice James T. Hallinan today sentenced Mrs. Helen Tiernan (above) to serve 20 years to life in the state prison for the slaying of her daughter, whom she killed to make room in her apartment for a lover.

ALLEGED FRAUD HERE DESCRIBED

Nolan Presents Witnesses As Morley, Four Others Go on Trial.

District Attorney Val Nolan described operations of alleged “bucket shops” in Indianapolis and Evansville as C. J. Morley, former Colorado Governor, and four others went on trial in Federal Court here today on charges of using the mails to defraud.

The District Attorney told of the alleged swindles after a jury of eight farmers, a minister, printer, milfvorker and a canner was seated. The minister is Dr. L. A. Harriman, Princeton. Four of 85 Government witnesses testified before noon. Robert Keating, Indianapolis, file clerk in the corporations office of the Secretary of State, testified that Morley filed incorporation papers here May 9, 1934, and that the defendant was president of the company. Mrs.“ Carmel Cratzel, Denver notary public, testified as to the validity of registration articles filed there in May, - 1934, to obtain a stock dealer’s license as an Indiana corporation. Secretary Testifies

Miss Pauline Frasier, secretary to the building manager of the Merchants National Bank Building, tes-

tified as to the company’s renting an office in the building. George J. Ohleyer, Merchants Bank assistant cashier, testified as to the company’s having an account. ; On| trial with Morley were William J. Stevenson, Houston, Tex.; Olaf T. Anderson, Chicago; Benson N. Chase, Evansville, and Edward Ward, Evansville. Two others under indictment are fugitives. Mr. Nolan said that evidence would show that the company carried on business from telephones in a secret office: He said that Government testimony would show that the company sold listed and unlisted stocks on the contemplation of delivery. He added the Government would show that the office here wrote letters which bore only the rubberstamp signature of Morley and that fictitious names were signed to letters sent through the mails in the conduct of the business.

4 BANK SUSPECTS ARE FREED HERE

Four men, held under $10,000 bond for questioning in connection with activities of an alleged bank bandit gang, were freed in Municipal Court today. Vagrancy charges were dismissed by Judge Charles Karabe!l on request of police. They were arrested in a raid by police and the Prosecutor’s office early Saturday in a N, East St. rooming house. A woman, arrested at the same time, is to appear in Municipal Court Friday morning. Her case was continued Saturday.

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BLUM LEFTISTS CANCEL STRIKE

IN CABINET ROW

Chautemps Seeking to Form| Coalition Government With Center.

200,000 WORKERS QuIT

Danger of Labor Trouble Lessens After Plea of Retiring Premier.

By United Press

PARIS, June 21.—The Socialists warned off the grave threat of labor troubles, disorder and further damage to the franc today when they ordered their followers to maintain calm, as requested by Leon Blum, retiring Socialist premier. As a result of the order, the maneuver of labor extremists to provoke a general strike was abandoned. The building trades workers, numbering 200,000, were on a half-day strike, ordered a week ago in protest against haggling over wage increase. Ninety per cent of building throughout France was tied up, but calm prevailed. Camille Chautemps, Radical Socialist' leader, worked on formation of a Cabinet to replace that of Blum, who was forced to resign when the Senate refused to grant him extraordinary .powers to cope with the financial situation. Chautemps was expected to announce his cabinet tomorrow. M. Chautemps was seeking an indication of .a political basis on which he might form a Left-Center coalition and from parliamentary leaders the extent of emergency powers he might hope for to solve the delicate financial situation. Seeks a Combination It was reported that he sought a combination in which he would be Premier and Minister of Interior, the national police authority, with Yvon Delbos remaining as Foreign Minister and Edouard Daladier remaining as War Minister. But the principal question was the reaction of workers to the fall of their Popular Front Cabinet. The cabinet on paper appeared to be confined to the Popular Front majority, although no Communists were invited to accept ministries. It was persistently reported today that Senator Henri Berenger, noted financial expert and cosigner of the Mellon-Berenger debt agreement, had accepted the all important post o fnence minister in the new cabe . Senate Defeats Blum

Blum’s fate was settled by the firm refusal of the “314 old men” of the Senate. He sought sweeping powers to deal with the financial and currency situation, to raise revenue and stop the flight of capital. The chamber, with a comfortable Popular Front majority, supported

Blum. But the Senate again and "again refused to give him the powers

he sought, even though they would have extended only until July 31.

Wet Welcome

Is in Store for Summer Time

HOURLY TEMPERATURES 7 10 a. m. 80 79 11 a. m. 80 80 12 (noon) . 81 80 1 p.m... 80

Summer was to begin officially at 2:12 p. m. today, the longest daylight period of the year. Astronomically it is termed sumimer solstice when the sun appears to reach its highest point in traveling north from the equator. More thunderstorms were forecast by the Weather Bureau for the first day of the new season, probably this afternoon. Skies are to be clear again tonight and tomorrow, with a slight drop in temperature. A maximum temperature of about 85 was predicted for today by the Bureau. The mercury reached 89 yesterday. James Gibson, 29, of 620 Fayette St., was overcome by the heat while running at V’alnut St. and the canal today.

WIVES ENJOY SHOPPING . . . .

Wives of delegates leave the Columbia Club on a shopping tour. Left to right: Mrs. Ewald Peterson and Mrs. Fred Parker, Chicago; Mrs. C. “ B

eott, Alanis, oa, and Mrs, M. S. ii , Suites, 2)

GUARD

AGAINST

ALIEN DOGMAS, HUGHES PLEADS

Brown Alumni Hear Chief Justice Condens Foreign Philosophy Threatening American Institutions. |

APPEALS FOR INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY,

Laders Must Be Watchful to Presoiis Freedom of Speech, Press and Assembly, He Says.

By United Press

PROVIDENCE, R. I, June 21.—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the U. S. Supreme Court today called for preservation of America’s democratic institutions against “the pressure of economic forces and the insidious teachings

QUASH SOUGHT

BY JOEL BAKER

Filing of Motion Expected Before Arraignment This Afternoon.

A motion to quash the indictment against Joel A. Baker, charged with Peter A. Cancilla with assaulting Wayne Coy, former State Welfare director, with intent to kill, was drafted today by Baker's attorney. Attorney William C. Bachelder filed a copy of the motion with Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer and indicated it would be filed in court before arraignment of the two defendants before Special Judge James A. Emmert at 4 p. m. today. The motion says the indictment does not state the offense charged with sufficient certainty.

Undecided on Pleading

Andrew Jacobs, attorney for Cancilla, said: “We haven't decided what pleadings we will file.” “A motion to quash the indictment is about all there is left to

plead,” Judge Emmert said at a

hearing on June 12 when he overruled the defense plea in abatement. Baker claims in the drafted motion that while the indictment charges both him and Cancilla with striking Mr. Coy, it does not state specifically which one struck the blow with his fist, or whether more than one blow was struck. The motion also claims that while the indictment charges Baker with intent to kill with premeditated malice, it does not state the premeditated malice with sufficient certainty. Denies Malice Charge

It is claimed also that the mere striking of a person with the fist, under the law, does not constitute premeditated malice. Baker claims also that the only allegation as to the weapon used is that of a human fist which is not sufficient to show an inference of intent. Judge Emmert has set July 26 as the tentative trial dates

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of an alien philosophy.”

“We still proclaim the old ideals of liberty, but we can-

‘| not voice them without anx-

iety in our hearts,” he said in an informal address at the annual meeting of Brown University alumni. He was a member of the 1881 class, and his grandson, Charles Evans Hughes III, was graduated today. “The question no longer is one of establishing democratic institutions,

but of preserving them,” the Chief Justice said. “The question no longer is one of triumphing over sectional discords and unifying the nation, but whether a united people putting forth its great strength for national ends, will leave approprie ate scope for individual freedom. “The question is not one of ade~ quate power of government, designed to keep clear the highways of honest endeavor, but how that power shall be used. Safe as still we may be in the present, what of the look ahead? Are our democratic institu tions growing weaker, and under the pressure of economic forces and the insidious teachings of an alien philosophy, will our democracy be able to survive?” |

‘Resources of Reason’

‘Chief Justice Hughes s id the ane swer lay not in a “pessimistic sure render” but in a quickened resolve “to treasure and utilize to their fullest extent the resources of reason.” “Put no confidence in mere forms or in ' institutional arrangements however astutely contrived in the interest of liberty. All these are rangements depend upon the popular will. The security of our Democratic institutions is not in existing constitutional provisions or framework . of government, but in the dominant sentiment that maintains them.” The “dominant sentiment,” Chief Justice Hughes said, resulted from many interacting forces, among which was the “outstanding influences of our intellectual leaders who have had the special advantages of our educational establishment.” America’s first duty, he asserted, is to preserve the freedoms of learning, speech, press, assembly and conscience and to be alert to detect the slightest stem to impair them.

Cites Need for Honesty

“But our Gia will prova - illusory,” he warned, if those who are foremost in the enjoyment of these privileges are not keenly con= scious of their responsibility. Dis honesty in the purveyors of opinion is the worst of civic vices. . . . “The arch enemies pf society are those who know better, but by ‘ine direction, misstatement, understatee ment and slander, seek to accom< plish their concealed purposes, or to

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ing the public. The| antidote for these poisons must be found in the sincere and courageous efforts of those who would preserve their cherished freedom by a wise and responsible use of it. Freedom of 6 | expression gives the essential democratic opportunity, but self-restraint

is the essential civic discipline.”

. MURAT TEMPLE BUSY SPOT ,.'. . .

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‘Times Photos.

: Murat Temple was the scene of heaviest activity yestere Endi-' day. Here is a group of and signing the regi:

delegates presenting their credens