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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 132

SEN. BLACK NAMED FOR HIGH COURT

THURSDAY, AUGUST

12, 1937

REPORTURGES | recs Prey to Lighting and Wind

NEW PROBE OF BAKER ER LOBBY

\ewidlaiive Comm Committee Also. L

Charges Joel instigated Attack on Coy.

CLAIM

Asks Enactment of Laws

To Prevent ‘Stealing’ Of Bills.

{Text of Report, Page 5, 11)

By JERRY SHERIDAN Enactment of a making it a criminal offense to “suppress,

‘TRICKERY’ USED

statute |

purloin or steal |

any measure before the Gen- |

eral Assembly for

legisla- |

tive action, or to resort to in- | :

timidation or threais for the

purpose of procuring or pre- |

venting the enactment of any legislative measure” was

urged in the Baker-Cancilla |

Legislative

Investigating |

Committee report made pub- | lic today by Governor Town- |

send.

This recommendation was made

after the committee found that Joel |

A. Baker, Welfare director, Senate Bill

had

deposed Marion County | “obtained | 173 from Rep. Martin |

Downey and then refused to return |

it,” and that “on March 1, Peter | A. Cancilla, a friend and companion of Joel A. Baker, made a brutal and unwarranted upon Wayne Coy, director. Both Baker and Cancilla were | convicted recently in Criminal | Court of assault and battery upon |

attack” | # State Welfare | 3

{

Mr. Cov, and fined $1000. The legis- |

lative repor:, made on March 22, was withheld by the Governor until | the trials were concluded.

Charge Baker Held Animus

The committee also reported that it found “Baker held a bitter ani- | mosity toward Wayne Coy and the

State Department of Public Welfare, and that he had been using every means at his disposal to prevent the enactment of the law that sought to destroy political control in the appointment of approximately 80 emplovees of the County Department.” The committee said: “We believe it is a fair conclusion from the evidence before the committee that Joel A. Baker instigated the attack in question.” The six legislators also reported that “there was evidence of fraud and trickery, and a resort to personal violence and intimidation” in

connection with Senate Bill 173 for |

Makes Charge in Attempt

the purpose of preventing proper legislative action.

Urge New Probe

The probers found that “Joel A. Baker was employed as legislative agent for compensation” by a margarine firm sion: that he was paid $1500 for his services and $1000 for expenses and thai he prosecuted his employment without his employer or himself having complied with” statute governing lobbying. A recommendation that Attorney General cause to be investigated jing disclosed by the investigation | of the Committee and that he take | such steps as are proper and | justified under the law for prosecution of any law violation (Turn to Page Three)

BOB BURNS Says: o Ehren

One of the greatest weaknesses us mortals have is trvin’ to get somethin’ for nothin’. That's the reason why we're such easy prey io ag ick” schemes. Some 0 Tewmag these schemes sound mighty glowing when you first hear about ‘em but vou’'ll find there's always a catch in em. I had one lazy uncle who never would work, but he would sit around all day and just dream of what he would do if he had plenty of money. One day while he was sittin’ there, dreamin’, a friend rushed in and said, “Come on with me. I just heard where you can get all the gold you'll ever need.” My uncle jumped up with a light in his eyes and he said, ‘That's just what I've been waitin’ for! Where is it and how do you get it?’ The man says, “It's over here an a hill and it's layin’ all over the ground. All you have'ta do is pick it up!” My uncle's face fell and he says, “Oh, I thought there'd be a catch in it! You've got te bend

over!”

(Copyright, 1337)

“in the 1935 ses- |

the | “the |

the evidence of lobhy- |

Above:

Below: Sheffield Ave. rear roof remained intact,

Tim2< Photo.

Trees were prey for the lightning and wind. Here is a | maple tree at 38 Drexel Ave. which was cut almost at its roots. Part of the roof was torn off the Baptist Church at 1139 The storm ripped it only in the front sector and the

| here within a week, | today were 5 to 6 degrees below nor-

ity IS LASHED ~ BY HEAVY RAIN

Lm Pulls Dov Down Trees, Utility Poles and Windows Are Smashed.

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

Cam... 6Y 10a m... "a.m... 66 11 a.m... 8am... 69 12 (Noon) 3am...

72 76 76

Following the second heavy rain temperatures

mal, the Weather Bureau reported,

{ night and tomorrow. | ologist J. M. Armington reported .89 |of an inch of rain fell here last | night. | Heaviest rainfall was reported at | | Bloomington, with 2.60 inches, and | | Terre Haute, with 2.51 inches. Rains | were reported in all sections of In- | | diana but the extreme southwestern | | border. | Last night's rain here, added to | | the precipitation of Sunday, | 1.5

should U. S. Meteor-

The weather

inches fell, brought the total | rainfall in this city since the first of the year to 28.64 inches, or an ex-

inches. This excess, (Turn to Page Three)

FREDDIE ‘SMUGGLED’

To Break Contract.

By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 12.—Freddie Bartholomew's aunt charged today |! the boy was smuggled out of Eng|land at the age of 10 in violation of | Britain's child iabor law preventing i children leaving the country to ac- | cept employment. She blamed Metro-Goldwyn- | Mayer for plotting the act which took her and the boy out of Eng-

(land as “holiday visitors to America.” Freddie already had been chosen {for a role in “David Copperfield,” {and was taken to Hollywood secretly, the aunt said. | Her affidavit was filed in Superior | Court, where she and the studio will clash Friday in a fight over the 13- | year-old actor's contract and salary. | Miss Myllicent Bartholomew {aunt and legal guardian of Freddie. | She threatens to return him to | school in England unless M.-G.-M. | raises his salary to $2500 a week. He had been getting $1100 weekly, but | his wages stopped last month. The | studio said Miss Bartholomew refused to let him work. Miss Bartholomew said other studios had offered him as high as $10,000 weekly.

TLLINOIS MAN KILLED TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Aug. 12. William R. Nicholson of Charleston. Ill, was killed instantly last night when he stepped into the path of an automobile driven by Fred Locke. 30, of Terre Haute. Mr. Locke was not held.

By ARCH STEINEL Walter Crim, Salem, Indiana Republican Editorial Association president, today said the “temporary acceptance” of the Republican State | Committee chairmanship by

he right direction.” Fallawing hic election at a state

committee meeting yesterday to

succeed Ivan C. Morgan, Austin, Mr. Taylor said he would call another meeting in 30 days to name a permanent chairman. Mr. Taylor and 11 other committee members did not vote. The

INU. S., AUNT SAYS

is |

John | M. Taylor, Danville, was a “step in |

‘Babe’s’ Gone

| Oldest Cireus F Elephant in Captivity Dies in

| Capital at 99.

{| By United Press | WASHINGTON, Auz. 12.--A | group of small boys stood around a | mound at the Washington Zoo to- | day and mourned the death of “Old Babe,” famous queen of circus elephants and oldest in captivity. There was no funeral for “Babe.” who died yesterday at 99, but acting 200 director, Ernest P. Walker, showed her many friends the giant mound that covered her grave in back of the zebra house. “She was a grand old lady,” Mr. Walker told them. “The 200 is for live animals and it is not our custom to hold services when one dies. But “Babe” will be missed more than most.” Until Sunday “Babe” had not been off her feet in nine vears. She had been afraid to lie down lest she never get up again. But on Sunday she tripped and fell. Zoo keepers knew then that she would never stand up again.

ONE QUIN TO BE ABSENT Bul nited Press CALLANDER, Ontario, Aug. 12.— | Visitors, who have awaited since Monday the next public appearance of the Dionne quintuplets after recovering from sore throats. today were betting on which one of the five may be missing Friday after Dr. Allan Dafoe said he expected then that “at least four” of bi would romp again in the vard.

Switch of G. O. P. Leaders Is Applauded by Editor

| other 11 were affiliated with the | Emison faction of the committee, which has demanded that a man not | associated with either their group or the majority Gates faction be selected chairman. Mr. Morgan voted for his successor. Felix M. McWhirter, Indianapolis | banker, unanimously was elected (Turn to Page Three)

“Love Gets a Lift,” The Times’ new daily serial, begins today on Page 24.

AMERICAN CORPS AT SHANGHAI GHAI MOBILIZE,

Citizens Concentrate Under Eyes of Volunteers.

By United Press NANKING, Friday, Aug. 13. —The Foreign Ofhice today announced that China intends to resist Japanese aggression. The statement was tantamount to an admission that a general but unofficial war exists between the two nations,

(Copyright. 1937, bv United Press) SHANGHAI, Friday, Aug. 13.-— Virtual martial law prevailed today throughout Shanghai's international settlement, the French concession, and the native city. Britain mobilized a regiment at Hangkong, her crown colony in South China, for possible transport to this war threatened city of 3,500.000 people and was reported to have appealed to the United States to send a regiment of infantry from the Philippines to reinforce more than 1000 U. S. Marines permanently stationed here. American volunteers faced steelhelmeted Japanese

tle fleet which stood off the city, |

cession. By agreement Americans defend one sector of the settlement—and it | is an area which adjoins that now occupied by the Japanese. The Shanghai Volunteer Corps, | including the American units, was mobilized shortly before midnight. Blueclad troopers rolled from the | corps headquarters and other foreigners in outlying areas were be-

concession, where they could be brought under the protection of British, American and other warcraft anchored off the bund.

SWIMS FIVE MILES TO SUMMON HELP

By United Press MILFORD, Conn., Aug. 12.—Wallace Thorpe, highway department employee, swam five miles through high seas today, fell exhausted on a vacht club dock and mumbled an incoherent story in which he said he had tied his 35-year-old schoolteacher companion to an oyster stake after their 17-foot sailboat capsized in Long Island Sound. Police patrol boats set out in search of Mrs. Charlotte M. Lucas of Bridgeport, Conn., wo 3 they found no trace of her.

but the mercury should be back to | | the seasonal level tomorrow. be fair to- |

when |

| cess over the normal rainfall of 3.23 |

it was reported, has!

blue-jackets, | landed from the Japanese third bat- |

along roads of the international con- | |

ing rushed into the center of the |

19 ARE KILLED WHEN OLD N. Y.

Falls During Torrential Rainstorm.

| UNDERMINED BY WATER.

Patrolman Dies Death Attempting to Save Children.

By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-—Police searchers today dug 19 bodies from the wreckage of a six-family dwelling in Staten Island which collapsed during last night's torrential rains. Jour other persons were Killed elsewhere in the metropolitan area during the height of the storm, two by lightning and two by drowning. The dwelling which collapsed was a 60-year-old, two-story built brick foundations with a frame superstructure. It was situated on New St. a cobblestone, alley-like | thoroughfare in the Port Richmond- | New Brighton community. Tenants | said the building had been condemned some time ago. The victims were tenants and visitors trapped by flood waters which swept down the block-long street and rose several feet deep in front and behind.

Undermined by Water

backed sewer, foundations

The waters, clogged storm the 60-year-old

huge cellar, nearly 20 feet deep.

of disaster several minutes before it occurred. Felix Szewczyk, 30, a resident of the neighborhood which is one of the most impoverished and

| borough, heard screams of fright | | and saw women and children hud- | | dled at the front of the building. ! He called police and three emergency squads responded. Szewszyk was sent to his home, a block away, | for planks to span the flood. When | he returned, he said, “the house was | gone.”

Buried in Ruins

Buried in the debris of sodden plaster, splintered wood. twisted pipes and household were these dead: { Patrolman Joseph McBreen, 32; Mrs. Mary Peterson, 44, and Louise Peterson, 6, her daughter; Francis Carsten, 16; Mrs. Virginia Budnick, = 3, Virgin Budnick, 4; Helen Budk, 6; Joseph Budnick, 2; Anthony Virybesski, 32; Mary Silver, 25; | ary Louise, 40; Louis Coral, 38; atrice Malicki, 20; Adam Malicki, Re John Stoltzentheler, 72; Mary (Tun to Page Three)

SNARED BY SPIDERS, SNAKE LOSING FIGHT

By United Press

OSSIAN, N. Y. Aug. 12. — An a spider web in the cellar of R. J Holden's farmhouse here, grew weaker today as its death fight with a group of spiders entered the 11th day. Throughout the struggle, the prisoner has fought to break loose from the web, but the spiders mend broken strands as fast as the snake breaks them. The snake was trapped while crawling on the floor of the cellar. After securing their prisoner firmly, the spiders began to hoist him inch by inch into the air. Today, the | snake was suspended 3 feet 4 inches above the floor.

IRAQ’S STRONG MAN AND AID ARE SLAIN

By United Press BASRAH. Iraq. Aug. 12.-—Gen. Bekir Sidki, chief of the general staff of the Iragian Army, and Gen. Ali Jowad, chief og the air force, were shot dead by a soldier at Mosul today while on their way to | Turkey to attend the annual army | maneuvers. | The general had been regarded as the strong man behind the coup {d'etat at Iraq last vear when the | army took control of the Government. He was sympathetic toward | Turkey and was not enthusiastic | for any Anglo-Iraq alliance. He was intensely nationalist.

tenement | in three sections upon high |

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

HOME CAVES IN

‘Three Escape as Tenement

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Senator Black

HOUSE, SENATE BILLS JAMMED

| Hope of Adjournment In Near Future.

(Editorial, Page 16)

{ By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug 12.—The Congressional adjournment jam continued unbroken today with no indication from leaders of hope for

| up from a | undermined | and | dumped the superstructure into its

The victims sensed the imminence |

squalid in New York City's smallest |

furnishings |

eight-inch grass snake, ensnared in |

an early end to deadlock over the | Administration legislative program. House leaders made no progress in solving the bitter conflict over and hours legislation and | erop loans. A week delay in Administration | business in the Senate appeared to The delay comes from

| wages

| be certain.

[the surprise maneuver by advocates

of antilynching legislation who suc- | ceeded in bringing up a motion that their bill be consdered. Little action was reported {rom | House committees where major seg{ments of the Administration pro- | gram are are under ¢o consideration.

SOVIET POLAR PLANE IS HEADED FOR N. Y,

Five Aboard Craft in Third Fliaht to U. S.

By United Press MOSCOW, Aug. Levanevsky, Soviet off at 10:13 a. m. Time) for Fairbanks, Alaska, en route to Chicago and New York. He is flying over the North Pole. The flight is another in the series made by Russian pilots to

12. —Sigismund pilot, hopped

route. The two previous Vancouver, Wash., and at San Jacinto, Cal., outside Los Angeles. They were made in oneengine planes. Levanevsky is flying a big, four-engine plane and is accompanied by a crew of five, Levanevsky hoped to reach Fairbanks in 39 hours, nonstop. Before leaving, it was said the fliers would head for Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, after reaching Fairbanks and might stop at Chicago or fly directly to New York-— their final goal. Accompanying Levanevsky, chief pilot, were Navigator V. Levehenko, Copilot Kostanaye, Radio Operator Golkovsky and Gedovikov and Pobezihov, mechanics.

EDITH WHARTON DIES AT FRENCH ESTATE

By United Press

American novelist, died today at Chateau Brice Sur Foret, near here. Mrs. Wharton attained immediate recognition with her first ‘serious | novel, “The House of Mirth,” in 1905. She was known principally as a chronicler of the social activities of the mauve decade. At 23 she was married to Edward Wharton, a Boston banker. Mrs. Wharton virtually retired to Paris in 19068, but continued her writings. After the war her novel, “The Age of Innocence,” published in 1920, won her a Pulitzer prize. Mrs. Wharton was divorced from her husband. He died in 1928.

Next Week

A meeting of the City-County Auditorium Board has been called for early next week by Mayor Kern to consider the proposal of a private

syndicate. The Mayor said: “If we believe it is not feasible to finance the auditorium by bond issue, then the petition of the private group will be permitted to take its course.” The group appeared before the Mayor yesterday and presented plans for a combined coliseum and hotel. Members were Sidney S. Miller, William A. Brennan, William H. Trim- | ble and Joe Rand Beckett,

Coliseum Decision Is Due , Mayor Hints

They propose to act under terms of a 1927 legislative act providing for a coliseum to be financed privately and leased to the City. A board consisting of the Mayor, the Works Board president and representatives of the Chamber of Commerce, the American Federation of Labor, American Legion posts and the Civic Federation would direct its activities. The City-County Board which met yesterday was created by a 1037 act of the Legislature, to build a coliseum financed by a bond issue limited to 2 per cent of the assessed property valuation. of the county.

Alabaman Is

Congress Leaders See No

(Indianapolis | | law at the University of Alabama | in|

the United States to test the Polar | flights | have been non-stop. One ended in |

the other cuting attorney for Jefferson Coun-

PARIS, Aug. 12.—Edith Wharton, | | urban

PRICE THREE CENTS

APPROVAL VOTE; IGNORES. CUSTOM

Noted For Sponsoring of Labor Laws,

VETERAN OF WAR

Nominee Hos Wide Legal Experience in Home State.

By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.— Senator Hugo Black, nomi-

nated by President Roosevelt |

today to assume the place on | the Supreme Court, vacated by retirement of Justice Wil- | lis Van Devanter, of Indiana, | has been distinguished in the Senate particularly sponsorship of labor legislation.

He also gained prominence last year by his handling of the investigation of lobbying, which he and his assistants inquired into a nationwide campaign to build up Senate sentiment

| against the Utilities Holding Com-

panies Bill.

He became chairman of the

Senate Education and Labor Com- |

mittee last year in a change of committee chairmanships resulting from the death of Senator Trammell (D. Fla), As chairman of that the honor of sponsoring the Administration’s Wages Bill this year went to Senator Black. The bill became known as the Black-Connery Bill. The cosponsor was the late Rep. Connery (D. Mass), then chairman of the House Labor Committee,

Born Upon Farm

Senator Black was born on a farm | at Harlan, Ala. Feb, 27 1886, of a family of farmers. He was the first | of his family to enter the political field. He was educated in the public | schools of Ashland and later studied |

where he received his LL. B. 10086. He practiced law for 20 years at | Ashland and Birmingham. During | that time he served as police court judge in Birmingham,

ty. He resigned from that office to enter the World War where he served as a captain in the 81st] Field Artillery. When the war ended | he returned to Birmingham and his law practice. Married in 1922

In 1922 he married Miss

| phine Foster of Birmingham. Now|

they have three children—Hugo L. Jr., 12, Sterling Foster, 10 and Martha Josephine, 18 months. He served as a special U.S. Prosecuting Attorney at Mobile in trying

prohibition cases just prior to his |

election to the Senate in November, 19286. Senator Black has said his only hobby is playing with his children on Sundays. He used to play golf but gave that up when his Congressional duties became great. His exercise now consists of an occasional walk near his home in Wesley Heights, a fashionable sublocation just outside northwest section of Washington in Maryland.

U. S. AGENTS PRESS SEARCH FOR BRADY

Arsenal of Gang Found Baltimore House.

By United Press BALTIMORE, Md. Aug. 12.-G-Men and police of two states today conducted an intensive search for three members of the notorious Brady gang believed to have used Baltimore as a base for forays into the Middle West, A dozen crack detectives were assigned to the widespread hunt after police uncovered an arsenal of machine guns, hand grenades, ammunition and other paraphernalia which they said the three had hidden here, Mrs. Josephine Economidis, sis-ter-in-law of two of the three desperadoes, turned over the weapons and ammunition to police. It was

in two large sultcases which she |

said Alfred Brady, the gang's 24-year-old leader, asked her to hide, Mrs. Economidis and her two sisters were held for questioning by Federal Bureau of Investigation officers, 4

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judge of the | recorder’s court, and later as prose- |

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Confirmation. REFORM BAC KER

F.D. R. Nomination

Proves Surprise to

Capital.

By United Presa WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, | —President Roosevelt today nominated Senator Huge Lafayette Black as Associate | Justice of the Supreme Court but the still glowing flames ‘of Congressional battle over the high tribunal prevented immediate confirmation by ‘the Senate, | Nomination of the slight, faire haired Alabaman came as a shock | to the Senate despite the fact that | there had been scattered speculation [of the possibility that he might be | selected to succeed retired Associate | Justive Willis Van Devanter, of In« ( diana. Senator Ashurst (D, Ariz.), chaire the Judiciary Committee, arose in the Senate after Vice Presi | dent Garner had announced receipt {of the nomination and moved that | it be acted upon immediately. | From the Republican side of the | aisle, silvery-haired Senator Johnson (R. Cal), who bitterly fought the President's original Supreme Court legislation, arose to object | and insist — without reflection on

( the nominee-~that the regular pro- | cedure be followed.

| Old Senate Tradition

| Tt has been an ancient Senate tra« dition--that nominations of its own | members to office are approved without question as a matter of senatorial courtesy. The nomination was then referred [vo a subcommittee of the judiciary, | headed by Senator Neely (D, W. Va.), which was expected to ree port expeditiously. President Roosevelt's action in nominating Senator Black came as a | surprise, although there had been some reports the liberal Alabama [leader of the fight for enactment of wages and hours legislation was under consideration for the place. Senator Black, chairman of the (Senate Education and Labor Committee, has heen regarded as one of the most progressive Southern Democratic members of the Senate. He was a stanch supporter of Mr, Roosevelt's judiciary reorganization program. From the first Senator Black vige arously supported the Roosevelt Ad- | ministration. The sending of Senator Black's nomination to the Senate created a distinct surprise. Only an hour bee fore the name was sent to the upper (chamber, a high White House aid had told reporters it was uncertain whether the nomination would even go to Capitol Hill at this session of Congress.

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Senator Johnson Objects

The Vice President made a move to bring up the nomination at once but Senator Johnson objected. Mr, Garner then announced to the Senate that Mr. Black had been nominated, While it has been the Senata's custom always to confirm immedis ately without committee considera= tion any member named to ape pointed office, echoes of the bitter Supreme Court enlargement fight were heard almost immediately Senator Burke (D. Neb), leader of the fight against Mr. Roosevelt's plan, was informed of the nomination and indicated immediately that he would object to immediate confirmation of Mr. Black. When Senator Johnson refused unanimous consent that the Pres ident’s nominating message bes read immediately, a parliamentary snarl resulted and the clerk began I read. |

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