Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1937 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 49—NUMBER 144
RAIL WALKOUT THREAT BRINGS ACTIONBY U.S
‘Big Five’ Has Agreed to Call Strike for Sept. 6, Official Says.
300,000 ARE AFFECTED]
Carriers Reject Demand for
20 Per Cent Increase at Chicago Parley.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.— The National , Mediation Board today intervened wunder the provisions of the Railway Labor Act to avert a threatened strike by five rail operating unions against 86 major railroads. The Board telegraphed spokesmen for both the carriers and the five unions meeting in Chicago proffering its services to settle a wage dispute after three weeks of unsuccessful negotiations by management and unions failed to bring an agreement. The Board designated Dr. William M. Leiserson, a member, to bezin new mediation steps in Chicago Saturday morning.
By United Press
Alexander F. Whitney,| president of the Brotherhood | of Railroad Trainmen, said in| Cleveland today that C. H.| Smith, vice president of the Union, had reported to him from Chicago that officers of the “Big Five” Railroad Brotherhoods had agreed to call a strike Sept. 6 at 6 a. m., affecting 300,000" operating trainmen. Mr. Whitney said a committee of brotherhood chair- | men was to meet to ratify the |
date later today. . At the same time, officials of the National Mediation Board in Wash- | ington said they had as yet re-
ceived no request by parties to the |
railroad wage dispute to take mediatory action. Advised of Strike Plan
They said, however, the Board had been officially advised that the five
decided to set a strike date. It was indicated that the Board expected to be called in just as it was asked to mediate a similar dispute between the carriers and the 14 nonoperating unions. The “Big Five” brotherhoods said the carriers’ flat refusal to accede to a 20 per cent wage increase at a conference in Chicago yesterday was “not acceptable.” Carriers and labor icaders agreed two courses of possible action to avert a strike remained open. The Federal Mediation Board could intervene of its own accord and demand a review of the situation. An emergency could be declared by Presidential proclamation and an emergency board appointed.
Walkout Authorized
The emergency board would have 30 days in which to make its report and another 30 days would have to elapse before a strike call could become elective. More than 90 per cent of the operating trainmen voting in a special strike referendum, granted the negotiating committee at the Chicago meeting today authority to call a walkout if their demands were not settled amicably,
BOB BURNS Says: SALTO
Thrills and excitement depend a whole lot on what kind of a life youre use'ta living. Ill bet the people who have swum the English Channel didn't get as much thrill out of it as I did when I swam across the 30-foot swimming hole back home. And these automobile race drivers don't get as much thrill as you got the first time you actually sat back of the wheel in your own automobile and started and stopped your car yourself. I was at a dinner down home one time given in honor of a big game hunter who had just returned from Africa and he made quite a talk explaining that his very nature craved excitement. He said his very soul fed on dangerous thrills where one false move might mean sudden death. When he finished talking, my Cousin Purdie went up to him and shook hands and says, “Brother, I know exactly how you feel. I'm one of those devil-may-care fellas, mvself. Many a time when it looked like rain, I have deliberately gone out without my umbrella.” (Copyright, 1937)
Writer Dies
W. F. STURM, 54, ILL LONG TIME
Managed Famous Racers; Set Coast-to-Coast Speed Record.
William F. Sturm, 5349 Kenwood Ave. auto racing authority and writer for the Indianapolis News, died today in Noblesville Hospital after a long illness. He was 54. Funeral arrangements were being completed at the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Among race drivers whose affairs he managed were Major H. O. D. Segrave, Sir Malcolm Campbell and Kaye Don, three Englishmen, and Frank Lockhart and Cannonball Baker, Americans. Mr. Sturm had covered every Indianapolis Speedway race for The News since the event was inaugurated in 1911. He also had covered many other speed events, wrote for Eastern newspapers and had contributed articles to several periodicals. In 1915, Mr. Sturm set the coast-to-coast record for cross-country driving and later, with Baker, set a round trip record for the same trip. Survivors are his wife; three brothers, Robert H. Indianapolis; George P., Elizabethtown, and Edward G. Sturm, Bismarck, N. D.; four sisters, Mrs. Louise Withers and Mrs. Emma Bicker, both of Indianapolis; Mrs. A. C. McGowan, Anderson and Mrs. L.' B. Davidson, Springfield, O.
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JOHN DAY DEPREL, EDITOR, DEAD AT 64
Set Saturday.
Times Special SHELBYVILLE, Ind., Aug. 26. — Services for John Day DePrez, Shelbyville Democrat editor and a | leading Indiana Democrat, are to be | held at 3 p. m. Saturday at his residence where he died last night. He was stricken with heart disease in a downtown hotel here Tuesday. The Rev. J. W. McFall, First Methodist Episcopal Church pastor, is to assist a pastor, as yet unnamed, in the services. His employees are to act as pallbearers and burial is to be in Forest Hill Cemetery. Active pallbearers are to be D. W. Avery, mechanical department superintendent; Wilmer McNeely, job printing department superintendent; Norman Thurston, city editor; Fred L. Jones, circula(Turn to Page Three)
| By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug. 26.— Albert Dyer, diminutive WPA crossing guard, today was found guilly of the lust murders of three small girls. He
must die on the gallows for the crime,
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‘Shelbyville Man’s Funeral Is
operating union brotherhoods had |
LAUGHS AT HAY FEVER
“The biggest hay fever season ever.” allergists here warn, but Mary Scott isn’t affected, so she picks the kind of ragweed which
FORECAST: Fair tonight and probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 1937
(VANNUYS ISSUE
WOMAN DRIVER DEFIES COURT, COST RELEVIED
Bursts Into Tears When Taken to Cell Block at Police Station.
Big Girl
Midgets Are Parents o Normal, Five-Pound Baby.
By United Press INNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 26.— Birth of a normal five-pound baby girl to a midget mother weighing only 67 pounds was reported today. mE aE The infant, delivered through 34 AUTOISTS GET FINES | Caessarian section, and the mother, | Mrs. Frank Delfino, were reported | “doing well” at Abbott Hospital, where the birth reportedly occurred last Tuesday. The father of the child also is a midget, who wooed and won Mrs.
Delfino, the former Sadie Williams, while both were appearing in the Chicago “Century of Progress” World's Fair in 1933. The father stood on a chair to
Boy and Woman Injured After Walking Into Paths of Cars.
A smartly-dressed, middle-aged woman from the 3900 block Guilford
peep into the nursery for his first look at the infant today and announced she would be named Ruth Frances Marie Delfino. “Ain't she a honey,” he exclaimed. He was not permitted to see his wife, who is 3 feet 10 inches tall. The baby measured 18 inches in height—more than one-third the height of her parents. She has black hair. Nurses said she has full-size lung power.
WEAPON TESTED
Treatment Reported Found
For Asthma and Bronchitis.
Ave., stood today in Municipal Court and denied she had run a red light vesterday at 38th St. and College Ave. Judge Dewey Myers found her guilty on the testimony of Patrolman George Lowe. “It will be $5 and costs,” he said, “and I'll suspend the costs.”
The bailiff beckoned her to the desk, but she remained in front of the bench. The bailiff said, “Come over here.”
She arched,
“I'ii come when I get good and ready.” “Shut up,” said the bailiff. “I'll shut up when I get good and ready,” she said.
Suspension Rescinded
The bailiff took her arm. “Don’t push me,” she said. Judge Myers said: “I'll rescind that suspension. It will be a total of $15.” The woman said she didn't have
| it was his opposition to President
it. She was ordered to the prisoners’ bench and she broke into tears. She said she would pay and was led to the clerk's window. Her anger returned. “I won't pay,” she said. “That of-
(Copyright, 1937. by Science Service)
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—A new | and promising weapon against asthma, bronchitis, other chest] diseases and sinus trouble is now ficer gave me a dirty deal.” being given its first {Hen Because of medical ethics, AmerBurd Wes Yen's ican physicians who are using the |
She was taken to the women's cell new treatment—a combination of | block at police station where she air conditioning and air medication burst into tears. | —refuse to talk about it until they | The woman's husband appeared have had time to report their re-| four hours later, paid $15, and left | sults to medical societies and jour- | police station with her. nals. No names of patients, physi-| Thirty-four other defendants of | cians or institutions can be divulged. | the 51 arrested overnight, were | Results indicate that patients found guilty and paid $255 in fines | and costs. Costs of $140 were | ment. suspended. Thirteen of them who | used it for the last two years have | ran red lights paid $119 and escaped | published enthusiastic reports. paying $60 through suspensions.| The treatment is given by a spe- | Four speeders paid $52. | cial apparatus devised by an Amer- | Sparrell Wicker, 212 S. Wolcott | ican chemist, David Fingard, and | St., was found guilty in Criminal | his uncle, J. J. Duke. The latter was | Court today on a charge of speed- | himself an asthma sufferer. |ing appealed from a conviction in | Looking something like a radio | Municipal Court. Judge Pro Tem. | cabinet, the apparatus filters, | | Clyde Karrer suspended the $1 fine | warms and dries the outside air | (Turn to Page Three) and adds to it a carefully blended! mixture of iodine, creosote, carbolic acid, essential oils and other aromatic substances. Glycerin and oil | of garlic, the latter long a favorite | throat-soothing substance with | singers, are in the mixture. Some (Other Stories and Photos, Page 25) of these chemicals have a soothing | action on tissues and others are By United Press known germ killers. NEW YORK, Aug. 26—The Joe | The great advantage of the meth-Louis-Tommy Farr heavyweight (od is that it brings the medicines championship prizefight scheduled | into contact with the tissues of | for tonight was postponed at noon | Jungs and bronchii and other parts today until Monday evening because | of the breathing apparatus. of threatening weather. Iodine can be applied easily enough to a cut finger or other wound to kill any germs that may | have gotten in. Killing germs inside | the body is a more difficult matter | because it is hard to get the germ (Turn to Page Three)
LOUIS-FARR BOUT OFF UNTIL MONDAY
MORE FAIR WEATHER IS EXPECTED HERE
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
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"HEARING ON SCHOOL MILK PRICES SET
The State Milk Control Board {oday set 2 p. m. Sept. 7 for a public hearing on a petition aesking a special price classification for school milk and asking that distributors provide adequate refrigeration for it. The petition was brought by the Local Milk Committee, composed of distributors and producers and headed by J. D. Littleton and has the approval of Leon C. Coller, area
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The Weather Bureau predicted maximum temperatures today of from 80 to 84 and added that tomorrow there would be more of the same. It is to be fair tonight and probably tomorrow, the Bureau said.
The begins
“Madman’s Island,” Times’ new daily serial, today on Page 28.
| Prosecutor Bob Simpson would like | | to know—streamed in today to de-| his melons were taken.
administrator.
the Weather Bureau is doing wafted there swell
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Allergists count the pollen on vaseline-covered glass slides, like Robert Spencer of
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice. Indianapolis, Ind.
Mayor Aids Canadian 1n Love Aftair
LTHOUGH he does not conduct a lonely hearts column, Mayor Kern received this letter to- | day from the Canadian House of Commons: “Your Worship: “Wili you please do an act of kindness and courtesy for one of your | Canadian cousins as I would do | for you should the occasion arise? i I have a lovely friend in your City | whose birthday occurs on the 28th inst. and I want to surprise her. I am inclosing a dollar bill and am asking you or your secretary to phone your favorite florist and have him send my ladyfair some nice cut flowers with a card to the effect: ‘Happy Birthday to You!’ If you would do this, you would be conferring a favor upon “Yours most sincerely,
PARAMOUNT AT EDITORS MEET
Democratic Press Society Expects Showdown of Senator, Chiefs.
NEW DEAL FAVOR SEEN
French Lick Session May Bolster Townsend’s 1938 Machine.
By JERRY SHERIDAN Indiana Democrats converged on French Lick Springs today for the midsummer Indiana Democratic Editorial Association meeting tomorrow and Saturday. Foremost in their interest was the possibility of a showdown between State Ad forces and Senator VanNuys, who is expected to make a bid for renomination at the session despite Administration opposition. For Governor Townsend, the meeting was an opportunity to tighten up his strong machine for the 1938 campaign. While the Senator has been criticized for opposing the nomination of Sherman Minton for junior Senator and for lining up against Governor Townsend on other occasions, Administration leaders insist that
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Ever gallant, the Mayor smiled wanly and refused to reveal the name of either the ladyfair or her Canadian friend.
PENNANT RACE IS WIDE OPEN
Cubs Wobbly, Giants Firm, Cards Advancing in National League.
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By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—The National League pennant race was in the laps of the gods today after the strongest link of the Chicago Cubs | | had cracked. The Governor is not expected to| Billy Jurges and Billy Herman, make a formal announcement at|the Cubs’ defensive bulwarks, French Lick backing any candidate | buckled yesterday against the Giants to oppose Senator VanNuys, but Ad- |and tossed away a vital game which ministration leaders are expected to | may cost the Cubs the flag. The | allow the name of their choice to|loss cut the Cubs’ lead from four to be passed around the meeting, it|only two games. was believed. . | The Giants’ double triumph over Activities of the editorial associa- | the Cubs, 8-7 and 4-2, and the Cartion's resolutions committee are ex- |dinals’ twin victory over Brooklyn, pected to indicate the trend at the 4-2 and 5-2, made the National | two-day meeting. Assured of State | League derby a three-horse race | support, editors are believed to be again. : ready to condemn New Deal oppo-| Briefly the contenders may be | sition in scorching terms. | sized up as follows: | But while the Senate trace is ap- | Cubs—Staggering under pressure | parently the paramount issue, |but still the team to beat. ambitious politicians also are await- | Giants—A lucky team, making the |
Roosevelt's court reform plan which underlies their opposition.
Formal Backing Unexpected
really are being cured by the treat-| ing an opportunity to show their most of every break and refusing to | English physicians who have | wares at the meeting. |
Potential | quit. candidates for Secretary of State, | Cardinals—Moving up fast behind State Auditor, and State Treasurer |improved pitching for a typical at the next election are believed to |Gashouse Gang finish. be ready to indicate their “willing- | The Giants’ chances were not ness” to run for office. | worth a plugged nickle as the Cubs | Senator VanNuys, who returned moved into the last half of the | here after Congress adjourned, has ninth of yesterday's first game, | indicated he will make a stubborn holding a 7-2 lead. But Billy Herbid to be renominated. He will place | man made a wiid throw with one his name before the Democratic | Out, and that started a collapse. State Convention, he said. | Then Jurges booted a double-play Meanwhile, speculation on the | ball. The Giants scored five runs Townsend and VanNuys addresses (Turn to Page 24) centered on their stand on the Court reform program. | APPEAL CONTINUED Definite in their opposition to the | The appeal of Edward Turner, Senator, State leaders unofficially | 1341 Kentucky Ave. on a slot masaid they have made their choice | chine law Municipal Court confrom the large field of possible can- viction. was continued to Sept. 3| (Turn to Page Three) today in Criminal Court.
Melon Lovers Swarm in. Defense of Pal in Jail
By United Press | making away with Mr. Newham's PARKVILLE, Mo. Aug. 26.—Wa- | $300 crop. termelon thieves—and who isn't? | Mr. Newham lay out in the patch | Sunday night and got the licente | number of a car in which some of The car fend one of their clan, Erma Cole-| was traced to Miss Coleman. man, 19, who has been taken to the| Five boys said they had been in county jail. | the patch eating melons, but SimpEveryone he questioned, most of son said he would not prosecute them boys of the town, was ready | them all, because they were from to confess to Simpson that he had | good Parkville families. raided Farmer Leland Newham's| But he was going to make the melon patch, some of them several charge against Miss Coleman stick. times. | “I may find someone in Platte The Prosecutor is conducting a | County who hasn't been out to that manner of open court investigation | melon patch,” the prosecutor obin Constable Elmer Renner's cafe served. “And if T do I may have and beer parlors to find out who|to charge him with some kind of | has been smashing, plugging and negligence.” {
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‘Japanese Express ‘Regrets at Shooting
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BRITISH ENVOY 10 CHINA SHOT BY JAPANESE
Protest Expected but London May Avoid Taking Issue.
REGRETS GIVEN
Nipponese Say That Attack on Official | Was Mistake.
By United Press LONDON, Aug. 26.—Great Britain will protest the shooting by a Japanese aviator near Shanghai of its ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Huges-sen, but will avoid making an international incident of it, reliable sources disclosed tonight.
The British are expected to consider that a full apology from Japan will enable them to avoid aggravating the Far East crisis by creating tension in British-Japanese relations. Indications were that the incident would be smoothed out and classi fied as an unintentional accident arising from the turmoil in China.
Bul nited Press | TOKYO, Friday, Aug. 27.—The | Foreign Office, disclaiming any | Japanese intention to attack the British ambassador, expressed re- | gret today over the shooting of Sir Hughe of Knatchbull-Hugessen. A spokesman said he had been in- | formed that Sir Hughe had been seriously hurt by a volley of shots | from an airplane “in an extremely | unhappy incident.” Meanwhile, the spokesman said, Japanese officials in Shanghai are | conducting an inquiry, adding: “It | is unthinkable that a Japanese
| plane could have fired intentionally |
on the British ambassador's car.” |
SANTANDER TAKEN | BY REBEL FORCES
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Franco Leads Troops in
Triumphal Entry.
By United Press
SANTANDER, Spain, Aug. 26.— Santander, last populous stronghold of the Loyalists on the northern coast, surrendered unconditionally at 8:30 a. m, today to Generalissimo Franco, insurgent leader, Three delegates of the local Santander government were taken blindfolded in an automobile to Franco's headquarters, were they submitted the city to him. The surrender was preceded by the triumphant entry of | the Rebels and Franco himself into | the city. Thousands of Loyalists were taken prisoner by Generalissimo | Franco's legions who captured the |
| city without firing a shot after they |
had battered their way for months down the Cantabrian coast.
By United Press | SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, Aug. 26.— The British flotilla leader Keith | reported today that it had been] fired upon by Loyalist coastal] batteries at Santona, 13 miles east | of Santander, while attempting to remove refugees from the Basque | capital.
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Auto Fired on From Air. Near Shanghai.
Ambassador’s
DEATH IS FEARED
Danger of Still More Foreign ‘Trouble’ Is Present.
By United Press The British ambassador to China was shot through the spine and liver today by a Japanese airplane machine gun bullet, causing a grave international complication in the Shanghai war. The ambassador, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, was shot as he raced by motor from Nanking to Shanghai for an emergency confers ence with British officials. His car flew the Union Jack. He was given a blood transfusion at the hospital and surgeons had some hope of saving his life. The blood was donated by a U. 8S. Ma« rine. The incident caused constere nation in London. The shooting of the ambassador
momentarily overshadowed the war, which reached a crescendo of fight«
[ing north of Shanghai. The Japa« | nese, | smashing the Chinese lines.
after early reverses, began
‘New Incident’ Reported
Another international incident occurred when Japanese airplanes destroyed the American-owned Pop-
(lar Dairy in the suburbs, although
it flew the Stars and Stripes. A complication with Russia was threatened when the Japanese charged angrily that signals to help the Chinese were being flashed from the Soviet consulate-general builds ing. A Japanese Spokesman hinted that the building might be searched. It was feared further that an ine ternational incident might be caused if Japanese warships, enforcing the blockade of Chinese ships, should molest a foreign ship, inadvertently or otherwise. A Japanese spokesman said foreign ships would not be interfered with but expressed the “hope” that they would not try to bring arms into China.
U. S. Marine Gives Blood to Envoy
(Editorial, Page 16)
By H. R. EKINS (Copyright, 1937, by United Press) SHANGHAI, Aug. 26.-Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen, British Ame bassador to China, was shot through the body today by a Japanese aire plane machine gun bullet as he was racing toward Shanghai from Nane king for an emergency conference with British officials., The bullet touched the spine but did not sever the spinal cord. Surgeons, at first hopeful that his condition was not critical, be came alarmed at his loss of blood and resorted to a blood transfusion. Two United States Marines vole unteered as blood donors and one was accepted. Marine officers who went to offer their condolences to the ambassador were told that his liver had been penetrated by the machine gun blast. The incident dwarfed for the moe ment the savage battle being fought on a 20-mile front north of the city, But then came the threat of ure gent danger from that quarter. The Chinese, inspired by deadliest hatred, had all but immobilized a smashing Japanese infantry attack, Then, late today, the Japanese broke through. Danger of a Chinese rout became imminent and International Settle« ment authorities rushed orders to the men at the barricades bordering Chinese areas to shoot to kill any armed Chinese soldiers who tried to rush them. Reinforcements were held ready.
Headed for Conference
The ambassador had decided to come here for a most urgent cone ference with the commanders-ine chief of the British fleet and garri« son and consular and other officials. His car flew a British Union Jack from its radiator as plain notifica« tion of its British status. The trip was to be a fast one. Col, W. A. Tovat-Froser, chief British (Turn to Page Three) 4
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