Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1937 — Page 1

The Indiangpohs ‘Times

Vv VOLUME 49 NUMBER 146

CUT IN COUNTY BUDGET PLEAS HELD VITAL

City Otherwise Will Rank. Among Heaviest Taxed in | B. S., Is Claim.

78-CENT RISE 'S FEARED |

Chamber Cites State’ s High | Collection in Special Assessments.

Indianapolis will he among the most heavily taxed cities | in the country unless curtailments are made in budget re- | quests for next year, the] Chamber of Commerce] warned in its official publica- | tion today. | Based on current requests, the tax | rate for Marion County would be 78! cents higher than last year, or| $3.76 a $100, the Chamber cited, | adding that next year's total levy would be $1.18 more than the low! point of $2.58 in 1935. | The Chamber ciaimed that the | higher county rate is asked despite | the fact that the State has levied | and is now collecting almost one- |

third the amount of the previous | property tax peak in special taxes.

Conferences Started

“These special taxes were levied, | taxpayers were informed, to relieve | the property taxpayers,” the article | continued. “Actual results will be | not only no relief to the property | taxpayers, but both higher property taxes and the new special tages. | Thus, next year would require the heaviest tax burden in this community it has ever known.” Staff members of the Chamber's Bureau of Governmental Research | have started conferences with mem-

bers of the City and County Councils, and other officials, presenting statistical data and specific recommendations for reductions in proposed expenditures. The Chamber staff, under ihstruetions from the Civic Affairs oe | | tee and Board of Directors, has! called attention to provisions of the | 1937 Tax Limitation Law. The law, the Chamber contended, | makes it the duty of local officials | to stay within newly-fixed tax lim- | its that are reasonable. For Indi- | anapolis, or Center Township, the limited rate would be $2.85, only] slightly below this year's total rate | of $2.98.

Rates Compared

The Chamber's comparison of 1937 rates with those requested for next! vear follows: Township Center

Proposed

1938 Rate 35 376 | 1.0575 | 1.3726 61 |

Poor Relief | 3.7661

Total Center Perry State, County, City Total Township Poor Relief Road Fund Total Perry . Warren State, County, School and City Total . Township ......c...... Poor ‘Relief ........... Road Fund ........... Total "Warren ............ 2.97 Washington State, County, School and City Total . Towaship . eae ] Poor ‘Reel ............... Road Fund . Total Washington Wayvne State, County. School and City Total Poor Relief Road Fund Total Wayne . State rate included though not vet fixed.

School and 2 3.1561 | .03 32 10 3.6261 |

3.1561 025 106 03 3.3111

3. Roe! on

015 3.1011

3.1561 89 |

01 3.8561 figure

| in opposite directions.

land then got the full charge.

FORECAST:

Fair tonight and probably tomorrow;

continued warm.

Final Home

Late Stocks

—

After Beery

Fear Sweeps Hollywood

Unthinkable Fate Prowl Actor's ter in ‘Dyer Case’ Letters.

Kidnap Note

s Tiny Daugh-

FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Hollywood Correspondent.

OLLYWOOD, Aug. ising an unthinkable fate for

28.—The latest Hollywood kidnap threat—prom-

the tiny blond adopted daughter of

| Wallace Beery—sent another wave of fear through emotional Movieland

{ today,

INOUEST OPENS IN GLORIA HAUSER CASE

Hazelwood Ritormeys Predict ‘Complete Vindication.”

HENDERSONVILLE, N. ‘C., Aug. 28 0. P). Henderson County | Coroner Bruce Cox today opened an | | inquest into the death of 12-year- | old Gloria Hauser whose stepfather, T. O. Hazelwood, 28, former Butler University student, is charged with statutory carnal | knowledge and murder of the girl. Attorneys for Mr. Hazelwood de-

of Indianapolis,

Stalwart bluecoats and private | detectives in sport coats too tig ht | across the shouiders, patrolled the | magnificent Spanish hacienda, which Mr. Beery built in Beverly | Hills, and in which 6-year-old Carol | Ann Beery slept, oblivious to the | excitement sweeping the film col- | ony. Guards were redoubled at another mansion of the stars. Police patrol cars skittered through the palm-lined trees, as if in a gesture of reassurance to the actors and actresses whose lives have been made miserable the last three years by kidnap plots—which never have

materialized. 1D the Beery note said in letters clipped from a magazine. These two words horrified Mrs. Beery, at home with her foster daughter and servants, while her big homely husband was on location in Kaniab, Utah, playing | the part of a desperado in the film, | “Bad Man of Brimstone.” The phrase struck with fiendish | cruelty at Mrs. Beery's heart. Only | yesterday she read in the news-

papers that Albert Dyer was to be | hanged for the ravishment-murder | of three girls no older than her own. Beery phoned her frequently from the set in the Utah bad lands and she tried—like the police—to regard | the letter as written by a crank. |

many

n » ”

case,”

u = n |

Peal, inspectors attempted to | run down the mailer of the | threat. It was dropped in a mail- | box at Culver City—across the | Street rom Beery's studio. act that the note-writer | gave his address as “General De- | | livery” indicated to postal authori- | ties that he never intended to carry (out his Airy Not until last night did word of the threat become public. As soon as the newspapers appeared on the streets with word of the case, the telephone of private detective | agencies began to jingle.

= 4

| troops were pouring in

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1937

BRITISH ANGER MOUNTS OVER SHIP een

Japanese Challenge Voss Daring Blockade Off Shanghai Port.

Death Mowraea

FIERY NOTE IS DRAFTED

‘England to Demian Full Satisfaction in Her Envoy’s Shooting.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—~Chinese Ambassador C. T. Wang announced today his government's acceptance of the appeal for peace voiced by Secretary of State Hull Aug. 23.

By United Press While Britain prepared an ener- | getic protest to Japan SemShing in apology and satisfaction shooting of Ambassador “0 On| Knachtbull-Hugessen by =a nese plane, a momentary scare was caused by reports that the British | freighter Shenking h | off the mouth of the Whangpoo near Shanghai by Japanese warships. However,

but merely questioned as to its idenallowed to proceed.

Jana is blockading [coast as far as Chinese

the

interfere with foreign ships. How- | ever, the mere fact that a British

| |

Japé- |

| ship—and one under charter to the!

British Navy—was questioned, did not please Britain greatly.

The war in China continued with | Japanese |

ferocity and additional

from the

| north.

The Japanese claimed driven the main Chinese force from the Nankow mountain pass

| the Great Wall.

British to Demand Full

Satisfaction LONDON, Aug. 28 (U. P.).—An angry British protest, demanding the fullest satisfaction for a Japa-

nese aviator's attack on the British |

Ambassador to China, is to be pre|sented to the Japanese foreign office probably today. J. L. Dodds, counselor and charge d'affaires of the British embassy at Tokyo, was ordered to make the

clined to reveal what defense oe | oes, ranging from the ridicuious | protest in a long note of instruc- |

| will present. They said they would | call about eight

witnesses and expected their client to be “completely vindicated.”

HUNTER WOUNDED BY

STRANGERS GUN

Victim Seriously Hurt When Hit by 40 Pellets.

Arthur Vest, 30, of 3101 W. Washington St., was brought to City Hospital this afternoon after being struck by 40 buckshot by a stranger while hunting in Morgan County,

| five miles west ~f Hall.

His condition was reported serious. He had been hunting with Paul Gilbert, 41, of 2944 Jackson St. on the farm of Harley Winscott, they told police. The wounded man said that he and his companion separated, going

later hearc the report of a shotgun | The |

| | pellets struck him from the head to

BOB BURNS Says: Aug. 28—I

rn»

years!

| & gauge shotgun and asked him his | He said he was suffering so |

OLLYWOOD,

(Copyright, 1937)

| 4

below the waist. Mr. Vest said a few minutes later stranger appeared with a .12

name. much that he handed the man his pocketbook which contained an identification tard ang 33.

THE STICKER STARTS HERE

with a “sticker.” . . . .

He said he |

to the brutal, have received Yio. [telling how many ransom notes, | since the Lindbergh case started an | | epidemic of Kkidnapings, real and threatened. Harold Lloyd and Mary | Astor, to name only two, have hus- | kies as doormen and chauffeurs, with orders to keep their children constantly in sight.

tions sent him last night. It was said in [that it would demand an in-| | demnity for the attack, in addition | to an apology and assurances that | British subjects in China be guar- | anteed against any similar attacks by Japanese soldiers. sailors or (Turn w Page Three)

Two Men Killed i in Fall of Movieland ‘Magic Carpet’

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28 (U. P.).— The “Magic Carpet,” a fantasy of | the motion picture making busienss, | {lay wrecked on a 20th Century-Fox | studio lot today after a crash that killed two property men and injured two others. It was to have been used in a bic- | ture starring Eddie Cantor and Louise Hovick, the former Gypsy | Rose Lee, “strip-tease” dancer. The device weighed 1500 pounds and was designed to create the prop- | er illusions for “Ali Baba Goes to | Town, ” a slapstick comedy with sa- | | tirical references to Arabian Nights | tales and to President Roosevelt's New Deal. The “carpet” was a rigid platform covered by a carpet and suspended lat each corner by liano wires that went to overhead pulleys so that it eva be raised and lowered.

This car was parked too long—so a police officer decorated it

| death. He | hobby

Three workmen were “riding” on top the carpet and one was benea'‘h

lit when one of the corner guy wires

spilling the The carpet

snapped late yesterday, nen to the floor. crashed onto them. Fhilo Goodfriend was crushed to was a yachtsman by commodore of the Santa Monica Sailing Association. Harry Harsha died in a hospital later and J. D. Boman and Nick de Genner

| were slightly hurt.

No movie stars were on the lot at the time of the accident. In operation, the “carpet” was {moved by the tiny wires which would be invisible in a picture. Sim-

| ultaneously, a moving painted pano-

| rama background was picked up by the cameras to give the illusion of la flying carpet. A wind machine at lone side blew into the factors’ faces, streaming their hair behind them to Coim ae Nusion.

BACK TO MR. 0’ NEILL

FOR CARPENTER

‘Veteran Court Repoier Dies In Home Here at

had been So

(Editorial, Page 10.)

Indiana day received | that Walter N. Carpenter, District Court reporter for the last | 35 years, had died at his Woodruff Place home yesterday afternoon. He was TI. Services are to be at

in sorrow

the home,

(and are to be attended by

state. Federal Judge Robert

al | bearers.

Mr. Carpenter left school | the eighth grade and learned short-

{hand from a pupil of Sir Isaac Pit- |

the Briton who devised the Carpenter used. Mr. | Carpenter's friends today recalled that = after stopping school for | economic reasons, he spent a great um to Page Three)

V. F. W. PARLEY TO OPEN

BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 28 (U. P.). —War veterans from all sections of

| man, | system Mr.

| the country gathered here today for

| the 38th national

reliable quarters |

encampment of of Foreign Wars tomorrow

the Veterans which opens

judges and attorneys to- | the news | Federal |

| biggest opponent,

after |

| point.

and runs |

Entered as Second-Class Matter

at Postoffice. Indianapolis,

Ind,

PRICE THREE CENTS

cd | LEWIS AVERTS Sum IN RANKS E OF AUTO UNION

U. A. W. Aeoals Advice, Then Girds for War on Henry Ford.

TWO POINTS SUGBESTED

‘Biennial Convention Plan Adopted; Re-election of Officers Likely. By CHARLTON M. ROBERTS

Times Special Writer

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 28. — The

| skill of John L. Lewis as a public

RITES ARRANGED

speaker, plus excellent advice from his advance men, were credited today with knitting a threatened break in the United Autec Workers. John Brophy, C. 1. O. director. | and Ora Gasaway of Mine Workers’ executive board, have been here at the uriion’s convention for a week sounding out the ideas and strength of the union factions. Yesterday Mr. Lewis swept into the Milwaukee

| gave some pronouncements from the | throne and left | throng of united unionists.

a wildly cheering

Immediately thereafter, the two And they followed Mr. suggestions — suggestions | handed him by the astute Mr. Gas- | away and the quiet Mr. Brophy. So now the union can wind up its convention business and get cet | for the big fall drive against its Henry Ford. For |

| | |

| Unofficial

the United |

auditorium, |

| sides began compromising their dif- | | ferences. | Lewis’

this purpose the union voted a $1- |

a-member assessment, $375,000. And there is nearly half | a million dollars more in Lhe treasury. Makes Two Points Lewis made two points to the auto workers. First they agree to hold conventions every two years instead of yearly. in line with faction led by President Martin. The opposition gave in. Biennial conventions were voted. Then he suggested that the present officers have done a pretty good { job in bringing the union from

Mr.

| 30,000 to 375,000 members in a single lecowd ‘of more

year. The crowd roared at the obvious Even those who have fought re-election of Vice President Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, leaders of the opposition to President Martin, jumped to their feet. It seems | likely today that Mr. Lewis’ advice

will be taken on this point and the |

| present officers re-elected,

for six days. One hundred thousand |

| are expected to attend.

Russia Today

Back from his third tour of the Soviet Union in two years, Webb Miller, famous

story of Russia as it is foday. In a series of six dispatches, beginning Monday, Mr. Miller describes what is happening in the Soviet Union as the Party emerges from "blood purge’ that has sent upward of 500 persons before firing squads.

hands of any Soviet official. He answers questions which | all of us have been asking | about Russia as it is today.

not predict or opine—he reports. Read dav— Beginning Monday in

about Russia to-

The Times

City Clerk Daniel O'Neill Jr. gets it back through or under the door of his office. Many believe this “fixes” it, he said.

United Press correspondent, | has written the uncensored |

Communist | .)

The story he has written | has not passed through the |

His information is defini-|

- KIRKLAND PAROLE CRITICISM DENIE

‘Authority to Act Delegated To Me,” Klinger Says.

John H. Klinger, Board Corrections Division head, said today he had received no criti- | cism over his approval of Virgil

| Kirkland’s release on parole yester-

day.

due to raise |

EDITORS IGNORE REPORTED MOVE

10 TRIP VANNUYS

Resolutions Pledge Unalteri ing Faith in Our Party Leaders,” but Fail to Touch on State Sy uabble

[OPEN FIGHT BY SEN ATOR IS FORECAST

Sources Hint

a Jackson,

Ft. Wayne Attorney, May Be Backed For 1938 Nomination.

By JERRY

SHERIDAN

Times Staff Writer FRENCH LICK, Aug. 28.—Indiana Democratic editors, here for their annual outing, ignored the State Administra tion’s reported efforts to unseat Senator Frederick VanNuys

in resolutions adopted today,

but expressed “approval of our

Governor and President,” whom the Senator has opposed.

They adopted one pledging “

unaltering faith in our party

leaders and announcing our willingness and anxiousness to

fight for honest government,

expressing complete satisface

| tion with and hearty approval of our great leaders, Governor Tow nsend and Pr esident Roosev elt.”

MELLON IS PAID

FINAL TRIBUTES

| President's Supreme Court plan,

‘Flags Flown at Half-Mast

he suggested |

the demand of the | Honrer |

lof the leading

In Pittsburgh During Financier’s Rites.

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 28 (U.P.).— Pittsburgh pad final tribute today to the man who helped make it one industrial cities of the world—Andrew W. Mellon. With flags at half mast on all Government and public buildings, a

from all walks of life attempted to crowd into the big East Liberty

| Presbyterian Church for the funeral

services. But they last glimpse of

were not permitted a the pale, retiring

man who was said to control busi- | ness and financial interests worth | | $2.000,000,000. The mahogany casket |

lin which he lay remained closed at

State Welfare | gp ‘Abide With Me”

the request of the Mellon family. The services were conducted by Px Stuart Nve Hutchinson, pastor he church, which was built by Mellon's late brother, Richard = Mellon. The two brothers coerated during their lifetime in I totaling more than $100,000.000.

Mr.

the religious ceremony with a rendition of Corelli's “Sarabande,” and concluded with Bach's beautiful “Come, Soothing Death.” The choir after which | Dr. Hutchinson recited the 23d psalm. Then, bowing his head, the minister uttered praver of

| tion.

Kirkland had served six years and |

thiree months of a 1-to-10-vear | sentence for the “prohibition era” slaying of Arlene Draves after a gin party. Members of her family are reported at their Gary, home to have bitterly criticized Kirkland's release. Mr. Klinger said that Board members delegated to him the authority | to act for that no member, | has mentioned the matter to him.

| architect

Ind. |

them in such cases and since the release, |

“I have received no criticisin from |

any member of my board,” “none from any State official,

ative of a principal.” | Kirkland left formatory secretly | officials declined to reveal where he | was going or to whom he had been | paroled. It was reported today had gone to a neighboring

he said, | and : [none from any private citizen or rel- | tive and accurate. He does | the Pendleton Reyesterday, and |

NEW YORK, Aug. 28 (U. P.).— John Russel Pope, 63, brilliant and designer of the National Gallery of Art, which the jate Andrew the nation at

here last night.

MERCURY TO CLIMB BUREAU FORECASTS

LOCAL TE MPE RATURES m 68 HM a m.. . m... 74 12 (Noon) im... 79 1p. m,., «Mh. 83 2p. Mm... Bn...

Washington, died

86 88 87 ¢ 87 10 Indianapolis residents are to experience a scorching week-end, Weather Bureau said today.

where a construction job had been | yesterday's high of 87, the Bureau said.

offered him.

PREPARING SECOND NOTICES

Times Photos,

But from this stack of unpaid stickers, Miss Mary Tracker is

finding ne for a “second notice.”

[awaited for

Ino official

than 4000 persons |

| word

invoca~- |

W. Mellon donated to |

I Jackson,

| the

the | The | ne | mercury started climbing early this state, | morning and is to reach 90 against

| Maude Adams, | American stage actresses,

The State Central Comsmittee also met with Chairman Omer S. Jackson in charge, but was reported to have taken no action aimed at

Senator VanNuys, who was among the leaders in the fight against the

While the editors apparently were attempting to steer a middle course, the party workers here tensely the VanNuys-Adminis-tration fight to flare into the open. Up to noon today, there had been announcement of an Administration-sponsored candidate to oppose Mr. VanNuys for renomination in the 1938 convention. It was reported that there would be no open fight on the Senator here. The Senator continued to hold open

| house in his rooms and had several

callers From unofficial sources came the that Samuel Jackson, Pt, Wayne attorney, had been given the “inside track” as a probable Administration choice to oppose Mr. VanNuys, but it was denied in other quarters. Some party leaders indicated that the Jackson boom might be a “trial balloon” for the Administration. If the break is to be revealed, it may come tonight when Governor Townsend and Senator VanNuys are to sit within a few feet of each other at a banquet table and ad« dress the editors, Governor to Speak The Governor is expected tn sound

| a keynote placing on the defensive Organist William Wentzell opened |

anyone who has opposed the Presi= dent's program. The second part of his address has been withheld from the press, and is to be handed to reporters, sealed in envelopes, at the time of his speech tonight. His advisers said this part contained “the dynamite.” The Senator was to speak following the Governor and was expected

| to talk only briefly unless the fight, | which

has been smouldering since he opposed the nomination of Senator Minton in 1934 and Governor Townsend in 1936, is brought into the open. It has been reported that Mr. the Ft. Wayne attorney, is not acceptable to all State House leaders, and rumors were heard that in event Mr. VanNuys is turned down, R. Earl Peters, Federal Housing Administrator and former State Chairman, might step into the picture. Mr. Peters arrived late vesterday and has declined to comment on Senatorial race.

Mr. VanNuys has refused to dis-

| cuss the possibility of independent

candidacy if turned down by the Administration, but reiterated an (Turn to Page Three)

MAUDE ADAMS GETS SCHOOL DRAMA JOB

P.) of

28 (U famous has accepted the post of professor of drama at Stephens College, Colum= bia City, Mo., President James Mad= ison Wood announced today. Miss Adams, who retired in 1918 and has made only iwo brief reappearances since, will begin her work in September. The present arrange= ment is only for three months, but Mr. Wood said he hoped it would lead to a permanent connection, leading eventually to the founding of the “Maude Adams School of

NEW YORK, Aug. most

| Drama.”

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