Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 October 1937 — Page 1

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38TH ST. PLAN DEFENDED BY CITY ENGINEER

Project Will Open New Area For Development, Relieve Congestion, He Says.

MORE CRITICISM VOICED

Edgar Evans Opposes Project; Astual Paving 2 Years Away, Claim.

(Editorial, Page 10)

As preparations were made today to begin dredging White River islands at 38th St., Monday, City Engineer Henry B. Steeg said construction of the proposed highway extension to ‘Cold Springs Road was at least two

years away. He. also defended the project, which has been attacked as extravagant, saying it “is the biggest thing the City has done in years; connecting various State highways, relieving 30th St. traffic and opening a new territory west on 38th St. for development.” John C. Cooper, City prosecutor and representative of the John C. Cooper estate which claims title to the islands, said today “I have no plans for publication.” Evans Adds Criticism Among those who criticized the project yesterday were Edward J. Bennett, of the Indianapolis Stove Co.; J. P. Frenzel Ji, of the Merchants National Bank; Attorney William R. Higgins, and Mrs. Lafayette Page, both Woodstock property owners. Today Edgar H. Evans, AcmeEvans board chairman, added his | criticism. { “There are other major projects needed more than the extension,” he said. “It would be much more to the point if the money has to be spent, to go ahead with the South Side track elevation. In view of the: hizh tax rate, it would be better not:

to spend “where it. isn’t. _absolutely---

necessary.” Mayor Has No Comment | Mayor Boettcher said he had “no comment. to make at present on the protests.” Mr. Steeg said the dredge would be moved from 30th St., where it is being used to deepen the White River channel as a flood control project. Dredging the islands will take several months, and the salvaged land will be used on the west-bank lowlands for a fill, he added. The fill will have to settle for a year, he said, before road building can begin. The State Highway Commission is expected to bridge White River and the canal at a cost of approximatgly $300.000. Federal and State fund§ will be used ' for the remainder the project, city officials have said. : Mr. Steeg has writen the Park " Board ~asking that th ood Control' Commission be grantdeé the 100foot, right-of-way , through the Woodstock Club to Cold Springs Road, and also jurisdiction over the two islands.

TWO STORMS UNITE FOR GULF DOWNPOUR

NEW ORLEANS, La. Oct. 2 (U, P.)—Two tropical disturbances were believed today to have combined to form a “trough,” resulting in strong winds and heavy rains along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The U. S. Weather Bureau ordered storm warnings displayed from Carrabelle, Fla, to Port O'Connor, Tex., and advised that “small craft along the Gulf Coast from Cedar Keys, Fla, to Port O'Connor should exercise caution.”

SUIT ASKS MORRISSEY TO RETURN PENNIES

John Alex Hall, 37, of 539 W. Vermont St., today filed suit in Muni- | cipal Court against Police Chief Morrissey to recover $47,87 in pennies which he charges officers confiscated when Mr. Hall was arrested Aug. 21. The suit, which also asks $100 damages, charges that Chief Morrissey has kept the 4787 pennies and has refused to return them. Mr. Hall was arrested on a vagrancy charg when an Indiana Ave. bartender told police Mr. Hall had offered to sell him the pennies for $45, according to the suit. The charge was later dismissed, the suit stated. Police said they were holding the pennies in the property room pending further investigation.

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 176

Year-Old Model |

Tires Photo.

CHILD YOUNGEST INDIANA WORKER

“Applies for ‘Social Security" Card Before Reaching Second Birthday.

One-year-old Louis O'Connor Jr. today was officially Indiana's youngest employee. He received the title yesterday when' his father made application

the regional office, 307 N. Pennsylvania St. Although Louis is to celebrate his second birthday Nov. 18, already he has had six months’ experience as a model. He began working at a downtown store and only recently was added to the payroll of a photographic studio. Modeling seems to be quite a profession in the O'Connor family. Louis’ . sister, Norma, who is 6, models at the same store. She started when she was 22 years old. “Perhaps Louis was lucky in getting a job,” his mother said. ‘“He seemed to be just the right size to model baby suits and clothes.” * Young Master O'Connor may be eligible to make a bid for national fame, too, according to Peter VanGeyt, Social Security regional director, believes the boy second only to a baby movie star in Hollywcod. Louis, in making his Social Security application, took the local title from 4-year-old Alice Marie Smith, 6300 Rockville Road. Alice, also a model, had been known as Indiana's youngest employee since June. The new titleholder is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis O'Connor, 649 E. 44th St.

BUREAU WARNS OF RAIN FOR FOOTBALL

TEMPERATURES 62 11 a.m..... 76 65 12 (Noon) 795 66 lpm. 7 6 2pm... B N3

Weather Bureau football signals: Fair for Purdue at Columbus, O. Possibility of rain for Notre Dame. Here, it will rain tonight and probabiy tomorrow, the Bureau said. There will not be much change in temperature.

BUCKET BRIGADE FAILS EDGERTON, Mo., Oct. 2 (U. PJ). —A bucket brigade of several hundred men poured all the water in town they would reach on a fire which destroyed the entire main business block here last night at an estimated loss of $50,000.

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- FORECAST: Unsettled; rain probable tonight and tomorow; not much change in temperature. :

EXPECT DUCE T0-OFFER PLAN T0 QUIT SPAIN

Italy Receives Note From France and Britain on Troop Removal.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, —

New Secretary

LEAGUE HEARS PROPOSAL |

Geneva Body Considers Step To End. Agreement on Nonintervention.

GENEVA, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— A resolution providing that nonintervention in Spain may be ended unless Italian and other foreign troops are speedily withdraw was Kkilied by the Assembly of the League of Nations tonight. The resolution died under an onslaught of ' Italy’s friends and the smaller - powers, who revolted against the “dictatorship” of Britain and France in the Spanish dispute.

ROME—British and French enveys

present joint note to Italy to participate in conference on withdrawal of all foreign volunteers in Spain. | GENEVA—League Assembly consid- | ers resolution that agreement on nonintervention may be termin-

ated if Italian and other foreign troops are not removed from: Spair . |

" ROME, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—British Ambassador Lord Perth and the French Charge D’Affaires J. L. Blondel, today delivered to. the Foreign Office the joint AngloFrench note inviting Italy to. participate in a conference on withdrawal of all foreign volunteers from Spain. Count Galeazzo, Foreign Minister and son-in-law of Premier Mussoassured the envoys that Italy would make a prompt reply. Premier Mussolini, it was indicated, has decided to tell Britain and France that Germany must be included in any conference on the volunteers question and that the London Nonintervention Committee

is the proper ody to deal with the matter. It was dented officially that Dino Grandi, Italian Ambassador at Lon-; don, had already told the British Foreign Office that Italy would not discuss the volunteer problem. For one thing, it was said, it is not customary in diplomacy to reject an invitation that has not been made. The expectation was that Italy's reply to the British-French note of invitation, due this week-end, would be called a conditional acceptance here and a conditional rejection in London and Paris. . Today, Soviet Russia demanded in a note to the Spanish nonintervention committee in London that the Spanish Loyalists be accorded the (Turn to 10: Page Three)

PURDUE, OHIO STATE TOP FOOTBALL CARD

Notre Dame Opens Season Against Drake.

Hundreds of thousands of football fans crowded into stadia today as the national collegiate gridiron season swung into full stride. Notre ‘Dame opened its season at South Bend with a vaunted Drake eleven which already had won two games, while Purdue and Ohio State, title contenders, waged the first Big Ten game of the season at Columbus. Two Midwestern giants, Minnesota and Nebraska, tangled at Line coln.” At New Orleans, the TulaneAuburn game was postponed when water covered the field two and a half feet deep. : Other games of profuinence today were Butler at Cincinnati, Rose Poly at DePauw, Oakland City at Ball State, Manchester at St. Joseph’s, Central Normal at .Valparaiso, Wabash at Hanover, Frank-

Union at Evansville, Holbrook at Earlham and Eastern Illinois at Indiana State. Michigan State at Michigan, Iowa. State at Northwestern, Marquette at Wisconsin, DePaul at Illinois, Chicago at Vanderbilt, Maine at Yale, Springfield at Harvard, Virginia at Princeton, Colgate at Cornell, Texas A. & M. at Manhattan, Kansas State at Boston College, Mississippi at Temple, N. Y. U. at Carnegie Tech, West Virginia at Pittsburgh and Texas at Louisiana State. Texas Christian at Arkansas, Rice at Oklahoma, Washington at Southern California, Oregon State at California and Stanford at Oregon.

With another person dead of traffic accident injuries, 81 erring motorists were given fines and costs totaling $752 in two Municipal Courts today. Failure to heed officers’ warnings to go home last night cost John Brown, 1224 Park Ave. his freedom today. He was sentenced to 30 days at the State Farm and fined $10 for driving while drunk. Officers testified that after they had warned him to go home, they found him

State deaths. .

driving his car again to the -

Fortville Youth Is Killed; 81 Motorists Fined $752

death toll today was John Boden, Fortville, who died in Methodist Hospital of injuries received yesterday when his. motorcycle collided with an auto on Highway 9 in Hancock County. John Smith, 617 W. North St, one of 10 alleged speeders arrested last night, was fined $15 and costs and . his driver's ' license was suspended for one year. ‘Judge : Charles Karabell announced . that in the future he

would suspend

the licenses of all|do

LEAGUE NAMES “MARY SIN SINCLAIR

Mrs. Marron. Qo Quits Voters’ Post to Join The

Times.

{ Miss Mary Sinclair has been ap-| | pointed executive secretary of the

Indiana League of Women Voters, Mrs. S. N. Campbell, League president, announced today. Miss Sinclair, who will assume her new duties Oct. 15, succeeds Mrs. Virginia Moorhead Mannon, who has resigned her position as state league program and legislative director to join The Indianapolis Times. Mrs. Mannon has served as league secretary since January, 1935. Miss Sinclair, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, has been executive secretary of the Indianapolis League since 1934. Before that she held positions as secretary to the director of the Little Gallery in Cedar Rapids, Ia., and secretary. to the assistant dean of Williams.

) College, Willismstown, Mass.

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PHONE CALL REVIVES HOPE ROSS IS ALIVE

G-Men, Entering Search, Deny Tapping Wires.

CHICAGO. Oct. 2 (U. P). — A mysterious telephone message that “We have Ross” raised hope today that Charles S. Ross, retired Valentine manufacturer kidnaped a week ago, still may be alive. Earl J. Connelly, crack kidnap investigator for the Department of Justice, said the message was relayed to him as coming from a gruil voicel man. The message was: “Take this down. This is Bob of New York. We have Ross, but th~ Federal agents have the wires tapped and we cannot make contact. This is not a prank.” Mr. Connelly, head of a G-Man detail investigating the kidnaping, ordered that if the man called again he was to be assured the wires were not tapped. Taken at its face value, the telephone message was the first assurance that Mr. Ross, victim of a serious heart ailment, was alive, and that a contact would be made for ransom purposes. Mr. Connelly and other agents forma’ly entered the search today under a ruling permitting their participation in disappearances lasting seven ‘days or more. Mr. Ross was kidnaped a week ago tonight.

7000 WAIT FATE IN HUGE SLASH BY PWA

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. PJ. —Nearly 7000 employees of the PWA, whose jobs were imperiled by a nation-wide reorganization announced by Administrator Ickes, awaited final plans of the “tapering off” program today. Mr. Ickes revealed that jnstructions have gone out to all state PWA directors informing them that effective Nov. 1 all state offices of the organization will be abolished and new offices set up on a regional basis. He said that the shakeup wou'd result in “many separations” from PWA, but officials refused to estimate the number- of persons who would be removed from the payroll — when the change takes place.

TWO INJURED IN = FOOTBALL RIOT

ANN ARBOR, Mich. Mich., oct. 2 (U. P.).—A downtown riot among Uni-

‘| versity of Michigan students after

‘they were tear-gassed by police as a sequel to a ‘football rally today sent two persons to hospitals, one of them in serious condition. Most critically hurt was Rolland Gainsley, a police officer, who al-

legedly was kicked by a student as

authorities tried to disperse a mob of from two busy street intersections. Clark Bznham, senior student from Scarsdale, N. Y. was treated for scalp wounds after being slugged on the head. Tear gas and police night sticks broke up thé riot at 1 a. m. after the students, fired with enthusiasm after a pep meeting for the Michia A shigan State game, rushed a

STATE WARNED OF POLITICS IN CIVIL SERVICE

In Interview Here, Defends Merit.

SYPHILIS FIGHT FAVORED

Dr. Harvey Asks Social Parley to Aid Drive -on Disease.

Dr. Leonard D: White, University of Chicago sociologist, warned today in an interview thai “any great number of third examinations for

merit, system county welfare directors in Indiana will be evidence of political interference.” Second examinations have been given in nearly all Indiana counties. Dr. White,” former U. 'S. Civil Service Commissioner, is recognized as an authority on the merit system. ‘He spoke before ‘the Indiana State Conference on Social Work which closes tomorrow. . Earlier in the day, Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board Director, told the conference that if half as much money as the state now spends annually to care . for its

syphilis-insane were spent to fight ' the disease, the number of cases | would be reduced by one-half in 10 years. “ “That would mean,” he said, “a reduction of about 15.000 cases, according to U. S. Public Health figures, and the economic savings to the State would be enormous.” Urges Fund Campaign Dr. Harvey urged his listeners to campaign for more local and State funds for the fight. Dr. Max Bahr, Indiana Central Hospital superintendent, and Dr. Harvey discussed the problem at a seminar. Dr. Bahr advocated passage of laws that would compel private physicians to report to the State Health Beard .all cases of syphilis. “Ten per cent of the population now has the disease,” he said. “This we know from painstaking counts made over a long period of years by the Federal Health Service. “But we have records on only 10 re cent of that 10 per cent. And til; we know case -histories- and find the sources, we can not fight it successfully.” Informed that Governor Townsend had gone on record, in connection with the merit system, which was ‘a party pledge during his campaign, as: opposing “an oligarchy of trained perpetual office

‘| holdeys” Dr. White said:

“Progressive states are putting their houses in order by adoption of merit ‘systems for state service. The American people have become disgusted with the offensive aspects of political patronage. + “Prcgressive Governors in Arkansas, Tennessee, Michigan, Maine and Connecticut successfully led the battle for the merit system in 1937 urn to Page Three).

CLEVELAND GETS 1938 BAR PARLEY

(Early Details, Page 4)

KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 2 (U. P.).-—-The Board of Governors of the American Bar Association today awarded Cleveland the 1938 convention. It will be held the week of July 25.

7 MEN TRAPPED N SEWER AT DETROIT

DETROIT, Oct. 2 (U. P.).— At least five men were reported killed and 30 others were trapped today when a shield in the new interceptor sewer on Detroit’s west side

collapsed.

DETROIT, Oct. 2 (U, P.).—Seven men were reported trapped 60 feet below the street surface in the Detroit interceptor sewer today when a side wall collapsed. Police be-

lieved none was Kkilied. The cave-in occurred at the Campbell-Jefferson Ave. intersection where the men were working, air pressure lines were reported severed when the wall collapsed. Police said rescue squads were making their way to the men through the sewer from the Delray end, two miles distant.

Former U.S. °S. Commissioner.

Entered at Postoffice.

Party Leader

as Seusng-Class Mater Indianapolis. Ind

William Clauer today was elected. Marion County Democratic chairman at a meeting of 630 ward chairmen and precinct committeemen in the Claypool ‘Hotel. Jacob Steinmetz, Third Ward, nominated Mr Clauer and Miss Susie Knox, 12th Ward committeewoman, seconded the nomination. There were no other nominations ‘and ‘the election was unanimous. He succeeds: Mayor Boetcher whose resignafion was read before the nomination was made. Mayor Boetcher resigned when he became Mayor. succeeding John W. Kern, who resigned to become a member of the U. S. Board of Tax Appeals.

GOVERNOR FAILS TO HEAR BLACK

Local Republican Leaders ‘Do Not See Justice’s Position Improved.”

‘Governor Townsend today said he did not -hear the radio address of Associate Justice Hugo Black, and withheld comment. The Governor spoke at the Indiana Conference on Social Work last night. Five local Republican leaders said in effect they “did not see how Jus-

tice Black improved his position on

the Klan issue.” . . , Other comment here: SENATOR FREDERICK VANNUYS: The statement of Associate Justice Black was very frank, espe- |. cially as to his membership in the Ku-Klux Klan. - His pronunciation of the fundamental right of religious liberty in this country as guaranteed by the Bill of Rights was well expressed and I was happy {Turn to Page Three)

ARITHMETIC HARD,

GIRL TRIES SUICIDE

'11-Year-0ld Noblesville Pu-

pil May Die.

Times Special : NOBLESVILLE, Oct. 2—Because she could not get her arithmetic lessons, 11-year-old ‘Betty Kitterman tried to commit suicide, according to doctors who despaired of her life today. - Betty, daughter of C. O. Kitterman, a painter, is an unusually bright pupil. She stood at the head of her seventh-grade class. But she grew despondent yesterday because she couldn’t do sums. She shot herself with a 38-caliber revolver. The slug narrowly missed her lung and heart. Doctors said she is not expected to live.

FORD PLANT UNION ~~ SEEKS NLRB POLL

DETROIT, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—A petition for a National Labor Relations Board election to determine sole bargaining agency in the plants of Henry Ford was on file with the regional labor board today on behalf of the Ford Brotherhood of America, Inc. William S. McDowell, attorney for the independent union, filed the petition late Friday: It declared that 20,109 of the 80,000 employees of the Ford River Rouge plant are members of the F. B. A, and claimed that a majority of the hourly production workers there have designated the brotherhood to act as their labor representative.

MARION, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—State police and local authorities today sought a thin, overall-¢lad ' bandit who late yesterday held nine persons at bay with a gun while he rifled the safe in the O. Gordon Store in Gas City and escaped with $1000, taking the proprietor’s 23-year-old son as a hostage. The bandit entered the store gun in hand and announced the holdup to six employees and three customers. Searching the safe, he found the currency. : Departing from the’ scene, the gunman forced Fred Gordon, son of the owner, to drive the car in which he escaped. Young Mr. Gordon was released seven niles west of Gas

‘name as Ted Lahr, 34, Gary. told: police he came to Marion with

Overall-Clad Bandit Robs Gas City Store of $1000

ordered him to drive slowly because he wanted to #pick up my partner along the road.” They did not find the second man, he said. © After his release Mr. Gordon was picked up by State Policeman George Daugherty. Searching the road to Kokomo, Mr. Gordon and the officer saw a man lying in the weeds at the roadside. He was taken into custody for investigation as the possible companion of the bandit and give his He

a friend, but had not seen him since earlier yesterday. - Checking his record, police found that ‘Lahr had. served sentences for

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

NATION SPLIT ON BLACK AND KLAN; OUSTER PLEA SET

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First Reaction to Radio Talk Held Favorable; Lawyer to Contest Justice’s Seat in Supreme Court Monday.

JURIST ENDS REPORTS HELL QUIT

“I Did Belong to Klan. I Later Resigned,” He Tells 31 Million Radio Listeners; Says Discussion Is Finished.

Editorial, Page 10. Black’s text, Page 4. Press and Congressional comment, Page 4.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2 (U. P.).—While the nation dif. fered over whether Associate Justice Hugo L. Black should take his seat on the Supreme Court Monday following his dis closure last night that he had once belonged to the Ku-Klux Klan, a former assistant attorney general said he would press

| his challenge of the Justice's eligibility.

Albert Levitt, who has asked Court permission to file a suit calling upon the Justice to prove his right to the post, said the radio speech last night would not affect his plea. Mr. Levitt contended that since Justice Black was a member of Congress when the Supreme Court Retirement Law was passed he is ineligible. The law increased the emoluments in office of associate justices, he said.

Meanwhile, Joseph H. Lieb announced plans for distribution at the Supreme Court Monday of black-bordered hand bills proclaiming Oct. 4 as “Black Day,” to be ‘mourned each year as the blackest day in the history of American justice.”

Mr. Lieb, a political writer and founder of the first Roosevelt-for-President Club in 1930] said he is co-operating with the Chicago committee of “Independent Young Americans” in a national campaign deploring the appointment of Justice Black. 2

Justice Black Resting. fh. ;

of Claude E. Hamilton, from where he spoke last night. His brother-in-law, Clifford Durr, who has acted ds spokesman for the Justice during the past week, said today that “all the talking is over.” Speaking to an estimated 381,000, 000 persons over the nation’s combined radio networks last night, Justice Black set forth his former connection with the Klan, denounced, indirectly, its creed and objectives, and pleaded for religious tolerance and liberal principles. = His speech effectively ended all reports that he might resign or that he would accept any. suggestion that he should resign. lt was believed that he had endeavored to close finally the public controversy growing out of : a newspaper expose of his former Klan affiliation. First reaction from public figures was favorahie to Justice Black, and many expressed the opitibn that the matter now was closed. But in Phoenix, Ariz., Senator Ashurst (D. Ariz. ), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he could not discuss the speech because “I may be called upon to sit at an impeachment trial against him, and I could not risk disqualification by forming an opinion.” F. D. R. Has No Comment

President Roosevelt was in Washington State prepare ing to begin his return journey to the East when Justice Black spoke. Members of his staff said that he had not listened to’ the speech, and, therefore, could not comment on it. “I did join the Klan,” Justice Black said, speaking each word, slowly, distinctly into the microphones. “] later resigned. I never rejoined.” He paused an instant, then continued: “What appeared then, or what appears now on the records of the organization, I do not know. “1 have never considered and I do not now consider the unsolicited card given to me shortly after my nomination to the Senate as a membership of any kind in the Ku-Klux Klan. I have never used it. I did not even keep it. -

Abandoned Society

“Before becoming a Senator I dropped the Klan. I have had nothing whatever to do with it since that time. 1 abandoned it. 1 completely discontinued any association with the organization. I have never resumed it and never expect to do so.”

Justice Black said he had joined the Klan ‘about 13 years ago.” He resigned after he entered the Senate for the first time, 11 years ago. As proof that he has no sympathy with Klan prejudices against Catholics, Jews and Negroes, he cited his record of liberalism in the Senate. . He had started his brief speech with an attack—indirectly put—against persons he deemed responsible for the expose of his Klan affiliation. a During his European vacation from’ which he returned Wednesday, Justice Black said there had been “a planned and’ concerted campaign” which “is calculated to create racial and religious hatred.” If continued, he said, it would cause incalculable harm to national life. He continued: “To contribute my part in averting such a catastrophe in this land dedicated to tolerance and freedom, 1 break with precedents of the past to talk with you tonight.” That was the spirit of his speech. It was not an ex-

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