Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 October 1937 — Page 8

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WOMAN'S DEATH RAISES *37 TOLL OF AUTOS TO 112

31 Motorists Fined $237, “Two of Them for Slow Driving.

(Editorial, Page 18)

Marion County's 1937 traffic fatalities rose to 112 today with the death of Mrs. Ida Gray, 67. Two pedestrians were recovering from injuries received overnight, and 34 motorists were fined $237 for traffic Jaw violations in Municipal Court today. Mrs. Gray was struck Sunday by a car driven by Walter Richart, 20, R. R. 3, Box 118, at Lyons and W. Washington Sts. She died today in City Hospital. Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, said death was due to pneumonia and multiple fractures. Mr. Richart said she walked in front of his car. He was not held.

Pedestrian’s Leg Broen

Charles H. J. Brinkman, 58, of 410 N. Gladstone Ave. was reported in fair condition today in Methodist Hospital with a. fractured leg. Mr. Brinkman was injured yesterday as he stepped between two parked cars into the path of an auto driven by Donald Shaughnessy, 19, 3854 Central Ave. The accident occurred in the 100 block W. 30th St. Six-year-old Mary Jeannette Ford, 51 N. Colorado Ave., received head injuries when she was struck by an auto in the 4200 block E. Washington St. She was treated in Methodist Hospital. The driver, Albert L. Herbster, 53, 1251 S. Richland St., was not held. In Municipal Court two motorists were fined $22 for driving too slowly and a third was fined $15 and his driver's license revoked on drunken driving charges. Those fined for blocking traffic were Leo Allen, 5703 E. 20th St. who, officers said, was going only four miles an hour, and Kenneth Gray, 756 Lexington Ave. traveling eight miles an hour.

Safety Week Proclaimed

Meanwhile, Mayor Boetcher issued the following proclamation: “WHEREAS, accidents have already been reduced to an encouraging degree in Indianapolis by reason of the determined enforcement of traffic laws by the police department and the courts, and the splendid co-operation afforded us by the people of the city in our efforts to lower our disastrous record of damage to lives and property, and “WHEREAS, safety is most necessary at this season of the year because of the use of our street crossings several times each day by more than 60,000 school children, and “WHEREAS, the most essential single element for increasing success in this field is a continuously alert safety consciousness on the part of all our citizens, “NOW, THEREFORE, the week of Oct. 11-16 is set aside for the observance of “No-Accident Week” in Indianapolis, and our people are urged to give special thought and

attention during that week to the,

establishment of safe driving and pedestrian practices on the part of the adults, and to emphasize the teaching of safety habits to the children of the city, in a united effort by every citizen, young and old, to make Indianapolis a city in which people live together constructively, not destructively.”

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School Board To Appeal Tax Cut to State

The School Board today voted to appeal te the State Tax Board from the County Tax Adjustment Board’s reduction of the 1938 School City tax levy from $1.05 to $1. The School Board’s action was based on the contention that the reduction and the Adjustment Board’s suggestion that bonds be issued to finance a proposed addition to Crispus Attucks High School, would hamper the building program. Under the reduced tax rate, the School Board must raise $200,000 of the $275,000 for the proposed addition by issuing bonds. Alan W. Boyd, School Board president, explained that the flotation would use up the Board's bond margin and threaten the possibility of issuing necessary bonds next year to help pay for the proposed $800,000 Technical High School addition, a major project in the $2,100,000 building program.

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Rebel Authorities Reported To Have Completed Review of Case.

SALAMANCA, Spain, Oct. 17 (U.P.) —Harold E. Dahl, the American aviator who was captured hy the Rebels while flying for the Loyalists, may learn his fate today. High military authorities were reported to have completed their review of his trial by court-martial. The secret verdict, when they approve it, will be turned over to Generalissimo Francisco Franco for final consideration before it is made public. Observers believed that if it calls for the death penalty, Franco may commute the sentence.

CAEN, France, Oct. 7 (U. P).— Mrs. Harold E. Dahl was overjoyed today by reports that her husband

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a Rebel firing squad. “Since my husband was captured I have been a nervous wreck,” she said. “Whenever the rang I was almost ready to scream at the thought that they might have shot my darling.”

DIETRICH TO AVOID GERMANY ON TOUR

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 7 (U.P.)— Paramount Studio, informed of a Nazi blast against Marlene Dietrich for seeking American citizenship, said today Miss Dietrich plans to pass up Germany during her current European tour.

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OIL FIRMS’ CASE MAY BRING NEW BUSINESS LAWS

Defense Says Methods Were In Keeping With NRA.

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ed man with a halting, gesturing manner of speech from the bench, was puzzled.

Defense Just Waits

Until he decides just what sort of evidence Mr. Donovan may present the defense is withholding its hand. The Judge suggested that something signed by President Roosevelt or Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who administered the oil code, might be necessary. Twice this week the Court has worried with: the question as the lawyers wrangled. Twice the 14 jurors—including two alternates because of the expected length of the trial—were led from the room. They are farmers and small businessmen of serious and practical mien.

The NRA covered only four months. of the alleged period of law violation—February, 1935, to December, 1936. Admission of the NRA issue would set the old competitive system— buttressed as it was supposed to be by the anti-trust statutes— against the newer philosophy embodied in NRA agreements, which businessmen still are seeking to revive in some form as an offset to the wage-hour bill. Mr. Donovan has some views on antitrust regulatory methods which he is expected to offer during the trial, and the Justice Department lawyers will cling to the strict letter of the law in. seeking conviction of the oil multimillionaires. However the trial eventuates, guestions will be raised which undoubtedly will be brought in time to

the attention of Co: . This is the first antitrust criminal trial in several years. Between arguments over admission of NRA testimony, lawyers presented the Government's case to the jury in simple form, telling the story over and over for emphasis and stressing alleged losses to consumers and jobbers of millions of dollars. The price-fixing method charged by the Government attorneys is as follows: The big companies involved, they said, entered an agreement with independents in both the East Texas field and the so-called Midcontinent field, embracing Oklahoma, North and West Texas, Eastern Kansas, Southern Arkansas and Northern Louisiana, to buy such of their output on the “spot market” as was necessary to raise the price. Large companies control 85 per cent of production, and only about half of the independents’ 15 per cent is on the spot market. Under the alleged agreement, the Government charged, the big companies would offer a higher price than the prevailing figure for a small quantity of oil on the independents’ spot market. Newspapers Called Parties

This price, they charged, then would become the spot market price quoted by three trade journals mentioned in the indictment—the Chicago Journal of Commerce, Platt’s Oil Gram and National Petroleum News. Though this initial operation would cost the big companies in the enhanced price for a comparatively small amount of gasoline, say a million gallons, the Government charged the companies would be enabled to sell large supplies at the new and higher spot price thus fixed, and make large profits. Daily sales of gasoline in the 10 Midwestern states allegedly affected were estimated between 10 and 12 million gallons.

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The jobbers, of whom there were estimated to be 4000 in the affected area, were squeezed, the Govern-

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bound by contracts to pay the increasingly higher prices. Likewise, it was charged, the consumer was hit heavily. Mr. Chaffetz traced the increase in price, followed by a downward curve in the middle of last year which he attributed to the Govern-

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ment’s investigation prior to the indictments. The Government lawyers told the jury they could not produce written documents covering the alleged agreements, as the oil men did not operate that way. They asserted, however, that they would be able to show several meetings in various

cities at which the agreements allegedly were made. : “They do it in the dark and they do it secretly,” the jury was told. Also the lawyers explained that their case would have to be built by testimony of the oil men themselves, and that these might prove “unwilling and reluctant” witnesses. As the “master mind” in the alleged conspiracy, Mr. Crawford named Charles E. Arnott, SoconyVacuum vice president. His chief lieutenants were listed as Walter Paul Jacobi of the Wadhams Oil Co. and Neil Buckley of Cities Service.

Oil Defense Barred From Quoting F. D. R.

MADISON, Wis., Oct. 7 (U. P.).— Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone today warned William J, Donovan, chief defense counsel for major oil companies charged with: a pricefixing conspiracy, to cease quoting President Roosevelt. Judge Stone severely crticized the defense’s opening statement. In it Mr. Donovan asserted the “offenses” for which the oil companies are be-

Ling tried were committed because

they co-operated with the President’s recovery program. Judge Stone said reference to what the President said was “mere hearsay” and pointed out the Chief Executive will not be called as a witness. The judge told Mr. Donovan he would not tolerate further quoting of the President.

FIELDS QUIPS WHEN BLAST ROCKS HIM

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