Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1937 — Page 3

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FRIDAY, OCT. 29, 1937

GREEN HINTS APPROVALOF | LA GUARDIA DESPITE C.1.0. CONNECTION IN CAMPAIGN

Hyde Park Holds Key to Labor Peace Parley as McGrady Talks to President and Roosevelt Invites A. F. L.

(Editorial, Page 20)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 (U.P.).—The American Federation of Labor will maintain a national policy of neutrality in the forthcoming municipal elections despite its new program to fight the Committee for Industrial Organization at the polls, President William Green said today. Mr. Green's statement was interpreted as tacit approval of the action of the New York State Federation which is backigg Mayor Fiorello Mr. La Guardia is sponsored by the Amer-

H. La Guardia for re-election. ican Labor Party, an off-shoot of League. In New York 18,000 persons attended the party's Madison Square Garden rally last night and cheered Mayor La Guardia, on whom Wall Street betting commissioners quote 5-to-1 odds.

Jeremiah T. Mahoney, the Tam- |

many-New Deal Democratic candidate, held his big rally last night at the Hippodrome and a “Red menace threatens the city if Mavor La Guardia is re-elected. Meanwhile, tempts were being made to resuscitate the labor peace conference. Former Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady, who recently ac-

cepted a position with Radio Corp. |

of America, conferred with Mr

Lewis by telephone from New York |

yesterday and later called at the President's temporary offices at Hyde Park, N. Y. There were unconfirmed reports that George M. Harrison, chairman of the federation's peace conference committee, had gone to New York te see Senator Wagner (D. N. Y., who is known to have submitted a

‘peace formula to President Roose-

velt. As the prospects of a truce the only chance appeared to be if President Roosevelt should vene. a possibility was the proposed visit of Matthew Woll, one of the three federation negotiators, to the Hyde Park residence of Mr. Roosevelt. The President invited Mr. Woll to

meet with him at the suggestion of | the United Press |

a ‘close friend,” learned.

Knudsen Infers Favor

Toward Craft Unions BOSTON, Oct. 29 (U. P.) —A few

paragraphs from a speech by Wil- |

S. Knudsen, General president, were studied careCommittee for Industrial

liam Corp

fully by

Organization and American Federa- | They |

tion of Labor leaders today. appeared to some to be a tacit endorsement of the craft union, the tvpe sponsored by the A. F. of L., as

opposed to the industrial unions of |

the 'C. 1. 0.

The General Motors Corp. has a | contract with the United Automobile |

Workers, an industrial union and a C. 1. O. affiliate, winter's sit-down strike. Another paragraph of Mr. Knudsen’s speech was taken as a charge that General Motors had been forced by the “Government” to come to terms with the union against its will. “The Government finally stepped in and practically ordered ments . . .,” he said.

Speaking before the annual meet-

ing of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts last night, Mr.

Knudsen began outlining the “fund- |

amentals underlying the labor movement.” He then said:

“Men will band together on the

basis of craft, and with some sense, |

the idea being hundreds of years old. If a man has any Kind of skill,

he is proud of it, openly or silently.” |

Mr. Knudsen then said that a danger of industrial unionism, as it was manifested in last winter's au-

tomotive strikes, was the assump- |

tion that “a tool maker or a first class grinder should concern himself with the plight of his union brother who is pushing a truck.”

Kansas City Manager Appeals to Ford

DEARBORN, Mich, Oct. 29 (U P.) —City Manager H. F. McEiroy of Kansas City today carried to Henry Ford a personal appeal that the manufacturer reconsider the indefinite closing of his motor car as-

now |

declared |

be- | tween the two factions diminished, |

inter- | The only indication of such |

Motors |

signed after last |

settle- |

John L. Lewis’ Labor Nonpartisan

FOC MAY SEEK U. S. CURB ON

AT.T.SYSTEM

Board Expected to Charge Company With Being | Monopoly.

behind-the-scene at- |

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (U. P.).— | The Federal Communications Commission’s investigation of charges that the $5,000,000,000 American | Telephone & Telegraph Co. constitutes a monopoly, was expected today to result in recommendations to Congress for drastic regulation of

the vast concern, The Commission has announced that its report and recommendations | {will be ready when the regular ses- | sion of Congress meets in January. The report may recommend several possible courses of action to control cperations between the A. T. & T. Co. and the Western Electric Co., whose stock, it was found, was 99.7 per cent owned by the former. Western Electric, the Commission | found, sells 92 per cent of the equip- | ment bought and used by telephone | companies. 3 Courses Open

Possible courses open for regula- | [tion of business between the parent firm and its subsidiary are: | 1. Legislation to establish West[ern Electric as a public utility, giving the Communications Commission some control over the prices it charges the parent concern. 2. Laws requiring that the A. T., & T. Co. and its operating com- | panies buy their equipment on a | competitive bidding basis, opening | the trade to independent firms in a | | move to lower prices. 3. Amendment of antitrust laws to | force competitive bidding on major | purchases. or the bulk of equipment, but leaving some discretionary powers in buying. Under the second plan, identical | bidding would not be outlawed. The Commission also may recommend action to force an allocation of long distance toll revenues to 10- | | cal exchanges which handle the | calls at each end. The investigation | brought out that toll revenues were | not divided with local exchanges, | and that in effect the local units | were bearing part of the cost of long distance service without obtaining | any compensation.

| Strikebreaking Ban ‘Called Illegal

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES CONQUERORS LEAVE CHINESE TOWN IN RUINS . . . . . .

Japanese invaders are shown holding all that remains of the walls of the village of Yanhkiangschen

after they bad battered their way into the town.

. ROOFTOP GUN NESTS BLAST WAY FOR

Rooftop brigades of Japanese

smash open the way to Shanghai for the invading army. in a suburb of Shanghai is turned on the city.

JAPANESE

Times-Acme Photos. This gun nest

G. O.P. Parley

Deadlocked on | Two Elections

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the job, since I already hold it. But] that would be unfair to the party. I | have no personal interest in the Job | as state chairman except my general interest in the welfare of the party. | 1 always have been a stanch party | man.” He added that if “they were good | horse traders they could settle this | now.” Many Trades Reported Both factions admitted that many | offers of “trades” had been made | in the battle for the national post. |

Some members indicated the elec- | tion might be postponed, although

a meeting of the National Commit- | tee has been called for Nov. 4. Another reported compromise candidate for the national post was | C. J. Root, Terre Haute glass manu- | facturer. While Mr. Morgan's candidacy | was said to be meeting considerable | opposition, it also was claimed that | some of the Emison group opposed the election of Mr. Irwin. They claimed that Mr. Emison expected to be appointed Indiana campaign manager for Alf Landon last year, but that Lyle Wallace, Sheridan, received the appointment through Mr. Irwin. Others reported as possible candi-

dates were Lambert Johnson, EvansEd Waswuth, Huntington; |

ville: Harry Hogan, Ft. Wayne, and Mr. Watson. Compromise candidates also were reportedly being groomed for the State post. William Reilley, local attorney and former committee member, appeared strongest of the several mentioned. The majority Gates faction also was reported to be considering Dan Flanagan, Ft. Wayne. Miller Davis, Terre Haute, former Vigo County chairman, also entered the State Chairman race today. and apparently had the support of Mr. Root. Mr. Gates today issued the follow-

offices in the engineering laboratory | ing statement:

“ All T want is peace and harmony in the party and I will do anything

|rector who ordered the Kansas City | fo accomplish that. We are trying plant closed on the grounds that po- to get the unanimous support of the and | committee in both elections. [Morgan deal is true, it would split our side.”

If the

Thurman Backs Bobbitt, Report

He said he did not expect to get unanimous support for any candidate, but hoped for one “as close to it as possible.” At the same time, it

was Te-

| intersection of

dasa NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 29 (U. | ported that M. Burt Thurman, forP.).—The constitutionality of the | mer national committeeman and | Byrnes Anti-Strike Breaking Act candidate for the 1936 Republican | was attacked today as counsel for | gubernatorial nomination, was supJames H. Rand Jr. ‘and Pearl | porting Mr. Bobbitt in the state | Bergoff, head of a New York | chairmanship race, hoping to gain | strike-breaking agency, sought to | support for the Republican nomdismiss Federal indictments charg- ination for Indianapolis Mayor in ing them with its violation. 1938. | Trial of the two men was sched- |

'uled for Nov. 8. VETERAN. DIES AT 101

IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TODAY

Exchange Club, luncheon, Hotel Wash- |

ington, noon Optimist Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon Reserve Officers’ Association, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon Phi Delta Theta, luncheon, Board of Trade, noon Indianapolis Civic Clubs, 7:30 p.m Indiana Association of meeting, Hotel Washington, all day. Kappa Sigma, luncheon, Hotel Washington, noon Indiana Claypool Hotel all Delta Tau Deita, Club, noon.

Community Washington,

Federation of meeting, Hotel

luncheon,

Beta Theta Pi, luncheon, Board of Trade, |

noon.

TOMORROW Claypool Hotel

MEETINGS

Willard, luncheon,

A. L. 1p Alliance Washington,

Francaise, luncheon, Hotel

noon.

BIRTHS Boys

Norman, Mary Taylor, at stone Thomas, Evelyn Mattingly, at 141 mer. Girls Howard, Mamie Preston,

Harrison, Delphia Graber John, Agnes McKee, at 1235 Charles, Helen Wintergorst, lish.

501 3937 Spann. West. 2347

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DEATHS

Owen E. Clegg, 72, at 4110 Boulevard Place, cerebral hemorrhage David Pessler, 68, at 206 N. Walcott, coronary occlusion Robert Lee Sallee. 11 days, at Riley Hospital, general peritonitis Mary E. King, 75, a hypostatic pneumonia d fargaret Swift ral hemorrhage 1 is Hewitt 12, Hospital, coronary occlusion, Thorleif Syvertsen, 39, at Methodist Hospital, carcinoma. william Edwin Swain, 64, at St. Vincent’s Hospital, hypostatic pneumonia, william R. Lockhart, 80, at 1216 Earhart, careinoma. Gary Gullion, 2 mo., Riley 56,

922 N. Bancroft, at 1921 East Methodist

87.

Hospital, broncho-pneumonia. Edward Guilford Williams, at City Hospital, cerebral apoplexy. 4 Frank Allen, 15, at Riley Hospital, sarcoma,

Optometrists,

Fraternal Congress, meetings, | ay.

Columbia |

531 N. Key- | Pal- |

Birch.

* | WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES AT 7 A. M.

—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Cornelius Lotton, 101-year-old Civil War veteran who, in observing his 100th birthday last

year, attributed his longevity to juOFFICIAL WEATHER

dgicious use of rock and rye whisky. United States Weather Bureau____

Mr. Lotton died Tuesday. INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST—Fair tonight and tomorrow; not so cool tonight.

i Sunrise 6:11 Sunset ry TEMPERATURE | —Oct. 29, 1936— Jalen, IY 10. th... 58

BAROMETER Ta. 'm...... 208% Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 I on 2 S. =. ‘Mm... { Total precipitatio ¥ u Excess . Deiciateiate MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair in south, som 1 s . some cloudiness | in north portion tonight and tomorrow; not so cool tonight; cooler tomorrow in northwest, warmer in extreme southeast. Ilinois—Generally fair tonight i 3 and tomorrow. not so cool tonight except in ex- | treme west portion: cooler tomorrow or

| tomorrow night in north and west- | fetmorTo est-central

Lower Michigan—Unsettled tonight ard i AE probably showers in central and | portions; not so cool tonights. coo) | tomorrow night X or

Ohio—Fair and warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy, colder in northwest | portion. Kentucky—fair | warmer tonight morrow,

tonight and tomorrow; and in east portion to-

Weather. Ciear .Clear ..Clear Clear ..Cloudy PiCldy ..Clear

Bar 29.96

Talking over Republican organ

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SHERIDAN, Cal, Oct. 29 (U. P). |

in Indiana above are (left to right) Burrell Wright, Indianapolis, former central committee treasurer; George Bonham, Elwood, proxy on the commit-

IS PROMISED BY BRITISH OFFICER

Three Riflemen Killed as Japanese Bomb Wipes Out Post.

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tentatively that the Jessfield shelling came from a Japanese battery three-quarters of a mile northeast of Soochow Creek. The apparent objective was the Chinese defense lines along the Chungshan Road, indicating that the range of the Japanese was Off 20 degrees. A British officer remarked, ‘that is jolly good shooting, eh what?” British Troops Tense

Tension among British troops was running high. No civilian was permitted near the Jessfield post where the two riflemen were killed. Two posts further down at the the Keswick and | Great Western Roads, Tommies | were trading cigarets and talking in | sign language with Chinese troops

across the railroad tracks. One of

[the men on duty remarked he sup- |

(posed “they are going to try an-

| other apology on us,” and added he |

| hoped “we get a chance to reply in kind.” A shell struck the home of A. J. { Hughes, British citizen, living on |the Great Western Road, narrow(ly missing his wife and two children. They were covered with plas[ter and debris but escaped injury. G. Desantis, an Italian, was | bruised by flying debris when his | apartment was struck.

4 SUSPECTS SEIZED IN HOLDUP-SLAYING

Four suspects were held by police | today in connection with the fatal shooting last night of Edward L. Maze, 57, filling station operator. Mr. Maze was wounded in an attempted holdup of his filling station at 440 White River Parkway. He died on the porch of his home, which adjoins the station. Two of the suspects were arrested an hour later. Police said the pair was identified by several women as

short time before the shooting. However, both are reported to have denied any connection with the holdup-killing.

also answered the description of the robbers were arrested early today. They also denied any connection with the crime. Police reported that a paraffin | test showed one of the men had powder stains on his hand. The four were charged with vagrancy and were held under high bond. Mr. Maze was unmarried. A sister. Mr:. Mary Schwier, lives at 753 | Graham Ave. Other survivors are | two brothers, Earl of New Augusta, {and Harry of Shelbyville. Funeral services tentatively have { been set for 2 p. m. Monday in the [Moore & Kirk Funeral Home. "Burial is to be in Crown Hill

ization problems tee for Everett Tenth District Twelfth District

having been in the filling station a |

Two other men who police said |

SWIFT | ACTION ‘County Trattic

Takes Toll of | Five Lives in 24-Hour Period

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| St., lacerations, and Elden Yateman | Suddeth, 18, of 1635 Cottage Ave. | fractured leg. Mr. Hoard told police he saw Mr. | Deutscher’s car spin around “in | front of us as we approached.” “There was a terrific crash , . . 1 never lost consciousness , . . after [the crash there was a deathly si- | lence . . . nothing but quiet and then |1 heard the awful groans of the others.”

Passenger Denies Drinking

Mr. Hoard and Mr. Suddeth told police all five in the sedan | around together” and were on their |way to Anderson to “have a good | time,” but that none of them had | been drinking. State Patrolmen Ralph Metcalfe {and Patrick Barton reported they | had seen the sedan speeding about | 80 miles an hour and had given { chase at the outskirts of the city, | but had been outdistanced. | Not long afterward, they said, (they were instructed to go to the accident near Oaklandon, and when |they arrived they said they recognized the crushed sedan which had | outdistanced them. The radio still | was playing in the wrecked car, they said. Car’s Ownership Traced

Police said the sedan was not (registered under Mr. Manges’ name, and were told by Mr. Hoard that {he had had it for “about a week.” Deputy sheriffs were told by Wil- | liam Hester, 22, of 711 Bates St. driver of the taxi that Killed Mr. Sherrill, that the victim was walking in the middle of the highway | and that visibility was poor because of a fog. A passenger in the cab told deputies that the driver tried to avoid striking Mr. Sherrill. Mr. Hester took the injured man to the office | of a physician in Glenn's Valley but he died en route.

Hospital yesterday, was injured Wednesday night when he was struck by an auto driven by A. Wayne Hoelman, of near Greenwood, in the 3800 block of Madison Ave. Funeral services for Mr. Deutscher will be held at 1 p. m. today at the Aaron-Ruben Funeral Home. Masonic rites will be conducted. He was a used-car dealer, and had resided in Indianapolis 23 vears. Survivors are the wife, Mrs. Rose Deutscher; a daughter, Marjorie | Deutscher, and a sister, Mrs. Jeanette Fisch of Poland.

23 Years With Department

Mr. McGinnis had been a mem{ber of the fire department for 23 years. feur 20 years and had been stationed at Co. 13 since 1924. y

Department officials had planned to send him to first aid school in several weeks. Survivors are his wife, Nora Delle; four sons, Edward Jr. Erwin, Joseph and James, and four daugh- | ters, | Theresa and Mary. | dianapolis. i Meanwhile, Acting Fire Chief | Roscoe McKinney reported that an | investigation he completed yesterday | showed the fire-truck collision was | unavoidable. | He said both drivers were blame-

All live in In-

G. 0. P. Leaders Talk Over Problems

Times Photo. Reeves, Anderson; Ralph Adams, chairman, and Gavin L. Payne, chairman.

“ran |

Mr. Scheefers, who died in City |

He had served as a chauf- |

Mrs. Elnora Clemens, Leona, |

| | less, and he praised their handling |

| of the trucks after the collision. | Chief McKinney also pointed out he was not investigating a report | that one of the trucks was late in leaving its station. | One of the firemen, Jean Bur- | nett, 30, of Co. 1, remained in City | Hospital today in critical condi|tion. He received a fractured skull in the accident. Anthony Mazza, 35, of Co. 13, who suffered a brain concussion, was reported in serious | | condition. Five others in the hos-| | pital were reported improving.

‘School Bus Driver

Dies of Injuries

PRINCETON, Oct. 29 —Injuries incurred in an automobile accident | Tuesday were fatal today to James Crandall, 56, farmer and schoolbus | driver,

| ‘Sullivan Man Killed By C. &E. I Train

| SULLIVAN, Oct. 29 (U. P.)—Ed Boone, 50, was Killed last night when he was struck by a Chicago | & Eastern Illinois railroad train | after apparently falling asleep on {the tracks.

SUES FOR RIGHT TO ENTER TECH

‘Negro Youth Asks Admission to Physiography Class At Local School.

Admission to a Technical High ( School class was asked by Erroll | Grandy, 17, Negro, of 2831 Shriver Ave., in a suit on file today in the

| Indiana, Supreme Court. | Discrimination was charged in the petition for a writ of mandamus, | brought in the youth's behalf by his | father, the Rev. Thomas L. Grandy, | Witherspoon United Presbyterian | Church pastor. The action was | against the School Board and Superintendent of Schools DeWitt S. | Morgan. | The petition contended that the { vouth has been denied admission to Tech's class in physiography, a course not offered at Crispus Attucks High School which he attends. It is claimed in the petition that such a course is necessary as a sub=stitute for mathematics which the | youth cannot study because of defective sight. The plaintiff's counsel is E. Louis Moore who is a member of the Association for Advancement of Colored People courts committee. He said the action 1s to obtain equal educational opportunities for Ne- | groe.. Superintendent Morgan said he had not officially been notified of the suit and that he had no comment to make on it.

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Says: Oct. 29.—It

seems to be human nature for us

| not to worry about other people's

mistakes as long as they don’t hil us. I know some picture people who are squawkin’ about havin’ to pay income tax and 1 remember several years ago, when they didn’t have'ta pay any, they weren't worried a bout the all. It’s a lot like my uncle who got a dollar too much in his pay envelope one month and he didn't say anything about it, but the next month, when he was a dollar short, he went to the cashier and squawked his head off. The cashier says, “Well, last month, we put a dollar too much in your envelope and you didn’t say anything,” and my uncle says, “Well, when vou only made one

but when I saw you'd made two, I thought I'd better speak to you

about it!” (Copyright, 1937)

ZOLA ROLE IS TOPIC Rabbi David Jacobson is to discuss the role of Emile Zola as defender of Alfred Dreyfus, Army officer accused of treason in 1894, convicted and later exonerated, at regular services of the Indian- | apolis Hebrew Congregation, 10th

and Delaware Sts, at 8 o'clock this evening.

situation at

mistake I didn't think nothin’ of it, |

French |

BANK LITIGATION

IS ENDED BY U. 3. COURT DECISION

$325,000 Confessed Judgment Is Basis for Fletcher American Ruling.

(Continued from Page One)

Judge Baltzell also said that since | the stockholders cannot participate {in the liquidation until all creditors | are paid in full, “it would seem that | they have no chance of partici= pating in the proceeds derived by the liquidation of the assets of the trust.” There were 3600 shares of | stock outstanding. | The judgment was on a suit en= titled “Otto J. Feucht, John P. Col= (lett and William M. Fleming Jr, | trustees under the written trust in- | denture dated Aug. 23, 1933, for the | purpose of winding up the affairs of the Fletcher American National | Bank versur William L. O'Connor | and other officers and directors.” Another suit, now in Superior | Court 4, asking approximately the | same thing as the Federal Court suit | settled today and against which the injunction was issued, was brought [by stockholders Horace G. and Irene |M. Winings and Charles W. and {Banta M. Elliott,

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