Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1937 — Page 1

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F. D. R. ASKS BUSINESS TAX RELIEF

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1987

HUNTER KILLED AS TRAIN HITS FRIEND'S AUTO

Youthful Companion Injured Critically in S. State Ave. Crossing Crash.

130TH VICTIM THIS YEAR

Driver’s Mother Goes to Scene; Four Others Die in State.

Charles C. Edmonds, Big Four Railroad car inspector, was killed instantly and his companion on & hunting trip was injured critically today when their auto was struck by an inbound Pennsylvania passenger train at “the S.

State Ave. crossing. Mr. Edmonds, who lived at 19 N. Oriental St. and was 56, was Marion County's 130th traffic victim of the year and the first in a week. The injured man was Charles T. Myers Jr., 22, of 1118 Reid Place. He was taken to City Hospital with a crushed chest and punctured lung. Four other persons were killed in Indiana traffic during the week-end.

28 Fined $343

In Municipal Court here today, Judge Charles J. Karabell fined 28

defendants $343. Twelve of the 28 speeders arrested over the week-end

were assessed $153. A total of 86 erring motorists were arrested over

the week-end. Crossing Watchman E. L. Swigert told police that warning lights began flashing and bells rang when the west-bound train was about a half mile east of the S. State Ave. crossing. He said the driver apparently failed to heed the warnings, then tried desperately to swerve the auto to the right out of the path of the oncoming train. The front of the train smashed into the car, Mr. Swigert reported, demolishing it and scattering wreckage down the right of way for more than 150 feet.

Hurled From Wreckage

Both men were thrown clear of the wrecked auto by the impact. Mr. Edmonds’ body was crumpled over a track. The multiple crossing, one of the most dangerous on the South Side, is obscured from the north approach, the direction from which the men were coming, by industrial establishments. The south side also is flanked by buildings. The train, in charge of Engineer Edward Fisher, Columbus, O., and Conductor Frank Doll, 433 N. Euclid Ave. Indianapolis, stopped within a block, police said. Tt was westbound from New York to St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Myers Sr. who owned ‘the 1929 coach chat became a death car, identified the victims. They and Mrs. Bessie E. f.dmonds, wife of the dead man, told a story of peculiar circumstances which = surrounded Mr. Edmonds’ death. Third Missed Crash

Mr. Myers Jr. went to the Edmonds home on Oriental St. early in the morning and picked up William Edmonds, 20-year-old son of the dead man, to drive the former's new car to a garage for repairs. They left, then Mr. Myers returned in his father’s 1929 coach to get the elder Mr. Edmonds and go on a hunting trip. They were on their way to pick up & third hunting companion, william Baldwin, 2013 E. Maryland St., ‘when the accident occurred. Meanwhile, Mr. Edmond’s son william had taken Mr. Myers’ car to the garage. He then went downtown to look for a job, his mother said, unaware his father was killed. He was to be in a downtown drugstore at noon and his mother was seeking to reach him there to tell him of the tragedy. Told of the accident, Mrs. Edmonds wept and recalled that on March 25, 1930, her 15-year-old son was wounded fatally in a gun accident at 2012 E. Maryland St.

See Vietlm’s Body

Mrs. Myers appeared at the scene of the wreck soon after it happened and while Mr. Edmonds’ body was lying beside the wreckage. She (Turn to Page Three)

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BLACK ALIGNED WITH MINORITY

Court Liberals Overruled In Bankruptcy Decision; Delay Tax Decree.

WASHINGTON, Nov, 15 (U, P.).— Associate Justice Hugo L. Black today aligned himself again with the Supreme Court's liberal minority in a 6-to-3 decision involving a technical interpretation of Federal Bankruptcy Law, At the same time the Court dismissed the two newest challenges to Black's eligibility. One was the petition of a group of Florida brokers for a rehearing the Court's earlier refusal to review validity of the 1933 Securities Act. They sought the rehearing on the grounds that Black's presence made all Court actions invalid. The other challenge was filed by Elizabeth L. Seymour, Salamanca, N. Y,, and Robert Gray Taylor, Media, Pa. who said he was chairman of the Philadelphia Court Plan Committee. They sought permission, as private citizens, not members of the bar, to file formal suit for removal of Black from the bench. Ruling Reversed The decision resulted in a victory for the Chicago Title and Trust Co. in its fight against a financial reorganization plan for the Forty-One Thirty-Six Wilcox Building Corp. Chicago. The high tribunal's majority reversed a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruling approving the reorganization plan for the company, owner and operator of a building at 4136 Wilcox Ave. Chicago. Black joined Justices Benjamin N. Cardozo and Harlan F. Stone in the dissent, written by Cardozo. It was the second time since he assumed his Supreme Court post this fall that Black had alighed himself with a minority of liberal Judges. His first appearance in the minority came last Monday when he joined with Cardozo, Stone and Louis D. Brandeis associates on the short end of a five-four decision. The real estate case was the only decision presented by the Court today. Opinions in tax cases expected to sharpen the line between state and Federal taxing powers were not presented.

RE-ELECT TABER TO GRANGE LEADERSHIP

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 15 (U. P.).—Louis J. Taber, Columbus, O., was re-elected master of the National Grange today at its 7ist annual convention. . He expressed a desire to relinquish the $5000 a year post to enter private business but was overruled by the delegates. Mr. Taber, master of the Grange for 14 years, begins his eighth two-year term.

Rain and Snow

Drop Mercury To Upper 30s

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The mercury ranged in the high 30s today, a 20-degree drop over the week-end, The Weather Bureau forecast overcast skies for today with rain probable tomorrow and not much

temperature change. The mercury hit & low of 35 at 2 a. m, today and was not expected to rise above 40 today, compared to a high of 60 Saturday. The temperatures were slightly below normal, the Bureau reported. A raw, drizzling Sunday that saw some snow flurries may be repeated tomorrow, the Bureau said.

AUTO SHOW MARKED BY HIGH ATTENDANCE

Thousands See New Models; Exposition in Third Day.

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With capacity crowds already, recorded, Indianapolis’ 27th annual auto show went into its third day today at the State Fair Grounds Manufacturers’ Building. Although exact attendance figures were ynavailable, C. H. Wallerich,

Indianapolis Auto Trades Association president, said yesterday's crowd appeared to surpass all previous single day totals. Thousands milled through the huge building, converted for the occasion into a monument to 1938 automotive engineering skill. They saw hundreds of new model cars, designed for the future, elaborately appointed and carrying all modern engineering advances. Dealers said only one thing bothered them—they were having difficulty replacing autos that visitors bought with cars from their stock. Visitors to the show viewed new safety features, streamlined exteriors and skeleton cars exposing merchanical devices designed to in(Turn to Page Thrée)

ANDERSON BUSSES REPLACE TROLLEYS

ANDERSON, Nov. 15 (U. P.).— Forty-nine years of street car service was abandoned in Anderson today when the Indiana Railroad replaced the old electric cars with

modern busses.

HAMMOND, Nov. 15 (U. P.).— James Dalhover, “trigger man” of the Al Brady gang, pleaded guilty today when arraigned in Federal Court for the murder of Paul Minneman, Indiana State Policeman. He will be sentenced Dec. 6. The diminutive little gangster, manacled hand and foot, was calm as he shuffled into court to face Judge Thomas W. Slick who read the charge and asked him how he pleaded. “Guilty,” Dalhover replied in a low voice, The entire proceedings, including the appointment of a local law firm to represent him, took only 30 minutes and G-Men then rushed him by

automobile to the St. Joseph County Jail at South Bend, where he will

await sentencing. Dalhover was chained to U. S.

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Dalhover Pleads Guilty To U. S. Murder Charge

Marshal Al Hosinski when he was brought into court. The death penalty is possible on the murder charge. His lawyers conferred with him only 10 minutes after their appointment before they came back into the court room and Dalhover made his guilty plea. Before his arraignment, Dalhover said he had “given up hope for my life.”

Gangster “Well Guarded’ For Trip to Hearing

James Dalhover was taken from the Marion County jail today by three auto loads of City Police, State Police, G-Men and Deputy U. S. Marshals. Herold Reinecke, Indianapolis GMan in charge, said the gangster, who has been held here since his return from Bangor, Me., was “well guarded” for the trip.

FORCED SOS BY KNIFE THREAT

Freighter Survivor Claims Captain Delayed Call; Crew Fights Sharks.

NORFOLK, Va,, Nov, 15 (U, P.).— Bortas Balaskas, third engineer of the foundered Greek [freighter Tzenny Chandris, charged today that the first SOS was sent from the vessel only after he drew =a knife and threatened to kill the radio operator unless he called for aid. Balaskas, rescued from shark-in-fested ‘waters off Cape Hatteras with 14 ‘ofher crew members by the Coast Guard cutter Mendota, described the sinking of the vessel through an interpreter at Marine Hospital here. Laden with scrap iron consigned for Europe, the Tzenny Chandris was battered by mountainous seas for three days, he said, before she finally went down. Of her crew of 20 men, 21 survivors were picked up by the Mendota and the American tanker, Swiftsure, Balaskas said that the crew demanded that Capt, George Confopanoelis send an SOS hours before the vessel's first distress call actually was flashed. The captain, however, ordered the men back to the pumps, apparently in the belief that the vessel could ride out the storm, Balaskas said. Finally, the third engineer said, the pumps were swamped. Balaskas said he went to the radio room, demanded that an SOS be sent, and when the operator refused to do so without the captain's order, drew a knife and compelled him to do so. Survivors told a story of terror as the Tzenny Chandris finally went down under the battering seas. Capt. Confopanoelis was attacked by a seaman, they said, and was bitten in the face before he was able to beat off the man. Hurled into the seas, the men clung to life rafts and wreckage for 32 hours before they were picked up. During the time they were battered by the seas, they fought off sharks (Turn to Page Three)

BLAMES WOOD SEAL FOR MINE TRAGEDY

State Inspector Charges Company Broke Law.

Fred Ferguson, Chief State Mine Inspector, today charged that the Princeton Mining Co. was in violation of state mining laws when a gas explosion in its Kings Station mine killed two men, injured another and trapped 41 for four hours near Princeton Friday midnight. He charged that “if the accident had occurred 30 minutes later, it would have killed 35 men.” Mr. Ferguson based his charge upon the alleged construction of a “seal,”—a partition erected to close off a worked-out shaft from the main mine shaft, He said: “The part of the seal that was wood gave way and the gas was liberated. . . . It is a violation of the State Mining Law to put in a wooden seal or a seal any part of which is made of wood. If the accident had occurred 30 minutes later it would have killed 35 men.” He added that “there will be no further statements made until our investigation is completed.”

STATE UNION STRIP MINERS WIN RAISE

TERRE HAUTE, Nov. 15 (U. P). —The Indiana Coal Producers’ Association and the United Mine Workers, District 11, today signed a new biennial contract for strip

I miners providing a $6 daily basic

wage scale. The new contract, effective until March 31, 1939, will provide strip miners wit ha yearly increase of

$142,000.

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FIREMEN’ IN SMOKE DRIVE

Mayor Indicates Shift to Be Made if WPA Has No Funds.

TO RETAIN ENGINEER

Boetcher Blames Homes but Hopes to Avoid Working Hardships.

If WPA funds are not available for the continuance of a city-wide smoke survey three months from now, Mayor Boetcher today said he may draft personnel from other City departments for the work. City Combustion Engineer J. W. Olinehens said recently that $9000 granted by the WPA to the Smoke Abatement Department last April would be exhausted in about three months, There now are 14 men hired by the engineer to conduct the survey which was begun in September and should continue a year, he said. The Mavor expressed doubt whether he would be able to obtain more WPA funds “since they have been curtailing lately” but wedded he would “give it a trial”

Wants Survey Continued

He said he would like to see the survey, which revealed that 486 tons of smoke fell in the city during the month of September, completed and pointed out that city firemen might be used to replace the WPA employees, The combustion engineer has divided the city into 12 districts, each of which has a station where "soot catchers” are placed in a strategic position to gain a fair sample of the smoke conditions in the mile square area. These samples are collected at the end of each month and laboratory tests conducted to determine the amount of soot fall.

May Instruct Firemen

The Mayor said, under his plan, the City firemen would be instructed in smoke abatement work by the combustion engineer the same as the WPA men have been, The engineer, who is paid by the City, would continue in his capacity whether Government funds are obtained or not, he said. Mr. Boetcher said he believed most of the trouble came from private homes and residential areas “where a cheaper type of coal is burned,” and “I do not want to work a hardship on them,” he declared. He is planning to meet with the Mayor's Smoke Abatement Committee this week to go into the problem,

91 CLUB PATRONS GALLED INTO COURT

Plantation Visitors Must Appear in Greenfield.

Times Special GREENFIELD, Nov. 15.—Twentyone patrons of the Plantation Club, northeast of Indianapolis, which wasn raided by State Police Thursday midnight, have been summoned to appear in Greenfield City Court Wednesday, Thursday and Friday to answer charges of visiting a gambling house. Mayor James Allen said summons were sent out today for the appearance of the defendants, but that no returns have yet been made on them , The affidavits for the arrest were prepared by State Deputy Attorney General James K. Northam, named special prosecutor by Governor Townsend.

PRESIDENT ON | DEFENSIVE IN NEW SESSION

Conservatives Gain Power; Further Democratic Cleavage Feared.

By THOMAS 1, STOKES Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Nov, 15.-Poiit-ieally, the session of Congress beginning today is the most important thus far ih the transition period

starting in 1832, which has been notable chiefly for the shaking apart of old party alighments, Some think this session will see a definite cleavage between conservative and New Deal Democrats, But close analysis suggests that while the rending process which started last session is still under way, any hard and fast forecast about the nature of party realignment must await next year's Congressional elec tions and other developments leading to 1940, The conservatives have a new grip on Congress, for one reason and another, which has put President Roosevelt on the defensive and will give him plenty of worry between now and June, when the regular ses. sion beginning in January is expected to end, More Concilintory Mr, Roosevelt and his spokesmen, notably Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthat,, have manifested =n more conciliatory attitude toward business, industry and finance, and even the utilities are being invited into White House councils this week. Thus, there fis evidence of some yielding before the storm, But any prediction that the President will give much ground on fundamentals fs not sound, The truth appears to be that Mr, Roosevelt is willing to make some adjust ments and compromises, as he has in the past, but that he will eling steadfastly to certain underlying objectives without much deviation from a predetermined course, Periodically in the past, as his enemies worked their way in close, there have occurred “turns to the right,” but they have been shortlived. Mr, Roosevelt has proceeded on his way when he pulled his forces together, He may, of course, find himself stymied in Congress by circumstances beyond his control, and he may have to let certain of his plans simmer, Such circumstances might take the form of successful conser vative coalition of Democrats and Republicans, which does not yet appear likely, or the business recession might become so serious as to push reforms aside and absorb the complete attention of Congress and the President,

Wallace Proposes

Production Balance

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16 U, P.) = Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today advanced a broad program of planned social economy which he said would “promote security for both farmers and consumers.” Both industrial and agricultural production must be balanced if national prosperity is to be promoted, Secretary Wallace said in his annual report to President Roosevelt. The report, made public as Congress convened to consider new farm legislation, advocated a “moderate processing tax” on only one commodity-cotton—to afd in financing a new, long-range agricul-

House Subcommittee

Proposes Tentative

Changes in Profits Tax to Aid Two-Thirds

Of American

Corporations.

EXECUTIVE PROMISES SOUND BUDGET

of revenue acts. Conservative Democrats hand wagon.

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more abundant life by social ciency methods to operation government,

LOCAL STUDENT GETS AWARD AT HARVARD

Charles B. Peibleman, Apl. 504, 26 EB. 14th St, was one of 22 students who received scholarships at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Mass. according to United Press re-

tural control program.

port today.

Senate Neutrality Bloc Promises Fight to Keep U. S. Out of Chinese War

WASHINGTON-Senator Nye and others of strict neutrality bloc promise to fight move for U. 8. to aid China, BRUSSELS—Conference adjourns for a week after censuring Japan. Further action depends upon the attitude of the United States. SHANGHAI-Japanese, within 15 miles of Soochow, may offer peace terms when they reach city, and hold march on Nanking as threat

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U, P,) = Senate advocates of stringent neutrality today promised to fight any effort of the Brussels Conference to force the United States to take the lead in international measures to end the China warfare, Senator Nye (R. N. D) said he would confer today with other members of the so-called mandatory neutrality bloc to prepare a defense against possible efforts to change the act in order to permit the United States to give aid to China. “It seems to me that since President Roosevelt's Chicago speech there has been a tendency toward some such action,” Senator Nye said, “If that proves true, they'll run into a real battle, “This talk about Britain and France supporting the United States in any action short of war is pop- »

pyeock. Senator King (D. Utah) condemned the Neutrality Act, which he

contended favored the nation with the largest number of ships, but

to win terms,

LONDON-<Peace talks that may sway future of Europe expected to open in London, Berlin and Rome this week,

warned that immediate repeal would not be propitious. Senator Schwellenbach (D. Wash) said he also was opposed to changing the Neutrality Act at this time. Senator Smith (D. 8. C.) deplored America’s present attitude toward the Far Fast and advocated immediate invocation of the present Neutrality Act.

Conference Adjourns After Censuring Japan

BRUSSELS, Nov, 15 (U. P.) ~The Brussels Far Eastern OConference censured Japan today, over the

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negative vote of Italy, facing the alternatives of admitting failure or applying force to end hostilities, the latter depending upon the attitude of the United States, The conference then adjourned. It will reconvene Nov, 22, The conference burned all bridges oning efforts to coax Japan into peace talks and threatened to consider further measures to bring

about cessation of hostilities. The declaration was adopted after the Chinese delegation had sub(Turn to Page Three)

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VanNuys and Wagner Seek to Head Off Move To Shunt Antilynch Law Behind Federal Reorganization; Filibuster Feared.

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(Text of Roosevelt message to Congress, Page 14; text of census address, Page 2; Editorial, Page 12; Merry-Go-Round, Page 12)

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15 (U, P,).=President Roosevelt today proposed to an extraordinary session of Congress tax modification adequate to encourage productive enterprise but linked with that a challenge to monopoly indicating small business will be favored over big business in any amendment

jumped for the tax reform

The special session met at noon and shortly thereafter heard President Roosevelt's message proposing an imme diate four-point legislative attack on “marked” industrial

Mr. Roosevelt said the immediate task was to increase use of private capital to create employment. arnment would “take up the slack” if private capital failed,

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Would Ease Business Burden

Almost simultaneously the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee decided tentatively to grant business two new relief measures to ease the burden of levies on undise tributed corporate reserve funds: 1. To permit carryover of operating losses for one year to apply against adjusted net income the following year in

2. To exempt from the undistributed profits tax all cors porations with net incomes of $5000 or less annually, It was estimated that about two-thirds of American core porations would be affected by such amendments, The tax reform chorus arising from Congress was swelled by the voices of Senator Burke (D. Neb,), Senator Y.), Senator King (D. Utah), Senator Hats vison (D. Miss.), Senator Glass (D. Va.), Senator Byrd (D. Va.) and others, including a forceful Republican bloc, It was notable that conservative Democrats f requently listed now as anti-New Dealers were leading the tax reform pack on

Mr. Roosevelt called this special session to expand the

legislation and to apply effi of executive departments of

Puts Program Into Background Business recession threatens those objectives as the conservative drive for tax reform forces Mr. Roosevelt's own program into the background, The upshot of this cons test for Congress’ attention may be postponement of all major business during four or the regular session which will begin next January. Shorn for the time being of a fifth poin’ dealing with amendment of antitrust legislation, the Roosevelt program presented today called upon Congress for speedy action on:

five weeks of oratory prior to

1. Wage and hours legise lation, 2. An “all-weather” control program, 3. Reorganization of execu» tive departments, 4, National planning for better use of natural re

sources,

Mr. Roosevelt promised to balance the budget in the next fiscal year, His words echoed from the National Conference of Mayors also cons vening here today in a demand for bigger relief appropriations, The unh« employment spending drive was led by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, just returned to office by overwhelming vote in New York City, He warned that winter unemployment would increase and a “large” deficiency appropriation would be necessary, Mr, Roosevelt counseled confidence and assured the nation that “ordis nary prudence’ would prevent greater business recession, But he warned of tremendous crop surpluses and the need for raising both the national income and the total wage income of workers, The Supreme Court, Mr. Roose velt believes, has demonstrated in its social security and Wagner Labor Relations Act decisions its willingness to reinterpret the Cons stitution with respect to a Federal agricultural policy such as was de clared unconstitutional in the guise of AAA, Oongress got off to a slow stars, The Senate met for a few minutes and adjourned until 1:30 p. m. The House undertook a roll call which required 40 minutes and then Mr. Roosevelt's message. Hous leaders decided to mark time

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