Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1937 — Page 1

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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 221

SLUMP IS TOWNSEN

PLOTTED, D CLAIMS;

TAX RELIEF HINTED

Big Industry Seeks Reins, Governor Declares.

WARNING

People May Turn on Pirates, He Says At Lafayette.

Times Special LAFAYETTE, Nov. 24.—A deliberate attempt is being made to create an artificial business slump, “so that big business can seize control of the ship during the confusion,” Governor Townsend had charged today.

Speaking at a Democratic rally here last night the Governor declared: “Big business has betrayed the people of America. It has betrayed the small businesses so that it may tighten the grip on monopoly. It has betrayed the farmers in a desperate attempt to turn public opinion against the New Deal. It has betrayed the workers in an effort to arrest social justice.”

No “Conspiracy” Can Stand

The Governor said that “no conspiracy of reaction” can stand up long against the “moral indignation of the people and all the elements of sccial Justice embodied in the New Deal.” He said people have waited patiently, hoping that big business would co-operate in bringing about permanent recovery. “Now the people will demand that these pirates be outlawed and their power curtailed,” he said. “This latest attempt to halt social change is even more contemptible than the attacks on social security just before the 1936 elections. “It is a dangerous and treasonable trick to play with the welfare and security of the American people in a violent effort to scare Congress. New Deal Interested

“Big business may not be interested in the welfare of all the people—businessmen, farmers and workers—but the New Deal is. You may be sure that the New Deal never will permit a return to the days of desperate human misery and want. “Any attempt to halt social adjustment is packed with social responsibilities, because when the slow, democratic, evolution of social change is stopped—sudden, revolutionary change usually results. Man has not learned how to halt the sun, and there is no reason to believe we can halt social change.”

SUSPECT IN $116,000 FORGERY HELD HERE

Wanted in Davidson County, Tennessee, in connection with an alleged $116,000 county road bond forgery, Jack Wellborn, living in a downtown hotel for two months, was arrested here today. Taken into Municipal Court after his capture by Detective Sergt. John Sullivan, a charge of vagrancy was dismissed when he waived extradition. He is to be returned *o Nashville, where he admitted he had been indicted on seven counts. He said he was free under $25,000 bond.

HONEYMOON ENDED; JACKIE DUE IN COURT

HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 2¢ (U. P).— Jackie Coogan came back from his honeymoon with Betty Grable too fast, the State Highway Patrol charged today. A citation was issued against the former juvenile star accusing him of driving 60 miles an hour Sunday as he returned with his bride from Santa Barbara where they went after their marriage. Coogan was ordered to appear in court at Ventura, Nov. 30.

ENAMEL WORKERS ON JOB CONNERSVILLE, Nov. 24 (U. P). —Two hundred and twenty-five Davidson Enamel Products Co. employees returned to their jobs today under terms of a new contract signed by company officials and jeaders of & local A, F. of L. union.

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PARLEYS CALLED

Wheeler Asks for

| Reassurances to Business.

BULLETIN WASHINGTON, Nov. 214 (U. P.).—Floyd L. Carlisle, president of Consolidated Edison of New York, conferred with President Roosevelt today and announced he would “go along” with plans for expanding generating and distributing power. Mr. Carlisle said he was “not in dissent with the President's general views on rate making.” His conference was believed to have aided the rapproachment of the Administration and utilities heads, aimed at stimulating expansion of the vast power industry.

WA S HIN GT O N—Administration parleys in White House arouse belief business tax relief pledge may be in offing as psychological step to reassure industry. Senator Wheeler calls for such a move to keep nation out of hands of reactionaries. House Labor Committee seeks to revive Wage-Hour Bill by dropping five-man board.

(Editorial, Page 10)

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—A series of significant conferences on Capitol Hill today suddenly renewed speculation on the possibility that the Administration would speed efforts to reassure business in regard to relief from undistributed profits tax burdens. The move coincided with a call by Senator Wheeler (D. Mont.) for reas-

surance to industry.

Whether an Administration-ap-proved move to revise the profits tax at this session would result or whether there would be pronouncements of intention in an effort te encourage business was uncertain pending outcome of discussions among Treasury and Congressional leaders. Joseph P. Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Commission, and regarded as a leading figure in the Administration business aid campaign, took the lead in the conferences. He met with Chairman Pat Harrison (D. Miss.) of the Senate Finance Committee; Roswell Magill, Undersecretary of the Treasury, and L. H. Parker, chief of staff of the Joint Com- | mittee on Internal Revenue. | “I would not be opposed to action at this session if it were possible at the obstacles are great,” Senator Harrison said. He added significantly, however, “I put tax revisions second only to the Farm Bill.” The possibility of speedier tax reasstirance to business came as the Administration rapprochement with industry widened. These were developments: President Roosevelt moved forward with his efforts toward a truce with private utilities. He conferred with Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison concerning his proposal to cease extension of Federal power projects in return for reductions in utility rate-base valuations. Congress prepared to receive the President's recommendations for amendment of the Federal Housing (Turn to Page Three)

FORD NONSTRIKERS AND PICKETS CLASH

‘Greyhound Lines Are to Defy Walkout Call Here.

(Editorial, Page 10)

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 24 (U. P).—The Ford Motor Co. assembly plant here was operating on a usual basis today after nonstriking employees battered through picket lines to take their places on the assembly line. Nonstrikers entered the plant in defiance of a picket line of almost 1000 and in doing so challenged the U. A. W. union which, through Delmond Garst, regional director, called a strike effective at 5 a. m.

Greyhound Here to Try

Service During Strike

A strike of 110 local Greyhound Bus Co. drivers has been called for midnight tonight, B. C. Hall, regional manager here, said. Mr. Hall said he was Informed of | the strike from the company’s main office in Cleveland, where negotia- | tions between the company and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen have been conducted unsuccessfully. “We will make every effort to keep the lines in operation, not only over the Thanksgiving holiday, but until the Strike is settled,” Mr. Hall said. Xz

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POLICE SELVES, MARKETS TOLD

Face U. S. Control, SEC Head Warns; F. D. R. Opens Utility Rate Cut Drive.

WASHINGTON—Stock markets offered choice by SEC chairman between co-operative action to end alleged abuses or be subjected to complete Federal control. WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt opens drive to gain utility co-operation. Proposes plan to slash rates which may be followed by TVA curtailment.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P.) — Chairman William O. Douglas of the Securities and Exchange Commission today offered the nation’s stock markets choice between co-operative “progressive action” to eliminate alleged abuses or subjection to thor-ough-going Federal control. He spoke in the midst of the worst market slump since 1929.

NEW YORK, Nov. 24 (U. P.).— Stocks moved lower this afternoon. VU. S. Steel dropped to a new low for the year. U. S. Government bonds were irregularly higher. There was no appreciable reaction to the Douglas statement.

Self-styled ‘conservative fellow from the old school,” Mr. Douglas raised over the markets the club In the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 which permits the SEC, as a last resort, to suspend any exchange for one year. His blunt ultimatum called on the exchanges to reorganize for more adequate self-regulation, policing and detection within the letter and the spirit of the 1934 Exchange Act. Failing this, he warned, the only remaining alternative was “immediate and more pervasive administration directly by the Commission” of all phases of exchange business within the authority of the 1934 Securities Exchange Act. He promised an early Commission decision on the next step. Mr. Douglas presented this five(Turn to Page Three)

PREACHER IS CALM WHEN FOUND GUILTY

Illinois Man Gets Life Term | In Woman's Slaying.

PITTSFIELD, Ill, Nov. 24 (U. P.). —The Rev. Col. E. Newton, frail Baptist preacher, was found guilty early today by a Circuit Court jury of the murder of Mrs. Maybelle Kelly, his admiring parishioner and confidante. The jury of 11 farmers and a barber recommended that the 51-year-

old preacher be sentenced to life imprisonment.

. They received the case at 5:18! p. m. (Indianapolis Time) yesterday and reached their verdict at 1:18 a. m. today. The Rev. Mr. Newton was wakened from a sound sleep and brought into

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1937

Where Newlyweds’ Hopes Collapsed in'T ragedy

Family Digs for Old Coins

After Waddy Home Burns

In the ashes of their suburban home, H. O. Waddy prominent real estate man, and his family today were digging for a valuable old coin

collection. Mr. Waddy would put no valuation on it, but said he had been | collecting the coins for nearly 60 years. The Waddy home, in Lawrence, burned last night despite efforts of the Ft. Harrison and Oaklandon fire departments to save it. The origin of the fire was not determined. Mr. Waddy, his daughter, Mrs. W. J. Ervin, her husband, and their son, 11-year-old Billy, left the house, a two-story frame dwelling, to go out for dinner. They returned at 7 p. m. and found the place in flames and the firemen fighting them. Terrier Suffocated Firemen had to lay 1700 feet of hose to get water, because the plug directly in front of the Waddy home was frozen. “Boots,” a wire haired terrier, was the sole occupant of the house at the time of the fire. He died of suffocation at the back door where apparently he was attempting to get out. Mr. Waddy said the loss was about $10.000, mostly to the contents, which included valuable oriental rugs. Among other things destroyed was a new radio, brought home yesterday by Mr. Ervin as a Christmas present to his wife. Also destroyed was a large collection of model airplanes belonging to Billy who had won several prizes with them. Only a part of one side of the structure was still standing today. Mr. Waddy Is president of Waddy & Springer, Inc, real estate firm, and treasurer of Atkins Savings & Loan Association. Fire Starts in State House Firemen today were forced to cut a hole in the living room wall of the home of Mrs. Noel Waggoner, 2417 Guiiford Ave. to extinguish a blaze that started in the basement. Mrs. Waggoner said she had just completed a two-weeks housecleaning for Thanksgiving.

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Office equipment was damaged | and a small number of auto title | and license registration records were singed by fire in the branch auditing room of the State Auto License Department in the State House. It is expected all records can be traced and duplicates obtained, officials said. Fire apparently started from electric wiring.

Former Resident Here

Dies of Burns

JAMESTOWN, Ind. Nov. 24 (U. P.) —Burns received when she tried to light a fire with oil were fatal last night to Mrs. Walter Jones, 50, former Indianapolis resident. Gene Eastman, a son, was burned about the face when he attempted to help his mother. Mrs. Jones left Indianapolis about a month ago to make her home on a farm near

here.

FRENCH ARREST EX-AIR LEADER

Question Retired Commander in Connection With Rumor of Coup.

PARIS, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—Gen. du Seigneur, retired commander of the French Air Force, which was rumored to be active in a Monarchist plot to overthrow the Republic, was arrested and questioned today after police raided his home. Despite a public denial issued several days ago that Gen. du Seigneur was connected with the plot, police raided his home and he was taken to the headquarters of the Surete Nationale. No charge had been preferred. The Surete Nationale announced

| that 10 additional warrants had been

issued and new arrests were prom- | ised after a raid on a house in the | Rue de Provence, in the heart of Paris and apparent headquarters of the Cagoulards, or “Hooded Ones.”

Report Documents Found

The raid was reported to have yielded a wealth of documents, including lists of membership. On the basis of these lists new impetus was given the investigations which were extended throughout France. Eugene Deloncle, an engineer reported to be one of the most important figures in the Cagoulard organization, still was missing and police believed he had fled abroad. Developments were still expected to show a planned coup rivaling the proportions of the great French Revolution of 1789. The Government in announcing that the plot had been foiled revealed that the Cagoulard membership included army men, industrialists and professional men sympathetic to restoration of the monarchy.

CUMMINGS’ AID ASKED IN TWIN CITIES PROBE

ST. PAUL, Minn., Nov. 24 (U.P). —Gov. Benson of Minnesota today called upon U. S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings, who once branded the Twin Cities the “crime center” of the nation, for aid in investigating charges of “gangsterism” and “racketeering” in connection with the assassination of Patrick J. Corcoran, labor leader. The Minnesota Governor explained that if charges gangsters have been “imported” into the Twin Cities are true, Federal investigation probably would reveal that Federal as well as state laws have been violated.

Oh. My husband!” Supported by a policeman, Mrs. Robert Wilson identifies today’s train victim.

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DIES IN CRASH ON HONEYMOON EVE

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Road 40 ‘Death Trap’ On W. Washington To Be Eliminated.

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HELPLESS, SAYS PEAGE PARLEY

Brussels Delegates Prepare To Adjourn After Private Meeting.

BRUSSELS—Nine-power conference prepares to adjourn. Confesses inability to effect Far East peace. SHANGHAI-—Hungry Chinese refugees riot through’ French concession. Chinese Government prepares to suspend chief functions in greater Shanghai. Japanese advance on Nanking reported slowed by rain. NANKING—Forty die in Japanese air raid.

| CANTON—One hundred Killed as

Japanese planes bomb area.

BRUSSELS, Nov. 24 (U. P.).—The Nine-Power Conference convened privately today to write its own death warrant, confessing inability to effect peace between Japan and China. Unable to coax Japan into peace talks and unwilling to exert pressure on Tokyo, the 19 powers represented contented themselves with considering a deciaration of principles and a historical summary of the conference's work. The conference adopted both the

| declaration and the summary.

Neither document contained any (Turn to Page Three)

NICE WEATHER? NO SUN ON NORTH SIDE

Wind to Keep Smoke Out of Thanksgiving Air.

TEMPERATURES wer BY 10 0. 28 11am... 29 12 (Noon) 32 1pm

3% 41 42 47

The phone rang and a voice said: “Is the sun shining downtown today?” “Yes, it is today.”

“Well, it isn't at 34th and Meridian Sts. The ‘smog’ out here is terrible today.” And so Indianapolis began another day partially inundated with health-destroying pall of smoke. There was a thinner haze over downtown Indianapolis. There was a six-mile-an-hour wind today. Tomorrow that will be stepped up to between 12 and 15 miles-an-hour, the Weather Bureau predicted, and that should clear the heaviest part of the smoke from the Thanksgiving air. Otherwise, Thanksgiving Day will not be distinguished in its weather, the Bureau said. It will be cloudy and warmer,

Construction Is to

Start in Spring, State Says.

Preliminary steps to eliminate the dangerous “Sshaped” underpass at W. Washington St. and Highway 40, described for years as the worst “death trap” in Marion County, were announced today by Indiana Highway Commission engineers. They reported they had obtained options on all necessary right-of-way needed for the project and that construction work probably would be started next spring. Tentative plans, engineers explained, call for rerouting the National Road in a half-circle north of its present junction with W. Washington St. and Highway 36 just east of the Big Four Railroad underpass. The new route would start 500 feet east of Alton Ave. and circle westward, crossing Big Eagle Creek about 175 feet north of the present Highway 40 bridge. Then, according to tentative plans, the road would intersect Highway 36 and make a direct crossing under the

railroad north of the present dangerous underpass.

No Blind Approach

There would be no blind approach to the underpass and it would be a “straightaway” tunnel under the tracks, engineers explained. They estimated the City’s share of the right-of-way costs would be about $25,000 and the State's share $5000. Engineers said several years ago when the State proposed to eliminate the hazard, City officials protested on the ground that right-of-way cost, then estimated at $40,000, was too expensive and the project was drdpped. It was estimated that the entire project would cost about $500,000. Engineers said as soon as plans are completed, they will be submitted to Federal highway engineers in an effort to get Federal funds.

FIND WOMAN'S BODY ON CHURCH GROUNDS

The body of a woman, about 55, was found today on the grounds of the Carmelite monastery on Cold Springs Road by employees. Police said a paper clutched in one hand appeared to have contained poison. Her face and neck were burned. The woman, fairly well clothed, weighed between 140 to 150.

MILK ANTITRUST PROBE EXPANDED

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (U. P). —Attorney General Cummings rvevealed today that the antitrust investigation of the milk industry has expanded to national scope. Mr. Cummings said that the investigation in New York State was complicated by the fact that the state has a milk authorily which makes rules and regulations for the

industry.

Collections of Money and Records Sought After Fires

court when the jurors had filed into |

their box. He stood sheepishly as Judge A. Clay Williams called to or-

der the newspapermen and a few \

tired curious who had waited for the decision. “What is your verdict, gentlemen?” Judge Williams asked. “We find the defendant guilty as charged and recommend he be sentenced to prison for the rest of his natural life,” the foreman re- | plied. The verdict, he said, was unanimous. | The pastor maintained the delib- | erate calm he has shown throughout the nine days of his trial. | “I'm not much surprised,” he said, “what with all the prejudice | and publicity. “I'm going to ask for a new trial. | If I fail in that I will appeal to a, higher court. Thats all I'm going | to say right now.” He was returned to jail by a deputy sheriff. The preacher was the only princi- | pal of the detective-story case who heard his sentence. His son, Noel, 24, and step-

Belt Railroad Engine Strikes Auto at Shelby St.

WIFE DISTRAUGHT

Driver of Second Car Involved Unhurt In Mishap.

An Indianapolis bride groom, completing plans for a lelayed honeymoon motor trip that was to have begun toe night, was killed today when a Belt Railroad switch engine

struck his car at Shelby St.

He was Robert Wilson, 21, and had left his home at 1152 Gimber St., a few moments ‘earlier to get a package of cigarets. Although rail road men said the warning bells and lights were functioning, he drove his car onto the tracks. George Schrader, 811 N. Alabama St.,, who also was driving in the same direction on Shelby St. at the time, said the Wilson car was alongside his. When Mr. Wilson, already on the tracks, saw the engine bearing down, he turned his car abruptly and, hooking the Schrader car, dragged it also into the path of the engine.

Mr. Schrader Uninjured

Mr. Schrader was uninjured when the engine brushed his car aside. Mr. Wilson's car was crushed under the engine and dragged 250

feet. His body was all but hidden in the wreckage. Only his face was visible. It was the fifth auto-train accie dent at this crossing this year, police records show, but the first fatal one. For 20 minutes, the victim wag unidentified except for a bill of sale for the car, recently purchased for the honeymoon. Police went to the address and found Mrs. Blanch Wilson, 18, packing for the trip through Kentucky. She went with police. She crossed the tracks and went through the path of spectators, which police cleared for her. She stood by the crumpled wreckage. And there, in the sun that had been bright for her holiday, she saw her husband’s face. “Oh, my Bob! Oh, my husband!” she obbed and covered her face with her hands. A policeman turned her around gently by the shoulder, She walked back to the police car.

His Mother Predicted Disaster

Inside the car she moaned again and again, “Oh, my husband, my husband.” Brokenly during the six-block drive to the home she told that her mother-in-law, Mrs. Herbert Wilson, with whom they lived, yesterday had predicted “something's going to happen to some of us.” “And it had to be him. Why couldn't it have been me? “We'd planned our trip for so long. We were to leave tonight. And now he’s left me.” Mrs, Wilson said she and Mr. Wile son had been married last March, that Mr. Wilson was a National Youth Administrator worker, and that Cincinnati was to have been their first stop today. The cdr stopped at the little home, Mrs. Wilson entered the door. Inside with her back to the door, and attended by a neighbor woman, was the youth's mother,

Mother Sobs for Son

She turned half way in her chair and murmured: “Is he dead?” “Yes, mother, he's dead,” younger woman replied, softly. The mother dropped her face in her hands, and rocked gently. “I want to die,” she sobbed, over and over again. Then the young widow went to her purse and without a further word took a picture of her husband from her purse and gave it to police. And the police left the home, Others in the Herbert Wilson family are the father, who is a trucker; and children, Margaret, 17; Eva, 15; Charles, 12; Christine, 10; | Luther, 8; Irene, 5, and Kenneth, 3,

| Little-Used Law Invoked |

Meanwhile, a little-used statute was brought into the police traffic | safety campaign today as more than [60 motorists were ordered before | Municipal Court Judge Charles J. Karabell.

Elijah Harris, 69, of Route 15, Box 174, was charged with failing to give |a pedestrian the right of way follows«

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{ian Eaton, 62, of 2129 N. 'St., was injured seriously. | Three other persons were injured | slightly in a series of minor acci- | dents. Nine of those arrested wers | charged with speeding, and seven paid fines totaling $107 on the | charge today. | Patrolmen Albert Brahaum and | Louis Mikesell said witnesses told | them Mrs. Eaton was walking across Delaware St. at 22d St. when Mr, | Harris’ car turned into Delaware St. Mrs. Eaton was knocked down, re- | ceiving a fractured left collar bone. She was taken to Methodist Hospital. Mrs. May Brubaker, 50, of 2129 N, Alabama St, who as walke (Turn to Page Three ®

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