Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 December 1937 — Page 1
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| YOLUME 49—NUMBER 232
; ROAD CHIE © COMPANY SELLING IGNALS TO TRUCKS
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Earl Crawford Says ‘Nothing Criminal “About That.’
GETS STATE 0. K.|
Only Indiana Firm ‘Given Approval by Safety Group.
By TOM OCHILTREE
Earl Crawford, Indiana Highway Commission chairman, is president of a corporation organized June 8, 1937, to sell electric safety signals to trucks operating on Indiana highways, as provided in a 1937 act, it was learned to-
day. The firm which he heads, the Auto Safety Signal Corp., is one of 11 approved by the State Safety
Committee, and the only Indiana Lamp Corp., also on, the approved list, has a plant at Anderson, but a General Motor subsidiary and no longer an Indiana tion.Mr. Crawford said today: “I am the president of the Auto Safety Signal Corp. There isn’t anything . criminal’ about that. I have no apology to make for that because I .am connected with the sale or distribution of a needed safety device. It is just'a distributing agency. The manufacturing, plant is in Cincinnati.” “There is nothing wrong about ‘Mr. Crawford being the head of this company,” Governor Townsend said. - his “product to the State, I am: not interested.” The National Safety Council, in accepting an invitation 1 from Governor. Townsend to aid in his state- - wide safety program, warned that “politics must be kept out of safety,” .. sand the Governor agreed.’ t © Membérs of the State Safety Committee which approved the’ list of signal firms are Perry McCart, Public Service Commission head; T. A. Dicus, State Highway Commission; Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Department head; Frank Finney, Auto License Buredu director, and Don* Stiver, State Safety Director, ‘According to articles of ipcorpora-. tion in the office of Secretary of State August G. Mueller, the ‘Auto Safety Signal Corp. was organized with .2500 shares of stock. which Hin 10 was increased to 5000
Other officers, acedrding to -the records, are Walter Magill, secretary; C.. E. Ehlers, vice president,
and 'M. E. Nob t, tredsurer. : Mr. Magill, in ge of the firm's
" pffice in the Chamber, of Commerce (Turn to Page Three) :
BELIEVE DISEASE OF BABIES NOW CHECKED
CHICAGO, Dec. n (u. P). Fours teen specialists in -child diseases met today to chart a campaign against a mysterious malady which has-taken |. the lives of 11 infants in St. Eliza- | beth’s Hospital and announced they believed the. infection is under control. Dr. Herman Bundesen, Chicago Board of Health president, said after the conference: “It is the consensus. of ‘those. at
the conference that the outbreak] of acute infective diarrhea is under |-
control. There are not at the pres- _ ent time any: cases in other institu- | tions in. Chicago nor ‘have any others occurred recently.”
GREYHOUND: STRIKE ° SUIT IS DISMISSED :
CLEVELAND, Dec. 7 (U, P.).— Suits filed by the Greyhound Bus Lines 10 days ago against the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, asking $7,500,000 damages as the result of the recent strike against Greyhound, were dismissed today in Federal Court. The company and the B. R. T, s r of the walkout of Greyh drivers, reached an agreement and signed a contract Dec. 1. Company | officials had announced then that hey would seek dismissals of the suits.
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TOWNSEND ASKS NEN INDUSTRIES
Calls Chamber of of Commerce Parley to Co-ordinate Information.
Governor Townsend said today he had called a .conference of state. and city Chamber of Commerce officials to co-ordinate information on available manufacturing plant buildings for possible new industries for Indiana.
“Some industries erploviig as’ many .as 3500 persons have been making inquiries,” he said.
The State Chamber of Commerce did not have the necessary information to give inquiring in-. dustries, he said. . *
telegraphed 10 Corn Belt governors. urging them ‘to demand that Congress alter the crop bill ‘now before the House to provide for compulsory participation in quotas’ after a successful two-third referendum vote »f producers and parity prices for agriculture. He, asked the Governors to. fight for a farm bill embodying the provi‘sions - contained. in ‘a resolution adopted by officials attending the Nov. 8 farm conferénce here. This resolution favored an evernormal granary and. parity ‘prices and asked Congress to “adopt without delay a national farm policy that is equitable in its treatment of the -basic.. tommodity problems of agriculture.” He did not send a telegram to ‘Governor Davey of \Ohio, the Governor said, because “Davey. hgs in= dicated he does not desire to. have any part in the matter.” 8 The - telegrams were sent after: Governor Townsend received a message .from . Edward A. O'Neal, American Farm .Bureau Federation president, advising that the bill before Congress did not fulfill the desires outlined at the. Indianapolis fonterdhes. }
DENY RANSOM ASKED FOR RICH BUILDER
6-Men Join Police in Hunt For-Exenyiive, :
WHITE.PLAINS, N. Y., Dec. 7 (u. P.).—Bureau of Investigation ‘Agents joined locdl police today in an attempt to solve the mysterious disappearance of Arthur Fried, 32, a construction company executive. Mr. Fried, missing from his fashSaturday night, was reportéd ‘to have been kidnaped and held for $200,000 ransom.’ Although this was denied by police and members of his family, one -. investigator said that his bpeiber, Hugo, following telephone instructions, had found a note demanding $200,000 for ‘his return. Hugo Fried, a garage owner, was reported by one investigator to have received a telephone call telling him that if he wished to_see his brother alive to go to a saloon and read a note that had been placed on a high
i ‘Statehouse Employees Scoff
: ‘| Leach.
| watch and lick.”
leaders have whispered to Governor
J| tle’ difficult to find a candidate.” ‘| candidate to succeed himself.
. Ethel du. Pont, and 2a children’s
House holiday festivities, the Presi-
dianapolis Times
FORECAST: Occasional snow. probable tonight and tomorrow ; Slightly warmer tonight with lowest about 15; colder tomorrow and tomorrow night.
TERMS MNUTT ‘NO. 1 THREAT
- Townsend Second Possibility.
GOVERNOR JUST LAUGHS
At Statement VanNuys Is Popular,
Paul” V. McNutt is the No. 1 Threat for 1940 against all the Democrats, New Deal or anti, and Maurice Clifford Townsend is the No. 2| Threat, according to Paul R.
The Washington correspondent makes this observation in a Saturday Evening Post article entitled "“Iffies on the Wabash,” appearing |- on newstands today. - \ “If President Roosevelt really is thinking of a third term, as a lot of reasonably wise men believe he is, Indiana’s two most prominent citizens will merit increasingly the ‘sort of close White House ohservations they are under right’ now,” Mr. Leach wrote.
be a candidate, if he declares himself as definitely rejecting that attractive, precedent-smashing notion some two years hence, as Indiana's Democrats fully believe that he will, then | all the hopeful governors, senators, congressmen and dark ‘horses who are doing their-yearn-ings from New York to California have these same two Hoosiers to
, VahNuys Another “i”
With a chuckle, Governor Townsend. today described the article as “a unique piece of writing.” Mr. Leach said that the present Philippine Islands High Commissioner “has been a candidate for President, as an old classmate at Indiana University ‘puts it, ever since he has been able to get out of a bathtub alone.” - He also said national Democratic
Townsend that he might receive the nomination ‘for Vice President. ro at. whisper. has come. from lose -to “Mr. Farley, who might be | : candidate himself for top place on the ticket if Roosevelt isn’t, and if Farley goes after and gets the New York Governor’s chair next year, thereby having McNutt’s positive ambitions to combat. At the moment, Farley .is much chummier with Townsend than he is with McNutt.” In speaking of Senator VanNuys’ battle for renomination, Mr. Leach | listed as another “if” the- possibility of a coalition between hard-shell Democrats and Republicans behind the senior Indiana. Senator. y “Whatever comes of the Démocratic. senatorial ‘nomination row, however dangerous may become the | : (Turn to ‘Page Three)
GOVER NOR INDICATES
Possibility that Municipal Judge Dewey Myers will not be reappointed by Governor Townsend when his four-year term expires Jan. 1’ was seen today. Asked whether he had a candidate for the post, the Governor said: . “It’s going to be a lit-
‘Judge Myers is reported to be a He presides’ in Room .3, which handles criminal cases: , Several others are, reported seeking support of the County Democratic leaders for the post.
ROOSEVELT FAMILY. - . SCHEDULES PARTIES
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 wz Py ~ "A dance on Dec. 30 for Miss Anne Clark, ‘Boston, fiancee of the President's youngestrson, John, and Mrs. Franklin D. Rosevelt Jr., the former
party on Dec. 27 will mark White
"dent's wife announced today. About 400 young people, friends of the younger Roosevelts, will attend: the dance. .The children’s party will be given for . two 6-year-old Presidential grandchildren, Sara, daughter of Mr and Mrs, James Roosevelt, and William Donner Roosevelt, son of Elliott Roosevelt and his first wife; the present Mrs. Curtin Winsor. Mr. ane Mrs. Winsor will accompany the youngster to the White House. Kate, nearly two years old, daughter of the James Roosevelts, will
shelf in-the washroom.
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A gray blanket of skies sagged | |
over Indianapolis today, ready to
carry out the Weather Bureau pre-. diction of probable snow Slurries this afternoon and tonight. A little respite from the sub-
normal Keimperal ies of the last few
Probable Snow Flurries Predicted Here Tonight
‘| normal for this month already -is
| thoroughfares in the city were
alse attend.
weather was predicted for tomorrow. ‘The thermometer got down to 10 early today, two above the winter's record low.
The accumulated departure from
—48 degrees, where last year at this time it was but —20. Main
| largely free of ice and snow today, but side streets remained slippery and motorists were cautioned to j proceed slowly, - The Bureau reporied that the snowfall was not heavy over the ate
FOR 1940 RACE |
Magazine Writer Considers|
“And if the President is mot to/|’
MYERS MAY LOSE JOB|
The Senate today defeated a pro-
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1937
“Dear Roger. .
June Irwin
WRITES TOMAN
SHE NEVER. SAW,
Girl, 21, Viotim of tnciraie Disease, Comforts Fellow. Sufferer.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 7T(U. PJ).
—June Irwin, 21 years old, wrote an. endearing letter today to a man
she doesri’t knoy. The’ thing’ they have in commen is an incurable dis- | ease that their doctors say will soon,
take both their lives. :
Her lettér began: “Dear. Roger...” It’ went to Roger Carr, 33, of Olympia, Wash., who became her
hero last week when he offered his life to medical science in hopes that surgeons might learn something of the disease from him and save other lives. The disease is multiple sclerosis— creeping paralysis. Physicians do not. know the cause or cure. If is a chronic disorder of the nervous system, characterized by the hardening of small areas in the brain or spinal cord. Miss. Irwin took her pen in stiffening fingers 2hd w worked tedigusly on" hér mi gement’ to Mr. Carr, bei believe that Mr. Carr became a prey to the
disease because -he lost too much
blood when he Was a professional donor.during the. depression and could find ‘no work.
“Miss Irwin wanted to thank him |
for his offer, and to urge him to . keep up his sourag his courage,
SENATE REJECTS "0 LIMIT IN FARM BILL
Congress nthe: Measure | ‘As Hope for Others Dims.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—
posal by Minority Leader McNary to place a 1940 limit on operation of the in Farm Bill. Administration leaders drove both Houses toward. passage of the farm measure
| before Christmas.
Spurred by Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley -(D. Ky.) and Senator Pope (D. Ida.), Benate Democrats voted down McNary’s proposal to convert the farm measure into a temporary relief bill by prohibiting adjustment contracts with farmers after 1940. The roll call vote on the McNary amendment was 25 to 51. Administration speakers emphasized that suecess of the evernormal granary theory depended on permanency. * The- vote followed a stirring appeal by Senator Johnson (R. Cal.) : (Turn to Page Three)
SURGERY AVOIDED _ INTREATING F. D. R
X-Ray Shows: To Tooth infec: a
tion Misses Bone.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).— Examination of X-ray pictures disclosed today that. it will not be necessary to scrape President Roosevelt’s jaw bone in’treatment of infection resulting, from extraction of a diseased tooth. The infection, X-rays revealed, is confined to the soft tissue surrounding the ‘place where the tooth was removed. 'I{ ‘does not in any way involve the bone as had been
feared, Secretary Stephen T. Early |
said. Mr. Roosevelt submitted to further treatment today by Dr. Arthur H. Yando of the Navy Dental Corps and Dr. Ross T. McIntire, White House physician, : “The doctors s there is still some soreness and a slight drain-
age but both are highly grauned as
‘the result of the X-rays,” Mr explained.
QUEEN MARIE IMPROVES
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dee. (U. P.) —Dowager Queen Marie, who has been seriously ill, was repo i Vas’
r. Early
| the Dec. 20 ‘meéting, Roy: O. John-
| nance was approved by Council last + night and now awaits Mayor Boetch-
| Ste to Park Ave.
NEW PROPOSAL ON SMOKE T00
Council to ) Get R Revised Bill At. Dec. 20 Session, ‘League Says.
ANTIRABIES LAW PASSED
Bond Issue Voted. to Finish|
New Wing on City Hospital. = (Earlier Storyion Page 12)
A revised amendment proposal to
the Smoke Abatement Ordinance|
will be brought before City. Council by the Smoke Abatement League at
son, League attorney, said today. The proposed amendment’ was to have been before Council last night, but Attorney Johnson ‘said he failed ‘to get it in the hands of the City
Entered as Second-Clas: Matter | ere Ene -1naianapo is. Ind.
Clerk by noon yesterday as required | §
by law.:
As it now stands, the proposal |"
would legalize use of smoke detection instruments and would regulate the smoke of locomotives.
“- The City’s first antirabies ordi-| 3s
er’s signature. The ordinance provides that dog owners must present a certificate that: their dogs are vaccinated against rabies before dog licenses can be issued.
‘Morgan Sponsors Bill
Councilman Edward Kealing was the only member to vote against it. He explained he thought it would place too great a burden on persons least able to pay.
Dr. Herman. G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, sponsored “the ordinance and argued in its behalf that it .is better to give dogs one preventive shot than human beings ‘14. Dogs must be vaccinated within 30 days before application for license. Councilman John Schumacher said he wolild put before Council at its next Meoung a proposal to reduce from" $2 to $1 the
Price of dog licenses.
tt Bond Issue Approved A>
“delegation, prepared to protest |
the city’s action in not building. a: =
‘Warfleigh sewer unless property owners pay for it out of individual assessments, failed to get a hearing. Council approved: unanimously a $110,000 bond issue for completion of the new City Hospital wing, but President Edward B. Raub warned against “starting something and then not following through according to plans and specifications.” A proposal to ban truck traffic from Pennsylvania St. was defeated. Transfer of $2800 from Police and Fire Department salary funds to other funds in ‘those departments was: approved, and vacating of a portion of Montcalm St. from Burdsal ‘Blvd. to 25th St. also was voted.
Desks to Be Bought
The Zoning ordinance was amended to prohibit construction of double houses in the area bounded by Central Ave., Broadway, White River and the Canal. Council also approved, with rules suspended, the expenditure of $3069 for 89 desks for the City, Hospital Nurses’ Home. There was no action on proposed bills that would limit alleged bootleg (coal sales in the city, require ‘taxi companies to be bonded against accident injuries, create a City Housing Authority and bring trackless trolleys under the city traffic faws. ‘Council was asked to authorize tax anticipation loans of $750,000 to the City General Fund and $125,000 to the City Health Board Fund; to limit to 114 hours parking on the south side of Market St. from East
Women’s Council Backs
Smoke Ordinance
Support of an adequate smoke abatement program and the proposed Smoke Abatement Ordinance ‘was_ pledged by the Indianapolis Council of Women. today. The council's resolution followed plea by Roy O. Johnson, Smoke
Abatement League secretary, at a meeting today in L. S. Ayres: & Co. Auditorium. He urged council’ members to attend the City Council meeting Dec. 20 to support the proposed smoke abatement ‘amend-
‘| freedom of the press clause of the
This ear (upper), according to
urday night. rs. Mary Runyon, the alleged
Charles McCallister.
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ASK STATE LATE FOR VOTE,
deputy sher fs, is the one which
- struck and killed a Bridgeport, man and his 4/year- -old daughter Sat-
driver, is shown below as she was
Cher from the County Jail to Municipal Court today by Chief Jailer
(Editorial,
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House Probe of NLRB i in Su bpenaing Edi tor Asked
Page 16) |
WASHINGTON, Dec, 7 (U. P.).—Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (R. N. J.) today demanded a House investigation of the National Labor Relations Board in connection with its subpenaing of Hartley W. Barclay, editor of
the trade magazine, Mill and Factory |
The Board’s action, he charged,
“appears to be a violation of the
Constitution.” Mr. Barclay ignored an NLRB subpena to appear at a hearing in Steubenville, O., yesterday with records of a magazine article in which he criticized the]: Board for its activity in the Weirton Steel Co. case.
New Course on Press. Freedom Seen Likely By FRED W. PERKINS
Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.—The dispute between the National Labor Relations Board and Editor Hartley W. Barclay appeares destined to
ment.
provide the public with another in-
tensive course in the meaning of Article One of the Constitution’s Bill of Rights. s The article says: “Congress shall make no law . abridging the freedom of speech or of the press . Mr. Barclay, “editor of ‘a New York trade magazine, wrote and fem to Page Six)
ADAMS’ TRIAL PLEAS SET . Special Judge Charles B. Staff today .sef arguments for tomorrow afternoon in Criminal’ Court on the
motion for a new trial filed by Ralph Adams, sentenced to life imprisonment recently for the murder of his wife, Lucille Adams.
Children Themselves Most Eloquent. Plea in Clothe-A- Child Campaign
158 Clothed: Donors’ List, | Editorial, Page 16)
Children in ragged clothing sat in The Tinfes’ Clothe-A-Child -Headquarters as the busy doctor entered to “adopt” his child to clothe. On Saturday he and his wife had agreed that each would outfit an underprivileged child—he a boy, she a girl.' They called headquarters and made arrangements to call yesterday to go shopping with the chil-
,away from his practice, ap 74
en the doctor, taking me boy was assigned to him. But pis turned around, he could not turn away from the look in the eyes of a little girl who was waiting for some-
_ | instead of only one, beat faster with
- And so the hearts of ‘two children,
anticipation and a cheer that had been lacking too long. | "A few hours later .the doctor’s wife appeared to take a girl—just the one child she had “reserved.” There were little girls there, but there were little “boys, too. Sitting: Side by side were two hrothers. She stared at them a moment.
“I'll take them both,” she. said |
suddenly. Today there were six happy persons instead of four. r The Times Clothe-A-Child campaign doesn’t mefely mean hap-
piness to the hundreds of boys and |
girls who are Slotied each year, but to ‘donors a
this year and right now the biting cold makes the need greater.
. It’s easy for you to help these un-
fortunate youngsters—to give Shem a new start. Here are the ways: 1.-1f you wish to shop with a child personally, call Riley 5551 and make ' an appointment to meet a child at! Clothe=A-Child Headquarters, 206 Ww. Maryland St. 2. Or Jif you want us to act for you, mail a check to “Clothe-A-Child, The Indianapolis Times.” Our experienced shoppers will do the
‘rest.
3. Or you can join with others in
‘your office, club,
night were reduced to! manslaughter charges. (|
| limits last ‘week-end.
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TKarabell and Wilson Advise Action by Legislature, Be
SEVEN FINED #7
| Count Against Mrs.
Runyon Changed To Manslaughter.
(Editorial, Page 16) “Coroner E. R. Wilson and Municipal Court Judge Charles J. Karabell tag. recommended that the Indi= ana Legislature make fatal
hit-and-run _ accidents crimes =
of second-degrée murder on the part of the driver. The recommendation .came in Municipal Court when | charges x : murder placed by Coroner (Wi against Mrs. Mary Runyon, wy field, in connection with the’ hit= run deaths of two persans Saturday involuntary
Mrs. Runyon, 37- -year-old State | Health Board clerk, surrendered last night to Sheriff Ray upon advice 4 of Dr. Hugh Thatcher, Deputy Core oner, and became the| first to be charged under-Dr. Wilson's recent “murder charge” edict,
Ray Orders Strict Drive
Meanwhile, Sheriff ‘Ray ordered a stringent campaign to curb speeds ing and reckless driving on co roads. Three were killed in hit and-run accidents outside Ci
Mrs. Runyon, whose bubang was
| killed five years ago |in an auto ’| wreek, -is accused of driving the ‘car
that struck and fatally injured Noah Russell, Bridgeport, and his 4-yeams old daughter, Margaret, near Bridge= port. She is held to the Grand Jury on $2000 surety bonds. In court today she was pale, but composed. “Mary Runyon, ” utes Karabell called. Ca “Yes. ” Hi “You're charged wit murder.” ; “Yes, sir.’ Judge. Karabell began to read the
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‘| affidavits and half way through,
Mrs. Runyon looked | around the courtroom. I “Listen to me, please,” Judge Karabell ordered. . | : “I am listening,” she replied. McCallister Tells Story. - When the affidavits were read, Judge Karabell asked how she pleaded. She replied: ! “I was expecting _my brother. to. have an attorney fpr me.’ Attorney David Lewis appeared and took over the case.
“I was retained only 15 minutes
ago,” he explained. “What are the charges?” ; “Murder.” “We plead not guilty. » Chief Jailer Charles McCallister was sworn in and repeated the story he said Mrs. Runyon told him last night about the accident. It was the same story Coroner Wilson earlier had said she’ told, snd which her alleged formal statement to officers said. The alleged statement read, inpart: “On Saturday, Dec. 4, I left n=
dianapolis about 5:30 p. m. to drive to my home at Plainfield. When : arrived at the west side of Bridgeport, something hit the windshield of my car and broke it. Turned and Came Back “I then drove to the Count Road and turned ardund county Ling back to look to see what had ine. car. But I could nat see an I did not get out of my ing looked as good as I could to see. _— one. “I then drove to the closest place where I could turn around and then I drove back over the road .again and could not see anyone. | g drove on home to Plainfield and pul my car in the garage. Then I sa that the right headlight and righ fender were broken. | “Sunday I saw the paper and sai to. my mother that I must have hit something from the wreck that flew
| up and hit my windshield. On Mon
day, Dec. 6, I went to'Raymond Cale bert’ garage and I told him about ber accident and that I wanted him to fix the car: 2 Charge Is Changed
When Deputy McCallister had finished, Attorney Lewis said: “By the greatest stretch of imagination, I can riot see how defendant can be charged. murder. She might be held on
‘charge of involuntary manslaug
should it be proved that her struck these people as charged. may be involved ani she may, Judge Karabell said: 7 “You cannot have murder wi premeditation. As a matter of I don’t see how the charge of mi der could be made. However, ft Coroner should be congratulated bringing the charge and if the | islature will pass a Jaw making a crime second-degree murd some other states, it will
toward stopping this