Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1937 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 29, 1987 : Li PANAY VICTIMS REAGH HANSHAN ON NATIVE SAMPAN
Six victims of the Panay bombing, three seriously injured, arrive at Hanshan, Chins, o on a native sampan. An officer is in tHe foreground, head to camera; two members of the Panay crew, more seriously Busts are in the covered portion of the heat
. ROOSEVELT MAY ASK HIGHER ou. DEFENSE BUDGET; BRITISH REJECT JAP APOLOGY
Navy Makes Plans to 10 Sirengihen, Pearl Harbor Base; Ideas of Keeping Deficit Down Grow Dim; U. S. Warship Adds Four Guns.
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12 powerful patrol bombers was moved forward. from February to “about mid-January.” It also was hinted the flight might invnlve as many as six more than a full squadron of the ‘“flying destroyers”—a total of 18 of the planes, which recently took over all functions of surface craft.
Great Britain Rejects
Japanese Army Note TOKYO, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—Great Britain refuses to accept the Japanese Army’s explanation of an artillery attack on the gunboat Ladybird in the Yangtse River, J. L. - Dodds, British Embassy counselor informed the Foreign Office today.
‘Four Guns Added On U. S. Warship
* CANTON, China, Dec. 29 (U. P.). —The United States gunboat Mindanao, only American warship here, is increasing the number of its machine guns from 10 to 14, it 8 learned today. . - J
Events Threaten Budget Estimates
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P). —Events beat a disturbing tattoo today on promises of a budget balance next year and prospects of a deficit of less than $700,000,000 in this fiscal year. Outstanding unfavorable factors in the fiscal outlook were: 1. Increasing unemployment accompanying the recession. 2. Likelihood that international conditions will require increased expenditures for national defense. 3. Congressional reluctance to trim so-called pork barrel expense items. 4. Possibility of resumed Federal pump priming spending.
Chinese Claim Victory in Shansi
SHANGHAI, Dec. 29 (U. P.).— Chinese troops have recaptured 16 counties in Shansi Province as the result of removal of Japanese trcops for a drive on Tsingtao, Chinese sources said today. It was asserted that a big battle was being waged in the Wutaishan Mountains, just inside the Great
Wall, with Chinese froops apparently onthe offensive, trying to cut the dangerously long line of Japanese communications.
Report British Option On Canadian Wheat
LONDON, Dec; 29 (U. P.).—The Daily Herald, Labor Party organ, asserted today that the Government had. obtained .an option on the entire Canadian wheat crop, to be taken up if necessary to insure the country’s food! supply in event of war. The report was not confirmed. The Caifadian High Commissioner’s office and the Canadian Wheat Board, discussing the report, said that they knew of no such option. They suggested that an option might have been discussed in British Government circles but not yet approved.
Electric Substation At Port Dynamited
TSINGTAQ, "China, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—The main electric substation in this great German-built Shantung seaport was dynamited tonight, Chinese refugees reaching the waterfront at midnight said.
Naval Base on
Coast Proposed
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U. P).— Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles A. Edison today recommended that Congress authorize acquisition of a site and construction of a Naval supply depot at Oakland, Cal, to. cost about 15 million dollars.
‘REBELS ESCAPE AS TERUEL FORT FALLS
HENDAYE, FRENCH-SPANISH FRONTIER, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—Spanish Loyalists claimed today that they had stormed and taken Teruel seminary, one of the two principal strongholds of the handful of Rebels making a last-ditch stand in the center of the city. Those Rebels who were in the seminary escaped to the adjoining Santa Clara convent, which the Loyalists hoped to take soon. Most of the rest of the garrison were in the Civil Governor's palace.
Minton Sees Next Session
As ‘Hot One’
Senator Minton, here from New :
Albany for a visit, today predicted that the coming session of Congress next month “will be a hot one.” He said there are indications that a compromise will be reached in the controversial wage-hour bill that was stymied in committee at the close of the special session. He conferred briefly with Governor Townsend, explaining “it was just a social call.” The Senator said he would return to New Albany tomorrow and leave there for Washington Saturday or Sunday.
PENNSYLVANIA HOUR LAW GAUSES FLURRY
Scheduled to Go in Effect Jan. 3; Test Suit Filed.
By HERBERT LITTLE Times Special Writer: HARRISBURG, Pa. Dec. 29— Pennsylvania's “guinea pig” experiment in reducing the work-week by law, as President Roosevelt still hopes to do nationally with a wage-hour statute, is ‘encountering stormy weather. A law passed by the Legislature several months ago laid down a flat 44-hour; week requirement for all
,| workers, which is now scheduled to go into effect Jan. 3. A separate
law. limiting hours of work for women- in industry went into effect in September. ‘The limitation of men : workers’ hours is unique among state laws. It has caused a great flurry in this big industrial commonwealth. Lawyers have interpreted its broad terms to include city employees ‘such as firemen and policemen; Small municipalities have: lodged emphatic protests. The law itself fixed its effective date as Dec. 1, but the State Industrial ‘Board - exercised - the discretion granted to it, after the storm of protest broke, and postponed the date to Jen. 3. Meanwhile a test suit against the law was filed in Dauphin County Court by Holgate Bros. Co. of Kane, wood specialty and toy manufacturers.
WILLIAM A. WHITE GOES BACK TO WORK
ROCHESTER, Minn., Dec. 29 (U. P.).—William' Allen White, noted editor, of Emporia, Kas., today left the Mayo Clinic to “go back to work.” He denied any intention of retiring despite his 70 years and “resent-
ec” his title “Sage of Emporia.”
IN INDIANAPOLIS
Here's County Traffic Record 5 3 Deaths (To Date) 1937 ........ 153 1936 ....... 156 Deaths in City 1937... 1936 ....... 125
Accidents (Dec. 28)
Accidents .... 1
Injured ...... Dead esto NrRO 1
MEETINGS TODAY Kmerisan_ Association for the Advance-
nuai science exhibit, Ss
I Sad hotels. Colina Club,
nC ions Club, luncheon, Hotel Washington,
Young Men’s Discussion Club, dinner,
Yl A ae: “Association, tuncheon,
: noor:. erona 1 E ition, mode! mee ieee t, indians Ne tional Guard : Beocrage Credit i” Gro.” luncheon Fox's restaurant, noon. t —
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American Business Club, luncheon, Columbia Club, noon Acacia, iuncheon, Board of Trade, noon. Fine Pa redit Group, luncheon, Men's Grille, ® William H. Block Co., noon. Construction League of Indianapolis, himeheon, Arcihtects and ‘Builders Building,
rma Chi, luncheon, Board of Trade, or. Sigma Nu, ijuncheon, Hotel Washington, a. Rainbow Division, dinner,. Hotel Washington, 6:30 m. a oaravan Chub, luncheon, Murat Temple, ndiana = Motor Teathie luncheon. Hotel Antlers, ©il Club, iuncheon, Hotel Severin, noon.
Association,
BIRTHS Boys - Cooper, at , at
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ris Edwin, Kathryn Fulwider, at Coleman.
Girls Harry, Avanelle Dixon,
Charles, Irene Croper, Russell, Mildred Pruitt, at Farris. Mattie Br m, at Gerald. Kathryn C Bam. at Ci a Lauber. at St. Donita Mitchell, at 5, Lawrence. Pauline 'Frownfelter, at ColeEugene, Mary Shinkle, at 932 S. Mis-
_cent’s,
Sei District American Legion, luncheon. | . s Alpha Epsilon, luncheon, Board of
DEATHS
can Sarees.
Dunca 314 N. Lagalie: Serebral ts Ben
81,
Jame ander, 81; at City, chronic osteomyelitis.
| coronary occ!
Sylvia Wright, at 2201 W. Mor- |
tonight and tomorr
Salvadore Anthony Danna, 918 S. East. pulmonary Janna, [10 months, 7, at oraeE% Cornell,
Frances Ella Skeel, hy post: bath Kiesle, | esle, 00. uremi S. 1 at 34 Parkview,
ck Kurt, 54, at 2609 Wheeler, acute
Ma. myocarditis. Kate E. Tilson, 78, at Sines Sanitarium,
carcinoma.
. OFFICIAL WEATHER
United States Weather Bureao..
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Mostly cloudy, probably unsettied tonight and to-
morrow; lowest temperature near freezing; warmer tomorrow.
TEMPERATURE
Precipitation 24 hr 1 ie af precipita 3 hr s. ending 7 a. m..
Si MIDWEST WEATHER ana—Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow, ibl - ton: slightly warmer ‘omorrow Clin POF ois—Unsettled tonight and tomorrow; - slight: a: row sanghtly LA hd armef tomorrow in ‘east Lower M| ihlena—Considerabl cl Sloudiness IW, no! JOhis—Maatly. cloudy tonight. oe. tomorslightly SO in er aio portions tonight.
oh Tomotrow. and- in- southeast
Kentueky—Mostly cioidy fonight and tomorrow, possibly occasional slightly Warmer tomorrow and in west portion to-
mas on E. CITIES AT 7 A. M.
City. ‘chronic myo- m att, 54, at: Ceniral., brain’ Mobile,
G. Cleve J Jeftries, 47. at 210 Plaza Apts., |
Amanda Gelston: 136, at Central, hypo- {Port nd
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Sailors earry the flag-driped casket of a victim of the bombing on board. the flagship U. S. 8. Augusta, for funeral services. The
Augusta remained -in Sangha ai.
SERUM SEEN AS VALUABLE CURB FOR PNEUMONIA
Scientists Told Treatments Might Save Half of -Nation’s Victims.
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although the patient is free of the disease. = Moreover, disorders other than syphilis are occasionally responsible for:the presence of false positive reactions. The physician must be familiar with these limitations of ‘serologic tests usel in diagnosis.” Syphilis, perhaps more than any other disease, is capable of presenting such varied aspects that it is well-known the disease may produce a picture which will simulate that caused by many other Siseases, he added. Urges Clinical Instruction .
Dr. Senear urged that in any program for the control of syphilis; attention ‘be given not alone to laboratory ‘tests but that instruction be furnished with respect to the varied clinical manifestations also. “Any program which doe« not take cognizance of the impoitance of the clinical manifestation: will fall short of its objective,” he said. “Proper. handling of this disease involves co-ordination of the evidence offered by blood and spinal fluid findings, ‘history, and coraplete physical examination.”
Tests Child Reactions To Radio Programs
Most children have strong emotional reactions ‘to radio proframs, from the commercial announc:ment on through to the’ play’s drématic ending and the announcer’s closing offer of gifts. John J. DeBoer, Chicago Normal College, - reported today, on the basis of laboratory examinations’ of 800 children from 6 to 14 over a period of three years. Mr. DeBoer said that the transcriptions he used were relatively mild ‘and included none of the “blood ‘and thunder programs.” Boys seem to react more strongly to action, he said, and girls to scenes depicting physical danger to the actors. Neither registers very strongly to noise as noise, unless there ‘is an accompanying dramatic situation.’ Just. plain violent sound effects, unaccompanied by any other
tension, failed to produce a réaction
in. the majority of cases, he said.
PROTEST SEIZURE OF AGUA CALIENTE
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 29 (U.P). — (American investors today protested the Mexican Government's seizure of Agua Caliente, a $10,000,000 pleasure resort on the frontier which ericans - built during prohibition timés and which a few years ago was a famous drinking and gambling refuge for movie stars and other persons of means. President Lazaro Cardenas signed a decree last night expropriating Agua Caliente for Mexico ‘under that country’s socialization program. The lands and buildings will be used for industrial schools. Mexican authorities said the owners would be reimbursed within 10 years in accordance with the tax values of the properties.
Musician Who Slew Mother Dies in Muncie
"MUNCIE, Dec. 20 (U. P.)—Jesse Nixon, Muncie barber and former member of John Phillip Sousa’s
his 72<year-old mother with an ax Christmas Day and shot himself
Memorial Hospital here today. Nixon, apparently mentally deranged, indicated in a note that he had killed his mother because she had interferred with his musical career. ‘ He told authorities after his arrest that he had planned the crime for four years because “every time I left: on a musical engagement mother would write and insist that I return home.”
Asks No Music
Police found a note in Nixon's home which read: “Please have no flowers nor music at my funeral, especially no music. The music around here is rotten.’ Members of the family gave no indications as to whether the request would be carried out. Nixon, in his confession, told officers that he called on his mother, Mrs. Phoebe ‘Nixon, Christmas afternoon. They quarreled, he seized the ax and struck her on the head, he said. She died almost instantly. After the slaying he returned to his own home. Police attempted to arrest him after a neighbor woman discovered Mrs. Nixon’s body. Nixon had played the cornet with Sousa and many other famous bands. He returned here recently and had been working as a barber. The widow, two sisters Sand four brothers survive him. -- =
CYCLIST DIES AFTER AUTO ACCIDENT HERE
Injured Last Thursday; Three Are Killed in State.
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person was slightly scratched marred an otherwise perfect record in Indianapolis overnight. However, three persons were killed in state accidents. :
Arrested Sveruighi
City police arrested 31 motorists here overnight for traffic law violations, six on ‘speeding charges. Eight of 13 motorists arraigned in Municipal Court were assessed $66 fines and costs. : Dever Herendeenl, 18, Akron, and Harry Dixon, 16, Athens, O., were killed in a collision at a curve on State Road 14 east of Rochester. Omer Coplen, 25, and his nephew, ‘James Coplen, 14, occupants of the other car, were hurt seriously. Chet Gehrig, driving another car, crashed through a fence when he swerved to avoid hitting the crashed cars. Floyd Harmon, 25, Terre Haute, was killed instantly near there last night when his car overturned as the steering wheel came off. _ Three companions were hurt.
1938 U. S. Toll Expected To Reach 40,000
CHICAGO, Dec. 29 (U. P.).—At -least 40,000 persons will die in trafic accidents during 1938, setting a new all-time high for the nation, the National Safety Council reported to-
fhe 1936 total was 37,800. For the
band, who confessed the killing of
through the head when police at-|-tempted to arrest him, died in Ball
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at Hohsien, as they awaited rescue and transportation to Shanghai after the Japanese bombing" of fhe 2 Panay, in which both were wounded.
‘BIG BUSINESS’
IS ON STRIKE, SAYS JACKSON
Charges Recession Being|
‘Used "to ‘Liquidate’ New Deal.
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charged before the American. Political Science Association at Philadelphia. : “The Government faces a general strike—the first general strike in America—a strike against the Government—a strike to coerce political action. : Increase in Power Cited
“Big business has come to exercise
an. increasing power over the stand-
ar dof living, the wages and the economic opportunities of our ple. It was estimated in 1929 that 200 nonfinancial corporations controlled 49 per cent of the assets of all such corporations. By 1933, the percentage had increased to 56 per cent. The 200 largest corporations were directed nominally by about 2000 individuals, but actually the control
resides ih the hands of a much
smaller number of men. It was Mr Jackson’s second denunciation of policies of “big business” within’ three days. In a Sunday night radio address, he warned that big business is “pricing itself out of the market’: and blamed manipulations of trusts for the current business recession. The new attack on policies of certain industrialists added weight to predictions that the new deal is preparing to intensify its antimonopoly fight after the first of the year in Congress and . the courts. After hearing ,Sunday’s address by Jackson, Senator Carl A. Hatch (D. N.M,) suggested a Congressional investigation of the Sharges Jackson voiced.
Hints Jaikom for -
New York Governorship
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (U, P.) — President Roosevelt wants Assistant Attorney General Robert H. Jackson to be the next Democratic candidate for Governor of New York, the Washington Times said today in an editorial calling on the President publicly to indorse “his man.”
first 11 months of this year it was 35,610 and is expected to be about 39,000 when reports are completed. Figures over a period ‘of several years show that anything but an increase is out of the question for the new year. the council said. On the basis of nearly complete reports, the council’s figures show that auto fatalities for 1937 increased 6 per cent over 1936. But motor vehicle travel increased proportionately, so that on a mileage basis there has been no actual increase in the traffic death rate. 3560. November Toll
November's traffic deaths numbered 3560. It was the first month this year to show a decrease from the corresponding month of 1936. Seventeen states siiowed decreases from last year, representing the saving of 539 lives. The states and their percentage decreases: Nevada, 13; Kansas, 15; Maine, 15; Washington, 12; West Virginia, 11; South Dakota, 10; Oregon, 9; Minnesota, 8; Oklahoma, 8; Arkansas, 8; North Dakota, 8; Virginia, 5; Massachusetis,” 4; Tennessee, 4; Georgia, 2; New Mexico, 2
Everett, Wash., was the largest. |
city to have no traffic deaths for
the first 11 months of 1937.
Scientist From Notre Dame Has Equipment
For Production of Germ-Free Guinea Pigs|
By JOE COLLIER ~ Notre Dame University told the
American Association for the Advancement of: ‘Science today that it now has: ' complete equipment for production of germ-free guinea pigs for biological research. The announcement was ‘made by J. A. Reyniers of the biological laboratories, who said ‘the immediate interest of the school would not be in ‘the field of applied biology, but that the equipment would be large enough. ‘to accommodate those needing: ‘pigs. ‘for: that purpose. - The ' equipment, .developed and cost of $50,000, is on view at the scientific exhibits. in the Murat Temple. ‘built ‘under direc
| operations, perf
It] r,| enough to be taken - from their : mes, | made. Be
those qualities are inherent or come from the outside. - Mr. Reyniers has delivered and reared a large number of ‘germguinea pigs in his shiny cases and cages, and he says the germ-free pig is not especially happy. about it. They are born through Caesarian by operators wearing rubber gloves that extend
duced at McPherson College, Kansas, because, 18 years ago, some of his students said: “Let's sec if we can make a diamond.” : Prof. . Hersey presides over: his booth and explains in detail the process. He smiles when asked whether diamonds can-ever be produced artifiicially on a commercial
into peviously sterilized cabinets | basis:
where the gloves are sealed.: The guinea pigs are fed ‘special diets because they react curiously to some foods in their white towers. They are quite weak at first, but grow on the whole as rapidly as the ind born, germ-ridden pigs, he
However, after they are old
“If we don’t some one else will,” he said, Prof. Hersey said that when he was teaching at Defiance (0.) College, some of his boys proposed the experiment. He worked there at it six years, and has been working 12 years. at McPherson College. The tiny diamond on display is the largest on record artificially said -more than 100
dd “the
mercury la and went over || : the oom 1k stars. $
BOB BURNS Says:
HS xwoon. Dec. 209.—The other night I wert to hear a lecture given by one of them world travelers and he was tellin’ about how fortunate the yourg people are over
here where they ran pick their own mates instead of having their parents: do if, like they do. in some of the countries, It jest struck me that a lot'ta parents make the ‘matches over here, too. Not long ‘ago, Aunt Perky come home after gettin’ her daughter married off to a rich man in’ St. Louis and I: said, “Well, how
is your daughter gettin’ along since
she got married?” ‘Aunt Perky says, “Oh, she’s doin’ jest fine—she’s gol the ‘prettiest new house and lovely furniture, a new model car and she never had so many beautiful dresses in all her life. ‘The only thing is— she hates her husband, but then
there’s always something.” (Copy: ight, 1937)
BUSINESS URGED T0 GUT PRICES
Ex- icin Trusler stor. Offers His Method to End Depression.
Times Special ATLANTIC (ITY, Dec. 29.—Business today was “advised that could and should end the depression by cutting prices and producing more goods, snd by organizing large-scale hotising corporations. The advice, oupled with a warning and a promise, came from O. M. W. Sprague ¢f Harvard, the man of mystery vho was President Roosevelt's top brain-truster on money policie;: in early New Deal days, and who poke here last night as American Economic Association president. His warning was that monetary methods could not lift prices and end the slump in business. His promise was that after business organizel in “concert” to cut prices and prcduce more, “the industries conc:rned would be in a far better position than now to insist upon an jnerease in efficiency (from labor) and perhaps also a reduction ‘in some existing wage scales.” It would be ‘“unreasonable,” he said, to look for business stimulation through reducing wage scales first.
Blames Business and Labor
Dr. Spragu: blamed both business and labor fcr causing the current recession, which he said centers in the stagnation of the heavy-goods industries. {3urcastically he commented that the policy of “the various industries” is precisely that of “the less int:lligent labor leaders— that of mak ng adjustments to demand - almost exclusively through reduced output.” He predicted that the Washington authorities would not wield the anti-trust-law whi» against combinations in business i’ the combinations were aimed at reducing prices rather than maintaining or raising them.
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1938 PROPERTY TAXES IN STATE TOP 100MILLION
Increase of , $2,307,745 “Over 1937 Noted; ‘Marion County Second Highest.
Indiana residents will be asked to pay $100,107,607.20 in property: ‘taxes next year, according. to a report made today by the Indiana’ Taxpayers’ Association. s fe The associations report said the figure is an increase of '$2,307,745.61 over the property tax bill in 1937. The survey added that the $97,799,« 861. paid this year was $1,366; 928. 82 more than in 1936. Marion County’s tax increase next year will be the second . largest for any county in the State, the report stated. The increase here was put at $1,428,827.92. Lake County, the association said, will have the largest tax payment increase, $1, 510,»
529.84. Cuts Total 1n Million
The report said that. more “than $11,000,000 was lopped off the total which public officials asked for next year. The total request was put at
1$111594,129.93, while local reduc-
tions amounted to $10,528,338.57 and additional reductions. by the State Tax Board cut the bill $958,184. 16 more. The 1938 tax collection, according to the report, will: be. higher in 34 counties besides Marion and Lake, The survey said: the inérease in the 36 counties totaled $5,593,417.38 while decreases in the _ others amounted to $3,285,671.77.. = From the standpoint. of ‘budget reductions, . the . report said, the greatest savings were: made in Marion County. Local officials asked for $21,200, < 723.713 . in advertised ‘budgets,. but items totaling - $3,061,786.71: . were eliminated, leaving residents in‘ this county witha tax bill of $18,138,037.02, Harry Miesse; association’ sécre= tary, said in the report there is no explanation for “the ition: to spend more -of the public's money.” "He said incredses were not ‘due to’ appropriations for. Welfare or social security.
Social Welfare Cited
“When property taxes were ine creased for 1937,” he said, “we were informed that the social welfare program was responsible. ; “We cannot charge all of the 1938 increases up to social welfare because that was anticipated fo a large extent a year ago. As a. mat ter of fact, 34 counties decreased their welfare rates and will have enough money to meet all the needs of thir people.” He. contended that “local rates should have been reduced materially for 1938 because the State "is distributing $4,000,000 in ‘gross: income taxes to help pay the Salaries of schoolteachers but despite this enormous contribution from . the state, too many counties failed to reduce their taxes.”
GRANTS ER TEADTITON ee
COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 29 (U. P)). —Governor Davey today granted the request of Pennsylvania authorie ties for the return of Maxwell D, Pierce and Miss Margaret Gordon, wanted in Pittsburgh on charges of . administering drugs to Pierce's wife to obtain her jewelry. © :
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January we will be ready to invite you to our NEW PLACE, at 37 South Meridian street, ‘just half a square from our present location.
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