Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1938 — Page 1
‘VOLUME 49—NUMBER 256
BENNETT GIRL INDIANA BRIDE:
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Daughter of Ford Executive Married i» Auburn as Police Hunt Her.
G-MEN’S AID" ENLISTED|'
Motor Co. Personnel Chief ‘Broken Up’ by News, Says Officer.
YPSILANTI, Mich., Jan. 4 (U. P.).—Gertrude Bennett, 17-year-old daughter of Harry Bennett of the Ford Motor Co., was married last night to Russell Hughes at Auburn, Ind., it was announced at the Bennett home today.
The marriage was performed’ by
Justice of the Peace Miles Baxter shortly after the couple, who had eloped from here earlier in the evening, had obtained a license, according to Capt. Don Leonard of the Michigan State Police.
Capt. Leonard said Mr. Bennett, | *
one of the highest paid executives of the Ford organization, was “broken up” by the news. Mr. Bennett had believed that Gertrude, missing nearly 20. hours when word of the marriage arrived, would not elope or would: -call him if she intended marriage. In his license application Mr. Hughes said his father was employed in Chicago. At his. home near here, Mr. Hughes has been living with his mother and stepfather, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Routson.: Miss Bennett was reported missing last night by her father, who feared she might have been kidnaped. State Police blocked and guarded all roads leading out of Ypsilanti and two G-men joined the search this Jorning.
Youth Reluctant, Says Clerk’s Brother
AUBURN, Ind. Jan. 4 (U. P)— Justice of the Peace Miles Baxter
said ‘today he Bennett, and Russell Hughes, miss
students, in his office
The couple had: obtained the license about an hour earlier at the
office of Carl Walter, Dekalb County: Clerk.
: Kenneth Walter, brother of the County Clerk, said Mr. Hughes became reluctant to marry while the couple was obtaining the license. “My brother said he overheard the boy say something about ‘waiting’ but the girl replied Nod I want to get married,’ ” Walter said. Walter said the couple asked the distance to Ft. Wayne just befofe they left his office. x
JUDGE SHAKE TAKES, SUPREME COURT OATH
’ & Judge Curtis G. Shake, Vincennes, today took his place as member of the Indiana Supreme Court after he was given the oath of office by Chief Justice Curtis W. Roll. State political leaders and prominent attorneys were present. Judge Shake succeeds Judge Walter E. Treanor who resigned from the State bench to become a Judge of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals at Chicago... Mr. Treanor also was in the courtroom today. -
ATTACK VICTIM DIES IN CITY HOSPITAL
Mrs. Mabel Hilligoss, 1222: English Ave,, who ad told ‘police she was al robbed on Dec. 24, died in City Hospital today. She was 60. She was found bruised and beaten "at Pine and Washington Sts. Detectives who ‘investigated said she told them a man who had offered to take her home from a beer tavern attacked her and robbed her
of $4. ECKERT TO ATTEND
FEDERAL SCHOOL
State Safety Director Donaid Stiver today announced that State Police Capt. Walter Eckert is to
leave Saturday for Washington to
attend the Federal Bureau of In-
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Nurse Heroine in Clermont Fire
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SAVES 31 FROM SCHOOL BLAZE
Filled Building; Loss Is Set at $20,000.
Times Special
CLERMONT, Jan. 4. — In a
starched white uniform she bor-
rowed, Miss Maude Abell was’ on duty today at the Indiana Girls’ School, a heroine to 28 girls and three officers she led to safety from a burning building. Miss Abell awakened in her room in the school hospital early today, stifled hy: She arose, ‘put on
and three officers on floor. The lights were out because of a short circuit in the surgery refrigeration machine, where firemen said the fire started. Smoke Ailled the corridors.
Counts Rescued Twice
She told the inhabitants to wrap themselves with blankets and line up, two and two, in the corridor. She marched them to the buildnig door, and counted them as they filed out. She counted them- again as they went to safety in a building 300 feet away. . Then she went to another building and called the school office, telling them of the fire. She then called the city fire department, and returned to the burning building. When the volunteer fire department composed of school officials and technicians arrived, they found her trying unsuccessfully to operate an emergency fire hose near fhe scene of the blaze. Burns Through Surgery The fire had burned from the basement through the surgery and the office and into nearby first floor room, destroying contents of all. The - volunteer firemen checked the blaze and Indianapolis firemen put it out. Dr. Kenosha Sessions, school superintendent, said damage to the building, which was only eight years old, and to contents would be between $20,000 and $25,000. She said it was the first fire in the history of the school.
400 CALIENTE PEONS THREATEN ARMS USE
AGUA CALIENTE, Lower California, Jan. 4 (U.P.).—Leaders of the 400 peons who seized the grounds ‘and buildings of the luxurious Agua Caliente Hotel Corp, said today they would resist with: arms any attempt of the Mexican Government to oust them. “Let the Army come,” a spokesman said. “They have iy 28 men and we have 400 people here and 5000 more in Tijuana who will support us.’ If they ‘use guns, We. have
28 Girls Escape Fri From Smoke |
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1 Attorney Flails C Council for
Siz re of Carrier F or Prisoners Causes Dispute
Coiinty Commissioner Dow ° Vorhies charged today, but Chief Jailor Charles McAllister denied it, that the rew omnibus intended to carry County Jail prisoners to the Indiana State Farm is too large to be housed feasibly in the jail garage. Mr, Vorhies charged, and Mr. McAllister denied, that it took a squad of workmen to hold the overhead door high enough for the bus to enter; that it hit steam pipes when it wes driven up the ramp, and that
cials are in conference about it. My. Vorhies said. ME, ‘ned the vehicle.” 4
|SNIOKE LEAGUE NY INTER OWN OWN ‘SLATE
Killing Measure.
Mllowing unanimous defeat of the proposed smoke abatement - ordinance amendment last night by the City Council, Roy O. Johnson, Smoke Abatement, League attorney, saic. today that the League would slate Council candidates in the next election “and try to elect a Council and Mayor who will stand hitched on smoke abatement.” ‘The proposed amendment was intended to legalize instruments -for ithe defection of smoke densities. “I. can’t understand why the turned it down,” said Mr. Johnson. “There is no hitch in it. I am surprised ‘that certain Councilmen. I talzed to voted aaginst it. There are better than. 60,000 citizens on record for the amendment.” = - Members voted 5 to 3 to strike from the files a measure introduced | body by «William Schumacher which would:have reduced: the dog license | feet fee from $2 to $i. Proposed ordinances to ‘regulate treckless trolleys when an emergeacy vehicle is passing and to'limit th alleged importation of bootleg coil into Indianapolis also were stricken from the files. i :
GOVERNOR IN SOUTH FOR HUNTING TRIP
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Governor Townsend today left for a one-day hunting - trip in South
Virgil M. Simmons, Conservation
rector. tlie Governor is to go to Miami,
‘Mrs. ‘Clarence: Gramelstacker
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By DANIEL nu KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
Black Sees Water Ra tes
{tested ‘snsety zones and the Sint
1 before the Safety Board, another | Marion County—fourth of the new
year—and another was added to the state’s toll.
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it is parked outside while’ jail" offi}:
ey | illegal left turns were dismissed. : Willis‘ Pollard, 53, Morristown, driver of the car which police said]
Carolina. He was accompanied by| BH
Department director, and Kenneth | | Kunkel, fish and game ‘division di-| ==
After the South Carolina: trip, |
Morrissey Calls Unguarded » Lanes Death Traps for |
Pedestrians. 45 DRIVERS FINED $197
Motorcycle Squad Patrol
6.0. P. AID HITS
Cited as Value in Cut“ting Accidents.
Police Chief Morrissey “foday urged the erection of more pro-
nation of safety zones, which he termed
Fraps, as another tep in Dadianaps. | - :
olis’ 1038 safety program. As the Chief made his ‘request
traffic fatality was recorded in
The local victim here was William. Harvey Hawkins, 48, of 720 N. Pine St. He died at City Hospital
night as he stepped from the curb at 700 W. Morris St. a
Cellision Is Fatal
James A. Smith, 35, was killed at South Bend .today when his auto- | mobile collided with another drivsn by Charles H. Morgan, 37. Mr. Morgan was uninjured. : Chief Morrissey, appearing before the Safety Board, said “sosalled safety zones which are-with-out concrete posts and lights and have only meager markings, lure pedestrians into: them and place them in jeopardy. »
BULLETIN
wife of Jesse Walker, Mon Railroad baggageman : ang - mail clerk, 2925 N. nine St. Indianapolis, was killed and Mrs. Nellie Carey, wife of Carl Carey, 6523 College Ave. Indianapolis was injured seriously today when the car riven by Mrs. Carey left the on, Route 52 south od nto
Auxiliary, ded instar 8 broken meek. {
The Chief cited: ‘that there are unprotected safety zones in six areas in which street car, trackless trolley and motor coach traffic is heavy. These, he’ said, are Virginia AVE, Shelby St, Illinois St. north of New York St. College Ave. with the - tion of the Fairfield. dis trict, ‘and Washington and Mich-. igan Sts. Ge ! 45 Are Fined $197
Action on “Chief Morrissey’s re~ quest. was tered until next’ week. Meanwhile, 45. of the 88 motorists arrested over night on traffic charges appeared in Municipal Court and were find $197. Two drunken drivers were given $25 and costs and had their driver's licenses suspended. Twenty-two arrested for making
struck Mr. Hawkins, was held on an involuntary manslaughter charge. Witnesses said Mr. Hawkins had
stepped off the south curb to board]
a streetéar when he was struck. His body, police said, was dragged 18 feeb and’ the car continued about 15
Eugene and ‘Joseph Brown, sons of Mr. ‘and’ Mrs. Everett I. Brown, 957 W. Drive, W Place, were reported recovering today after. the car in which they were returning. to the University of Illinois Sreshedl| into a culvert at Ogden, Il
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RELIEF SETUP
Ruckelshaus Says Deadline On Borrowing to Come In Three Years.
. Marion County will reach the constitutional limit of its borrowing
power. in about three years under |
the present system of poor relief as administered by township trustees, John K. Ruckelshaus, Indiana Republican = Execufive Committee chairman, said today. He said the cost of relief in Indiana “totals a million dollars more than -all the State spends on the institutions of higher learning.” Leo X. Smith, attorney for Miss Hanna Noone, Center Township trustee, said an effort was made when the governmental unit budgets were drawn last year to place all of Center poor relief in the tax rate. However, Ite said, the County Tax Adjustment Board cut the poor rate from 40 cents to 17 cents, which will
+ | force Center officials to issue bonds |
for approximately two-fifths of 1938 Center Township relief bill.
Relief Costs Reviewed
Mr. Smith said an effort is being made to eventually place direct poor relief on a full “pay-as-you-go” basis. He said that the county’s bor-
rowing power would not be exhaust- |:
ed in three years; “even under the ot Ora: All poor bills Were
|e Sa SE 0 Su = mi ! went to pay bonds: coming ‘due in 1937, and 3157960 went to pay interest on other bonds, all of which had been ‘issued before 1937. “Out "of your money raised by
taxes for relief in 1937, it is esti‘mated that only a. relatively small portion actually went to. the recipi-
ents on relief.” ‘At the same time, Mr. Ruckel“belli Brent uncompromising ‘attitude ‘some few men ‘in public office.” - _ “I personally happen to be one of (Turn to Page Three)
CONTINUED SUNSHINE [FORECAST FOR CITY
TEMPERATURES
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Another sunny day! _As January goes into its fourth day it treated Indianapolis again fo bright sunshine. Each of its other three days has had more sunshine than clouds, the first having besn: 1100 per cent on the health side. It today is entirely clear, as it promised to be, the sunshine hours so far: this month will total 32.9. oT omOw also will be fair, but it, colder, the ‘Weather Eu-
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C Goat Out at the Pound! /
Treasury’s s Position Held
$38,367,650 of
62, | 323.605 a fn 291,518, an increase of $1,855,000,000
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Pa
PRICE THREE CENTS
i 90 000 WPA ROLL
S JOBS DROP 1,500; EVISE DEFICIT FIGUR
ASHI ON Jan. 4 (U.
8 #8 #8 ; P.)~Government expenses and
receipts for the current fiscal year through Dec. 31, compared with
a year ago:
This Year sessssssessecs.$ 3,821,282,28588 » 3,176,213,515.70 645,068,770.18 2,972,340,959.12 1,202,114,608.38 37,279,291,518.10
Gold reserve ............ 12,759,983,523.80 213,768,438.25
Expenses Deficit ...... Cash balance .. Working balance ....... Public debt ....
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Last Year $ 3,552,829,118.51 2,158,305,452.90 1,394,523,665.61 1,905,950,813.33 1,401,083,657.49 © 34,406,920,961.66 11,251,581,562.92 an
Income. at 32 176, 213, 515; Reaction Pleases F. I D. R.
Good With Prospects of Improvement.
WASHINGTON; Jan. 4 (U. P)— The Treasury disclosed. today thai the Government ended the first six months of the 1937-38 fiscal year with a net deficit of $606,701,120 and a gross deficit of $645,068,770. The six montns figure was made public while Congress awaited President Roosevelt’s 1938-39 budget estimates and revised forecasts for the current: fiscal year. The .President will send his budget message to Congress tomorrow. In his last budget revision in October, the President estimated that the net deficit for the entire fiscal .year would approximate $695,000,000. Receipts for the first six months aggregated $3,176,213,515, exceeding income for the same period last year by slightly more than a billion dollars. Spending totaled $3,821,282,285, exceeding outgo for the same period last year by approximately $270,000,000. Treasury Position: Good
The gross. deficit, which includes oe Re
The p debt stood: at $37,279 - since. the start of the fiscal yesr and $2,873,000,000 since last year.. . The Treasury was in what was regarded: as a good cash position at ‘the ‘end of the first six months. Is working balance was $1,202,114,608. The cash position was expected to be further strengthened -during the next few months by borrowing operations, which, however, will have the effect of increasing the public debt. There was a possibility, which {| some ‘observers believed remote, tht the Treasury might release some of the $1,227,000,000 sterilized god fund. This money could be used to increase the working balance and thus make it available for governmental spending without increasirig the public.debt.
ALABAMA CHOOSES U. S. SENATOR TODAY
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Jan. 4 (UO. P.)—a II. S. Senate successor to Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black ‘will be chosen today in a primary election considered a test of New: Deal sentiment in the deep South. There are thre candidates: Rep. Lister Hill, who is generally regarded as an ardent supporter of the Roosevelt Administration;- former Senator J. Thomas Heflin, who announced “I will support Roosevelt when I believe he is Heht, >” and Charles. Williams, “dirt” farmer.
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2 munication and not
| accompanying message.
President Hopes Hones for Helpful Response of Business to Message.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U. P.) — Close friends of President Roosevelt said today the Chief Executive was hopeful of a co-operative response from business to his state-of-the-nation message as an aid in fighting business recession. The Presidential source declared that the reaction to the Congressional message may go a long way toward determining what the President will say in his speech at the Jackson Day celebration here Saturday night. The description of White House views was presented as Congress pondered Mr. Roosevelt's message and contemplated possibility of a major inquiry into business conditions, particularly those affecting antitrust problems. White House aids reported that hundreds of messages and telephone calls had been received on the Congressional message and described these as almost entirely favorable The aids said ‘ that they had noted only one unfavorable comthey could ‘recall a more-favorable and spontaneous reaction to a Presidential utterance. Tomorrow Congress will receive Mr. Roosevelt's annual budget and The next communication to' Congress, it was said, probably will be an appeal for ‘a larger Navy and later Mr. Roosevelt plans to propose antitrust legislation. Senate-House conferees on the farm bill today neared agreement on procedure which would open the way for modification of thé Mec-Nary-Boileau amendment—a major obstacle in the way of agreement on a long range agricultural The amendment would prohibit farmers from marketing commodities grown on land diverted from production of wiaeat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco under the new program. It was designed to protect dairying and livestock farmers from new competition. Preparatory to Mr. Roosevelt's budget message Wednesday, reporting - a decreased deficit, but another failure to balance income and outgo, congressional reaction to his antimonopoly and business aid program varied along conservative and liberal lines. The projected monopoly investi“(Turn to Page Three)
JAPANESE ADVANCE “THROUGH SHANTUNG
Spaniards Deadlocked Fight for Teruel.
BULLETIN
LONDON, Jan, 4 (U. P)— Great Britian is to send a delegation to Unite ed States within two weeks to start negotiations for a trade pact between the two democracies, it was reported today as democratic and totalitarian . nations divided in their reactions to President Roosevelt's message to Congress,
SHANGHAI—Japanese sweep across Tokyo de- |. mands positions on Shaghat mu- | International
2 Shantung tung Province as Micipal souncll: of
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Toctober - December Drop Greatest in - Recent Years.
PROBE IS OPENED |
Deliberate Action To Lessen Work Is ‘Undetermined.’
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U, P.).—The Senate Unemploye ment Committee, at its hearse | ing today, spread on its rece | ord details of the sharpest winter decline in employment in recent years and a predice tion by Assistant WPA Ade | ministrator Gill that WPA ré« lief rolls would jump to Le 900,000 in February. The Committee, headed by Sens. | ator Byrnes (D. S. C.), dug deeply = into the economic ramifications of America’s unemployment which the recent Federal Census estimated at | nearly 11,000,000. ey Mr, Gill provided: an estimate of
what is yet to come by telling the Committee that there were 1,677,000
the figure was expected to increase | to 1,800,000 this month and them hit a peak of 1,900,000 in February after which reductions would bs “necessary in order to keep within the present appropriation.” Ca
1,500,000 Lose Jobs
In November, there were only 1,520,000. on WPA rolls. Commissioner: of Labor Statistics Lubin testified that October to Dee Lcember the swiftest decline of employment in recent years, witia a loss of 0 ote >
estimate of more than 7,000, 000 unemployed. Frank Persons of the Unite States. Employment Service," ever, said his active rolls: showe only 4,168,000 seeking jobs in tk "a ou, History Gill, ‘reviewing the WPA since the start of the Ab velt Administration, said that re lief rolls had been down to 1; 000 in 1937 as compared to the 1 peak of 3,065,000, but that they started up again. Senator Murray (D. Mont.) Mr. Lubin whether there were it dications that large companies wers now. refusing to spread em “I wouldn’t know whether it was Salento or not,” Mr. Lubin Questioned by Senator Lodge: Mass), Mr. Lubin said he did: believe that Federal tax policies k anything to do with piling up large. inventories in many industrial elds
Hints Dole Is Possible
Questioned by Senator Clark Mo.), Mr. Gill said that con heavy increase in unemploc ‘would require one of two : 1. Increased relief expendit ( WPA. : 2. Transfer to more direct less expensive relief such as a He said that WPA was care of virtually all needy ployed and that the figure sibly- 11,000,000 ‘in the Census was ‘not inconsistent. . his statement due: to the fact: only a. percentage
not eligible for: WPA if one me! has a full time job.
WALLACE TENPERS _BUSINESS VI
PITTSBURGH, Jau. Jau. 4 (U. The Administration’s fight monopolies became more com today after Secretary. of Agricul Wallace had urged a more congili tory attitude toward business
| discrimination in castigation of.
business.” “Capitalists with vision should =u
I. U. TRUSTEES MEE TO SEE CANDIDATE
persons on WPA rolls Jan. 1, that