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VOLUME 49—NUMBER 282

BUSINESSMEN | Here's All QUITINUPROAR: ©" ™- "1 | HOKE IS IRKED

Disgusted by Sguabbling, Local Delegate Walks Out of Parley.

TWO MEMBERS EJECTED

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10 Chairmen Left to Map Program for Submission To Roosevelt.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.— The “Little Business” ooo ence today adjourned sine die, leaving to the 10 chairmen of its discussion groups to draft the mass of resolutions into proper form for submission to President Roosevelt, prob-

ably tomorrow. Amid an uproar that led to foreible ejection of two delegates, resolutions had been approved asking | traffic on Highway 40 for five hours. more liberal loans and severely ® criticizing many New Deal measures. Earlier, Fred Hoke, Indianapolis manufacturer, who arrived optimistically for the the little businessmen’s conference, yesterday had left disgustedly for home. Mr. Hoke is Holcomb & Hoke Co. | vice president and head of the In- | diana Welfare Board. “It is the dog-gondest thing 1 ever saw,” he "said. “If the little businessmen can’t get together any better than that we are sunk.” | Mr. Hoke said he didn't want an- |

Driver of Truck-Trailer Burned in Crash With Bus

Crash of a tractor trailer-truck and an Indianapolis Railways bus 'in the 3900 block W. Washington St., early today caused an explosion

[ bus, was slightly injured.

dents resulted in injuries to two persons. Police arrested 48 drivers.

DUE SATURDAY Municipal Judge John McNelis

| today fined 18 of them $150, an aver-

‘Wave Sweeping Eastward pendea $71.

Sp | Roy Garland, 30, Terre Haute, From Pacific; Most of | driver of the 10-ton truck which

| which set fire to both vehicles, seriously burned one man and blocked |

Another man, a passenger in the |

ge of more than $8 each. He sus- |

other dav of battling. In addition to | the main event he attended four sectional meetings yesterday, he said. | Sees Some Hope

“There are a few general objectives which could be put into 2 con- | structive program for presentation to | the President if order could be restored long enough to get it together,” Mr. Hoke declared. “All seem to be of the opinion that | the undistributed profits tax should | be modified or repealed. Capital gains taxes curtailed, labor agitation curbed and ‘loans made to small businesses that need them. “But they will have to figure ail these things out without me. I'm going back to the meting, although 1 am glad I came just to see what small businessmen look and act like in such a mob.” The ejected delegates were A. S. Shafer, Philadelphia building contractor, who also was ejected yesterday, and Robert Kaempfer, selfstyled “forgotten man” from New York. Guards dragged the pair from the Commerce Department auditorium, The outbreak came in the midst of presentation of recommendations of 10 subcommittees for a program to be adopted by the conference,

Forgotten Man Forgotten

Trouble started when Mr. Kaempfer attempted to speak in behalf of the Schwellenbach-Allen bill to! finance 3,000,000 Works Progress jobs Chairman Fred Roth ruled him out of order, but Mr. Kaempfer kept | on talking. Guards rushed Mr. | Kaempfer who, shouting in anger, proceeded to tear up a typewritten program he had devised for aiding “the forgotten man.” Newspaper photographers rushed | forward, setting off flash bulbs to snap action shots of the outbreak. | Immediately members of the con- | ference shouted demands that | “those newspapermen be restrained.” | The shouting swelled to a chorus | of: |

1 | |

“Throw them out. Throw them out.” Just as quiet was restored Mr. | Shafer rose in defense of Mr.! Kaempfer, demanding that the “for-

gotten man” be allowed to talk. [

A guard tried to silence Stvafer and sought to push him down into a seat. He sat down, but there was

By United Press A “barometric disturbance.” brewing on the Pacific Ocean off the

coast of Oregon and Washington

started eastward today. carrving

warmer weather to ali of the United States. The U. S. Weather Bureau at Chicago reported that the mass of unseasonably warm air will move from coast to coast. It will reach the Middle West by Saturday. Temperatures were above normal throughout most of the Midwest and

Bast today, but the thermometer |

was well below zero in the Dakotas. A mountain blizzard piled snow 6 feet deep and isolated villages around Quincy, Cal. Seven power linemen were lost in the heavy snow. Three rescues crews were searching for the men. Government engineers feared that a sudden rise in temperatures would loose a potential flood stored in an 80-mile stretch of thick ice on the Rock River from Rockford, Ili, to the Mississippi. The ice was dynamited south of Moline, Ill, in an attempt to prevent damage to a $500.000 bridge

Temperature Drop Here Predicted for Tonight

TEMPERATURES fT 10m. Mm... 47 a.m... 47 12 (Noon). 47 1pm...

47 48 48 48

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| the curb when the truck plunged |

hands, arms, chest and neck. His condition was reported “fair” at City Hospital today.

Bus Going East

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938

That's Left After Collision NEW RULES ON

‘Governor Acts on Complaints COLLIDE i

| State buying practices,

Times Photo.

CURB BUDGETS OFINSTITUTIONS

‘County Will Take Over Direct Control of All Expenditures.

Marion County Commissioners to- | day announced that in the future | they would assume direct control over all expenditures for county in- | stitutions, even if budgeted. | Commissioner John Newhouse said la new purchasing system was being

|set up as a result of the necessity

| deputy sheriffs said crashed into the for an additional appropriation of |

U. S. Affected. |

rear of the bus, was burned on the | $7304 to cover expenditures made or | on goods should be made clearer.

| contracted for and not included in | 1938 budgets. The Marion County Council vesterday approved the appropriations {to bring aboui a test before the

Entered at Postoffice,

as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.

PRICE THREE CENTS

HOOSIER

STATE SUNG | KILLED AS NAVY

TOBE DRAFTED

Striking at ‘All or None’ Bid Provision.

ENLISTS M’ALPIN’S AID

‘Purchasing Agent Declares | a Clerks Often Accept — so Shoddy Goods. ba ; =a

In answer to complaints against | Governor | Townsend today asked Dick Heller, | his executive secretary, and C. M. | McAlpin, State Purchasing Agent, to draft new purchasing rules and | i EE : report back to him. ; Vo oe : : The Governor also said he would ; EE ES recommend that the next Legisla-| : ture amend the present State print- | ing contract law to eliminate the! | “all-or-none” bids. | It was reported the Governor's | {office had received the following | complaints and suggestions for im- | provement: 1. Bids received by the State] Purchasing Department should not | {be privately opened, the present practice. All bids should be sealed and opened at a specific time in the | presence of the bidders as is now | required by the State Highway law lin the awarding of road contracts.

Political Element Hit

2. Politics should not enter into | consideration of bids. It was re- | ported recently that a bid was re- | jected because the firm was involved lin tax litigation with the State. 3. Present types of specifications

Two of the Navy's newest PBY planes, like the one shown here with retractable pontoons down, collided and dived into the Pacific during fleet maneuvers last night, killing 11 of their crews.

Leahy Fears No Invasion; Crisis Looms in Nazi Army

Admiral Says Asiatic Powers Would Find That Attack Is ‘Hazardous.’

Hitler May Assume Post; Tokyo Studies U. S. Naval Program. | BERLIN—Hitler may take War

Minister position himself in delicate situation caused by Marshal

Page Three; Story, Page 11)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U, P.)

(Photos,

Another |

| Declaring the State Board of Ac- | counts is to investigate the opera[tion of the present printing con-

tract law, Governor Townsend said | | LONDON-—"“Antipiracy”

the present statute is discrimina-

The bus, going east on Washington | State Tax Board on what it terms tory because the “all or none” bid

St., had picked up Walter Schaad, 24, of 837 N. Hawthorne lane, at Foltz St. and was moving away from

| emergencies. State tax laws pro-

"hibit expenditures before the money |

lis available. “For the past 10 or 12 years,

(into its rear end, Robert E. Clem- County institution heads have been | ents, 38, of 843 Biltmore Ave. the |g little bit careless in their book-

| |

driver, told officers.

The bus was knocked across Highway 40 several feet into Lockburn

ine tank was punctured. Mr, ements and the passenger, Mr. Schaad, whose only injury was a tump on the head, escaped from the wrecked and flaming vehicle.

The truck also burst into flames, its gasoline tank ripped open, with Mr. Garland pinned in the damaged cab. He was taken to Methodist Hospital. Firemen extinguished the blaze, but it took five hours to clear the wreckage. The truck was owned by Ray Miller, Terre Haute truck line operator, and was bound from Terre Haute to Cincinnati loaded with

| under construction across the river. | gjasc jars. Some of the cartons con-

taining the jars caught fire. Mechanics had to cut away portions of the bus before it could be removed.

Urges Drunk-o-Meter Test Criminal Court Judge Frank P.

| Baker today advocated wider use of

| when Clarence Smith, 57. of | Collier St. appealed a Municipal |

the drunk-o-meter test for drivers 994

A temperature drop to between Court decision.

25 and 30 degrees was predicted for tonight by the

| Fair weather was forecast for today.

The Bureau said the rainfall last

| night was about .09 of an inch.

HICKS GRANTED STAY BY STATE HIGH COURT

| |

May 6 Set as New Date for,

Death Pending Appeal.

The Indiana Supreme Court today

no chair and he sprawled on the |Sranted a stay of execution to Heber |

floor in the midst of laughter from his conferees. Mr. Kaempfer was not downed, however. Immediately after approval of the resolutions, he again shouted demands that his plea for more WPA jobs be heard.

L. Hicks, convicted “head and

preme Court. Owen S. Boling. Hicks’ attorney.

| |

{ hands” slayer scheduled to die in| to be | the electric chair tonight, until May | '6 to allow his attorneys to perfect |ihg glass today when a small boy (an appeal to the United States Su- | threw a rock through the wind-

“The more I see of cases like this,

Weather Bureau. the more I favor the drunk-o-me- |

ter as more reliable,” Judge Baker said. “They may not be entirely

reliable than the testimony of some witnesses.” Smith, who was arrested about six weeks ago after an accident at Taft and Washington "Sts, was fined $10 and costs for drunkenness, the same for failure to stop after

an accident, and given 10 days in |

jail for drunken driving. James Nelson, 25, of 1132 Udell (Turn to Page Three)

BOY’S ROCK BREAKS

GLASS, HURTS DRIVER

Kenneth Carpenter, 22, of 1816 W. Washington St., was cut by fiy-

shield of his car, he said. One of three boys standing on the

| keeping, Mr. Newhouse said. “They {have not kept a close track of their

| balances. We hope this system will

St., where it burst into flames. Its |force them to tighten up.”

| He added that if institution ap- | propriations ‘became exhausted, how- | ever, an emergency could be de- | clared and funds made available

| legally.

BOY, 12, LOSES LIFE IN KEROSENE BLAST

Youth Killed in Explosion While Rekindling Fire.

(Photo, Page 3)

Robert Jochim, 12-year-old St. | Roch's parochial school pupil, was {dead today, the victim of an ex- | plosion and fire while he was alone

lin his home at 3942 S. Meridian St. |

Arriving home irom school late vesterday, he found the kitchen | stove fire low and attempted to re- | kindle it with kerosene from a fivegallon can, firemen said. | The resultant blast hurled him | across the room and against a

| accurate, but at least they are more wall while flaming kerosene was

| sprayed over the room, according | to firemen. The boy was dead when | firemen and other rescuers reached | him. The blaze was discovered by Ernest Morton, 3905 8S. Meridian St., and passing State Policemen.

! sister, Betly, coming home from { school, and took her in until after the blaze was extinguished.

| her husband, Carl, when they were

Fr. Omer Bruck, St. Roch’s Catholic Church pastor. Damage by the fire was estimated at $100. The victim was born in Louisville and came here with his parents {and sister, the only survivors, in | September, 1936. Funeral services

versary of his birth today. The mother, who had been down- | town, was nearing the home with jurist refused to vary

| provision is written into the act. | He pointed out that bidders can {use this law to their own advan- | tage by bidding low prices on articles used only in small quantities

prices on items purchased in large volume. Under the law these unit bids are added and the contract is awarded to the firm having the lowest average. idthority other State purchases. Purchasing Department's “all the Governor. “No business concern in the world

said. items to be purchased.

are purchased.

specific items turned in by various firms, it was said.

Clerks Are Blamed

Mr. McAlpin said it was often the fault of State institution clerks when companies that had sold the State high grade merchandise were | allowed to deliver inferior goods. “I forward up to the receiving | clerk in the state institutions speci- | fications of the articles purchased,” Mr. McAlpin said. “It is up to them | to see that the right merchandise | is delivered.” The Governor said he was calling { a conference of these institution re- | ceiving clerks to discuss this prob- | lem. |

' JUSTICE M’REYNOLDS

NOTES 76TH BIRTHDAY

| James Clark McReynolds, dean of

New T6th

| service and consistent | critic, celebrated the Still a the his

bachelor,

another day.” a 'MYERS BACKED FOR | SOLICITOR GENERAL

| Times Speeinl

| WASHINGTON,

DY. the "State and by Placing high | HANGHAI—Foreigners warned to

| | |

Feb. 3.—~Senator |

| |

| BARCELONA — Two

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A 1933 statute gives the Governor. might “Ad@SIf- Hitler's

to make rules governing | turned pale The State | Marshal

von Blomberg’s retirement, Foreign observers see situation as crisis between Nazi Party and Reichswehr, patrol strengthened. British coal ships reported captured by Rebels. TOKYO-—Rear Admiral says Japan must “seriously consider” U. S. naval building program.

evacuate Central China war zone.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 3. — Well face Werner

von Blomberg

Or | stepped down as Germany's War none” rule also was attacked by | Minister.

For no matter how thick the paint

| with which Berlin may seek to

would stand for such a plan,” he | camouflage the importance of the

[ incident, the fact remains that to-

No advantage is | taken of exceptionally low bids on |

| | |

| |

| WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (U. P).—|

| |

| said Rep. Maas, means the supremacy of each na- | | tion in its own waters, does it not?”

FRANCE

Pa Seve .

Barcelona’

“have |

and grave when Field | president's “quarantine” speech at |

| Admiral Leahy said.

| seemed to nettle Admiral

Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, testified today that it would be “extremely hazardous” for an Asiatic power to attempt invasion of the United States even with a naval force equal to ours. Admiral Leahy added, however, that partiy would “not be as good a provision for safety against at-

tack as if we had a stronger navy,” |

The Navy's ranking admiral was questioned at length by Rep. Ralph O. Brewster (R. Me.) on President Roosevelt's recommendation for a | 20 per cent increase in the potential | fighting strength of the U. S. fleet. When Rep. Brewster, citing the

{ Chicago, asked whether the Navy

| has considered any plans to *“‘quar- | antine” | miral Leahy denied it flatly, and | Rep. Melvin J. Maas

| disputed Rep. Brewster's interpre- | tation of the speech.

an aggressor nation, Ad-

(R. Minn.)

“As a matter of faet, admiral,” “the 5-5-3 ratio

“That is my understanding,”

Rep. Brewster's

Leahy

lat one point,

« MADRID

Valencia SPAIN

Cartagena

| make an invasion, would it not?” | Rep. Brewster persisted.

Almeria ala

' miral Leahy answered.

Where British and French Seek Pirate Sub.

antagonism between the |

Herr Hitler now needs the Army |

ferent. It is officered by the sons of |

| effect on the present

| most instantly today when she re-

“Assuming that the battle fleets |

of the United States and Asia were cut in half,” said Rep. Brewster, | “how would that affect the defense of the United States?” “It would have very little, if any, | ability of | America to defend herself against | attack,” the Navy chief replied. “It would be just as difficult to |

“The 5000 miles of ocean pre- | sumably would still be there,” Ad-|

WOMAN, 70, KILLED IN FALL DOWN STAIRS

Mrs. Jennie Cross was killed al-

ceived a fractured skull in a fall | down a flight of cellar stairs at her | home, 5843 Rockville Road. She |

| was 70.

Deputy sheriffs said she was | standing at the top of the stairs | emptying one bucket of coal into | another when the cellar door flew open and she fell backward. Mrs. Cross was found by her | daughter, Mabel, who heard her | screams. She was dead when doctor arrived. A son, Charles, also survives. Mrs. Cross was a Perry Township native,

She had been married for 53 vears. |

questioning |

AND 10 OTHERS

PLANED

N MANEUVERS

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New Bombers Crash

During Blinding

‘THREE INJURED

{ Dreadnaught Picks Up Survivors of Disaster.

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SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 3. (U. P.).=The Navy ane [nounced today that 11 men ‘were killed when two of its ‘biggest and fastest bombers collided in midair during a heavy rain squall last night and sank near warships ene gaged in fleet maneuvers 70

miles out to sea. The three who survived saved their lives by leaping with parae chutes from the plane which did

not catch fire, the Navy said. Eight bodies had been recovered, including that of a Stillwell, Ind. man. Of the four men taken from the water alive one died this morn=ing aboard the U. S. S. Relief, the hospital ship accompanying the fleet. The three survivors were inejured seriously, The two missing were given up as dead. The accident was the worst disaster ever to befall the Navy's heavier-than-air craft. The planes, {of the two-motored PBY type, care rying 14 men, were scouting for potential eneiny during the sham battle. They collided at 6:37 p. m, (Indianapolis Time). One burst into flames before it struck the water, The other splintered and | strewed its fragments among ware | ships before it hit the surface. Naval officers said that the blinde | ing rain squall caused th nt. Radioman J. H. HeSter,, San | Diego, died shortly after being | picked up by rescue boats from the U. S. S. Pennsylvania. The other men dead: Lieut. Elmer Glen Cooper, Coronado, Cal. Cadet Erwin ledo, O. | Joe Earl Walton, aviation ma- | chinist's mate, second class, San Diego, Maurice John Fitzmaurice, chief aviation machinist’s mate, El Ca~ [ jon, Cal. George Gordon chinist’'s mate, first class, Diego. Julian Rawls, radioman, second class, Chula Vista, Cal. William Hall Landgrebe, aviae tion machinist’s mate, second class (father, John F. Landgrebe), Stillwell, Ind. J. H. Hester, first class, San Diego, Lieut, Carlton Barmore Hutch ins, Coronado, Cal, Missing: John Gregory Marion Neidzweicki, aviation machinist's mate, first class (no record of home town.) William Woodruff, aviation chief machinist's mate, San Diego. The survivors: D. B. McKay, aviation chief machinist’'s mate, San Diego, frace tured leg. V. 0. Hatfield (no record of home), cuts on right leg. I. 8. Carpenter, avialion machinist’s mate, San Diego, broken arm and shock. All night crews of dozens of ships searched for more survivors or bodies of the 10 who were lost Nothing more was found and at dawn every airplane of the fleet, 300 from the carriers Lexington and Saratoga, and other scouting planes attached to battleships were sent out to continue the search. All Craft Massed All available craft of the Pacifis fleet are massed in the maneuvers. They include 98 warships and

John Koch, To

Griffith, maSan

radioman,

appeared before the State Supreme New York Central elevation over [are to be held at 9 a. m. Saturday | Court and asked for a citation al-| Koehne St. 100 block tossed the | at St. Roch's Church. | ney General Cummings regarding |in the land. Its traditions are still | lowing him to take an appeal to the missile as he drove under it, he | Dorothy Owensby, 10-year-old | the Senator's recommendation of | pretty much what they have always | hairman highest court. : | told police. | School 7 pupil, today was recovering | Walter Myers, Indianapolis attor- | been—and with some Germans the | ver the loud speaker system. Con- Hicks claimed that his rights were| Police ordered the boy, 8, and two | from leg burns received yesterday | ney, for the assistant Attorney Gen- | rise of Corporal Hitler, the house [meet here March 7, U. S. District -rees demanded that Mr. Kaempfer | Violated when his confession of guilt | companions, 10 and 13, to appear at | when her dress caught fire as she | eral post made vacant by promotion | painter, has never sat any too well. Attorney Val Nolan announced to- ew i i> ejected and Commerce Depart- in the murder of Harry R. Miller, | traffic school Saturday morning for | was standing near Nevertheless, after Herr Hitler day. The jury was impaneled and SR om te Pennsylvania that

in a kitchen stove of Robert H, Jackson to Solicitor | joked t rent guards obliged. | retired Cincinnati fire captain, was | reprimand. in her home, 238 Detroit St. General. (Turn to Page Three) i sworn in Dec. 6. | picked up the Survivors. Meanwhile, Mr. Shafer, who had |8dmitted in the Franklin Circuit | Admiral Bloch inferred that the

shai i table, was | Court at his trial te fie | accident was due to the rain squall, etn Ho trioves | dence against him Ta terme nai SECOND SEMESTER CLASSES OPEN AT BUTLER U. .

| News of the crash was not given is hat far back on his head and. the confession was obtained by co-

aa] hundreds of planes. JURY CONVENES MARCH 1 The collision occurred near the | dreadnaught Pennsylvania, flagship of Admiral Claude C. Bloch, new | fleet commander-in-chief. It was

shouted tried

the him

incessantly as to out-shout

The Federal Grand’ Jury is to

out at the Naval Base here until | after 2 a. m. The planes were two-motored | craft of the PBY type, considered | the most powerful fighting airboats in the world. Each carried a capacity crew of seven men. The two ships took off from San (Turn to Page Three)

STUDENTS RESEMBLE EXTRAS IN MOVIE MOB SCENE . .

usily scribbled a sign. Then for the ercion. io. Mu CI ' sy So ; |

snefit of photographers clustered | bout him, he attached the sign to | is hat and sat back to pose for the sictures. The sign said: | “What we need is a Roosevelt for | ~hairman and not a Roper hench- | me nan.” a. went {th Police and fire officials today inImmediately, attention o e en- | } tire conference was centered on Mr. | vestigated the fourth fire in a week, Shafer, He listened unperturbed to | 21! of which they said were in-| shouted demands that he be thrown | cendiary, at the Flanner House 302 out. | N. West St, Suddenly, two guards stepped for- | police said a Negro jumped =a ward, tilted Mr. Shafer’s chair and, | nearby fence as they appeared. with him still aboard, dragged the | They fired several shots at him, but chair out of the auditorium. | he escaped. Principal points of the program | Today's fire was startad hy burn- | to be presented to the President in- | ing rags scattered over the floor. clude: | 1. Legislation to encourage and | facilitate loans to small business SEADLUND PLEA DELAYED through the existing banking sys- CHICAGO, Feb. 3 (U.P. .—Artem. . | raignment of John Henry Sead2. Repeal or substantial modifica- ' lund, alias Peter Anders, for the tion of the capital gains and undis- | kidnap slaying of Charles S. Ross, | tributed profits taxes. | Chicago Valentine manufacturer, 3. Revisions of the Securities Ex- | was postponed in U. S. District | change Act. : | Court today until Feb. 8. : ATH {

FOURTH FIRE IN WEEK CALLED INCENDIARY

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Times Photos. they all rushed to

A flurry of activities marked the opening of second semester classes at Butler University today. Chloris Bell is paying her semester fee to GC. W. Wilson, bursar

gett), [Everett Kalb, student The sameta : caught