Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 February 1938 — Page 2
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INDIANAPOLIS AS ARTISTS SEE
This painting 9 row houses has been entitled “Three Sisters” by Artist Floyd 2 paintings of Indianapols scenes on display in Lyman's fireplace The exhibit will be shown until Feb. 19.
It is one of 2 31 Monument Circle.
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galleries.
TAXI PASSENGER They Won't Talk >—Barbers
WIELDED KNIFE, OPERATOR SAYS
Slashed His jis Throat During
Argument, He Reports To Police.
A taxicab driver, his throat cut by a passenger during an argument over payment of fare, and a suspect, shot during an alleged attempt to
enter a West Side home, were in | serious condition at City Hospital today.
Questioned by police at the hospital, where he had been taken by a passing motorist, John Scott, 38, of 908 E. Market St., the taxidriver, said he had driven a passenger to N. Arsenal Ave. and the Belt Railroad, where occurred early today. Mr. Scott said he was slashed on the neck when he demanded a scent fare from his passenger, who said he wouldn't pay unless the driver accompanied him to the rear
of a house in the 2100 block N. Ar- |
senal Ave. Fired Shotgun
Investigating a noise at the rear of his home early today, Joe 45, of 410 S. Addison St., told police he found William B. O'Neill, 30, of 1111 S. Sheffield Ave.
When O'Neill walked around to the front of the house and ignored warnings not to enter, Mr. Emminger fired one charge from a <hotgun, police said he told them.
O'Neill, wounded in the right shoulder, was charged with vagrancy, trespassing and drunkenness and held in the hospital under $1000 bond. Two men who entered the meat market of Robert C. Arnold, of 715 Orange St., yesterday afternoon forced Albert Arnold, of 221 Sanders St., father of the prop:ietor, to lie on the floor while they rifled the cash register of $15. A burglar who took $5 from the office of Remington Rand, Inc. 700 Test Building, failed to open a safe after knocking off part of the com-
door Emminger,
bination and escaped while James | Meek, 39, of 424 Bosart Ave.,, manager, telephoned police.
Two 16-vear-old boys were held on charges of grand larceny and vagrancy today following theft of a | purse containing $45 from the home ! of Mrs. Hazel Slider, 46, of 2211 | Station St.
Reports Purse Missing
After two women Francis Haralson, 61, of 716 N. Senate Ave., when she became ill at | Illinois and Market Sts. yesterday, = purse containing $23 was missing, she told police. Floyd Harlam, 28, Beech Grove, attendant at a filling station at 3540 W. Washington St., reported of $39 he had hidden for safekeep- | ing in event of a holdup, he told | deputy sheriffs.
COL. RODDA SPEAKS ON ‘DICTATORSHIPS’
The humblest American would not be satisfied with conditions as they now exist in Russia, Col. Bertrata Rodda, Salvation Army commander, today had told members of the Exchange Club in an address on “Dictatorships.” Col. Rodda, at the luncheon meeting yesterday at Hotel Washington, gave his impressions of visits made to dictatorship countries during re“ent years Zeo W. Leach, program chairman. troduced Col. Rodda. Milton W. angus, president, presided.
oHARGES UNLIKELY IN YOUTHS KILLING
Coroner E. R. Wilson announced nday he probably will recommend lismissal of vagrancy charges rainst Glenn Wright, 16, who late
[uesday accidentally shot and fa- |
ally wounded his companion, Don1ld Rusher, 16.
Dr. Wilson said there is “no doubt that the shooting was accidental.” Wright accidentally dis-
charged a rifle which he had playfully pointed at his playmate. He is scheduled to appear for a hearing in Municipal Court Wednesday.
GROUPS APPOINTED
FOR RELAY DANCE!
Committees for the annual Butler University Relay dance to be held March 18 under the sponsorship of the Sphinx Club were announced today. Those appointed Hanna, David Thompson, Byron Reed. James Comstock, Robert Springer, George Perry and Thomas Connolly. A “relay queen” is to be elected at the dance, She will reign at the Sixth Annual Indoor Relays to be eld Maich 19; me
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Still Believe 1
in ‘Free’ Speech
By LEO DAUGHERTY
If it hadn't been for George R.
Smith, Indianapolis’ Barbers’ Local
secretary, we'a never have been able to report this because most of the | barbers polled were too busy talking to their customers to talk about the
| possibility of “talking barbers”
disappearing. Maybe the proper way to have gone about the thing would have been to climb into a chair and get a haircut and the conversation
| to the clip-clip accompaniment, but we didn’t need the haircut and
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DEFEATIS ASKED
‘Congress Advised Measure | Would Be Blow at | Hoosier Industries. |
Charging that passage of the McAdoo Panama Canal Toll Bill would “drive Indiana industries out of the New York market entirely,” the state Chamber of Commerce today asked Indiana Senators and Representatives in Congress to defeat the | measure. The bill would relieve coastwise ships from toll payments for the use of the Panama Canal. “Although the bill appears to be designed to aid national defense,” H. A. Hollopeter, Chamber traffic director, said, “its effect upon the | industry and the commerce in the country cannot be overlooked.”
Provisions Are Inclusive
While interior industries are as concerned with national defense as any other, they feel this measure has not been shown to be sufficiently needful from that standpoint to jus- | tify the imvosition of the burden it would involve, Mr. Hollopeter said. “The bill is designed to relieve only such ships as may be suitable | for conversion into a naval or military auxiliary in time of war, but | these provisions are sufficiently gen- | eral to permit the inclusion of sub- | stantially all ships that now ply between the east and west coasts of the United States in commercial | trade.” The petition also reported that the benefit for coastwise industries and communities will come directly (from the U., S. Treasury. About eight million dollars in tolls would be canceled yearly, it said.
MORE PROGRESSIVE CHINA 1S FORECAST
‘Lyman Hoover Says Warfare To Strengthen Nation.
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{ China will emerge from her present struggles stronger and more pro- | gressive than ever, Lyman Hoover, formerly of Indianapolis and present Y. M. C. A. secretary in China, said today. Mr Hoover, who returned recently from China, spoke to Shortridge High School pupils yesterday. He | will return soon to his post in the | Far East, | “The deepest tragedy of the pres{ent warfare with Japan is that it halted a period of great energy and | development that began in 1934 and came to an abrupt end last summer,” he said.
didn’t have time for usual conversation. omet®> The
conversation needed was about the barber himself and for a long time and at least up until the last shearing at 3 p. m. Feb. 1, the barber preferred the weather, politics and his customer's health as subjects rather than himself. But Mr. Smith doesn’t take any stock in the report of a Memphis barber survey which showed the barbers down there weren't talking any more and that silence was a new shop rule.
They Still Talk
“No such rule around here like that,” he said. “Some of them might
bers still are long on conversation. “Well, much has been said about the old barber shop as a place for the dissemination of politics and social scandal in the days when the pink Police Gazette used to be a part of the equipment.” Mr. Smith, who used to stand on the working side of a big, adjustable chair, sat there as comfortable as a tired customer under the first hot towel and as willing to talk as the best of the trade. “Now since legal and sanitary regulations have removed the coal bucket, the ash pan and coal stove, they've been replaced by sparkling cleanliness. And rough talk went with the big brass spittoons. “Why one of the real problems of the barber now is to find a place to spit.
Things to Worry About
“We've got other things to worry about. With the safety and electric razor and what with most every man having a wife, or sister or sweetheart or some female relative who is somewhat of a beauty expert to hand him things like lotion, there's a lot he doesn’t have to go to a barber shop for anymore. “Those mug racks are gone, too. You know, most any one of consequence had one on the rack with their name on it in gold. But with electric latherings, we don’t touch any two men with the same brush. The lather comes out of that apparatus and it's worked up with the hand. “The barber's got to do some talking to get himself out of an economic manhole.” One almost expected: “Comb it wet or dry?”
COMMISSION TO HEAR RATE INCREASE PLEA
Hearings on proposed intrastate freight rate increases are to be held Feb. 21, the Indiana Public Service Commission announced today. A petition under consideration by the Commission would increase rates about 15 per cent on manufactured steel and iron products, stone, sand, clay, packing house goods and sewer pipe.
BEDORD STORE BURNED BEDFORD, Feb. 12 (U. P)) —Fire of undetermined origin today destroyed the Jackson Tire Shop here causing damage estimated at more than $2500. Sherman B. L. Jackson,
owner of the business, said that accounts totaling $45,000 were burned.
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SHOE WORKERS STRIKE ENDED AT VINCENNES
Eleven Win Back Jebs With Total of $4767 Pay For Two Years.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 (U. P). The National Labor Relations Board announced today settlement of a 27-month-old labor dispute at the Brown Shoe Co.'s Vincennes, Ind., plant under which 11 employees will be reinstated with back pay totaling $4767 and the NLRB will conduct a collective bargaining election, The company, third largest shoe manufacturer in the United States, signed a stipulation with the Boot
be singing the blues, but most bar- | & ‘Shoe Workers Union. an A. FP.
|of L. affiliate, and the NLRB. Charges of unfair labor practices against the company were dismissed.
The election will decide whether employees want the Boot & Shoe Workers Union to represent them. If the union wins the election, the company agrees to recognize it as exclusive bargaining agency. Employees who will be reinstated and the back pay each will receive are: Troy Hale, $800; Floyd Deem, $800; Orville Hoffman, $580; Otto Muchmore, $520; Floyd Clark, $375; Austin Biliskie, $354; Edmund Kaiser, $319; John Walker, $312; John F. Hensley, $268; Charles Preusz, $236; and Harvey Hendrixson, $221. The stipulation provides the company shall: Cease interference with organizational activities of its employees; quit spying on union meetings; cease influencing “citizens, civil bodies, or public officials” to interfere with union activities, withdraw recognition from the employees welfare association as a bargaining agency for at least six months.
Union Is Winner in
Peru Election
Robert H. Cowdrill, National Labor Relations Board regional director, announced today that S. J. Bailey Co., Peru, has agreed to recognize the United Brotherhqod of Carpenters and Joiners, Lotal 1878, an A. F. of L. affiliate, as sole bargaining agent at the plant. Forty-three of 70 employees voted yesterday in favor of recognition of the union. The election was conducted by NL by NLRB officers.
FCC ASKED TO MOVE RADIO STATION HERE
Purdue Unerersity’s radio station would be moved to Indianapolis and used for noncommercial educational purposes if plans submitted to the Federal Communications Commission are approved. The plan was discussed at a conference yesterday of representatives of Indiana and Purdue Universities, Ball State and Indiana State Teachers’ Colleges, with Governor Townsend, The Federal Commission has been asked to increase the station's power to 5000 watts.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET The Women's Democratic Club of Ward 17 is to hear an illustrated lecture at a special meeting at the home of Mrs. W. J. Matthews, 1221 Comar St.,, Monday night.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES WINTER'S SCENE Fa PAINTERS BRUSH. «Tw ww
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A winter sports scene shows a hockey game in progress on Lake Sullivan, Riverside Park. It is the work of Edward Sitzman, one of the 12 artists whose work is being displayed at the
The exhibit is open to the public.
Freak Quake Is Reported By Hoosiers
CHICAGO, Feb. 12 (U. P). —A freak rumbling, believed to have been an earth tremor, shook the area along the southern edge of Lake Michigan today, rattled windows and dishes, and brought hundreds of calls to police stations and newspapers. No serious damage was reported. The rumbling was felt at 12:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) and lasted about three seconds, residents of the area reported. Indiana State Police said reports of a “quake” were received from as far east as Paw Paw, Mich. Shelby, Ind. on the south, and from the southern edge of Chic The seismograph at thé University of Chicago remained steady, it was reported. From description, the tremor appeared to have been centered near Gary.
MAYOR INVITES
Slum Clearance Advocated As Major Part of 25Year City Program.
Mayor Boetcher, the City Plan Commission and members of the Works and Parks Boards today had | invited suggestions for a 25-year improvement program for Indianapolis.
This long-range planning was urged by the Mayor at a meeting Subjects of the talks are: “Jesus with Commission. and Board mem- | Teaching on Ministering” and “Prebers at the Indianapolis Athletic Ministeries,”” Tuesday,
Club last night. One of the chief suggestions made at the meeting was that an adequate slum clearance project be undertaken. Thomas A. Moynahan, Board member and State Housing | Authority member, said
thority. He said that a representative of that new authority would be in Indiana Monday. George T. Whelden, Plan mission member, advocated
Comslum
‘clearance by erection of sanitary |
homes on single lots. Mr. Moynahan warned that a fund for street improvements must be established. He said a reserve fund was needed to improve streets which he said were deteriorating rapidly. Mayor Boetcher expressed a desire that landscaping be considered in all future street improvéments.
GIRL SCOUT TROOP 30
WILL MAKE AWARDS
(Another Story, Page Nine)
Girl Seout Troop 30 is to hold a Court of Awards and Valentine party Monday afternoon at Girl Scout Little Home, Mrs. W. H. Abraham, leader, announced today Refreshments and games have been planned by the five Girl Scouts in charge. They are working for hostess badges. Awards include five second-class badges to Catherine Moore, Dorothy Wilson, Martha Fairburn, Olgu Berger and Margaret Augustine. Eleanor Miller is to receive her neediewoman and scholarship badges, and Hazel Jane Abraham, the horsewoman badge.
DR. J. T.CONLEY BEGINS 3D YEAR AT HOSPITAL
Dr. Joseph Thomas Conley today
began his third year as resident
physician at City Hospital in the pediatrics division. He was renamed to the post yesterday by the Health Board. Mrs. Grace Bryant, school nurse, was selected to fill the post of Mrs. Lillian Courtney, staff member for 16 years, granted a leave of absence to become nurse at the school for Negro crippled children. Earl C. Wolf, hospital business manager, reported funds now were
available through sale of bonds, to
effect changes in the new F-wing of the institution.
I. U. EXEMPTS TWO FROM ENGLISH TESTS
Times Speetal BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 12.-—Two Indianapolis students were among 13 at Indiana University who were
exempted from English composition courses following examinations last week, Prof. Arthur B. Leible an-
nounced today.
They are Eunice Comrie, Techand
graduate,
nical Frank W, , Shortridge.
Christian | “Terms Which Describe Minister“Qualifications for and Thursday,
| ing,” Wednesday; | Ministering” | Phases of Ministering,” and “The Message of the Ministry” Works | and “The Relation of the Minister
the City |
DEFINITE POLICY INCHINESE WAR
Measures,” Town Hall Speaker Says.
Robert H. Berkov,
today declared that
policy flict.”
at Columbia Club, Mr. dicted the undeclared war
economic needs.
in the Far East.
halfway policy.
should do.”
business.”
Asserting that many
| underlying forces, alism and Japanese imperialism,
MINISTER TO SPEAK
AT BUTLER CHAPELS
| Seven lectures are to be presented WwW. R. Walker, pastor | | of the Indianola Christian Church | at Columbus, O., in Butler College
by the Rev.
[ of Religion chapels nex! week,
and “Orders
to the Local Church,” Friday.
public.
URGED FOR U. 3.
‘There Must Be No Half-Way
former United Press bureau manager at Shanghai, “the United
States must decide upon a definite in the Sino-Japanese con-
Addressing a Town Hall audience Berkov pre“likely will spread to all parts of China, but China is favored by time. Japan will find fighting more difficult as time goes on as a result of military and
“The United States sooner or later wil] decide what its policy will be There can be no It is up to the people to decide what the Government
He said the Government “either must stand on its rights and fight, PLANNING HELP | or decide it is not the United States’ | Americans think the Sino-Japanese conflict is | a series of isolated incidents, he said the fighting was the result of two Chinese nation-
Lectures are to be held at Jordan might be able to obtain $5,000,000 | Memorial Hall and are open to the from the new Federal Housing Au- |
Scar Feared
James McHugh Jr. and Edna Cantor HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 12 (U.P).
—Jacial cuts received last night in an automobile accident may
leave a scar to mar the beauty of Edna Cantor, 18, third of Eddie Cantor's five daughters,
her doctor said today. The injuries were described as of “minor nature,” and Miss Cantor was sent home after treatment at an emergency hos= pital, but her lower lip had been punctured. Miss Cantor's escort, James McHugh, Jr, 22, was driving ‘the ear. Mr. McHugh was bruised.
BUSINESS FDUCATION
Strong Accou Boakkeepiti Btenographic and. go. in ial courses. Day pd ening ressions,
Fred W rinecipal,
Central Business Colleg
Architects and Bul ne) &
“Sunny Shack” is by Artist William F. Kaeser. ward, Simon P. Baus, Ernest C. Ropkey, Renee Barnes, Foster, Marie C. Todd, Flora Lauter and Carl Graf,
It 2 Plus 2 Isn't 4, Then What Is It?
SOUTH BEND, Feb. 12 (U. P)~If “two plus two is not four,” then what is it? Notre Dame and South Bend would like to know today. Dr. Edward V. Huntington of Harvard University, speaking before a symposium of mathematicians at Notre Dame University last night, jumped on one of many facts of life, learned usually at the age of 6. He claimed that since logic and mathematics are one and the same, and logic does not deal with the truth, “two plus two is not four.” “Logic does not deal with the truth,” he said, “but only with propositional functions, which, as such, are neither true nor false. Nothing proved by logic can possibly be true. “If anything is wrong with logic the same thing must be wrong with mathematics.”
Text of Note From Japan
TOKYO, Feb. 12 (U. P.).— Japan’s naval note to the United States after recalling the nonacceptance of Japan's proposals by the naval conference said: “The Japanese Government, as always, prompted by a spirit of nonmenace and nonaggression, has no intention whatever of possessing armament which would menace other countries. . , “At this juncture, when there is in existence no fair disarmament treaty to which Japan is a party,
the Japanese Government is of the |
opinion that the mere communication of information concerning the construction of vessels will, in the absence of quantitative limitation, not contribute to any fair and equitable measure of disarmament, and regret that they are unable to comply with the desire of your Government on this point. “The Japanese Government fail to see any logical reasoning in the assumption on the part of your
be deemed to entertain a scheme for constructing vessels which is not in conformity with the limits provided in the London Naval Treaty of 1936 from the mere fact that they do not dispatch a reply giving the desired information. “It is not a matter which should concern this Government in the event that your Government, on the basis of whatever reason or rumor, should exercise the right of escalation provided in any treaty to which Japan is not a party.
must
FAVOR ANY DISCUSSIONS
“Your Government has been good enough to intimate that should the Japanese Government hereafter be prepared to agree to some limitation in respect to tonnage and caliber of guns, they would also be prepared to discuss the matter. “The Japanese Government, still holding firm to the conviction that qualitative limitation would by neo means contribute to attainment of any fair and equitable measure of disarmament, cannot but consider that the discussion suggested by your Government would not conduce in any measure to the realization of their desires concerning disarmament, “It is to be added. however, that as the Japanese Government will not fall behind other governments in an ardent desire for disarmament, they will be ready at any moment to enter into any discussions
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PURDUE EXPERT PREDICTS HIGH FARM EARNINGS
Prospects Over Next 5 Years Are Bright, Bottum Says Here.
Earnings of Indiana farmers may be slightly less this year than last, but their prospects over the next five or 10 years are bright. This was the message of J. C. Bote tum, Purdue University farm management specialist in an address at a farm management forum yesterday at the Hotel Washington. About 60 Marion County farmers attended, Mr. Bottum said there is a tendency for higher prices which “over a long-term period would increase average receipts over those to be expected this year.” He said a survey farms in Marion County for the last seven years revealed a crop yield 25 per cent higher than average farms, more of the land®in high-er-value crops, more live stock and emphasis on corn, alfalfa and other legumes, Other
of successful
speakers included Howard
Mills, Decatur Township; Russell Hutchinson, Franklin Township, and Antone Ploenges, Warren Township.
Freedom Seen
In Farm Bill Provisions of the compromised Farm Bill conference report on
which the Senate is to vote Monday “will not place Indiana corn growsers in a strait-jacket,” Hassil E. Schenck, Indiana Farm Bureau president, declared today. He said there had been some “unfair criticism” of the new crop control measure, “The farmer has lived through a period in which he was placed in the so-called ‘strait-jacket,’” he said. “This was a time when he was losing money on nearly every commodity produced on the farm and when he had not yet accom= plished the type of legislation which the farmers felt would be helpful, not only to the farmers but to the rank and file of our population.”
‘Hoosier Senators
Government that this Government |
Back Farm Bill
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11-—Both Senators VanNuys and Minton will vote for the Farm Bill conference report, they declared today. Senator VanNuys said Democratie procedure had been preserved in the corn and wheat sections of the re= written bills. He was particularly
interested because of letters from Hoosier farmers warning against coercion.
Passage of the measure has been urged by the Indiana Farm Bureau and by Governor Townsend.
$14,057 APPROVED FOR
SCHOOL FOR BLIND
Allotment of $14,057 for improves ments at the State School for the Blind has been approved, the Works Progress Administration ree ported today. Lake, Allen, Monroe and Foun tain counties also are to receive ale lotments.
on the matter of disarmament which give primary importance to fair, quantitative limitation.”
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