Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1938 — Page 1
SCRIPPS ~ HOWARD
* COUNTY VOTING COSTS TO RISE SAYS COSGROVE
Increase Caused by. Record ~ Number of Candidates In Primaries.
$7100 EXTRA DEMANDED |
Filing: Headquarters Opened “In Office of County Commissioners.
A record number of candidates in the primaries and the large number of offices to be filled in the general election will increase Marion County election costs this year, William P. Cosgrove, State Accounfs Board chief examiner,
. said today. og B. Ralston, County Clerk, has installed a filing headquarters for candidates in the .office of. the County Commissioners. He said he was preparing for the largest number in: history. William P. Flanary, deputy clerk in ‘the GQounty registration office, issued a general appeal to voters to register or transfer as soon as possible to avoid the anticipated rush before April 4, the registration dead-
line, _ $7100 More Asked At’ the same time he filed a suit to compel the County. Council to appropriate $7100 extra for election expenses. He said that amount had - been cut off the 1938 budget. Mr. Cosgrove said that the large number of offices to be filled could
and the City ticket probably would be - pit on paper hallats. . Voting machines are not used in the pri-
maries. "In the 1936 general election, the cost. was ‘25 cents a vote, the total for 216,500 cast being $54,693.28, which, he said, was low ‘compared to some other counties. Vigo County’s 50,738 votes cost $33,402 or 66 cents a vote, and Lake CounLYs 103.700 cost 59. . cents each.
or S 2 [ on the" tan floor” of the Court House; The greatest Tush of candidates is expected within a few days after the filing opens March 4. Candidates - may enter their names until midnight April 2. Those who are to file at the Court House include aspirants for County Clerk, Auditor, Recorder, Sheriff, Coroner, Surveyor, Assessor, Commis{Turn to Page Three)
CHILD, 2, SGALDED MONTH A AGO, DIES|
.Childish. curiosity today had caused the death of 2-year-old Joan Williams.
The accident occurred on Jan. 24. There was a sick baby at 1221 Fletcher Ave. the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Williams, Joan's mother and father. They kept a teakettle boiling on the kitchen stove. They needed hot water constantly. “Attracted by the steaming spout, Joan reached for the kettle. It tipped and | the scaling water “poured on her face and over the front of her. She ran screaming to her mother who called ‘police. : The child, burned severely, was taken to City Hospital She died there last night.
U. S. DEFICIT PASSES ONE BILLION DOLLARS
(Treasury Statement, Page 16)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U.P) .— “The Federal Government's - gross deficit : crossed . the .$1,000,000,000 ‘mark Feb. 21, the Treasury's’ daily statement disclosed today:
_ At $1,008,685,794, the gross deficit, |
which" takes into account expenditures for debt retirement, was ap-
proximately $286,000,000 below the
"estimate for the current fiscal year forecast in:the President's January budget.
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‘VOLUME 49—NUMBER 300
Attorney General Greets McNutt
BEN. PERSHING ‘GROWS WEAKER
‘Becoming Apathetic,” Says His Physician; Spends Restless Night.
TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. 24 (U. P)— John J. Pershing, leader of Amer-
ican forces in the World War, is “definitely weaker and somewhat apathetic,” his physician, . Dr. Roland Davison, said today. . “Gen. Pershing is not as well this morning as he was yesterday,” Davison said. “He had a ys: night. His condition may be only temporary, or ‘it may presage more ‘| serious squences. - While there} e|is no heart failure, his physicians?" are not fully satisfied Wile the heatt condition.” Dr. Davison said the sivival this morning of Gen. Pershing’s only son, Francis Warren, who flew "here from Florida, did not contribute to the General's weakened condition. “They talked only briefly,” Dr. Davison said. = “The son may be allowed to see and talk to his father later in the day.
GOAL COMMISSION
STARTS TASK ANEW
Cut Unlikely Here Soon, Dealers Say.
. By CHARLES T.. LUCEY Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—A complete surrender to: the demands of coal operators -and consumers set the -National Bituminous Coal Commission back at scratch today in its program -of establishing minimum coal prices to stabilize the bituminous industry, All minimum prices established by the Commission have ‘been reyoked, effective Saturday midnight. ‘The Commission today is issuing a formal order setting foith the steps by which it will move anew to establish minima. This procedure is expected to spread - over several months. In the la Commission, it will in “such manner as to avoid, wherever possible, technical ‘objections which have been ‘interposed by Consumers’ Counsel :and- others.”
fice set up independently under the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act and occupied by ‘John Carson, has main‘tained along with various consumer groups that the original minima were established without ‘ adequate public hearings and without produc(Turn to Page Three)
jage of the!
‘The Consumers’ ‘Counsel, an of-
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McHale Has as Difficult Job as Campaign Strategist, Clapper Declares.
By RAYMOND CLAPPER Times Special Writer f WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —For the time being, the real burden of hogtying the 1940 Democratic. Presidential nomination for Paul V. McNutf will rest on Frank McHale, the stout, - hearty, tough politician who runs the Indiana party organization with a ruthlessness that makes Jim. Farley look like Little Lord Fauntleroy. .
tional publicity attending the monster, elbow-jabbing reception staged | rj here by his Indiana friends. This ‘Presidential ‘debut, while exceptionally ostentatious, befits the necessities of the situation. As U.S. High Commissioner to the Philippines, Mr. McNutt does not occupy an office which in itself is conspicuous with regard to Presidential pol‘itics, so it is necessary for: him. to make himself conspicuous, When a man is-New York Governor or‘is in the ‘Cabinet, the prestige of his office carries a good. (deal of the pub licity load. He'll Get the Publicity In this case, something had to be done to make the nation McNuttconscious. | That’s all there is to it. It is not dumb politics at all. *Commissioner McNutt will take the kidding and the jibes, but he'll’ get the needed publicity. - From now on he will be national news. However, the hard work for some months to’ come will be done not"by Mr.” McNutt, but by his own Indiana Farley, Frank McHale. ‘Mr. McNutt will get the headlines, but Mr. McHale’s® job _is to'get the delegates. He. is a good man for that, a seasoned: politician who served. his ap-
maker” ‘group in- the American Legion, than which there is no better political training school. Then he managed Mr. McNutt’s (Turn to Psge Three) ES ——————————————— nth
LOUIS TO BATTLE THOMAS ON APRIL 1
(Logis- Mann Fight Details, Page 1m
NEW YORK, Feb. Feb. 24 (U. P)., — - Joe Louis, who last night successfully defended his world’s heavyweight boxing championship against Nathan ~ Mann, will ‘meet Harry Thomas of Chicago at the Chicago Stadium on April 1, promoter Mike Jacobs:-announced today. : It will be
: stake.
(Mannon Column, Page Eight)
At one time or another, more than 21,000 persons in Indianapolis “have ‘been infected th syphilis,” Dr.
Syphilis Survey Committee chairman, said today. He spoke at a meeting of the Indiana Antisyphilis Committee of the American Social Hygiene Associa-
“More than 10 per cent of the cases admitted to City Hospital are syphilitic,” Dr. Gastineau declared. “At Coleman and Riley Hospitals, the prevalence is 3 per cent, and at Central Hospital for the Insane, 25 per cent.” ‘The survey was sponsored by the City Health Board and the Indianapolis Medical Society. Dr. Gastineau reported the disease is most common among “those at the bottom of the social and eco-
ills Victims who | en-
Frank M. Gastineau, Indianapolis
clinics during 1937, special |
21,000 Have Been Infected By Syphilis Here, Is Report
“We have been able to trace 58 per cent of these cases,” he said. “In
demics that break out.” The campaign launched last year by the U. S. Public Health Service has been successful here, Dr. (3astineau claimed. : “Due to citizen education, there
number of patients taking treatpoor, the number has doubled.” Dr. Gastin
sity for continuing the drive to prevent congenital syphilis. “We want to force the isolation of infectious cases of the prostitute type,” he said. : Dr. Verne K. Harvey, State Health Board director, was to outline Indiana’s program for hilis - con‘trol, and Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, was to an-
prenticeship as one of the “king-|gs
a 15-round bout wind Louis’ ulle at |
this way we hope to stop small epi- |.
has been a. great increase in the’ ment at the clinics. Among the eau stressed. the neces- |
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1988
Times-Acme Telephoto.
Commissioner McNutt (tight) chats win Attornty General Cuinmings = Yestvilon,
FDR Ges Orient ‘Report; ‘Debut’ Attracts 3000
h Don’t Know,’ Commissions er Replies. to Query About Indiana U. Post.
: WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 (U.P.).— High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt
of the Philippines today presented to President ‘Roosevelt. first hand information on the Far Eastern sit-
nation.
Mr. McNutt submitted his report in a White House ineeting. He said he gave the Chief Executive a report of his conversations with Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell,
“Ganimissioner litte put’ His feet,
= office.” He was aided by’ the na- States. ; : - “The ~ four horsemen are still
out. there,” said Mr. McNutt, pa in théir wake murder; loot, rape and déstiiction.” The White House visit of the former Indiana Governor followed a gigahtic reception late yesterday at which he was greeted by upward of 3000 persons, including residents: of his home, state, Government officials and political leaders, “Everyone out: there is convinced that Yarnell: has done a marvelous | jab, considering the fact that he is figuratively sitting on a keg ofidynamite,” said Mr. McNutt after his discussion with the President. The Commissioner spent half an hour with .the Chief Executive but said he had just time to touch on the highlights of the Philippines problem. He said he would see Mr. Roosevelt again Saturday at Boos, bringing documents’ and ‘reports. “to go over the whole works.”
Asked if he disclissed Indians, g
politics, Mr. McNutt said’ “that he expressed the hope that Mr. Roosevelt was not disturbed. Mr. Roosevelt said,” according ' to 'Commissioner = McNutt, - “that he was. not. - His conference today he described as purely preliminary to the one that will take place ‘on Saturday.
‘Asked when he planned to: return
to his’ post ‘in ,» he “Just as sqon' as I get thn Before his’ conference, Mr, "+, (Turn. to; Page Three) ,
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Governor Presents Indiana Survey Showing 55.8 Per Cent Job Drop.
WPA PAYROLLS : DECLINE
Business Reported ‘Good in|
Farm Regions, Poor in Industrial Areas,
By DANIEL M KIDNEY . ‘Times Staff Writer
‘Roosevelt that 218,000 in Indiana
pared with 140,000 in January, 1937, an increase of 55.8: per cent. These figures were included in a “confidential ‘business survey” of Indiana the Governor presented to
“| the President.
Governor Townsend's report, based on figures from State WPA Director John K. Jennings, said that
. { while unemployment increased last
month, Federal emergency Work payrolls * decreased from 72,000 January, 1937, to 61,000 last ma The unemployment section of the survey said “reports from 86 representative cities and towns show a reduction of 28.8 per cent in the number of persons on payrolls.”
‘Typical State’
“The detailed survey was accompanied by a statement from the Governor explaining that these statistics ‘might be useful as showing economic conditions “in a .typical
industrial. » The material was. obtained by sending identical questionnaires to presidents of state and - national banks in approximately 100 communities of- over. 2000 . population, thé Governor explained. “It-is significant that savings accounts in Indiang have ‘increased 457 per cent and bank deposits, as a whole, ' decreased but .155. per cent,” the statement read. “Commercial deposits decreased 2.75 per cent. Building and‘ loan
( Po er areas, re- ¢ in the reporting communibut :3.7 per cent on the
averags lee decreased 7.6 per cent in the average for all’ lines. Aufomobile
sales led ‘both. retail, and ‘Wholesale |
sale decreases. - =| | “Business: and. residential: vatanes
was very small in 47 cities and many. bankers. reported the need for housing and industrial construction. “The. survey. reveals that the communities can be placed in three classes—predominantly agricultural, even division of industrial and agricultural: activity and completely in-
ustrial. - “Bankers’ in agricultural ‘communities reported that business was good and the businessmen had no complaints’ or ‘suggestions. to make. These ‘communities -are very optimistic and several bankers reported that the farmers were in the best financial condition of many years. “Businessmen in industrial-agri-cultural ¢ommunities are hopeful
:|that business will pick up within
the next few months. Bankers from this ‘type of community ‘said con-
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BY TOWNSEND
LONDON WILLING
| + WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 —Gover-: | nor Townsend today told President
were unemployed last month, com- |
state, half agricultural and half | posed
_|dle European democracy.
st for all lines. Wholesale
Entered. as : 4: Posteftice, polis, - Ind.
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Paris Pledges Army. Will Support Ally.
Ainetican Democracy Ideal of Prague | Politics.
By WEBE MILLER (Cons iatt. 1038, by United Press)
PRAGUE, Feb. 24— Czechoslovakia will resist by every means—diplomatic or military—Adolf Hitler's implied intent of bringing 3,500,000 of its. citizens under
a Nazi protectorate. 1 am able today to outline, on the highest authority, the attitude of this nation which stands in the path of Chancellor Hitler’s “drive to the east.” ‘Government ministers have refrained from issuing formal statements because of the delicacy of the Middle European situation, but this js how Czechoslovakia feels: 1. It regards the Fuehrer’s pro-| protectorate over Germans who live in other European countries as an unprecedented and injolerable
this nation.
Paris that if Germany attacks Czechoslovakia, France will spring to arms in its defense. Czechoslovakia and France are bound by a close military alliance. 3. It has informed the German: Minister that the Czechoslovakian Giovernment’s reaction to. Herr Hit ler's Reichstag spéech, in which he announced. 8. protectorate . over 10 n Germans who live. gh fo
mations. outsi $7 4 "Gravity Admitted
Outward. all is peaceful and calm here in the. capital of ‘the last Mid Wwell-
dressed crowds promenade on the , | broad thoroughfares in the winter sunshine. Motion picture theaters and cafes are crowded. But the Czechs know that at any time the blow may fall just as it did on ‘Aus-
tia. { The. Government’ wkesy no. atGen,
military correspondents of Prague newspapers and told them that the nation had to be prepared for “a brutal, quick attack without warning by motorized forces, assisted by an air force.” - He added that Czechoslovakia’ had to be prepared to fight alone for the first few days of the struggle, to give her allies ‘time to| mobilize The German Government. has made no diplomatic representations to Czechoslovakia since. the Fuehrer’s Reichstag speech, but the German Minister did call at the foreign office and inquire about the reaction of this Government. He received the straight reply that the speech bad made a disagreeable im-
Heretofore, the strongest the
Matter
interference in the internal afar of
2. It has received assurance from |
HY Ye. 5 - 5H Twelve were sighted over ‘the mid-China coast,
tempt td minimize the gravity of thie |} dd: th situation Ludwig - Krejeii| tirned: them General Staff chief, called “in - the |. wh,
Government has gone in revealing
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Times-Acme Phot: Vincent Schmidt
HANKOW, Feb. 24 (U. P)— Vincent Schmidt of Mineola, Long Island, commander ;of the 14th Air Squadron of thé Chinese Air ‘Force, ‘participated in the Chinese air raid on. Formosa, it was reported here Jloday... ’
TOKYO SOUNDS AIR RAID ALARM
New Plane Attack Feared; Seven Squadrons Used, ~ Chinese Say.
7 nt e——————" = Editorial, Page 12) - ORYO, Feb: 24 (U. P) —Mil-
lions in Japan watched the skies |
anxiously for hours-today, and an air alarm was sounded throughout the southwestern area, in the belief that a Chinese war plane, fleet Was onli ay 10 bomb the. ecounyar asd % \
' Chinese *Slanes
headed eastward—toward Japan; 10 Chinese planes were seen over the éast China Sea northeast of Formosa, on the direct route to the Japanese islands. . Nagasaki, the great Japanese naval base, and other populous cities: were in the danger zone and throughout the day a state of air alarm prevailed’ all over the Island of Kyushu. . : By dark, no planes had
ple believed ‘that “Japan
en word was received that” 10 planes had been sighted over the China Sea the air alarm was sounded throughout Formosa and iyushu,
Chinese Say Seven Squadrons Were Involved
“SHANGHAI, Feb. 24 (U, P.)— ‘Chinese air force headquarters said officially today that seven squadrons of Chinese planes took part yesterday in raids on Formosa, Japanese island ‘off: the: Southeast China coast: It was asserbed that the raiding aviators saw 40 Japanese airplanes on the field: at" Taihoku and that scores of. bombs were rained’ on, them. It was impossible, headquarters said, to determine the extent of damage. RES
Czechoslovakia Uneasy Under Hitler’ s Eye
|PoLAND
SHAPED AreAs : SHOW. GERMAN. POPUL LATION,
es ‘INDEPENDENCE:
| No Dictatorship in
Vienna, Chancellor Tells Nation.
£0,000 CHEER
J Rumanian Poll Backs
King Carol's New | Constitution.
BULLETIN * VIENNA, Feb. 24 (U. P.).~The Austrian-German agreement just . concluded contains a statement that ny recognizes the full sovereignty of Austria, €hancellor Schuschnigg sai said tonight,
VIENNA—Schuschnigg pleads for Austrian independence.
LONDON—Germay accepis British formula“ for recalling volunteers from Spain. PRAGUE—Czechs. determined. to resist any attempt by Germans fo dominate G er m a n minority; France promises aid. ROME—I{aly reveals terms of negotiations with Britain. TOKYO—Air alarm sounded, but 22 ‘planes sighted headed toward Japan are unreported, SHANGHAI—Chinese sources reveal seven squadrons joined in raid on Formosa.
WASHINGTON—Senator Johnson calls British diplomatic shift “dev astating blow” to U. S. foreign ‘ policy. (Story on Page. Three.) VIENNA, Feb. 24 (U. P.), —“We consider it our first "duty to preserve the freedom and independence of our Aus. trian fatherland,” Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg fold Europe
tonight in ‘an address.
=p “Repotting-on the status of ae his negotiations with “Nazi
Germany,’ the Chancellor
spoke before - the Bundestag.
“I can’ emphasize that the fore mula ‘Popular Front’ remains exe cluded from Austria, as well as its contrary - dictatorial constitution,” Chancellor Schuschnigg ‘said. A crowd of 40,000 cheered the Chancellor as he arrived at the Parliament Building and millions of his countrymen heard his accounting of stewardship over loud
{ speakers in the streets, cafes, the-
‘aters and at home. Neighboring - countties heard the speech by radio. The Chancellor opened hi ade dress with a reference to the mone archy. “In this decisive and serious hour,” he said, “The Federal Diet is assembled in this hall, the meet= ing hall of the . old Chamber of Deputies of the Monarchy, in which during the last half century, more than ‘once ustria and her existe ence have been debated.” Time to Act’ Referring to the expansion of the ‘Austrian Cabinet, in which - Nazis have now been included, Chancellor Schuschnigg said: “The. greater number of Cabinet members indicates very clearly that the responsible leaders of the Ause trian state are faced with extraore dinary tasks and they—I emphaSize this above all—are determined to perform these tasks under all
.| circumstances. . . .
“There is no time at the moa ‘ment to debate. A decision must be taken and we must act, in answer to the confidance of all those who are ready tojcollaborate.” ‘In declaring that the “popular
"| front,” and dictatorial formula are
excluded from Austria, ‘Chancellor Schuschnigg said: “AS a fundamental principle we have to avoid judging the peiitioal
.| institutions and systems of other
countries. This we can do, with= out fear of misunderstanding.” . ' . Speaks of Hitler “The Constitution.” Chancellor Schuschnigg declared, “knows no parties and no party system.” (Pare ties have been abolished in Austria, only the National Fs Fatherland Front
being recognized In referring to his talks with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler of Germany at Berchtesgaden, Chancellor Schuschs nigg said: “The fact that a personal meete ing between myself and Herr Hite ler caused a political sensation t Austria and across the fronti shows that in spite of all our efforts, ‘we have not yet succeeded entirely in solving all thé (Turn to Page Three)
U. S. HESITANT OVER WAR DEBT PROPOSAL
ah (Bditarial, Pa Page 12)
WASHINGTON, Reb. 24 (U. co Alministration - officials studied 72 offer by the ]
today to its debt “in full,” but Ep Hits