Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1938 — Page 2
ricT . FOR TO HEAR 'WNUTT REPORT ON CHINA WAR
Japanese Penetration in Far Eastern Markets May Be Theme.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.).— Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippines, was to report in detail to President/Roosevelt today on the Sino-Japanese conflict. Commissioner McNutt’s House Conference was for luncheon at 12 noon (Indianapolis Time). In conformity with his Saturday custom, . President. Roosevelt remained in his study. He also scheduled conferences with Secretary of War Harry Woodring, Aubrey Williams, ng Relief Administrator, and Senator McAdoo (D. Cal.). Commissioner McNutt held a preliminary conference swith the President Thursday, but said that they “merely scratched the surface” of the “brief case full” of information which he obtained by flying to Shanghai and conferring with Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell, Asiatic fleet commander. No hint of Commissioner McNutt’s report has been released yet, although after Thursday’s conference he indicated the position of United States military forces in China when he said that Admiral Yarnell is “figuratively sitting on a keg of . dynamite.” A large portion of. Commissioner McNutt’s report, however was expected to be on the effect of Japanese economic penetration into Far Eastern markets and industry.
BAILEY SAYS BRIDGES SHOULD GET HEARING
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.) — Senator Bailey (D. N. .C.) today supportéd efforts of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast maritime. labor leader and a Committee for Industrial Organization director, to answer charges of being a Communist made before the Senate Commerce Committee. Senator Bailey, a member of the committee, said that it should permit Mr. Bridges to answer the allegations after Lee Pressman, C. I. O. counsel, had demanded that Bridges be given an opportunity to refute - “wild and loose-lipped” charges made by Joseph P. Ryan, International Longshoremen’s Association president. Chairman Copeland (D. N. Y) has steadfastly refused -to grant Mr. Bridges permission to-appear.
CROMWELL FAVORS BILLION DOLLAR FUND
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —James H. R. Cromwell, whose wife is the former Doris Duke, “richest girl in the world,” today proposed that the Government distribute immediately approximately ‘one billion dollars of Social Security fuhds as a stimulant to business. He proposed a payment of approximately $40 each to 25 million persons. “Action on this suggestion,” Mr. Cromwell sgid, “would have almost the same ‘pump priming’ effect as the soldiers bonus legislation had in 1936 ‘but unlike the soldiers bonus would not increase the Government indebtedness.”
NINE DAYS ADRIFT, ‘VESSEL LOSES TOW
BOSTON, Feb. 26 (U. P).— Storm-battered and propellerless _for nine days, the freighter Azalea City of Mobile, Ala., was drifting again today after a second parting of her towline. The ship, carrying 51 persons in- - cluding two women, had drifted 1200 miles to a position 1235 miles southeast ¢f Boston since becoming disabled 300 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland. The Coast Guard Cutter Chelan was standing” by to attempt again to place a third line aboard as a new southwest gale arose. :
FORMER ENVOY DIES OF 20-YEAR WOUND
CHICAGO, Feb. 268 (U. P.).—Col. Noble Brandon Judah, lawyer, war veteran and former U. S. Ambassa.dor to Cubs, died today from the effects of a. shrapnel .wound received on: the battlefields of France 20 years ago. ; The steel fragment caiised a bone injury which developed into - a malignant tumor: near the right eye. He underwent an operation for removal of the eye Jan. 6 at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, but failed to rally.
He suffered a relapse at his home |
here Sunday.
GIRL, SIX, IS BURNED
Barbarg Jean Rice, 8, was burned about the arms today when she attempted to take a teakettle off a stove at her home, 560 Drover St. Mrs. Olive Coleman, her mother, was out of the room at the time.
FINE: MEANS PROSPERITY : ASTORIA, Ore, Feb. 26 (U. P.). —Police believe that Billy Hill’s latest brush with the law: is a hdrbinger of good times. Hill, a longshoreman,
the most regular |
habitue of the jail, having served 65 terms for minor offenses. When times are good, he pays his fine, but when his pickings are slim, he
goes to jail. This time he paid his
gre.
——————————— LOGANSPORT WINS DEBATE Times Special. LOGANSPORT Feb. 26 port won its frst district debate in the history of the school by defeating Chester High School of North Manchester here last night. team is entitled to enter the zone
meeting opposing La Porte. AIR MAIL WEEK MAY 15 Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker sunousced. today that Indianapolis will join in ‘observance ‘of the first Air Mail Week 13
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SUPREME COURT DUE TOSTUDY PETITIONS
Two-Week Recess Ends; Decisions Expected.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P.).— Justices of the Supreme Court -return from a two-week recess today to meet in their usual Saturday conference and act on several important petitions for reviews of lower court decisions. Among these are petitions for a review of constitutionality of the substitute municipal bankruptcy law, enacted last year to replace the old municipal bankruptcy act invalidated by a 5-to-4 Supreme Court decision in 1936, of 12 convictions obtained as a result of an investigation of alleged fraud in Kansas City’s 1936 elections. The court also may rule, when it convenes in open session Monday, on any one of several major cases awaiting final decisions. Most important is the Electric Bond & Share Co.’s test challenge of constitutionality of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act.
SLOAN TO FINANCE SCHOOL FOR BUYERS
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (U. P)— Harold S. Sloan, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Inc. director, said to-
day that the foundation had given approximately $30,000 for the establishment at Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., of a National Institute for Consumers’ Education. The institute, according to the foundation’s ‘plans, will open next September under the direction of Dr. John M. Cassels, now -a professor in the . Graduate School of
Public Administration at Harvard |
University. Its pupose will be to “teabh Americans to spend more intelligently” and to exert.a “correctional influence on some of the maladjustments of our present economic order.”
TREASURY CONDUCTS NARCOTICS SURVEY
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 (U. P). ed The Treasury is conducting the most extensive nation-wide census of narcotic addicts ever attempted in preparation for a new campaign to destroy the market for the illicit narcotics business, the United Press learned today. Sample tabulations taken in various parts of the country indicated a sharp reduction in the number of addictions during the last decade, according to Elmer L. Irey, co-ordinator of the Treasury's enforcement activities. Ten years ago, a less thorough survey showed that there were approximately 120,000 addicts in the United States. The upstate New York survey showed an average of two out of every 10,000 population were victims.
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Times-Acme Telephotos. The Apache Cottage of the
Desert Sanatorium at. Tucson, Ariz, where Gen. John J. Pershing lies critically ill, is shown above. Below is Dr. Ronald Davison, his personal physician.
Specialized Jobs Beg for Applicants’.
A shortage of applicants in some specialized branches of employment was reported today by the Indianapolis office ..of the Indiana ‘State: Efi ployment Service. - c George J.. Smith, manager, said the shortages were in the. following commercial and professional lines: stenographers with dictating 'machine and calculating ma- ° chine experience, architec tural draftsmen with ultarmodernistic design experience, analytical chemists with . pharmaceutical experience and tool designers with deep‘draw forming die experience, He said also that there is a shortage of silk pressers and spotters. - The application files now contain, he said, ‘a particularly fine assortment” of skilled labor.
NLRB HEARING RESTS
ANDERSON, Feb. 26 (U. P.)--A National Labor Relations hearing on charges of unfair labor practices filed by the United Auto-
mobile Workers Union against the
Delco-Remy division of General
Motors today stood adjourned until
Monday .after witnesses had said that the plant was literally “an armed camp.”
He's ‘Some Ice-Man
Here’s “the biggest snowman in the ‘Grayling, Mich. Standing 30 feet high,
the ice-and-snow State's: “size
according to latins
yore; storing to
is the big feature of Grayling’s Winter Sports carnival. al.” Some idea or ‘may be gained with the
by ¢
.| Eastman, Carl Patterson,
Board:
| BILL INTRODUCED
‘|ident Roosevelt.
SHORTRIDGE CADET OFFICERS ARE NAMED
Lieutenants and Sergeants
On R. 0. T. C. List..
Sergt. Albert Neff, Shortridge R. O. T. C. instructor, has released -the list ‘of approved cadet officers for the spring semester. They are cadet first lieutenants, | James Willingham and Carl H. Rasmussen; cadet second lieuten-
ant, William Cochran; first sergeants, Alfred McCormick, Paul J. Walker and Stuart A. Garrard; staff
.| sergeant, Stanley Swartz.
Sergeants, Francis Curtis, Paul Henry Wakeland, Robert Bracken, Hampton Cray, Frank Wyant, Benjamin Bugbee, Dean Doyal and Jack Nicholas; corporals, Fred H. Black, Byrl Taylor Jack Catterlin, Max Marsh, Richard E. Pinkham, Paul Schwindler, Robert Horner, Gene Williams, Oliver Holmes, Pierre Chaillaux, Herman Scherrer, Jack Davis, Rob-
jert Smith, John Spitznagel, Robert
Hall, Colin Dyer and Een McMurdo.
1 U, ASKS TEACHERS FOR SCHOLAR RATING
Free Tuition Applications To Be Considered.
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 26. —TLetters asking nominations for scholarships to Indiana University today had been mailed to state superintendents and principals by Acting: President Herman B. Wells. Appli-" cations must be _ submitted by March 15.
Two hundred scholarships, each the equivalent to one year’s contingent fees, will be available ‘to two applicants from each county. Candidates will receive psychology and English tests the week of’ March 28 and the results, combined with the student's previous record, will serve as basis for the awards’
/| to be presented early in June, 5
SEADLUND HELD OF ‘HIGH’ INTELLIGENCE
CHICAGO, Feb. 26 (U. P.).—John Henry Seadlund, alleged kidnapslayer of Charles S. Ross, elderly Chicago valentine publisher, is of “high: average intelligence” and shows no signs of “hallucinations or delusions,” Dr, Harry R. Hoffman, Cook County Behavior Clinic director, reported to Federal Court today. Seadlund is to be arraigned Monday before Judge John P. Barnes. His court-appointed attorneys have filed a plea for abatement charging that the Grand Jury which indicted Seadlund was impandied improperly.
TO CONTROL AIRLINES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 ( U. P.).
. Senator McCarran (D. Nev.) today : completed the final draft of a bill | creating a national aviation au- -| thority that would consolidate con1 trol of air Iines in thé United States.
Senator McCarran patterned his measure after suggestions of PresIt was expected that his bill would receive Adminis-
+ | tration support.
SOUSA’S GRANDSON DIRECTS OWN BAND
| PALM BEACH, Fla. Feb. 26 (U.}: “| P.) ~The musical name of Sousa} “| goes marching on with the baton in
DALY SHRI
Motor Coach Service Also Disallowed.
The Indiana Public Service Commission today denied petitions of citizens in cities between Indianapolis and Elkhart; asking that two passenger trains, taken out of service last May, be restored. There now is one round trip “be-
said the! schedule: puts them in Indianapolis too late to transact business the same day, :does not allow them to return the next day after
trip. The Commission denied a petition to restore Pennsylvania motor
| coach schedules between Marion
and Chicago, and a round: trip daily between Logansport and Shererville. The Pennsylvania’s petition to withdraw trains 308 and 309 between Frankfort and Terre Haute was granted, as was its petition to abandon a station without an agent; at Mier. The Commission denied
| a petition for restoration of 415 and
416 between Logansport and South Bend.
BUSINESS ND oe LEADERS LAUD OLIVE
Former Chamber President Given Scroll, Book.
George S. Olive today had been awarded an appreciation scroll from
the Chamber of Commerce and a. book of testimonial letters from In-
dianapolis business leaders~ lauding
his civic leadership. They were presented last night at a testimonial dinner at Indianapolis Athletic Club when business and civic leaders gathered to praise his administration of the Chamber, of which he is pgst president. Mr. Olive recently completed his second term as president and had previously served as treasurer. Louis J. Borinstein, also Chamber past president, traced Mr. Olive’s Indianapolis career, starting 43 years ago in Manual High School. | Among those taking part in the | program were Felix M. McWhirter,
_| director for several years of the U. S.
Chamber of Commerce; Clarence A. Jackson, Indiana Gross Income Tax Division head, and C. D. Alexander, local Chamber president.
FORMER STATE TAX BOARD OFFICIAL DIES
Times Special 2 TYLER, 'Tex.; Feb. 26 <~James M. Showalter, former Indiana ‘Tax Board chairman, and more recently manager of a truck agency here, died yesterday. He was 57. Mr. Showalter, native of Wabash, Ind. was auditor of Wabash County for four years. In 1919 he became a special representative of the Indiana State Tax Board and was named its chairman in 1927 by former Governor Leslie. ‘Active in Republican politics, he was Fifth Indiana District chairman for many years. He is survived by his wife; four sons, Tom K., Crawfordsville; John, Dallas, Tex.; Lee, Indianapolis, and James, Tyler; a daughter, Mrs. R. P. Fowler, Indianapolis, and two brothers; Homer and Howard, both of Louisville, Ky. The body probably will be sent to Wabash for services and burial,
WOMAN, 77, SWIMS 5 MILES IN PACIFIC
VENICE, Cal, Feb. 26 (U. P.) — Mrs. Anna Van Skike celebrated her 77th birthday yesterday by swimming five miles. She swam from 6:15 a. m.,, until 5:15 p. m. At noon. she treaded water to sip coffee.
sume her annual 10-mile ocean swim. “I was a little bit muscle bound /this year,” she said.
FEDERATION TO MEET |
General Welfare Federation of America, Post 1, will meet at “7:30 Pp. m. Monday at Castle: Hall.
TRAINS DENIED
Pettiion for Marion-Chicago |
tween the cities daily, but citizens .
transacting business and thus requires three days for a business
| Denmark, Honduras,
sis. On ~ -| her 78th birthday she intends to re-
The wealthy Lord Perence Conyngham Plunkett and Lady Plunkett of London, England; shown arriving in the U. S., were killed with Pilot T.-J. Phillips, when the plane in which they were flying crashed in the fog near the\ Hearst Airport™at San Luis Obispo, Cal, Thursday.
U. S. Leads World by Spending 100 Million on Factory Research
PITTSBURGH, Feb. 26 (U. P.).— The United States spent $100,000,000 last year to lead all other 'nations in the field of industrial research, according to a world survey read to the American Chemical Society by Dr. William A. Hamor, assistant director of the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research. The never-ending search for new products and materials has led to scientific experiments on almost every conceivable subject and in many countries novel synthetics have opened a new era of solvents, plastics, paints, pharmaceuticals and perfumes, Dr. Hamor said. Hundreds of scientific investigations are under way in Canada, Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, India, Sweden, Switzerland, |- Russia, Australia, Brazil, . Chile, Guatemala, Norway and Palestine.
The report, a comprehensive outline of the research activities throughout the world, reveals.that
experiments: flourish in. the small- |
er as well as the larger nations. Switzerland, Dr. Hamor reports, holds European leadership in pharmaceutical research. The demand for insecticides had resulted in reorganization of Palestine’s sulphur industry. German chemists are aiding Brazilian authorities -in search of new uses for surplus coffee, Dr. Hamor Sinmarized research activity in this country in a sop:
arate report.
Spodumene, most plentiful of the lithium-bearing ores, has been put to work to produce lithium chloride for use in the conditioning and drying of air, the American report showed. “Experiments in Texas have shown that the addition of carbon black .to concrete gives a highway pavement a dark luster that reduces glare. Vitamin A is being produced from fish-liver oils by molecular distillation. Food preservation is being investigated on a large scale. Barite can now be freed from silica and iron by a froth flotation process. The electrolytic reduction of sugars to corresponding alcohols has been carried out on a commercial ba-
“Silver bearings are employed in high-power aviation engines. Highoctane anti-knock gasolines at low-. er cost promise increased fuel efficiency for airplanes. Specifically treated lubricants enable much higher bearing pressures. Heattreated cast irons are used for gears and other machine parts which were previously constructed
of steel. The manufacture of car-
‘You Can’t Take
the hand of the grandson of the| |
| famous “March King.”
John : Philip Sousa III, 24-year-
‘| old musician, made his: professional ‘| debut “here conducting his own 10-
piece dance band.
|HENKEL WINS CONTEST f
W. R. Henkel, 2936E. Washington 0 St., was today. awarded first prize in|
the ‘local show of the Fourth International Leica Camera Exhibit. Al-
-|1an Charles Raup, 3312 College Ave. |
was awarded second prize. Honor-
Beck, 5716 Washington Blvd. The exhibit is at the Lincoln Hotel.
ITALY BUYS BRITISH
LONDON; Feb. 26 (U. P).~The|
Department of Overseas Trade was advised today by the Consul General at Milan that there has been a great rush of Italian importers to “Buy British,” This was considered a oii fruit of the Anglo-Italian
ASK INTERNATIONAL BOARD
‘lable mention went to William H.|
My Picture’
| Katchewan is now ‘plagued by gun-
| ers,
eliminate Linton’s pollution ‘of Bee
Times.Ame Telephoto.
{oon dioxide- filled Hiieandéscet lamps has been perfected.” Other recent products of American research, according to Dr. Hamor, include cellulose sponges; synthetic ascorbic acid, or vitamin C, prepared from sorbitel, which, in turn, is made from corn sugar; new adhesives from. synthetic resins; plastic Viod rapid-drying. ink; Fetrotstioay colored metals; new. aR new compounds for-use as wetting agents; novel emulsifying agents; an _organic base said to be as strong as sodium hydroxide; new plasticizsuch as naphthyl-beta-mer-captan for rubber, and tetraphosphoric acid.
ENROLLMENT DROP SHOWN AT DEPALW
Times Special .GREENCASTLE, Feb. 26.—DePauw. University has 39 fewer students this semester than last, the registrar reported ‘today. A total of 1192 are enrolled. The enrollment is eight fewer than the second semester last year. Forty-three students left DePauw at the end of the. first semester, while 26 entered. Over half the student body carried moré than the prescribed /15 hours the first semester. The 1231 students carried enough work for 1267 at the prescribed rate, it was said,
NEW LINTON SEWAGE "PLANT AUTHORIZED
The Indiana Department of Commerce and Industry today approved a Linton civil city appropriation of $55,000 to be matched by a WPA grant of $62,387 for the construction of a sewage disposal plant. | Work on the project, designed to
Hunter Ditch, is to begin immediately, W. H. Frazier, Stream and Water Pollution Division - director, announced. “The City’s share is to be raised by revenue: bonds. Mr.- Frazier said at present an inadequate septic tank handles Linton sewage.
ASK LOUD SPEAKERS TO AID FIRE FIGHTERS
DETROIT, Feb. 26 (u. P.).—Loud speaker equipment for use in directing “smoke eaters” in fighting large fires has been requested by the Fire Commission. The amplifying system would replace the megaphones now used by day and flashlights by night. Such equipment, the omimission believes; would aid ‘in the removal of persons from burning buildings.
TRAFFIC LIGHT PUT ON WRIST WATCHES
EASTHAM, Mass, {, Mass, Feb, 26 (U. P). —A wrist “traffic light” for night pedestrians has . been invested by Frank A. Fuller. - The light, strapped: to. the wrist; is operated by a battery, red or green when the wrist is raised above the elbow.
FARM DOOR LOCKS -SHOT OFF BY THIEVES " REGINA, Sask, Feb. 26 (U. P).—
Drought-stricken southern Sastoting. bandits. .
Farmers have returned home to|’
find the locks shot off the doors and their homes ransacked. The
| unidentified Western : bad men are | still at large.
15- INCH APPLE “GROWN
"HUDSON, N. Y., Feb. 26 (U. P)—~
Larry Sd ho Jound tne apple in hi
father’s orchard. ~ DIVIDEND AUTHORIZED
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| New York WPA Worker
Sings “La Traviata” © - _At-Hippodrome.:
NEW YORK, Feb. 26 (U.P.)—A
: young pick swinger stepped from
the wings of the Hippodrome. The-
ater last night and sang himself and
his family out of squalor and: “ove
He was Jerry Cardinale, 23, for mer newsboy and WPA laborer .and the oldest in a poverty-ridden fam - ily of nine children, whose long dream seemed to have come true as the final curtain came down on the' opera, “La Traviata.” Some: 4000 stampeding, ‘shouting opera-goers applauded wildly. Until a few weeks ago Mr. ‘Carde inale was just another WPA ditche digger. * ‘Since his father died, he
has been the main. support of his mother and his eight brothers. and
- | sisters. Then Alfredo almaggi, the "| Hippodrome opera m 5 “of him, gave him an a and.
hailed him a “find.”
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Sewed Dress Buttons : His family did rot mind “having to go back on relief. might. have his chance, his mother and sisters worked harder. They get 7 cents a gross for sewing dress buttons, = Last night ‘they all | were there—
mother, brothers.and isters. . They seemed stunned when the. house broke into applause - after . Jerry's first aria, but from then. to the. final curtain they missed no opportunity to.cheer him, Jerry was uncertain “about .the future. - “It all depends on the people. , ‘he said. “Yes, they seemed to like .me, but I've got a lot of studying to do. : hope to sing’ here again soon.’
LAUNCHES USED BY COMMUTING MINERS
PORT SULPHUR, La., Feb. 26 (U, P.) —Sulphur miners of Louisiana’s bayoulocked delta country. “comsmute” to. the mines -in Spesd launches. . They are the - workers of- Free. port Sulphur Co. living in this come munity on the Mississippi river, 45 miles south of New Orleans. ‘The mining - fields are 10; miles from Port Sulphur, on land s8 boggy that it is impossible to construet, any: orl of ‘overland road. :
TIGER CAGE ERR TO ‘SOBER UP’ DRUNKS
WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 26 (U, P.), —Woburn drunks will be placed in a tiger cage on wheels and drawn through the city behind a police car until they are sober if Mayar William E. Kane has his way, “And don’t -think I'm. not .in earnest,” said the Mayor, who .does not drink or smoke, “I've. talked this situation over with the pastor of one of our biggest churches and he agrees with. me that we. need this example of druks in the tiger. cage. I'm determined to cxéan .up our city and stop this drunkenness among our people.”
FOUR COEDS PLEDGED
Times Special BLOOMINGTON, Feb. 26.—Theta Sigma Phi, Indiana University journalistic rority, today ane nounced the pledging of four coeds. They are the Misses Jennie Posillico, Farmingdale, N. Y.; Betty Lou Fraling, Kokomo; Hazel Parsons, Dugger, and Anna Johnson, Orleans. | 3 3
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