Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1938 — Page 1

POLICE TO i TITLEHOLDER LAW: AUTO DEATHS DROP

Parked Cars, Without ‘Gadgets’ May Be Towed Away.

FIVE HURT HERE

71 Drivers Arrested As Safety Drive Continues.

Drivers of automobiles which do

not bear windshield titleholders aft- |

er tonight will be ordered into Mu‘nicipal Court, Police Chief Morrissey said today. As the deadline approached for operating without 1938 license plates and titleholders, the Chief said he was undecided whether tg tow to garages parked cars failing’ to carry the holders. “He said also that arrests for driving without 1938 tags would start tomorrow. Meanwhile, Judge Robert C. Baltzell today refused to act on a petition for a temporary order rethe State from enforcing the titleholder law because the papers in the suit had not been transferred to Federal Court.

Hearing Set tomorrow

He set 10 a. m. tomorrow for a new hearing and told attorneys to complete the transfer. Judge . Baltzell also will rule on the request of Patrick Smith, deputy attorney general, that T. Ernest Maholm, who brought the suit, be required to post a bond of $130,000. Enforcement of the license plate and titleholder laws also was ordered by State Safety Director Donald F. Stiver in a bulletin to State Police.

Frank Finney, State Auto License Rureau Commissioner, . estimated that 80 per cent of the licenses plates sold during 1937—1,029,705— has been sold so far this year. Meanwhile, police here, continung drive against traffic viola- : tions, Wfrested 71 moiorists’ over tk rio) They included three alleged drunken drivers and one alJeged hit-and-rum driver. Only five persons were hjuren | in accidents, none seriously. $108 in Fines Ordered

Twenty-four drivers were ordered to pay $108 by Municipal Court Judge John McNelis today. He suspended $247. Those fined included Karl G. Stark, Chicago, charged with being drunk and driving while drunk. He was fined $5 and costs on the former charge, $10 and costs on the latter and the state auto license bureau was instructed not to give him an Indiana driver’s license. He denied being drunk and said that he was not given the drunk-o-|: meter test by State Police who ar‘yested him. Confronted with offi.cer’s testimony that he had been given that test, he said, “Oh, yes, I blew up a toy balloon.” Blowing up of a balloon is part of the test. . ‘License Commissioner Finney said hie expected to sell about 200,000 plates during the remainder of the

Girl, 2, Injured ~ Cynthia Johmson, 2, received cuts over her right eye when thrown against the windshield of the car driven by her father, Calvin Johnson, of 1607 College Ave. ‘Mr. Johnson’s machine collided with a car driven by Her- . (Turn to Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Books e800 ee 9 Movies Sev ss en

Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Scherrer .... 9 Serial Story..14 Short Story..14 Society ....4, 3

Sports .....5, 7 State Deaths 12

Flynn Sse ee 10

Forum Grin, Bear It. 2 In Ind'pls .... 3 Jane -Jordan.. 9

Fatalities Decrease 30

Per Cent in 23 States.

CHICAGO RATE UP

1400 Lives Saved in Three Months, Survey Discloses.

(Editorial, Page 10)

CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (U. P.) —Tralfic deaths in the United States during January totaled 2710, a drop of 30 per cent from the closing month of 1937, the National Safety Council reported today. It was the third successive month to show a reduction in fatalities.

The cumulative saving in the threemonth period was approximately 1400 lives, the Council said.

Ten traffic deaths were recorded

in Indianapolis last month, com- .

pared with 12 during «January, 1937.

Twenty-three of 36 reporting states snowed either reductions or no change from January, 1937. The greatest ‘percentage drop was in Maryland—46 per cent. Every city with a population of 500,000 or more, except Chicago, reported fewer deaths. Detroit showed the greatest improvement with 26 fewer deaths.

States showing reductions for January and their percentage . decreases: Maryland, 46, Massachusetts 45, Delaware 43, Oklahoma 42, Wisconsin 37, Colorado 37; Michigan 36, Connecticut 33, New Mexico 33, California 29, Vermont 29, Virginia 25, West Virginia 23, New York 20, Oregon 20, North Carolina 19, Rhode Island 17, New Jersey 14, Maine 13, Texas 19, Iowa 16, Kansas 16, South Carolina, no change. Cities with more than 250,000 population which showed reductions or no change and the number of deaths for each period: Detroit 20-46, Cleveland 10-25, Los Angeles 42-56, Buffalo, N. Y., 6-15, Toledo 3-12, Milwaukee 2-10, Baltimore 15-22, St. Louis 10-16, Akron 0-16, Houston 3-8, Boston 4-8, Washington 10-14, Philadelphia 27-30, San Francisco 8-10, New Orleans 10-12, Newark, N. J., 4-6, Columbus, O., 4-6, Denver 4-6, New York 177-78, Pittsburgh 9-10, Oakland, Cal., 7-8, Memphis 6-7, Providence, R. I., 2-3, Louisville, Ky., and Dallas, Tex., no change.

|, G. G. RULE UPHOLDS INTERSTATE TRUCKS

Signals Not Needed on Strictly Foreign Vehicles.

Trucks engaged solely in interstate and foreign commerce are not required to use mechanical direction signs, the Interstate Commerce Commission today advised the Indiana Regulated Highway Carriers, Inc. The Commission’s ruling apparently has no effect on trucks operating within the state, officials said. The Commission notified the carriers, who are fighting the new Indiana law, that the Commission’s regulations supersede the Indiana law with regard to interstate carriers. M. D. Nickel, Carriers, Inc., executive secretary, said that new litigation against the Indiana law was planned. While the weight tax law on trucks is effective today, State Safety Director Donald F. Stiver said he would defer enforcement until March 20, pending outcome of litigation involving that law.

In the Soup.

Meat Dealer Fined $20 For Short Weighing Ox Tail Buyer,

Half a pound of ox tail today had cost Forrest Kay, 724 Congress Ave, a N. Delaware St. meat market clerk, a. fine of $10 and costs—$20. He was arrested on a shortweight charge preferred by Rosina Himmel, 1405 N. edo St. She said she paid‘21 cents for the meat and that if she had paid another penny she would have been entitled to three pounds, but for her 21 cents she got only two pounds and five and threequarter ounces. Mrs. Himmel said she had her purchase weighed at the Weights and Measures Department at Police Headquarters..

17 COUNTIES IN NEWGORN AREA

AAA to Pay 10-Cent Benefit To State Producers Next Fall.

Times Special WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Seventyseven of Indiana’s 92 counties were included today in the 1938 commercial corn-producing area designated by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Corn producers in these counties, who do not exceed acreage allot-

ments and fulfill other AAA requirements, will receive benefit payments and be able to obtain corn loans next fall, if such loans are made. Benefit payments will be 10 cents a bushel, AAA officials decided today, with a penalty of 50 cents a bushel on production by co-operat-ors in excess of allotted acreage. This is the first"step in carrying out the corn program under the new Farm Act embodying the “everDott) granary” plan, AAA officials said. Indiana counties included are Adams, Allen, Bartholomew, Benton, Blackford, Boone, Carroll, Cass; Clay, Clinton, Daviess, Dearborn, Decatur, Dekalb, Delaware, Dubois, Elkhart, Fayette, Fountain; Frank-

‘lin, Fullon, Gibson, Grant, Greene,

Hamilton, Hancock; Hendricks, Henry, Howard, Huntington, Jackson, Jasper, Jay, Jennings, Johnson, - Knox, Kosciusko, Lagrange,

Lake, La Porte, Madison, Marion,

Marshall, Miami, Montgomery, Morgan, Newton, Noble, Owen, Parke, Pike, Porter, Posey, Pulaski, Putnam, Randolph, Ripley, Rush, Shelby, St. Joseph, Starke, Steuben, Sullivan, Tippecanoe, Tipton, Union, Vanderburgh, Vermillion, Vigo, Wabash, Warren, Warrick,.- Washington, Wayne, Wells, White and Whitley.

Allotments, Payments And Penalties Set

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.). —The Department of Agriculture announced benefit payment rates and acreage ‘allotments today for principal crops under the new 440 Hjitlion dollar farm program for 1938. Sharp changes were made in the soil conservation program to make it conform to the new farm program which provides for increased benefit ‘payments, establishment of marketing quotas upon a two-thirds vote of growers, high loan rates for storage of supplies, stiff penalties for noncompliance, acreage allot ments for principal crops and con~ tinuation of soil conservation practices. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace (Turn tc Page Three)

‘SLIGHTLY WARMER’ FORECAST TONIGHT

TEMPERATURES

a. m .18 10a. m, .... 24 am ....18 11a. m .... 26 a m. .... 21 12 (Noon) .. 28 9am .... 22 1pm .... 30 Slightly warmer temperatures were predicted for tonight and tomorrow by the Weather Bureau. The

Bureau said the weather may be-

come unsettled by tomorrow night.

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1938

GEN. PERSHING GAINS, TAKES NOURISHMENT

Food Given for First Time in Four Days; Hearts - Still Competent.

FAMILY KEEPS UP HOPE

Temperature Near Normal, Attending Physician + Reports.

TUCSON, Ariz. Feb. 28 (U. P.).— Gen. John J. Pershing, displaying vitality that surprised physicians, rallied today and took nourishmient through the mouth for the first time in four® days. The commander of the American Expeditionary Force and the only living man to hold the rank of General of the Armies had a restless night, but at dawn his condition improved. Suffering from a heart ailment and impaired kidneys, Gen. Pershing lies in a little cottage named “Apache” for the tribe that gave him his baptism of .fire when he was an Indian fighter 52 years ago.

Doctor Reports Rally -

The first bulletin today issued shortly after ‘9 a. m, (Indianapolis Time) by Dr. Roland Davison,

read: “Although Gen. Pershing had a very restless night, he seems somewhat better ‘this morning and took fluids by mouth for the first time in four days. He has been conscious for much longer periods. “The body temperature has returned to almost a normal level and the heart is still competent.” Dr. Davison brought no such optimistic news at 1 a. m. today when he walked down the corridors of the seret santaroium, seven miles from Tucson. Taking a slip of paper out of his pocket, he then read: “While I can point to no specific change in Gen. Pershing’s condition, the pulse, temperature and respiration remaining the same, I definitely feel he has lost ground and is not as well. He is resting quietly now, but there was a period of considerable Tezliesshess a short time ago.

There was still hope in the little}. cottage where members of Gen.}

Pershing’s family—May, his sister; Warren, his only son, and Frank, a nephew—are living. But Gen. Pershing is 77 and his heart is weakened from strenuous exercise in his later years. Besides a failing heart, his kidneys almost have ceased to function, 3 yesterday uremic poisoning Se .

VENDORS WARNED OF NEW PURCHASE RULE

County Orders Not Valid if

Funds Unavailable.

All vendors who furnish supplies, materials and equipment to Marion County were warned that they will not be paid unless the purchase order shows a balance in the fund to which the purchase is charged. Copies of the warning, issue by County Auditor Charles Grossart, were forwarded to all county officials. Mr. Grossart’s statement was issued as the result of the State Tax Board's recent warning against purchasing supplies for which no appropriations have been made. “In the past,” Mr. Grossart said, “purchases of materials, equipment and supplies: have been made by County Commissioners and other officials without having an appropriation to cover the purchase, resulting in the vendor failing to receive payment for the merchandise furnished “This a ce cannot draw any warrant until an appropriation has first been made by the County Council and Bppraven by the State Tax Board.” ‘

HOOVER REACHES GENEVAGENEVA, Feb. 28 (U. Evevy | bert Hoover arrived today en route to Vienna. He was to have lunch tomorrow near Sausanne with Ignace Paderewski, an old friend.

FIRE CHIEF KENNEDY AND THREE OTHER LOCAL, MEN ESCAPE INJURY IN PLANE CRASH: NEAR

Chief Kennedy, arrived here. today after a nar-

kivate Jidue [8 whith they Were returning from Miami, ton, pilot; F. W. Chief Kennedy

Nashville, Tenn,

‘The four who escap

‘Bandit Slain | During Film Gang Battle

‘LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28 (U. P.)—Gunfire resounding from the screen during a gangster movie -at Warner Brothers’ Downtown Theater drowned out gunfire in the balcony early today when a robber was slain while - flee-

ing with $4000 in theater receipts. The audience was watching the picture “A Slight Case of Murder,” starring Edward G. Robinson, when a robber entered the manager's office and took the money. In the audience was Sid Marks, a citizen who carries an honorary police lieutenant’s badge and a gun. An usher had recognized Mr. Marks when he entered the theater, and summoned him from his seat when he saw the . robbery. Mr. Marks confronted the armed robber in the balcony and shot him to death.

PARIS CABINET FAGING GRISIS

Austria Sends Troops Into

Nazi District; Balkans Back Mussolini

PARIS—Chautemps talks of resignation despite overwhelming confidence vote as labor crisis looms. VIENNA—Troops ordered to be on guard against Nazi uprisings, BERLIN—Germany abolishes age limit for military service for retired, regular and reserve officers by new decree of supreme com-. mand. Hitler to visit Italy in May. LONDON—Chamberlain denies Italy asked for share in Suez defense. ANKARA—Balkan Entente to recognize Italian conquest of Ethiopia and send trade .agents to Rebel Spain. BUCHAREST—Carol proclaims new Constitution. HENDAYE—Spanish Loyalists halt Rebels by quick troop shift. SHANGHAI—-Japanese attack Shansi provisional Samal from « Yisree sides. _ Bo

P , Feb. "28 ( (U. P; )—A new Cabinet crisis, whose continued de-

‘velopment might cause the fall of

the Government at a delicate moment in European relations, was threatened today over a code. governing relations between capital and labor.

Seven thousand collective con tracts between employers and work-

ers expire at midnight, The Gov-

ernment had hoped to force its labor code through Parliament before today. ‘The Chamber passed the

bill, but the Senate rebelled last

night and Premier Camille Chautemps told the Senators: “The Government's general policy is involved. If this bill is even indirectly rejected, my Government could not remain in office 15 days.”

Fear Strike Wave

‘M. Chautemps said that only 7000|

men were on strike in France today.

but he and his ministers feared that |

unless the code was passed, there might be a wave of strikes. Fort the moment, it was up to the Government: to get through the Senate—if possible today—a . bill which, in conference, aligned with the Chamber bill. But the very threat of trouble served to offset the vote of 438 to 2 by which the Chamber Saturday night expressed confidence in the Cabinet's foreign policy. \

Schuschnigg g Clamps

Down on Nazis

“VIENNA. Feb. 28. (U. P.).—Troop reinforcements; including machine gun detachments, were sent today to Graz, where embittered Nazis threatened to get out of hand. Two bait already ‘encircled the city. -It was even rumored, without confirmition, that detachments of Soigiers and policemen were hidden owers and other vantage points

Vienna, awaiting Nazi disorders. |

Graz, Styria Province capital, was regarded as the most dangerous spot. Motorized troops and Police, senk “here yesterday to prevent a (Zurn to Page Three) =

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FORECAST: Fair and slightly warmer tonight with lowest temperature 25 to 30; fomorrow | increasing cloudiness and warmer, prsably unsettled - ‘by night,

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FIGHT ON S00T HEALTH NEED, SAYS MORGAN

Prieumonia Rate Linked to Smoke, Physician Tells. Scientech Club.

NEW INSPECTION BEGINS

Mayor Says Budget Limits “Prevent Extra Men on Street Cleaning.

Eventually the city will guard the purity of the air its citizens breathe just as alertly as it now guards the purity of the food they eat, Dr. Herman Morgan, City Health Board Secretary, said this afternoon. He was addressing’ the Scientech Club in the Board of Trade Build-. ing and he blamed much of the disastrous pneumonia on smoke and other air pollution. He said pneumonia is epidemic approximately six months out of the year.

Efforis to curb Indianapolis’ smoke menace since passage of the first antismoke ordinance in 1898 are enumerated in “A - 40-Year-Old Nuisance,” . a series which: begins in The Times tomorrow, :

J.> Allen Dawson, Smoke Abatement League official, compared steps being taken against air pollution here with steps being taken in Chicago. New Project Under Way

Meanwhile, the city smoke inspection forces began operation today on a new Works Progress Administration project that calls for. $9000 expenditures and will insure services of six inspectors for more than six months. “When respiratory organs are irritated by sulphur, coal smoke, and coal tar products that originate from soft coal, they are more fertile fields for the pneumonia germs,” Dr. Morgan said. Dr. Morgan also said that street dirt, blown around by the wind and taken into the respiratory tract, acted as an irritant and paved the

| way for pneumonia.

A group of citizens that had complained . About dirty: : streets failed to appear today Works Board fo ask that additional crews be put on to clean the streéts. Mayor Boetcher said that no additional ‘men avould be assigned to the work. He said the department was working within a budget: and that the condition of the streets was a direct result of the weather of the last several days.

HIGHER-UPS HUNTED IN ARMY SPY RING

Guards Strengthened Around Navy and Army Bases.

(Editorial, Page 10)

NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (U. P.)— Stronger guards were placed around shipyards and military air bases today as G-Men sought the higherups in a spy ring that was organobtain American defense secrets for a European power. “The guard was doubled at the Federal Shipbuilding Co. yards at Kearny, N. J., where two cruisers are being built for the Navy. Similar precautions were taken at the Army air base at Mitchel Field and a tightening of restrictions was noted at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Federal agents, with three alleged spies already in custody, continued

HOM E.

FINAL

PRICE

HREE CENTS

COURT UPHOLDS

NLRB'S BAN ON COMPANY UNIO}

Supreme Tribunal Also Affirms Federal Gov.

. ernment’s Right to Collect Income Tax On Quasi-State Employees.

Appeal Petition by 12 Convicted in Kansas

ANTIPICKETING INJUNCTION VOIDED

City Election Fraud Denied; Hoosier Farm Case to Be Heard.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P. ts Supreme Court, in two significant labor cases today, upheld an important power of the National Labor Relations Board and voided: a Federal injunction against picketing.

The action came on a busy court decision day, marked

by: presentation of Associate Justice Stanley Reed's first opinion and rendering of a number of important decisions.

® The Labor Board decisions -

SOVIET T0 TRY AIDS OF LENIN

Doctors Accused of Plot to Kill Gorky; 21 to Go Before Court.

MOSCOW, Feb. 28 (U. P). — Twenty-one prominent men of the Soviet Union face the Supreme Court Military [Collegium Wednesday in what may be the most sensational of all the sensational trials in the three-year political purge. The men ‘to be tried are of outstanding caliber; the charges which they face are perhaps more terrible than any that have been made against a single group of defendants. It ‘was indicated ‘plainly also that

the [in this trial the prosecution would

s6ék to forge the final links of evidence to. prove-to the world that former trials were fair and'that the Government, and the country, had been endangered by a conspiracy of almost unbelievable proportions which reached back not a few years merely but to the very first days of the Soviet Union. - Murder; ' conspiracy to murder Lenin, Stalin and other supreme leaders; treason; conspiracy to dismember the Union; espionage; sabotage; terrorism; overthrow of the Government; ‘restoration of capitalism—all ~ “these and more were charged against the 21 men to be tried. It was believed certain that conviction would mean death. Furthermore it is charged that these men linked up among themselves every element of underground opposition—Trotskyists, Zinovievites, Bukharinites, Mensheviks. It was believed that the {rial would be a public one and that (Turn to Page Three)

MARCH 81S SET FOR MILK PRICE HEARING

Hearing on a petition of the Marion County Milk Administration to reduce the price paid by distributors to milk producers in the County area was set for Ma ch 8 by the State Milk Control Board

| today. It will be held at the State

an intensive search for other mem- | House

bers of the sjieged 5 ring. The profoundest secrecy was , bu reports persisted Haat 8 physician with connections in Germany was sought. ‘G-Men resumed their policy of secrecy after announcing the arrest of two soldiers—one a deserter—and Johanna Hofmann, = 26-year-old hairdresser on the liner Europa. A Federal grand jury will investi-

gate the activities of Miss Hofmann, |

Erich Glaser, 28, a private stationed at Mitchell Field, N. Y., and Gunther Gustave Rumrich, 21, a former sergeant and deserter.

The petition, filed Feb. 24, asks a

t | reduction in the present $2.54 per

hundred pounds of 4 per cent butterfat to $242.

Rep. Fred M. Vion (D. Ky.) contends the new tax bill would reduce materially the burdens on business under the undistributed profits levy. See Page Nine for his explanation.

concerned cases involving the Pacific and Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines. The Court,

by Justice Harlan F. Stone, upheld the power of the Board to order concerns to withdraw recognition of alleged company unions without at the same time designating any other specific bargaining agency.

BULLETIN fg. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U. P.) ~The Supreme Court today granted the petition of . James M. Wright for a review of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals decision affirming ° the foreclosure sale of a 280acre Jay County, Indians, farm, yr Fate

eting case concerned: a Federal District Court An nction to prohibit. picketing by the Butch ers’ Union against the a of en G. Shinner, Milwaiikos, Thé junction was grgnted en’ hr no labor dispute was involved: sinc the union had no membérs em X Ry the firm. The Supreme ( reversed lower courts, holding that

the Norris-La Guardia Act ing such injunctions was Dros

Upheld a a series of four: cases the right of the Federal Govern. ment to collect income’ taxes upon income of quasi-state’ - employees such as bank conservators, ete.

Fraud Appeal Denied

‘Agreed to review constitutionale ity of the revised Municipal Banke ruptcy Act passed by Congress fo replace the law held invalid by the high court. ; Refused an appeal. petition hy 12 persons convicted in Xansas City election frauds. Refused to consider an appeal by six New York Rapid Transit employees from s New York state decision upholding validity of the company’s closed shop contract. Held New Mexico's 2 per cent

The pick

tional - advertising revenue received by Western Livestock, an interstate cattle magazine. Accepted for review another Nae tional Labor Relations case con= cerning a Labor Board order that a firm reinstate employees after a

Ruled that Federal criminal appeals rules do not apply to the Hawaiian District Court.

‘RETHINK G.0.P.” DR. FRANK URGES

CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (U. P.)—Dr. Glenn Frank, noted liberal educaJor, defined today before the Republican Party's special committee on program “drifts” detrimental to national policy, chief of which, he said;

is the trend toward centralization of

1 unchecked authority in the ‘hands of

President Roosevelt. “This commission must rethink, restate and reinterpret to the nation the political and economic. phil osophy with which the Republican

Party faces the new circumstances of the new age,” Dr. Frank said. -

TRAPPED B BY G-MEN AS SPY SUSPECTS

in a unanimous decision presented

gross receipts tax applicable to na-

ai I LL.