Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1938 — Page 1

“RPIRT\ WORK,

city Council ‘Approval for ~$70,000-Bond- Issue Will Be Sought.

BUS = EXTENSION ASKED

Beton 1s ‘Passed. for $225,000 North Side = Sewer Fund.

* The ‘Works Board today voted ‘to * purchase 58 acres of land adjoin--‘ing Municipal Airport to lengthen runways for the new Federal experimental station to be constructed there. -The purchase is: contingent upon the’ City Council approving a $70,000. bond “issue. to pay the City’s share of the cost of erecting buildings. ie The land, owned.by the Farmer's Trust Co, i5:totbe plrchased at $100 an acre.

Bond Sale Ordered

The Board also ordered a resolu- ; tion “directing. the City Controller ‘ to arrange for-sale of a $225,000 bond issue : for construction of a: sewer

4s keep water out of north side

% basements. 3 The Board fook under considera- .. tion request of C.: R. Evans, rep- . resenting the International Harvester. Co., that the English Ave. bus line -be extended from English and Emerson Aves. east on English Ave. to: Brookville ‘Road, and thence to the conipany’s: plant. Decision was promised next Monday. A resolution for paving and widening Emerson Ave. from 10th St. to-the alley north of 11th St, at a cost of $7667, was approved.

HIGH. COURT TO GET _ MOONEY CASE AGAIN

NEW YORK, Maréh. March 16 tu. P)— The Tom Mooney case will be taken to-the U. 8S. Supreme Court for a third time today in a writ of cer-

“lorart petition intending

tim -due. ot oo i. “4th que poneese. it was announced A Davis,

here by George T. San Fran«| nisco attorney. “The” petition - charges that the Jourt, by “deliberate distortions, suppressions ‘and evasions of evidence,” acted :unconstitutionally in denying Mooney, defendant in the i916 Preparedness :Day bombing, a writ: of habeas corpus last er. It requests the Supreme Court to review the facts-and law regarding the ruling. :

HERRON NUDES DOWN AFTER CLUB PROTEST

Because two feminine hudes were unfortunately posed,” the Seventh Vistrict . Federation of Women’s \ lubs today forced the John Herron { 1 Association to remove @hem />m its Indiana Artists Exhibit. n official of the Federation, who rried the objection ;to the Assotion board, said today: “Any deit woman would object to them.” 2 made it clear that the Federa1 .was not objecting to the ‘pic5 merely _ because they were

bur Peat, Museum diréctor, 1 the” pictures .were chosen by a y -of out-of-town artists, net the Association. He said they being withdrawn with the cont of the artists and ‘that other sures by the artists are being stituted. : EE ——————————

E (-CORONER VEHLING 1)SES PAROLE PLEA

. - petition for parole of Pred Ww. Vebling, former Marion County -coroa victed of soliciting a bribe, ed today. 1 See toa; Commission denied a + other. petitions, commuted five sei ences and" three prison< 18, ‘7 /¢hling was. sentenced to 2:t0 14 ye: 3 in 1932." He was not sent to a Fis until March 18, 1937, because ii, 2ase Was: -involved in extensive

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Lr ATTNEY PLEADS GUILTY I EW- YORK, March 16 (U.' P.). —Eichard Whitney, former : New Yor: Stock Exchange president, pleadzd: guilty today to a second _indiciment, this one charging that ~ he sinle $109,000 in bonds from the . New York Yacht Club, of Which

= he as. treasurer.

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LANSING, Mich, March 16 (U. P.).—Governor Murphy today appealed to Henry Ford, who startled the industrial world by setting a $5 daily minimum: wage, to’ take the leadership in establishing a minimum annual wage system .throughout the United States. Confronted -with an increasingly serioiis . problem in his own state, Governor Murphy said a minimum annual wage’ for- industrial workers

is the only permanent solution.

“I hope that Mr. Ford; who did such. a striking job when he raised the standard of living for industrial workers: by establishing -a high daily wage rate, will give his attention to this problem,” Mr. Murphy said. The Governor said “he believed | that if industry did not adopt an

Government .would be forced to do so by law.

RELIEF LOAD Is

Indianapolis Reports Drop of -3 Per: Cent, Compared To General Rise. -

Times Special WASHINGTON, March 16. —With 126 cities throughout the .counfry showing an average increase of 5 per cent in the number of general relief cases from January to February, Indianapolis reported a 3 per cent decrease, a Social ‘Security Board tabulation disclosed today. - - An average increase of 2:-per cent in the:amount of obligations incurred also was shown' while In-. dianapolis had a 7 ‘per cent drop. « There were 12,500 - general relief cases reported for Indianapolis during February and obligations were listed at $192,000. . Genera] relief, it. was explained, includes all state and .local relief in cash in kind extended to ‘the needy’ except public assistance. given tinder Social Security: Act provisions. or: to veterans. Pt. Wayne reported-a 1 per cent decrease in the number: of cases, 1900, but a 30 per ‘cent increase in the ‘amount of obligations, $35,000; | South Bend: reported a 20 per cent

Shligations. Sms: 2.000:

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in cases, 2995 obligations, $48,000.

St. Joseph County Asks Special Funds St. Joseph County officials; accompanied’ by civic and labor lead- | ers, today appealed to State officials | for emergency funds to meet what was described as a “graye relief | problem.” With the ‘County’s relief load’ up to abont: 2,000, and increasing about 70 - families a day, the delegation reported, all available funds are nearing exhaustion. - The group was to confer with Governor Townsend. this afternoon and ask him to allocate to them a part of the Goverrior’s wo-million-tollar emefgency fund.

with Atty. Gen, Omer Stokes Jackson onthe: legal phases of a proposed $300,000 bond issue to meet the County’s share of a $1,200,000 WBA program. . . The officials said’ they have been advised the bond issue would be illegal because part of the work includes road . construction which, under the law, should be financed from: gasoline tax funds. -- They reported that the County. Council . will meet. Friday to consider a $400,000 bond issue for di~ rect relief.

JAMES ROOSEVELT 18:

WASHINGTON, TON, March 16 (U. P) —James Roosevelt, éldest son’ and secretary to the President, will receive a formal invitation Friday from a ‘Boston Democratic: delegation to run for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts this fall. * Young Roosevelt - has been approached informally by Charles Maliotos of Boston, who already has established Roosevelt headquarters in a Boston: ‘hotel. :

Minimum Pay L

anual minimum. wage system, .the |

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This morning the group conferred ;

PROPOSED FOR OFFICE |

Holland and Spain.

U. S. Issues, However.

and all sections were forced down 1 to 4 points. Trading was so active that tickers could not keep Race, The decline, experts ‘said,

British gilt-edged . securities. on the

tion of troops on its German border. . Weakness + of the Netherlands: guilder accompanied the | movement. strong .in terms of world ~curren-

fight to the dollar. ‘A disappoint-

the dollar ‘balances were being re~ tained by Europeans, instead of: be-

as the trend of evenfs indicated early in the week. After furious selling, the. market settled down to dull tine, ‘prices| rallying slightly from e ‘lows of the session. At the lows, U. S. Steel was .at}| 50%, off 4; Westinghouse -Eléctric 881%,-off ‘5: U. S. Rubber preferred 74, Off. 6%; Sears Roebuck -56, off | 43%: Philip’ Morris 85, off 3%; .In-

Bethlehem Steel, 54%; 0ff 4%; Case 81%, off 5%: Chrysler: 50; off "4:

off 3, and Santa Fe off 3%. All sections were “hard hit," issues with world-wide: holders, such as the steels, coppers, chemicals and

of the decline.

Break Laid to Weakness in| -. British Bonds, Crisis in * |

Europeans Fail to Convert |} Exchange “ Balances “into” |

NEW YORK; March 16 (U. PJ —A flurry of selling struck‘ the'| stock markkt at. mid-session. today |

transferred to American securitfes| =’

American ‘Can 84%, off 3; Allied | <1 Chemical 160%, off 4%; “American ‘Emil Smelting 46, off 3%; Andconda’ 30%, |.

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ternational Harvester 61%, off. rh ay

some of the motors, bore the brunt SE

As’ ae market ‘entered the fourth

«38th and Meridian Sts. :

ing at 38th and Meridian! ‘Which: a zoning. pérmit: ‘Yeas: yesterday, ‘will ‘be operated ' jointly ‘by WIRE and ‘the ‘city’s* newest |’ station, WGVA, it was . announced today. The announcement W8S made ‘by Eugene C. Pulliam, ‘president ~ of ‘WIRE, and: Glenn Van. Auken, own-| er “of WGVA, scheduled for “broadcasting in about 60 days. Heads of the two’ stations ‘said| ‘Radio. Square, as the location is to}ynde: be known, will be a two-story, Rossstone structure, housing an ‘auditorium seating ‘500, several smaller |1 auditoriums, pipe organ; various audition and reception rooms, ac-coustically-treated: broadcasting rooms, as well as executive’ and- business offices. In a statement, ‘the two operators explained. “In combining studio and business ‘facilities in one building, the desired | purposes of both stations are ac- | commodated and each ststion is better able to serve the Indianapolis and Indiana radio public. Although’ the - il willbe entirely separate, so far as program{ming and business management are concerned, this plan of operation |lan

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to the public and permit us to work | together. more efficiently in: develop- | ing tadio 5s a eivic institution.” onstruction of the ding is SXperted to start not lated than May Station. WGVA, " licensed" to Lia with 1000 : watts on , 1050. kilocycles. daytime, will occupy temstudios pending Soupletion

porary’ of the new: huilling about Oct. 1.

| Pigeons’ Nesting Season - |; z= Bodes 111 for Works ‘Bord g 3

By JOE COLLIER" Downtown pigeons, : it became known today, are preparing a coun-ter-attack on the Works Board so devastating that the Board should he in session this very minute,

‘ The way the State Conservation Deparment. figures 1; “there - are

w pointed out ‘tha

Biosine there are so mii néoks and crannies in the buildings, the nests usually are built safely, and because there are no-

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$100, 000 Stic. PIATHGH at |micmins oo tran Te tothe countries of their

: A-new $100,000 , studio build. |

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Hungarian’ : su Special aid, from {Buda 54: a workihy 12 1ours daily. >

Hungary herl pation. to Austria Sutate’ dl: today and. thu world recognition of: the of the nation’ into a greater. German |

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Minister :at Berlin, lated Gefmany on ‘the union.

Served With Dollfuss

Maj, Fey, was :52. ‘He was’ Public Security Minister: in; under Chancellor. * Engelbert fuss. Toe he became Vice Risen or.’ In ‘the Nazi revolt of July, 4," he was held a prisoner in the | hat while Chaneelior. Dollfuss, wounded by Nazis, ‘bled | to

+ -gtudios and death.

Then - hes became Interfor Mint ister. He passed out of ‘the political Plots; however, mn the was dis~

tober,» ried n+ and: a year: later oe Lae ousted asa leader. dr the

ganization. “Maj. Fey. Tost, out: politically. w von Starhemberg, 2 Heimwehr ganiss, 3 now an Tells: nsw

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or other" prominent, Austrians. |

"Owls can’t be used to rid the city | hero es of them, ‘because owls won't stand | through

for city . Ways But the. hat a compre

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“ddnies. Taly: will fight. over it. VIENNA—~Fey and others ‘are suicides; _ ex-President ‘Miklas

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+ qrestges Rediohoto,

ce Denies Danger of War With Nazis

Terman it ander’ Hurriedly Flies to Berlin With : Bombers.

ROME, March 16 (U.' P.) —Italy and Germany will not go to war

over. Austria, Premier Benito Mus- |

| solini informed the Chamber of

. | Deputies today in his first statement _ | on the European crisis.

The: ‘hopes of democracy, Ma-

®t | sonic lodges and the Third Inter-

‘guards - were -

semi- | be Fasnist, - anti-Nazi Helmwehr fors g oh. ue announced when: Sore consisted chiefly of the.

national that because of Austria, Italy and. Germany would come to

ila and: Germany as “inevitable,” the

Premier disclosed that ‘he had ‘warned Chancellor ‘Kurt Schuschnigg not to hold a plebiscite because it represented an infernal

' machine which would explode in

oe his ‘hand.

‘Referring to foreign reports that

the presence of . millions of Ger-

was: closed today as ‘Prench mobile ‘reinforced -and :anti-

war defenses strengthened. All {reight.. ‘movément to Irun was

halted: same time, the French Government: announced that ““indispensable measures, for security | ‘havé been taken along the Pyrenees Border which events ‘south - of the frontier necessitate.” a En

bre sd four antiaircraft bairies and men to man them, and an : Hin the number of mobile

"A abl se said rat e ing. : - 2 Sram oi) lores Berlin.“ turned out to give’ Der

of and munitions as Pa! r V ; 3 y : I 7 ‘ hening : ination of ad ? se re=’ ema: n the Aragon front,’ ‘where

.,| by. sanctions. For us Fascists, all “frontiers ‘are sacred. They. are not

|mans: on Italy’s frontier:: would 1itighten Italy, Premier Mussolini

said: +

“This Healy is not easily impressed.

Fifty-three nations failed to do so

tobe discussed but defended.” Then, ‘emphasizing that there would be no war, he said the RomeBerlin -axis-had been tested by the | Austrain: events and found strong.

MILAN, Italy, Mat March 16 (U. P.). Filippo ‘Boiano, correspondent of the Benito Mussolini's newspaper Popolo d'Italia, quoted Adolf Hitler today as having told him in Vienna: © “We will be ready to show our friendship. and gratitude if Italy needs it some day.” The correspondent wrote that the ‘interview occurred shortly before Herr Hitler spoke in Vienna yester-

day.

Hitler Hurries.

Bacic toBerlin

|. BERLIN, March 16 .(U.’P)~— | Adotf Hitler returned to Berlin" by

airplane ‘today, completing a fast |

{trip which surprised political quarters and led to the belief that more important decisions are in the off-

Fuehrer the greatest ovation in the ‘history. of the German nation ‘while Herr Hitler and his aids hurried to the. Chancellery, “where it. was ex- ( ;

i= G-MEN SEARCH LAKES

ye culverts, lakes and

u : Feb. 24; for $30,000" ransom. OL | examined

“AND WO00DS FOR BOY

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of ! NEW ROCHELLE, NY. Marois island | 46 (U.. P)—G-Men and RD | searched . this cif

: police ay for 12-year-old Peter ‘kidnaped | h vacant gf: Botuses, ‘manholes. ie, the. boy's father, an-

Tam shill ready 0 pay. the ran- | ms

Second-Class Matter :

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STORMS

Die, 50 Are Hurt) As Tornado Hits : Bellevillé, IIL.

SouTH STRICKEN

6 Lives Are Lost in Missouri, Several In Alabama.

By United Press . A low pressure area moved north-

eastward from lower Illinois today,

i | pouring heavy rains into the Ohio

and Mississippi Valleys after a series of cyclonic storms killed 19 per-

late Tuesday. Nine persons were killed and 50 were hurt in Belleville Ill, a city of 30,000 persons where the tornadic winds struck hardest. A storm that ripped through. a rural area near Bakersville, Mo., killed six persons, including a family of three who died when a farm

| home was demolished.

Those killed near Bakersville were Lee Walker, 71; his wife, 74; a son, Bert: Walker, 25; Grady Sanderson, 25, and two Negroes: : Four :deaths ‘and injury to at least 40 persons were reported in Alabama and eastern Mississippi. A Negro woman was killed at Demopolis, Ala., where high winds smashed more than 40 frame shanties and left several hundred Negroes homeless.

Freight Cars ‘Demolished

Eighteen cars of a Frisco freight train were demolished near Linden, Ala, - injuring the engineer and fireman. : - A white man was killed at Tarrant City, Ala. a Negro at Mulga and ariother white man at Guntrsville.

e and rain forced 18.

3 én route from Chanute Field; 1l.;

forced them to land. The U. 8. Weather Bureau at Atlanta. said rain was falling over most .of fhe Southeast today: and a low pressure area was moving to‘ward the Ohio River Valley.

Belleville Tornado Kills 9, Injures 50

- BELLEVILLE, Ill, March 16 (U. P.) —The toll from a tornado that swept out. of the Southwest and demolished a section of Belleville's

| residential. district reached nine.to- | day i with. the death. of Mrs. Leoda

Koch, 40. Fifty were injured. Eight other victims were killed outright in their - homes, automobiles or places of business when the tiwster virtually ‘leveled . a section of the city approximately five blocks long. = A survey of damage from the tornado indicated a property loss in excess of $750,000, according to Lieut. Herbert Herbeck of the State Police. Meantime, southern Illinois National Guard units, called out by Governor Horner, aided local authorities in preserving order and in aiding the injured. and homeless. Twenty-seven persons remained i na critical condition at St. Elizabeth Hospital while approximately 100 others suffered from less serious injuries. The black funnel roared in from the Southwest and cut a path from two to three blocks wide through a

dwellings were demolished. The dead: = Joseph ‘Roesch, former Sosa of the Belleville: Enamel Co.; 1 Jane Smith, 70; Albert Weaver, 68-year-old ret farmer; Frank Matysick, filling station operator; George Krug; Charles Jolson, 18-month-old baby killed in his grandmother’s arms as they huddled in the basement of their on

then lifted, to descend again and [3 hit O'Fallon, a suburb.

Jed hundreds of feet. Bur bowled over. In. many

sons and injured approximately 100 |

arving wind e-seater Army planes down at} itsville, -Ala. The planes were] Ih

to Mongomery wheén- the storm 3

residential - section. ' At least 100 |

Miss | alrea

‘Trees were |w

felled. or uprooted in its path and{ Houses |;

KILL 19

Many: Roads in State Are Listed as Impassable.

OHIO MARK UP,

Evansville Reports Water Foot Below : .Flood Level.

Southern Indiana streams, driven by heavy rains, rose above flood stages today, inundated lowlands, sent backwater. into basements; and continued rising. Light rains were predicted for tpnight and colder weather for tomorrow. Ro in many sections were re impassable by the State Highway Commission. . The Weather Bureau predicted that the Wabash, White and Ohio Rivers will continue rising for the next three or four: days, with no more rain. The Weather Bureau here gave the following report. on streams: At Lafayette the Wabash ‘was at flood stage and will go approxi= mately five feet higher. At Terre Haute it was at ‘flood stage and will go about’ five feet higher in two to three days.

12.9 Feet at Vincennes

At Vincennes;a 2.70-inch raine fall pushed the river to 129 feet and it will go about ‘three to four feet higher. The : Mount ‘Carmel stage was 17.2 feet, 1.2. feet above flood stage and will go to 19 to 20 within three days. The west fork of White River at Elliston stood at 244 feet, 54 fovi.a above flooa Stags, and will go

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The main stream of White River at Petersburg and Hazelton - stood at 18 feet and 117.7, respectively, and will go: to about 23 ‘feet at each Place, Much. lowland is under wae

The State ‘Highway Commission

| reported. the following : roads oles

because of high water: . 116 east of Bluffton, 31 from Rockford, to Jonesville, 258: from Seymour to Courtland, 135 from Brownstown 1 Ballonia and 235 at Medors. § A bridge was. ont, on: U.S. 41 of Oaktown, with traffic us

‘lover State Roads 54 and 67;

Meanwhile ‘the United Press feported that the Ohio River was at 34 feet at Evansville, one foot below flood stage, and had risen sevene tenths of a foot since the reading last night. The Weather Bureau predicted the waters would: mount _ to 39 feet at- Evansville, ? v Raing Swell Streams

At Newburgh, Ky., today’s reading was 36.4 feet, less than two feet be low the flood. stage of 38 and a rise of seven-tenths of a foot. Observers said the river would rise to 41 feet at Newbuigh. The waters rose five-tenths of a foot at.Cypress, Ky. to a level of 34.9 feet today, about three feet from the flood stage of 38 feet. The Jive is’ ‘expected to ascend to 40 At ‘Shawneetown, nr, the Ohio was one foot above flood : level of 33 feet and observers said a stage of /41 feet would be reached ultie timately.

Driving rains last night and yesterday along the Ohio and Wabash .River valleys swelled the streams, ed by steady rains during the last several days. i Evansville prepared for its 110th since ea Bureau established there ‘in ‘1893. was

: Two Feet Over at Seymour: - ~White River near Seymour was