Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1938 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1938

“Les Miserables” his favorite book.

But Photographers Ave Out of the Picture as Far as He Is Concerned

By JOE COLLIER “Batter up,” spoken by an umpire, are the two most thrilling words

to Reginald Sullivan, “One more,” spoken by a photographer, are the most unwelcome. Truth of the matter is that one of the great disappointments of Mr. Sullivan's years in college was that there always were nine other youths at Wabash who could play baseball a little better than he. He was in the position of being a fine football player when he rather would have played baseball. As for photographers. Well, when news photographers try to take informal shots he freezes like a rabbit in the glare of an auto headlight. Another thing is that Mr. Sullivan believes he smokes too much, but does nothing about it to amount to anything. “Never got the habit of smoking®——— cigarets, and the younger men | these days seem not to get the | habit of cigars.” he mused. | lo remark to each other “I've given up a lot of things I had Seen nothing that used to take great pleasure in since | crooked,” Mr. Sullivan said.

scandal came out father and I used that we looked

I was in that airplane accident. Horseback riding for one. I began horseback riding when Capt. Herron, now Maj. Gen. Herron of the Army, invited me to Wyoming when he was stationed there. We had been roommates at Wabash.

Rode Into Big Horn “We rode into the Big Horn Mountains and had such an exciting time I made three other trips

About the other series Mr. Sullivan had this to say, in the most animated mood of the interview: “I never will forget it. It was the most remarkabie thing. Ruth had been in the field and the Chicago fans, who loved him, nevertheless were throwing pop bottles and lemons at him and razzing him for not catching a fly ball that some

(at bat. { had

one faster would have had. “At that time, you know, Ruth was slowing up and he had made a

{ don't,

poor showing both in the field and |

and the

Well, he went to bat

two strikes on him and

| bleacher crowd was booing him.

West on riding expeditions. I used to ride in Brown County a good deal, too. “I have been going to Brown |

County since 1900 when I made the trip in a horse and buggy. It was a long trip that way. One year when I was in the Legislature it adjourned for a few days and Frank Wallace and I went down to Brown County in the winter time and rode horseback from Helmsburg to Nashville. “Frank’s horse walked sideways, and every time mine got near the edge of a dry ravine it &vould jump down and climb the other side. We | got to Nashville, all right, but it was a strenuous trip.” Mr. Sullivan chuckled for a few minutes as he recalled the trip. Then he said that he had had times just as interesting with Mr. Wallace | on fishing trips.

a genius, and Frank McDougall and | h

When the Babe Hit It

“Ruth heard them. He stepped out of the batter's box. and swung his bat as though he was hitting one. Then he waved his arm to indicate out of the park. Then he pointed to the center field wall, which never had been hit over. Then he stepped back into the batter's box and the next ball he hit over the wall just where he had pointed. “It was the longest drive ever made at Wrigley Field. The crowd went mad. And when the Yanks took the field, Babe turned his back to the plate and lectured

the same motions he had made at

{ the plate. For 10 minutes the game

was stopped while he lectured. Then an umpire got him to turn around and pay attention and the game went on, “My father was tickled pink.” Mr. Sullivan recalled the time he elped coach the Manual High

I used to go on fishing trips that) gengol football team, for no pay. A

were among the most enjoyable experiences of my life,

teacher had been assigned as coach

{ and he asked Mr, Sullivan, recently

“Mahlon Rutler was so much of a | from Wabash football triumphs, to

fishing fan that he made his own | fly rods, some of the finest. When he | kad made himself more than he neec>d he made them for friends. I| rave a couple he made me.” Mr. Sullivan picked up the cigar

help. Likes Rivalry Grid Games

Together they worked out a team that beat Shortridge, 11 to 0. Mr. Sullivan can’t remember whether

and lighted it. He blew the smoke in | that was in 1802, 1903 or 1904.

a thin, blue line. He mentioned other sports liked, among then swimming.

“YI Didn't Miss a Day”

He has miSsed only two football games between Wabash and DePauw since his graduation. “And I get as much pleasure out

| of them as I did 40 years ago,” he

“My father took me to the canal] said.

at Rush St. when I was 10 years |

old, bougi.t me tickets at the old | bath house there, and taught me to | swim miss a day in the season. Sometimes some of us would go up the aque-| duct to swim. It seemed that it re-| quired a lot of bravery to swim from one end of the aqueduct to the other and back again because there was a lot of noise. Actually, of course, it was just as safe to swim there as anyplace else. Bt we found it was a good place to test our courage and it was a popular stunt.” Mr. Sullivan was captain of the Wabash football team for two years, | but his great athletic ambition was unfulfillec, “They tell you that you can do anything you want to if you want to badly enough,” he said.

Never Made First Team

He leaned his elbows on the desk and wove his fingers together. “But, I'll tell you, I was captain | of the football team for two years at Wabash and I was not specially fond of football. I was not an enthusiast. I was indifferent to football. “But I was wild about baseball and I never could make the nine, I always made the second team, but never the first. “I still am enthusiastic about baseball. My father and I used to go to football and baseball games.” It was in connection with the telling of his trips to two World Series with his father, the late Thomas | Sullivan, twice the Mayor of Indianapolis, that Mr. Sullivan sat on the edge of his chair and became excited. His face beamed and he talked with unusual animation.

Never Will Forget It

After all, he had a right to, because one of the series was the Cincinnati end of the 1919 so-called “Black Sox” series and the other wes when Babe Ruth In Chicago called his shot.

“We saw the Cincinnati anes of wa the

the 1919 series and after a

After I had learned I didn't | said. | where to spend money when you're

About city government? “I think we have one of the finest City Hospitals in the country,” he “It's a hard job to figure

Mayor. City Hospital, for instance, could use a lot of money. I understand that the X-ray equipment cut there is out dated. That would cost—let’s see—well, in the neighborhood of $15,000.

“Then There's the Park System”

“Then there's the park system. Indianapolis needs a park system worse than any other city of its size. We have no Lake Michigan, and no mountains. Indianapolis is built on flat farming land and we have to have the parks “I like to see baseball played in the parks. It's healthy for the youngsters to play baseball.” Mr, Sullivan invariably used the plural “we” in referring to his former administration.

“And you know we did some track |

elevating as mayor. I should like to see all the tracks elevated but it would take an enormous amount of money. I hope sometime there will be Federal money to spend on the project.” Mr. Sullivan flicked the ashes off his cigar. “The mayor’s job is divided in two ways. There is the work of seeing that things are going smoothly— that the chuck holes are filled in the streets, that the garbage is collected on time, that the ashes are hauled away when they should be,

[ and a hundred other things.

“My Father Biggest Aid”

“You know, my father was the biggest single aid to me when I was in office. I never made an appointment or a decision without consulting him. He was in my office and he advised me. And about the only difference between Indianapolis now and then is that some new factories have moved here since § was in office. The Job's about the same as it

| learned I was elected Mayor?”

the bleacher hecklers, going through | occasionally and like them.

Me Bivens Said thet the great

Talking about Babe

est source of satisfaction from his administration came from the manner in which relief was handled. “Pecple were hungry and out of jobs. I went to the township trustees, whose legal job it is to feed the poor, and told them I didn’t want to intrude myself on them bat that I would be glad to help if I could. They were willing and we appointed a committee. I wanted to take it out of politics entirely.

“The Only Weak Place” “The committee got things going and in a short time anyone who was hungry was fed. All except the ones who needed a meal right now. “I thought that was the only weak place in the whole plan and I argued that a man who never has worked, but is hungry, is as dangerous as a man who wants to work and is hungry.” About music: “I don’t know enough about music to know why I like it or why I It's the same way with art. A picture I like may be no good and a picture I don’t like may be very valuable. I know what I like, that's all.”

Likes ‘Les Miserables’

Reading: “I think I like ‘Les Miserables’ better than any book I ever read. I have read it a number of times. I like ‘The Honorable Peter Sterling,’ (a novel supposed to be biographical of Grover Cleveland) and I like to read Kipling’s poetry. It has such a lilt to it.” He added, after a moment, “But I read poetry just for a few minutes at a time.” “What do I do in my leisure?” Mr. Sullivan repeated the question. “Well, night baseball games help a lot. And then I go to the movies Most - ly, though, I stay at home and read. “What emotion did I feel when I

“Well, I remember I was in Democratic Committee rooms when I heard it and I felt a heavy weight of responsibility. That was the chief emotion. Then I went home at 10 o'clock and went to bed.” He threw the cigar away.

HEAD TO QUIT C. I. G.

NEW YORK, May 4 (U. P). — Max Zaritsky, head of the United Hatter, Cap and Millinery Workers Union and one of the original founders of the Committee for Industrial Organization, was reported today to have decided to withdraw from the latter group. Although Mr. Zaritsky's office refused to comment on the reports,

it was rumored in labor circles that he had decided to let his membership in John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. lapse. Mr. Zaritsky’s union is not an affiliate of the Lewis group. Mr. Zaritsky's disagreement was understood to have arisen over his objection to ¢alling a national convention to make the C. I. O. permanent national federation.

$75 COLLECTIONS STOLEN

William Burton of 1438 E. 10th St., a baking company salesman, today reported $75 in overnight collections stolen from the bedroom of his home by a burglar who forced a rear window.

Ruth’s homer.

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More and Better Baseball An Important Plank in Any Sullivan Platform

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“I felt a heavy wei

ght of responsibility.”

“Mostly .

++ I stay at home and read.”

CITIZENS BAS INCOME DROPS

Down $40,269 for First Quarter; Sales Are Up 5 Per Cent.

(Continued from Page One)

the Indianapolis Gas Co. and the Citizens Gas Co. before the City of

Indianapolis took over the Citizens Gas Co. properties. Under this 99year lease, the Indianapolis Gas Co. rented its properties to the Citizens Gas Co. The municipallyowned utility has paid this rental into the escrow fund although it contends, in the litigation pending, that it did not take over contractural obligations of the Citizens Gas Co. when it took over the company’s properties. Accruals under the standstill agreement at the end of March this year rose from $637,515.21 on March 21 last year to $1,129053.22 this year, due to payments made during the three intervening quarters, Report $677,681 Balance

now has a balance in the revenue bonds proceeds account with the City Controller of $677,681.27 This is the same as last year. The balance resulted from the receipt and subsequent expenditure of funds

acquired from the issuance of gas plant revenue bonds. This balance was in addition to other cash on hand and in banks amounting to $525813.16, and brought total current assets to $2,038,147.41. Other assets listed included: Fixed assets (less depreciation reserve), $6,798 417.42: miscellancous assets, 8161203689; and deferred debits, $837,504.68. This brought the total assets to $12,186,106.40.

bility the $8,000,000 worth of reve- | nue bonds, due serially to 1967 at 415 per cent annual interest payable June 1 and Dec. 1. In addition to this and current and accrued liabilities, the report listed: Liabilities of the Milburn By-Products coal Co, a subsidiary, $60,010.36; other liabilities, $169, - 026.51, and reserves, $463,904.61. oe | report showed a surplus applied to | bond retirement of $165817.50, and | a surplus of $175398459. This] brought total liabilities and surplus | to $12,186,106.40.

CROWN POINT GROCER HEADS STATE GROUP,

Times Special |

SOUTH BEND, May 4 Clarence |

assumed his duties as president of | the Indiana Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association. | Other officers named at the or-| ganization’s convention, which closed | yesterday, were: PREdward Helsley | Jr. of Evansville, vice president: B. I. Tharp of Indianapolis, secres tary; M. H. Doehrmann of Ft. Wayne, treasurer, and William Brock of Muncie, Walter Remy of Kokomo and Jesse Chenowith of Richmond, directors. |

Today's report showed the utility |

{ Dealer,

(Continued from Page One) State Excise Police, was backed by the State House organization and is being groomed to run against] Rep. Halleck, Indiana's only Republican Congressman in the fall| election.

Had State House Support

Mr. Beamer had State House sup- | port in the Third District where |

Rep. Sam Pettengill, an anti-New | declined to seek another term. Fourth District regular Republicans got behind Mr. Gillie, former | Allen County sheriff, to give him | a tremendous lead Greene. It stood at 21.282 to 3953 with 232 of 314 precincts counted. Rep. Griswold won handily over Marvin Myer of Michigantown, but the Republican Fifth District race evidently will be a stretch battle beween Mr, James and Mr. Harness The Jater attained fame as a Federal prosecutor of Samuel Insull. Mrs. Jenckes more than held her own against Paul Sturm, farm bloc leader in the Legislature, in the rural areas, and was certain of a strong vote from her own city of Terre Haute. Gerald Landis took a lead of almost 10 to 1 in the Seventh District over Clyde Payton. Mr. Landis was the party's 1936 nominee.

Werner Draws Ahead

Mr. Werner drew steadily ahead today in the Eighth District and the bulk of the vote in his home community, Vanderburgh County, is vet to be tabulated. Mr. Long and Mr. Meranda made a horse-race of the Ninth District Republican fight with the issue still undecided with almost three-fourths of the vote counted Mr. Springer, the Republican nominee for Governor in 1932 and 1936, literally swamped all opposi-

over

The report listed as the chief lia- |

tion, drawing 25919 votes in 257 precincts of 336 in the district

Ballots Exhausted in

Greene County Precincts

LINTON, May 4 (U. P).

Green County precincts was exhausted shortly before noon yesterday. More than 40 per cent more

| than the total vote cast at the pre-

vious primary had been printed as provided by the law, but it wasn't enough.

120 Absentee Voters

| Send in Ballots

ENGLISH, May 4 (U. P) —Of the 7032 qualified voters in Crawford County, 120 used absent voters’ bal-

| lots in the primary.

Disturbances Mark

| E. Schmidt of Crowr Point today | Anderson Primary

ANDERSON, May 4 (U. P).— Minor disturbances marked the heaviest balloting in years in yesterday’s primary here. Voters stood in long lines.

Evansville Pastor Charges Vote Selling

EVANSVILLE, May 4 (U. P).— The Rev. Joseph G. Moore, pastor of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, said

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Leaders for Congress Listed as G. O. P. Aspirants Run Close in Two Districts

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jail to champion the cause of mu- | nicipally owned utilities, trailed his |

witnesses to the transactions which | opponent for the Republican omits he will turn over to a prosecution | nation for Mayor in unofficial re- | committee, turns early today | The Rev. Mr. Moore, chairman of With seven of 10 precinetls report- |

a nonpartisan committee which | ed, Mayor Bangs had 603 votes acted as observers at the polls, [against 1187 for his rival, Foster | charged that ‘votes were bought | E. Cutshall. openly and by the hundreds.” Circuit Judge John W. Spencer | Evansville Mayor Jr. has offered to call a grand jury | investigation. Has Lead of 10,000 EVANSVILLE, May 4 (U. P)

Inspector Spills Ink, Delays Voting

PLYMOUTH, May 4 (U, P)

Mavor William Dress and his regular Democratic organization re- | tained control of Vanderburgh

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The | supply of Democratic ballots in 25]

| Voters in the Seventh Precinct, Cen= ter Township, who waited until the | last minute had to wait even longer | when a flustered inspector spilled a | bottle of ink on a pile of ballots | shortly before the polls closed last ( night. The official printer was given a hurry-up order.

La Porte Mayor Apparently Beaten

LA PORTE, May 4 (U P).< | Mayor Alban Smith of La Porte, at torney for D. C. Stephenson, former Ku-Kilux Kian leader serving a life sentence in prison for murder, apparently was defeated for renomination today. He trailed former Sheriff Alfred Norris, 2066 to 1432. Mr. Norris probably will oppose Republican County Chairman Tom MeDonald, who won the G. O. P. mayoralty campaign.

Ex<Marion Mayor "

Stages Comeback MARION, May 4 (U. P) —Jack Edwards, former Mayor, staged a comeback today to win the Democratic mayoralty nomination by ap- | proximately a five-to-one margin. Mayor Carl Barney, who defeated Mr. Edwards four years ago, leading for the Republican nomination by the same margin.

Voters Change Mind On Porter Hospital

VALPARAISO, May 4 (U. P) Porter County voters at yesterday's primary election approved by a ma=jority of 2500 {he plan for issuing | $120,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used in construetion of a County hospital. The voters twice before, in 1924 and 1926, had rejected the proposal 2 =

Gottschalk Wins

Ft. Wayne Nomination FT. WAYNE, May 4 (U. PP) Complete unofficial returns from

the city's 59 precincts today gave Harry W. Gottschalk, Allen County surveyor, the Democratic nomination for Mayor of Ft. Wayne, Mr. Gottechalk received votes, His closest rival, James Ford, polled 3355 votes. Mayor Harry W. Baals, unopposed on the Republican ticket, received 6354 votes

4969 BE.

Mayor Bangs Trails

In Huntington Vote

HUNTINGTON, May 4 (U. P) = Mayor C. W. H. Bangs, who went to

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[County today with indications that Mayor Dress will defeat his primary opponent, former Mayor Frank W. Griese, by 10,000 vates A. V. Burch, a plow manufacturer, whom Mayor Dress defeated in

the election four years ago, won the Republican nomination. Mr Burch won over former Mayor Herbert Males Coin to Decide Goshen Nominee GOSHEN, May 4 (U. P) A

simple flip of a coin will decide what | 1750 voters failed to do-choose a | Republican candidate for Goshen's Mayor. Wallace W. Mehl and Gordon D. Pease each received 875 votes in yes= terday’s primary, It was easier for the Democrats== Mayor Clell E. Firestone, seeking a third term, polled 1053 votes to George H. Rimpler's 273.

Logansport Nominees

Listed Unofficially limes Special LOGANSPORT, May 4- Unofficial tabulations iwdicate the

fol lowing will be nominees: |

Mayor—@uiney Palmer (D.)), 2528; Russell I,eonard (R.), 2452 Clerk=Treasurer-—-Ed Hovt (R),

2620; Norval Brumbaugh (D), 1520 Congressman-—Homer Stonebraker (D)), 5158; Charles A. Halleck | (R.), unopposed. Prosecutor—Frederick Landis (R),

4244; Norman Kiessling (D.), un opposed. Representative—Dr, B. A. Spohn | (D), 3575; J. Bd Kingery (R)), un=| opposed.

Sheriff —Elmer Craig (R.), 4844; Elmer Olson (D)), 2481. Auditor -—— Grover Isaacs (D),| 4804; Herbert Condon (R)), unop= | posed.

County Assessor Roscoe Hawkins (R.), 2991; Howard Buchannan (D)), | unopposed Commissioner (First

District)

| tame as those tract,

Nelson House (R.), 2600; Charles Enyart (D.), 2676. Commissioner (Third District) «= Delbert Shope (D,), 3156; William Wise (R.), unopposed Approximately 60 per cent of the registered voters of Cass County cast ballots, the vote being light in rural and city areas. Democrats polled the largest vote.

Flip of Coin Decides Ohio County Tie Race

Timer Special

RISING SUN, Mav 4- Two flips

| of each of three coins by three elec

tion commissioners of Ohio County

came up tails, go Haskell McClellan

was nominated to the Democratio ticket for trustee of Union Towne ship over Russell Corson Fifty

votes were cast for each and the one that would have settled it otherwise was mutilated

CITY WINS MENTION IN ANTIFIRE DRIVE

Ranked Along With Nine Other Municipalities.

Indianapolis is among 10 cities in the 250,000 500,000 population class to win honorable mention for fire prevention in the 1937 national fire waste contest, Chamber of Commerce officials announced tos day. Memphis won the grand award, Other cities to receive honorable mention with Indianapolis include

Providence, Atlanta, San Antonio, Sealtle, New Orleans, Rochester,

[N. Y.; Oakland, Cal; Kansas City, | Mo., and Portland, Ore

Statistics show that the per cap=

| ita fire loss of contesting communis | ties was $1.37.

This is a decrease of 11.6 per cent for the same cities over a five-year period The contest is sponsored locally py the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce's committee on fire pres vention and protection

LOCAL FIRM SIGNS WITH STEEL UNION

Signing of a one-year contract between the Climax Machinery Co, 143 B. Morris 8t, and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee wag announced today by James Robb, 8 W. 0. C. field director The contract calls for a wage inecrease of from 2'4 to 5 cents an

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