Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1938 — Page 1

Page PDF (10.24 MB)

Back to issue view

The Indianapolis Tines

FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow.

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 9

. SLAPS AT NAZI OPPRESSION

THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938

§ A

Entered as Second-Class at Postoffice,

GOVERNOR SPECIAL ETS

Legislature Expected |U. S. Agencies Grant

- STATE G

To Consider Grant This Month.

T0 CALL

. CHARGE FALSE, DE SAYS HOPKINS

NATIONAL AFFAIRS HOPKINS DENIES WPA is politically active. WPA CHIEF analyzes charges cited by writer. WILLIAMS SPEECH record taken unknown to him.

F. D. R.'s RIGHT to back candidates upheld.

$302,970 for Two Projects.

Hopkins Cites 22 Cases

A special session of the Indiana Legislature “definitely” will be called, Governor Townsend an-

Two Federal agencies today allocated a total of $302,970 for Indiana nounced today. projects—one an inventory of State He said he would announce the | Property and the other an addition date of the session within the next to Broad Ripple High School, Infew days. It was reported that the | dianapolis.

call probably would be issued for! will be

| To Refute Relief Charges

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P).|

—WPA Administrator Harry L. Hopkins denied today the WPA has | been made a political instrument in | Kentucky where the New Deal is

the middle of July. The purpose of the session will be

to appropriate State funds to match will employ 600 “white collar” WPA : $8,000,000 workers for about two years. | exhaustive documentary evidence,

Federal grants for an

building program, since the new

Federal relief measure contains a $117.000. to which the Board will add

time limit when construction must start. “The new Federal law that construction work projects must be under Jan, 1. late to take advantage of the program if we waited for the regular 1939 session to convene later in January,” the Governor said.

provides of PWA way hy

This would make us 100 | manager, said plans for the addition

The property inventory made with $185,970 WPA funds and | involved in a major primary battle. In a statement accompanied by

" 4 | Mr. Hopkins challenged 22 charges PWA granted the School Board that his agency has subjected WPA workers to political pressure in Kentucky. He said the facts do not sub- | stantiate the charges, but reiterated his previous promises of summary and stringent action in all cases where political coercion of relief

$143,000, to build a third story on the Broad Ripple building wing, a gymnasium, a cafeteria and a locker room. A. B. Good, School Board business

now are being drawn, work probably will be started in 60 days, and that | workers could be proved. the Board proposes to raise its share “Every charge in which a WPA of the funds through a bond issue. | worker or official was named has

The proposed building program @ne hundred twenty persons will be | been thoroughly investigated

$3.000,000 state office building. The Governor said he was not sure whether this would be left in the program, but said he

contains a

employed on the project, he said. documentary evidence conclusively ; | establishes that out of more than 3 All Labor by WPA | a score of cases in which political The State Accounts Board is the activity was alleged, only two in-

was now “sounding out sentiment” sponsoring agent for the inventory | stances of improper conduct could

on this project.

MISSING CONTRACT HALTS HEARING HERE

When the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. appeared in Circuit Court today asking an $8000 judgment

project, William P. Cosgrove, Board | he found.” he said. chief examiner, said. All of the la-! bor is to be furnished by the WPA. Refers to Articles Sel, SSDguail, Boul) Delf ox. | Mr. Hopkins statement referred visor, and Herbert Reed. Indiana |'.0 2 Series of articles by Thomas L.

WPA POLITICS Terre Haute

Get New

To U. S. Prison

WASHINGTON, June 30 (U. P)). —The Department of Justice announced today that a Federal penitentiary to be erected in Indiana with PWA funds will be located at Terre Haute. The Justice Department announcement said the insttiution will

of land offered for the purpose by the Terre Haute Chamber of Commerce at a cost of $100,000. The site is about three and a half miles southwest of the city. It is

Wabash River.

| © The three million dollar Federal | Prison is to be constructed without walls and is to be designed to hold trusted “minimum custody” Federal prisoners, John Klinger, State Division of Corrections director, said

WPA co-ordinator, is to be Federal supervisor. Workers are to be divided into crews which are to include foremen, clerks and typists. “This department has advocated

against the County for an alleged a state property inventory for sev-

unpaid bill for heat, it was discovered that the original contract was missing. Circuit Judge Earl R. Cox halted the hearing and told attorneys he could hear no further evidence without the missing document. Light company officials said they had searched in vain for the contract believed to have been signed with the County eight years ago. County Attorney John Linder also was unable to produce it, but explained he thought he could find it in the County records.

CLOUDY AND WARM. BUREAU PREDICTS

TEMPERATURES 62 64 70 kh |

10 a. m. 1 am 12 (Noon) pom.

The Weather Bureau today dicted con somewhat warmer temperatures for

tonight and tomorrow.

pre-

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

..13 14

Movies Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries . 9 Pyle wu 8 Juestions .... Radio ‘il 21 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Scherrer 13 Serial Story.. 20 Society .......10 Sports. .16, 17, 18 State Deaths. .

Books .. Broun ....... Comics .. $e 20 Crossword 21 Curious World : Editorials Financial .....: Flynn Forum Grin, In Indpls .... : Jane Jordan. . I: Johnson ......14 | Wiggam

PAY RESPECTS TO BATTLE'S DEAD

Martin A. Loop

8 check. They have asked 14 workers be sent there for a year to

eral years, but we have not had the money to make one until now,” Mr. Cosgrove said.

| Stokes published by The Indianapolis Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers on the Kentucky Senatorfal primary fight between Senate Majority Leader Barkley and Governor Chandler. The series

| enumerated specific instances where |

I it was asserted that political pres- | | sure was being exerted on re.ef

“Our application to WPA was Workers in behalf of Mr. Barkley. made about a month ago. Similar The newspaper series followed

work, I understand, is being con- | charges by Judge Brady Stewart of ducted in other states. The only | Paducah, Ky. Governor Chandler's

way we can make a real financial statement for the state is to know what our property is worth.”

Check to Be Inclusive

All findings in the inventory are to be centralized in the State Budget Committee offices in the State House. Depreciation also is to be figured in this check, particularly on the motor equipment of the State Highway Department. The inventory is to include every piece of property that has a life of more than two years, or a value of $5 or more. Mr. McDonald estimated: the State now has two million pieces of equipment, Each piece of equipment is to be stamped to identiiy it as State property. At present, incomplete inventories

siderable cloudiness and | 8r® maintained by the State High-

way Department on its rolling stock, the Gross Income Tax Division and the Unemplovment Compensation Division. These inventories are to be added to the new inventory,

Schools to Get Wurkers

Purdue University officials also have been working on a property that 20

investigate their findings and complete the project. About 20 workers

13 also are to be sent to Indiana Uni-

versity, which has a more incomplete inventory than Purdue.

Included in the checkup will be

the property of the 20 state penal and benevolent institutions, schools and universities, state parks,

9 and equipment now located in the ....14 State House and its annexes.

(left), 96-year-old Union veteran from Sacra-

mento, Cal, and Gen. John W. Harris, 90-year-old Confederate veteran from Oklahoma City exchange greetings. (Story, Page 12.)

}

» 4

| cainpaign manager, that WPA in | Kentucky had been | for political purposes.

{ here today. | Mr. Klinger said the new prison | would be similar to the Federal Re- | formatory at Chillicothe, O.

BAKER TO DENY SPENCER PLEA

Declares Prosecutor | Plenty of Time for

| Vote Probe.

| Criminal Court Judge Frank P. Baker indicated today that he will | deny the petition of Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer, who asked that the appointment of special Criminal Court Prosecutors for a probe of the primary election be set aside.

Prosecutor Spencer in his petition

be erected on a tract of 1200 acres !

bordered by State Road 63 and the |

| |

| | |

Had | from Angola.

asserted that his office 1s qualified |

to conduct the investigation and had not requested any assistance. Commenting upon the petition, | Judge Baker said: | “Mr. Spencer has not been tied to | any tree. He has had more than 30 days to start his investigation of the | election ballots, but has done noth-

“prostituted” |e about it. The ballots have been

ere and all witnesses have been

Mr. Hopkins reviewed the specific |2vailable since the election May 3."

| cases cited in the newspaper series. For each charge, he submitted statements or affidavits, denying the assertions or attacking their basic premises. “General favoritism by

charges of political WPA officials have been based upon these specific cases,” he said. “They have no more validity than the specific cases upon which they depend for support and a thorough investigation, as fully set forth above, has swept

Prosecutor Spencer said: “Judge Baker has had the Grand Jury in session all that time, too, and he apparently has made no move until now in an investigation. “Never at any time has he consulted with my office on the probe. In fact, such a conference has been conspicuous by its absence.” The judge said he will rule on the petition next Tuesday when he selects the new July term Grand (Continued on Page Two)

away their foundation in fact. , . .|

“While I know that this series of

articles was based on inaccurate in- |

formation, I am quite aware of the i fact nevertheless that other mis-

| leading and inaccurate statements |

| may be made before the coming elections are over. I do not intend to permit charges against WPA officials, and employees, in whose integrity I have confidence, to go | unanswered, and I intend to use | every instrument at my command to acquaint the with the truth or falsity of such charges. “I have on all occasions, where the facts warranted, discharged employees for coercive or other im- | proper activities, and I am quite | prepared to do it again wherever { any real evidence is available.” Mr. Hopkins’ statement dealt in some detail with 22 cases cited by

| political activity.

Referring to one case in which { (Continued on Page Six)

American people |

| | { (Market Details, Page 21)

BULLETIN

PHILADELPHIA, June 30 (U., P.).—The State Supreme Court ruled today that the Pennsylvania 44-hour work week law was unconstitutional.

FURIOUS BUYING OF STOCKS EASES OFF

| |

NEW YORK, June 30 (U.P) —The | stock market opened today with a

burst of furious activity that car- |

ried prices to vear and then eased off under the pressure of heavy profit-taking. At

: | noon, however, many issues still state | Mr. Stokes in support of charges of | held part of their fresh gains.

Steels, the early favorites, were

new highs for the |

CONSERVATIVE BLOC RETAINS 6. 0. P. REN

Watson Control Ended, but Willis Called Faithful To Tradition.

SHIFT LEAVES NO SCARS

Prestige of Ralph Gates and

Doom Ocean |

PWA and School Board || To Tame Pogues Run.

OGUES “OCEAN"—properly called Pogues Run—is to undergo an amputation. The stream, which is little more than a good-sized ditch, has an elbow which bends into the west end of Technical High School's athletic field. When heavy rains overflow the banks, the water cuts into the high bank of Tech's field. So PWA at Washington announced it had allowed the School City $18,640 for taking the kink

Indianapolis, Ind.

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

Matter

RAPS DICTATORS; U.S, BRITAIN ACT FOR GIANT SHIPS

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

NEW YORK—Roosevelt attacks dictatorship principles. F. D. R. reaffirms good neighbor policy. LONDON-—U. S., Britain to enlarge warships. Chamberlain averts Cabinet fall.

| out, running the “Ocean” straight through the northwest section of the school grounds. A. B. Good, Indianapolis Schools business director, said the School City would provide the remainder of the money for the project, estimated to cost about |

Glenn Hillis Seen as Increased.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY “Rush County casts 14 votes for

SHANGHAI—Chinese suicide units retreating. JERUSALEM—Violence flares in Palestine. VIENNA—Schuschnigg facing criminal trial.

France Also Invokes

TScores Burning of Books,

Jim Watson.”

That record stands today as a final political tribute to Rushville's most noted son—former Senator | James E. Watson. of a political career covering nearly half a century, and extending high into G. O. P. councils, even to the point of once being considered a candidate for the Presidency. This fall the Republican Party in | Indiana will have someone else as its standard-bearer. His name is Raymond Eugene Willis, a stocky, square-toed newspaper publisher

In his own modest way, Mr. Willis, if elected, probably will carry on the same conservatism which marked the days of Senator Watson's floor leadership in the U, S. Senate. For by his own statements regarding his stand on public affairs of the moment, he would come

It marks the end |

closer to following Senator Jim along the old rock-ribbéd pathways | than to exploring the possibilities | n any of the progressive ideas advanced in the keynote speech at the nated him yesterday afternoon. That speech was delivered by

Rep. Bruce Barton (R. N. Y.) and |

| in it he urged the Hoosier Repub- | pggarq now is conducting a survey

| preparatory to asking

licans to take over the better portions of New Deal measures and

make them work through efficient |

administration, But the interest of the 1760 delegates and some 5000 party people | from throughout the state was in the five-cornered Senatorial contest and not in any such preachments. |

Courtesy Rules

Although vigorously fought, the | race was marked from start to fin- | ish by the utmost courtesy of the candidates for each other. It leaves disappointments, but no deep scars or hard feelings, backers of the various participants declare. Mr. Willis led the balloting on the very first vote. He received 444,

which was twe more than Mr, Wat- |

son, who had been expected to lead. Necessary to nominate was 881. Other first ballot totals were: Oliver Starr, Gary, 372; Clarence H. Walter F. Bossert, Liberty, 177. Half way through the second bal-

lot, Mr. Bossert released his pledged | 1937

state convention which nomi- | stretch would be turned back to the |

| stretch when they

(Dick) Wills, Kokomo, 320, and |

$21,000.

ROAD 31 UPKEEP | PLACED ON CITY

Planning Board Conducts Survey on Highway Zoning.

By TOM OCHILTREE The State Highway Commission today notified Indianapolis officials that the Park Board would have to maintain Road 31 from the city limits north to the end of the fourlane pavement because that section had been taken into the city's boule- | vard system. | City officials indicated that this |

state if an adequate state zoning law is passed. The State Planning

the Legislature for such an act. Park Board members said it was their understanding when they took over this stretch of pavement a year ago that the Commission would provide maintenance, since the City had neither men nor equipment for this work.

Petitioned Board

Property owners along the highway also promised to maintain this petitioned the Board to take it into the boulevard system to prevent erection of roadside stands and filling stations there. City officials said they would cut | the weeds along the road now, and |

1939

then negotiate with property own- | 8 prope, | United States

| $500,000,000.

ers for a new understanding. If any repair to the pavement is needed, the stretch will be turned back to

the State, Board members said. |

Zoning Map Prepared

the mandate of the the Planning

Acting on Legislature,

delegates to Mr. Willis. The result | Board now is preparing an official

was Willis, 578; Starr, 393':;

Wills, |

State Highway map which contains

3891; Watson, 344, and Bossert, 38. | all present uses to which land bor-

Then came the third and final |

ballot with mounting cheers when Mr. Willis carried county after county, climaxed with the entire 38 from Vanderburgh and 32 from Wayne.

Marion County had again divided | | its support, but obtained permission | Venes.

to change the report and cast its |

(Continued on Page Three) JULY 4 RULE TO BE STRICT |

All City police officers at roll call [of the proposal.

today were instructed to “enforce |

to 10.

« «+ « «+ FORMER ENEMIES RECALL OLD MEMORIES , . . . « « « « . .

Cyrus Stamets, 95-year-old Union veteran from Richwood, O.;: John W. Turnbough, 54-year-old Confederate veteran from Eldorado, Okla. and Gen. M. D. Vance, 83-year-old Confederates veleran from Litcomrades.

tle Rock, fk (left to right), recall old memories and ad

FE : ANN

: \

iy /

dering on these roads now are put. | Work has progressed on this project for a year and a half, and of the 9000 miles in the State system, it is estimated the Board will have surveyed approximately 5000 miles by the time the regular session con-

Mr, Moorman and Dennis O'HarBoard supervising engineer

zoning and set-back system is the most imposing argument in favor

“Zoning also would serve to pro-

located outside city limits

‘Exiling of Scientists (Text of Speeches, Page 11)

Naval Escalator Clause

LONDON, June 30 (U. P.).—The United Kingdom, France and the | NEW YORK, June 30 (U. P.), == United States signed a protocol to- | president Roosevelt inferentially but day substituting 45,000 tons for 35,- | vigorously criticized government by 000 tons as the extreme limit of the |

: | dictatorship today. size of capital ships, Alfred Duff | Addressing delegates to the cons

| Cooper, First Lord of the Admiralty, | vention’ of the National Education | informed the House of Commons.

Association, on the grounds of the on : m 1939 World Fair, he spoke out ships will remain at 16 inches. 119

The admiralty head announced against the suppression of art and Germany has signed a similar { culture in sucn a way that he left no agreement and the adhesion of [doubt in his listeners’ minds that he Soviet Russia is expected shortly. was referring to events in Germany He said Britain had notified the | since the Nazis took power. other powers she does not ifttene He mentioned no names. to exceed 40,000 tons as long as no| An hour before, the President had other Eurdpean power does so. Two | reaffirmed his “good neighbor” Rritish battleships on the 1938 pro- | policy in addressing local and foreign gram, he said, will be of 40,000 tons | dignitaries in laying the cornerstone and mount 16-inch guns. | of what will be the Federal Building The announcement was

at the fair. notification of invocation by “Clock Turned Back”

The maximum size of guns

formal the

| cific tonnage limits.

United States, Great Britain and |

France of the escalator clause of the 1936 London Naval Treaty. The naval treaty limits the warships to signatory nations to speOn the basis of reports that Japan was building gigantic - battleships, France agreed they had to invoke

Britain and |

Declaring that education must be kept intellectually free, he said that “such things did not need as much emphasis a generation ago; buf when the clock of civilization can be turned back by burning libraries, by exiling scientists, artists, musie cians, writers and teachers, by dis«

the escalator clause of the treaty. |persing universities, and by censor= This clause permits the signatories | ing news and literature and art, an to exceed tonnage limits in such | added burden is placed upon those circumstances. countries where the torch of free thought and free learning still burns

(Continued on Page Two)

Japan refused to subscribe to the 1936 treaty because the States and Great Britain would not

United | bright.”

“If the fires of freedom and civil

recognize her claim to equality in | liberties burn low in other lands,

total naval strength. The Admiralty

announcement own,” he said.

they must be made brighter in our “If in other lands

constitutes formal notification to |the press is censored we must re-

Commons of the

British-United | double our effort here to keep it

States decision to match Japan's free.

superbattleships, which was reached in an exchange of notes last April. Britain has appropriated £123,707,000 ($618,535.000) for naval purposes in the current year. The appropriated

Chamberlain Staves Off Cabinet Fall

LONDON, June 30 (U. P).— Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, faced by a revolt in the House of Commons over the summoning of one of its members before a military tribunal, temporized today and staved off what might have meant the downfall of the government. Mr. Chamberlain announced that

the Committee on Privileges had | oy enslaved.”

decided unanimously that a breach of parliamentary privilege had been committeed in Duncan Sandys, Conservative member, before a military tribunal. Sandys was accused of revealing

| |

lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance we must provide a safe place here for their perpetuation.

“If in other

Education Never Lost

“There may be times when men and women in the turmoil of change lost touch with the civilized gains of centuries of education but the gains of education are never really lost. “Books may be burned and cities sacked, but. truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men and women. The ultimate victory of tomorrow is with democracy, and through democracy

| with education, for no people can

the summoning of |

be kept eternally ignorant or etere

Mr. Roosevelt, who motored to the Fair Grounds from the summer White House in Hyde Park, 80 miles

| away, began his address by stating | that the only real capital of a na-

military secrets in' a question asked | of the Government from the floor

of the House.

In the midst of an uproar dur- |

| ing the debate over parliamentary

prerogatives, a question which has caused the fall of British Kings, Maj. Clement R. Attlee, Labor lead(Continued on Page Three)

LAST OF BLUE AND GRAY TENT ONCE AGAIN . . . . . . . . «

tion was its natural resources and its human beings. A country, he said, must consider what he termed “a new kind of government balance sheet—a long range sheet which shows survival values for our population and for our democratic way of living, bale (Continued on Page Three)

Times-Aome Photos

Lee’s Confederate

fields Gettysburg, Two thousand survivors of the a battle. »

RITA

NC ——

DE A re A EW 72

Li ~ i A ER p—"—