Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1938 — Page 1

VOLUME 50—NUMBER 116 Senate May Cut Million From Spending Measure; T. B. Hospital Bill Passed

Leaders Seek to Limit Expenditures for Welfare and

$40,000 LOSS IN SOUTHPORT ‘GRANARY FIRE

Three Persons Are Injured In Another Blaze at Indianapolis Home.

DESTROYED |,

ELEVATOR

Continue to Pour Water on - Smouldering Ruins; Save Postoffice.

Firemen this afternoon continued to pour thousands of gallons of

water on the smouldering ruins of the Farmers Co-operative Co. grain elevator ‘at Southpert that burned early today at a loss estimated at $40,000 by officials. Cause of the blaze, first noticed at 2 a. m, was undetermined. Meanwhile, in Indianapolis, three persons were recovering from slight injuries when fire, believed to have been started by mice, broke oiit in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Redford, 210 Trowbridge St. Six other persons who were sleeping in the Redford home, escaped uninjured. Damage to the house was estimated at $1000. : In the Southport fire, three .Indianapglis fire companies, Numbers 26, 7 and 2, directed by Assistant Chief Roscoe McKinney, laid 1000 feet of hose from Little Buck Creek to protect nearby property, including several homes. and the yards of the Southport Lumber Co. . Eight hours after the blaze was discovered, a heavy pall of white . smoke hung. over the town, located on Highway 31-in the southern section of Marion County. Southpo:t

is nine miles south of the city |

limits. One of the first persons to telephone Indianapolis for help was Birch Roeder, merchant policeman. “The elevator was on fite, and at the same time a freight car Joaded with grain was burning,” Mr. Roeder said. One Other Building Damaged Besides the elevator building, a building housing feed bins and a concrete blacksmith shop were > badly damaged. The $40,000 loss was estimated by Charles Ryker, Co-operative president, and Charles Lockwood, treasurer, who said “the blaze had destroyed -1400 bushels of corn, 15,000 bushels of wheat, 100 bushels of rye, 700 bushels of oats and 100 bushels of soy beans. In ‘addition, they said, - 3600 bushels of wheat in two box cars standing on a siding were burned. * ‘Mr. Ryker said he believed the loss was covered by insurance. He _ said it was possible that a portion “of the grain might be salvaged. Second Fire in 8 Years It was the Co-operative’s second fire in eight years. Flames swept the plant in 1930, causing a $30,000 loss. While the blaze consumed the frame and metal structure, a switch engine pulled the two box cars laden with grain, and an empty one, out of the fire zone. As firemen continued to pour water on the wreckage, the twisted frames of four trucks could be seen. Heat from the ruins handicapped firemen. When the elevator toppled gasoline tanks of the burning trucks exploded and flames shot higher. Firemen attempting to clean up the smoldering ruins said the 20 tons of hay and straw, chicken and (Continued on Page Two)

MAN'S BODY FOUND NEAR HUNTINGTON

HUNTINGTON, Ind. July 25 (U. P.) —Albert. Newbert, 61-year-old hair tonic salesman from. either Kingston, N. Y., or Cocoanut Grove, Fla., was found shot to death at a tourist camp’ west of here today. The body, with a bullet wound in the head and. chest, was discovered by Howard Risley, camp proprietor. Huntington County Coroner R. S. Galbreath said the victim probably had fired a bullet into his chest with a cheap revolver, missing his heart and then put a second shot into the right temple.

Building to Avoid

FORECAST: Partly cloudy,

Deficit; University

Projects May Be Eliminated.

Senate leaders this afternoon

studied a program by which they

hoped to cut the State's share of Governor Townsend's $7,651,000 recovery and relief program by almost $1,000,000.

The Senate earlier passed and sent to the House an amended Sot

ern Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital Bill. Fond reading, as a special order of business, the bill to repeal the windshield

It planned to ‘consider on

gadget law, already passed by the House.

BRITAIN URGES

CZECH ACCORD

THE FOREIGN SITUATION LONDON —Britain pushes Czech negotiations; fears crisis near. PRAHA—Czech position intensified by British action. BERLIN—Germany insists she desires peaceful settlement. PARIS—Belief strong that Czechs will delay statute passage. : ROME—Italy eager for British co-operation with Germany. TOKYO — Frontier commission proposal to be sent Russia. SHANGHAR-China claims major Nippon offensive repulsed. HENDAYE—Franco takes over Rebel command on southern ' front, WASHINGTON—900 Jap planes reported poised near Viadivo- * stok. JERUSALEM — Thirty - nine Arabs killed in Haifa bombing. MOSCOW—Young Communists pledge to “punish enemy.”

MEXICO-—Secretary Hull's note discussed by foreign trade student, Page 3.

England Expects Grave Crisis by August

(Another Story, Page Nine)

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LONDON, July 25 (U. P.).—Great Britain is taking the leading role in a general effort by European pow-

ers to prevent the minorities prob-

lem in Central Europe from embroiling the entire continent in a war, i > An unexpected German gesture in the interests of peace ldst week brought a measure of optimism into discussions. But this optimism is based largely on the desire for peace rather than on a conviction that peace is assured. The . fact is that today European statesmen are lopking forward to a crisis’ of the greatest ravity during August, the 20th anniversary of the World War. Stated simply, it was understood that a prime objective of Great Britain—in the person of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain—was to provide a sort of diplomatic cushion to take the shock of the expected crisis. It was expected that there would be a complete and dangerous deadlock, for a time at least, between the Czechoslovak government and leaders of the German minority in Czechoslovakia. The deadlock was expected; Britain hoped that when it came there would be discussion¢ among the great powers which would provide a peaceful way out. That is the cushion which Chamberlain if tryng to provide, it was indicated ere.

Talked Earlier in Year

Present British diplomatic efforts as regards Germany go back to the

beginning of this year when Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, and Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister, began talks which it was hoped might be preliminary to negotiations for a friendly understanding between Britain and Germany and might even lead to discussion of colonial concessions to Germany.

The seizure of Austria by Germany and the Czechoslovak crisis of (Continued on Page Ta; :

—® The House was to meet at 2p. m. after a week-end recess and was prepared to pass amended bills to appropriate $5,651,000 in State funds to match an anticipated PWA grant for the $11,000,000 institutions building program and to distribute $2,000,000 in State funds during 1939 to relieve counties of a portion of their welfare costs.

Both to Be Revised

Both the measures—the keystone bills of the Governor's program-— are to be revised under terms of a compromise proposal now being discussed by Senate leaders and the

Administration. Although the original program

| called for expenditure of aproxi-

mately .$8,000,000 out of the State General Fund balance of $24,500,000, a new financial statement prepared by the Budget Department was reported to have caused concern among Administration leaders. The budget department now estimates that the State this year will be spending between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 more than it is receiving from all sources, not counting expenditures, which are expected to be made by the special session.

College Projects Out

By eliminating the proposed State . appropriation of $855,800 to match Federal and school funds for proposed construction projects at Indiana and Purdue Universities and Ball State Teachers and Indiana State Teachers colleges, and doing away with all but two of the proposed National Guard armory improvement projects, Senate leaders hoped to reduce total building program costs te the State by almost $1,000,000. Senate leaders also hope to have prepared the gadget law repealer ready for fi passage tomorrow. Congiderati of this bill, which was ed by the Senate to in- ; ~~ windshield - title-~ card | holder regulations in. effect before 1937, was delayed because Senators said they had’ not had sufficient time to study the proposed change. As by the House, the bill would ‘have left the State : without any title card display regulations, the: Attorney General's office pointed out. Under the Senate amendment, title ‘cards must ‘be contained in some type of holder, but need nop be visible from outside the automobile.

Limit Is Set

Following a conference with Governor Townsend today, Senate leaders said they would confer this aft‘ernoon on final detgils of limiting the State’s share of the “recovery and relief? program to $7,500,000. “We are going to try and bring down the state appropriation figures all we can,” Senator E. Curtis White (D. Indianapolis), Senate president pro-tem, said. “We have reached

entire program, but other parts will have to be worked out later.” He said Senate leaders now planned to draft a compromise to the Welfare Cost Redistribution Bill which would make the State's

centage instead of a sliding scale basis. Differ With House

According to present plans, this proposed : compromise would differ from the amendments the House placed in this bill. Under the original Administration proposal, State aid to counties for welfare costs would have been based on a formula designed to give the largest return to counties least able now to bear these costs. As amended in the House, this sliding scale provision was killed and the bill was rewritten to provide that the State would relieve the counties of an additional 5 per cent of the cost of old-age pension, 10 per cent of the cost of dependent children with relatives and 50

some tentative agreements on the.

payment to counties on a flat per-

with possibly a thundershower tonight or tomorrow; cooler tomorrow.

MONDAY, JULY 25, 1938

CITY BUILDING CONTRACTS UP

188 PER CENT

BUSINESS AT A GLANCE

CITY—Building contracts increase 188 per cent in June; six-months total is $4,988,000. WASHINGTON — Downward business trend apparently checked, Federal Reserve Board says. NEW YORK — Stocks reach " highest levels since October, but profit-taking cuts gains.

Construction of

Dwellings Advances

1 More than $2,000,000 worth of residential “construction has been contracted for in metropolitan Indianapolis since Jan. 1, the F. W. Dodge Corp. reported today. June contracts were 188 per cent above May contracts, a trend that was in sharp contrast with a survey of 37 Eastern states which showed their June dropped 11 per cent from May contracts. T. BE. Toll, Indianapolis manager of the corporation, said that total building contracts here for the first half of the year amounted to $4,988,000 and that in June alone, contracts valued at $1,725,000 were awarded. In the six months period, local private activities accounted for contracts amounting to $3,884,000. Private contracts in June were valued at $1,504,000, a sum 183 per cent higher than private . contracts awarded in May, and again out of line with the Eastern states average in the same field, with an increase of only 3 per cent. Public building in Indianapolis during = the first six months amounted to $1,104,000 and June public building contracts jumped to $221,000 from the May total of $67,000. Residential contracts for the first six months amounted to $2,190,000. Of that amount, June contracts were valued at $704,000, a 47 per cent rise over those of May, $480,000. The Eastern state average in this field was 3 per cent.

Downward Trend

Checked, Board Says i A

industrial activity increased in the first three weeks of July although there is usually & considerable decline at this season.

. Volume of industrial production, |

as measured by the Board's seasonally adjusted index, was at 77 per cent of the 1923-1925 average in June as compared with 76 in May. Available data, the Board said, indicate that in July the index will show a considerable rise.

Profit-Taking Cuts

Early Stock Spurt

(Market Details, Page 13)

NEW YORK, July 25 (U. P).— After an early spurt of heavy trading which threw the market to the highest levels since October, profittaking cut down gains in midafter-

confracts’

NGTON, July 25 (U. P).—. deral. Reserve “Board. todiy | ret the first definite 32 that the downward business trend has been checked. The Board said

Assumes Post

Maj. Gen. Robert H. Tyndall

ORDERS TYNDALL T0 LEAD CORPS

Local Officer Is Appointed Temporary Successor to Maj. Gen. Cole.

Maj. Gen. Robert HE. Tyndall, of Indianapolis, commanding officer of the 38th National Guard Division, today was ordered by the War Department to succeed Maj. Gen. William E. Cole as commanding officer of the Fifth Corps Area, for purposes of the Second U. S. Army. maneuvers in Kentucky Sept. 5 to 25. Gen. Cole, who will be 64 on Sept. 30, is to be retired. Gen. Tyndall assumes the com mand as senior ranking general in the Corps Area which comprises one Regular Army, two National Guard and three reserve corps divisions from Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. Brig. Gen. Ellerby Carter, Louisvillé, will assume command of the 38th Division during the exercise. All commands and staffs of the higher military units of the Second Army will be mobilized, for the maneuvers, largest war games

_ | planned by the War Department in

four years. Theoretical War

‘Headquarters for the war games will be at Ft. a what nom the Second: Army; in Ww. OWN as the cay wil x “post exe ;“theo-

an aftempt, to push back to the ulf of Mexico an invading “black

army.” : The entire General Headquarters Air Force, which compri 13 squadrons, will converge on Ft, Knox to participate in the exercises. In addition to the Fifth Corps, the Second Army and the GHQ Air Force will mobilize theoretically: as if for actual warfare with Sixth Corps area troops from Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan, and a provisional cavalry division which will include the new mechanized division stationed at Ft. Knox. According to War Department exercise plans, a “black army” has in- | vaded the country from the South and has pushed as far as the southLern border of Kentucky. The “blue army,” which, under the plans will be the other three armies in the nation’s military establishment, theoretically will Le supporting the Second Army, on its nks.

noon dealings on the exchange to- | fia

day. Most groups held well, but trading slowed down on the setback. Motors were among the best supported issues.

INJURIES ARE FATAL TO LOCAL RESIDENT

(Another Story, Page Seven.)

Times Special BLOOMINGTON, July 25.—James Shockney of Indianapolis died last night of injuries received in an automobile-motorcycle :.erash near here, in which Miss Evelyn Williams of Ravenswood was injuréd critically. He was 21.

James Shockney, wh® died of Sto accident injuries in BI last night, lived here with his dey Bert Van Camp, 6203 Washington Blvd. He was employed at the International Harvester Co. following his association with the Prest-0-Lite plant here.

Problem Outlined

. The Second Army problem will be to push the invading army’ back to the Gulf through Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. The games will be of the same magnitude as those of the First Army at Monmouth, N. J. several years ago. - Although Gen. Cole, whose headquarters are in Columbus, O., will not reach retirement age until shortly after the maneuvers, he is to relinquish his command and go on ga leave of absence Saturday. Gen, Cole retires after 44 years service. Maj. Gen. ‘Hugh A. Drum, Chicago, well-known here, will be in command of the Second Army during the games.

EASTERN RATES GO UP NEW YORK, July 25 (U. P.).— Passenger coach fares on Eastern railroads were advanced to two and one-half cents a mile today. The

old rate was two cents.

Entered as

FSTIC BATTLE MARKS U. A. W. TRIAL OPENING

~~ THE LABOR SITUATION DETROIT—Fists fly for 5 minutes as U. A. W. trial opens. WASHINGTON—A. F. of L. and

Rep. Hoffman attack NLRB. |

Murray charges steel firms undercut prevailing wages.

CHICAGO—Railway wage parleys resumed. G. 9. P. group to hear Capital, spokesmen.

re has strike goes into 12th week. :

Toledo Delegation ‘Starts

Row in Headquarters DETROIT, July 25 (U. P.)—A free-for-all fight broke out today in the United Automobile Workers Union headquarters where four suspended vice presidents were on trial before the union’s international executive board.

The fist fight occurred when about

15 members of a Toledo local of the union smashed their way through locked doors to a’ corridor immediately outside the room where the trial was being conducted. When two U. A.-W. guards barred the entrance they were slugged and the invaders forced their way into the corridor to be met by a group of union members employed in the U. A. W. office.

Lasts Five Minutes

The union héadquarters was in an uproar. The fighters surged up and down the corridor for five minutes before it was agreed that the Toledo delegation could remain inside. The Toledo U. A. W. members belonged to .the same local as that of George Addes, who was relieved of his office of secretary-treasurer and

expelled from the union two weeks

ago in a separate trial. Mr. Addes was waiting in an antiroom with the four officers on trial

when the skirmish started. He|-

rushed into the corridor and joined in the fight. When it ended his nose was bleeding, and his shirt was spotted with blood.

None Injured Seriotisly

None was injured seriously in the fighting When the battle started the four suspended officers still were waiting to be called before the union’s executive board to answer charges that they “conspired with Communists” to wreck the U. A. W. The rank-and-file union -delegation virtually took over the -U. A. W. headquarters. They even nad invaded the inner office of President

Martin. Mr. Martin and ths mem-

bers of the international board ramained behind locked doors in another room. Those: on trial were Richard 7. Frankensteen, Walter Wells,: Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall. Mr. Frankensteen was Mr. Martin’s protege and bore the title of assistant president until he sided with the “radical” - element ‘at executive

meetings this summer. : Mr. Martin

‘first demoted him to vice president, Wen suspended him along with the others.

Charges Steel Firms Cutting Wage Rates

WASHINGTON, July 25 (U. P.). —Chairman Philip Murray of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee charged today that Republic and Bethlehem steel corporations are undercutting prevailing wage rates and he asked establishment of a minimum wage scale.of 62% cents an hour in plants which produce 94.2 per cent of the nation’s steel. Mr. Murray, leader of the C. I. o. drive to organize steel, appeared before a Departm of Labor hearing seeking to establish minimum wages for steel companies which supply Government contracts.

* Asks Universal Scale

The Walsh-Healey Act compels companies holding contracts involving $10,000 or more to establish a 40-hour week and to pay wages equal to prevailing Scales in their industries. Mr. Murray said the 62%; cents per hour wage scale for common labor already has been established in the greater part of the industry and asked that it be made universal for (Continued on Page Three)

Second-Class Master at Postoities, Indianapolis, In

ATTEMPT MADE

TO ASSASSINATE GOV. WINSHIP |

FINAL i HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

' Governor Blanton Winship

FEAR TOLL OF 40 IN PLANE CRASH

Officials Estimate 37 Dead, 100 Hurt in Bogota Holiday Tragedy.

P.).—The army plane that crashed into a crowd, missing President Al-

fonso Lopez and his entourage by only 65 feet, killed 37 persons and

injured more than 100, it was estimated today.

Workers = still” ‘Were - retrieving

field where the plane fell, spewing the crowd with a. column of flaming gasoline. Many of the wounded were in a grave condition and it was feared that the: death toll would exceed 40. A’ holiday prelude to the local Olympic: games, of which yesterday's military review, at which the disaster took place, was a feature, was canceled today. The Government decreed a period of national mourning. The plane was: pioted by Lieut. Cesar ‘Abadia : Estrellose, a daredevil who previously had been suspended for six months for recklessness in flight. - ‘He ‘was stunting at a 200foot altitude over a ‘crowd of 20,000. He swooped down over the Presidential stand, where the President, President-Elect: Eduardo Santos, and diplomats of several countries were reviewing the military display.

Burns in Air

Spectators said the plane struck the aerial of a portable radio station. It burst into flames in the air and came down behind the reviewing stand with its’ propellor still spinning. It struck the ground. from an angle and cut a path through human bodies for more than 500 feet. Flames shot out in all directions from the wreckage. ,

RAINS RETURN FLOOD THREATS TO TEXAS

(Photos, Page Three)

SAN SABA, Tex.|, . July 25 (U. P.). —New cvloudbursts sent the San Saba and Colorado Rivers flooding over this sheep grazing country again today. A report from Bend, Tex. 20 miles southeast of here on the Colorado River, said that “two or

three dozen” persons were marooned.

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 25 (U.

charred parts of “bodies from the after.

TEscanes tnsary but © Colonel Is Killed By Extremists.

SENATOR IS HURT

Puerto Rican Attack

Puts 8 Others In Hospital.

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, July 25 (U. P.).—Nationalist extremists attempted to assassinate Governor Blanton Winship at Ponce today during a great demonstration in honor of the 40th anniversary of American occupation of the island during the Spanish-American War, The Governor escaped uninjured, but the shots wounded Senator Pedro Juan .Serralles and Col. Iriz-

arry of the Puerto Rican National Guard.

Radio reports from Ponce said Col,

eight persons were in the hospital, including an officer from the United States airplane carrier Enterprise. The Occupation Day celebration attracted nearly. 100,000 visitors to Ponce. 'The Governor flew there early today to review the parade and make an address. Marine

.|planes| from St. Thomas, Virgin

Islands, a destroyer and the aircraft carrier took part in the celebration,

One Assailant Killed

People in San Juan were listening to a broadcast description of the

ceremony when shots were heard over the air. The announcer then called out that there had been an attempt on the Governor's life and that Senator - Serrales and Col Irizarry, who were in the reviewing stand with him, had been shot. The

in wild excitement. The Nationalists, who have been conducting a terroristic: campaign for Puerto Rican independence, had issued a statement denouncing the celebration. The manifesto said that all Puerto Ricans who attended were a shameless disgrace to the island and ree called ' that Nationalists had been killed by police at Ponce in a Palm Sunday riot last year. The radio reported that police had killed one of Governor Winship’s ase Sallais and that others were are I

HEAT MAY HIT 90S;

TEMPERATURES

v0 12 10 2a. m..... 84 .% 11 a. m..... 86 .<¢s 80 12 (Noon).., 86 vies 83 1p. m.... 87

Temperatures may go into the early 90s today, the Weather Bue reau predicted, but added that a thundershower tonight or tomorrow probably would bring cooler weather. Yesterday the maximum temperature was 88.

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