Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1938 — Page 1

‘Sheriff and Director Accuse

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 118

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WEDNESDAY, a 27, 1988

! Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoifice, Indianapolis, Ind.

“FINAL

PRICE THREE CENTS

LOCAL HOTELS SLAP ILLEGAL LIQUOR SALES

Assosiation Demands State “Excise Department Halt ‘Setup’ Practice.

BARNHART, RAY DIFFER

Each Other of Lack Of Co-operation.

By LOWELL NUSSBAUM A demand that the State Excise Department act to halt alleged sale of liquor “set-ups” in restaurants |. and resorts outside the city was made on the Alcoholic Beverage Commission today by the Indianapolis Hotel Association. _In*a letter signed by Walter B. Smith, association president, the group charged that the number of

places encouragig such law viotions is growing to such an extent as to threaten liquor permittees vith being forced out of business. e association offered to submit a list of offenders. Excise Director Hugh 3 Barnhart said the commission already is making a.thorough investigation of this condition, as the result of individual = complaints received previously, but added: that the probe was not far enough along for the commission. to decide what action to take. Barnhart Criticizes Sheriff

Mr. Barnhart criticized Sheriff

Ray for alleged “failure to co-oper-ate in enforcing the law” in regard to such violations. “If we had the co-operation of the county sheriff,” he said, “it would be quite a lot different, but we don’t have that, There ‘hever has been any effort made by ‘the sheriff to do anything about it. “The same thing is true in most other-counties. They just throw the problem of enforcement in our laps and say ‘it’s your baby’? - « : - «| ¢ Under the 1935. Beverage Act, liquor and -beer licensés cannot be " issued fo any establishment outside an incorporated city or. town. | Sheriff Ray. informed of Mr. Barnhart’s statement, denied he .ewer had refused to co-operate with the commission “or any other law enforcement agéncy,”' but added that “I'm certainly not going to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for them.” He said, “I will not attempt to enforce the Beverage ‘Act 'in- the County without the Commissions assistance. > “Why don’t they call on me,” he asked. “Every club in town is going all hours of the.night—a lot of them without licenses. Any hour of the night and on Sunday you can go to a- half dozen places on Indiana Ave. and get anything you want. “It’s the Commission’s baby.” Police Chief Morrissey was out of the City today and could not be reached for comment on the Sheriff’s statement. . Prosecutor Herbert Spencer, who with Mr. Ray received copies of the association’s letter to the A. B. C,, had the following comment: “As Prosecutor, I depend on ‘the Sheriff and his deputies for law enforcement in the County, just as I depend on the police in the City. I don’t have a large enough stafl to check up on all these places.”

Outside Liquor Banned

The hotel association cited sections of the Act which provide = fine of $25 to $100 for patrons cairying alcoholic beverages into a restaurant or place of public entertainment for the purpose of consuming it themselves or giving it away. Another section, it was pointed out, defines places where illegal cor‘sumption of liquor is permitted as common nuisances, and provides that they may be closed for a year or until bond is posted. “It has come to our attention,” the association letter stated, “that there are several places located in Marion County outside the City limits of Indianapolis, which are violating thé Alcoholic Beverage Act and are encouraging their patrons also to violate the Act. “Upon request, we will furnish the names of the establishments to which we refer. Mix Own Drinks “These violations consist of serv-

agent and a glass or con er of ice, and permitting the patron to bring a bottle of liquor and mix his own drink. , . . “There is only one way for us to combat such competition, and that is with the assistance of the Excise Department. A few raids by the Excise enforcement officers to these places operating illegally the arrest of a few patrons are violating the law will inate this competition.”

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The amendment, sponsor ator Jacob Weiss (I). Indiana

STATE UNIT OF WPA FACES QUIZ

Senate Committee Sends Prober to Owen County; Hopkins Upheld.

° WASHINGTON, July 27 (U. P.).— The Senate Campaign Expenditures Investigating Committee announced today it found no cause for criticism . in the statement of Works Progress Administrator Harry L. Hopkins that 90 per cent of persons

on relief would vote for President Roosevelt and his policies. Meeting to consider charges of illegal political: activities ‘in eight states, "the Committee first explored implications of Mr. Hopkins’ statement. Intensifying its inquiry into state primaries, the Committee also: 1. Dispatched . field agents into Illinois, Indiana and Georgia to begin inquiry into charges of irregular political activities in those states. Probe in Owen County

The investigator sent to Indiana, the Committee said, will go into Owen County, where eight citizens asked an inquiry into asserted political activities of local WPA supervisors. The request for an Indiana investigation was made by Alva Brinson, James E. Maners, George Rawleigh, Herschel R. Isom, Mack Hudson, F. M. Field, Earl Franklin and Will: O. Boler, all of Spencer, Ind., the Committee disclosed.

Chandler Denies Coercion

2, Received a report from Governor Chandler, saying flatly that with ‘a few exceptions, state appointees in Kentucky “have been friends and supporters of mine and friends and supporters of my administration,” but denying any intimidation or coercion in behalf of his Senate candidacy. 3. Deferred decision whether to go further into the Kentucky situaion and whether to send agents to nvestigate charges in North Dakota and Missouri. The committee, in finding no cause for censure, pointed out that Mr. Hopkins made the statement in a press conference “in response to a direct question and it represented in no way a coercion of or dictation to workers connected with relief.”

Holds Statements Differ

“Such statéments,” the Committee said, ‘are to be distinguished from those that are in the nature of political advice or that indicate an intention to exert political pressure upon workers paid from relief funds or from Deneficiaries of relief funds.” “The Illinois investigator will confer with A. H. Greening, Springfieid, who asked an inquiry into alleged misuse of Federal aid road funds in the April primary in which Rep. Scott Lucas won the Democratic senatorial nomination over U. S. District Attorney Michael Igoe of Chicage.

Senator Ralph R. Jernegan

$1,600,000 Approved for State Office Building as | Senate Repeals Gadget |

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BULLETIN

The House this afternoon voted to concur in Senate amend-. ments to the bill to repeal the windshield gadget law and another measure to create a tuoverculosis hospital in Southern Indiana. With both bills lacking only the signature of the House: Speaker and the Senate president pro tem. they are in effect passed by the Legislature and need only the Governor's signature before becom-

Both carry emergency clauses that will make them effective

After passing unanimously the bill to repeal the windshield gadget create a Southern Indiana Tuberculosis Hospital, the Senate today voted, 24 to 23, to include in the Institutions Building Bill a $1,600,000 appropriation for a 16-story State office “building here. by labor groups, was introduced by Senlis), who said from the floor:

“If you want to start a building boom, if you want to do the job of recovery, then atopy my amendment.” Both measures passed by the Senate today will be sent to the Governor as soon as the House has concurred in the Senate’s amendments. As revised .by the upper chamber, the gadget law repealer re-estab-ished title card display regulations in effect before 1937.

The tuberculosis hospital bill amendment dealt with phraseology. The Senate made the following other changes in the building bill bringing the total State appropriation to $7,220,750: Took off the $82,500 appropriation for improvements at the Indianapolis National Guard armory; took out $57,750 for improvements at the Lebanon National Guard armory and added $110,000 for a cottage for the Epileptic Village at Newcastle,

Opponents of the State office building amendment said that Democratic senators who voted for it had violated their pledge to keep the total State apropriation at a $6,000,000 level. The vote on the amendment originally was recorded 24 to 23 against, but when it came up for verification on the motion of Senator Weiss, Senator E. Curtis White (D. Indianapolis), majority floor leader, said he thought he had voted for the motion while the clerk had recorded his vote as against. His colleagues charged that he had voted no the first time, but was changing his vote because of labor support of the amendment,

Opposes Blank Check After passing the two measures,

the : Senate . discussed on second readin “4h Institutions Building

Bill

A proposed amendment seeking to secure ‘an earmarking of funds for specific projects was introduced by A(R. Mishawaka) who said he was “opposed to giving a blank check to the Sivernr.” It was killed by a voice vote.

Minority senators defended the proposal. It was attacked by Senators E. Curtis White (D. Indian-

apolis), majority floor leader, and

Walter Vermillion (D. Anderson). Fears Committee Change

Senator” White praised the business ability of the Budget Committee. Senator Albert Ferris (R. Milfon) then asked: “How do we know we will have the same Budget Committee in January.” Senator White said he did not believe there will be a change in the personnel of this committee. Senator Jernegan denied his proposed amendment would increase costs and ‘said: “The only thing I am asking is that we earmark this fund in approximate amounts.” Senator Walter R. Arnold (D. South Bend) introduced a proposed amendment which would give . the Governor and the Budget Committee discretion to delete part of the building program if State revenue indicates that it would be dangerous to go ahead with the entire program. This proposal also was killed. ; Senator Arnold explained that the (Continued on Page Four,

Request to -VanNuys And Minton.

HE DECLINES "COMMENT

U. S. Official Opposed Labor At Austin: Canning Plant, Charge.

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Removal of Charles W. James as United States Marshal was demanded in a resolution submitted today by heads of eight American Federation of Labor unions to Senators VanNuys and Minton. The resolution charges that Mr. James “has taken an active part in labor trouble during the past 12 months at the Morgan Packing.Co.,” Austin, Ind., using “his official car and badge in going through’ the picket lines hauling strike breakers and escorting strike breakers into” the plant. Mr. James, a brother-in-law of Ivan C. Morgan, president, and himself formerly connected with the company for 17 years, declined to comment on the unions’ action.

Sign Petition

The petition was signed by the presidents of the following: Jackson County Central Labor Union; Teamsters’ Local No. 694, Crothersville; Printing Pressmen and Assistants Local 403, Austin; ‘Seymour Woolen Mills Local 21367; Boot and Shoe Workers Local 706, Seymour; Carpenters and Joiners Local 1350, Seymour; Brush Factory Workers Local: 21158, Seymour, and Federal Labor Union 21147, Seymour. Copies of the resolution were sent also to the 12 Indiana Congressmen, James Farley, Democratic National Committee Chairman; U’ S. District Attorney Val Nolan; William Green, A. P. of L. president; "Governor Townsend, and others. 8 The resolution follows: “Because of the fact that Mr. Charles: W. James, U. S. Marshal for the Southern District of 1 na, is a brother-in-law of Mr, I ‘cl ‘Morgan, | Packing” Oo. ‘Austin, Ind. ‘and~ “Because ‘of the fact that he. took an active part in the labor trouble during the past 12 months at the Morgan Packing Co., Austin, Ind.

“Because of the fact that on numerous occasions Mr. James used his official car and Jus official badge in going through the picket lines hauling strike breakers and escorting strike breakers info fhe Morgan Packing Co. plant at Austin, Ind., and

- Discusses NLRB

“Because of the fact that regardless of what decision the National Labor .Relations Board at Washington, D. C,, should hand down in the case of Local Union 694, Crothersville. of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers. of America, and the Austin Printing Pressmen and Assistants = Union Local 403, Austin, Ind.,, against the Morgan Packing Co., it will be the official duty of Mr. James to enforce the law against his brother-in-law, Mr. Ivan C. Morgan, president of the Morgan Packing Co., and “Because of the fact that the above evidence and also additional evidence (a partial copy of which is attached to these resolutions) is on record at the office of Mr. Robert H. Cowdrill, regional director for the National Lapor Relations Board . . . and also at the office of the National Labor Relations Board at Washington, D. C. “Therefore, be it resolved that we,

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9 | State Deaths. 7 1 Wiggam 10

AF. of L. Affiliates Send

OF

Leaps to Death From 17th Story of N. Y. Hotel

Warren C.

Fairbanks.

BLAME JUMP ON LOVE PROBLEM

Tied Up 5th Ave. for 11 Hours Before Leaping 17 Stories.

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NEW YORK, July 27 (U. P.).— Love for a woman he had no hope of winning may have driven John Wiliams Ward to nage,

president of “the Morgan at

York's, ir ouity relatives said today. To the question— “Why did the ‘26-year-old Southampton. youth kill himself?”—his mother, Mrs. John A. Ward, supplied a possible

answer. Friends quoted her as saying: “He had a passionate fondness for a woman he could never hope to marry.” To that other question—“Why did he choose such a method of dying?” —there could be only Specifiative replies.

his sister—friends of the family didn’t even know what it was about—stepped out on an. 18-inch ledge abutting from the 17th floor

off Pifth Ave. at 55th St. Eleven hours later, 8:36 last night, as police were making a desperate attempt to -trap him in.a net and while 10,000 frantic spectators watched, he jumped. The youth was a manic depressive, vietim of that strange malady of the emotions ‘which carries the sufferer from pinnacles of exhileration to depths of despair. He had tasted the bitterness of asylum life. Twice - before he. had attempted suicide, once when his 22-year-old sister was married a year ago. He told . Patrolman Charles V.

ployee,” that he had “a momentous decision which ‘I have to work out by myself.” To others he said “Let (Continued on Page Four)

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Ward, after a trivial quarrel with |

of the patrician Gotham Hotel, just:

Glasco, who posed as a hotel em- |’

Eby Promises New York St. Bridge Action

Robert K. Eby, Works Board vice president, today promised a delegation of West Side citizens that he “personally will push an application for a PWA grant” to aid financing rehabilitation of the W. New York St. Bridge over White River. When the delegation of 25 charged unnecessary delay in reconstructing the bridge, Mr. Eby re-

plied: Wo We } ave an apBlissun nding or a 45 per ce he_ project's. est estimated $100,000 . We will make a special effort to push that application. I ally will see that we get behind this application ‘and push it with Weighs ington PWA officials.”

H. W. DEHAVEN KILLED WHEN HIT BY AUTO

Death Occurs in Canada; Second City Man Dies.

and three others injured in automobile accidents today, one in

Canada and the other at Greensburg. H. Walker DeHaven, State Automobile Insurance Association district agent, one of two: local residents injured. in an accident at Chatham, Ontario, died early today, friends here were advised in a telephone message. , Carl Wildey, listed in the city directory as a conductor living a‘ 2848 N. Illinois St., died in a Greensburg hospital of injuries received in collision of two cars at a street intersection. Also shghtly injured in the Greensburg crash were E. E. Collier, listed in the’ directory as liv-

‘ing at 19 N. Oriental St. and Ray

Lyngh, 781° E. McCarty St. according to the directory. A. C. Fenton, 2507 Park Ave. retired salesman, one of four Indian-

‘| apolis men with Mr. DeHaven who

were returning from a two-week fishing trip at French River, also was injured. One of his legs was fractured in two places and he received a head injury. The men were injured when an automobile : struck them as they stood chatting with a party of tourists beside a parked car, according to information received here. One of Mr. DeHaven'’s legs almost was severed when he was crushed against the running board of the parked car. The party was returning from the

| Canadian trip in two cars and had

stopped at Chatham for dinner. Included in the party was Dudley Williston, theater owner living on

| Kessler Blvd., who informed his wife

here by telephone of Mr. DeHaven’s death. Names of two other members of the party were not available here. Mrs. DeHaven was informed of the tragedy at Lake Wawasee, where

1 she was vacationing. Mrs. Fenton

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RALLY HALTS BREAK ON NEW YORK MART

NEW. YORK, July 27 (U. P).— After prices had fallen 1 to 3 points in & second-hour break which put

E | the tickers seven minutes behind

the market, a mild rally developed or. the stock ‘market today in mid-

; grant

Two Indianapolis men were killed:

NEW

of a cerebral hemorrhage.

tion at Lake Wawasee. was returned here.

Fairbanks.

to former President Herbert Alfred M. Landon.

banks.

TRIBUTES

GOVERNOR TOWNSEND: “Indiana will miss this man of prominent family who exerted such wise

| influence in current affairs of the

state. My sympathies go out to the members of the: family.”

MAYOR BOETCHER: “The death

the community a real leader who will. be genuinely .missed by not only the city but-the state as well. It is with sorrow that I learned of the death 4nd my sympathies are with the members of his family.”

ARCHIE N. BOBBITT, Republican State Chairman: “The death of Mr. Fairbanks 1s a distinct loss to the newspaper profession and to the economic and political life of not only the state but the nation. Through the Indianapolis News, Mr. Pairbanks exercised a beneficial and constructive influence: I know that innumerable persons in all sections of the state will share my regret.”

C. D. ALEXANDER, Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce president: “I am greatly shocked as, of course, everyone in the- —eommunity will be, to hear of Mr. will seem that Indianapolis has Io a part of its personality as a city without his presence as directing head of The News. He has made great contributions to civic and gov-

His death is a loss that Indianapolis can ill afford to withstand.”

LUDWELL DENNY, Editor of The Times: “Mr. Fairbanks’ unexpected death is a great loss to Indianapolis and to journalism. To me he was a gracious colleague and friend.”

HILTON U. BROWN, secretarytreasurer of the Indianapolis News Publishing 'Co.: “He had one of the clearest minds I ever came in contact with. He was especially strong in his comprehension of legal and -financial problems. * “He had been for years a close observer of Congressional legislation and recognized at once the significance of Congressional measures, looking to the organic effect that might result. “He was a generous reader of all literature relating to Constitutional and government affairs. Personally, he was most congenial, and in a social way he endeared himself to all who had contact with him. His death will be a great shock to all his friends, for he seemed to be in perfect health and of a robust constitution. “As a matter of fact, for the last year or so, he had not been well, although he said nothing about it and went about as usual without complaining. “When he and his family fell heirs to the newspaper ‘property, he was placed in charge and immedi-

this he was a marked success and his paper of which he was president increased in business, circulation and prosperity. “His sudden death makes it difficult to comprehend that he has | passed away.”

WILLIAM FORTUNE, chairman of the Imdianapolis chapter, Ameri.can Red Cross: “Mr. Fairbanks as editor of The News successfully carried on best traditions of a great Indianapolis family and I am deeply shocked over his sudden death.”

CARL WILDE, president of the Indianapolis School Board: “One of the great figures in the life of Indianapolis—wielding a tremendous

- | influence—always sound, cautious

and conservative.” STATE SENATOR E. CURTIS

| “Warren Fairbanks was a great pub1

of Warren. C. Fairbanks takes from"

ernmental progress as editor of one of the country’s greatest newspapers. |

ately addressed himself.to a mas- | tery of the newspaper business. .In |

3 DEAD AT 60

Unexpected Death of Financier Follows Short Vacation at Lake Wawasee, Where He Became 1.

LEADER IN REPUBLICAN COUNCILS

Also Active in Midwest Business Circles; Head of Newspaper for Past 16 Years; President of Two Other Firms.

Warren C. Fairbanks; publisher of The Indianapolis News, and financier, died today in an Indianapolis hospital

Mr. Fairbafiks’ unexpected death followed a short vacaHe became ill there yesterday and

He was 60. He had been publisher of The News since 1922. He was the son of Vice President Charles Warren

He was a leader in Midwestern business circles and in the councils of the Republican Party. He was especially close

Hoover and former Governor

Mr. Fairbanks was born in Indianapolis April 25, 1878, the son of Charles Warren Fairbanks and Cornelia -Fair-

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He was graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan Univer= sity in 1898. In 1904 he married Ethel Cassidy of Pittsburgh, Pa. From 1898 to 1901, Mr. Fairbanks was associated with the Standard Manufacturing Co., Springfield, O. During 1901 he was secretary of the company. From 1901 to 1904, before he bee came associated with The News,

of the Oliver Typewriter Co., Chie cago. 4

Given Post by Mr. Hoover In addition to hig publisher's duties, hé was president of the Indianapolis Switch &-Frog Co., and the Union Gas & Electric Co, He was appointed in 1933 by Presi dent Hoover to serve as Indiana director of the Unemployment Relief Commission. = . Mr. Fairbanks was a captain of the U. S. Volunteers during the Spanish American War in 1898. He held several honorary philanthropic positions during latter years. These included, being a trustee of the McKinley National Memorial Association, and a trustee of the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital.

Member of Many Clubs

eath: It po was a member of Phi Gamma

[Delta Fraternity. He also was a” member of the Methodist Church. Clubs in which Mr. Fairbanks held membership included: University, Indianapolis Athletic Club, Woodstock Country Club, Indian. apolis Country Club. ~~ ; Mr. Fairbanks also was a meme

tury, Onuentsia Casino Club and the Saddle and Cycle Clubs all of Chi= cago. He lived at 5417 N. Meridian St. Survivors are Mrs. Ethel Faire banks; his two daughters, Mrs. Frederick Poole Jr. Chicago, and the Countess Ruggero Visconte di Modrone of Milan, Italy; three

dianapolis, Fred Fairbanks of Santa Barbara, Cal., and Robert Fairbanks of Los Angeles, and .a sister, Mrs. Adelaide Causey, Vevay, Ind. Mrs. Cornelia Stone, 1321 N. Mee ridian St., is a daughter of Frederick Fairbanks. Her husband, David L. Stone, is a member in the advertising department of The News. Richard Fairbanks Jr., 5301 Cen tral Ave, is employed in the Finane cial Department of The News.

BULLETIN * (Foreign Affairs, Page 3)

LONDON, July 27 (U. P.).~< Great Britain is ready to protect her rights in the Orient, Viscount Halifax, foreign secretary, declared in the House of Lords tonight during de_bates on foreign affairs. Referring to the. ChineseJapanese war, Lord Halifax said: “We are quite ready to con-‘~sider-and are considering possible action which may be open to us. If we do not secure adequate consideration of our own rights, then we will claim the right to protect our -own interests.”

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Mr. Fairbanks served as secretary

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brothers, Richard Fairbanks of In-