Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1938 — Page 1

MORE CRIMES ~ REPORTED AS ARRESTS DROP

Larger Police Force Needed To Meet Situation, ‘Morrissey Says.

BLAMES LACK OF JOBS

Didn’t Ask for New Officers ‘To Avoid Budget Rise, Chief Explains.

Crime increased but arrests decreased here during the first six months of this year as compared with the same period in 1937, Police Chief Morrissey reported to the Safety Board today. He said more policemen are needed to cope with the rising tide of crime, but did not estimate how many more. The Chief said he had not requested an increased force in his 1939 budget request because Mayor Boetcher has warned City officials they must hold their budgets down to, this year’s figures. Chief Morrissey blamed unemployment for most of the increase in crime. He said the upturn was most noticeable during late winter - and early spring months. His report showed that 6362 complaints were received in the first six months of this year as compared with 5767 in the same 1937 period.

Arrests Drop 157

This represents an increase of 595 complaints, he said. Police made 1799 arrests the first half of this year compared to 1956 arests last year, a decrease of 157. The largest increase was in petit larceny, which jumped 213 complaints, from 1992 last year to 2205 this® year, Chief Morrissey. said. Grand Larceny complaints remained about the same, he said. Although petty thieves were more active the first half of this year than last year, the total value of goods they stole decreased $2068 . from $415,955 to $413,887. The value of stolen goods recovered by police -showed. a decrease of $57,468 from $370,133 last year to $312,665 this year, he reported. 765 Cases Pending

Of the total arrests made during the first six months this year, 483 defendants were "discharged, 551 were convicted, and 765 cases still are pending, the report said. Tabulations of arrests and complaints this year showing the decrease or increase from last year in the various classifications, with increases indicated with (i) and decreases with (d), follow: ComArrests plaints (d) 5 a) 2 (d) 33 a 7

Homicide Manslaughter ....... Vehicle Theft Rape Assault and Battery With Intent Misc. Felony Misc. Misdeameanors. (d)83 Grand Larceny s.....(d)12 Petit Larceny .......(d) 2 (1) 213 "Fugitive ....oie000ee i (@)29 (A) 9 Robbery ceivesesevis Cl) 1 ee Burglary ....... ae easly 8 es

BABY REVIVED AFTER 45-MINUTE ‘DEATH’

CHICAGO, Aug. 2 (U. P)— Three-months-old Robert Didier was lucky to be alive today. His heart was stopped for 45 minutes yesterday. His parents’ automobile went over a bump and threw the baby to the floor from the rear seat. Mr, Didier picked him up. The baby didn’t move, “He's suffocated, he’s dead,” Mr. Didier sobbed. He sped 14 miles to a hospital in suburban Wheeling. Dr. Edward L. Larson could detect no heart beats. The baby’s body was starting to turn blue. - Dr. Larson tried artificial respiration without response. As a last resort he injected adrenalin into the baby’s heart muscles. Finally the baby stirred. A few hours later he was home with his parents. ;

MERCURY HITS 90, HEAT TO CONTINUE

TEMPERATURES m....71 10a m..... m....% 11a m..... m.... 7 12 (noon) .. 88 9a. m.... 82 lpm....88

The temperature hit the 90 mark this afternoon as the Weather Bureau promised fair and continued warm weather for tonight and tomorrow. Temperatures today, were about 5 to 7 degrees above those of the past few days.

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 128

Honor Pupil Rescues 2 From Creek

BOY, GIRL SAVED FROM DROWNING

‘Betty Schuck, 16, Delmer Blackburn, 9, Revive Young Victims.

By HEZE CLARK

‘Pretty Betty Schuck, 16-year-old Washington High School honor pupil, aided by 9-year-old Delmer Blackburn, her guest, today rescued Bill and Joann Keck from Big Eagle Creek, revived them, notified police and then walked a mile home as though nothing had happened. When Betty dived in the swimming hole one-half mile west of the Vermont St. bridge, she found hotly

unconscious. shore, first the girl and then the bo

y. : She applied first aid she learned as a Camp Fire Girl and revived ine boy. Young Blackburn applied first aid he learned at Camp Crosley, Tippecanoe Lake, and revived the irl. ; 2 Before police arrived, Bill, 13, and

their strength to walk to their home, 53 Cossel Drive, pushing their bicycles.

Mother Taught Her to Swim

Betty, who was taught to swim when she was 8 by her mother, and Delmer, who is visiting the Schucks, left their home, 627 Berwick Ave, walked to the swimming hole about a mile away to fish. They wore swimming suits be-

began to fish they stripped to the suits. “It’s a good thing we did, too,” Betty said. as she told of the circumstances of the rescue. The pool is guarded by the Ceunty but it was too early for the guards to be on duty. “I . heard a girl scream,” Betty said, “and I thought they were playing. But Delmer thought there was trouble and we ran to the spot, about 100 feet away. “I dived in and found them, under water, but the girl was holding on to her brother. I had to break her grip and then I dragged her to shallow water from where Delmer took her onto land and applied first aid.

Dives for Boy

“I dived in for the boy and took him out- on the other side, where there was no current. I applied first aid and when he first came to he said, ‘Please save my sister.’ : “The boy was blue and looked to be in worse shape than the girl when they first came out of the water. :

“As soon as he was conscious I ran a block to a house and told a woman about it and asked her to call police. Then I ran back. Be(Continued on Page Three)

BEACH IS CLOSED FOR 3 OR 4 DAYS

The 26th St. Municipal Bathing Beach on White River will remain closed three or four days because of possible pollution of the stream by sewage, H. W. Middlesworth, City Recreational Director, announced today. : The beach was ordered closed on request of Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, who said he would conduct tests to determine whether contamination of water would endanger bathers. Mr. Middlesworth said he understood that a sewage disposal plant pump -udstream from the beach had been out of order, permitting sewage to enter the river.

STOCKS ADVANCE AS SELLING TAPERS OFF

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NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (U. P)— Stock prices rose 1 to 2 points unider strong leadership today on indica-

the boy and the girl submerged and: She dragged them to

Joann, 10, had regained enough of | }

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FORECAST: Fair and continued Warm tonight and tomorrow.

Bill and Joann Keck ...

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Japan fought on south, Russia in the north.

Kojo.

| Spanish Loyalists Drive Franco Toward Teruel

today. ' Gen. Jose Miaja, dispatched scattered units into the

THE FAR EAST— By United Press two fronts today—China in the

On the Yangtse River front in China, the Japanese threw 30,000 fresh troops into the battle line in an effort ‘to turn back the Chinese. Japan apparently sought an opportunity to send a formidable force against the Russians in the Viadivéstok region in the north, in the dis--puted border region of Siberia, Manchukuo and Korea. "Dispatches to Tokyo said Soviet war planes crossed the Korean border in formation, dropping bombs over

THE EUROPEAN SITUATIQN— HENDAYE~—Loyalists near Teruel. ROME—Report Italian losses in Spain. MADRID—23 sentenced to die. BARCELONA—Dreiser criticises U. S. policy. PARIS—France creates mew Army zone. LONDON—Runciman leaves for Praha. WASHINGTON—U. S. Ambassador to visit Praha.

'HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—A new Loyalist ‘offensive which threatened the shell-torn town of Teruel, scene of one of the Spanish war’s biggest battles, was reported in Government dispatches

commander-in-chief of the Loyalist Central Army, Teruel area and forced Generalissimo Franco to hastily withdraw troops from the Sagunto front in the south and the Gandesa salient to the northeast.

one point the Loyalists came

f GIVES $69,882

FORS. EAST ST.

Rafls Urged to Ask Elevation Loans.

Approval of a $60,882 PWA grant to help finanee the widening of S. East St. from South to Sanders Sts, was announced ' today by Mayor Boetcher. : ; He received word of the approval from Senators Minton and VanNuys in Washington. Plans ' for widening and resurfacing call for construction of two two-lane thoroughfares, divided

‘| by a raised six-foot esplanade. Work

; Times Zhotos. fed from creek unconscious.

will be started by Sept. 1, City Engineer Henry B. Steeg said. Acquisition of property needed already has been started by the City with proceeds from a $266,000 bond issue sold July 28. . Total cost of the project is esti-

abutting property are assessed one-

mary elections today. In Kansas, chief interest was

lican Senatorial nomination.

In Missouri, Pendergast Democratic machine was being challenged by Governor Stark. Each side backed’ its own candidate for a vacancy:in the state Supreme Court. In Virginia, Rep. Howard W. Smith (D.), who opposed many New

running for renomination against William E. Dodd Jr., a 100 per cent New Dealer. that high New Deal officials had aided Mr. Dodd’s campaign. The West Virginia campaign developed no issues of national importance. Two other primaries will be held this week: On Saturday, Kentucky Democrats will decide between Senator Barkley and Governor Chandler for the senatorial nomination.

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Kansans Go to Polls

After : Fiery Campaigns . TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 2 (U. P.)—

nominees to - ‘oppose -- incumbent

the state in a year when a Kansan Alf M. Landon, led their ticket as the Presidential nominee. Ee : ernor and for U. 8, publicans had: four:

each race, ahd the. resul : for . nomination

dates in

which has been in | pa

Deal proposals in the House, was |

Rep. Smith charged |

Kansas Republicans: voted today for Democrats who gained. control: of.

Principal contests ‘were for: Gov=

4 Primaries Today Test Rival Machines, New Deal

NATIONAL POLITICS

TOPEKA—Winrod’s fate draws chief, interest in Kansas voting. KANSAS CITY--Pendergast, Stark seek supremacy in Missouri. RICHMOND--New Deaier faces test at Virginia polls. CHARLESTON—Early voting light in West Virginia's primary. ATLANTIC CITY—Senator Smathers urges third term. MEMPHIS—Crump battles for victory over Browning. MADISON—La Follette says third party “working quietly.” (Page 3.) WASHINGTON~Report on Kentucky inquiry expected late today. COLUMBUS—Ohio straw vote favors FDR third term. ; HARRISBURG—Legislature put on defensive by judiciary move.

By United ‘Press Four states—Kansas. Missouri, Virginia: and West

in the fate’ of the Rev. Gerald B. Winrod, called the “Jayhawk Hitler” by his enemies, who seeks the Repub0 He had been repudiated by state and national Republican leaders for alleged religious and racial bigotry. the power “of the®- ”

GRAND JURY READY

‘TO RESUME PROBE

Impounded Ballots Released Procedure Studied.

‘The Grand Jury today outlined plans for resuming its investigation into alleged primary. election irregularities, delayed when ballots were impounded during recounting of the

sheriff and mayoralty races.

“The ballots were released on court order following completion of the recount cases last week. Jury members: today were to outline a program for probing all the primary races and investigate the activities in ‘all precincts during the five

months remaining in their term.

«Deputy Prosecutor Oscar Hagemeier said “it would take the jury slate than 4 yaar to make. & complete probe. We are faced with the - . ; : problem of working out some meth- | 10 “AX” lottery cases. ~~ - od whereby we can speed the inves-

Virginia—held pri-

h lioday approved bid

fourth of the construction costs, the City will sell about $30,000 worth ot additional bonds te pay its share of the construction. : The project will cost the City about $296,000, property owners, $27,150, and PWA $69,882. The City originally had applied for $76,000.

Suggests Rails Ask PWA Aid on Elevation

Long-term PWA loans, such as Indianapolis Railways, Inc. obtained for its rehabilitation program, were suggested today by the South’ Side Civic League as possible sources of South Side track eleva‘tion funds tor railroad companies. Ed Eckstein, league president, said that railroads in the East had obtained such loans and “we know the credit of the Indianapolis Belt Railroad is tops because it is owned by’ the Pennsylvania and New York Central.” : Meanwhile, Mayor Boetcher and Works Board President

course apparently designed to force railroads, which have insisted they have no money available for the project, to participate in the proposed $3,085,000 project. |: ; According to Washington reports,

not approve a grant to the City until there is assurance in writing that the railroads will finance their share, or 50 per cent minus PWA grants to city and county.

DEWEY INVOLVES 3 IN LOTTERY RACKET

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 (U. P).— District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey today charged that two city magistrates and a former district attorney were involved in the lottery racket of which Tammany Leader James J. Hines was alleged to have been one of the directors,

other defendants in the lottery case had bribed, influenced or intimidated Magistrate Hulon Capshaw

been directly involved in

SCHOOL BIDS APPROVED

> At

mated at $393,000. After owners of

.- Louis Brandt had committed the city to a

the PWA has indicated that it will,

Mr. Dewey said that Hines or

and the late Magistrate Francis Erwin. At the same time, he named William C. Dodge, former New York County district attorney, as having attempts

| The Indianapolis School Board ) bids ; -

within sight of Teruel when they occupied several trenches on La Muela. Hill, a mile outside Camarena, which is 13 miles south of the city. To the west of Teruel, the Loyalists captured three villages within a radius of 30 miles. There was no indication, however,

| that the Loyalists intended an efJ a a

changed hands late last December in one of the war’s largest battles. The Loyalists were scattered and had no connected lines. :

Loyalist forces were reported to’land

have stormed their way into Puebla de Masaluca.

Report Heavy Italian

Losses in Spain

ROME, Aug. 2 (U. P.) Italian legionnaires suffered heavy - casualties in a drive on the Teruel front in Spain between July 13 and July 24, a communique issued by the Italian Government said today. It said the -legionnaires advanced 30 miles. : Losses included 27 officers and 205 legionnaires killed and 140 officers and 1473 men wounded.

23 Sentenced to Death in Madrid MADRID, Aug. 2 (U. P).— Twenty-three persons were sentenced to death and others were given long prison terms today at

the conclusion of mass frials on charges of high treason and espion-

age. ' Of 195 defendants, only 26 were acquitted outright. Sixteen were considered unsympathetic to the regime and held for further investigation. Others received prison terms ranging from six to 30 years.

Dreiser Criticizes U. S. Policy in Spain

, BARCELONA, Aug. 2 (U, P). — Theodore Dreiser, American novelist, told foreign correspondents today that “Republican Spain is being given the lousiest deal in the last 200 years.” : Mr. Dreiser criticized the attitude of Great Britain, the United States, France, Germany and Italy toward the Loyalists, and accused Prime

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ver new clashes between Soviet

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‘| that Russian troops had recaptured

: Moscow Gets Support From Workers in Factories.

REPORT ADVANCE

‘Grave Consequences’ Are Mentioned in ‘Note to Nippon.

MOSCOW, Aug. 2 (U. P).—Warlike threats were voiced today at demonstrations of Russian workers

troops and Japanese-Manchukuo forces which were reported from the: Siberian frontier. Workers gathered in the meeting halls of various factories to express support of the Government and indignation over ‘new, insolent provocation by Japanese militarists.” The official attitude, however, was

The Tass News Agency distributed a communique which said that Russian troops had stormed and recaptured a hill from which they had been driven by superior Japanese forces along the Siberia-Manechukuo-Korea border.

Guards Pledge Support

Frontier guards at Karelia adopted this resolution: . “The Red Army will give such .a lesson to the Japanese bandits, who have gone so far, that they will not be able to come to their senses for a long time. We always are in a state of mobilization and will carry out any order of our government and destroy the enemy.” Workers inthe Red Triangle factory at Leningrad said: : “We have no doubt that our glorious frontier guards will be able to render crushing resistance to the scoundrels who haye gone too far and will throw them off sacred Soviet land. : “Let all big or small Fascist birds Soviet Utiion,; at’ the first summons of the Party, the Government and the Great Stalin, will stand up as one. man for ‘their free motherSimilar indignation was expressed by workers and engineers of the Kharkov factories and institutions. The Ordjonikidze Tractor Factory workers at Kharkov said:

Workers Take Stand

“We assure the party, the Government and Comrade Stalin personally that we stand at any moment for the protection of Soviet borders as one man and will destroy the enemy on his own territory.” “We send warm greetings to Red Army men and the commanders on the Far Eastern front, who gave an object lesson to the JapaneseManchukuoan bandits who invaded our territory,” a speaker at a meeting at the Petrozavodsk Garrison

Coincidently it was announced that Constantin Smetanin, Russian Embassy Charge d’Affaires at Tokyo, had been instructed to protest in the most energetic terms to the Japanese foreign office “and to draw its attention to the possibility of gravest consequences of the action of Japanese militarists.” Officials asserted that RussianChinese treaties and clearly marked treaty maps showed that in no incident of the last few weeks had Russian soldiers stepped an inch outside Siberia. Smetanin was instructed to make this clear also.

The Tass communique reporting

the hill near Changkufeng from which they had been driven, asserted that, in the engagement, the Japanese suffered 400 casualties i killed or wounded against 13 killed and 55 wounded on the Russian side. It was admitted that one Russian aviator had descended by parachute from his plane—apparenfly wrecked —and it was assumed that he had

Minister ' Neville Chamberlain of “betraying ‘'England.”

France Creates New

Frontier Army Corps

PARIS, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—France put into effect today on the 24th anniversary of Germany’s msrch into Belgium, a decree forming a new | northeastern military region along the 100 miles of frontier opposite Belgium from Maubeuge to the sea. The decree really creates a new frontier army corps whose duty is to guard the border against invasion.

Runciman Leaves London

For Czechoslovakia LONDON, Aug. 2 (U, P)—Viscount Runciman left today for Praha as ah ‘unofficial mediator” to seek a solution of Europe’s outstanding political problem and try to bring about permanent peace between Germany and Czechoslovakia on the Sudeten minorities question.

U. S. Ambassador To Visit Praha

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (U.P)— ; officials said to-

“routine” visit to Czechoslovakia Thursday to | nfér with Wilbur

_ minister at Praha.

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'S, ENVOY MOVES AS JAPS ADVANGE

Chinese Troops Preparing Hankow Defenses.

SHANGHAI, Aug. 2 (U. P.).—The United States Embassy moved from’ Hankow today where large. scale. preparations were being made to defend the city against advancing Japanese. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson and his staff moved Embassy documents: aboard the United States gunboat Luzon which, escorted by the gunboat Tutuila, steamed upriver toward Chungking, the new temporary capital. ¥en Other foreign diplomats were ex- |. pected to leave for Chungking soon. : . ; : More than 200,000 workers were | pressed into service building forti-

Tokyo Claims Planes, Tanks Being Used In Clashes.

CABINET MEETS

‘Light Control’ Rule ‘Put Into Effect in Osaka.

TOKYO, Aug. 3 (Wednesday) (U. P.).— Authoritative reports reaching here early today said Ruse sian troops attacked Japanese forces at sundown last night (Tuesday) ab Changkufeng. “The Japanese are presently re pulsing the attack and driving the Soviets eastward,” the report said. It was added that the infantry at tack had been preceded by two aire plane bombing attacks on the Japa= nese-Manchukuan lines. a It was the third time in his that Japanese soil has been attacked from the air. The other occasions were the bombing of Kojo yester« day and the Chinese attack on Formosa last winter. : The Japanese Islands proper have never been attacked, although Chinese planes flew over them early this year, dropping leaflets, but not bombs. :

LONDON, Aug. 2: (U. P.)—~A mass flight of European capital into the United States dollar and bar gold was engendered today by nervousness over the Russo-Japanese and middle European situa- '. tions. ° =

The Domei Japanese News Agency, which carried the Korean communis que, had no information on the extent of damage or casualties. “The. raid sharpened between Soviet Russia and ‘Japan over their border dispute in the Vladivostok region of. eastern Si berian, along the ill-defined frontiers of Siberia, Korea and Manchukuo. : Ars ¢ The Korean command in an earlier communique said Russian

infantry and tanks attacked Jap-

anese-Manchukuan troops in the disputed Changkufeng hill sector. Soviet war planes crossed the Korean border flying in formation, hovering over Kojo and dropped bombs, a Korean Army communique said. : : Soon after the announcement headquarters of the central Japan defense area at Osaka announced “light control” restrictions effective

| forthwith as a precaution against

airplane attacks. ' A strict ban was imposed on sounds similar to air

raid alarms. Previously, a light con-"

trol plan had been made effective in Fukuoka prefecture in the southwest, but Osaka is in the heart of Japan's richest industrial district. A Foreign Office informant an-

nounced receipt of information that.

three Russian bombing planes attacked in the Changkufeng area at 4 a. m.-and bombed and machinegunned Japanese troop positions. Japs Face Problem Later the Korea Army headquarters at Seoul (Keijo) announced in a communique transmitted by the Domei Agency that 10 Russian air=planes in formation bombed the

area at 7:30 a. m. The communique .

said that the Japanese did not retaliate. A second communique asserted that a battalion of Russian trnops supported by nine tanks attacked the Japanese at 9 a. m. Changkufeng is the area in which: Russians recently occupied a hill, ¢laimed by Japan. Japanese

troops recaptured the hill. Today,

in a communique issued before the time of the alleged new Russian attack, the Russians assérted that they had stormed and retaken the hill. This the Japanese deny. Reports of today’s fighting arrived at a time when Japanese leaders already were considering whether the country faced a new test of strength, with hundreds of thou« sands of their men fighting in China. ; Sa For the moment, initiative was

left to the Manchukuan Govern

ment as regards diplomatic action’ and Manchukuo in a strong protest to the acting’ Russian Consul Gens eral at Harbin demanded a cessas tion of “Russian attacks.” Accomse panying the protest was an exe

| pression of readiness to negotiate a

friendly settlement of frontier dis« putes when ;

fications outside the city and in the | F of the

streets. A ‘Japan threw 30,000 fresh reinbattle today, hoping to occupy

forcements into the Yangtse Valley :

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