Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1938 — Page 1
FORECAST: Fair tonight
and tomorrow; not
much :
VOLUME 50—NUMBER 149
Henlein to See Hitler on Latest Czech Proposal; ‘Get Out,’ Duce Tells Jews:
IN EUROPE PRAHA —Five-point compromise outlined to Sudetens.
Taxpayers to Submit Petition to Board.
i Officials Hint More Paring Is Planned; Deadline Monday Night.
‘A tired City Council was in recess foday after three weeks of budget _ study in which approximately $158,- . 000 has been cut from the $8,129,211
.. proposed budget for-1939. Completing their second round of study last night a few hours after a taxpayers’ mass meeting had ‘hinted a tax strike, Councilmen in- : dicated they were dissatisfied with . the reductions made thus far and . agreed to meet again for further . study at 2 p. m. tomorrow. The ‘budget must be adopted Monday night. Property owners attending the mass meeting yesterday were urged to “storm the doors” of City Council and other budget groups and insist on reduction in expenditures and “elimination of waste.” = The meeting was conducted by ~ the newly organized Citizens Tax-
0 et payers Protest Committee of Mar-
~ion County, headed by Dana Webte 131 N. Bosart Ave.
Speed Action On Petitions
‘Following the meeting, the more Shan 150 present spurred their ef- . forts to obtain at least 50,000 signatures on petitions asking the Tax Sddustment Board to demand budreductions in order to “save our es. ” “Reductions made thus far by City _ Gouncil will eliminate slightly more than three cents from the proposed © $1.39 municipal property tax levy for 1939, an increase of 11 cents er the 1938 levy of $1.25. “The Councilmen cut $25,000 from the Park Board proposal of $520,117, permitting Park officials to revise their budget to fit the reduced They also cut $2200 from the per Mission Hospital proposals, made. vions in other departments. - The petitions being circulated by the Citizens Taxpayers Protest Com-
: “During the last four years, property taxes for the City of Indian- » apolis have increased $3,342,068.56. HOF 25.26 per cent. A further increase eu (Continued on Page Four)
IDENTIFIES QUILT IN - TORSO MURDER CASE
COLUMBUS, 0., Sept. 1 (U. P.) — . Irene Young. Columbus, today identified a quilt wrapped about, the body of Cleveland's 13th “torso under” victim as one she had given to a Cleveland barber. ‘The barber, Charles Damyn, prey had identified the quilt as he gave to a junk dealer about
weeks before it was found with.
) body of the latest victim of the butcher of Kingsbury Run.” ; Irs. Young said she was certain “1 &7e quilt was the one she gave Mr. four years ago when she was operating a rooming house in Cleveland where he was a roomer.
TRIPLE PLAY STAR’S ~ EYES ‘NOT SO GOOD’
CLEVELAND, Sept. 1 (U. P). William A. Wambsganss paid a $3 fine in traffic court for crashing a red light and remarked that his eyes “must not be what they were in 1920. Just didn’t see thai light, Judg..” It was Mr, Wambsganss who made the famous triple play unassisted for 1 Cleveland Indians in the 1920 World Series.
WEATHER TO REMAIN ~ FAIR, BUREAU SAYS
TEMPERATURES m... 62 10a. m.... m,... 66. 11a. m.:. m... 68 12 (Noon). 1 1pm...
: The Weather Bure Bureau today preoe dicted fair weather, with not much ~ change in temperature for’ tonight and tomorrow.
BRITTON IS NAMED - EXCISE POLICE HEAD
Edward Britton, Logansport, towas named head of the State Excise Police, ‘succeeding Homer .Btonebraker, Democratic : nominee for Congress in the Second Dis-
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Mrs. Roosevelt 13
BERLIN—Hitler calls Reic
hstag to meet next week.
LONDON—Kennedy call tp F. D. R. laid to crisis. WASHINGTON—Officials believe tension eased.
ANNECY, France—Building of fortifications speeded. HELSINGFORS—Russia reported fortifying frontier.
ROME—Foreign Jews give VIENNA—Reopening of an
n six months to leave Italy. y religious schools forbidden.
HENDAYE—Loyalists claim mines rip Rebel forts.
IN THE FAR EAST SHANGHAI—Japanese say four key positions taken.
ROME, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—The Cabinet approved a decree today ordering all foreign Jews who took up
residence in Italy, Libya and the
Dodecanese Islands after Jan. 1, 1919, to leave the territory within six months. The decree also includes all for-
eign Jews who acquired Italian citi-
zenship after Jan. 1, 1919, and revokes those citizenships. The Cabinet also decided that
henceforth no more foreign Jews may establish permanent residence
in Italy, Libya or the Dodecanese
Islands. No mention was made of
Ethiopia. The decree said the Fascist Government considers a person to be
Jewish if both parents were of the Jewish race, even if he professes a
religion other than Jewish. ' Opposed by Holy See While various minor repressive measures have been taken against
Jews in Italy, the present decree is
the most drastic step yet taken un-
det the Government's new doctrine
of “racialism.” Estimates of the number of Jews living in Italy range from 44,000 to 48,000 of a population of 50 million.
There probably are 8000 foreign Jews living in Italy as students, most of them studying medicine or law. No estimate is available for the num-
ber of foreign Jews living here per-
manently, in business and the pro-
fessions. Premier Mussolini's racial problem, suddenly announced this summer, was unexpected and immediately caused strained relations between "the Fascist Government and
the-Holy- See; which took a ‘position |
of stern opposition to, racial discrimination.
There have been indications that
some powerful Fascist leaders did not approve of the racial program. Some prominent Fascists, such as
| Filippo Anfuso and Achille Terruzzi,
married Jews. One of the close
friends of Air Marshal Italo Balbo is a Jewish colonel of carabineers.
Most powerful figures behind the anti-Jewish campaign were said to be Count Galeazzo Ciano, Foreign Minister; Dino Alfieri, Minister of Popular Culture; and Achille Starace, secretary of the Fascist Party. The Jewish question was one of several topics considered at today’s Cabinet meeting. The ministers were reported to have considered new military appropriations as well as the general European situation.
All Religious Schools
To Be Closed in Austria
VIENNA, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Al religious schools in the State of
Austria, including Roman Catholic
parochial schools, will be closed permanently, the editor of the Voelkischer Boebachter announced today. The schools simply will not reopen at the end of the vacation on Sept. 19, the paper said.
JAMES ROOSEVELT FAILS TO REGISTER
FARMINGHAM, Mass., Sept. 1 (U. P.). — James Roosevelt, the
President’s secretary-son, can not
vote in the primaries of his adopted
state Sept. 20. Although registrars waited at their office until 9 o'clock
last night, neither Mr. Roosevelt nor
his wife, the former Betty Cushing, appeared. Registration closed last
night.
WRECKAGE IN WHICH
AY
® PRAHA, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Konrad Henlein, leader of the Sudeten German Party, has gone to see Fuehrer Hitler for a conference which may
mark a turning point in the minorities crisis, it was learned today. Herr Henlein conferred at Marienbad yesterday with Frank T. A:
Ashton-Gwatkin, chief of the economics section of the British Foreign Office and aid to Viscount Runciman, British adviser in the minorities dispute. Immediately after the conference, Herr Henlein. went to Asch, his home near the German frontier, and from there he proceeded across the frontier intending to confer with Herr Hitler at the Fuehrer’s mountain retreat near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria.
Economic Benefits Cited
It was reported that the visit was made at the request of British quarters, which believed that the German leaders together should thrash out the minority situation in light of the Czechoslovak Government's new offer. In this connection, Viscount Runciman was said to have visited President Eduard Benes today. Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin was said to have impressed on Herr Henlein the possibility of economic benefits to the Sudeten area if the Government offer was accepted. Executives of the Sudeten Party met today to discuss the concessions, presented as the Government's maximum offer. Summary rejection of the concessions—and summary rejection had heen threatened openly —would mean a de and the danger of an international clash over, Czechoslovak
of its offer secret, but it: was asserted authoritatively that it was based on five major coneessicns as follows: 1. Division ofthe country, into 20(Continued on Page Whiy)
TYPHOON KILLS 34 IN TOKYO DISTRICT
Slides and Floods Add to 12-Hour Storm’s Toll.
TOKYO, Sept. 1 (U. P.)-—-A typhoon which lashed Japan with winds and rain for 12 hours left the Tokyo area littered with wreckage today and brought a mounting ‘death toll as police and rescue parties sent casualty reports. Deaths in the Tokyo reached 34.
Eleven were killed in Gumma Prefecture by landslides and scores were missing at the village of Tadagami, inundated when a swollen river overflowed its banks. The coast was strewn - with stranded steamships and there was fear for many little fishing vessels, caught at sea. ¢ Damage in the Tokyo area was severe, and the storm left people fearful of another with the possibility that it might bring a tidal wave in its wake. The storm was the worst in 32 years, and, to increase popular terror, came on the anniversary of the 1923 earthquake in which nearly 100,000 persons were killed. It struck the Tokyo area at Yokohama in the early hours of this morning.
TWO FARMERS DIED
area
This bus, carrying 25 members of the Floyd Jones Si
truck on Read 31 near Franklin last night. Both occupants of the tru
were nh seriously, while. the
thers were bruised and
‘The Tn Kept. the details
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 uy
2 DE, 25 HURT WHEN BUS AND THUR pha
Injured ‘in Collision Near Franklin.
|FARMERS ARE VICTIMS
Condition of Two Singers Is Reported Serious; One Killed Here.
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Times Special FRANKLIN, Sept. 1.—Two mem-
bers of the Floyd Jones Singers, Indianapolis, were in serious condition today following a bus-truck crash on Road 31 seven miles south of here last night in which two persons were
killed and 23 other choir members injured slightly. > Mrs. Revetta Crecelius, 1624 Park Ave., Indianapolis, was in a Columbus Hospitd#® with head injuries and Budd McKee, 19, of Mattoon, Ill,
apolis, with internal injuries. The dead were Otto W. Enzinger, farmer of near Franklin, and his brother, Albert, Columbus, occupants of a cattle truck which collided with a bus which was catrying the choir to Sardinia for an engagement. Driver Dies Instantly
the driver, was killed instantly. Al-
pital. Six members: of the choir, besides Mr. McKee, were taken to City Hospital, Indianapolis, for treatment. Jack Snethen, 4007 Broadway, In-
bus hospital. The other passengers of the bus were treated by physi-. cians. State Policeman Nate Bush, who investigated the accident, said the bus’ driver apparently lost control of his machine and crossed to the left side of the road, hitting the truck head-on. Franklin Jones, the bus driver, said the truck bore dim
Sie highWey and
sien in the bus included Miss Fern Wilkins, 1933 N. bama St.; Betty Ann’ LeMasters, 3251 Baltimore Ave.; Mr. McKee, Frank Nelson, 1802 Southeastern Ave.; Ruth Clore, way, Peggy An Martin, 951 Congress Ave.; Dovie Hurt and Cecil Hurt, 807 Spruce St.; Mary Montague, 1116 W. 31st St. Norma Snider, 1113 W. 42d St.; Laura Jane Halliburton, 3322 Northwestern Ave.; Mr.. Snethen, 4007 . Broadway; Charles Crecelius and Ronald Crecelius, 1654 N. Alabama St.; Genevieve Ginn, Fortville; Beatrice McHenry, 3537 N. Capitol Ave. and Josephine Best, all of Indianapolis, and Clara Alice price. Jasonville, and Dorothy Bell, argersville.
One Killed, Six Hurt in Accidents Here =
One person was killed and six others were injured, none seriously, in automobile accidents reported to police overnight. Thirty motorists (Continued on Page Three) .
Beats Us!
Add to your list of strange ways to spend a vacation, says Lieut. Roy Pope of the Police Department, the case of Patrolman Henry Ludgin of 353 Parkway. Patrolman Ludgin started his two-week vacation today by walking his beat as usual. “It wasn’t that he didn’t want fo take his vacation,” said Lieut. Pope “he just forgot about it. Pirst time I ever knew that to happen.”
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was taken to City Hospital, Indian-.
Otto Enzinger, said to have been
bert died later at a Columbus hos-
dianapolis, was treated at a Colum~
lMghts and pulled to the center of | arg
4006 Broad- |"
Snethen and Ruth.
Break!
Boys’ Gang, Charged ‘With Duping Aged Man, Is Discharged.
ERGT. CHARLES WEDDLE of ‘the Police Crime Prevention Bureau today announced the forced disbanding of a group of youths who, he said, were so bold in crime that they robbed an old age pensioner in a trick seance. All but two of the boys were released yesterday to their parents, who were told by Sergt. Weddle that if the gang was not broken up he would bring child neglect charges ‘against the parents. Sergt. Weddle said the boys ranged in age from 14 to 16 and that “it was one of the most unusual gangs I ever have seen in my 23 years as a police officer.” “They robbed an 86-year-old man,” Sergt Weddle said, “of his entirep ension check. They took $7 in a fake seance, then they posed as the coal man, and grocer and other tradesmen and collected for bills the man owed.
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T= they got -consciousstricken = and robbed ice
boxes all over the neighborhood and brought the old man food. They robbed warehouses, and parked cars, and homes, and business places, and they stole bicycles and autos.
once. And never have I seen such appalling indifference on the part of parents as to what their chil--dren were doing with leisure time. Robbed Parents Homes : “They even confessed to me that they . occasionally robbed the homes of the parents of other members’ of the gang.”
RAIL MEN GET
STRIKE BALLOTS
Brotherhoods. Map Vote on Pay Slash; Arbitration By U. S. Fails.
(Another Story, Page 23)
CHICAGO, Sept. 1 (U. P).— Sothitteeinen of 1% railroad ods distributed ballots to9328000. railyay employees 10 “determine whether: ld’ call a nation-wide in protest against a proposed Saye cent wage cut—approximating: $250,000,000 a year.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (U. P.).— Railroad stocks declined to new lows since June 30 and led the whole stock list lower in more active trading today. ‘The decline in carriers followed breakup of mediation on the wage dispute and came at a time when Nickel Plate was having difficulty bond interest and note es. Stocks and bonds of the latter declined further after a sharp setback yesterday.
Such a strike ‘would paralyze 142 Class I railroads, virtually all of the major lines in the nation’s railroad network. However, before the dispute reaches a showdown, there will be months of additional invesHgations and negotiations and it.
will reach the stage of an actual strike. Orders for the vote were issued
| last night in conferences of 1000
‘general chairmen, representing 18 brotherhoods in the railway labor
| executives’ association, and repre-. .sentatives of the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen which is acting independently in the controversy. The action followed by less than three hours an announcement that the: National which had been meeting with the (Continued on Page Two)
CHIEFS ELECT MORRISSEY TORONTO, Ontario, Sept. 1 (U. P.) —Police Chief Morrissey of Indianapolis today was elected fifth vice president of the International
Association of Police Chistey in annual congress here... =
. PURD JF
“They never operated all at
is unlikely that the controversy
Mediation Board,
Entered as
Second-Class Mat at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
DESPITE FIGHT
Promoters to Start Northeast Apartments Within Next 30 Days.
Proposed Business Section Termed Detriment to Residences.
Promoters of the proposed multifamily apartment project beyond the northeast city limits today announced they would go ahead with their plans’ despite opposition by the recently formed East North Side Property Owners Association. The Property Owners Association has charged that the proposed development would create a smoke nuisance, that transportation facilities would be inadequate, that it “would adversely affect the city” and that it would “depress property values.” The proposed development, to be called the Marcy ' Village Housing project, is sponsored by Everett A. Carson, Indianapolis contractor. J. Allen Dawson of the H.-H. Woodsmall agency would . supervise rentals. Declaring that construction would begin in 30 days, Mr. Dawson said that opposition has arisen from “misinformation” as to the true nature of the development.
Answered by Opponents
Replying to this, Grier M. Shotwell, association secretary, said:
the proponents of the pian to present full information regarding their intentions. . ‘The examinations of plans for the project by officers of our association had for the first time
the E. 59th St. entrance of the development with as many more contemplated, along with the future inclusion of a filling station.” Mr. Shotwell added that the pros-
: pect of a business block’s being in-
cluded in the project gave cause for further opposition to the develop} ment, ~ Mr. Dawson “ald that the {Continued on Page Three).
MAYORTO REVISE
PWA ELEVATION BID
Remains Optimistic After Parley at Capital.
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Times Special
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Mayor ‘Boetcher and his staff left for Indianapolis today to revise the City’s application for a PWA grant for the proposed $3,085,000 South Side track elevation project. With Howard A. Gray, assistant administrator, and other PWA officials, ‘the Mayor and City officials yesterday studied the application and were instructed to make certain changes. Before leaving last nlght; the Mayor again. expressed optimism regarding the outcome and indicated that he still is counting on the railroads involved to assist the City and Marion County in financing the 55 per cent needed to obtain the PWA grant. Interior Secretary Ickes’ order of yesterday, requiring all bond elections for PWA grants to be held by Oct. 1, will have no effect on the track elevation: project, the Mayor said. Rep. Louis Ludlow; who arranged the PWA conferences yesterday, said
will be made shortly. Under the 1938 PWA act, no applications for projects can be accepted after Sept. 30; actual construction must be under way by Jan. 1, 1939, and sub-
stantially completed by July 1, 1940.
PREPARES ANNUAL FARM EXHIBIT . . . . . ...
PLANS PUSHED
OTHER OWNERS OBJECT
“Every opportunity has been given |
disclosed the inclusion of a business |. block of six or seven storerooms near.
he was very hopeful that the grant.
QUEBEC, Cueives, Sept.
‘family apartment house at St. and injuring 20.
‘when the avalanche struck it,
to have escaped unscathed.
perched on the side of a steep
foundation.
the force of the landslide.
Eight Others Killed Elsewhere as Storm and Floodwaters Menace Canadian Area; Whole Families Trapped.
AVALANCHE MOVES HOUSE 30 FEET
Body of One Victim Is Found Over Stricken Child Who Escaped; Mother Taken From Debris Unconscious Is Near Death.
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1 (U.P)—-A landslide prea
Gregoire, killing four persons
‘Fifty persons were believed to have been in the house
shunting it from its founda-
tion some 30 feet into a roadway. Half of them were said
The storm was general over the eastern part of the province. A 60-mile wind whipped the heavy rainfall, which in one place measured 3.75 inches. The apartment house in the Quebec City suburbs was
hill. Lightning struck a tele-
phone pole on the crest, setting in motion a mass of earth loosened by the rain which undermined the apartment.
The four-story brick and shiiero building crumpled under The mass of earth, stone and
DAVIS DENIES HINES ‘TRAP’
“Voice Breaks.
(Another Story, Page 12)
NEW YORK, Sept. 1 ¢U.P,)—J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, jittery and shrilling his answers under crossexamination, was accused today of trying to “trap” James J. Hines by concealing the fact that he was going to plead guilty to the same lottery charges on which the Tammany leader is being tried. Davis shouted that he had not done so. He said that for a while he had tried to protect Hines. Davis, once the ‘big shot” lawyer for the Dutch Schultz gang, squirmed - and fidgeted and sometimes lost control of his voice as defense counsel Lloyd P. Stryker, pounded him with questions. Davis said that late in May he agreed to testify for the people. Prior to that he said he had refused to do so and had tried to dissuade George Weinberg, another member of the Schultz gang “from testifying against Mr. Hines.” But even though he had decided in May to plead guilty and testify for the State, Davis went before Justice Ferdinand Pecora in July and, acting as his own counsel, attacked the yaligiy of the indictment against h Was in plea a fake?” Mr. Stryker demanded. Davis said that it was not, that he merely argued points of law. “Isp’t it a fact tha! you were hoping ‘to trap Mr. Hines? Yes or no?’ “No, sir,” Davis shouted. District Attorney Charles J. Ranney of Renselaer ‘County attended the trial in quest of evidence that would justify charges against Davis in connection with the killing
of Jules Martin, a Schultz gangster.
cipilated by storms and floodwaters which took eight lives 0: elsewhere in Quebec Province early today struck an eight-
—&wreckage trapped approxie
mately half of the residents, The families living on the
upper floors escaped, but
those in the lower apartments were trapped.
~The Victims were. ent: ;
Sahutz Lawyer Is Jittery i in fod -CrossEaamination; ma
Rosa’s mother, ‘Mrs.
Lachance, was taken unconscious from the wreckage and
reported dead. She regained consciousness later, however, and was taken to a hospital, where attendants doubted
that she would recover. .
The body ‘of Miss Lachance was lying over 4 living child in a man-
ner indicating that she died while
trying to protect the child. A frag~
ment of flying wreckage apparently 2
had broken 5 neck.
was little the worse: oe Sila
trapped six hours in the ‘wreckage. 20 Go to Hospitals Ambulances “from Quebec City took the 20 injured persons to hospistals, veal of them were ree Ported 10 be in a dangerous condis on Those who escaped said they were awakened by a grinding hoise, Terror-stricken, many: rushed out seconds before the landslide struck, keeping the toll comparatively low. Among them were Napoleon Core nier, 44, his wife and five: children, Recounting his experience, Mr. Cor= nier said: “IL was sleeping on the second floor when my wife screamed at me that the house was shaking. “We rushed out and could see the earth and rock catapulting down the hill toward the house. It made a terrible, grinding noise. A second later and the building was moving toward the road. " “We could hear the the other people. Two Children Escape ~~ - “The ground floor started to Just then we saw Rosaline and Jes Claude (his children) climbing through the window. =I
screams of
thought any second the whole build«
ing would collapse and we would be trapped.
“My other three children wers It was only a
on the third. floor. second before I got there. I shoved them through the window and then .cilmbed through myself. “The window, normally several feet .above the ground, had
slipped to within two feet of it and we got | out safely.
“It was pitch dark, and raining
| bucketfuls. I found my wife and
| other children under a tree and we
went te my brother's house and
| tried to'call a doctor and the Fire
‘| Department,
but the line: was
down.”
BULLETINS WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—The Agricultural Adjustment
MEXICO CITY, Sept. 1 (©. i P.).—~Mexico will refuse Secretary of State. Cordell Hulls | demand for Suspension of the expropriation
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