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EY VOLUME 50—NUMBER 186

AUTO EXHAUST

GASES CALLED NEW MENACE

Additional Threat Cited as Season’s First Smog Blankets City. J

AFFECTED AREA WIDENS

Engineer Says Residential =

Sections Threatened By Pollution.

As the City emerged today from its first smog screen of the season

which blanketed the downtown |i

area for several hours starting at midnight, officials warned of a new smoke control problem which is growing rapidly here. The Weather Bureau reported practically no fog present in last night's smoke screen. The new air pollution menace be-

lieved to be created by’ gases from auto exhausts, threatens even the

exclusive residential sections of the:

City, according to J. W. Clinehens, City combustion engineer.

Mr. Clinehens, in a report made: yesterday at a meeting in the Sev-|! erin Hotel of the Railroad Smoke: Control Board and City officials,

said that results of a year’s survey he had conducted: show heavy soot deposits . in residential

to be comparatively smoke free. George R. Popp Jr, Building Commissioner, also reported on the new pollution discovery and advanced the theory that smoke control might not be the whole answer to air pollution.

Further Study Needed

“from what we have found,” he said, “it ‘begins to look as if auto exhaust gases now constitute almost as big a problem as smoke from industrial and residential chimneys.” He said there were no immediate plans for solving this new problem, and that it would require further study. City officials united in expressing appreciation of the steps taken by the Railroad Control Board in

~ “cleaning its own house and serving

as an example to the rest of the city.” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, Health Board secretary, said: “We do not know how much death from pneumonia and tuberculosis is caused directly by polluted air, but we do know that it is a causative factor in these two diseases. “At one time, the whole country was disturbed about the appalling number of deaths resulting from typhoid. A great campaign was waged, and the deaths per thousand of population were cut from 70 to two. : Railroad Board Praised “But we seem to have become hardened to the fact that people must die annually from pneumonia and tuberculosis. We don’t get as excited as we might over the fact that the death rate per thousand of population from these two diseases is 140.

“This meeting today serves to em-

phasize the need for a continuous fight against air pollution. The Railroad Control Board is doing its share toward contributing to the better health and welfare of this community.” J. J. Liddy, Board president, presided at the meeting. Other speakers included Theodore Dammeyer, Safety Board president; Mrs. Annette Dowd, Dr. Theodore Cable and

Adolph Fritz, councilmen, and Mau-

rice Tennant, Works Board member. Railroad Board members who spoke were F. K. Mitchell, J. J. Mellen, J. A. Warren, H. W. Sefton and Joseph Woods. Thomas Mahar of New York City, representative of a company that manufactures a brick smoke eliminator for locomotives, addressed the meeting on the new steps taken by the company in improving its product.

, WARMER TONIGHT,

¢ 7

BUREAU FORECAST

TEMPERATURES ae D2 eee .53 59 9a m.....65

The Weather Bureau today predicted tonight would be warmer and tomorrow cooler and both fair.

BANK BANDITS GET $3000

CLINTONVILLE, Pa. Oct. 14 (U. P.—Three overall-clad bandits armed with revolvers held up the Clinton-

12 (noon)...74 1p m

“ville Bank today and escaped with

between $3000 and $4000.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

Autos ..ec00.. 27| Movies ....... 26 BOOKS .e40.sce 19] Mrs. Ferguson 20 Broun ...,.... 20{Obituaries ... 23

€ Comics ...... 34|Pegler ....... 20

* ¥hnancial ..

districts | § which previously had been believed | :

Sophomore Orvale Chilcote . .

FRESHMEN WIN BUTLER FIGHT

Without a Leader They Go Into Battle and Come Out Victorious.

By JOE COLLIER Butler freshmen this afternoon spotted the sophomores one team captain and a year of liberal arts schooling to win the annual class fight. Specifically, they pattied their way to and up a 12-fdot greased pole and lowered the sophomore flag. This flag will be burned tonight while the sophomores sulk in their tents. (This is-called Sulking 2A, open, this year, only to sophomores.) Sophomore strategy, carefully thought up, availed little against the captainless freshmen. Last night the sophomores captured and spirited away the freshman captain, and the freshmen captured and spirited away a sophomore captain. Sophs Had One Extra The captain the sophomores captured turned out te be the last captain the freshmen had, but the captain the freshmen captured wound up by being one of two the sophomores had cagily equipped themselves with. The other sophomore captain had a good night's rest. The captain the sophomores were led by was William Hamilton. The captain the freshmen weren't led by was Jay Boyer. The captain the freshmen frisked from the sophomores was John Carr. Mr. Carr and Mr. Boyer ware reported to have spent a wretched night brooding over the fate of their leaderless teams. Mr. Boyer was said to have been at first incarcerated in a corn crib east of the city and then removed to a more distant sophomore concentration camp. Mr. Carr's exact whereabouts was a neat freshman secret for many hours. Since they won, the freshmen may discard their red and green headgear and hecome full-fledged campus citizens. The whole affair was a buildup for the homecoming football game between Butler and DePauw tomorrow.

U.S. RADIO STATION CONTRACTS ARE LET

$93,404 Work Awarded for Airport Laboratory.

The Works Board today awarded contracts totaling $93,404 to the low bidders for construction of the proposed U. S. Experimental Radio Station at the Municipal Airport. Those awarded contracts, and the bids, were Service Construction Co., $79,559 for general building; Freyn Bros., $10,745 for plumbing, heating and ventilation; Sanborne Electric Co., $3100 for electrical work. Plans and specifications will be mailed to PWA offices in Chicago fo final approval. PWA will pay 45 per cent and the City the remainder. Construction of runways to he used in connection with the laboratory already has started. According to I. J. Dienhart, airport stperintendent, work on the building will get under way within a week. When completed, the laboratory will be furnished with radio experimental equipment now: housed in Washington. Tests will be conducted with a high-frequency radio transmitter designed to eliminate

many of

the hazards now experi-

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; somewhat warmer tonight; -cooler tomorrow,

Butler Soph Guards ‘Prison’

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938

SUSPECT HELD

AS SLAYER OF GRL STUDENT

On Charge of FirstDegree Murder.

|CONFESSION IS CLAIMED

Tried to Place Blame on Escort, Detective Says; Attack Denied.

student, was said to have confessed

today to the slaying of Alice May Girton, 17, a shy and retiring farm girl who came to the city six weeks ago to attend business college.

over to the Grand Jury without bond on a charge of first degree murder, Miss Girton’s landlady, Mrs. Lillian Kelly, found her nude body on the floor of her bedroom yesterday. It was face down, with silk undergarments twisted about. the neck. Coroner Walter Kruse said the girl had been criminally attacked and that death had resulted from stran-

: | gulation,

Times Photo. . Guards Captive Frosh Chief.

Heartache

Brave Mother Finds Community Fund Eases Hers.

: (Another Story and Photos, Page: 19) |

BOUT 85 children a day are : fed-&nd reared at the Indianapolis Day Nursery, while their parents work to support. them. Two of them are the children of a woman employed as a factory hand. You mustn't feel badly about that, because she doesn’t. She, searched two solid months, nine hours a: day, for that job. And to ‘her, it's pretty near perfect. * A couple of years ago she was deeply in love. with her husband.

The following reporis were made today by Community Fund workers at a luncheon in the Indianapolis’ Athletic Club: Special - Gifts ..... . $218,957 Other Divisions 00000 6,598

ceevesnssse. $825,555

‘Then a tragedy broke for which no one, could be prepared. Her husband in a violent quarrel, fatally stabbed her father. When her husband swore that the accusation made by ker father was a lie, the woman believed him. She stood up for him during the trial at alienated her family.

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8 = 8

HEN the ‘prosecutor completely broke down the husband's testimony and revealed him before .the wife, the. jury. and the family as a liar himself, He went to prison. . The woman divorced her imprisoned husband, convinced now that - he had not’ loved her but had deceived ..her. Her family was too bitter to offer her aid. She had no’ money. She and the two children were alone—as alone as three people can ‘be in this City which, by: design, maintained the best sort of an aid to her in her problem. She left the children at the Day Nursery, partly supported by the Community Fund, and sought work. And she found the job. With her earnings she maintains her home and keeps her children together. At the factory she looks out a window as she works. This, she says, it the hardest thing she has to do. Because it overlooks the ceme-: tery in which her father is buried.

By LEE'G. MILLER . Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—Ten days before the Wage-Hour Act is to go into full effect, hundreds of thousands of men, women ° and children still are wondering whether its provisions apply to them. And at 12:01 a. m. on Oct. 24, when the 25- cents an-hour minimum and 44-hours-a-week maximum become operative, many of them still will be wondering.. As the deadline nears, the WageHour Division, undermanned and pressed for time, is beginning to resemble NRA in ‘the hectic summer of 1933.. Demands for information are pouring in by mail, by phone, by telegraph. Representatives of various. industries besiege the division’s offices with oral inquiries. : Many of the questions go unanswered. Even some of the Tequests

for copies: do

Miller, whose home is in ‘Racine,

Wis., has been attending the Indi-

ana Technical College during the past year. He lived in a room adjoining Miss Girton’s. Early Thursday morning he heard her return home with an escort, he allegedly confessed to detective Capt. John Taylor. “I stayed up listening to them— I could hear them through the wall,” he said. “The fellow left about 3 a. m. and I. went over and (knocked on her door. She said, ‘It’s too late,’ so I walked in anyway.

‘Can’t Remember’

“The lights were out and I sat on the bed. She didn’t say anything. ‘She was sitting in bed with a light robe round her shoulders. “Then I started to scuffle with her. . She resisted and I threw a pillow over her head. I took it off and she. was still struggling a little so I put it back. I can’t re- | member anything : I did then, but I

and went back to my room.” He had been only a witness in the case and "had attempted to blame Miss Girton's escort, Howard Zimmerman, 18, who hitch-hiked here a week ago from Riga, Mich, to seek employment. When first questioned Miller said he had heard scuffling in: Miss Girton’s room and a few minutes later had heard her escort leave. Zimmerman said he met Miss Girton in a cafe Monday night. He took her to a movie Wednesday night and then took her to her room. “We sat on the bed and talked,” he said, “and had a pillow fight. She was fully clothed and alive when I left.” Miss Girton was an attractive (Continued on Page Three)

FEDERATION VOTES STUDY OF TAXATION

District Club Women Also Back Gambling Drive.

By ROSEMARY REDDING

An intensive study of taxation aimed primarily at hidden taxes was voted today by the Seventh District Federation of Clubs. The district’s 30th annual convention at the Severin Hotel today also passed resolutions indorsing the Hull Reciprocal Trade Treaties and

tion's demands for antigambling law enforcement. Mrs. John W, Moore was to be elected district president at this aiternoon’s session and Mrs. Wayne Reddick, corresponding: secretary. Mrs. Frank X, Kern and Mrs. Frank Symmes were nominated this morning for first vice president. Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Reddick were unopposed. The convention alse approved a resolution on traffic safety and another supporting the campaign against syphilis and marijuana.

The tax revision resolution includ(Continued on Page 25)

Administrator Elmer F, Andrews, filling a heavy schedtile, already is planning to ask Congress at its next session for some amendments of the act, as well as for more money. General Counsel Calvert Magruder is rushing a series of ‘interpretative bulletins, as’ required by the law. But these will leave open many questions to be settled in court, In its first year the law is expected to affect as many as a million persons. Many more will he covered on Oct, 24, ‘1939, when the minimum wage becomes 30 cents and the maximum week 42 hours; still more on Oct. 24, 1940, when the week is cut fo 40 hours, and many more on Oct. 24, 1945, when the minimum wage rises to 40 cents.

Mr. Andrews, to date, has a staf? [OF Jews: Shan 0 poisons Twelve |

Bound Over to Grand Jury|

| PFT. WAYNE, Oct. 14 (U. P)—}| Adrian Miller, 31, an engineering

Miller this morning was bound |

[didn’t attack her.” I left soe way |

the Indianapolis Ministerial Associa-|,

Entered as at. Postoffice,

Ft. Wayne Strangling : Victim

Times-Acme Photos.

Alice May Girton

Tob Bombs Wound 1000; Vienna Churches Stoned

IN THE FAR EAST—

BUDAPEST—Mediation hinted in

SRL SE

eral churches and convents in differeMt parts of Vienna were stoned during the night. by unknown persons, it was disclosed today. Damage was reported. slight because of protective guards posted outside all church buildings. Expulsion from Vienna of all Jews of Czechoslovak nationality was forecast in some quarters as the Nazis began a campaign of reprisal against the Roman Catholic Church as the result of recent disorders.

Joseph Buerckel, Nazi leader for Austria, had announced in a speech last night a four-point reprisal program, based on the allegation that Catholies, not Nazis, were responsible for disorders which culminated in the storming of the archiepisco-

‘| pal palace by Nazi mobs.

The points in the program were (1) ‘to expel from Vienna Czechs and Jéws who engaged in a proChurch demonstration Oct. 7; (2) to cancel all plans to give the Catholic Church certain educational facili-

political offenders = which, Herr Buerckel said, was planned to signalize the cession of Czechoslovak Sudetenland to’ Germany, and (4) to refuse to consider the release of Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria, who has been imprisoned by the secret police since absorption of ‘Austria in March. One of the reprisals planned. was to close seminaries for training of priests. It was reported that, under Point One, the Nazis might expel from Vienna not only Czechs and Jews (Continued on Page Three)

SCHOOL EXCAVATION CONTRACT AWARDED

The Service Construction Co., 417 Castle Hall Building, was awarded

tion and construction of foundations for the proposed $450,000 unit .at Tech High School by the School

Board today. The company’s low base bid was $19,937.

lina, assistant administrator in charge of “co-pperation and enforcement,” has only six or seven investigators sc far to make inspections and run down complaints. Eventually Mr. Andrews hopes to have a: staff of 1000 or more. But that won’t be until* Congress, which meets Jan.:3, votes him: more money. With. the meager funds already ‘available, he hopes to increase’ his personnel -to about 150 as fast as civil service procedure permits. Workers who suspect, after Oct. 24, that they are being worked longer or paid less than the law re-|

Hour Division to write to one of the regional offices, when they are established. But with the present limited personnel, there is no assurance that such letters will be answered promply, much less that an investi-|

gation will be made

0 safeguard rights in Palestiie. . ROME—Hungary appeals, to aly.

ties: (3) to postpone an amnesty of,

the contract for the general excava-]

quires are advised by the Wage- goods

HONKONG—Japanese drop warnings on Canfon. IN EUROPE—

VIENNA—Nazis open reprisals against Church. MUNICH—Hitler takes hand in Czech crisis.

border dispute.

PRAHA—Czechs court Nazis, suppress Comniunists. - BERLIN—Diplomatic break with Brazil again hinted. BUCHAREST.«Wa: Minister Argeseanu resigns;

" reason secret... WR ¥

HONGKONG, Oct. 14 (U, P)— Japanese - troops and airplanes smashed through Chinese defenses in South China today, bombarded the city of Waichow until‘ it burst into flames and ‘moved toward a major battle with the defenders of

Canton. Casualties were. ‘reported high— probably 1000 in Waiehow "alone— as the invaders threw more and more military .power into the’ offensive . against China's richest

commercial area, where British and American interests are concentrated. Japanese planes rained bombs on a widening area in an effort to halt rail traffic and demoralize the civil population, including 400,000 Cantonese ordered to’ evacuate to the provinces "China Surprised

Japanese airplanes were reported today to have dropped “ultimatum” pamphlets on the city of Canton, demanding surrender by dawn Saturday on threat of terrific aerial

bombardment, An official Japanese communique said the offensive in South China had ‘taken the Chinese by surprise in the same. way America’s George Washington surprised the British Hessian troops when he crossed the Delaware. The Chinese, they said, were suffering from hangovers when attacked. The Japanese, after occupying Tamshui, drove westward . through Chinese defenses which, the Japanese said, had been caught napping. The entire offensive, the communique said, was timed to coincide with a sumptuous banquet for the new Chinese commander ‘of the Bias Bay area. The Chinese officers ate and drank well at the banquet, according to the Japanese, and were in no condition to direct effective resistance when the invasion began, Japanese also reported rapid progress in their offensive against Hankow, claiming to have inflicted 100,000 casualties on Chinese troops within the last week.

Where Do We Stand?, Wondering Thousands Ask as Pay-Hour Office Moves to Meet Oct. 24 Deadline

for time-and-a-half pay for hours worked in excess of 44. If the court upholds him, the employer must pay him double the amount of the withheld wages.. In addition, the Government may bring criminal prosecutions against violators, who may be fined up to $10,000 and, for second offenses, imprisoned for as much as six months, The Wage Hour Division Issued its first interpretative. bulletin this week, ruling that the act applies to maintenance workers, watchmen, clerks, stenographers: and - messengers, as well as to production workers, in plants which are turning out for interstate commerce.. A second bulletin will - “give specifications for learners, appren-. tices, messengers ahd handicapped workers, Aside 3s from these and a few other

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Army, Navy and

WASHINGTON, Oct. 14

timated budget estimates to

Mr. Roosevelt offered no

COURT ORDERS CLAYPOOL SALE

Lawrence Estate Holdings To Be Sold Upon Oral Bids In Open Auction.

Sale of the controlling stock in the Indiana Hotel Co., operators of the Claypool Hotel, was ordered today by Probate Judge Smiley

Chambers.

The stock involved: in the sale is

“owned by heirs of Mrs. Adelaide

Lawrence, former president of the company, who died more than a year: ago. The appraised value of 2022 shares, 59 per cent of the company’s stock, is $248,370. Par value of the stock is at $292,200. Judge Chambers ordered the. sale on a petition filed two weeks ago by executors of the estate. The court set the sale date for 10-a. m., Dec. 14, when oral bids will be received in open court. The court order provided that any prospective bidders first must put up in. order to have access to an auditor's report on the hotel's business. Then, if the bidder wishes to participate -in the. sale, he: must put up $5000 more with his bid.

Asks Protection of Surplus

William L. Taylor, one of the executors of the estate, said the hotel company now has a surplus in cash and bonds of $240,000. He asked that this money be protected “from raids” during the forthcoming transactions. Judge Chambers said the money would be protected under court order. The only other Jarge stockholder. in the hotel company is Mrs. Louise Milligan Herron, former Indianapolis resident now living in HonoIulu, who owns two-sevenths of the common stock. The Lawrence estate holdings represent foursevenths of the stock. Judge Chambers said he had reports that several large corporations with substantial capital were interested in buying the Lawrence, estate's stock,

Bank Stock Sale Approved

In addition -to the hotel stock, the Lawrence estate includes $112,500° of ‘stock in the Merchants’ National Bank, and $975,000 of stock in the Indiana Trust Co. Judge Chambers approved a plan of the executors to hire agents to sell this bank stock. The executors reported that jewelry owned by Mrs. Lawrence at the time of her death, originally appraised at $27,000, was sold recently (Continued on Page Three).

SPY PLEADS GUILTY, TOTESTIFY FOR U.S.

Deserter’s Seniéiice Delayed; Jury Sought.

NEW YORK, Oct. 14 (U, P).— Guenther Gustave Rumrich, Army deserter whose bungling attempt to obtain passport blanks led to the uncovering of an alleged Nazi spy ring, pleaded guilty to espionage charges in Federal Court today: . Rumrich’s plea came as: cotinsel prepared to pick a jury to try him and. three others accused as members ‘of the greatest peacetime spy organization ever uncovered in this

specifically with aiding Private Erich Glaser, another defendant, to steal a military ' aviation code from Mitchel Field, headquarters, ‘In the presence of Glaser, Otto Hermann Voss, mechanie ‘charged e. plans; | Johanna -Hofmann, ‘who allegedly | Of used her position of hairdresser on the liner Furopa to carry

to Terman, Rumrich gi w the

which the law requires slow

country. Rumrich had been charged|

eastern Army alr|

I. D. R INDICA

Foreign Develo nirients Make Full Survey 6 of

Air Needs Vital,

- President Tells Press. SPEAKS AFTER BARUCH'S WARNING

Standardization and Mass Production to: Be Goals of Investigation, Roosevelt Says; Bullitt Consulted,

(U. P.).—President Roosevelt

revealed today that foreign developments have: inspired: % major survey of American national defense needs. ‘Heine:

strengten the nation against

war will be considerably increased.

specific estimate of the _prob-

able cost of the expanded arms program. However, he emphasized the study was being made on the broadest possible basis as a result of information reaching the Government

from abroad. The President indicated that the study is concentrating on problems of standardization and mass production:of strategic weapons, such

airplanes. It was learned that Mr. Horie conferréd exhaustively yesterday on the European situation : ‘with Ambassador to Paris William: Bullitt, The conference continued until: iste last night, it was understood.

Mr. Roosevelt said the natiof defense situation requires th study and indicated that until ugh survey has been completed he will not make any publi¢- statement on the budget for the next. fiscal Mr. Roosevelt said that he. is now: undertaking a complete : tion of the national defense pletin's which he hopes soon to. present. its entirety to the American He is working with the view fo meet needs under new world coridt‘tions, he declared.

Fleet Expansion Included The Chief Executive revealed that his study was launched a" year ago on the basis of certain information coming into this country. He said it was accelerated by information received only in the past. month, - The President was: pressed asito whether that information coneernsd technical . military matters. or. 4: ternational ‘political: : He indicated that he had ‘technical matters in ‘mind although: he" said. that events also play a ‘part. in the situation. In connection with the extintatth for national defense in ‘the next fiscal year it was noted that at pen last press conference he. estimated the 1940 fiscal year - Navy budget alone would be incréased by 156 Pilon dollars due to fleet. expan=. on. Yesterday, Bernard Baruch, New York banker and Ma of the World War Industries Board, said after a visit with the Bresident, that América is tragically unprepared, because of lack of equipment.

Avoids Details Now

The President made clear that’'he was anxious to round out the whole picture before setting. it forth to the public.. For that reason he declared that he did not want to’ touch on specific details and individual items. The study, he said, was under. taken from the broad ‘view. of Nits tional ‘defense and ‘embraced > planes and the standardization’ of production of war materials. - He said Tuesddy that there be something at this conference on budget prospects. He and: his ad visers have been conferring week on Treasury conditions the outlook for the next fiscal YOUE Recent budget ‘trends have ae unsatisfactory. Here are some figures on the fiscal year 1938, which ended last June 30, and the fiscal ‘year 1939, which began July 1 aiid will: end June 30, 1939: ot Jan. 8 Estimates. Fingl F “| Receipts ....$6,320,000,000 ; Expenditures, 7,408,000,000 "7,708; 1,289,

Sts Net Deficit: ,. 1,088,000,000 ° Fiesl Year 19%

Jan. 5 Estimates: July 18

Net Deftelé .. 950,000,000 S905,00,008

PROMISES USE OF INDIANA NA LESTE

Governor - Townsend . ‘this after: noon. told a delegation: of Bedford

Fiseal Year: 198

e much limestone as possibl used on the