Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1938 — Page 1

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Boy, 6, in Critical Condition, 4 Others Hurt in 21 County Accidents.

DEATHS MOUNT TO 92

Trucker Killed at Crossing Identified as John Crady; 2 Children Victims.

(Photo, Page Three)

A six-year-old boy was in City Hospital today with critical injuries as police investigated three traffic deaths yesterday which boosted Marion County’s 1938 toll to 92. The victims were: John Crady, 36, of 1541 E. Gimber St. George Schakel, 10, of New Bethel. Earl Martin, 11 of 1940 Cornell

Ave. The injured boy is John Wetherald, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wetherald, 2243 N. Dearborn St. who was struck by an autos in the 3200 block of Roosevelt Ave. He re-

‘ceived serious head injuries, accord-

ing to physicians. Mr. Crady was killed when the dump truck he was driving was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at the S. Harding St. crossing. Mr. Crady lived with a brother, Earl Crady, at the Gimber St. address. His father, William Grady, lives in New Richmond. George Schakel, 10, of New Bethel, died at St. Francis Hospital after he was struck by an auto on Road 29 a mile west of New Bethel Deputy Coroner Hugh Thatcher is investigating.

Boy Killed by Truck

Earl Martin, 11, of 1940 Cornell Ave., was killed when run over by a truck at College Ave. and 22d St. at 11 p. m. Deputy Coroner Norman R. Booher is investigating. The Wetherald boy was one of five persons injured in 21 accidents

in the City and County yesterday. Police made 18 traffic arrests, including five alleged speeders and six persons charged with running through red lights. Mr. Crady was driving a truck owned by the Ed Lewis Construction Co., according to police. Parts of the truck were carried 500‘feet down the track. The driver’s body was found on the engine when the train stoped. P. W. Coons, Logansport, was the train engineer, and Edward Zink, Indianapolis, was conductor. Fifth Grade Pupil Victim The Schakel boy, a fifth grade pupil at St. John’s Lutheran School, Five Points, was on his way home when he was struck by an auto driven by Mrs. Nancy Jenkins, 53, R. R. 6, Shelbyville, according to the Sheriff's office. Mrs. Jenkins and her husband, Jacob, told deputy sheriffs that the

~ boy broke away from a group of

companions and ran in front of her car. Leslie Smith, livin at the Spink-Arms Hotel, who passed the scene of the accident immediately afterward, said he drove his car into a ditch to avoid striking the other boys. =

Administers First Aid Dr. G. L. Jones of New Bethel was

“called and administered first aid to

the injured boy, then took him to the hospital, where he died shortly afterward. Police said the Martin boy tried to “hop a ride” on a truck driven by William Champlin, 34, of 315 S. Lyon Ave. He fell under the side of the truck and the right rear wheels ran over him, killing him instantly, they said.

Retired Carpenter

Killed by Train

CHANDLER, Ind. Oct. 15 (U.P.). —Isaac R. Icks, 81, retired carpenter, was instantly killed yesterday

when he was struck by a Southern Railway train bound for Evansville.

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Community . Fund Keeps Family Together —and Still Smiling.

«“y THINK we do pretty good,” the old man said. “We have a chance to do what we can and we make—well, we make enough to somehow get along.” He was seated in a cubby-room in the basement of the building that houses Good Will Industries, Inc., supported partially by the Community Fund. His job was refinishing a sewing machine someone had given for resale. “My daughter,” he: continued, “works, too. She has two children and we keep them in the country. She lives in another part of town, but on Sundays we visit, and we think things are going to work out all right.” 2 » = HIS man, before he was crippled with infantile paralysis, owned and operating a cabinetmaking shop in Cincinnati. Even when he was stricken, nearly 20 years ago, he had revenue - producing properties and money in the bank. Then came the depression. “Everything I had went, and I still couldn’t walk so well,” he said. Then he smiled and looked at an open basement window, through which the sun was streaming. “We're getting along. This is a good place to work. We keep the children and on Sunday,” he repeated, “my daughter and I visit.” Then he went to work at the SeNing machine, planning a new ife.

ROOSEVELT SPURS CHARITY CAMPAIGNS

No Conflict With U. S. Aid, He Says Over Radio.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U. P.).— The 1938 Mobilization for Human

Needs began today after an appeal by President Roosevelt for support of local Community Chest drives. In a nation-wide radio address last night, the President formally opened the 5th annual campaign for funds for private charity with a denial that Government assistance to the needy has removed or even diminished the need for private help. _ The necessity for community action is as great as before, he said, “because Government help was intended, and is intended, to improve the old- conditions, and if local help and private help decrease today, we will nullify the improvement and return to where we were before.” Contending that private community effort is not contradictory in principle to Government effort, whether state, local or national, the Persident cited the recent hurricane disaster in New England as an example of the effectiveness of the cooperation.

DANISH ACTOR DEAD

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Johannes Poulsen, famous actor, died yesterday after an operation for a brain tumor. He directed the Everyman Theater at Hollywood in 1936. He was 56.

‘Afraid of Nothing’ —That's First Lady

- "Boiling. with energy, interested in everything, afraid of nothing, she is always 'in to the eyeballs’ in everything she tries," says Gen. Johnson of his fellow columnist, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. See Page 10 for his column on the First Lady.

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In the Sudetenland, it all depends on whose baby you are. Per-

like Mrs. Vera Koudelova, at left

above. Then your folks flee with scant possessions as the Nazi army of occupation approaches. You get tired and hungry, and you cry. But mother can’t help you much. She can get you to the safety of Praha, as Mrs. Koudelova did. There, with 1500 other refugees, youll be packed into a school building—with a mattress on a straw-covered

8 ARRAIGNED ON

FRAUD CHARGES

Not Guilty Pleas Entered; Trial Date Is Set For Dec. 5.

Eight persons charged with con-

spiracy to use the mails to defraud in connection with an alleged $1,000,000 scheme which purportedly resulted in the closing of two banks and losses to 100 others, today entered pleas of not guilty in Federal Court. : One other person pleaded not guilty to charges of violating the National Banking Act. Two of the eight who entered pleas on the first charge also pleaded not guilty to the second. The nine were indicted by

the Federal Grand Jury last month. Federal Judge Robert C. Baltzell set the trial dates in the mail fraud cases for Dec. 5 and indicated that the trial of the alleged banking act violations . would follow shortly after. Arraigned in Federal Court on mail fraud charges were: John W. Moore, president and manager of the Continental Credit Corp.; John W. Moore Jr., his son, secretary and treasurer of the Continental company and executive vice president of the Indiana Warehouse Co. of Winchester; Mrs. Anna Louise Trent, daughter of Mr. Moore Sr., executive vice president of the Continental company; Hiram M. Browne, executive vice president of Lang Industries, Muncie, member of the board of the Mineral Felt Co, Toledo, O., and financial adviser of the Continental company; Kenneth P. Kimball, president of the KimMurph Co.; Ralph S. Phillips, treasurer of the Mineral Felt Co.; Harry Eikenberry, treasurer of the Lang Industries, and Russell E. Wise, Union City, general counsel for the Continental Credit Corp., later receiver for the corporation. Elmer Kerr, former head of the Commercial Bank and Trust Co. of Union City, and the Moores pleaded not guilty to charges of violating

the. National Banking Act.

FIRST LADY VISITS JESSE JAMES’ HOME (My Diary, Page Nine.)

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. Oct. 15 (U. P.).—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today visited the house in which Jesse James, the bandit and train robber,” was shot and killed. She declined to say whether she believed it should be preserved for historical purposes. ; “Jesse was a colorful character, though,” she conceded. Mrs. Roosevelt will speak here tonight. - Ea : ra

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1938

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floor as your new home, and charity the only source of your meals. But if you folks like Herr Hitler and the Nazis, you live amid scenes

of joyous celebration. When the

Germans come, your mother and

other women pelt them with flowers. Perhaps a steel-helmeted soldier, like the one at right, thinks of his owh kinder and stops. He tosses you up—and that’s fun. So you pat his face to show you like him, and run happily back to your mother. It all depends.

Perkins Urges Mediation; Ford Talks 32-Hour Week

THE LABOR SITUATION SECRETARY PERKINS asks C. I. 0.-A. F. L. mediation. HENRY FORD holds conference. with Homer Martin, RAILWAY wage cut seen as possible aid to recovery. MINE WORKERS’ UNION claims 612,000 members,

By THOMAS L. STOKES

_ Times Special Writer DETROIT, Oct. 15.—Henry Ford’s secret and mysterious. negotiations

with Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers, are expected to result shortly in developments of unusual significance. From a thoroughly reliable authority it is learned that, among matters discussed by the two men and Harry S. Bennett, Ford person-

nel director, -was establishment of.

the 32-hour week in the Ford plant, instead of the 40-hour week schedule. : Continuation of negotiations suggests that announcement of some such plan is imminent. Not only would such a plan give impetus to the back-to-work movement in Detroit’s automotive industry, now going on at a rapid rate with production requirements for new models. It also would be a significant step toward a still shorter work week in industry, which many see as an alleviation, if not the complete solution, for the unemployment problem. . The issue of the 32-hour week, raised by the automobile union with (Continued on Page Three)

IOWA MAN DIVES TO DEATH FROM BRIDGE

‘Let Me Do One Good Thing,’ He Writes Mother.

A man identified by cards in his pocket as John Adelmar Phillips, 26, of Davenport, Iowa, today dived 50 feet from the W, Washington St. bridge onto- the ‘rocks of White

| River, according to police.

He was dead when officers reached him in a rowboat. His skull was fractured and his ribs and right leg broken. Deputy Coroner Norman Booher said he probably would recommend a verdict of suicide. Before leaping from the stone rail at the north side of the bridge, the man laid his billfold ‘and a note addressed to-his mother: on the railing, witnesses said. “Let. me do one good thing by getting out of the way of a lot of people. who can certainly better themselves without my name to

POVsr them,” the letter read in Irv.

NEW YORK tugboat workers walk out,

COLUMBUS, O,, Oct. 15 (U. P.) — The Roosevelt Administration made its first definite move to end the dispute between the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. today by suggesting that both sides assign representatives to a mediation committee which would begin work at once.

In an address at an anniversary celebration of an unaffiliated railroad union, Secretary of Labor

Perkins proposed that the A. F. of L.|

and the C. I. O. each appoint “five trusted and experienced representatives to a mediation committee and give them authority to bind their respective organizations to any agreement they may reach.” She suggested that these 10 men select three impartial persons as additional members. of the committee and that the chairman be chosen from these neutral members. If the A. F. of L. and the C. I. O. negotiators cannot agree on neutral members, she said, their choice should be left to “some outside trusted person.” If such a plan is accepted, some sources believed that President Roosevelt ultimately might be asked to pick the three extra members. Miss Perkins’ address, before a

| joint celebration of the 70th anni-

(Continued on Page Three) Grand Jury Gives a Hot Dog Verdict

The Marion County Grand Jury, in a partial report to.day, said .it. will go on a wiener roast next Friday. The roast will be held on the farm of Juror Hobart Barker, near Traders Point, and every one will bring ‘his own ‘wieners. Grand Jury Prosecutor Henry Goett has “been invited and will attend. So ‘will Miss Rosemary BrenGrand Jury stenographer. Grand jurors explained that by Friday they will have passed on most of the cases of those now held in jail and " that they will picnic and then take up the cases of those out

on bond. -

Lowly Football Fan Gains Recognition Col. Joe Offers Trophy to Daffiest of Breed

By JOE WILLIAMS * Times Special Writer

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—This is the

time of the year when people write.

and ask you to serve on football committees. They want you to help select the most valuable player of the season, the brightest player of the season and the player who has been sweetest to his mother.

This, in short, is the beginning of the trophy season. There is a trophy for the player who looks most like Robert Taylor, a trophy for the player who never baited a mouse trap play with cheese, but did it the hard way, a trophy for the player whose morals were too high ever to stoop to a quarterback sneak. These committees are inspired and trophies presented by unselfish souls whose only motive is to see that the great autumnal sport and the dashing, clear-eyed youths who interpret it are duly and properly honored. We always have deemed it a high tribute to serve on these committees and to have a feeble voice in the distribution of the various trophies.

True, something always came up to cause us to neglect sending

our vote and we always felt desolate about these omissions be-, cause it made use realize we were not faithful to our trust. But these sportsmen always seemed to understand. When the names of the trophy winners were announced our name was always mentioned as one of those who had given serious consideration to the subject. We feel now the time has come that we should do something for the great game of football on our own. We want to do some slight thing to make amends for our negli-

gence in the past.

What we want to do is to put up a trophy for the football fan. As a starter, we wish to announce the creation of a trophy for the dafflest football fan. We feel that football, like peace pacts, is not to be taken too seriously and that manifestations of good, clean fun are to be encouraged rather than discouraged. Just how to arrive at a superior,

sublimated quality of daffiness injpalms

the football fan is a problem. Perhaps we. will have to form g comald

in| mittee and seek to enlist

of all the agencies for which we have served in like capacity. in the past. 3 Already we are beginning to regret that we created our trophy because it now occurs to us that all football fans are daffy, or else why would ‘they want to get away from the warmth of their homes to sit in snow-swept stadiums, getting their kissers all wet and at intervals leaping to their feet and screeching, “Block that kick”? : We wouldn’t know, but nevertheless we do feel something should be done to recognize extraordinary demonstrations of daffiness on the part of the fan, such as the gloriously pie-eyed gent who - stormed out of the stands at Princeton one day and took his position in the line with a sorely harassed Dartmouth team. To us this was the most magnificent exhibition of inspired daffiness we ever saw and even to this day we cannot understand why a medal with revolving doors and spreading was not struck off in commemoration of the event. This was

a fine football game but all the peo-

Entered as at Postoffice,

BUTLER MEETS TIGERS UNDER SERENE SKIES

Day Is Typically Autumn, So’s Homecoming Which Jams Campus.

INDIANA AT NEBRASKA

Purdue Takes on Fordham at New York, Notre Dame Tackles Illini.

Even the weather today went football as Indianapolis in general and Butler University in particular staged the annual Butler-DePauw game at Butler field. A trifle warm perhaps, the weather nevertheless was bright and clear and autumn as well as football was in the air.

TEMPERATURES 59 10 Qe m.. oe 11 a. m.... 12 (Noon). 1p m...

6 7 8 a. m.... 0 70

Throughout the forenoon and until game time the Butler campus was filled with alumni, back for the home-coming celebration. Butler and DePauw football teams have played 23 times since 1888, and entered the fray today with the edge one game in favor of Butler. Other ' Indiana teams, in action elsewhere, shared the interest of fans. The Indiana University team was at Lincoln, Neb. to play Nebraska University’s powerful eleven, and Purdue was in New York to meet Fordham’s Rams. Unbeaten Notre Dame and Illinois met at South Bend.

Title May Be at Stake

In addition to being home-com-ing, the Butler-DePauw game today will have a bearing on the Indiana Collegiate Conference football title, which Butler has held for the last four years. Last year Butler won, 13 to 0. These circumstances produced, on the Butler campus, a current of excitement that-began yesterday when the freshmen beat the sophomores in the traditional class battle. Fraternity and sorority houses were decorated specially for the occesion and the decorations were judged this morning. This afternoon Crimson Quill, senior women’s honorary organization, held a reception in .Arthur Jordan Hall, and tonight, in the Fieldhouse, the annual homecoming dance will be held under the sponsorship of the Crimson Quill and the Blue Key, men’s honorary organization. y At noon today fraternities and sororities held alumni luncheons. -

Hopes to Change Luck

Indiana University was defeated last year by Nebraska, 7 to 0, and I. U. fans this year were hoping for a victory to end the team’s bad luck streak. Purdue was beaten, 21 to 3, last year by Fordham, and Fordham has not been beaten since 1936. Illinois got off to a slow start this season, but last week thumped Indiana, 12 to 2. Two other games in the state concern the state conference title. Ball State Teachers College met Manchester College at Manchester and Hanover College tackled Indiana State Teachers College at Hanover. Earlham College took on Wabash at Crawfordsville and Evansville met Franklin at Franklin, Other interstate games involving Indiana teams were Valparaiso College and Luther College at Decorah, Towa, and the University of Louisville and St. Joseph’s College at Collegeville. :

STEEG WILL MEET BELT EXECUTIVES

City Engineer Henry B. Steeg will go to Chicago Monday to confer with Indianapolis Union (Belt) Railway officials on engineering details of the proposed South Side track elevation projects. The details are reported to be a stumbling block to complete agreement on the $1,000,000 project. A PWA grant for 45 per cent of the

cost has been approved.

at Last:

stadium was the goofy geezer who finally surrendered to a lyrical impulse and joined in the battle. Very likely we do not come to the big games with the true spirit of the old grad. It must be that we are

not entirely normal because we recall another like incident that occurred last year down South when Citadel was playing South Carolina. It was a close game and at a critical moment a South Carolina ball carrier broke loose and was on his way to a touchdown when out of the stands popped a bourbon buffoon, with obvious Citadel leanings—or maybe staggers is the word —and tackled.the runner. Not only tackled him, but threw him down and gleefully sat on him. We thought this was not only very praiseworthy but a noble expression of college loyalty, the kind any ‘mother would feel amply gratified in finding in a son, and_ we were surprised to read harsh criticisms of the act in the newspapers the next day, some of which tied it up with the evils of campus drinking, and

thus, in our mind, missed the lofty beauty of the LL

nd-Class Matter dianapolis Ind.

BUSINESS GAIN BEST SINCE ’35, (. OF (.REPORT

City Employment and Payrolls in September

PRICE THREE CENTS

Highest for Any UPSWING LED BY

ing Outlook Good;

said.

of Indianapolis is reflected in

ECONOMY ASKED BYU. S, CHAMBER

Congress Urged to Amend Social Security and Wagner Laws.

_ WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (U, P.).— The U, 8. Chamber of Commerce today outlined a five-point business recovety program for action at the next session of Congress.

The Chamber, in its publication, Washington Review, said that Congress could give “aid and comfort” to the current upturn in business if it turned its attention to: 1. Pruning Government expenditures. 2. Revising the Wagner Labor Relations Act to “assure fair and equitable treatment to all interested parties.” - 3. Basing restrictions governing the flow of investment capital. 4. Changing the Social Security Act to eliminate the next scheduled increase in payroll taxes. : 5. Reconsidering the Wage-Hour Act “to end present confusion over the extent of its application.” «It is in the field of fiscal matters that Congress will have its largest opportunity to lay a solid foundation for sound business recovery,” the review added. “Putting the Government's financial house in

most urgent and most important problem that will confront the new Congress.” The chamber also said that the threat of “higher and still higher taxes” is a major deterrent to business progress and that Congress could relieve this apprehension by early formulation of a’ program. to end budgetary deficits through economies rather than through increased levies.

MEYER TO APPEAL $1,208,333 VERDICT

Jury Returns Judgment for Bank Receiver.

Sol Meyer, former officer of the closed Meyer-Kiser Bank, today said he will appeal a jury verdict from the Bartholomew Circuit Court giving the bank’s receiver a $1,208,333.33 judgment against him. Thomas E. Garvin, the receiver, said that the amount of the judgment was about the same as the amount of deposits in the bank at the time it closed and that if he could collect the judgment he could

ay depositors in full. ; i Se G. W. Long's

The jury, in Judge court, returned the verdict last night. The suit originally was filed in Circuit Court here and asked a judgment of $3,025,000, alleging that the defendant had converted more than three million of the bank’s funds to his own use from 1821 to 1933. Before the trial, however, attorneys for the receiver dismissed two paragraphs of the complaint leaving the amount asked $1,675,000.

DOCTORS OPERATE ON ‘UP-SIDE-DOWN’ CASE

Mrs. Geneva McKinney, 26, of 2728 N. Harding St., was convales-

operation for correction of an “up-side-down” stomach. Mrs. McKinney had suffered what

phragmatic hernia. Her condition was not discovered until recently when she underwent an X-ray

better order would seem to be the

ing today in City Hospial after an|?

medical authorities term a dia-|Fiynn

Month in Three

Years, Statement Says.

MANUFACTURING

Retail Outlets Enjoy Increased Trade; Build-

Postal and Utility

Receipts Increase.

The Chamber of Commerce today reported that Indianapolis business in September showed the largest gain in manufacturing and nonmanufacturing employment and payrolls of any month since January, 1935. It was the third consecutive month of the rise, and greatest gains were in durable goods industries, the report

“Business statistics,” it said, “continue to reflect some apparent trends toward recovery, as the plus sign displaces the minus sign with more frequency and persistence in sige’ nificant business barometers.” : “Confidence of the business community in the future

the launching of several new

building projects, including a six-story apartment, two store buildings in Broad Ripple, 22 double houses in the Riverside

district, plans for a Speedway, City addition eventually to build 80 houses, and the lunching of a new life insur-

ance company. “Various reports continue to add to evidence previously adduced that Indianapolis is relatively in better

position and making more encouraging progress toward normal condi tions than most other cities in Ine diana and elsewhere throughout the country. :

“Indianapolis eain is listed by

the or

survey lists Indianapolis business as having improved 3 per cent over August.” in . Building Gains Noted The Chamber reported that build ing and real estate activity declined from August but gained over September last year; that bank clears ings and debits were up for . the month; that postal receipts were larger than in several months and exceeded those for September last year, and that electric power and gas consumption reached new high levels for considerable period.. - Outhound c¢arloadings made some gain in the month, but inbound loadings declined somewhat. The report continued: “Reports made to the Indiana State Employment Service by 589 Indianapolis manufacturing and nonmanufacturing concerns showed increases of 9.9 per cent in employ~ ment and 9.6 per cent in payrolls for the month over August, follow ing gains of 3.3 per cent and 47 per cent, respectively, in August over July. Retailers Set Pace

“Gains were most pronounced in the manufacturing group, reports from 159 plants in the City showing gains of 12.6 per cent-in employ ment and 12.4 per cent in payrolls. These gains were larger than thuse for the State as a whole.” The Chamber said that the retail trade group -showed greatest gains in the nonmanufacturing group, with 335 stores reporting employ~ ment and payrolls up 83 per cent and 4.5 per cent respectively. From September last year, 570 manufacturing and nonmanufaceturing concerns reported decline of 13.1 per cent and 13.8 per cent, respectively, in employment and paye roll this September, but the State average on that comparison was down 27.9 per cent and 35.4 per cent.

Relief Clients Drop

“The total cost of township relief and WPA wages was larger in September than in August ale though the total number of clients was less,” the report said. “The number of persons was larger than for the corresponding months of 1937 and the cost nearly doubled. “Benefit liabilities paid under the unemployment compensation . to the end of September are relatively much smaller than those paid in other industrial centers. According to the State Unemployment Compensation Division, 1500 persons left the benefit rolls for jobs in the Indianapolis district in September, bringing the total to 6100 since April 1.”

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