Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1938 — Page 1
[soupes—#owarp] VOLUME. 50—NUMBER 192
U.S.INDICTS 73
ON CHARGES OF GRAFT IN WPA
Grand Jury in New Mexico Alleges Pressure for Political Ends.
$10,000 FINES POSSIBLE
Senator’s Sister, Law, Secretary Included In True Bills.
' ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Oct. 21
(U. P.).—Seventy-three persons, including the sister, the son-in-law and the secretary of Senator Chavez (D. N.M.), are scheduled to sur-
render today, to provide bond guar- |.
anteeing their appearance in court
to answer indictments charging them with criminal misuse of WPA machinery, materials and workers. The Grand Jury indicted 62 persons on charges of conspiracy to violate the WPA appropriations - code, an offense carrying a maximum penalty of $10,000 fine and two years imprisonment. It indicted 11 others on charges of diversion of WPA labor, falsification of payrolls or diversion of materials. Conviction on these charges carries a maximum $2000 fine and one year imprisonment. Among the indicted were Senator Chavez’ son-in-law, Assistant U. S. District Attorney Stanley Miller, Mrs. Anita Tafoya, the Senator’s sister, and Fred Healy “ho was dismissed as New Mexico WPA Administrator by Federal Administrator Harry Hopkins on Sept. 24. The WPA appropriations code rules that the system’s honey may not be used ‘for political purposes. But the jury reported that violations affected nearly every section of
New Mexico and favored no political |.
organization specifically. It said that in one community “one particular political advantage was sought” while in another “political advantage of just an ‘opposite type was sought.” Political Rallies Involved
Mrs. Tafoya was charged specifically with having instructed work‘ers on a sewing room project to attend a political meeting ¢t her residence, a gathering which subsequently was held. Miller was charged with conducts ing a political rally at his Albuquergue residence “on or-about March 1, 1938,” and with attending a July session. of the Bernalillo County
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TELESCOPE HAS
Largest in State, Expected To Be Ready for Use In December.
being placed
atory on the Dr. Goethe Link summer place in Morgan County,
placed in operation.
escope, now operating, will pick out people on the ground 45 miles away —so0 you can-see whether they have their coats on or off. The little one
is one-fifth as powerful as the big
one.
tory, built at an approximate cost of $25,000, will be placed at the disposal of -astronomy departments of any state university; or anyone seriously interested in astronomy, stated times, Dr. ‘Link has said.
be ready in December, will be. able
after about six hours’ exposure. The glass for the large unit was poured at the same time and from the same pot as the 200-inch reflector, for the world’s largest telescope at Corning, N.Y.
Democratic Committee at another meeting place here.
Joe Martinez, Senator Chavez's | 427
Secretary, was alleged to have told A. C. Holsworth, WPA zone engineer, in effect, to close down projects ‘in Bernalillo County for one day so .that employees could gttend a - political demonstration in Santa Fe.
General charges for indictments!
said that threats were used to compel WPA workers to join with indicted officials in taking joint and unified political action. WPA employees reportedly were made to help in political campaigning Wile they were on the payroll.
Refuse to Comment
The jury charged that WPA em-!
ployees were made to join political; clubs disguised as social organizations and made to pay dues and! buy tickets to so-called social func-| tions’ Miller, Mrs. Tafoya and Healy, all of whom face conspiracy charges, refused to make statements. Senator Chavez also declined, saying “the matter is before the court for settlement.” Although the investigation began Sept. 7, indictments came unexpectedly. Apparently all persons billed were at their usual jobs. Bu} E. A. Rose, zone supervisor; A. C. Holzworth, chief zone engineer; Willie B. Poor, chief timekeeper, and Joe Barella, assistant assignment clerk, promptly sent resignations to Acting State Administrator Rex L. Nicholson of Salt Lake City. Mr. Nicholson at Santa Fe would not comment. U. S. District Judge Colin Neblett who set bonds at $1900 for each defendant, commented at the time he ordered the grand jury investigation that “it was common rumor that graft had been going on for some time.” Governor Tingley, who appointed Senator Chavez to the Senate on May 11, 1935, headed the list of 50 witnesses before the grand jury.
AWARD CONTRACTS FOR JULIETTA UNIT
County Commissioners today awarded contracts to four companies for materials to be used at Julietta Hospital. The steel contract was awarded to the Insley Manufacturing Co. and the Truscon Co. The heating and plumbing contract was given to Crane & Co., and brick mortar contracts went to the Advance Block Material Co. - Commissioners also received one bid from the Scott. Trucking Co. to haul voting machines to polling places.
BULLETIN
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Oct. 21 (U. P.) —Sylva Eugenia Davis, 20-year-old paralytic who underwent a delicate spinal operation March 8, in an effort to gain use of her arm and leg muscles, died today.
FIRE DAMAGES HOME
Ya Fire resulting from an overheated
caused $250 damage at the
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It was brought to Indianapolis
{and for nearly a year, 15 hours a
, it was on an automatic machine, built especially for the job, which ground a convex surface. The ground reflector was sent to the observatory only a few days ago. It will be put into place as soon as some electrical devices have been mounted on the large steel frame, which also was made in an Indianapolis shop. The observatory itself was placed at the edge of the glacier shelf, in {what astronomers say is probably the best spot for it in the state.
SEVEN ARE INDICTED ON ASSAULT COUNTS
62 Named in Largest Grand Jury Report in Months.
(Another Story, Page 13)
Seven men were indicted on charges of assault with intent to rape in a report returned by the Marion County Grand Jury in Criminal Court today. A total of 46 indictments naming 62 persons were included in the list. . 1."was the largest report handed down by, the jury in several months. The seven named in the indictments charging assault with intent to rape were Otto Linn, Vinnie Bridwell, Russell Brown, John B. Dullen, Albert Farrell, James Francis and George Thomas. All have been arrested and released on bond Two motorists were indicted on charges of driving while intoxicated: They were George Mann and Andrew Murnain.
Charged With Robbery
The jury returned a new indictment against Walter Delacy, Leonard Marr and James Upley, charging them with robbery and auto banditry in connection with. the theft of $250 from Frank Vanoff last Jan. 30. An earlier indictment against the three, charging them with robbing the Eaton Restaurant was dismissed today. Last June, they were tried on an indictment which the court decided was faulty. They were reindicted for the Eaton robbery, but their attorneys filed a demurrer, charging they were placed under jeopardy twice for the same alleged offense.
U. S. DEFICIT TOPS BILLION DOLLARS
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WASHINGTON, Oet. 21 (U, P.. —The gross Federal deficit has passed the billion-dollar mark, the Treasury revealed today. The excess of spending over in-
Oct. 19 amounted to $1,012,382,658 as compared with $487,202,215 in the corresponding period last year, Income totaled = $1,711,509,368, which was $167,000,000 below last
989,026 ;as compared. with: $3,365,
36-INCH MIRROR
The new 36-inch telescope now jj in a new observ-!;
30-o0dd ; miles away, will pick up the electric |} sign on the Merchants Bank Build- |} ing one word at a time after it is|{
It will magnify .the sign so that
{the reflector will hold no more than |§ the one word. Even the little tel- |}
Nearing completion, the observa- |:
ati} The large telescope, expected to 3 to photograph stars 200 million light i years away in about half an hour,
Smaller units can achieve that dis- | tance on photographic plates only !}
The new observatory (above) was constructed by, Dr. Goethe Link, Indianapolis physician, on his summer place in Morgan County, near
Brooklyn.
C. Maier, observer (left) and Prof, Wilbur, A. University, inspect the 36-inch reflector.
Work on the major unit still is progressing. :Below, Victor
Cogshall ‘of - Indiana
Tried to Win
Back Wife,
“Ideal Husband’ Testifies
CHICAGO, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—Rudolph Sikora, fighting for his ‘life in a trial for murder, remembered in detail today the alleged infidelity of his wife but his mind was a blank concerning the moment when he changed from a meek “perfect husband” to an avenging gunman and killed the man who had stolen his wife's love.
He freely answered questions regarding his wife's affection for Edward Solomon, quoting in a tense, strained voice the exact words in which she broke the news to him that Solomon’s kisses had won her. He remembered going to a street
corner on the morning of Aug. 22 carrying a pistol. He remembered being taken away in a police car to be charged with murder.
But over and “ver he repeated “I
don’t remember” when he was asked about the interlude between, in which - witnesses said he fired five shots into Solomon, crying “homebreaker!” Cross-examination failed to bring back the memory of that scene. “All I can RE is about my wife,” he apologized. The defendant guve the jury of 11 husbands and .one. bachelor a vivid picture of his efforts to win back his wife's love. “I asked, her if she didn’t think Solomon was just using her.as a toy,” he said. “She said she was so sick she didn't know. She said :she was beside herself. I-asked her what I had done, if I drank, had .been mean and if she knew I loved her.| “She said, ‘Yes. you have been a perfect husband. Perhaps that's the trouble.’ ” The case ‘was expected to go to the jury late today or tomorrow.
230 ARE KILLED BY TYPHOON IN JAPAN
Storm Floods Houses, Levels Trees: in Tokyo.
TOKYO, Oct. 21 (U. P.).—The tail of a typhoon which caused an estimated 230 deaths in Kyushu Prefecture ‘passed through Tokyo today, causing great. damage. Probably flooded and many trees were destroyed.. "Traffic was temporarily paralyzed in the “Tokyo area. It was estimated’ 35,000 persons in Kyushu were in distress as a Te sult of the typhoon. The Weather Bureau predicted that another typhoon, approaching the Izu Peninsula, ‘would hit Tokyo tonight.
SCHUSCHNIGG'S FATHER DIES VIENNA, Oct. 21 (U.-P) —Field Marshal Lieutenant Arthur Schuschnigg, father of the deposed and imprisonéd chancellor-of - Austria, died
10,000 - “houses were’
[FOR ELEVATION PLANS GIVEN]
{Engineers Draft Proposal
For Final Approval of Belt. Directors.
“The Works Board today directed
“lthe City Céhtroller’s office. to*-ear-
mark $30,000 . for cost of construction plans: and other preparatory work on ‘the: proposed South Side track elevation. - Meanwhile, railroad and “City engineers ‘proceeded with detailed plans tobe ‘submitted to the Board of Directors of the Indianapolis Union Railway Co. for final approval.
decision’ on the project is. Oct: 217, the date set by PWA in its offer to the City of 45 per cent of the total cost .of the million-dollar project. The City has submitted two proposed methods of financing the raitroad’s share of the project. It has been pointed out, however, by rail-| road officials that the board can give | no decision - until final plans are completed. Henry B. Steeg, City engineer, said today, however, that preliminary
'| construction plans were completed
several weeks ago, and.that the railroad was in a position to give a
decision whenever it saw fit.
Mayor Boetcher concurred in this statement. He ‘said that final decision on’ the project now rested en-
‘tirely with the railroad. This de-
cision, he said, may come at any time.
Boy Guided by" Fund Institution Takes Straight Course.
(Photos and Fund Donors, Page 17)
HIS is the story of ‘an Indianapolis high school honor student who, at this time last year, had made a start on a criminal career. A member of an alley garg, the youth became involved with police hére and ‘was haled before Juve-
Officials of the. Boys’ Club on English Ave., a Community Fundsupported institution, went to bat for him and he was paroled to them. :
Community Fund workers reported pledges of $44,051 at their luncheon today. This brings the total contributions thus far to $521,649.02, or 73.3 per cent of the goal.
Not long afterward, however, an official of the club was notified that the youth was under arrest for burglary in an Illinois town. The club official drove there and spent a day outlining to the proprietor of the robbed store and authorities how the boy had slipped into bad ways. He ‘told them how he merely had . chosen the wrong com-
- misdirected .energy,. and how the Boys’ Club wanted the youth to be a good. gion and" nob a ‘bad one. : ¥ 2 ONVINCED Es the clobe official was sincere, Illinois released the youth and the club of- , ficer brought him back home. By
probable ‘consequences of a. life of crime, the youth became : active in the club, contacted members of. his old gang. and per-. suaded them to join. And ‘thus a leader and his followers became “social ‘instead “of
of a heart attack today. He was 74.
antisocial units.
Works Board Orders Money| - ‘Earmarked to Pay for - Preliminary Work.
PWA DEADLINE NEARS
The deadline for the railroad’s
Path Turns |.
gagement confirmed officially.
nile Court vn delinquency charges.
panions, had been .the victim of..
now thoroughly: awake to. ‘the:
Entered ‘as Sega. us Matter
t . Postoffice, -
- Dies in + Plunge.
DOROTHY HALE'S DEATH MYSTERY
Actress “Reported Fianoes Of Hopkins, ‘Shocked’ By News of Tragedy.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (U. P).—! Mrs. Dorothy Gardner Hale, widow |
of a noted mural painter, who was reported engaged last May to WPA Administrator Harry ° L. "Hopkins, plunged to: ‘her death today from
“1 her apartment. on-the 16th ‘floor of row, ‘the Bureau warned.
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fashionable Hampshire House.
they were: sean tog n su quent weeks the bos of in ene circulated: It never: was
Since no: one: immediately claimed
the body, it was placed in the court-
yard of the W. 47th St. police station and many patrolmen stopped to look at it, for even .in death
‘Dorothy Hale retained thé striking
gypsy-like attraction that. made her one of the beautiful women in New
1 York.
The fall did not disarrange her upswept coiffure. She wore a black velvet hostess gown and black and silver sandals with high . spiked heels. round her ‘throat was . a black ribbon - suspending. a gold Florentine ornament,
Probably Suicide’ |
The routine card filed in the station listed the cause of death as “probably suicide.” Mrs. Hale was the former Miss Dorothy Donovan of Pittsburgh. Her first husband was T. Gaillard Thomas. She was married to Mr. Hale, who revived the art of fresco painting, in 1929, and posed for many of his works. : Mr. Hale was killed near. Santa (Continued on Page Three)
POLICEMAN SEIZED “AS RECORD LOOTER
Denounced by Valentine as ‘Slimy Creature.”
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (U.P)— Cuthbert‘ Behan, the first “police lieutenant ever to: appear in ‘the criminal lineup, stood stolidly: under the klieg. lights today and heard himself denounced as a “slimy ser-
pentine creature” who had stolen |:
the records ‘of 7200 arrests from Brooklyn headquarters. “Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine uttered the castigation before Behan was taken back to Brooklyn for arraignment on larceny charges. carrying .a possible sentence. of 10 years. Behan was held in $25,000 bail: for. hearing Oct. 28. The police records had disap‘peared “just: before an ‘investigation
{of alleged judicial’ corruption in’
‘| Kings County. (Brookiymh.
Voters 2 to 1 Against $30-Every Thursday %h Pension in California, Gallup Survey Shows
- ‘By DR. GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion. NEW YORK, Oct. 21. —Preliminary results of a public opinion survey in California show a decisive majority. against enactment of the “Thirty-Dollars-Every-Thursday” pension pian on which ‘the . voters:
will give their verdict Nov. 8.
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The scheme, which goes on the state’s ballots’ .as ‘the. result of a mammoth petition, not only is rocking California but has atin
more national attention than any.
pension drive since the Townsend
Plan. Even the Roosevelt Administration has stepped, into the fight and attempted to defeat the movement. Because it is the most widely discussed of the
many extreme pension - up in the nation, the American. Institute of Public Opinion conducted a special cross-section survey Usvughout California.
emes whiclh’are popping
findings show the voters. against
ts preliminary the plan by approximately 2'to 1. = The rauk and file of both major parties are op-
‘The: “430-Every- Thursday” plan, with: variations, has spread to many other states. It is being promoted by organizations or political candidates in Tennessee, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Maine, Oklahoma,
Louisiana and Wisconsin.
In. Kansas theres a ‘movement. for «$95. Bvery-Tuesday.” A Permsylvania organization is sponsoring another plan with. the slogan |
260 After 60.” In' Alabama a
up issues a pamphlet. entitled: “Life
Begins at.50 With $30 a Week for Life to Bvery Alabama, Citizen 50. or
Over Without Added Taxes.”
. Because of the growth.of pension movements similar to the oul: ‘fornia drive, the Institute now: is conducting a’ survey throughout. th
Nation to dete e how “$30~Every-Thu . two weeks. =
Undoubtedly one ‘ of the seasons why politicians’ of both partiepdfCasiers on’ the pension movement is that the pension pro- |
are
many perso day” Plan; Results will be Tepor
ns outside ornis, favor: the
‘within the next
come . during the period July 1 tol.
year. Spending totaled ,723,- iL 383,208 fast: year,
posed to the scheme, according to ' the survey. | Among California. Democrats, the vote is approxi mately 3 to 2° opposed, ‘and among. Republicans nearly 4 to L The survey, conducted by field. interviewers throughout the: ‘State, is not yet completed. Final returns will ‘be. feported. hetare the: leo.
tion.
But the preliminary vote indicates change in -sen ot, the scheme Willbe Yember,
gram under the Social Security Act is one of the most ‘popular programs sponsored by the New Deal. Institute Surveys Tepeatedly rams voters indorsing’ the pension Jhciple’ by 8'to favoring: JRNTRES | of: "oonaervative 3
Tadisnatolis And,
Sarees Industrial
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neer, announced today.
His optimism was based,
CLOUDY, WARMER IS WEATHER FORECAST
TEMPERATURES 6 a. m....41 10 a. m.... 7 a m,....42 11 a. m.....58 8am... 45 12 Noon... .60 94 m....50 1p m .. 62.
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The Weather Bureau’ predicted that tonight will be cloudy and warmer, tomorrow cloudy and colder. There may be showers tomor-
* IN THE FAR EAST
SHANGHAI—Japs enter Canton as mediation move is begun.
IN THE AMERICAS WASHINGTON-—-U. ' 'S.“ confldent snarl over trade treaty vill end. "LONDON ms . ‘Opphsition parties urge U.S. {rade treaty.
: - IN: EUROPE VATICAN ‘CITY—Pope says Nazi “persecution strikes high.” BUDAPEST -— Czechs make more liberal offer of land. BERLIN—Army - turns over Su- ~ deten area to civil KAUNAS — Lithuania foreign policy discussed. BARCELONA — 25 killed in ~~ bombing raids. ‘PARIS—France seeks better re‘lations with Nazis. JERUSALEM — Arabs attack. : scattered towns.
SHANGHAI Oct. 21 (. BY, Great Britain and Germany have started a joint effort to mediate be-|. tween China and Japan, it was asserted today in.a& - most Teliable quarter. As the report was made, Japanese
“'|troops’ were. entering ‘Canton, fifth| great Chinese city to fall to them in | the war, and they were only 35 miles
from Hankow, the emergency capital on:the Yangtze River. They had ‘marched 80 miles - in nine days, advancing with astonishing speed in -the absence: of - serious |" resistance. In Hongkong, foreign diplomats speculated on whether. suspension of aerial bombardment of Canton 10 days ago and secret withdrawal of}. authorities meant that ‘there, had been a “sellout.” : Japanese had: takén previously: Tientsin, - Peiping, ‘Shanghai. and Nanking. : There. were: indications that’ ‘with the fdll of Hankow, ‘the Japanese | might be ready to talk peace—but|
truce Chiang Kai-shek, Gieneralissimo of the Chinese armies, had to go. It- was asserted‘ here that the | pn asiden
started at ‘Tokyo, where British and German diplomatic répresentatives approached the Japanese Govern» ment on the idea of mediation.
ther accepted nor rejected, but ex1939.
Sir A. Clarke Kerr, British Am«(Continued on Page Six)
STATE. NEGOTIATES
ment : for-hire carriers was ‘reached today
-|Clinehens’ said,
they insisted still that as'part of any|
British-German peace” move’ was | Fresiden
Japanese leaders, it was said, nei- |;
CARRIER AGREEMENT
A motor vehicle reciprocity agree-|| “both
Smoke : Nuisance This Winter ‘Than Ever Before. -
Results to Be Compared ‘With previo
Areas Come First,
- Then Residential. -
By. TOM MENKEL 53 The City’s “first scientific”: attack on drop Tilin. Enemy No. 1 in Indianapolis during the winter—will be launched next week, J. 'W. Clinehens, City combustion engis
At the same time, Mr. Clinehens said he believed greats - er progress would be made against the smoke nuisance this winter than during any previous winter.
he said, on a plan of shark:
evolved from a year’s survey made. by the City of soot des posits in various areas Shronghont the City. 3
“You might call this our first scientific attack .on.the smoke nuisance,” Mr. Cline«
{hens said. “This survey has given us for the first time a
definite idea of how to. 20 about solving the problem. =
' Dual Plan Outlined
The plan, divided in two pat outlines steps in combatting smoke from. industrial and commercial chimneys and from strictly resi[oem] aa ie
House
| hott” House i a , perhaps. as hugh as 60 per
of “the ‘city’s ~ steps would be
PEACE TALKED fo
he feels more prog
made. “It is: virtually \mpossible fot ul to go from house to house, giving instructions on the proper method of firing a furnace,” he said. “But we feel we can gain good headway with industries because a compara tively - few individuals control vast
areas.” Readings to Be Taken
Beginning next. week; Mr. Clines hens said, readings of soot deposits in the city’s smokiest area will be taken. These will be compared: with = readings taken at a similar period - last year.
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If next week’s readings are wors8 i
or ‘only slightly better than 'thosé taken last year, interviews will be arranged with heads of industries
|and businesses in the area affected,
“Ih a good many cases,” Mr, “all that is res quired to cut down a particular industry’s “share of sooty smoke is proper instructions on the correct method. of firing.. “In other cases, the only proper corrective is new equipment. In the past, we have been fairly successful in having new equipment: installed. In the future, we hope to have a great deal more success.”
Following an -intensive drive in
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iv WOMEN AND 3 MEN ~ TAKEN IN VICE RAIDS:
Deputy “sheriffs today ‘afres seven women and . three men raids on two alleged vice resorts, one ‘inside: the city. -
“Sheriff ‘Ray. sajd. the raids s wera. made following Governor Towne. 'send’s orders ‘that ‘officialy should rid their counties of game. | bling and’ vice resorts. One of the raided places was
the 2900 block of ‘Bethel Ave. 3
the. other .in the’ 5000 ok
Southeastern: Ave.
SEEK: INTRASTATE. HELP, IN PIN WAGE uw
BY Sie or Slory, Page 19 HYDE PARK oe 1 (U.P.
pressed eagerness for peace before iii Het
LON All taxes are waived
Fivate snd} Indiana
and for-hire Shrriers At
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