Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 October 1938 — Page 1

FORECAST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; cooler tomorrow.

TEACHERS DUE

. TOMORROW FOR . STATE PARLEY

"Action on Wide Range of Subjects to Be Sought at 85th Meeting.

16,000 ARE EXPECTED

~ One-Room Buildings on Way Out, McMurray Tells Superintendents.

Sixteen thousand Hoosier schoolteachers, due here tomorrow for the 85th annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers Association, will have before them for action resolutions dealing with subjects ranging from law enforcement to foreign entanglements. They also will hear addresses by Mayor LaGuardia of New York; Agnes Macphail, Canada’s first womin member of Parliament; Paul Van Zeeland, former premier of Belgium, and President Herman B. Wells of Indiana University. Meeting today in conjunction with the teachers convention, the

Indiana State Association off

County School Superintendents heard State Superintendent Floyd I. McMurray predict that .ithin a few years there will be only a few hundred one-room schools in Indiana. The meeting was at the Hotel Lincoln. He said that in the last year 163 schools have been consolidated in a building program, and that the year before 155 were consoiidated. Twenty-three Indiana counties, he said, have no one-room schools now, and all but three of them are north of the National Road. However, there still are more than 1000 one-room schools in the State, he said, and predicted there would be fewer than 900 by this time next year.

Lauds Traffic Council

The association will vote tonight on a resolution that would petition the Legislature for an upward revision in county schools superintendents’ salaries, J. Malcolm Dunn, Marion County superintendent and Association president, said. . Tonight also the Indiana Schoolmen’s Club. will meet... __.. Among the resolutions, which are to be acted upon by the teachers at business sessions Friday, are ones urging enrichment of the school curriculum; a united front against crime, and further compulsory education regarding the effects of narcotics and alcohol on the human body. Other resolutions commend the Governor's Indiana Traffic Council and indorse all “appropriate child labor” legislation and the NYA and CCC. The association officers would be instructed by one proposed resolution to gather and disseminate information to members on “developing and organizing credit unions.” Another urges “that the movement of school officials to consolidate small school units into larger units for economy and efficiency be stimulated.” The association will be asked to go on record as favoring complete restoration of full educational programs in all cities and counties that have suffered harmful curtailment, and to urge that adult and nursery school education be made permanent parts of the public school system— through legislation.

Peace Efforts Praised

One - proposed - resolution states that “we definitely oppose war as a method of settling international disputes, and commend the President and Congress of the United States and those statesmen of all nations who have devoted their sincere efforts to preserve world peace.” Another reads: “We definitely condemn enterprises within our nation which would jeopardize our peace and security through selfish ‘relations with warring nations.” Teachers will be asked to urge a state-wide uniform minimum salary schedule for teachers “as soon as possible,” and to “call attention of legislative bodies to a need for the more equitable division of elementary, junior high and senior high school pupils for determining teaching units.” In addition to passing on resolutions, the teachers will have to elect an association secretary-treasurer to succeed the late Charles O. Williams. Statistics Bureau Favored Rose E. Boggs, association president, will urge the membership to set up a statistics department to provide accurate information on items relative to teaching costs and other matters of public interest. Miss Boggs has announced as a candidate for the secretary-treas-urer position. At present she is serving as a member of the Corps Committee on Salaries of the National Education Association, a position which has to do with forming policies concerning salaries.

CLAIMS PLANE PLANS . FOUND ON GERMAN

NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (U. P).—A customs guard testified in Federal Court today that he found the plans of an Army Curtiss plane then being constructed at Buffalo on the person of William Lonkowski, reputed to be ‘one of Germany's shrewdest espionage agents. The plans were offered in evidence by the Government at the trial of Otto Hermann Voss, Erich Glaser and Johanna Hofmann on

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DIES DENOUNGES F. D. R. ATTACK

President “Misinformed,’ . Committee Head Says; Offers Checkup.

(Roosevelt, Dies Texis, Page 19)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26: (U. P.) — Chairman Dies (D. Tex.) of the

House Committee Investigating unAmerican Activities charged today that President Roosevelt is misinformed concerning the inquiry and that Cabinet members have aided «5 campaign of misrepresentation” against the committeer=- ~~ = Rep. Dies’ statement was pre-

cism voiced by the President late yesterday concerning the inquiry, especially its testimony with regard to Governor Murphy of Michigan. Mr. Roosevelt had charged that the committee permitted itself to be used in an attempt to influence “a vitally important gubernatorial election.” :

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt said today the President “expressed himself quite well” in his criticism of the Dies Committee, but de-' clined to add anything to Mr. ‘Roosevelt’s statement..

Rep. Dies launched today’s committee session by reading a statement in reply to the President. “That the President has been wholly misinformed is obvious from his statement,” Rep. Dies said. “Of course, the President did not hear the testimony and has not read the record. He is evidently relying apon reports that have reached him from prejudiced sources.” .Rep. Dies proposed a unique endeavor to determine the facts of the Michigan sit-down strike situation. It was testimony concerning these strikes which drew Mr. Roosevelt’s charge that the committee had been “flagrantly unfair.” Rep. Dies suggested that the President appoint ‘some experienced lawyer and I will do likewise. Then the two can appoint a third and together they can examine all the evidence with reference to the Michigan situation and then report to the country as to whether or not this evidence was competent and admissible.” Political observers were uncertain about the possible repercussions of the President’s criticism of the committee. But there were indications that it may intensify, in some quarters, the battle between conservative and New Deal members of the party. The few Congressional leaders in the Capital refused to comment. But statements by members of the (Continued on Page Three)

~ By DR. GEORGE GALLUP American Institute of Public Opinion NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—The four million young men and women who have come of voting age since 1936 and- will be eligible to cast their first votc in a national election Nov. 8 are more in sympathy with the Democratic Party than the Repubican Party in the Congressional contests, according to a survey of “first voters” just completed by the American Institute of Public Opinion. The voting intentions of the young are of major significance to the futurc of the political parties because, to perpetuate itself in power, a party must be able to appeal successfully to the young generation in order to draw new blood into iis ranks. The voting intentions

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spectors for the Wage-Hour Law began to pile up in the offices of thousands of employers the min-

The above sample payroll form was broadcast by the office of Administrator Elmer F, Andrews to show what data must be kept. Records need not be in the exact form shown, above, but the data indi-

cated above must be readily available in some form. Such records must be kept for every employee

piecework, commission, salary, or other basis.

Though every effort was being made by Mr. Andrews’ office to co-ordinate Wage-Hour Law records with those which already must be kept in accord

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Chapter V, Part

Swing It

Bandits Turn on Music, Turn Gun on Waitress, Turn Up $12.

T 8:15 o'clock last night two men walked into the lunchroom at Road 67 and Arlington Ave., selected two hot swing numbers on the automatic music box and put a dime in the slot. They sat down at the counter and a torrid trumpet began to blare. Mrs. Nona Long, waitress, who had been working behind the counter, looked squarely into the muzzle of a pistol. “Stick ’em up. This is a hold--up/* skid one-man, ~~ - © - “Give us your money,” said th other, Even if Mrs. Long had screamed for aid to the .attendant of the adjoining filling station, the music would have drowned out her voice. She handed over $12. Still covered by the swing music, the bandits left, got into a car and escaped. After they had gone the second piece played.

ROOSEVELT PLEADS FOR WORLD PEAGE

Makes Plea in'Armistice Day Proclamation.

(Foreign News, Page Three)

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U. PJ). —President Roosevelt made a new appeal for peace and good will among nations of the world today in a proclamation calling for observance of Armistice Day Nov. 11. His proclamation said: “Whereas it is especially fitting at this time of world unrest that Nov. 11, 1938, the 20th anniversary of the Armistice, should be observed with suitable ceremonies manifesting our belief that peace can be attained only by nonaggression, and can be made enduring only by respect for the rights of others and good will among the nations of the world. ! “Now, therefore, I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Persident of .the United States of America, do hereby direct that on Armistice Day, Nov. 11, 1938, the flag of the United States be displayed on all Government buildings, and I invite the observance of the day by the people of the United States with appropirate ceremonies in schools, churches and other suitable places.” :

FIRE HITS FT. WAYNE FIRM

PT. WAYNE, Oct. 26 (U. P.)— Fire last night destroyed the warehouse of the Consumers Pipe & Supply Co. here and caused an estimated damage of $2000. The loss was. insured. .

division of sentiment on major party candidates for the House: First Voters Intend to vote Democratic... .55% Intend to vote Republican....45% Their attitude is in marked’ contrast to that of voters in the older age group—>50-years and over—who are pro-Republican by a slight majority (52 per cent). One of the chief problems of the Republican Party is to win over the annual crop of young voters, the majority of whom have been brought up in the Democratic tradition during the six years of the New Deal. Keenly aware of this problem, many Republican strategists are hailing the emergence of younger men: in the party, such as Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, as a drawing card for the young vote. ; : “The Republicans can take some comfort in the fact that the very

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with social security, state unemployment, and other laws, additional bookkeeping seemed inevitable for

the above daily hour and pay data,

additonal records of home addresses and birth dates of employees under 19 are advisable, Mr. Andrews’ office warned. Filing of additional exact time records like time-clock and time-card records, end

the exact time of starting and

stopping work,, was also advised. While a record of

worked each day is not required

under the law, such a record would expedite .inspections, Mr. Andrews said. :

explanation of these records is is-

sued by Mr. Andrews’ office under this title: “U. S. Department of Labor, Wage and Hour Division. Explanation of the Records Regulations (Title 20,

516, Sections 516.1 through 516.5).”

MORE GIFTS FOR FUND ARE ASKED

Contributions Total $649,085 for Lowest Budget In 12 Years.

(Editorial, Page 14)

A postcampaign report of residential section workers for the Indianapolis Community Fund will be held Friday at the Claypool Hotel and Fund officials today said they hoped this group would collect additional pledges between now and

The regular campaign ended last night and the report showed pledges and collections were $649,085.59, a sum $62,54741 short of the announced goal and the least pledged in the last 12 years. Raymond Clapp, Fund manager, said that the sum expected to he added by the residential section workers between now and Friday would be “relatively small,” and predicted that “severe curtailments” will have to be made in Fund activities next year.

Meeting Set Nov. 8

He said the Budget Committee will meet Nov. 8 under the chairmanship of Philip Adler Jr. to apportion the money to the Fund-sup-

. {ported agencies.

“We attribute the shortage,” he said, “to the fact that not as many people were able to give this year as in previous years. The employees’ section gift total was 15 per cent off from last year ard the large gifts section was 5 per cent off from last year, “Indianapolis has the best Community Fund spirit of any city in the Nation,” Harold B. West, cochairman of the campaign, said in praising workers, “It has been a job well done despite the fact the quota was not reached. The philanthropic division, with a final drive in the last several hours, led the 11 major divisions of the campaign. Eugene C. Foster is head of the division. It reached 100.3 per cent of its quota to finish in advance of the utility division with 100 per cent. The utility division was led by H. T. Pritchard. The special gifts division, Arthur R. Baxter, chairman, turned in the largest sum ‘of money, $363,654. Two areas in the individual gifts division went “over the top.” They were led by Alex J. Corbett Jr. and Henry J. Peirce.

MOUSE ‘DIVA’ DEAD

WOODSTOCK, Ill, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—Minnie the Mouse, first rodent ever to “sing” on a national radio hookup, is dead. Dwight Lichty, an official of the Chicago Industrial Home here, regretfully announced her demise. Minnie was survived by

seven litters.

Youngest Voters Favor Democrats for Congressional Seats in Gallup Poll

cerned, than those just ahead of them in age—the persons who will be eligible: to vote in a national election for the second time in their lives next month. : The difference is approximately three percentage points. That difference is not large in itself, but it possibly may represent the beginning of a trend back tothe G. O, P. in the younger age groups, especially if taken in conjunction with one additional fact. President Roosevelt is less popular today with the four million men and women who have come to voting age in the last two years than he is with the four million who came TE age between 1934 and Institute’ studies "show, for example, that 68 per cent of the second voters are for him today, as compared to 61 per cent of the first voters—indicating slightly less: New

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SLOT MACHINE ADDRESS KEPT ‘SECRET, CLAIM

Morrissey Declares Pastor Refused to Give Police His ‘Information.’

OFFICERS PUSH SEARCH

Rev. Mr. Trotter Says He ‘Can’t . Betray Trust,’ Chief Points Out.

Police Chief Morrissey said today that the Rev. L. N. Trotter had refused to give the Police Department the address of a West Side building where the minister had publicly charged that more than 500 slot machines were stored.

The Rev. Mr, Trotter made the declaration at Sunday evening services at the First Baptist Church, Beech Grove. He said he would furnish the address to Chief Morrissey if the Chief would assure him the machines would be raided and destroyed. ‘ ; The Chief said his men were unable to find the Rev. Mr. Trotter They asked him for the address. He said the pastor replied: “I received information about the slot machine from loyal members of the Christian Crusaders and I shall not betray the trust they have put in me. “I cannot betray the location of .these slot machines. I have not the power to do so.” Chief Morrissey said as he released the statement to newsmen: “We are after those slot inachines and I'll guarantee they'll be broken up if we get them.” The Rev. Mr. Trotter could not be reached for comment.

40 EXTRA POLICE TO WATCH PRANKS

To counteract whatever now is beong cooked up by Halloween Pranksters, 40 police, normally on day duty, this afternoon were assigned to night duty Thursday through Sunday. Police Chief Morrissey said the patrolmen usually were on school patrol duty but that there is no school the last of this week because of the Indiana State Teachers Association convention here. Chief Morrisey instructed the patrolmen that they were to be on the watch for anything that locked like Halloween irregularities. He also said the men would furnish increased protection to women and girls against molesters.

NEW PROBLEM IN ELEVATION AIRED

Railroad Engineers To Discuss Grade.

City,

City and railroad engineers were to meet in Chicago today for a conference on what has been reported to be the most serious problem yet

encountered in plans for the proposed South Side track elevation project.’ Results of the conference were expected to determine the Indianapolis Union Railroad’s final decision in the $1,000,000 elevation project. The original deadline for definite acceptance or rejection by the City of the WPA grant of 45 per cent of the total cost of the project is tomorrow. Although the City has accepted the grant tentatively, final decision rests with the railroad, according to Mayor Boetcher.

Grade Discussed

The problem of the moment, according to Henry B. Steeg, City engineer, is the amount of grade for the tracks of the Indianapolis Union Railroad at Madison Ave. Mr. Steeg said that at this point the Pennsylvania Railroad uses the Belt tracks, and that the Pennsylvania freight trains cannot successfully negotiate a grade of more than one-half of one per cent. Plans so far, he said, provide for a stesper grade. : The City railroad two alternate methods of financing its share of the cost of the project. One provides for outright payment by the railroad. The other provides for a token payment by the railroad to the City, the rest to be loaned by the City to the railroad over a 10-year period, the loan to be financed by a bond issue. According to PWA authorities in Washington, however, the deadline for acceptance or rejection of the grant of 45 per cent may be extended on application by the City to PWA offices iu Chicago.

‘LOW’ RATES SET FOR BONNEVILLE POWER

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U."P.). —Electricity from Bonneville Dam will be sold to housewives and farmers at 1% to 2% cents a kilowatt hour, Administrator J. D. Ross announced today. = : oo The rates, he said, are far below any existing private company schedules. “They are,” Mr. Ross said, “a mark for public bodies to shoot at, a standard which they can attain and exceed.”

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A return to seasonable temperatures by late tomor- ° row and Friday was predicted today by the Weather Bureau. Today’s- temperatures are from nine to 10 degrees higher than normal but by Friday the Bureau said the thermometer will be in the . normal 40's. : Fair weather was predicted for tonight and tomorrow. The maximum today will be around 70, the Bureau said.

EXTENSION GRANTED IN RAIL WAGE STUDY

F. D. R. Committee to Report Findings Saturday.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (U. P.).— President Roosevtl today granted his fact-finding committee a 48-hour extension of time in which to report ‘to him its recommendation in the railroad labor wage dispute. Under terms of the law, the Board was scheduled to report within 30 days. The period expires at midnight tomorrow but the extension was approved on recommendation of the board, railroads and the brother-

hoods. The board is prepring findings on the 15 per cent wage reduction demanded by the railroads. More than 900,000 rail workers have voted to strike in protest against the cut.

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NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (U. P)— Three vessels raced through heavy seas to the side of the burning German liner Deutschland early today to find the fire under control and the ship resuming her voyage to New. York. The 390 men of the crew of the 21,000-ton liner succeeded after a heroic six-hour fight in vanquishing the flames raging in her No. 2 hold, thus eliminating any danger to her 601 passengers—men, women and children—the majority of them Americans. Soon afterward, her master, Capt. Karl Steincke, radiophoned her owners in Hamburg, Germany, that the fire had been extinguished entirely with her own fire-fighting appliances. Reports of an explosion preceding the fire were denied. Capt. Stein reported that no one had been injured and that his pas(Continued on Page Three)

DEFENSE RESTS IN CALLAHAN SLAYING

The case of Charles Streeton, 38-year-old carnival performer, charged with the murder of Bert C. Callahan, Indianapolis real estate man, is expected to be given to a Criminal Court jury tomorrow. The defense closed its case today with Streeton’s testimony. He testified that Mr. Callahan was shot accidentally during a scuffle at the latter’s home, 1636 N. Illinois St., on April 6, 1934. “The gun was discharged sometime while I was scuffling with him,” Streeton testified. “I don't know how the gun was discharged.” Deputy prosecutors presented evidence which they claimed showed that Streeton went to the Callahan home with a gun and with the in-

{tention to rob him.

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 26 (U. P.). —The 10-story death plunge of Betty Bonner Fell, attractive 21-year-old Temple University coed, was tentatively recorded as a. suicide today by investigating detectives. : “It looks like suicide to me, but there are other angles that we wish to clean up,” Detective Lieutenant William Engle, in charge. of the case, announced after inspecting the lavatory in Carnell Hall, Temple's principal building, from which Miss Fell plunged to death late yester-

day. Officers said there was no evidence of a struggle in the lavatory and that her fingerprints had been found on the sill of the small window through which she apparently climbed ‘unaided.

-It was believed that she hung out-

Coed’s 10-Story Plunge ‘Believed to Be Suicide

only 18 inches, and because a ventilator shaft partially blocked the opening, police had believed at first that she might have been pushed through the narrow opening, but her fingerprints on the sill indicated that she let herself out of the window feet first, they said today.

Dr. Charles Ford, assistant to Dr. Charles E. Beury, president of the University, corrected an earlier re-. port that the girl had swallowed iodine. He said that there was iodine on her hands, but none on her lips. University officials theorized that the girl bought a razor-edged buicher knife, which she clutched in her hand as she fell, and the fodine with the intention of using one of the two to commit suicide, but “lost her nerve” and made the plunge. One angle not cleared up was the t in the clas

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LOSS SET AT $1300

None Was Imperiled In N. Delaware St. Blaze.

When Mrs. Walter Durbin was awakened early today to find most of the interior of her home, 2321 Station St., a blaze, she picked up her sleeping 4-year-old daughter Diana, and stepped to safely through a bedroom window. . The, fire, which was of unknown origin, damaged the one-story dwells ing and contents $1300, owners and firemen estimated. Later a fire, also of unknown ori gin, broke out in the attic of the Delaware Hotel, 517 N. Delaware St., and did damage estimated by firemen at $400. No one was .endangered by the fire, firemen said, Denzell Allison, 54, a roomer in the Durbin home was awakened when he smelled smoke. He shouted: 7 “The house is afire.” eo. Mrs. Durbin opened the door from her bedroom “into the living room and slammed it shut again immedi» ately. The entire living room was ablaze. : She then picked up sleeping Diana, opened a side window. and

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the child were clothed only in night clothes and were sheltered by neighbors. iy

Husband Sees Blaze

‘Meanwhile, Mrs. Abraham Aziz, who lives across the alley at 3701 Massachusetts Ave. saw the blaze and called in an alarm. The Azizs own the Durbin home. 5 Mr. Durbin, a. fireman for.-the Big Four, was completing a run, and at 3:30 a. m. his train passed hear the home. He saw the fire trucks and remarked to the engineer that it was in his neighborhood. = “But it can’t be my house,” he said. He learned less than an hour later that it was his home. Mr. Durbin said he had let his household fire insurance lapse in August and said the damage was $500. Mr. Aziz said he had let the fire insurance on the dwelling lapse a few weeks ago to save money to pay taxes and had intended taking more out in a few days. He estie mated his loss at $800. Mrs. Durbin said she believed & cigaret dropped on the davenport in Yhe living room caused the blaze, Firemen listed the cause as une known.

Flames Block Exits

By the time the fire was discove ered, Mrs. Durbin and Mr. Allison found their exit through the living room blocked as the flames made a torch of the couch, chairs, radio and other furniture. The Delaware Hotel fire was dise covered by a pedestrian who warned Mrs. Mary McCammon, lease hold= er. Mrs. McCammon called fires men. The fire was confined to the attic, which was empty, and did not break through the slate roof. - . Miss Helen Benefiel, a nurse, was asleep in Apt. 25 and did not awake. en until firemen dragged three lines of hose up three flights of steps to fight ‘the blaze. She packed her clothes and went, downstairs.

NEW YORK, Oct. 26 (U. P.).—» The automobile and jewel tase of Mrs. Edward M. Townsend Jr., wife of a socially prominent broker, were found today in a midtown parking lot, but $200,000 worth of jewelry was missing. Attendants of the lot said the sedan had been brought in yesters day afternoon by two men, shortly after Mrs. Townsend's chauffeur; George Fleming, 38, had been ine structed to leave the jewelry at the. St. Regis Hotel. :

POSTAL TELEGRAPH STRIKE DEADLINE SET;

CHICAGO, Oct. 26 (U. P= Frank B. Powers, international presis’ dent of the Commercial Telegraph< ers Union, ordered a strike against the Postal Telegraph Company at 3 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) today: unless the company agrees “to. abide by the law providing 48 hours. pay for 44 hours work.” :

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