Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1938 — Page 1

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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 197

16,000 Teachers Arrive for

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938

85th Annual State Convention

"Registration lines at the Claypool Hotel formed early today for the | crowded Indianapolis stores and seitanranie awaiting opening of the 85th annual convention of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association

beginning fatter and ending Saturday.

COLLEGE HELD CULTURE DRAG

Shuts Off f Many ort

From Needed Knowledge, Mrs. Beard Says.

(“Something New in Schools,” Page 21; Editorial, Page 22) College training -shut many women off from the knowledge of what educated women should be, Mrs. Mary A. Beard, author and

wife of historian Charles A. Beard, | "of the Indiana]

today told a sectiop State Teachers’ Association, in ¢on-

vention here. -.Mrs, Beard. addressing the State

Association of Deans of Women and :

Advisers to: Girls ‘at the ‘Lincoln

Hotel, said that “colleges are a drag|:

in the cultural enterprises of guidance in secondary and elementary education.” I me i Meanwhile, 16,000 teachers caused downtown Indianapolis to burst at its seams. A general feeling of “school’s out” settled over the city as again it was host to the annual ‘convention—this one the 85th. This year the teachers entered the convention preoccupied with the selection, tomorrow, of an executive secretary. Election Only Topic Virtually no other Association business faced the delegates at general sessions, the first of which will

be tonight when Dr. Wendell W.:

Wright, Bloomington, retiring president; Miss Rose E. Boggs, Richmond, incoming president; and Dr. Herman B. Wells, Indiana University president, are to speak. At . general sessions tomorrow morning, a successor to the late Charles O. Williams, who had been secretary and managing editor of the Association publication for 14 years, is to be selected.

Teachers also will vote on a pres- | | ality,

ident and vice president, but the election of the secretary overshadows the selection of other officers and of the consideration of © some new amendments to the constitution. - La Guardia to Speak

Three persons most prominently are mentioned as candidates for the secretaryship. They are Miss Boggs, Robert H. Wyatt, Ft. Wayne, State Teachers’ Federation president; Robert B. Hougham, Pranklin; Albert Free. Spencer, and L. V. Phillips, Vincennes. During the three-day program the teachers will hear in general sessions some of the outstanding figures of the day, Fiorello La Guardia, New York City; Paul Van Zeeland, ex-premier of Belgium, and Dr. Wells. While electioneering proceeded as teachers poured into the city, some of the affiliated groups began sectional meetings. The. Indiana High School Athletic Association gathered in the Manual High School auditorium this morning to hear Carl F. Schrader, Ithaca College, and Dr. Jay B. Nash, New York University. “The Deans of Boys met in the Claypool Hotel to hear Guy Nicholson, Evansville; R. C. Adams, Terre Haute, and Dr, Walter B. Townsend, Butler University. The Indiana Academy of Social Science also was in session at the Claypool with Waldo F. Mitchell, In(Continmed on Page Three)

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a ponies Boy's Cry of ‘Boom-Boom’ Bares Killing

NEW YORK, Oct. 27 (U, P.). — Three-year-old Harry Menger Jr. toddled into the room where his parents slept today and tugged at the bed‘clothes, © ~*~ “Daddy,” he - whimpered. “Daddy, boom-boom.” He illustrated. by clapping chubby hands to his ears. The parents ran to the children’s room and found stneir t 5.voar-ht 18 & 4 By : 5 dead from a bullet wound in the neck. Patrolman Mengers service revolver was near“Evidence: pointed: to 3-year-old Harry ‘as the: killer, - He

“had a smudge, on. his hand. Detectives concluded the children had awakened early and that one of them,. wartdering about the house, had found the gun and taken it to the children’s bedroom.

HIGH STATE COURT

HEARS TRUCK CASE

Constitutionality of Weight Tax Attacked.

The Indiana Supreme Court this afternoon heard oral arguments on the 1937 Truck Weight tax law upon which the State now is making no attempt to collect pending settlement of this measure’s constitution-

Truck owners represented by Albert Stump, Indianapolis, contended that the act placed an unlawful burden on interstate commerce, and that it also placed an unlawful and unconstitutional discrimination against truck owners because it exempted passenger cars and passenger car trailers. "This case was appealed from the

Shelby County Circuit Court, where -

Judge James Emmert last spring held the measure constitutional. A second case appealed - by the State also is pending before the Supreme Court. In this case, the Marion County Superior Court held that the act was unconstitutional. The act was defended by Joseph Hutcheson, deputy Attorney General, whe declared that the Legislature had a constitutional right to enact a measure of this type. Mr. Stump attacked the measure as being a hazard to safety, declaring that it was in reality a tax on truck tire size and that it .encouraged truck owners to reduce both the size and number of the tires on their vehicles.

Mother,

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| sessions. children began a two-day holiday.

GIRL, 7, KILLED INPATHOF BUS

Expecting Baby, Runs Two Blocks Toward Tragedy Scene.

(Photo, Page 16) :

Hiram Smith Sr, stood at the door of his modest home. at .1019 8S. Rybolt . St. today, and: with tears streaming down his face, told anxious neighbors: “Maybe you'd

Hiddled behind him were “fve small children mourning the loss of their sister, 7-year-old Patricia Ann, who was crushed to death bheneatn the wheels of a bus in the 4100 biock on. W; Washington St. last

-| night.

Mrs. Smith, an expectant mother, ran about two city blocks. up. Rybolt | St." when she heard of the tragedy, in an attempt to reach the accident scene. ; Patricia Ann, called “Patty” by the neighborhood, was the county’s 94th traffic victim. ®

Returning From Grocery

Patty had gone to a W. Washington St. grocery with her 16-year-old cousin. Sylvania Kelsey and was walking back on the north side of the street. It was about 5:30 p. m,, deputy sheriffs reported. The girls stepped to the edge of the pavement, Sylvania said, and looked up and down the street trying to find a break in the stream of late evening traffic. . Patty suddenly shouted: “I-can make it now. I'm going to run. ” She darted into the street. “I grabbed her and tried to keep her from running, but she did anyway,” Miss Kelsey told Dr. Norman R. Booher, deputy coroner. An eastbound bus began idding, its tires screeching. It hurtled over a sidewalk into the porch of a house at 4107 W. Washington St. 'The driver, R. E. McGuffey, age 38, 1434 Fruitdale: Ave. thought he had missed the child. He looked back and saw the child being picked up in the street. Deputy sheriffs went to the Smith (Continued on Page Three)

STREETON MURDER CASE GIVEN JURY

The case of Charles Streeton, 38-year-old carnival performer, charged | with the murder in 1934, of Bert C. Callahan, Indianapolis real estate man, was given to a Criminal Court Jury today. In the closing argument of the State, Edward Brennan, deputy prosecutor, argued that Streeton had" planned “the perfect crime,” but was caught by the discovery of a gun stock fragment that later led to his arrest. Defense attorneys argued the real estate man was accidentally shot during a fight he started with

Streeton.

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U. S. Warns

‘Illegal’ China Policy; Navy Told to Keep Alert

: IN THE FAR EAST— WASHINGTON—Japan charged with open door violations. SHANGHAI—Chiang Kai-shek and aids vote to fight on, TOKYO0—500,000 demand complete conquest of China. MOSCOW-Marshal Bluecher removed from Siberian command.

IN THE AMERICAS— WASHINGTON—Hands off Americas, Roosevelt warns, LONDON—Democracies pleased by President’s speech. BERLIN—Berlin officials call it “campaign address,” ROME—Blame put in wrong place, say Fascists. GENEVA—Leagus. of Nations encouraged

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(Roosevelt Texts, Page, 13; Photo,|

Page 8; Editorial, Page 22)

WASHINGTON; - Oct. 2:(U. P)— President Roosevelt as ‘Commander: in-Chief of. the .U. S. Navy.led' the nation today in its annual observance of Navy Day.

The celebration, one of the most extensive ever planned, was held in the midst of preparations for a vast rearmament programm with special emphasis upon naval equipment and forces. On the eve of maneuvers, drills and speeches marking the day, Mr. Roosevelt reminded the nation twice of the need for an increased national defense. In addition to a radio address promising to continue the billion-dollar-a-year preparedness prograin, he told Navy Secretary Swanson, in a letter observing Navy Day, that the United States is prepared to limit armaments but that unsettled world conditions, made it necessary for this country to speed preparations for war.

Strong Defenses Asked

Declaring that the “fleet must be ready” for instant .action, he told Secretary Swanson that America’s armed forces must be strong enough to “insure positive protection against any aggressor.” His radio plea for. peice seemed to convey a hands-off-the-Western-Hemisphere warning to nondemocratic powers. He said to the\New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems that the United States would use “every enfieavor in our power” to enable this hemisphere to work out its own salvation. The President called no names. But he denounced as fatal to peace

national policies based on a racedof relations between the United

for armaments, on fear, sheer force, threat of war or persecution,

Navy tn Be “at Home” Mr. Roosevelt asked that the peaceful ideals of restraint, negotiation and community of effort prevail within our own borders as well as in our relations with the world. The Navy prepared. special programs for today at all shore stations and aboard all fighting ships. Throughout the country com(Continued on Page Three)

60,000 City and Country Folk Flock To Indiana Cornhusking Championship

By TOM MENKEL Times Staff Writer MIKE MURPHY FARM, Newton County, Oct. 27.—A crowd of more than 60,000 persons, gathered here today for the state cornhusking championship, was all eyes for the 16 contestants, and the championship’ field was all ears. Dawn cracked and the first visitor . arrived simultaneously, and since then there has been a steady stream of cars filling roads and poking around to ‘hunt parking places, The Hoosier farm is thoroughly motorized—not a single horse-drawn vehicle showed up. What horses are on Indiana farms, apparently are there tg stay, literally. vidi TH

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While farmers and their companions milled about and gossiped about crops, politics, - weather and cornhuskers, women from all the churches in Newton County cooked a tremendous noon meal in open pots over wood fires. Throughout the crowd there was a8 generous sprinkling of city folk, probably attracted to the farm by the fact that cornhuskings are getting to:be a big business. At noon today, George Ade, Indiana humorist, set off bombs that ‘were the signal for the 16 contestants te go into action and husk corn for 80 frenzied minutes. Experts predicted that someone would establish a new state record

today for the Sompetition was keen

and Mr. Murphy's corn yielded 60 bushels to the acre. Edmund Puetz, winner of the Benton County contest, and Albert Hensler of Howard County, last year’s champion, were cofavorites. Others competing, with their qualifying records, were: Orie Heinhold, Porter County, 37.44; John Whybrew, Grant County, 35.27; Gail Wiley, Huntington County, 35; George Nines Tippecanoe County, 34.93; Charles Heinold, LaPorte County, 34.84; Vilas Jacks, Jasper County, 34.75; Dick Pettigrew, Madison County, 34.39; Hubert Buckley, Union County, 32.44; Forrest Nogle, Vermillion County, 32.18; Rohinson Beckner, Marion County; 31.88; Herman Ellension, Lake County, 31415, and Gerd Bhier, Parke Coun Q 3. 51;

IN ‘EUROPE—

MARSEILLES—Daladier says France will keep all eolonies, BUDAPEST—Hungary tense as Czechs stiffen stand.

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COURT ORDERS HAGUE TO GIVE CIVIL LIBERTI

in 15,000-Word Opinion ‘Upholds Right to Speak, Allows Union - Organizers to Enter City.

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Times Photos.

Three attoaciive young teachers from Clinton arrived early. They

are (top to bottom): Irene Valente.

Japan on

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WASHINGTON, Oct, 27 (U.. P.). —The Udited States in a forcefully and bluntly ‘worded note, has dns formed the ‘Japanese Government

cult to “reconcile” herself to the

trade situation which Japan has created .in China, the State Department announced today. The note charged that Japan had een responsible for “arbitrary and llegal” acts .to the detriment of United States nationals and United States trade. It contrasted Japanese promises with Japanese performances and asked prompt measures to maintain the “open door” policy in China and .to protect American interests. The note :was: delivered to Prince Fumindro Konoye, Premier and active Foreign Minister, by American Ambassador Joseph; OC. Grew in Tokyo on Oct. 6, but it was not made public until today, 21 days afterward. The State Department did not say whether Japan had replied and it was assumed that no formal reply had been made.

Discrimination Charged

The note reiterated the frequent previous complaints against Japanese violation of the principle of the “open door” in China which gives all foreign nations equal trade opportunities and to which both Japan and the United States are pledged. The complaint was against a situation in which American nationals are discriminated against in violation jof this principle, the note said. In its concluding paragraph with the bite of a whip snapper, the note said: “The Government of the United States believes that in the interest

States and Japan an early reply would be helpful.” ° Calling for “prompt and effective” measures to make good earlier Japanese assurances. that. the “open door? would be maintained, the note asked: 1. Discontinuance of exchange control and other measures in portions of China eontrolled by Japan which discriminate against American trade. 2. Discontinuance of ~monopolistic | or preferential Japanese projects which would deprive American nationals in China of opportunity to undertake legitime trade or industry. 3. Discontinuance in China of Japanese interference with American property and other rights, including censorship of mail and telegrams and restrictions upon residence and travel by Americans and upon American trade and shipping.

Japan’s Promises Recalled

The note recalled that the Japanese Government “has given categorical assurances that equality of opportunity or ‘the open door -in China will be maintained.” It cited specific Japanese assurances of last July 4 and then enumerated instances which the United States charged were ‘violations of that policy. The note charged “unwarranted” restrictions by Japanese military authorities upon ‘Americans in China, despite treaty rights and re-

peated Japanese assurances. It contended that Americans had been deprived of free opportunity and

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RETAIL SALES

ADVANCE HERE

State Employment, Payrolis Also Register Gain ‘For September.

A Times Special WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U. P) Retail sales in 81 independent stores in Indianapolis increased 13.1 per cent in September over August, the Department of Commerce PepRted J ouay, ‘ At the sarge time the lot Labor announced -that employment in Indiana increase 7.7 per

cent in September as compared with August and the payroll was up 9.8 per cent. Thére were 240,200 em-| loved 2858 Indiana industrial establishments in September and: the ‘weekly ° payroll amounted to $5, 719,454. ‘Retail sales in Indianapolis were $2,172,500 in September, as compared ‘to $1,921,100 in August. The September 1937 total was $2,433,700, which was 10.7 per cent. greater than September, 1938. Retail sales in 599 independent stores throughout the State showed a 10 per cent increase in September over August total, but were 15.7 per cent below the September 1937 figure. Terre Haute reported the smallest decrease in sales volume from September, 1937, with a loss of 2 per cent. Other changes for cities ranged down to ‘the loss of 38 .per cent. reported by Gary. All city population groups reported . losses under September of last year, the smallest being that of 12 per cent shown by cities with populations of 50,000.to 100,000. Areas of less than 2500 reported a loss of about 10 per cent. Gains over August were made in September, 1938, as follows: Evansville, 9.1 per cent; Gary, 7.8; South Bend, 25.4; Terre Haute, 23; Michigan €ity, 2.6, and Muncie, 14.9.

ALMA GLUCK, WIFE OF ZIMBALIST, DIES

ITEW YORK, Oct. 27 (U. P). — Alma Gluck, famous operatic and concert soprano and wife of Efram Zimbalist, violinist, died at Rockefeller Institute Hospital today after a long illness. She was 52. Madame Gluck retired from professional life in ‘1925 at the height of a brilliant career, to devote herself to her husband and her three children. She married Mr. Zimbalist in 1920 and 10 years later told an interviewer that the marriage had been ideally happy.

Federal Judge

NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 27

to enter the city.

Mercury on Way Toward . Sixty Mark

TEMPERATURES 6am... 42 10 a m.... "a.m... 43 lam... 8a. m... 47 12 (Noon). gam... 53 1pm...

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Above normal temperatures tonight and tomorrow were forecast by the Weather Bureau today. Todays high probably will be in the low 60s, with 70-degree temperatures probable for tomrorow, the Bureau said.

~GARL VONNEGUT

IS DEAD AT 36

Hardware Firm Executive Native of City; Critically - Ill 10 Days.

(Photo, Page Three)

Carl R. Vonnegui, Golden Hill, died early today at the Methodist Hospital following a 10 weeks’ illness. He was 36. Mr. Vonnegut was general manager of the builders’ hardware department of the Vonnegut Hartiware Co., and manager of the Vonnegut Hardware store at 38th and Illinois Sts. He formerly was manager of the store at 42d St. and College Ave. Mr. Vonnegut, who had been at Methodist Hospital since the beginning of his illness, had been in a critical condition for the last 10 days. Born in Indianapolis, he attended the Public Schools here and graduated from Shortridge High School and the University of Wisconsin, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. ‘He is- survived by his wife, Mrs. Marjorie L. Vonnegut; two children, George L., 9, and Nancy, 6; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Vonnegut, 3721 N. Meridian St., and two brothers, Falph C. Vonnegut and Erwin Vonnegut, Indianapolis. The body is in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary where services will be at 2 p. m. Saturday. Burial will be at Crown Hill.

U.S. NEAR ACCORD WITH AUTO FIRMS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (U. P.).— The Government it was announced today, has reached “substantial agreement” with Ford and Crrysler for signing of consent decrees settling antitrust cases now pending

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ACTION FILED BY A. C.L. U.AND C. 1.0

Carrying of Placards and Distribution of Leaflets Permitted; Rules U. S. : Only ‘Deportation’ Agency. ©

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(U. P.).—Federal Judge Wile

liam Clark today ordered Mayor Frank Hague and other. officials of Jersey City to cease interfering with the constie tutional rights of speakers and union organizers who tried

He made the ruling in a suit brought in the U. s. District Court by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Committee for Industrial Organization.

Judge Clark, with a 15, 000word opinion, issued a. ree straining order against the Jersey City officials, who had been charged by the plaintiffs with abrogation of civil rights in numerous particulars rang»

“ling from preventing the dis«

tribution of union literature to the “deportation” from Jersey City of individuals represented by the plaintiffs. The Court’s order imposed specific restrictions on the Jersey City officials in four

particulars: \ 1. It prohibits any interference with the plaintiffs’ rights to enter Jersey City and forbids city officials from deporting those whom the city deems undesirable. 2. It prohibits interference with ihe plmuils’ rights to carry: ‘plas cards 3. It prohibits interference with the dt of leaflets and other literature by the plaintiffs. = - 4. It prohibits intérference: with the plaintiffs’ rights to public places for which permits were duly sought. Began Last June

- The decision climaxed long pro ceedings begun last June when the C.I1. 0. and the A. C. L. U. brought an injunction suit to restrain police and other officials of the Hague regime from alleged suppression of free speech and other constitutional rights. This followed the “deporta< tion” of C. I. O. men and various speakers, including Norman Thomas, Socialist leader. On the witness stand, Mayor ‘Hague testified that his opposition to the two organizations was based on his contentioh that they were either Communist or under Comes, munist leadership. Investigations in« stituted independently by Jersey. City, he said, convinced him that the C.' I. O. was “overrun” with Communists and hence could prope erly be regulated in its activities in his city. Mayor Hague is vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee,

' What Plaintiffs Sought

The plaintiffs sued specifically to restrain Jersey City officials from alleged interference with picketing struck stores and plants and the carrying of signs and placards; from interference with the distribution of union leaflets and other literature; from interference with the calling and staging of mass meetings within the city limits; from forcibly eject» ing members of the plaintiff organe izations from Jersey City; and from the denial of permits to rent publie halls, charging: that city officials ine timidated hall owners, forcing them to deny applications for renting such halls. In two respects, Judge Clark's of der was qualified. He did not rule on the question of renting public halls, holding that no competent evidence had been adduced to show that city officials had forced hall owners into an atti tude hostile to the plaintiffs. Rather, he said, the hall owners appeared reluctant to rent their buildings bee« cause they agreed with. city officials in their stand toward the plaintiff organizations.

Awaits Appeal Outcome y On the section of the plaintiffs’ petition dealing with the Dr to picket under the National Labor Relations Act, Judge Clark likewise issued no ruling but recalled. that he had ruled favorably on the claims of the C. I. O. in an earlie injunction issued March 15, 1937, That decision, he said, had been ap« pealed and was pending in the -- Third Circuit Court. = He said he would await outcome of that. appeal, .Judge Clark cited the U. 8. Sus preme Court decision last spring in which the high court invalidated & Griffin, Ga., ordinance which prevented the distribution of: leaflets, That ruling was so broadly phrased; he said, as to cover also the display of placards. He held that the right of deportes tion was vested in the Federal Government alone and that no city or state officer has the right to exe pel or deport an individual fio Jersey City. »

17-POUND BABY BORN i SUMRALL, Miss, Oct. 27 (U. PJ, —Dr. R. R. ‘McNease today checked the weight of a 17-pound son bors: : to Mrs, Alex Dement of Bassfieid and announced mother and ‘baby were. in good condition, \s: 3