Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1938 — Page 1
IE=resTiowmty VOLUME 50_NUMBER 243
FORECAST: Possibly light rain or stov/ early toiight. tollowed i by fal and colder tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight 25 to 30.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1938
Entered
as Second-Class Matter at Postotfice, Indianapolis,
Ind.
8 ASSAILANT 1S HE FELLS
NYS MAYOR
La Guardia Knocked Down; f§
‘I’m an American,’ Says Captured Man.
CAUGHT BY POLICEMAN
‘Mayor Not Seriously Hurt, Joins in Questioning at City Hall.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (U. P.).— Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia was| struck and knocked down today as he mounted the steps of City Hall by a tall, stocky man who plunged out of a crowd. The Mayor grappled with his assailant and a policeman hit the
gray-haired assailant full on the mouth,
The policeman yanked the assajlant to his feet with the Mayor hanging on to one leg. “All right,” Mayor La Guardia snapped, “into City Hall with him. In with him.”
Assailant’s Mouth Bleeds
Four policemen carried the man into City Hall and to an anteroom of the Mayor's office where they dumped him on the floor. | “Why did you hit me?” Mayor - La Guardia demanded. The man did not answer. - “What's your name?” the Mayor asked. . “Jimmy Hagen. is “Set him up in a chair,” the Mayor ordered.
‘'m an American’
Policemen lifted the man a air. Blood trickled from ‘mouth where the policeman hit him. - “Why did you hit me?” Mayor insisted. “You know why,” the man said. “You're putting the badge on me. You know this stuff that goes on on the radio all the time.” “Whq are you?” “I'm an American,” the'man said. “I'm an American.” ; The Mayor decided the man was not rational and ordered a Bellevue Hospital ambulance. It was. ex/pected the man would be examined lin the psychopathic division of the ‘hossital. The Mayor was riot SoHiousry hurt. | .-.. The man was later definitely Fi identified as James J. Hagen, 48, ~ of the Bronx. He is unemployed. |,
TWO GAS FIRMS ASK DISMISSAL OF SUIT
A obon “to “© dks a © $450,000 damage suit against two Indiana © gas companies was on file Soday in ' Pederal Court.
The suit had been brought by the b Kentucky Natural Gas Corp. ‘and named the Indiana Gas & Chemical Corp. and the Universal Gas Co., both of Terre Haute, as defendants. ' Attorneys for the two, firms filed the dismissal motion. | , The Kentucky Corp. charged that the Terre Haute companies committed an “unlawful conspiracy . to restrain trade.” The motion con- , tends that the “complaint failed to state a Sein. against these %- fendan :
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FAIR AND COLDER WEATHER ER TOMORROW
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 32 ‘10a m.... 37 32 11 a.m... 41 34 12 (Noon) . . 45 35 1pm 46
A possible light rain or snow early this evening will be followed by fair - and colder weather tomorrow, the ' Weather Bureau edicted today. The lowest temperature last night was 32 and the lowest tonight will _ be 35 to 30, the Bureau said.
8 SLOT MACHINES IN GARY CONFISCATED
6 a. Longing gam... 9 a. m.
Continuing their antislot machine|
drive, State Police last night confiscated eight machines and arrested four men in raids at Gary, State Safety Director Don. Stiver ane nounced here today. The Gary raid followed a weekend series of forays at Muncie where 10 machines were confiscated. |
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Shopping Days Till Christmas
_OOKING Back to Christmas ‘ Four Years Ago — Dionne quints enjoying first Christmas.
filth ? , No .,. in pa overnight boom town on eve of Hauptmann tria » Best seller: “So Red the Rose. + ? Charred hulk Morro lo. being removed [ ew Jersey beach. . season for New ‘Deal,
McCray Dies
Warren > McCray
EX-GOVERNOR'S RITES THURSDAY
Stricken -at. 73<on Eve of Retirement From Cattle Business.
Warren T. McCray, former Governor of Indiana, died last night at his home near Kentland--the town
in which he rose from bank clerk to the highest office in the State. Death came from a heart attack as the 73-year-old cattle raiser and former politician was eating dinner at his Orchard Lake stock farm. He collapsed at the dinner table a few minutes after he had come in from the stock barns where he had just finished his usual day’s work. Seated at the table with him were his wife, Mrs. Ella Ade McCray, sister of the famous playwright and author, George Ade; a- daughter, Marian, and a son, George. Another daughter, Mrs. P. Evans of Indianapolis, and a sister, Mrs. Fannie Comparet of Kentland, also survive.
Planned to Retire
Although he had been in {ll health for some time, his death was unexpected. It came, ironically, when he was planning retirement’ after the first of the year. He had already rented his farmlands to his associates and his’ personal property was to have been auctioned on Jan. 9. Mr. McCray will be buried Thurs~ day at Kentland, following services $°1:30 p: m. at the Kentland- Presbyterian Church. . Mr. McCray served as Governor from 1921 to 1924, when he resigned,’ following: conviction in Federal
{court on a charge of using the
mails to defraud. Born near Kentland on Feb.: 4, 51865, he began work as a clerk in a Kentland bank of which he later Became: president. © |. He left banking at the age of 21 to enter: ghe grocery business, then changed to the grain trade from hich he derived much of the realth that became his in later years. - Grain Dealers’ President | He was one of the founders of the National Grain Dealers’ Association and served as president of the Association for several years. | He sought and won the Republican nomination for Governor and was elected in 1920, continuing his farm and stock business as a sideline. In 1923, his farm holdings were valued at three million dollars. In August of 1923, he became in(Continued on Page Three)
STOCKS IRREGULAR AFTER SLIGHT RISE
. NEW .YORK; Dec..20 (U. P).— Stocks turned irregular in quiet trade today on the Stock Exchange after advancing fractions in early deals. ‘Bonds declined, with the exception of U. S. Government issues.
, CHICAGO, Dec. 20 (U. P.).—An easy undertone prevailed in grain prices today on the Board of Trade. Wheat was off 3; to 14 cenf, corn off % cent, and oats % cent lower.
OPERATE ON VAUGHAN, ‘COACH AT WABASH
CRAWFORDSVILLE, Dec. 20 (U. P.). — Robert E. “Pete” Vaughan, football and basketball coach at Wabash College for’ the last 20 years, was operated on at a hospital here today for removal of an infected kidney. Doctors described ‘his con-
- | dition ‘as “good.”
Coach Vaughan was taken ill Ist Wednesday when he attended a banquet .in Indianapolis given by the Wabash College alumni for the 1938 football team.
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IS SUSTAINED ON PICKETING
; Trades Council Loses in Its
‘Appeal to Indiana High Tribunal.
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CALLED 3D PERSON CASE
Property Owners in Muncie Subdivision Had. Obtained Injunction.
An Indiana Supreme Court opinion today prohibited labor unions from conducting “secondary picketing” against individubls ndt directly involved in labor disputes. In upholding the decision ¢f the
Delaware County Superior Court enjoining the - Muncie Building Trades Council, the tribunal yesterday said the right to picket
: | peacefully is not contained in com-
mon ‘law, and unions’ must come strictly within the provisions of the statutes in exercising this privilege. It was one of four decisions handed down by the Court. Ons involved the ousting of two Gary police officers, another concerned
carry fertilizer without permits, and a third denied an original habeas corpus action. Property owners in the Carlton addition, a real estate subdivision in Muncie, obtained the injunction aganist the Building Trades Council and its affiliated organizations on the contention that union members were blockading the streets, overrunning private property and preventing persons from entering or leaving the area. The lower court found that the (Continued on Page Three)
Gnats to You
Entomologist Insists on Introduction, So Bring ’Em In. By JOE COLLIER
ANE of the things Frank Wallace, State Entomologist, has
is to identify a certain little gmat that seem to be unusually tctive in Jndigrispelis. : Wallace, , who pro »ably re the gnat personally, rash't. been able to make the ident fication because no one has brought him a gnat. It’s almost impossible to tell gnat from gnat without sceing them, Mr. Wallace said, and it is flying blind to suggest a remedy without knowing the exact spacies. Different gnats live their lives differently and any successful :ffort to dispossess them must be founded on a knowledge of their home life, he said, Mr. Wallace said he would like nothing better than to ottline’ for any housewife the offensive against gnats that may be infest ing her home but, he said, she or some trusted member of the family first must bring hm a gnat. The chances are they ar: not gnats anyway.
MINTON SILENT ON
Senator on Way to Indiana After Panama Visit. -
Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 20;—~Torn between his advocacy of High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt for the Democratic Presidential nom: nation in 1940, and his 100 per cent loyalty. to President Roosevelt, §enator Minton declined today to comment on third-term talk. He refused to comment ¢n the proposed Holt resolution to put the, Senate on record against ¢ third term, but said he: would me:t that issue when it arises. Accompanied by his se retary, James Penman, Senator Minion arrived here today on his way to Indiana from a trip to Panam. He said that an inspection tour of the Canal Zone fortificatioas had convinced him of the soundaess of the Administration’s armament proposals, and that he would. support them as a member of the Senate Military Affairs Committee.
Personnel Yineups in- the Court House and City Hall began taking definite form today as Russell Ryan, Superior Court 3 Jjudge-elect, announced his appointments and oth= ers. prepared releases for tomorrow. Mrs. Looise Rich, 5264; Guilford
| Ave, auditor of the City Park Board
for several years, was named reporter Orville Bray, unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic sheriff nomination, was appointed bailiff. Mr. Bray was a deputy sheriff before he re= signed | Lent to run for Sheriff.
at, recently a
for Superior Court' 3 and
Judge-Elect Ryan Names Ms. Rich and Bray as Aids
are expected to name their (ids tomorrow. Oscar Hagemeier, presen’ chief deputy prosecutor, was repcrted in
Knight's chief aids. Mr. Hazemeier and Mr. Knight worked together as
years. They had ‘charge of the Grand Jury investigation of che Primary election which resulted in ‘the indictment of 92 election workers." |
office also is slated for a post in the City. Legal Department. ig Rautenberg, chief clerk of
Lewis, Prosecutor-elect; | y !
the right of commercial haulsrs to]
THIRD TERM TALK
' . |appeared today. to
line for appointment as one of Mr.}
deputy prosecutors the last four|]
Louis Adams of the Prosscutor’s|
SOLIDARITY PLAN S COMPROMISED
THE FOREIGN SITUATION
'LIMA—Solidarity compromise puts Argentina San spot.”
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Fs GALLUP POLL shows U. s. vaters: favor boycott on Nazis. (Page 12). WASHINGTON — Britain and France turn from. ‘Munich ‘policy. \ Cummings cotuiders: defending Grynszpan, Defense plans face two-party fight. (Page 12). » » 8 LONDON—Cabinet revolt speed rearmament looms, Nazi refugees plan fails. HENDAYE—Rebels kill two by bombs ‘at Reus. BUDAPEST—Border _negotiations with Slovakia broken off. , BRATISIL.AVA—Slovakia to appeal to Hitler and Mussolini. ee SAN FRANCISCO — Boycott against Japan halts shipping. SHANGHAI — Japanese and Chinese both ‘claim victories.
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(Mrs. Roosevelt’ and - Maj. "Al : ‘Williams, Page 17; Editorial, x Page 18,
LIMA, Peru, Dec. 20 (U.P). — A cleverly drawn compromise declara~> tion of American solidarity against foreign military or political invasion be. breaking the. deadlock between the United States and Argentina at the eighth PanAmerican Conference. The compromise, framed by Brazil and Peru, was viewed by usually] well-informed: delegates as indicating a quick and successful conclusion of the conference with achievement of the principal objective of Solidarity and co-operation. Some observers expressed belief . (Continued on Page Six) .
DEATH LAID TO FIGHT IN-CENTRAL HOSPITAL
Dr. Hugh Thatcher, Deputy Coroner, today reported that wounds inflicted by another patient in a fight at Central Hospital Sunday caused the death today of ‘George C. Marstellar, 77, Putnam County. 3 Dr. Thatcher said he was told that a blind inmate struck Marstellar on the head with a chair after an argument anc that Marstellar’s skull was fractured, eventually | causing his death. : :
JERSEY BANK 'ROBBED
UKEN, N. J., Dec. 20 (U. P.).—Two machine-gun \D 2 O| up the Pennsauken ery National Bank. in the ‘business section and escaped’
with approximately : $3500.
Mai. Al Williams Says: ny © "At least three Euros: pean powers already have _ ships. that. might be.
-.squeazed across the At- : A lantic with bombing i
Wayman Adams touches up a portrait.
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Slips Into , Town And Uses Brush
- Wayman Adams, one of the foremost posit painters : i ir
“into the John Hi stitute a. on ‘an “artist's holiday, an ang retouched a picture. About @ year ago Mr, Adams visited the Museum and noticed that a portrait he painted more than 20 years ago of Henry Pierce had been damaged in cleaning. He then promised Wilbur ~ Peat, Museum director, that he would, when he got time, return to the Museum and touch up the injured parts of . the background, And so, without announcement, he went to the Museum today, set up his easel in the = East "Gallery, and went to, work. He and his wife are on their way from Chicago, where Mr. Adams has been painting . a portrait of Roger Deering, | to New York, where they will .spend the holidays. ’
MANY DIEIN Cow SWEEPING EUROPE
Weather. Ranges to. 40 Below With Worst to Come.
LONDON, Dec. 20 (U. P.)—A cold wave, increasingly more severe as it continued, caused suffering to-millions ‘and death to hundreds today over all Europe. 2 Temperatures ranging down to 40 degrees below ‘zero were recorded and it was reported that the worst was to come. Snow storms swept some areas. : Twenty-five deaths in Great Britain were attributed to the cold; it was xéporfed from the Lodz area of Poland that 70 persons had been frozen to death. Ten deaths had been recorded .among Jewish refugee on the Polish-German frontier. Rumania reported 11 known dead, Hungary two.
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-{tion prohibits his release from Fed-
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Times Photo.
CAPONE'S MIND HALTS RELEASE
Of Time and Can’t Be Set cone FEOR. for. Year. i
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| CHICAGO, Dec. 2 (U. P) ~The Federal Government revealed today that Al (Scarface) Capone,” once powerful boss of a one hundred million dollar rackets kingdom, is a broken, irrational man, at times dangerously insane, and his condi-
eral custody for at least a year. U. S. District Attorney William J. Campbell said Capone, now in Alcatraz. is a victim of paresis, an affliction he is believed. to have had for years.
Capone, now 41, was sentenced to 10 years.in a Federal prison and to one year in the Cook County (Chicago) jail on charges of income tax evasion by Federal Judge James H, Wilkerson in 1931. With time off for good behavior he would have been eligible for release from Alcatraz Tan. 19, 1838. It had: been expected that he would be brought here to serve the final year, but Mr. Campbell stressed that the Government has no intention of surrendering him. It is within the Government's power to hold him until May 4, 1943, when he would have served his full 11 years’ sentence, Mr. Campbell conferred at Washington recently with James W. Bennett, director of Federal prisons. He said Mr. Bennett had visited Alcatraz and had talked with Capone. “Capone is suffering from paresis,” Mr. Campbell : said. “The physicians who have been treating him report that he is normal only three weeks out of four. He is rational most of the time but has mental lapses and during these lapses he is a dangerous: man-—iteo dangerous to be released. He said a cure for Capone might require 'a year or even two vears
fers to keep him at Alcatraz because the most modern methods of treating paresis are'available there. He said Capone had expressed a desire to be transferred from Alcatraz and that Government officials may consider the request because they believe his hatred for the prison
might interfere ‘with his Fesovers
FEDERAL RY
INDICTSA. M.A.
And Three Societies Also Named.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (U. PJ). —A Federal Grand Jury today returned criminal indictments charging violation of antitrust laws against the American Medical As-
sociation, three affiliated medical groups and 21 individuals, Five of the 21 individuals named
“lin the indictments are from Chi-
cago. They are Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association's Journal and outstanding spokesman for conservative elemen{s of the medical profession; Olin West, A. M. A. secretary and getieral manager; William C, Woodward, ‘director of the A. M. A’s Bureau of Legal Medicine and Legislation; © Willlam Dick Cutter, secretary of the A. M. A. Council on Medical Education and Hospitals; and Roscoe G. Leland, director of the A. M. A’s Bureau of Medical Economics.
Others From Capital
The other indicted individuals are . | Washington physicians active in the District of Columbia group medical «| society, headed by Thomas Edwin Neill, former president of the society, and Coursen B. Conklin, its secretary-treasurer, Culminating ‘ more than two months of investigation by the Grand Jury, the indictments were based “specifically upon: opposition that developed in the medical profession against Group Health, Inc. 8 District Jocdical So-operative in
i bia, inounring the case "last | August, Assistant Attorney Gener-
Justice Department's Antitrust Division, explained that the A. M. A. dominant organization in the: med+ ical profession, had been accused of using its prestige and power coer= cively to block development of cooperative medical groups. Co-operatives : such as Group Health, Inc., have contended that the burden of high medical costs has fallen most heavily on that por(Contes ontinued on Page Three)
FOUR U.S; FLIERS
Many See Coast Guard Ship Explode in Air.
BOERNE, Tex., Dec. 20 (U. P.) — Four members of the United States armed services were killed last night’ when a Coast Guard plane crashed and burned here. The: victims - were Lieut. P, S. Lyons of the Coast Guard, pilot of the ship and unit commander: Ensign. C. H: Teague of ‘the OU. S. Navy; Rupert H. Germaine of the Coast Guard, and George C. Latham, Army ehlisted man from Ft. Bliss. Lieut. Lyons and Mr. Gems
Ensign Teague at San Diego, Cal. Investigators were unable to give an explanation immediately for the accident, | The plane, from the El Paso Coast Guard bese, crashed 30 miles} short of Kelly Field, San Antonio, its destingtion. Towmspeople, many of whom were eyewitnesses to the crash, said that the plane exploded as it passed over them, b' into flames and crashed in a pasture ab the city limits. Authorities later said that the plane was not afire before it crashed but that the crew was
dropping Bares:
IN TRUST CASE
Fishbein, 20 Othe Other Doctors
a] Thurman Arnold, in charge of the
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when the group representatives arrived. ‘shopping. ; When the children had been outfitted in warm, | new clothes, the shopping committee found: that it had some money left. ‘So they bought the children They still had some money—seven
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Hospital Associati To Introduce Bill In January.
LABOR MAY AID
Plan Seeks Tax-Fr Monthly Payments. For Insurance.
By RICHARD LEWIS Legislation to enable Indiana come munities to set up group hospita tion plans, by which organizati can obtain hospitalization their members for & ‘monthly fee, will be introduced in the 1939 Legislature, it was learned today. A bill to exclude such a plan fre
taxation under the State ins laws, has been drafted by. the l tative committee of the Ing Hospital Association, which sponsor the measure. Edgar B Jr. of the Methodist Hospital, G is chairman of the committee. The plan follows the group ho pitalization insurance program | the American Hospital Associa which is now operating in 50 with an estimated two million me bers, according to the association. Enabling legislation for its. esta lishment in Indiana will -have {i support of the State Federation Labor, according to Adolph EF secretary. . Possibility that o© labor groups will support the b the General Assembly is seen by plan’s backers.
Details Not Disclosed
The Indiana State Medical Asso~ ciation is ‘on record as favoring sickness insurance, another and 2 companion: plan to make med ic care more available. | Although details of the Ind plan have not been worked. out,
is understood that it Wo! 3 0) insurance’ 5s op y cit es
as Cleveland. A group, industrial, comme or fraternal organization, -W contract. for hospital service wi series of private hospitals in a ¢ munity, according to the plan.’ Members of groups participa would be enrolled at a fixed we or monthly fee and would b titled to receive free hospital carn on the recommendation of a priva physician. In some cities, it is said, length of hospitalization is 21 during which the member rece the benefit of full facilities : semi-private room or in a ward
Some Include Surgery
Some plans have been devel to the point where maternity is included in the insurance. th group insurance plans, opera
under the American Hospital As sociatiorf’s program, provide surgery at no extra cost. . The fee is fixed by the numbep of individuals and groups pare ticipating. Any group c a member if it meets the pI membership requirements, which cities where the plan operates, i giver. percentage of its organ tion’s members. It is understood that the Indi Hospital Associaticn’s member stitutions would co-operate civic or other groups seeking initiste the plan in their cox munities if the enabling legislation assed,
. B. H. Martin of the University Hobos Indianapolis, is preside of the Association and Albert of the Protestant Deaconess pital. Evansville, executive d
BUILDING PERMITS
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George R. Popp, City B Cominissioner, today reported to Safety Board that b valustions had gained $3" week over the same Total valuations from Jan.'1 os OH 17 of this year equal $9,925,378. V uations for the same period year were $9,002,428. oul gan this year is $922950.
REPORT CONVICT'S: DEAT
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind, D (U. P.) —State Prison officials | today that Adrian. Patterson, sentenced to life imprisonment # Marion County in January, 19: inflicting personal injury: commission of a robbery, d serday in the prison insan