Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1939 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Fair and cold tonight with lowest temperature 20 to 25; increasing cloudiness tomorrow with rising temperature.
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U.S. CONDEMNS HITLER AGGRES
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17, 1939
$100,000 SUT FOR “SLANDER
NAMES WILLIS
Bobbitt and Charles Van Camp Also Accused by Ex-WPA Official in Vigo.
CLAIMS LIBEL COST JOB
Denies Claims He Took Up Collection to Finance Democratic Rally.
TERRE HAUTE, March 17 (U.P.). —Raymond E. Willis, defeated Republican nominee for the U. S. Senate in the last election; Arch N. Bobbitt, State Republican chairman, and Charles Van Camp were
sued for $100,000 for alleged slander today in a complaint filed in the Vigo Circuit Court by a former WPA . Supervisor. The suit was filed on behalf of Hosea L. Vice of Terre Haute, the ex-supervisor, by John Riddle, deputy prosecuting attorney of Vigo County. It charges that Mr. Willis, Mr. Bobbitt and Mr. Van Camp circulated “false, malicious and defamatory statements” concerning Mr. Vice which, the suit declared, all three men knew were false,
- Suit Result of Probe
Specifically, the suit grew out of an investigation by Republicans of charges that Democrats manipulated the vote in Vigo and other Indiana counties to accomplish the reelection of Senator Frederick VanNuys and the defeat of Mr. Willis. These Republican charges are contained in a contest by Mr. Willis of the re-election of Senator VanNuys which was filed ‘in the U. S. Senate late Monday after the Indiana Supreme Court in December refused to sanction a recount of the Senatorial vote in only seven counties. Mr. Vice said that the defendants circulated a story to the effect that he collected contributions from relief workers in Vigo County with which to purchase beer and whisky for a Democratic rally in Riley, Ind., during the 1938 campaign.
Van Camp Not Identified
Mr. Van Camp, who is not identified in the complaint, Mr. Willis and Mr. Bobbitt, the suit says, circulated this falsehood in Indiana and ihe U. S. Senate. Mr. Vice denies that he ever served on any political committee or that he obtained his work with the WPA through any political connection er activity. He claimed that the re= - marks circulated by the three de- " dendants forced him to léave his work, move into another neighborhood and seek a-new job in which he still was being embarassed by the charges of the Republicans. No return date has been set for a hearing of the complaint.
‘Haven’t Heard of Suit,” Willis Says
Raymond E. Willis said today at his home at Angola that he “had not heard of the suit and could give no information regarding it.” He also stated that he did not know Mr. Vice. Arch N. Bobbitt could not be reached for comment. The Republican State Committee office here said that he was driving back from Washington and was not scheduled to arrive today.
SHELBYVILLE BANKER IS HELD IN DETROIT
DETROIT, March 17 (U. P).— Clarence V. Crockett, 62, banker, accused of embezzling $42,423 from the Farmers National Bank at Shelbyville, Ind, was free on $5000 bond today after surrendering yesterday to FBI agents here. FBI chief John Bugas said Crockett, who was indicted on the embezzling count by a Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis, came to Detroit voluntarily from Birmingham, Mich., where he had been visiting a son. Chief Bugas said he had called on Crockett in Birmingham. Crockett must appear in Indianapolis by March 24 to face the embezzlement charge. Chief Bugas said he had been only “technically” a fugitive.
HOG PRICES TUMBLE
. Hog prices at Indianapolis today tumbled to new lows for the year with a decline of 10 cents in weights above 160 pounds. Top price of $7.65 was paid for 200 to 210-pound-ers. Vealers were steady.
on Day of Green!
Beware of Red
trouble was keeping traffic moving.
ST. PATRICK DAY SKIES ARE ( LEAN
Star to Make [ Debut ° night, Wearers of a Arrange Parties. The sun shined brightly today on
the wearers of the green.” Parties as numerous #s the lakes
of Ireland were being pianned, and
even an astronomical salute to St. Patrick’s Day is schedigied for this evening. At that time Mercury will be seen in the northern hemisphere for the first time in 1939. It will be seen as an evening star and will have 2g position close to Saturn. Previously the planet has been a Jiorning star but its southerly declination has been such that it was not visible tc observers north of the eguator.
And, in case you've fargotten, to: day is just six weeks ‘and a day
Day. So you can test his ability as & weather prophet. According to the Weather Bureat that is just a myth. Ard according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica anc other source works mast of the legends ‘about Ireland's first saint are myths, too. These reveal that St. wasn’t Irish; he didn’t ‘drive the snakes from Ireland; that nation’s national color isn’t green, and the name Patrick wasn’t originally Irish. St. Patrick was a Roraan citizen, born in Wales, and did not see Ireland until he was captured by an Irish’ raiding party and taken the ere as a slave, the books say. After 10 years he escaped to Deans, where he entereil a. monas= try at Lerins and later became a priest. In 432 he returned as the Bishop of Ireland. At that time (Continued on Page [Three)
LACK CASH FOR SPAN ON HIGH SCHOOL ROAD
The County Commissioners today told the Works Board that the County is without funds fo purchase $60,000 worth of right of way necessary to build a new rosd over the railroad tracks on the High School Road. The proposed span would eliminate the “death trap” bridge on ie road leading to the Municipal Alii port. The Commissionets said the shortage of funds was Hue to ‘the lack of an Shiieipatod | Increase in gasoline taxes.
While the City's “beokies” be-
Times Photo.
Sure’'n youd better stop for the red light at Capital Ave. and Market St. today for it’s Patrolman George McAllister who's standing there waving down viclators with the big shamrock. Despite the fact that the green lights shone brighter today Officer. McAllister’s big
Smiling motorists slowed down to
see his symbol of Erin snd bid him tidings of the day.
after Feb. 2, which is Groundhog
Patrick |
[FDR in ¢ in 1 Green
A etfiorlonds ds Dit but He Outdoes Irish Today.
\ ASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.). — President Roosevelt, ‘wbose family line is predominaatly Netherlands Dutch, outdid the Irish on this St. Patrick’s Day. It was the President’s 34th wed-" dirg anniversary as well as the fezst day of the patron saint of Ireland. Ifewspapermen who entered the Chief Executive's office for a press conference, found him dressed in a green tweed suit with a sprig of shamrock in the lapel, wearing a green tie and seated behind a bowl of shamrocks and a vase of green carnations. ‘The top o’ the mornin’ fo you,” he greeted the correspondents.
Roosevelt in San Antonio, Tex., later today.
VACCINATION BAN BROKEN BY JUDGE
Temporary Injunction Issued; Hearing Is Tuesday.
An order temporarily restraining City, school and health officials frora excluding from classes any child who has not been vaccinated
, the number of acute cas
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lice department “is not going to overlook anything in the ay of law violatio Several of the horse race bookmakers were reported to ‘have heen hopeful that the police! campaign on bingo games ordered jecently by the Safety Board woulc take the “heat” off their operations. Instead, officers this week report-: edly broke up a number of “curh-
«sss 19|stone” bookmaking attempts,
35 | Pyl Questions ees 19 Radio .
The closing down of many book-
|was issued by Circuit Court Judge
Ear! R. Cox today. Judge Cox set a hearing on a temporary injunction for Tuesday. The acticn was taken in a petition filed
‘by Mrs. Clair Sides, 4618 E. Washington 8t.,
who charged her 12-year-old son, Jack, was unlawfully barred from school” because he had not complied with a Health Board order requiring smallpox vaccination Meanwhile a marked decrease in of influenza has, been noted oughout the City, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health Board secretary, announced. |
JURY WEIGHS FATE OF GIRL IN SLAYING
NEW CASTLE, Pa., March 17 (U. P.).-A jury of seven men and five wonen today was given the task of deciding whether Angeline Maravolo was a “housmaid Cinderella” who ~- killed in self-defense, or a “scheming, vengeful woman,” who killed the youth who betrayed her and ther. went back on his promise to _ marry her.
‘Bookies’ Moan as Bingo Drive Brin gs No Relief’
'The chief said he took this action
moaned a situation they describad because gamblers had come to know as the “worst in several years,” Chisf vice squads by sight. Under his new Morrissey today announced the po-
system, he is able to assign this type of investigation to different men from time to time, he said. For several weeks these officers have been removing loud-spesker systems from downtown establishments and have made several arrests, Chief Morrissey said there have
beer no violations of the Board's ban on bingo.
The Chief reported that police
‘checking up last night on the places . 35 making establishments which had Whee games regularly were schied-
Mrs. Roosevelt 19 | been furnishing customers with run- |ale¢ found none of them attempting
d | thes ters,
.. 19|ning accounts of races at various| i cperate, 34 tracks followed closely cliscontini- . 26 anes of a vice squad A , 31
Ha said police found several
preparing to pou
He expected to telephone Mrs. .
SECURITY TAX TOBUILD SHIPS,
Economist Scores Piling Up ‘Unnecessary’ Reserve Of 47 Billion.
OPPOSES HIGHER LEVY
Tells Committee Government Merely Wants Cash For General Expenses.
(Another Story, Page 19) WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).
writer, told the House Ways and Means Committee today that the potential reserve being accumulated
actually will be used for battleships,
The reserve actually is an “elaborate fiction,” he said. Mr. Flynn testified at hearings on proposed revisions of the Social Security system. His appearance coincided with private predictions by committeemen that a majority of Administration proposals for enlargement of the scope of the act will be rejected. Mr. Flynn attacked methods by which old-age benefits are financed under the present system.
Claims Tax Excessive
“Under the present act,” he said, “in the first three years the tax for paying old-age benefits is 400 per cent higher than is necessary for the benefits paid from it. Next year it will be six times higher than is necessary considering the present benefits. By 1950 it will be double what it ought to be. For the next 30 years the tax levied on the payrolis will be excessive—even extortionate. “According to the Government's own actuarial figures, the sum that will be paid out by 1870 in old-age benefits will be roughly 35 billion dollars. But the Government is going to collect in taxes to pay that sum 75 billion dollars. - “In other words the Government is going to extract from employers and employees 40 billion dollars more than it will pay back in benefits in the next 30 years. Why? “By 1980 the Government is going to collect 111 billion dollars in taxes for old-age benefits. But in those 40 years the Government is going to pay out in benefits only a little over half of that or 57 per cent.
75 Billions to Pay 35
“Forty-seven biliion dollars of it or 43 per cent will never be paid in benefits but will be used by the Gov-
ernment to buy battleships, build roads and pay the general expenses of the Government.” Mr. Flynn said he did not mean that pensioners would not get their pensions. “The system is perfectly safe. I do not want anyone to get the idea that the Government is never going to make good on the on the pensions,” he said. But utilization of the revenue to pay mounting costs of government, he said, “is a grave mistake of statesmanship. 2 “The Social Security system is new,” he said. (Continued on Page Three)
WEST TERRE HAUTE
bash; Mercury Low Here. |
(U. P).—Flood dangers appeared past here today as the crest of the Wabash River swept downstream with the threatened West ‘Terre Haute levee still intact. =~ Emergency workers had piled sandbags and dirt on top of and behind the structure to prevent the water from roaring through to flood a large portion of the village. The dike at Prairieton and New Goshen, however, broke before the rushing waters, and it was esti mated that 2000 acres of farm lands were flooded.
116 east of Bluffton, 124 east of Monroe and 43 north of Lafayette were reopened to traffic today.
of 19 roads in Southern Indiana are closed.
Mercury 23 Below
Normal in City
* LOCAL PEMPERATURES 6a.m... 17 am... 7am... 17 8a. m... 18 12 (noon) 25 9a. m... 19 1pm... 27
Continued fair and eold’ through today and tonight was dicted by the Weather
23 below normal for March 17,
FLYNN CLAIMS
—John T. Flynn, economist and|:
under the Social Security system| :
roads and general Federal expenses.| ¢
“Already many seri-|P.’ His
FLOOD PERIL PASSES
Gov Levee Holds Against Wa-|arst
WEST TERRE HAUTE, March 17 a
Barricades were lifted and Roads| g
waters forced the closing of Road : 69 south of Mount Vernon. Sections}
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weather [OF
Bureau as| Fo temperatures dipped to as far gs|th
wri ter Objects
John T. Flynn , , , “Payroll tax is excessive. »
NEW GOVERNOR 1S GIVEN OATH
Dickinson, 7 79, Su SucoessHl to Fitzgerald, Whose Death Is Blow to G. 0. P.
LANSING, Mich., March, 17 (U. P.).—Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald, whose election over former Governor Murphy last fall was one of the major triumphs of the Repub, return to power, died last night. was 54. Luren D. Dickinson, . fight against influenza, and grief, r from ga sickbed to take the oath of office. as Michigan’s 54th 8 oath of The 79-year-old Lieutenant Gavernor of more than six terms, received the oath from Miss Tebe Temans, Eaton County clerk, in the living roorn of his farm home near Charlotte. | Governor Fitzgerald died suddenly at his home in ‘adjacent Grand ge while apparently recovering from an attack of influenza suffered last Monday. He was in an oxygen tent when his heart, weakened by the flu and: overwork, stopped beating. He took office 75 days ago. | ! Oldest Chief Executive
Mr. Dickinson is the oldest chief executive in Michigan's: history and perhaps the. oiclest in the nation. His election as Governor Fitzgerald’s ning mate last fall was the seventh time he had won the Lieutenant Governorship. He is a prominent Prohibitionist. Governor Fitzgerald’s death re-| moves. from the Michigan political scene one of the Republican Party's most stalw leaders. Mr. Fi Senator Vandenberg as the G. O J in this pivotal state.
likewise may be felt na-
will lie in state ‘Saturcapitol and funeral services at te be held Sunday. '
Io. 1900 hi ws ‘Mulliken, Mich, and six years tes Shyel, som, John War-
‘erection "a new Lawrence TownSip $e isshool WEA ‘Wilk fushish
the labor.
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Tax. Board pe! Jax Board today abe |anni 8 Sioa) Scheduled. for Wednesday bus was |
leaving,
Entered as Second-Class Matter Indianapolis, Ind.
at Postoffice,
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POINTS TO ‘TEMPORARY’ CZECH EXTINGUISHMENT IN BRISTLING STATEMEN
BRITISH CALL ENVOY HOME FROM BERLIN
All Europe on Edge as Next Nazi Move Remains Big Puzzle.
LONDON, March 17 (U. P.) —The democracies combined today in a strong “stop Hitler” drive. First Prime Minister Daladier of France decided to ask Parliament for dictatorial powers to meet the crisis. Then Great Britain recalled her Ambassador from Germany to report “immediately on the Nazi “march to the East” through Central Europe. The United States followed with a bristling denunciation of German “aggression” in the destruction of Czechoslovakia.
Kennedy Sees : Halifax
With the swift expansion of NaziFascist power alarming every European capital, the Government of Prime - Minister Chamberlain, following the example of the United States, ordered Sir Nevile Henderson, -its Ambassador at Berlin, to return to London. It was believed likely that Hitler also would recall his Ambassador, Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, for a “report.” Diplomatic circles believed France would later take similar action, ale {though authoritative sources Paris were uncertain of the next move there. Joseph P. Kennedy, United States Ambassador, conterred with Viscount Halifax, on the Central European situation this. afternoon. Mr. Kennedy arrived from Rome only today and went immediately to the foreign office, where he had a long discussion with Lord Hali-
fax. - Rome Press Militant
Great Britain’s action was viewed as a rebuke to the Nazi destruction |W of Czechoslovakia and seizure of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovaka as
ates. The French Cabinet of Premier Daladier asked Parliament for dic-
| tatorial powers to meet the new
threat created by Nazi seizure of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia and by growing expectations that Hitler would now back his totalitarian (Continued on Page Five)
* VIENNA HAILS HITLER IN LATE CELEBRATION
{Sky Blackened by Planes as
Fuehrer Returns.
VIENNA, March 17 (U. P)— Fuehrer Hitler received a triumphal welcome today upon his arrival from a tour of Germany’s new protectorate—Bohemia and Moravia. Although Hitler had been snubbed
by Czechs when he arrived in Praha
to assume his protectorate, Ke found the triumph he had desired today at Brno, German * e island” in Moravia, and at Vienna. Nazi bombing ‘planes flew in parade formation over Vienna and] demonstra
‘thousands of Nazi
tors, called out by their leaders long before the Fuehrer arrived, cheered ther German Chancellor, Vienna staged, in less elaborate form, the celebration bf the first] -|anniversary of of Austria || Germany, which had been ||
postponed by the Nazi seizure of the remnants of Czechoslovakia.
oS eched the at many frontier where Jews, Czechs and
’
posts, id | others sought to escape. Three hunofficers | dred Jews who tried to leave by way joe Maerisch-Ostrau to the north
halted. Two hundred wealthy Jews who had arranged to emigrate to Santo Domingo by providing funds for an equal number of poor Jews to ac-|confro company. them were prevented from
tempo of Joe. anti-Jewish . increased in Bratisla
Foreign Secretary,|
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Roosevelt Backs Welles i Welles in ‘Denunciation Read to Reporters; ‘Wanton Lawlessness’.: By Germany Called Peril to World.
‘ARBITRARY FORCE’ CALLED THREAT
Acting Secretary of State Refuses to Amplifs; 4
Prepared Document; Czech Minister Holds": 8
Praha Surrender
Unconstitutional
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WASHINGTON, March 17 (U. P.).—The U. 8. Governs ment today denounced German aggression against the fore mer Czechoslovak Government in bristling terms. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles, speaking with the full knowledge and approval of President Roosevelt, said
this Government “cannot refrain from making known this
DALADIER ASKS DECREE POWER
Parliament to Be Urged to Order Temporary French Dictatorship.
PARIS, March 17 (U.P.).—Pre-
in|. {er Daladier and his Cabinet de-
cided today to ask Parliament for dictatorial powers to strengthen France in the gathering European crisis. A declaration, drawn up secretly and approved this morning by the council of ministers, with President Albert Lebruh presiding, will be presented to the Chamber this afternoon. It would confer on M. Daladier the same supreme authority to mobilize workers and troops which Fuehrer Hitler and Sig. Mus-
solini have. Two Years May Be Asked
Assuming that the Lower House would approve the bill tomorrow at the latest, M. Daladier obtained the promise of Jules Jeanneney, Senate President, to convoke the Upper House on Sunday for a vote so that it could become law Monday morn-
ne length of time the Cabinet would rule without regard for Parliament in all matters of defense, was not disclosed. There were reports that M. Daladier would ask fer two years.
Asks “Necessary Powers”
The Council decided that ministerial displacements would be sus-
strength in Paris constantly to meet
will be Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet’s absence next week. He is obliged by protucol to accompany President LeBrun on a four-day visit to London beginning Tuesday, vital conversations will be held in London with Prime Minister Chamberlain and Lord Halifax, Foreign retary, on plans for joint military tion against any aggressor of ither France or Great Britain. M. dier probably will decline a ritish invitation to London after | (Continued on pase Five)
‘OUR HOUR IS NEAR,
ove Against France to Follow Nazi Thrust. | ROME, March 17 (U. P)—The
Fascist ‘press warned today that Italy will follow up the Nazi tri-
" lumph in Central Europe by achiev-
ing her demands against France in the Mediterranean. The newspaper onslaught against France, obviously inspired by official sources in the wake of Germany's | seizure of Czechia and Slovakia, included an open declaration in the newspaper Il Telegrafo, owned by the family of Foreign Minister Count Ciano, that “Italy and Germany have agreed to help each other with full understanding of the objectives and necessities involv The move in Central Europe was comparatively easy for Germany, the he eWamapes said, but Italy is with the problem of “operating in a field which has been controlled by two great world powers (Britain and France) and has had
to present Semands which directly interest these t; hala
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any emergency. The only exception |
FASCIST PRESS SAYS
country’s condemnation of the acts which have resulted in : the temporary sxtingyishment of the liberties of a free and
independent people.” Mr. Welles declared also that this Government has “on repeated occasions expressed its condemnation of a policy of military aggression.” : He said that “acts of wanton lawe
lessness and of arbitrary force are 4
threatening world peace and the
yory structure of modern civilizae on.” Mr. Welles’ statement was ‘made following a lengthy conference President. Roosevelt. It was proos ably the most vigorous denuneiatiort i of another power that this Govern<d'~ ment has issued in written fornt during recent times. The statement by Mr. Welles’ fold lows: “The Government of the United States has on frequent occasions stated "its conviction that only through international support of: % program of order based upon law can world peace be assured. ‘This Government, founded and dedicated to the principles - og human liberty and of democracy; cannot refrain from making known this country’s condemnation of the acts which have resulted in’ the temporary extinguishment of liberties of a free and independent people with whom, from the when the Republic of Czechoslovakia attained its independence, fhe people of the United States have maintained especially close and friendly relations,
“Position of U. 8S. /. . Clear”
“The position of the Government of the United States has been made consistently clear. It has empha= sized the need for respect for the sanctity of treaties and of the pledged word, and for nonintervens tion by any nation in the domestis affairs of other nations; it has on repeated occasions expressed its condemnation of a policy of military aggression. “It is manifest’ that acts of wana ! ton lawlessness and of - arbitrary forces are threatening world peace and the very structure of modern civilization. . “The imperative need for the observance of the principles advocated by this Government has been cl demonstrated’ which have taken place during the past three days.”
President Seeks Law Change
Mr. Welles declined to enlarge upon the stitement or to comment
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upon inferences which might be
drawn from it. He said definitely that the statement was made wi the knowledge and the approval of the President. He said neither the contents of the statement nor any other expression of official attitude of this Government concerning Germany's absorption of the former Czechoslovak Republic had been communicated to any foreign Gov= ernment. Af his own press conference ears lier, the President had told newse papermen that Mr. Welles’ might have a statement to make. Mr. Roosevelt declared that the events of the last three dafs had once more demonstrated the need for revision of the Neutrality Act. He said a changes would be worked out conference soon. Meanwhile Czech Minister Viadie mar S. Hurban, who yesterday ree fused to turn the Czechoslovak legas tion over to Germany, announced that he had informed “his Governs ment” that he does “not 3 President Hacha’s Sa to Chancellor Hitler as valid inasmueli as it is unconstitutional.” pil
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