Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 March 1939 — Page 1

Ea

Indianapolis

FORECA}

imes.

ST: Fair tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 28; rising temperature tomorrow.

FINAL

HOME |

, MsmmesThowss] VOLUME 51—NUMBER 6

. 2DIEAS AUTO

J. CRASHES INTO

EAR OF TRAIN

Eight Injured in 14 Other Traffic Accidents in This Area.

POLICE CONTINUE DRIVE

Judge - Karabell - Suspends Licenses of Two Motorists.

Two youthful companions were fatally injured early today when their | automobile crashed into the rear of a seven-car Indiana Railroad [train on Oliver Ave. 1300 block. :

They were Richard Reid, 23, of

1858 Wyoming St., the driver, who died at the scene, and Lawrence W. Reed, 20, of 1045 Reisner St., who died later at City Hospital. . Eight persons were injured in 14 other traffic accidents here as police continued their war on erring

motorists with the arrest of 34, among them alleged speeders.

Two Licenses Suspended

5 Municipal Court Judge Charles Karabell suspended the license of one driver for 10 days for disobeying -a [signal light and that of another for the same period for ignoring a preferential street. The | fatal crash at 2:55 a. m. climaxed a ride which the two youths, who had been friends for years, and two other companions started after Lawrence Reed finished work at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills. The two others had been taken home earlier and escaped a similar fate or inJuries. Ni The last car of the train carried two red lights, Dr. Norman Booher, deputy coroner, and a spokesman for the Indiana Railroad said. The latter said that the freight train, outbound on the track in the center of the| street, was traveling slowly. It was in charge of Martin Lynch, conductor, and Lawrence Miner, motorman, both of Terre Haute.

Tech High Alumnus

Richard Reid was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donzld Reid Sr. He Was graduated from Tech High School in 1934 and was employed by Armour Co. Besides his parents, he is survived a brother, Donald Jr. and a sister, Dona Jean. Lawrence Reed, son of Charles H. and Edith Reed, had attended Cathedral High School, after which he obtained employment at the hosiery mills. He was a member of the Church of the Assumption. Survivors besides his parents are - a brother, Edward, and three sisters, Mrs. Arthur Feltman, Miss Mildred and Miss Rosemary. Four occupants of an automobile were injured when it failed to negotiate a curve on Road 37, two and one-half miles south of Glenn's Valley, and rolled over three times.

The injured were Vernon Miller, | 21, of Churchman Ave., the driver; |

Edward High, 21, of 810 Blake St.; Miss Louise Henry, 17, of 301 Harvard Place, and Thomas Johnson, 18, of 2006 Cornell Ave. They were taken to City Hospital.

Patrolmen Are Injured

Patrolmen Earl Davis of 6225 Park Ave. and Michael McAllen of 653 N. Oxford St. were hurt when, they said, a car driven by John G. Lantz of 6048 Dewey Ave, crashed into the rear of their radio car on E. Washington St., 5200 block. : The officers were taken to City Hospital and Lantz was charged with driving while under the influence of liquor, according to police. John Orr, 45, of 2311 Prospect St., was arrested on a drunkenness charge after he was hurt slightly when his car rammed into a culvert near Stop 8, Madison Ave, police said. William S. Robinson, 56, of 312 W. Michigan St., was treated at City Hospital after he was struck by an automobile at Senate Ave. and Michigan St. :

CHAPLIN AND EX-WIFE AT BEDSIDE OF SON

HOLLYWOOD, March 18 (U. P.). ‘ —Charles Chaplin Jr., 13, was recovering today from an appendicitis operation which brought his divorced _ parents together briefly in his hospital room. : The boy, son of Comedian Charlie Chaplin, was stricken while attending classes at a military academy. Mr. Chaplin hurried to _ the hospital from his mansion, and there met Mrs. Lita Grey Chaplin, the boy’s mother. Forgetting bitter differences that led them to the divorce courts 11 years ago, they waited together in the operating room and stood later at young Charles’ bedside.

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

1

Mrs. Ferguson.10 Music 13

Obituaries .

Books eeccsore 9 Broun ....ee.-10 Churches ..... 5 Comics -......14| Pegler ........10 Crossword. .... T|Pyle ......cc.. 9 Editorials .,...10{ Questions ..... 9 Financial ., ..13| Radio 1 0| Mrs. Roosevelt 9 Scherrer Serial Story ..

Jane Jordan... 9 Johnson ......10

PO State Deaths .. 7 Movies conse 8 Wigg

| left dozens of com

* Train Battles Michigan

A snow-covered locomotive steams into Escanaba, Mich., after

battling drifts 10 and 15 feet deep peninsula of the i

It was the worst unities snowbound and

Snow

A

Times Telephoto.

storm that swept the upper blizzard of the winter, and several trains stranded.

in the

Arctic Hero

Dead Pilot Found, Lips On Radio; Five Others Killed.

UNEAU, Alaska, March 18 (U. P.).—A pilot’s fight to save the lives of six men trapped in a storm-tossed plane high above the frozen Arctic tundra was revealed today with the recovery of the six bodies. ;

«+; Coast guardsmen | who broug t

the bodies here after they been found in the plane by woodsman, were able to reco struct from the death scene so of the things that | transpired moment before the plane crash in a desolate waste 15 miles south of Juneau, the night, of Feb. 12 ” ”

YHE body of Pilot Alonzo (Lon) Cope, famed for his many mercy flights over | Alaska, was found with lips held - rigidly against the mouthpiece of his radio sending equipment, his earphones still on his head. Clocks on the plane's instrument board were stopped only a few seconds after Mr. Cope’s frantic last radio call—“we’re fighting heavy snow storm; may crash”— was picked up by radio operators here and elsewhere. |

ANSWER IN LIQUOR * LAW TEST IS FILED

Seeker of Beer Wholesale Permit Asks Ruling.

Po Po

By United Press Omer Klipsch of Petersburg today filed in the State Supreme Court: his reply to the Alcoholic Beverages Commission, which is attempting to prohibit the Marion Superior Court from passing on an. appeal from the State Liquor Commission which denied him a beer wholesaler permit,

His “petition charged that the Commission acted “capriciously and arbitrarily” in its refusal to grant him a license, but specifically said Mr. Klipsch does not accuse the Commission of acting with political motives in mind. This suit is regarded as a test case which will determine whether the amendments to the state liquor law enacted by the last legislature are constitutional. The Commission contends they are not. Mr. Klipsch was the first person to seek a beer wholesaler permit after the liquor law amendments removed restrictions on the number of beer wholesalers in the State, and provided that any applicant for a permit rejected by the Commission could appeal to the Marion Superior Court. :

CHARLES HENDERSON,

ATTORNEY, DIES AT 68

Formerly Served as Judge in Greene-Sullivan Circuit.

Charles E. Henderson, attorney,

died of a heart attack today at nis home, 525 Sutherland Ave, He was

ies 1/68

Mr. Henderson formerly was Circuit Judge of Greene and Sullivan Counties and was a former

3| member of the Indiana Legislature.

Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m, tomorrow at the Royster & Askin Puneral Home, 1902 N. Meridian St. Other services will be held at 10:30 a. m. Monday at the

° | Presbyterian Church at Blooming-

ton where burial will act : as

CITY TO FIGHT

SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1939

16 TEAMS WAT TIPOFF TODAY IN SEMIFINALS

Play Starts at 2 P. M. With 4 High Schools Playing At Tech Gym Here.

COMPETITION IS ‘HOT

Survivors will Meet Here Next Week for Indiana Championship.

By TOM OCHILTREE Skilled in plays that would strike envy in the heart of a whirling dervish, 16 high school basketball teams were to compete in four cities today in games which will pare down the number of contenders for the state championship to four. ~All of these teams, from Ossian’s surprising Bears to Frankfort’s towering Hot Dogs, are members now of Indiana’s basketball elite by virtue of their past records. All have beaten back in sectional and regional tournaments the challenges of less powerful rivals. The four teams surviving today's play will compete for the title at the Butler University’s Fieldhouse next Saturday in a meet often

show in the world.” s

Sharing the sports spotlight here tonight will be the seventh annual Butler Indoor Relays at the Fieldhouse. Action is to get underway at 7 o’clock following the opening parade of officials and contestants. A field of 384 athletes, representing 28 schools, will compete. Elimination trials in four events were to be run off this afternoon.

HEALTH RULING

Attacks Injunction Against * Barring Pupils Not Vaccinated.

A, court fight against a permanent injunction to prevent the City Health| Board from barring unvaccinated pupils from schools was planned today by Board officials.

The hearing on the petition for the permanent restrainer is scheduled fore Circuit Court Judge Earl R. Cox Tuesday. - The temporary order was issued yesterday by Judge Cox on the plea of the parents of a 12-year-old boy that he had been illegally prevented fro attending school because he w not vaccinated against smallpox. As the Board prepared. for the court ht, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, secretary, said that the development of 34 new cases of the disease here this month was proof that it still is prevalent. City [Attorney Michael B. Reddington| is to represent the Board. Meanwhile, the outbreak of influenza | which swept the City in epidemic proportions last month was definitely broken today, Dr. Morgan said. He said that the number of influenzal type infections now prevalent has dropped to about average for this season. ; The decrease has been reflected, he said, in the declining pneumonia mortality rate during the first three weeks the month. Threatening to reach a five-year high for March, the pneumonia weekly - mortality rate has dropped almost 50 per cent since the week ended March 4. ; A total of 103 pneumonia deaths this month, Dr. Morgan said, is a result of the recent flu epidemic. There were 81 deaths last month and 79 in January.

FAIR AND WARMER, BUREAU PROMISES

River Still Mounting Southern Indiana.

te

CAL TEMPERATURES 23 11am... 23 22 12 (Noon). 24 22 1pm... 25 23

eather Bureau today promtinued fair weather for the week-end with a rise in temperature The forecast said the lowest temperature tonight would be about 28. The mercury this morning dipped

to the low 20s against a normal of

I

| meteorologist, to condensation | {

A snow flurry this morning was attributed by J. H. Armington,

caused stratas low. The main stretch of the White ‘River downstate was reported still rising. fai both the Weather i

by warm air in the upper meeting a colder area be-

Bureau said both forks of the White were falling. The River was reported rising} from incennes southward. At Petersburg it was at 23.1 feet, 7.1 feet over flood stage.

Flee Wabash Lowlands At Mount Carmel, Il.

MOUNT CARMEL, Ill, March 18 (U. P).—Residents of the lowlands along the Wabash River continued moving out today .as the river reached a flood stage of 23.7 feet to spread over an increasingly large!

In 2U DOW

Indianapolis, Evansville, Hammond and Muncie are the centers for today’s semifinal tournaments. Procedure in all these meets will be identical. Four teams will compete at each center and afternoon games will be held at 2 p. m. and p. m. Winners in the afternoon will play at 8 p. m.

Many Evenly-Matched

Many of the teams are so evenly matched that the basketball Fates —those weird spirits that determine whether a long shot goes in or rolls around the rim of the basket— probably will have to do an “eenie, meenie, minie, mo” to determine-the winners. While tournament competition isn’t much of a novelty to teams like Frankfort, Anderson, Logansport, Greencastle and Kokomo, members of all competing squads are faced with one of the major problems of competitive sports— that of making good for admiring and acclaiming friends. The Indianapolis tourney, to be held in the Technical High School gymnasium, will bring together two cautious old rivals, Anderson and Greencastle, in the first afternoon game. Always a headache for competitors in tournament play, Anderson’s Indians have won two of the three semifinal meets here since the 16-team finals were abolished in 1936. Two Newcomers

The drug store athletes in various towns, who claim to know everything about everything, have made the Indians a slight favorite in this tournament, but members of the three other competing teams aren't having to take sleeping tablets at night because of that. Aurora’s Red Devils and Franklin’s Grizzly Cubs, who meet in the second afternoon game here, are newcomers to the Indianapolis semifinal tournament, but they are strictly second semester as far as basketball is concerned. Aurora was the Southeastern Indiana Conference champion and was beaten only four times this year, while Franklin is said to have one of the State’s most graceful ball handling clubs. Down at Evansville where Vincennes meets Salem and Garfield of Terre Haute plays Bosse of Evansville there seems to be considerable mystery about the outcome of the tournament.

Johnson Is Mainspring

Led by Splinter Johnson, classed as one of the State’s star centers, Frankfort rules as a favorite in the Hammond tournament. The Hot Dogs meet La Porte’s Slicers, a team which can match them for size, in one afternoon game, while two other strong contenders, Elkhart and Logansport, will battle it out in the second afternoon game. If Ossian beats Kokomo in the second game at Muncie they probably will have to furnish straight jackets for some of the Bear rooters, who have been dizzier than the wooden horses on a merry-go-round since last Saturday when their boys defeated South Side of Ft. Wayne, last year's champions, in the finals of the Huntington regional. Ossian is the smallest high school to have a surviving team in the championship race and the vast army of unorganized fans, who like to see past greats humbled, are supporting the Bears. : Auburn and Burris High School of Muncie play in the other game at the Muncie center, and both are regarded very highly. Burris makes up in speed what it lacks in size since it doesn’t have a six-foot player in its starting lineup. Roads to all the tournament centers were crowded this morning by motorcades of fans, and by fans in Indiana you mean anyone beyond the teething ring stage, since half of them here iearn to say “basketball

acreage. | The river rose nine-tenths |

§ rd

designated as “the biggest boys’

from Czechoslovakia to the United

TROOPS SHIFTED BY KING CAROL

Demands Are Imposed By Germany.

BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 18 (U. P.)—It was reported today that reinforcements had been called up for three army corps stationed in. Transylvania, an area once in Austria-Hungary that was ceded to Rumania after the World War. A secret session of the Grand Council was held at the Palace last night, with King Carol presiding, and the chief of the Army Staff was said to have reported on the mobilization. No details were given. A communique said that the Council had

| “approved measures so far taken

and decided that they should be extended. insofar as national defense requires.” g It was understood that the Council had decided not to dispatch troops into CaYpatho-Ukrainia, which was seized by Hungary this week. Rumania has claimed a border area of the Carpatho-Ukraine populated mostly by Rumanians. Rumors that Hungary had warned Rumania of

troops into Carpatho-Ukraine, however, were said to be without foundation. The Government categorically denied a report emanating from London that Dr. Hellmuth Wohlthat, head of a German economics commission sent to Rumania, had suggested that Rumania abandon its factories and concentrate on agriculture, in return for a German guarantee of its borders. ’ “This report is a pure invention,” a Government spokesman said. “Economic negotiations with Germany are continuing most harmoniously.” He said the negotiations dealt only with application of last November’s agreement designed to increase the trade volume between Germany and Rumania. Wohlthat could not have made such a suggestion, the spokesman said, because that would have exceeded his domain as an economics negotiator.

BURGLARS GET $300 IN CASH AND GEMS

More than $30C in cash and jewelry were stolen in three overnight burglaries, police reported today. Arthur Formes, 533 N. Tacoma Ave., told police someone took $275 from a dresser drawer at his home.

BERLIN, March 18 (U. P.).—The status of the Czech state cannot be altered no matter what Great Britain “does or says,” a high source close to the Government said today of the British refusal to recognize

(the legality of Adolf Hitler's con-

quest. . “As for us,” the informant added, “we are going ahead calmly, prepared to give the Fuehrer a tremendous reception on his arrival in Berlin.” : Hitler had left Vienna by train for Berlin this morning, but had stopped in Lint, Austria. He may not arrive in the capital until Monday for a gigantic Yarchiigh parade

Col. Vladimir Hurban (eft), who was minister

nando de los Rios, ambassador from Loyalist Spain, meet during a visit to the State Department in

serious consequences if she sent]

Entered as Second-Class

at Postoffice, Indianapolis. Ind.

U. 5. IMPOSES ‘PENALTY’

States, and Fer-

Matter

PRICE THREE CENTS

Times Telephoto.

Washington. Col. Hurban’'s country has been shattered and swallowed by Germany. Loyalist Spain is already nonexistent to countries that have recognized Generalissimo Franco’s Government,

British Cabinet Meets;

Daladier

French Envoy Recalled as Premier Asks Power to Act Swiftly.

‘PARIS, March 18 (U. P.).—Robert Coulondre, French Ambassador to Berlin, was instructed today to protest to the German Government against Adolf Hitler's smashing of Czechoslovakia and to say that the French Government did not recognize it as legitimate. - Immediately thereafter M. Coulondre was called home. He will arrive here on Monday, it was announced officially tonight. Great Britain, which already has recalled its Ambassador, was understood to be making a protest similar to France’s. France's first move in the Czechoslovak situation came as Premier Daladier staked the life of his Government in the Chamber of Deputies on his demand for dictatorial Cabinet powers to put France on an immediate war-preparation footing as a defense. against German and Italian expansionism.

Premier Wins Confidence

At the outset of debate, Henry Kerillis, a Right Winger opposed to M. Daladier’s foreign policy, moved that discussion of the emergency act be abandoned. Premier Daladier asked for a vote of confidence, which he won, 334 to 258. On a Socialist counter-project for a war-time system under which the Chamber would have a voice in affairs under a system of ‘“extreme urgency,” the Government won, 316 to 262. Debate was expected to be brief and subdued. It was regarded as certain that the Chamber would pass the Emergency. Act today, the Senate would pass it, tomorrow, and that it would go in force Monday morning. :

Rule By Decree Asked

M. Daladier’s request was for permission to take “imperative, immediate and secret measure” for the nation’s welfare. | The act would permit the Council of Ministers, composed of the Cabinet and President Lebrun, to rule by decree on all matters of defense until Nov.. 30. The Council could, without recourse to -parliament or without any public announcements: 1. Mobilize army reserves; 2. Extend the 40-hour work week

being prepared to him for

(Continued on Page Three)

Berlin Prepares Huge Celebration for Hitler

mon his Reichstag, perhaps Tuesday, to address it on Czechoslovakia and German relations with the world. Col. Gen. Goering, head of the Nazj Air Force, ordered the immedi-

ate establishment of a new air force|

command with headquarters in Vienna today. It will include the newly acquired territories of Ostmark (Ausiria), Bohemia, Moravia, parts of the Sudetenland and parts of Silesia. Despite statements by Nazis, it was plain that Government quarters were startled by the news that Great Britain would refuse fo recognize Hitler's conquest. The shock was equal to that with which they eceiy by Minister

Awaits Vole

; ; Reich Reported in Move to

Bring Rumania Under Its Expanding Orbit.

LONDON, March 18 (U. P.)— Great Britain and France sent formal protests to Berlin today against Adolf" Hitler's Czechoslovakian conquest and were understood to have been joined by the United States and Russia in refusing recognition. In Berlin it was reported that the British Embassy delivered to the German Foreign Office a note reportedy containing Great Britain's notification. The move was a step in a joint action by England and France to stop Hitler in which the United States and Russia are reportedly lending a hand. : It was understood Sir Nevile Henderson, British ambassador who has been called home, did not deliver the note personally. The British Cabinet went into special session at 5 p. m. (11 a. m. Indianapolis Time). Despite denials in . Berlin and Bucharest, reliable sources here insisted that Hitler -has made strong economic demands on Rumania and that Rumania has rejected them. Rumania, these sources said, officially informed Britain of the demands and asked how far Britain is prepared to go in supporting Rumania’s rejection of them. The Evening Standard said King Carol conveyed to Britain his fear (Continued on Page Three)

STOCKS DOWN 1-5 ON NEWS FROM EUROPE

Ralls Suffer Worst Losses: Bonds Decline.

NEW YORK, March 18 (U. P).— Stocks crashed 1 to 5 points on the New York Exchange today under the impetus of heavy dumping by European and American traders.

The list was at new lows since Jan. 28. Selling was executed in blocks of 1000 to 6000 shares. Most European markets were closed in line with the usual Saturday procedure. Hence foreigners turned to the New York markets for their sales and houses with foreign connections reported sales on balance on what they termed “pessimistic cables.” Bonds declined and foreign currencies were irregular in dollar terms. Rails were hardest hit, losses ranging to 2 points. Sloss-Sheffield: Steel dropped 10 points on a single transaction. General Cable preferred made a new low at 65, off § points.

THREE STATE ROADS OPENED, 2 CLOSED

Three state roads which have been closed to traffic due to- flood conditions have been opened and two others have been blocked off, it was announced at the State Highway Commissioner's office, Road 63, near Cayuga, in the Crawfordsville district, Road 63 east of Clinton, and Road 58 west of Fayettesville in the Vincennes dis-

trict, were open. Roads closed are 64 west of Princeton and 257 north

UTIES

AGAINST GERMANY'S IMPORTS; LONDON, PARIS PROTEST

Two Men Without a Country

BIZURE

Countervailing Levy, Goes Into Effect On April 23.

THE FOREIGN SITUATION

WASHINGTON—U. S. imposes penalty duties on German imports and moves against Nazis “vigorously, but short of war.” Prepares to train 3000 cadet fliers. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to study revision of Neutrality Act.

Mail service to former Czech republic halted.

CHIC A G O—Police guard Paderewski after he expresses indignation over Nazi seizures.

LONDON—England leads "Stop Hitler” drive and joins France in lodging protest with Berlin.

PARIS—Daladier awaits vote on plea for wide powers to act swiftly in emergency..Ambassador recalled from Berlin.

BERLIN—N a zis, angry at Britain, prepare to give Hitler Roman triumph.

VIENNA-—Hitler leaves for Berlin after naming Baron Kone stantin von Neurath as “Reich Protector” of annexed Czech areas. | ;

BUCHAREST — Rumania denies Nazi demands for economic control bringing nation into Reich orbit.

BUDAPEST — Hungary completes occupation. of Car-patho-Ukraine.

ROME—Italians instructed on” behavior during air raids.

PRETORIA—South African reserves are mobilized. 3 8 2 = WASHINGTON, March 18 (U, P.).—The United States today ime posed severe restrictions on Gere man trade by proclaiming a cone ditional 25 per cent penalty ‘tariff

April 22. The action followed swiftly after announcement by Acting Secretary

States will send a note to Germany which is expected to reiterate offie cial abhorrence of Nazi absorption of Czechoslovakia and refusal by the United States to grant diploe matic recognition of the change.

curtail the flow of German products to the United States to a thin trickle. Regarded as Rebuke

Treasury announcement of ihe action attributed to subsdiies eme ployed by the German Government to aid importers in “dumping” come modities abroad. However, the timing of the action left no doubt that in part, at least, it was a direct result of official iadignation at Hitler’s seizure of Czechoslovakia, The ‘Treasury said it would apply the 25 per cent penalty duty to all German goods entering this coun try. It will then investigate each shipment to determine whether it was subsidized, and, if so, the amount of subsidy. The duty will then be corrected to conform to the subsidy. If the subsidy is greater than 25 per cent, an additional charge will be ase sessed. If less than 25 per cent or. if no subsidy was paid, a refun will be made, The action was based on an opinion hy Attorney General Mure phy, which had been requested by the Treasury last Nov. 28. The opinion, as given out by the Treas~ ury, was dated today.

Germans Control Barter

Mr. Murphy said he had found that in the case of barter arrangements on cotton bought by Gere many, there was a net subsidy of 33% per cent on the goods sent to the U. 8S. in exchange. The bartere ing was catried out through come plicated transactions which he said were under control of the German government. ‘Therefore, he recommended that the Treasury put into effect the countervailing duties, provided for in the tariff law in cases when it is found that a foreign country is sube sidizing shipments to this country, The imposition of countervailing (Continued on Page Three)

OPERATION ON GRIMES BOY, 4, IS POSTPONED

An operation to remove the right eye of 4-year-old Jimmy Grimes, who has clung to life despite a bullet wound in his head, was postponed indefinitely today. Dr. H. S. Rabb, his physician, said that the lead fragments lodged behind his right eyeball would not be removed because an operation might result in total blindness. Jimmy was shot accidentally on March 8 at his home near Acton.

CHANGE OF JUDGE

Attorneys for William R. Butsch,

January of Mrs. Carrie Lelah Romig, today filled a motion in Criminal Court asking for a change of judge, the selection to be made by the Indiana Supreme Court.

Butsch’s petition alleges wey Myers of O

Judge Dewey

on all imports of Nazi goods after -

of State Welles that the United

The new duties are expected to

BUTSCH FILESFOR '

57, charged with the slaying last

SE HA ey ls BRE ET Fa, ER VRE i 5

LE NRT AR

hi

3

A UNC Erg Sree roe i i 5 ; oA

RE EE Yl TA Se