Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1939 — Page 1

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COMMEMORATE CHRIST'S DEATH

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City’s Worshipers Kneel in to

Reverence at Good Friday Services.

(Editorial, Page 20)

Indianapolii reverently commemorated the death of Christ today. Thousands in downtown churches and theaters worshiped during Good

Friday sermons and hymns, and above the roar of five airplanes forming a flying cross, reminded the throngs of Easter shoppers and office workers of the solemn significance of the day. Easter services Sunday will climax Holy Week and the 40 days of Lent. Many churches planned night services. Sarvices in downtown churches, B. F. Keith's Theater and outdoors at the World War Plaza were the most spectacular of the observances, From noon until 3 p. m. Protestant rites were held at Keith's, at English's Theater, Christ Chureh, First English Lutheran Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Roberts Park M. E. Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, Salvation Army and the Wheeler Rescue Mission headquarters. Catholic services were to be held at St. John's. Out door “Way of the Cross” services were to be in the Memorial Plaza from 2:15 to 3 p. m. For this service, which is expected to attract 10000 worshippers, 14 wooden crosses stood today in Obelisk Square, from which hung framed pictures depicting Christ's (Continued on Page Three)

Gooll Friday . . . at SS.

‘It Might Be Fair’ for > SLOW ON DRAW, Bureau Predicts

Faster,

awaiting to display their new finery, like it might be fair.”

A mercury rise was predicted for tomorrow after a low of about 35 tonight. The temperature dipped to 25 early today, but there wasn't much evidence of frost.

State Orchardists Report Frost Damage

WASHINGTON, Ind. April 7 (U. P).—Orchard owners in this vicinity said today that frost last night probably had killed much of Daviess County's peach and plum Cc

rop. Blossoms which had emerged fully were reported dead.

Scores Injured as Storms Lash South

.NEW ORLEANS, April 7 (U. P). —Winter returned to the deep South today with low temperatures and storms that left scores injured. An estimated 50 persons, mostly Negroes, were slightly hurt when a tornado dipped down over the little town of Shaw, La. east of Natchez, Miss. The storm demolished a school house, homes and more than 20 tenant houses. A twister cut a path two blocks wide and a half-mile long through the center of Stephens, Ark. tearing down 12 store buildings and four residences. No one was killed, but several suffered minor injuries,

BRAZIL Y. M. C. A. FIRE | LOSS PUT AT $15,000

BRAZIL, April 7 (U. P.) —Fire of undetermined origin today destroyed the basement and first floor of the three-story Y. M. C. A. building with &° loss estimated at $15,000.

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INHERITANCE TAX REFUNDS UPHELD

The new law empowering the State Tax Board tb make refunds on inheritance taxes was declared constitutional today in an opinion handed down by Attorney General Omer Stokes Jackson. The opinion was given on the re quest of Philip Zoercher, Tax Board chairman, who sald constitutional ity had been questioned on the giound that it gave the Board auhority to set aside court judgment

g {oR inheritance tax valuation.

The Tax Board started hearings

20 on claims for inheritance tax re-

funds two weeks ago but no refunds have been authorized.

NAVY GRID HERO KILLE WASHINGTON, lv En, . Fincher of Ark, center on the Navy

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was burned to death early toe auto crash on the out:

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The Weather Bureau today was pretty cautious about promises as Easter Sunday weather, but hinted some encouragement to those

Times by John Butler,

DICKSON SLAIN

G-Men Deny Woman In

“It's pretty hard vo tell right now,” the Bureau said, “but it looks The forecaster said that cloudiness which is to prevail tonight and tomorrow “doesn’t look serious,” meaning that there is no immediate rain in the making.

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INDICT PENDERGAST ON TAX CHARGES

Grand Jurors Cite Income Returns of Political Boss.

KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 7 (U. P.) —Tom J. Pendergast, boss of the Kansas City Democratic political machine for a quarter of a eentury, today was indicted on a charge of failure to income tax on $315,000 he allegedly received when a fire in« surance rate case was settled. The indictments charged that Mr. Pendergast in 1036 had a gross ine come of $377,378 but reported only $117378. In 1085 it was charged that his gross income totaled $115,« 750, whereas he reported only $58,750. Mr. Pendergast appeared before U. 8. Commissioner Charles Thompson and posted $10,000 bond. The Democratic boss was instructed to appear before Judge Merrill E. Otis April 24 for a hearing. A maximum penalty of five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine may be upon conviction of ine come tax evasion.

BULLETIN Times Special FRANKLIN, April T.-The abandoned automobile of Herbert Hacker, Franklin bank teller who disa March 20 with $8705 of Fa ers Trust Co. funds, has been found at Cincinnati, Sheriff Pete Pangborn of Johnson County said today.

Otis Slatton, 31, of 841 Udell St, received a possible fracture of the left leg today when part of a plaster ceiling fell on him. He was working on &@ WPA project at the State Fair S.

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AS CEILING FALLS

Black Put Him on Spot; Wife Still Missing.

ST. LOUIS, April 7 (U. PB) Gloria Cambron, 19, a waitress, said today that Benny Dickson, Kansas bad man who was killed last night by G«Men, had been “put on the spot” by a woman in black. She sat with him at a hamburger stand while he ate his last meal. G-Men denied the story, as they did when Anna Sage, known as the “Woman in Red,” betrayed desperado John Dillinger at Chicago in 1935 and led him to a spot where he fell before G-Men's guns. If true, Miss Cambron's story re veals Dickson's death at an exact parallel of Dillinger's<the smali« town boy from a respected family who followed the path of crime to (Continued on Page Three)

MENAUGH SLAYING SUSPECT RELEASED

Police today released the fifth suspect they have questioned in eon« nection with the fatal shooting of W. Clyde Menaugh, local druggist. Mr, Menaugh was shot during an attempted hold up at his drug store, 2080 lege Ave, on March 22.

PREDICTS AUTO TOLL CUT HERE OF 50 PERCENT

Expert Bases Belief ‘Selective Enforcement’ Traffic Program.

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tndianapolis traffic deaths will decrease 50 per cent in the year bes ginning May 1 when the “selective enforcement” method for fighting the traffic toll is plaegd in operas tion, Sergt. Kenneth Dickinson pre-

dicted today. Sergt. Dickinson, safety division field representative of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, explained this method at the Police motorcycle school yesterday at the World War Memorial. “This method cut Detroit fatalities 55 per cent and Evanston traffic deaths 40 per cent,” he said, “and Indianapolis is no different than other American cities when it comes to conquering the traffie problem.” Explains Basis of Plan

Selective enforcement is based on three primary factors involved fh all aceidents-time, place and violation. We are now working on

the Indianapolis traffic map prep ghatory to beginning operation ’ vy >» Sergt. Diekinson showed a sound film whieh explained by graphe and disgrams how the sys= tem has succeeded in Detroit and other elties. All traftie violations are spotted on a Oity map according to the time, the place and the type of violation, Most months are so similar, Sergt. Dickinson said, that aceidents for any month can be fore cast from a map of the preceding month. Complete accident forms also are filed according to the nearest street intersection in an elaborate cross= checking file. ‘ A traffic analyst then forecasts the next month's violation looa= tions, their type, and the time they are expected to ocour from the map and the reports.

Forecasts Followed

The secret of the system's success is to concentrate the police manpower at accident locations at their

forecast time, Sergt. Dickinson said. Most police forces have their men working in periods distributed in three equal shifts, he explained. fn one city which had 100 men on the motoreycle force, 33 men worked from midnight until 8 a. m. and another 33 from 4 p. m. until midnight. The balance were on the 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. shift. The fault of this system, he said, is that aceidents ocour at peak (Continued on Page Three)

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4 WOMEN, 1 MAN DIE IN TRAIN-AUTO CRASH

DETROIT, April 7 (U, P) Five persons were killed last night when a Pere Marquette Railroad pasgenger train struck their automobile at a reported speed of 70 miles per hour, The vietims, four women and a man, were: Mary White, 65; Mrs, Winnie MeoeAllister, 456; Mrs, Erline Miller, 17, daughter of Mrs, MeAllister: Loraine Watts, 21, and Robbert Cathon, 24, all of Detroit. The train crashed into the car as it pulled onto the tracks after having waited for a westbound freight

train to pass.

Trade Walls

Dangerous,

Townsend Warns States

Times Special CHICAGO, April T.-Speaking be fore the Conference on Tnberstate Trade Barriers, Governor Townsend of Indiana today branded interstate trade walls as “vain and dangerous efforts to solve fundamental eco nomic problems.” The Governor pointed to the exe pansion of industry and the actus milton of eth ch overbal« anced the power abor as reasons for trade barriers, “During the depression, sore businessmen made a desperate effort to save their markets by elimi« nating all competition within a cers tain area,” he sald, “but eventually, a we all know, this reacted against em. “You just can’t put a wall around all the customers fy a state without expecting the other states to do likewise. Interstate trade barriers, embargoes, ports of entries and customs stations are the surest ways in ivide ited

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nomic problem they are seeking to solve,” the Governor said. “We should realize that each state depends upon the other states for necessary products, and that the wealth of a state cannot remain there. It is distributed among all the states, and eventually returns home multiplied,” he said. Governor Townsend stressed the action of the 1030 session of the Indiana Assembly in amending the liquor ‘law to halt friction between Indiana and its border states. “It is significant to me that , , . the states themselves , , , are taking the lead without anything suggestive of Federal domination or interfer= ence in the solution of a complicated problem having its origin in a lack of unity and understanding upon the part of these states’ he

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and co-operative efforts such as we have engaged in here there will emerge a new era of free trade among the states which will result

Report Pope Is Rewriting Easter Plea

VATICAN QITY, April 7 (U. P).=News of the Italian occupation of Albania shocked the Vatican today in the midst of solemn Good Friday ceremonies, and it was reports ed authoritatively that His Holiness Pope Pius XII was rewriting the homily he will pronounce to the world by radio Easter Sunday. Reports of troop landings in Albanian ports were immedi= ately communicated to him, In deep mourning for the cel= ebration of the mass of the presanctified in St. Peter's Bascilica, he requested all additional information as quick= ly as possible. All three American nets works will earry the message, scheduled to be given from the balcony at St. Peter's about 5:30 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) Sunday.

DUCE CONSIDERS NEW 0G OFFER

Sends Crack Troops Across Adriatic to Put Down Resistance.

ROME, April 7 (U. P.).=Albania made new proposgls to Italy today for a settlement as Italy officially announced the occupation of four Albanian coast towns by Fascist troops. The four towns captured were Santi Quaranta, Valona, Durazzo and San Giovanni de Medua, but they were conquered after such resistance from the Albanians that rtalian ships rushed reinforcements from Bridisi, Italy. ; The famous Bersaglieri grenadiers, toughest troops in Italy, were sent across the Adriatic along with tank and motorcycle troops. It was estimated that within the next two days Italy would have 60,000 troops in Albania. Albania’s Army nums bers 12,600. The new Albanian proposals were forwarded to Rome and were being studied by Premier Mussolini, An Albanian delegation, accompanied by the Italian military attache in Tirana, made contact with the com= mander of the Italian troops, Gen, Guezoni and submitted the proposals of King Zog. Gen, Guzzoni sent them te Rome. Early official communiques here (Continued on Page Six)

AUSTIN PLANS RAP AT HOOSIER POLITICS

Links it to Report Dropping Charges of Willis.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 7.—Senator Austin (R., Vt) is preparing a soathing denunciation of Indiana politics to present to the Senate as part of the report dismissing the Willis charges against Senator VanNuys (D.), he declared today. While the report will give the senior Senator a clean bill of health, it will cite many instances of alleged corruption of the ballot listed in the charges made by Raymond BE. Willis, the defeated Republican Senatorial candidate, and urge reformation to protect the honesty of elections as the very basis of demoocracy, the Vermont Senator said. He expects to use the report to provide subject for Senate debate which he wants to turn into support for passage of the Hatch-Sheppard-Austin bill to prevent pernicious political activities, This measure would make such things as the use of WPA and the like in any election in which a Federal official is on the ballot a Federal offense and provide fines up to $1000 and imprisonment up to one year.

YOUTH DROPS DEAD WHILE WRESTLING

Deputy Coroner Norman Booher is to conduct an inquest today into the death of Gene Riser, 17, who dropped dead last night during a friendly scuffle with two companions at 38th and Illinois Sts.

Princesses Refuse to Baby Prince, Stay

ts of Germany.

BERLIN—Germany warns

machinegun bullets of the marked the Italian offensive.

claimed to have occupied.

aerial forces. It was reported that 140

60 wounded. The majority described as having occurred

ing from trees and rooftops.

messages as so severe that

ing to land at Durazzo.

interior. population.

Fascist bombing planes.

protectorate. Mediphrasili, a mountain

women will then fight you.”

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, April 7—A general European war is unlikely to grow out of the Albanian crisis, because neither Great Britain nor France is in a position to challenge Italy's moves in that direction. War may break out over Poland, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Greece, Danzig, or any one of several other danger spots or combinations thereof. But, on its own merits, an Italian adventure against the little Balkan kingdom across the Adriatic is unHel to precipitate a general cont

The reason is that London and

Paris have been caught in an awkrd situation

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FOUR SEAPORTS SEIZED

Fly With Queen and at Tirana to Form

‘Amazon’ Unit; Zog Leads Army.

BULLETIN

PARIS, April 7 (U. P.) Authoritative French quarters re ceived reports tonight of extensive troop movements in various par No details were available regarding the direction of the movements or their purpose,

THE FOREIGN SITUATION ROME—Italian troops fight inland in Albania. TIRANA—Albanians determine on “last-man” stand. VATICAN CITY—Pope shocked at Italian march. BELGRADE—AIll-night consultations held. ATHENS—Greek Cabinet session called. WASHINGTON—Hull silent, phones Roosevelt,

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LONDON--Britain woos Hungarian support. WARSAW--Balance of power restored, say Poles,

Poland pact is anti-Nazi.

By ELEANOR PACKARD (Copyright, 1930, by United Press)

TIRANA, Albania, April 7.—Italy invaded Albania today, hurling infantry, tanks and warplanes the outnumbered but fiercely resisting soldiers of King Zog, Aerial bombardment, shells from Fascist warships and

against

crack Bersaglieri grenadiers Severe fighting took place in

the Albania coastal towns of Durazzo, Santi Quaranta, Ales gio, San Giovanni de Medua and Valona, which the Italians

Fighting men famed in history as “sons of the eagle” rushed from fields and workshops to repulse the first four Italian attacks at the Adriatie port of Durazzo. Official mese sages said they gave ground only at high cost to the Fascists when the invaders opened up with their vast land, sea and

Albanians had been killed and

several hundred wounded up to 4 p. m., with 25 Italians killed

of Albanian casualties were among the so-called Albanian

“minute men,” who took out old rifles and engaged in snipe

Queen Sent to Greece

King Zog, in a radio proclamation that brought peasants and mountaineers hurrying to the front with their rifles, called upon his people to defend their independence to the end. The half-American Queen, Geraldine, and her 2-day-old son were reported to have been sent into Greece for safety.

The fighting along the coast was described in official

part of Durazzo and Valona

were destroyed and the town of Alessio, in the north, was “devastated” by Italian aerial bombardment. Four times, the Government reported, Albanian troops aided by volunteers threw back the Fascist forces attempts Other messages received here in the capital said that the first Italian forces landing at Valona and Santi Quaranta also were repulsed.

Two Seaports Shelled

Later advices said the Albanian resistance had been overcome and that Fascist columns were marching on the

Italian warships were said to have shelled both Durazzo and Valona, causing heavy casualties among the Albanian Riflemen and even boys with only rocks for weapons were reported harassing the Italians, who pressed on toward Tirana, which was being surveyed repeatedly by

Official announcements by the Albanian Government said that the people were forgetting their feuds—including many blood feuds against King Zog—and rallying to defend the country against Italy's plan to force them to accept a

chieftain, was quoted as have

ing sent a message to Premier Mussolini saying: “When your forces have been annihiliated, our men and

“The people are fighting and have inflicted heavy losses

on the Italians,” one official communique said. (Continued on Page Six)

Britain and France ‘Gave’ Albania to Italy in 1915

“The Italian

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