Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1939 — Page 1
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ASE IN STATE
High Water May Force 3000 To Leave Homes: 2 Hoo. siers Among Drowned.
MANY FLEE LOWLANDS
White River Is Above Flood Stage Here: Aurora and | Seymour Hard Hit
mdiana streams and the Ohio River, already out of their banks in | Wany places, rose hourly today and new rains were predicted for tonight. Although river men said there] was not likely to be any serious property damage, it was estimated that 3000 persons will he forced from their homes by tomorrow in four states— Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky, Rain fell spasmodically, following week-end downpours that were considerably over five inches at several southern Indiana places.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 63 190 a wh... 63 114. mm. .. 83 12 (Neon) 61 1p Wo.
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Four persons, two of them Hoosiers, were drowned in the rising waters. Dowlands in diana ana the other states were under water. The Weather Bureau forecast rain | tonight and much colder weather tonight and tomorrow, with the wossibility of rain during the day. The rain should be ended by tomorron morning. the bureauw said.
2.01 Inches of Rain Here |
fi the last four days 3.04 inches of rain have fallen on Indianapolis Na and vicinity, the Bureau said. nj — the 24 hours ending at 6 a. m. today | of of an inch fell; in the preceding | 24 hours, 1.25 inches fell; im the 24 hours preceding that 78 of an inch and in the 24 hours preceding that J0 of an inch,
Boats were in use, Bobby Machamer and Albert Fox,
White River ros an inch an hour today in Ravenswood and threatened once more to chase residents out of their homes. Already fn the boat in the lower picture are Quincey and
FORECAST: Cloudy and much colder tonight and tomorrow, with rain tonight.
MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1989
BOARD RENEWS LIGHTING PACT FOR 6 MONTHS
City to Take Its Time on New 10-Year Contract, Knight Declares.
FIRM'S SIGNING AWAITED
Water Company Submits ‘Breakdown’ on Costs Of Operation.
A six-month renewal of the City's | | 1925 public lighting contract with
| the mdianapolis Power & Light Co. was sighed today by the Works
; © | Board. « | ‘The renewal, expiring Oct. 15, be[comes effective as soon as it is . 1signed by light company officials, according to Bdward H. Knight, | City corporation counsel, Myr. Knight said it was sighed to | permit the City to take its time in | negotiating a new 10-year contract, for which a lower street lighting | bill is sought. | The six-month agreement can be abrogated by the City or company [upon 10 days’ notice. This provi gion, Mr. Knight said, enables the | City to discontinue the old rates as | | soon as a hew contract has been | reached. The original 1925 contract expired | April 1, 1935, and has been renewed at six-month intervals, the last re- | | newal expiring April 1. | The agreement today was signed | following a conference between My. Knight and Works Board members | in which Mr, Knight urged the | Board to make every effort to obtain | lower rates for street lighting and | public building eurrent,
i aii (City Gets ‘Breakdown’ On Water Supply Costs A special “breakdown” report on | operating costs of the Indianapolis Water Co. was submitted to the City today in connection with negotiations for municipal acquisition of
the company.
The 70-page brochure, prepared by the accounting firm of Herdrich |
Times Photos.
town marshal, at the oars,
The Bureau sard Indiana streams will continue to rise and that with few exceptions are now above flood stage throughout the southern part of the State. J H. Armington said that crests probably will be about as high as those of mid-March. He predicted
that only the state's lowlands face] mm flooding. The State Highway Com-| The State Highway Commission
| inda® ; hag: mission reported 22 roads were ein Vi pon te wine 0 o cosed because of high water and] Jed Of EXP 0 close
that more may be closed as the 55 Sr Tesult OF RIS Pater: waters continue to rise | Vincennes District Russell Elkins, 15, Seymour, rode! Road 66 north of Derby: Road his bicycle across a flooded part of 157 north and south of WorthingRoad 238 and Was swept away bY, ton: 57 at Newberry probably by the current into White River near night: 50. eight inches of water Sevimour. but not closed north of Sandborn. Companion Rescued Road 3568 west of Petersburg: 63 north of Clinton; 162 southeast of Jasper; 37 south of Buckskin: 64 east of Huntingburg: 58 west of Elnora; 145 south of French Lick: 430 west of Bedford; 38 west of Favettesville, probably by tomorrow: 38 at French Lick, 13 inches of water but not closed,
SEYMOUR DISTRICT Thirty-one north of Sevmour and at Garden City; 58; five miles southwest of Columbus; 48 one mile west of Columbus—a detour over 58 and a county road; 44 west of Shelbyville; 135 southwest of Brownstown: 2335 at Medora; 62 bridge out west of 129, detour over 250 and 199: U,
Where Water Perils Roads
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His companion, Bert Fletcher, 18] also of Sevmour, Also was swept avay by the current, but manag=qd to climb onto a tree from which he Was rescued Herschell Rdwards, 21 Franklin was driving ‘across a water-covered highway bridee near Mankiin when his car stalled. He remained in the car for a few moments and then leaped just 4s the current swept He car from the bridge. He disappeared in Youngs Creek At Xenia, O. Leon Ferryman, 14 was drowned in the Little Miami River. \ mm the business district of Salem,’ W. Va, a woman fell in the overflow of Salem Fork and drowned The Ohio River at Cincinnati passed flood stage of 32 feet today and a crest of from 38 to 80 feet was (Continwed on Page Three)
TRAIN HITS FREIGHT: | ENGINEER INJURED
Jennings County line; UU. 8. 500 closed at Ohio State line, with | detour over 38 46 and 42,
GREENFIELD DISTRICT
One south of 28: 35 in northe west ‘part of Muncie.
LA PORTE DISTRICT
: Forty-three north of Dafayette PASCO, Wash, April 17 (U. PD) — probably closed by tonight. 6 A Northern Pacific passenger train Readings of maiana rivers bound for Walla Walla to Paseo (he Ohio River today were: collided head-on with a freight : : train standing on a siding near heve | onto today | Current Flood Martin Desmond, engineer of the Point Reading Stage passenger train, suffered a broken Cineinnath (coool 83 leg and some of the passengers were Aurora ceaitenee LE shaken up. The fireman Ashland, Ky “we 58 escaped injury by jumping from the o a ie ¥ WABASH The locomotive of the passenger Bluffton train wag telescoped by the impact Wabash of the crash, but none of the cars on Logansport (....
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either train left the tracks [atavette (cocci 119 — - “a {Covington .... i. wees 199 INDIANA COAL RATE Terre Haute (ooo 159 Vincennes (cooooceee 183 INCREASE APPROVED New Giarmory ©0000 ian New Harmony 121 . Ee | MTE Ss WASHINGTON, April 17 (TU. BP) a ves FORK The Interstate Commerce Com- Noblesville Wie mission today approved increased diana yolis freight rates on coal from mines in ui errs Miinols, diana and western Ken. gacardenort tucky to Beloit, Wis, and northern = St inois.
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14 an Italian lodge group. 4 I will never again be a candidate 6. 7 for public office.” the Governor said. 12 adding that he intended to retire 10!
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| Reds Play, Defy Flood; Cancel Washington Game
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| & Boggs, was sent to Mayor Sulli[van's office by Fred Bates Johnson, [local counsel for C. W. MeNear, Chi | cago investment broker representing the C. H. Geist estate. | The report is in answer to the
33 ARE DEAD, 100 expense, pumping and commercial
Pastor and 12 Parishioners Gen cocts Killed in Arkansas; TOWN |, niokie of ihe accounting figures. In Alabama Hit.
questions prepared by an accounts ‘ant for the City, and gives a breaks cows of 25 accounting items, in| cluding general and undistributed |
prepared by Mr. MeNear. My. MeNear, in opening negotiations for sale of the water company
| LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Aptil 17 (U [to the City, submitted to Mayor y st I er a brochure |B) At 16ast 33 persons were kiliea | Sullivan last December a brochu and mote than 100 injured in the intended to i how Mie OY violent tornadie storm which swept (Suming a purchase price © = across ‘Texas. the northwest corner | 300000, could buy the company lof Louitiana. and Arkansas yester. | through issuance of revenue bonds, |day. Property damage was high, retireing the bonds in 40 years, This morning, shortly before 7 Betides paving for the company
la. m. another tornado struck Rane OU Of oven. Mr. en burn. Ala. & small community just the eit could set aside $100,000 for across the Georgia-Alabama border. depreciation, divert from water The tornado ripped a path a mile! tevenues more than $300.000 in lien ong though the town, demolishing Of taxes and save its present $413. | between 18 and 20 houses and injur-| 000 annual hydrant rental bill, ing more than 15 persons. No lives | were lost.
| Whit Teague, his wife and baby
DYKSTRA TO SPEAK were seriously hurt, | The terrific wind first struck in i 4 IT MW N A ) southern Texas Saturday night and |
agt night blew itself out in north‘ern Arkansas near the Mississippi line. Its worst toll was taken inj [southwest Arkansas and northwest | Louisiana. It struck a country church at Center Point, Ark, nine miles from | Dermott, and killed the pastor and| @larence A. Dykstra, University of at least 12 parishioners, | Wisconsin president and former Thirteen bodies had been found gineinnati City Manager, will disand identified and still other vielims|oyes the “City Manager Form of were expected to be discovered to- Government” before the Contemday. [porary Club at 8:30 p. m. WednesA short time before striking the day in the Indiana War Memorial church, the storm had cut through auditorium, Haynesville, La, killing seven per ‘The Indianapolis Wisconsin sons. Alumni Association is to give a ve-| The dead by communities: ception for Mr. Dykstra at the InCenter point, Ark (cocci I 31a Boris Athletic Club after the
Haynesville, BA (cio address, Colling, Ark, .... Pipe Creek, Tex. AMARA RNRAS Gladewater, Tex, SAAR NRS | Athens, Tex. CALABAR | |
Former Cincinnati Executive In City Wednesday.
(CHIEF MORRISSEY'S CONDITION IS BETTER
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Tillar, Ark. (ooo ?
| Center Point is a cluster of a 3 rove . few houses and a Baptist Church in| ent, in fo er in le ton a community of farms. Some 135) \anorted today at St. Vincent's Hos persons, fneluding a number of pital where he has been a patient Negroes, gathered at the church since Friday night about 2 p. m. Sunday for the fu-! Hospital attendants said that he neral of J. W. Best, a planter. When was able to take a little nourigh«
SARA
Fairbanks Jr. to Wed Divorcee
fntered as Second-Class at Postoffice,
Indianapolis, Ind.
DANZIG RETURN TO NAZIS NEAR, BERLIN CLAIMS
Hitler to Make Reply to Roosevelt at Special Reichstag Meeting Called April 28;
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DUBLIN—“How can they
GIBRALTAR«—Intensive m
Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Mary Lee Eppling Hartford
HOLLYWOOD, April 17 (U.P) Toasts were drunk to Hollywood's latest romance at a party last night given by Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in celebration of his engagement to Mrs. Mary Lee Eppling Hartford,
young Eastern socialite. cific Palisades home.
The party was giveh at Mr, Fairbanks’ PaThe actor, one of Joan Crawford's former hus=
bands, surprised the film colony when he announced that he and
Mrs, Hartford would be married, possibly next Saturday.
Mrs, Hart-
ford, from Bluefield, W. Va, and Palm Beach, was divorced in Florida
ast month from Huntington Hartford.
JAIL ‘FIRETRAP, SHERIFF SAYS
Cites Peril of Bad Wiring, Insanitary Conditions in Fund Appeal.
Sheriff Feeney today cited a re port of “firetrap” conditions at the County Jail and asked the County Council to appropriate '$4201 to remedy the situation, The Council decided to make a personal investigation this after noon of jail conditions the Sheriff described as “insanitary and dane gerous.” Hig fund request was one of seve eral proposed emergency approprias| tions, totaling $17,181, made to the Council at its meeting.
Warne of Deficit
Fabian Biemer, chief deputy auditor, told the Council if these requests were granted there would be
a deficit in the county treasury at ‘the end of the year. Walter Horn, Indiana Taxpayers’ Association | representative, protested the pro-| posals and asked the Council to | “stick by the appropriations allowed by tax review boards.” Sheriff Feeney said the report on fire hazard conditions at the jail was made by City Fire Prevention
the investigators stated they were] “amazed” at the condition of elec trical wiring in the women's section of the jail. Open, bare and whitewashed elee- | trical wires were found hanging low | from the ceilings in this section, he| said. The Sheriff also asked that] part of the requested funds be used to install shower baths and other equipment, the lack of which he| charged made the jail “unsanitary.” Autos Called ‘Unsafe’ My, Feeney also charged that previous lack of cars had rendered | six emergency cars “unsafe.” He said visibility wag impaired by the installation of heavy glass, Other requested appropriations | were for $600 increase in the as. | sistant county school superintend- | ent's salary and for the County In-| firmary,
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the Oriminal Court and! the Marion County Tuberculosis Hospital,
HOME SHOW NOTES ‘GARDEN CLUB DAY’
the Rev. Thomas West had said the, ment. Visitors still are not per(Continwed on Page Three) mitted to see him.
Be United Terese President Roosevelt will have to ‘walt until Friday before tossing out ithe first ball to open Washington's n
‘baseball season. forced cans
management, however, said today's game would be played. The remaining teams in both leagues will swing into action to MOrrow,
Attendance Is Reported Far Over Expectations.
Gardens and landscaping effects at the Indianapolis Home Complete Bxposition came in for extra atten tion today with the observance of “Garden Club Day.” Nearly 450 members of Indian« apolis and Indiana garden clubs were to .attend a luncheon at the exposition in the State Fair Ground Manuafacturers' Building. J. Frank Cantwell, oxposition
... 10 to his fagpm near Marion at the end At 54.08 ‘of his tefin next year. to flood
‘celation of this afternoon's game between the Senators and the New York Yankees, American League champions. Despite overcast skies and high water that threatened to flood Oros«
5 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 political ambitions in a statement ley Field, the Cincinnati Reds and | 9 today during a visit here to address (he Pittsburgh Pirates were sched. cold on a similar rainy opening day
juled to get the National League race started at Cincinnati The Ohio River there was at 83.3 feet at the midsmorning reading.
the ball” Wg The Aes
Vice President John Nance Gare ner, who had been scheduled to par ticipate in Washington's opening ‘day ceremonies, said that he had a part in obtaining the postponement of the game, My. Garner said he caught a bad
years ago, and “it didn’t do me any good.” When he surveyed the weathe er today, he said, he urged Mr. Roosevelt to “get that game called off, boss, so we won't have Jo go out
manager, reported attendance thus far greatly has exceeded anticipa« tions. Despite the rainy weather, thousands of visitors from every section of the State attended the show yesterday, he said. Mr, Cantwell said the visitors yes terday were more than mere) “lookers.” “They had to be interested in home building and more improves ments to drive so far through the
vain,” he said, “and they left
Cash Stolen While Clerk Chases Thief
Gus Singleton, Grayvlynn Hotel night clerk, told police he saw a man leave the build« ing early today with six boxes of candy, owned by the hotel company and valued at $6. He caught up with the man he said, and took the candy away from him, but let the thief go. When he returned he {ound someone had taken $9 from the cash drawer in his abe sence, The cash is still missing.
HIGH COURT BLOCKS
ALIEN'S DEPORTATION
Rules in Strecker’s Favor;
Douglas Sworn In.
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WASHINGTON, April 17 (U. P). ~The Supreme Court ruled today that Federal law does not authorize deportation of nonnaturalized aliens
advoeating overthrow of the Government if they no longer belong to that ‘organization. I'he opinion was rendered in the case of Joseph George Strecker, Austrian<born Hot Springs, Ark.
| restaurant proprietor who had been
ordered deported on grounds of admitted former membership in the Communist party. The decision, written by Justice Owen J. Roberts, was expected to be of vital consequence in the longstanding controversy over the status of Harry Bridges, nonnaturalized Australian<born west coast union leader, Repeated demands have been made for Bridges’ deportation on grounds of Communist Party membership. The Court also approved constitutionality of the 1838 Tobacco Marketing Quota Act by a 6 to 2 decision. William Orville Douglas, 40-year old successor to retired Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis, was sworn into office today. Associate Justice Douglas, youngest man appointed to the court since 1811, as-
| cended the bench when the court
met at noon. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, who celebrated his 97th birthday anniversary last week, sat with hig colleagues for the first time since March 4
als Reported.
FOREIGN SITUATION BERLIN—Reichstag summoned to meet on April 28. WARSAW-=Compromise on Danzig reported possible. PAR1S—=Council of Ministers to meet tomorrow. ROME—Goering and Mussolini discuss peace plea. MOSCOW-—Soviet President congratulates Roosevelt.
refuse?” asks De Valera.
WASHINGTON—Latin American nations back plea.
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LONDON—Russia due to join “peace bloc” soon.
ilitary activity continues.
(Editorial, Page Nine)
BERLIN, April 17 Li P.).—A Polish-German agreee "ment for the return of Danzig to the Reich was reported in | well-informed sources today to be near conclusion, as Fuehre
‘er Hitler convoked the Reichstag to hear his answer to
President Roosevelt's appeal
though President Roosevelt's Hitler and Premier Mussolini to 25 years the integrity of
WARSAW TALKS OF COMPROMISE
Poles Indicate They Would Permit Danzig to Be ‘Free German City.
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WARSAW, Poland, April 17 (U. P).—A compromise with Germany on the future of the Free City of
Danzig was believed possible by well-informed circles today in connection with reliable reports that negotiations had been resumed between the two governments, The outright return of Danzig to the Reich was generally believed unlikely, but it was said that Poland might agree to make Danzig a “free German oity” by removal of all League of Nations officials from the administration, Such action would leave Danzig
the borders of the Reich and give it a status comparable to that of the old Hanseatic towns. Polish political circles heard persistent reports that Germans ex-
end of April, but the opinion here was that such talk of outright anschluss was premature, It also was emphasized that Poland would fight against any move to solve the problem by armed might,
| authorities at his request. He said who belonged to an CYNON D i APPEAL FAILS 1 In
TOHALT WAR PLANS
Hitler and Duce ‘on Spot,’ But Not Surprised.
(Copyright, 1039, by United Press) LONDON, April 17.<A week-end survey of European authorities indicates that President Roosevelt's peace plea has put Chancellor Hit~ler and Premier Mussolini “on the spot,” but has utterly failed to halt the processes making for war. Mr. Roosevelt's message convinced the leaders of the antiaggression front in Europe that the United States is morally on their side and would be almost certain to be economically on their side in the event of war, Not even however, believed that the processes which are making for war would be halted as a result of Mr. Roosevelt's message, The totalitarian partnership of Germany, Italy and Japan has reckoned in advance with the possibility of American influence and--rightly or wrongly--with the possibility of American economic or aven military aid to the British French bloc.
U. S. Plans Expedition in Race to ‘Take ‘Sou th Pole
(Copyright, 1088, by United Press)
WASHINGTON, April 17 = The United States, it was learned today, is planning to send a Gove ernment expedition to the South Pole regions to “nail down” Ameri oan claiths to potential resources for which an international race is de« veloping. Rear Admiral Richard BE. Byrd, who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions and olaimed vast areas for the United States, has been called in for consultations with other experts on the region, At
the present stage of the plan, hows
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Under tentative plans, the expedi=tion would be authorized by Congress and financed by a Congressional appropriation. Hitherto unclaimed regions around the South Pole are being sought by major powers both for their potential resources and in view of the possibility that future develbpment of aircraft might give the areas some strategic value in military
operations, Arctic regions, the
Unlike the Antarctic is composed of vast land
The Reichstag meeting was called for April 28.
technically and juridically outside
pected to regain Danzig before the,
the most optimistic, |!
for peace. Ale peace appeal had asked Herr of Italy to guarantee for 10 31 independent states, it sige
nificantly did not include Danzig, which is strongly pro-Nazi,
Although offictal sources were extremely reluctant to comment, it was persistently reported in Nazi circles that an agreement on Danzig could
be expected shortly. Whether it could be concluded in time to make the return of the Free City to Germany coincide with Fuehrer Hitler's gigantic 30th birthe day celebration on Thursday was uncertain. Danzig was taken from Germany after the World War and put under League of Nations protection to give Poland an outlet to the sea. Poland, fearing its loss, has built a great new port at Gdynia, nearby on Polish soil. 4 There has been no direct contaet between German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Polish Ambassador Josef Lipski in Berlin during the past week, but usually reliable sources said they would resume conversations soon. Secret conversations were already under way at Warsaw. Use of Force Rejected
Germany was believed to have res newed three proposals which the Polish Government recently rejected; | They were: : 1. Return to the Reich of Danzig, an area of 1052 square miles and 405,000 population adjacent to East Prussia. 9. Permission for Germany to construct a motor highway and rail« road on a strip of land cutting through the Polish Corridor and linking the Reich and East Prussia, 3. Adjustment of minority probe lems arising from the cession of the Polish Corridor to Poland after the War, All German sources insisted both officially and unofficially that the Nazis will not attempt to take | Danzig by force. Poland has made it plain that she will resist any military move against Danzig. Such would automatically bring into operation the British-French pledge of aid to the Poles.
April 28 May Be Deadline
Diplomatic sources said that ree ports were persistently circulating that Danzig would return to the |Reich either py Herr Hitler's birth {day of by the date of his: Reichstag |speech, April 28. A communique of the official news agency announcing the calling of the | Reichstag made no mention of | Danzig. It said: : | “The American President Roosee 'velt requested the Fuehrer to take a stand regarding certain matters, The Fuehrer considers this affaif so important that he has decided 0 make known his answer to the American President in the name of the German people before the Reichstag. : “For that purpose he has called the Reichstag for April 28 to hear this statement.” : Before the announcement, Nazis had predicted that Herr Hitler's ane swer would be an angry and abrupt rejection of the President's appeal, if he did not ignore it altogether. But after today’s announcement, well-informed quarters expressed belief that he might accept parts of the President's proposals as a basis for further consideration and offer counter-proposals of his own. It was suggested that he might take the view that the proposals came from the American people and discuss them on that basis, at the: same time refusing to agree to the President being a sort of middleman. between Germany and other nations, As the announcement of the’ Reichstag meeting was. made, Herr (Continued on Page Three)
STEEL SHARES HARD HIT AS STOCKS DIP,
NEW YORK, April 17 (U. P).w= Steel shares were hard hit with losses of more than 2 points in U,
ted |S. Steel, Bethlehem and Inland as
masses anc have pre
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the stock list iost most of Saturday
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