Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1939 — Page 1
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War Inevitable, Barring Miracle, Says Webb Miller
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NEW YORK, May 9 (U.-P.).——Webh Miller, general European manager of the United Press, arrived on the Queen Mary last night “convinced that sooner or later there will be a major war in Europe, barring a miracle.” He added that he saw not the slightest indication | | of that miracle.” Mr. Miller has been an active correspondent in Europe since 1917. He came over just ahead of the British King and Queen to accompany them on their 11.000-mile tour of Canada and their visit to the United States. He will join the royal party in Quebec on May 15 and will report their day-to-day activities for United Press newspapers. Mr. Miller covered the World War, the Ethiopian War and the Spanish War. He covered the German anschluss with Austria, the fateful Munich Conference and the Nazi seizure of Czechoslovakia. He is the only person in the
POPE MAY ACT AS MEDIATOR
Pius Offers to Help in Setting Danzig and Tunis | Disputes.
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of war.
Romance Walks a Tight-Wi
FOREIGN SITUATION PARIS — Pope Pius reported offering to mediate. VATICAN CITY Vatican denies asking five-power parley. WARSAW—Sejm unanimously votes dictatorial rule. LONDON Reconciliation of Poland and Russia expected. ROME—Italy ready “when hour sounds,” Mussolini cries. BERLIN—400 Germans reported expelled from Poland. WASHINGTON — World must decide between peace and war, says Hull. (Page Two.)
PARIS, May 8 (U. P.).—His Holiness Pope Pius XI has proposed a five-power conference to settle] Polish-German differences and has| offéred direct Vatican mediation | of the French-Italian dispute, it wes learned today. News came from a high diplomatic source that the Pope had: “1. Invited the Governments of France, Great Britain, Poland, Germany and Italy to a conference at the Vatican to seek a settlement of
The boy was standing on his he ground. There was no net below.
else knows,” does come the nations will slip into it in spite of themselves. They seem to be in the position
of a person on a high place, afflicted with vertigo, who throws himself over in spite of himself, although desiring to live. “One of the most important things to happen recently in Europe, and it has drawn no headlines, is that since last October the British people of the masses have grimly set their jaws and become resigned to the inevitability
Bride Wa itches A Pride Overcomes Fears
Hoosier Girl Who Wed Performer Sees Act First Time, Wants to Join It. |
By LEO DAUGHERTY
the dispute between Germany and Poland, centering on Danzig. 2. Offered his own good cffices and those of His Eminence Luigi Cardinal Maglione, his Secretary of State. to ntediate in the FrenchItalian dispute arising from Premier Mussolini's “aspirations” in the Mediterranean. Powers Reluctant proceeding
Negotiations were
the
The girl sat in what the circus people call chairs. her chin. Admiration opened her eyes.
STORM KILLS 1, DAMAGE HEAVY
among powers concerned—between France and Great Britain and
and Poland
Boonville Farmer Loses Life When Barn Collapses During High Wind.
between them jointly and between Germany and Italy, the “axis” powers, n committed to a definite military pact. For the moment, the position was said to be as follows: 1—France and Great Britain were not particularly favorable to the conference on Polish-German differences. But it was understood that negotiations had now turned toward the idea of direct Vatican mediation between Poland and Germany. The British and French were agreeable to that and Germany and Italy were reported to be agreeable provided Poland's consent could be obtained. 2—France was inclined to decline the offer of mediation in the FrenchItalian dispute. The French Government felt that the next move should be made by Italy through regular diplomatic channels, specifying all complaints and claims
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general throughout the State. Indianapolis escaped the windstorm and the heavy downpour of rain and hail which struck southern Indiana, concentrating on Boonville, where a farmer was killed and heavy damage caused. The forecast for the City was cooler weather tonight followed by a mercury rise tomorrow, The victim of the Boonville storm was Charles Elzer, 59, Warrick County farmer. He was killed when the barn in which he was feeding cattle collapsed. The rainfall here was only of an inch during the last 24 hours Horace E. Abbott, Marion County Agricultural agent, said that the moisture was necded hy newlyseeded vegetation. He said it would tend to break up soil ciods
Nuncios at Chancelleries
News of the Pope's move gave importance to Government statements in the British House of Commons yesterday regarding the possibility of mediation in the German-Polish dispute But above all, the new Pope who was world famous as Cardinal Pacelli, Secretary of State to his predecessor, had made at last the move to support peace-seeking statesmen which had been awaited since the outset of his reign Papal Nuncios were instructed late last week to sound out the foreign ministries at Paris, London, Warsaw, Berlin and Rome, informants said. The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Valerio Valeri. Nunico to Paris, conferred with Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, | who then conferred with Premier
Daladier. | ; . ; { John Berry, who installed the InCalls Action Unusual | dianapolis fire alarm system and for The Rt. Rev. Msgr. William 15 years served as its superintendent, Godfrey, Nuncio to London, was died today at St. Vincent's Hospital. understood to have talked to Vis- Death was due to complications count Halifax, Foreign Secretary. from a fractured hip he received in The Rt. Rev. Msgr. Orsenigo, the a fall Saturday. He was 75. Nuncio to Berlin, talked to Fuehrer| Mr. Berry was born at Xenia. O, Hitler last Friday and was expected and lived at 1126 N. Arsenal Ave. to go to Vatican City personally to; In 1893 he was appointed to the (Continued on Page Three) | Fire Department as a lineman and - EE {was promoted to foreman of the alarm department in 1904. The following vear he was made superintendent of that department. He installed the present svstem in the City Hall in 1211. In 1921 he P). — was reappointed as electrical
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FORMER FIRE ALARM CHIEF DEAD AT 175
Complications of Fall Are Fatal to John Berry.
STOCKS GAIN WITH FAVORABLE NEW
NEW YORK, May 9 (U. Stocks today rose fractions to 2 engineer. points under the impetus of im-| Services are to be held Thursday proved séntiment regarding the in-'at the Blackwell Funeral Home. ternational situation and the do-! Mr. Berry is survived by two mestic soft coal strike. daughters, Mrs. William E. Kennedy All sections of the list participated and Mrs. Rosemary Smith, and three in the rise and transactions nearly sons, John M. James T. and Dr. doubled yesterday's dull turnover. William E. Berry,
reau after heavy rains which were
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world who personally witnessed the abdication of Edward VIII, the marriage in France of the Duke of Windsor and Mrs. Wallis Warfield and coronation George VI.
in Westminster
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8 HEN or where war will come T nor no one “When it
Mr. Miller said.
This is extremely important
. . . . | unless Britain is ready to accept the issue and |
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ad on a tight-wire 40 feet above the A hand supported ! A conviction that he was the tops aiiayed her fears. Hundreds of others were amazed and thrilled, too, but he really wasn't performing the 14-minute act for them. He was doing it just for her. | He was the bridegroom, she the bride and she never had seen him do his act to the cheers of the big top throng. He's Franz Heinzman of the act labeled “The Great Gretonas” and she is the former Miss Pauline Kindig of Rochester. The scene, of course, was the Cole Bros. Circus | performance. The wedding took place at Rochester April 29. | And when the black-haired Pauline | took the marriage vow, she also decided she, too, would become an aerialist, the only life her husband has known since he was 8. |
Then She Met ‘Right Man’ {
The romance began about a year =
and a half ago while Franz was, polishing up his death-defying! antics on a wire at circus winter quarters. { “Surely, I always went to circuses since I was a little girl,” the bride said. “But I never had any ambition to be a performer. Never thought about it. Guess it was because I never had met the right manand ..."” Franz and the four others of “The Great Gretonas” ascended the heights. | The bridegroom soon would be! standing on his head high above the crowd. Afraid? { “Why should I be if he isn't?” the bride queried. The others in the act smiled at her as they left for the dressing room, but Franz stopped. “Another great performance,” she complimented. She'd never attempted any trapeze work before she met him. He be-| gan to teach her. Outside her home there's a trapeze and swinging lad-| ders. He hopes and she vows that within a few months she will join him in an act. The fifth member in the Gretona group is a young woman who tops the human pyramid built on that
| Groom Tells of One Scare | “I don't know,” Mrs. Heinzman said, “whether I could win a spot like that, but if Franz was up there] I'd feel safe. He's great. I hope, everyone else thinks so.” |
Mrs. Heinzman won't see her hus-|
band again for some time after the roustabouts pull the stakes here to-| night. She's not a performer and the circus rules say “nix” to her de-| sire to travel with him. She's just a visitor during the two-| day circus stay in Indianapolis. She watched him at both performances vesterday and will see him perform twice again today. Four circuses in two days! What, a treat, especially if the new hubby's taking the bows.
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The groom seldom gets a mention. cessors include John Hogan, Wash-
But— “Oh yes,” he said softly, “I guess I have heen up in the air most of my life, but never so much as the! day of the wedding. I was more afraid during the ceremony than I've ever been on the wire.” &
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the challenge, there can be no major war in Europe. “The time will come when Britain no longer can abide the threat of a dominant military power on the continent challenging her security, although of all the things in the world which Britain does not want, the foremost is war, because Britain has nothing to gain. “Britain's fear of war is demonstrated by the revolutionary change in her cardinal foreign policy. Never before in peace time has Britain been willing to engage in military commitments on the continent and look at them now. “Also new, and almost unheralded, is the astounding turnabout of British public opinion regarding dealings with Russia. The day before I sailed there was published an authoritative poll of British public opinion in which 87 per cent of those answering favored a military alliance of Britain, France and Russia. This (Continued on Page Three)
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TESTIFY WPA LABOR SHIFTED
the Big Top
Taking the skuride on his head is Franz Heinzman of the Cole Bros. Circus.
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F.D.R. SITS IN ON COAL TALKS, ~ ASKS FOR PEACE
Conferees Meet With Prsident for 75 Minutes, Then Agree to Resume Negotiations Tomorrow.
TWO-WEEK SUPPLY OF FUEL REMAINS
Labor Secretary Perkins Raps Operators for, Refusing to Extend Pact Until New Contract Is Agreed On.
WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.).—Soft coal operators and United Mine workers officials at a 75-minute conference with President Roosevelt today, agreed to resume negotia« ‘tions in New York tomorrow in an effort to settle the tieup of bituminous mines. U. M. W. President John L. Lewis and Charles P,
Two Foremen in Kokomo Fraud Trial Cite Alleged Diversion.
And none in the big top is so thrilled as his bride of less than tio weeks, who is shown with her eyes riveted to the wire. She Pauline Kindig Rochester, Ind.
Times Photos.
WPA labor at Kokomo was diverted to private enterprises, a
Is Federal Court Jury was told here
of
This testimony was given by two WPA foremen during the trial of 11 former Kokomo City officials and
conspiring to defraud the Government. | Twelve persons working on WPA (testified Doefore Judge J. Leroy | Adair today after eight others had testified yesterday following
Albert W. Sanders, a foreman on| a street project, testified that Lincoln F. Record, one of the defend|ants and a former project superin- | tendent, ordered him to assign 40 [to 50 men to the Pittsburgh Plate |Glass Co. plant.
| Cites Order to Workers
He testified that the WPA work- | ers were to load bricks into a truck there, The Government charges Bm that the bricks were the private § |property of George Mix, former Kokomo City Engineer, a defendant. John F. Degler, another foreman, | testified that James A. Harmon, a defendant who had been in charge of a sewer project, told him to take
| the former ; to try to end the dispute “for the good of the nation. today. {
‘to have told both groups that their dispute was impairing
WPA officials who are charged with
CONGRESS SEN
the | opening of the trial.
O'Neill, spokesman for the operators, announced jointly that ‘any statement concerning the conference with Mr. Roose« |velt would have to come from the White House. Mr. Roosevelt called nine representatives of the coal loperators and the United Mine Workers of America into a joint conference with himself and Labor Secretary Perking
With 450,000 miners idle, Mr. Roosevelt was believed
‘business recovery, and threatening a complete shutdown of | industries and vital transportation services which depend on [soft coal. : It was not known whether ‘he presented a specific settle« ‘ment proposal, but such a REVISION NO 9 move was considered unlikely f | since the single point at issue —— is the U, M. W.’s demand for Shifts; a “union shop” or elimination ‘of present penalty clauses for ‘unauthorized strikes and lock= outs.
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President Orders | Coal Board and NEC to
Be Dropped. i Operators and union officials ale
| y _|ready have agreed to extend the WASHINGTON, May 9 (U. P.). [present daily wage scale of $6 in
[President Roosevelt today submitted | i : to Congress another comprehensive| the North and $560 in the South ‘plan for realigning Government | 2nd the present 35-hour week for
‘agencies which he said should re-|tWO Years if the union shop issue
‘duce Federal costs by $1,250,000 a| is resolved. year. Operators Arrive First
i ture of the ‘ : | An outstanding fea Considerable confusion surrounded
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more than 30 men to the building] formerly occupied by the Haynes | Motor Co. He said he was told to | have his men chip mortar from
plan was the complete abolition of | the much criticized National Bi-|arrangements for the conference, tuminous Coal Commission and the which was decided on last night | transfer of all of its functions to the| , stay Miss Perkins found the cone bricks. Interior Department. . ferees could reach no agreement in The testimony of the foreman| (Pleas Greenlee of Indiana, 8 their New York sessions. was substantiated by 10 WPA crew | Coal Commission member, has been| mye white House conference orige workers. They were Alfred John- seeking appointment as U. S. Inter- i a)1y was scheduled for 11 a. m. son, Grover Arnold, Theodore R.| pal Revenue Collector at Indianap-| (Indianapolis Time), then advanced Blake, Clude Layton, Marvin J. olis, to succeed Will Smith) 145 10:30 and finally started at 11, Prather, Willis Wallace, Earl Baker, Myr, Roosevelt's reorganization |p, reason was given for the time Raymond DeWiit, John A. Worden pian, second to be submitted to Con-| cpap,
and William Hicks.
gress since approval of the Govern- |
The coal operators’ group, headed
PO: as 4 hay, hewn in the pat school, ’ .
| Defendants Listed
Those indicted by a Federal grand | jury on charges of conspiring to de- | fraud the Government by taking | WPA laborers from legitimate projects to work on private projects are | former Mayor Olin R. Holt; Carl J. | Broo, former Kokomo City attor- | ney; George H. Morrow, former city engineer; George Mix, former as- | sistant city engineer; Mel Good, | former city clerk; Lincoln F. Reclord, former Kokomo WPA project superintendent; James A. Harmon, former WPA project supervisor, Lester E. Ratcliff, 2952 Kenwood Ave, former WPA supervisor in {Howard and Tipton Counties; Charles W. Harley, former WPA | district supervisor; Thomas C. Heady, president of the Sumption-Heady-Hunt Co. of Kokomo, and Joe Tarkington, former employee
AIR EXPERTS INVITED T0 DEDICATION HERE
Group to See Transfer of Hangar to U. S. May 29.
Straw Hats
From Plane Ruled ‘Out’
Chief Morrissey is all for carrving out to the letter the law which prohibits dropping anvthing from an airplane. An energetic merchant wanted to drop straw hats from a plane Saturdav to advertise the straw hat season. The merchant asked the Works Board for a permit. The Board said “no” on the Chief's advice. “If we grant this permit they'll be throwing all kinds of things at us pretty soon.” Donald Morris, a Board member said.
FOUR CONSIDERED FOR BEATTEY POST
Democrats to Name State Secretary Tuesday. |
Unemployment Relief,
i Rue mn RETIRED CHIEF OF | UNION PACIFIC DIES
Aeronautics Authority have been | invited here for the dedication of the Federal radio experimental sta- | WASHINGTON, May'9 (U. P.).— tion at the Municipal Airport| Carl R. Gray, former president and May 29. | vice chairman of the Union Pacific Robert H. Hinckley, chairman of| railroad, was found dead in his bed the CAA, is to be the principal at a Washington hotel today. Death speaker at a luncheon at the In-|was attributed to heart disease. dianapolis Athletic Club attended| Mr. Gray, 71, had served as vice by heads of leading airplane manu-| chairman of the road since his refacturing companies and airlines, |tirement as and delegates to the Society of He was senior member and spokesAutomotive Engineers conference in man for President Roosevelt's mansession that day. | agement-labor committee of six. At 2 p. m. the group will go to| the airport where Mayor Sullivan] will transfer officially the new $800. | 000 building and hanger to the U. S. Government. The dedicatory speech will be delivered by Clinton M. Hester, CAA administrator, after which several] planes will demonstrate latest | 5 still in the SSperimental A special committee of sevén City Following the dedication, the out-!officials named last week to learn as possible choices for secretary of Of<town guests will inspect the the price at which the City can buy the State Democratic Committee, as| Speedway. The Society of Auto-|.. 1, 4ianapolis Water Co. was to Chairman Fred F. Bays called a motive Engineers is to enferlain the|,, 4 o¢ 3 p.m. today. special meeting of the committee for | CAA and airplane company Seale] C. W. McNear, Chicago investment 2 p. m. next Tuesday at the Clay- at a banquet at the Columbia Club.|\, uo. representing the C. H. Geist pool Hotel. " |D. G. Roos, vice president of the | ciate in the negotiations, will not The committee will elect a suc-| Willys-Overland Co, is to be the ,.0.q cessor to James I. Beattey, who re-| Principal speaker. . It was learned unofficially that signed three weeks ago to accept| Arrangements for the dedication i). oommittee today will attempt to appointment \as director of the| are being made by the Indianapolis wo. out both a high and a low Motor Vehicle Division of the Public| Chamber of Commerce Aviation ice for the purpose of their disService Commission. Committee, headed by Henry Os- o.csions with Mr. McNear. Those mentioned as possible suc-| trom, and CAA officials. Mayor Sullivan, committee chairck man, said today’s session was called ington, Ind.; Bernard O'Neill, South VANDALS AT SCHOOL 51 to discuss “preliminaries” in the inBend; Ray Smith. editor of the] Mrs. Charlotte Carter, principal vestigation of price. The commitHoosier Sentinel, and Fred Culp, of School 51, 2301 Olney St., report-|tee represents the executive and Middletown. ed to police today vandals during! legislative branches of City govern Mr. Bays announced that the sec-/the night tore down decorative ce-| ment and the Utilities District. retaryship will not be a full-time ment columns at the front of the | In addition Ee the Mayor, it in-
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Four men were mentioned today!
of the Governor's Commission on|
president because of age. |
Committee of 7 Meets, D iscusses Wa ter Co. Pr ice | erally accepted in collective bare
ment Reorganization Act, is the last | py Chairman «-W. L. Robison of to be presented at this session, he|rjeyeland, arrived first. It included said. A third reorganization program 1 © Gunter, J. D. A. Morrow, (Continued on Page Three) Charles P. O'Neill and L. T. Putman,
——— HR U. M. W, President John L. Lewis led three other representatives of CITY 10 BE HOME OF the Mine Workers’ Union into Mr. | Roosevelt's office. The others were Vice President Philip Murray, Van METHODIST BISHOP A. Bittner and John A. Owens. Sece |reatry-Treasurer Thomas Kennedy, [former Pennsylvania Lieutenant |Governor, remained in New York ‘Titus Lowe Is Sent Here, for anthracite contract negotiations, ;mergency Threatens Oxnam to Boston. Emergency
“The time when there will be an
KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 9 (U. emergency need for coal is almost |P).~More than a third of the|® matter of hours now,” Miss bak : ’ ..... | Perkins said. [united Methodist church's 37 active It was estimated that there was | bishops today had orders to MOVE | enough coal above ground to last | from areas some had served for|industry, railroads and electrio generating plants for about two The committee on ministry of the weeks. But it was not evenly dis conference which is uniting the|tributed and some industries and | Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Epis- | generating plants in various sections | copal South and Methodist Protes-| already had been forced to suspend tant churches last night announced or curtail their activities. its assignment of bishops under the, Miss Perkins entered the negotiae ‘new church plan: | tions yesterday after U. M. W, | NORTHEASTERN JURISDIC- President John L. Lewis blamed the | TION—Boston, G. Bromley Oxnam | Administration for the production | (formerly DePauw University presi- stoppage and the consequent coal dent now at Omaha); New York,| shortage. Francis J. McConnell (another for-| In a letter to John R. Steelman, 'mer DePauw president); Phila-|chief Labor Department conciliator, delphia, Ernest G. Richardson; he charged that the Administration Pittsburgh, Adna Wright Leonard; had “blundered” in failing to “ape Washington, Edwin Holt Hughes Prove or sustain” the union's offer | (acting senior bishop and former lO extend the old contract and keep DePauw president) ; Syracuse, its members at work during the nee (Continued on Page Three) fgotiations. The operators had ree fused this offer. Miss Perkins declared the operae tors’ refusal to agree to an extene sion of the contract constituted “a violation of the ethics of collective bargaining.” “Among ‘the things that are gene
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|gaining,” she said, “is that every |effort will be made to continue opere (ations during the period of negotiae tions.”
District trustee; Councilmen Ernest |C. Ropkey and F. B. Ransom, Demo|crats, and Ralph Moore, Republican; Charles O. Britton, Republican, | |Works Board member, and Frank B. Ross, Democratic Safety Board | member. Committeemen who do not wish to be quoted said they fear that the price question will result in a dead- | lock, with neither side wishing to be [the first in naming a price. oun ...ee.. 10 | On the basis of data compiled by | Comics 16 ‘Mr. McNear, the City could pay as Crossword ... 17 | much as $26,500,000 for the property, Curious World 16 retiring the debt out of water reve- Editorials .... 10 nue in 40 years. | Financial .. . 17] 3 At the same time, he contends, Flynn ....... 10 Mrs. Roosevelt 9 the City could set aside $100,000 an- Forum 10 Scherrer nually in a depreciation fund, divert Gallup ...... 4 Serial Story.. $317,000 water revenue to the City Grin, Bear It 16 Society ..., ircasury in dich of taxes, and save In Ingpls ia 3} Spore Lh 2 presen annual hydrant | Jane Jordan., e Deaths. re ; 0 hy ee esses 10 Wiggam carne JO
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