Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 May 1939 — Page 2

The Indianapolis Times

VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 51

FORECAST: Generally fair and cooler tonight and tomorrow.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939

Pesky but Pretty Dandelions Back DENIES SIGNING

The yellow peril—the mischievous dandelion— | once again besets the keeper of an otherwise fine | lawn. The dandelion is the imp of vegetation, according to Horace E. Abbott, County Agricultural | agent. But then again, the dandelion isn't such a |

bad member of the garden family. The greens | She is shown in

around it are pn with a little vinegar, they say. lion looks mighty pretty when a field of them surrounds a miss like Helen Galbraith (above), Shortridge High School senior, of 3720 N. Pennsylvania St.

§ | with conspiring

| tures were forged on

Times Photo. etty good with corn meal, seasoned And well, a dande-

a North Side crop.

Mother and Police Save Stricken Tot

HOPE OF MINE TRUCE VOICED

Steelman Tells Reporter Conclave May End In Success.

Artificial respiration by a mother and two police officers today saved the life of 3-vear-old Geraldine Corden, 1411 Cruft St.. who was affected by convulsions while suffering the mumps. The child's mother, Mrs. Cecil Corden. applied artificial respiration until a radio patrol car arrived. Officers Jacob Hudgins and Frank McDonald continued to work on the child. Within three minutes, they said, she was breathing normally.

NEW YORK, May 10 (U. P).— John R. Steelman, head of the U. S. Conciliation Service, said today he believed there was some hope the national soft coal suspension would be ended soon, He kept contract negotiators in constant session to act upon the demand of President Roosevelt that] they draft some formula by tonight! under which coal mines can be re-

opened this week. A reporter asked, “Can we assure the country there is some chance of ' WATER CO.'S PRICE

success?” “I think you can,” ‘Actual Negotiations Due to Start Today.

Mr. Steelman replied. Negotiators Caucus Selves Mr. Steelman conferred with representatives of the United Mine Workers of America, half a million of whose members are idle, and negotiators for 2000 coal operators in the Appalachian area. At mid-day he excused the two groups to permit them to caucus among themselves.

Actual negotiations on a purchase price for the Indianapolis Water He indicated the conferees would | 00. WEFE {© UE Stavicdt tis sterHoon meet again jointly later in the day.|at a conference between a commitIn accordance with the Presi- tee of City officials and C. W. Mecdent's statements to the joint con-| Near. representing the company’s ferees yesterday, Mr. Steelman]

said, “my position in the conference | today is one of imperatively de-] The conference was arranged y |

manding a selution of this situa-|during a committee meeting vestertion within the time limit as set.” | qav at which the City’s strategy in The President had asked the ne- he IAUONS Was outlined . gotiators to present their answer by]! We et on prin TSU tonight. s A ScusMayor Sullivan said, “and

Mr. Steelman later made it clear SiON” that his statement was not Clear | hen we called Fred Bates Johnson, interpreted as meaning he believed | MT. McNear's local LTE an immediate break in the situation [30 arranged to have Mr. McNear was in sight. It was learned that

come over tomorrow.” the negotiators had discussed vari-| The Mayor said the committee ous possible formulas for resuming

{yesterday discussed the company's ations cial setup. operations but had not settl financial se any one. : Sortie on “We also talked about how much Both Sides ‘Mum’ river igi and how eh ven ‘Spokesmen for neither side woulq | Water is used at present; how much give any indication as to whether]

it would cost to install a water there was any possibility they would |

softener in case we buy the combe able to meet the President's|Pany.” he said. request.

The President's request was made yesterday afternoon at a private FAIR--AND COOLER--BUREAU'S PROMISE

conference with operators and miners in the White House. It was Mercury Touches 70 (but It's Really Nothing).

owners.

reported in some quarters to have been virtually an ultimatum. One remark made by the President when he received, on his invitation, the 10 representatives of the two sides was taken as indicating his probable iine of attack if the disagreement continues. That was an inquiry as to what his visitors would think if he should take to the radio for a full public exposition of his understanding of the subject. Among factors pushing toward either an agreement or a break without much more delay are the conditions that would make it possible for the Lewis forces to break up the Appalachian conference by offering individual district contracts to operators willing to sign on the Lewis terms. The Indiana and Illinois districts,

LOCAL TEMPERATURES

58 10a. m.... 61 11 a. mix... 66 12 (noon). 70 pm...

73 75 76 "

The Weather Bureau was glad today to report that the outlook for tonight and tomorrow is generally fair and cooler. The mercury was around 70 this morning, but the Bureau said the heat is just about what it should be for this season.

12 WILL STUDY PARKS SYSTEM

Mayor Appoints Group of Civic Leaders After Patronage Attack.

A comittee of 12 citizens to assist City officials in developing and improving the City's recreation program was named by Mayor Sullivan today.

HONEY CLANS IN FRAUD TRIAL

Former Kokomo Employee Testifies He Permitted Use of Name.

U. S. CHARGES FORGERY

Seeks to Prove Conspiracy To Divert Use of WPA Labor.

A man whose name allegedly was signed to several claims on the city ‘of Kokomo, told a Federal Court | jury today that the City never had

| owed him any money. | |

11 persons, including nine former | WPA and Kokomo officials charged | to defraud by diverting WPA labor to private use, is attempting to prove that signaclaims and | warrants against the City of | Kokomo, Warrants bearing the name of Roy Revolt, former emplovee in the Kokomo City Engineer's office, have bee nintroduced as evidence by the Government. Mr. Revolt testified he had signed any claims on the City. Under cross-examination, Mr. Revolt sai dthat he had given George Mix, former assistant City Engineer and one of the defendants, permission to use his name.

Testifies on Signatures

Yesterday Mr. Revolt testified that Mr. Mix had signed his (Revolt’s) name on two claims. This was done with his permission, Mr. Revolt testified, as Mr. Mix had told him the City owed Mr. Mix money and as a City official he could not

present a private bill. The Government maintains that all of a quantity of crushed stone,

not

{actually was the property of Mr.

| Mix and that claims for payment |

| were filed in other names “in order (to avoid suspicion.” Clarence M. Neumann, who said he had worked on the Governor's

The committee was to meet thiseSommission on Unemployment Re-

The Government in the trial of |

allegedly processed by WPA labor, |

at Postoffice, Indianapo

‘Inhuman’ Italo-German Efficiency Challenges America, Howard Says ee |

Cites Journalism’s Duty in Prevailing Upon Capital and Labor to Yield From Individually Selfish Aims In Interest of ‘All the People.

ALO ALTO, Cal, May 10 (U. P.).—American democracy is challenged by the “inhuman and machine-like” economic efficency of the Italian and German dictatorships, not by the inefficiency of Russian Communism, Roy W. Howard, of the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, said that night in the Don Mellett Memorial Lecture on Journalism at Stanford University. The Don Mellett Memorial Lecture is delivered annually by a distinguished journalist in memory of the Canton, O., editor who was assassinated by a paid criminal July 16, 1926, in the hope of halting a reform campaign he was conducting in his newspaper. “In democracy’s struggle with challenging foreign ideologies,” Mr. Howard said, “American journalism will be called upon to play its greatest and probably its most difficult role. To the newspapers will fall the task of telling the shortsighted and the unimaginative in the ranks of both capital and labor that the interests of neither can continue paramount to the interests of the whole people. ” 5 2 ” ” 8 “YJ ABOR cannot continue blind to the fact that wealth must be created before abundance can be widespread. Labor must see that except perhaps in the more arduous and health-taxing vocations, there must be a limit to the reduction of work hours, if American industry is to compete in world markets, as she must if living standards are not to be lowered. Even American efficiency cannot long expect a 30-hour week to meet the competition of a 60-hour work week.

Roy W. Howard

Entered as Second-Ciass Matter

FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

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BILL SETS ASIDE $5,000,000 FOR STATE FLOOD AlD

Includes $200,000 Fall Creek Project Here and $1,211,500 for Ohio River Channel and Dam Construction.

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WHITE RIVER LEVEE UNIT IS LISTED

Muncie, Brevoort, Tell City, Evansville and Lawrenceburg Needs Charted; Relief Earmarking Defeated.

Times Special WASHINGTON, May 10.—More than $5,000,000 would | be spent in flood prevention work on Indiana rivers and |streams next year under a War Department appropriation bill reported today by the House Appropriations Committee, Included is $200,000 for Fall Creek in Indianapolis. = An additional $1,211,500 ig included for Ohio River chane nel work and lock and dam [ construction. The $255.188,154 appropriation bill,

which is to finance the civil | functions of the War Department,

—————— provides $71,000,000 for river and harbor improvements and $110,000,

Competitive Death Guild 1000 for flood control.

Specializing in Homicide | The House economy bloe, by a vots

For Fee Reported. of 18 to 10 in the appropriations

PHILADELPHIA, May 10 (U. P.).| committee, blocked an attempt to —Bodies of suspected victims of a | increase the fund by earmarking murder merchandising syndicate so|$50,000,000 of 1940 relief funds for

clogged police laboratories today | those purposes. |that District Attorney Charles F.| The earmarking of relief funds Kelley ordered extra shifts of ana- |. > proposed by a subcommittes lysts to day and night duty.

headed by Rep. J. Buell Snyder (D, As detectives turned in an in-

Pa.) in charge of the bill In the full committee, the econe creasing list of possible victims of omy bloc headed by Rep. Clifton A. America’s most amazing criminal] Woodrum (D. Va.) objected to such band. exhumations were ordered by procedure, and won the fight to

the dozen. [strike this provision from the bill. Lanoratory

Relief Earmarking Refused

“On the other hand, capital must be made to understand that never again can the division of created wealth

afternoon with the Mayor, A. C.|lief with Joseph Tarkington, one of Sallee, City Parks superintendent, |the defendants, testified yesterday land H. W. Middlesworth, recreation and again today that he knew Mr. ldirector, to begin formulating a | Tarkington's signature well and that | program. [ Mr. Tarkington's name on several | Appointment of the committee to| claims and warrants “certainly were | “streamline” park and playground [not signed by Mr. Tarkington.”

programs for the summer followed Sale Evidence Expected

|considerable criticism of alleged ; ; | deficiencies in the summer per-| Meanwhile, evidence designed to sonnel. show that the City of Kokomo paid | $4112 to a former official for the Committeemen Listed crushed stone was expected to be inThe committee includes: Douce later &20ay oy U. S. Dis- : : avg | IC orney Val Nolan. Mrs. Thomas D. erin Iniat: All witnesses to take the stand so japolis League of Womens’ VOLES, fay jn the trial have been introduced chairman; James C. Ahern of the by the Government. 12th District American Legion; Av-| Judge J. Leroy Adair of Quincy, thur R. Baxter, tormer Community | becatoe Rene Banat ere (Fund head and civic leader; Wil-|isaq himself at two defendants’ re{liam Emrich, representing West Side | ,, ests |businessmen’s groups; John W.|" yegterday 13 WPA workers testi- | White, representing labor groups; | fied that they had }een ordered to |Fred Hoke, vice president and trea-| save projects on which they were

|surer of Holcomb & Hoke; Joseph working and go to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. They testified they loaded bricks from demolished buildings into trucks. Those who testified were Alfred Johnson, Grover Arnold, Theodore R. Blake, Clyde Layton, Albert W. Sanders, Marvin J. Prather, Willis Wallace, John F. Degier, Earl Baker, Raymond DeWitt, John A. Worden, William Hicks and Philip Ward. Darwin Middleton, present Kokomo City clerk, referred to City

| McGowan, local businessman; Mrs. Charles Vawter of the Indianapolis Council of Women's Recreation Committee; Mrs. Meredith | Nicholson Jr. of the Indianapolis {Orphans Home; Mrs. Carl Manthei (of the School Board; Mrs. Joseph {Miner of the Girl Scouts, and Mrs. |George Clark of the Indianapolis | Parent-Teachers Association. Formation of the Committee was requested by the League of Women Voters and other organizations several weeks ago. In petitioning Mayor Sullivan to allow a citizens’ group to take part in developing a recreation program, the League advocated the abandonment of political pressure on department heads in selecting employees for park jobs.

Merit System Studied

The Committee, which will survey the present recreation setup and report their findings to officials, will consider the advisibility of distributing summer playground jobs on a merit basis instead of by patronage. It was disclosed recently that officials, responding to the demands of women's groups for better playground personnel, had decided to select key playground employees on merit. The plan, which is a compromise between the patronage method and the merit system, would distribute minor posts on a straight patronage basis with highly trained employees filling important supervisory positions. Several wom|en’s organizations, which were re{luctant to comment officially on this (plan, indicated that it was “at least {a step forward.”

$7000 in claims had been filed for payment by the City for cleaned brick, Charge Sale to City

Other WPA workers who have testified they had been ordered from other projects to the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. to haul stone were Orville O. Dailey, John T. Webb, William Bottoms, James L. Albaugh, Charles H. Clark, William E. Hall, Earl Powell, William Hicks, Walter Aspy, Charles A. McDorman, Philip Ward, Josepn Wheeler and William Nash.

The Government contends that the crushed stone and processed bricks cleaned by WPA workers were sold soon afterwards to the City of Kokomo and that claims were approved by the Board of Public Works.

KING HAS SMOOTH SAILING ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS OF AUSTRALIA, En Route to Quebec, May 10 (U.P.).—The Empress of Australia, bearing King George and Queen Elizabeth, plowed today through a sea which was like that of yesterday—tranquil. Their Majesties are due in Quebec May 15

particularly, are said to be hungry for the business they could get under these circumstances.

Troops Will Be Sent to

Harlan Area Monday

FRANKFORT, Ky, May 10 (U.| WASHIN N 10 (U.P) ~ P.) —Governor Chandler, announc- : FTO, Nay

ing that he had prepared an order The National Monopoly inquiry bodispatching Kentucky National |48Y suspended its study of vast inGuard troops to the Harlan coal|dustrial combines to hear a housefields next Monday. contended to-| wifely tale of inability to make both day that the dispute between soft|ends meet under present economic coal operators and miners “is of no conditions. interest to the general public, al-| Mrs. Alice Belester, wife of a Chithough society is seriously jeopar-| cago carpenter, told how she'd kept dized by the controversy. “a fairly accurate” household budget last year but in spite of scrimping and efforts to buy food and clothing at lowest prices the Belester family wound up the year $502 in the red. She said income amounted to $1140 and expenses were $1642.

“DATE WITH DANGER”

The Times New Daily Serial Begins Today on

ers Counsel for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. “We had to borrow $510.” The Belester family debt totaled $4473 at the end of 1938, she said. This included $478 for mortgage payments and interest, a $510 loan, $96 for taxes, $52 for special assessments, $45 for doctor’s care and the remainder representing the principal of the mortgage on their home. “I am one of the typical American families,” said Mrs. Belester, a small woman wearing a purple dress and a small black hat with white flowers. “My husband earned $600. Work was slack.”

Page 16. “How did you meet the deficit?” . bon

“How was the other $540 earned?” Montgomeryiasked.

Monopoly Probers Hear Housewife Relate How Family Went Into Red

“I rented rooms in our home,” she said, explaining that she and her husband lived in the basement and slept in the attic so that other rooms could be rented. Mrs. Belester, chairman of an organization known as the United Conference Against the High Cost of Living, complained her budget difficulties were increased by the lack of informative advertising and markings on goods she purchased in the stores. “In the last few years I have had to be very, very careful,” she said. “There are so many brands that I have found it difficult to find a

_ ‘brand to suit my needs”)

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necessities not to be denied

be on the old basis of the lush days. it as a fact, that in any sacrifices which readjustment may entail, those best able to do so will inevitably bear the greater weight of the burden.

Also it must accept

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“POLITICIANS must be made to understand that breathing spells for consolidation of gains are practical

, despite demagogic yammer-

ings for a break-neck dash toward Utopia. “Coincidentally, capital and labor politics must realize that no political or economic system has ever changed

human nature or altered the glandular setup of the human (Continued on Page Two)

Britain Repeats Refusal Of War Pact With Soviets

By United Press The British Government dimmed prospects of close Russian co-

workers fell far be-|The committee battled past the hind in their task of determining scheduled meeting time of the [the scope of the murder merchants’ | House and forced an almost un|operations. so extensive that police precedented 30-minute recess while [now believe the victims may total members waited to debate the bill, 200, or certainly more than the 100 at first estimated.

Find Competitive Branch

Budget Estimates Change

Because of the change in budget

Detect I { id {estimates for flood control after the etectives also found evidence that the crime corporation's Work ommitice completed hearings, it was to an extent competitive, that| "as unable to say exactly how the it conducted two branches—one spe-|lump sum appropriation for this cializing in arsenic murder for in-| purpose would be spent surance, the other murdering for a| Tables in the hearings, however, flat fee, payable in advance. | indicated the flood control alloca Mr. Kelley's speed-up order came | tions for Indiana would be substan as he and his staff of assistants re- | tially as follows: sumed questioning of a key mystery| Muncie, $200,000; Brevoort, $192,« witness whose identity was guarded 000: Tell City, $530,000; Evansville, closely. This person, it was learned, |$800.000; Gill Township Levee Unit, has been in secret custody for sev-|$35.000; Indianapolis, Fall Creek eral days and has given authorities |S56Ction. $200,000; Cannelton, $326,« information which will result in ad-|000: Lawrenceburg, $900,000; Jeffer« ditional arrests. sonville to Clarksville, Ind., $600,000; The prosecutor said bodies of pos- | NeW Albany, $500,000; Shoals Reser~

sible victims were “piling up so fast” voir, $370,000; White River Levee

. |Unit No. 8, $333,900; Anderson that the police laboratory had been | ¢ 07 000. ’

unable to keep pace. He wanted all|

exhumations made immediately so that he can proceed with the trial of 24 persons already in custody.

tried.

Only two of the 24 have yet been |

Carries Funds for Dams

The bill also carries $2,000,000 for continuing the hydroelectric plant at Ft. Peck Dam, Mont., and $7,000,000 for Bonnevilla Dam’s power plant.

operation in an antiaggression front today by repeating in the House of Commons its refusal to extend its military agreement with France to include Russia. Russia feared that if she commits herself to defend eastern European nations, she may be leit “holding the bag” in a war in which

records and testified that more than|

GETS 1 70 5 YEARS AS DRUNK DRIVER

Pleads Guilty After Two Previous Convictions.

A 52-year-old carpenter was sentenced today to serve from one to five years in the Michigan State Prison for driving while drunk. The offender, Roy Wright, of 90415 Ft. Wayne Ave, had been convicted twice before on a similar offense. An act of the 1937 Legislature

{mandates the sentence which was

imposed by Judge Dewey E. Myers in Criminal Court. “A man who has been convicted three times for drunken driving should be prohibited indefinitely from driving” the judge said, “but the law does not give me the power to invoke such a prohibition.” “1 will not hesitate to give the maximum penalty on drunken driving offenses when the evidence proves the motorist guilty,” the

‘| judge said. “And I will convict on

either circumstantial or direct evidence. “Erring motorists cannot expect to escape penalties imposed by the lower courts by an appeal to my court if they are guilty. I will give the cases proper and immediate rehearing and unless the lower courts’ finding is faulty I will sustain their findings.” The defendant pleaded guilty. His case came into Criminal Court on a prosecutor's affidavit.

REPORT AMLIE DUE TO BE MURPHY AID

WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. P.) — Thomas A. Amlie, whose nomination to the Interstate Commerce Commission was withdrawn by President Roosevelt, probably will be named a special assistant to Attor-

ney General Murphy, Justice Department officials said

Britain and France would stay aloof.

Prime Minister Chamberlain tried partly to dissuade these fears in a’ statement to the House of Com- | mons in which he said Russia would | be expected to aid victims of ag- | gression only in case Britain and | France went to war first to aid those victims. However, Mr. Chamberlain's statement showed that Russia is holding out for an assurance of British and French support if Germany tries to invade the Soviet Union through the Baltic countries.

Russia May Ease Demands

Since Britain guaranteed Poland and Rumania security and asked for Soviet help in case they are invaded, Russia suspected Britain is aiming at permitting Germany to invade the Soviet Union through Lithuania Latvia, BEsthonia and Finland. Russia, therefore, is anxious to plug this gap in the antiaggression front. Mr. Chamberiain told Commons that Lord Halifax, Foreign Secretary, had assured Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky the Soviet doubts would be removed. It was not clear, however, whether he meant Britain would guarantee the Baltic states against aggression. R. A. Butler, Foreign Undersecretary, told Commons last week that Britain has no intention of doing SO. Mr. Chamberlain's statement nevertheless conveyed the impression that Russia would abandon the demand for a three-power military alliance if Britain and France plug the Baltic gap.

Two Victories for Russia

Mr. Chamberlain's statement sought to correct a Soviet impression that the aid by Russia was to be one-sided. The importance of the Russian position was illustrated by the re{port in Paris that the Pope's failure to include the Soviet in his mediation proposals was a marked factor in the coldness shown by Britain and France to the Pope's suggestion. Russia gained two diplomatic victories in an indication by Rumania that it is ready to accept a Russian security guarantee, a a report (Continued on ree) _

Herman Petrillo, olive oil Sho) Appropriations for the Civil Gove spaghetti salesman and a director ernment of the Panama Canal were of one of the syndicate's branches, |increased $15,524,799 to $24,774,024 in was convicted of first-degree mur-| order to speed national defense ine der, with the death penalty manda- | stallations in the Canal Zone. For tory. s {this purpose $14,700,000 was ape Mrs. Carvina Favato interrupted propriated to be made available ime

her murder trial with a confession | mediately. of the arsenic slayings of her com-

another man "| INJURIES INFLICTED | om information obtained in BY BURGLAR FATAL

their questioning of the new witA 69-year-old night watchman

(Continued on Page Two) died today of head injuries inflicted

0, K, IMPROVEMENT by a burglar, who slugged and

robbed him two months ago. | The victim was William Peterman, OF SENATE AVENUE W. Court St. On March 11 | while he was on duty at the Paul ————— Middleton Coal Co., he was struck on the head by a man wielding some

Board Votes Track Removal | sort of blunt instrument, police said. . Mr. Peterman failed to notify From Indiana to 16th. authorities immediately because he ——— did not have any description of the prowler to guide them. The burglar took his billfold containing $2.

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Permanent improvement of Sen-| ate Ave. from Indiana Ave. to the| : north property line of 16th St. was | av today by the Works Board. FD. R., SILENT ON At the same time the Board ap. M'NUTT S nounced that the City “is in the best position in years to undertake UCCESSOR street and alley improvement.” - The Senate. Ave, improvement| WASHINGTON, May 10 (U. Py, will consist of removing the street-|—President Roosevelt today de« car tracks and replacing them with clined comment on who would be concrete. The cost to the City will|appointed to succeed Paul V. Mce be about $4526. Nutt, former Indiana Governor, as ns {High Commissioner to the Philip ’ pines. Mr. McNutt, a Democratic YOUNG DOCTOR S HUG | presidential candidate, will leave FATAL TO DAUGHTER the islands tonight. Among those mentioned prome —— inently for the post is Francis B. ALEDO, Ill, May 10 (U. P.)—A Sayre, assistant Secretary of State, young doctor-father and his wife today planned a small, quiet funeral for their 19-month-old daughter, Nancy Irene, who died from her father's hug. Dr. C. O. McCreedy lanced a “flu abscess” on a patient in the country. Carefuly he put the operating instrument in the breast pocket of his coat. Nancy Irene greeted him from her crib when he returned home. The young father swept the child to his shoulder. She snuggled against him, onthe side where the infection-covered knife protruded. The instrument scratched her skin. Two nights later, Monday, Nancy Irene died from a virulent form of streptococgie infection,|

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