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VOLUME 51—-NUMBER 65

The Indianapolis Times

FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably local showers or thunderstorms; not much change in temperature,

FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939

Wntered Ax Becond-Class at Postoffice,

Old Story

There comes a time in the life do,

yesterday as the thermometer went to 92.

the ice was on the rear bumper of

SALVAGING OF SUB IS BEGUN

Navy Ponders Methods for Job as Sabotage Hint Is Deprecated.

PORTSMOUTH, N. H, May 26 (U. P).—The Navy today began the task of up the supersubmarine Squalus her 26 dead from the bottom of the Atlantic Salvage operations on the newest of the fleet's underseas craft began after an all-night suspension called only when a diver confirmed that all 26 men in the tlooded after compartments of the submarine had died. Navy divers were braving death and numbing cold again by de seending the 40 fathoms to the spot

bringing and

where the Squalus sank in the mud |

last Tuesday and lay the ground work for raising the submarine and her cargo of bodies. At 10:25 p. m. (Indianapolis Time) the rescue ship Falcon radioed. “Diver going down to attach permanent descending line to deck gun.’ First Step in Salvage The diver's descent was the first step toward actual salvage. Divers will use the descending line in going down to clear the Squalus’ deck of antennae and other geal might hinder raising operations. The salvage job may take days perhaps weeks, but the submarine must be raised before there can be any explanation why she sank to the bottom during a routine test submersion, Meanwhile, at the Navy Yard Hospital all except three of the Squalus’ 33 survivors were released Those still held were Lieut. J Nichols, Radio Operator Charles A Powell and Yoeman Charles Kuney, They were suffering bronchial infections, Rear Admiral Cyrus W, Cole, commandant of the Navy Yard, and his staff of technicians returned to the salvage tug Falcon and directed preliminary salvage operations,

Capital to Be Advised

comm. A. I. McKee expert attached to the Navy Yard, and Comm. A. R. McCann, submarine expert of the Navy Department, left by plane for Washington to present their plans for raising the Squalus to high officials, They were expected to return before dusk. Capt. William Amsden in a formal statement today said “there is no evidence at this time to substantiate reports of carelessness or sabotage” in connection with the tragedy. Capt. Amsden’s statement was only one sentence and follows: “Despite certain statements in papers of press, there is no evidence at this time to substantiate any rumor of carelessness or sabotage.’ All evidence indicated that the main air induction valve had failed to close when the Squalus dived, (Continued on Page Three)

from slight

submarine

That Perisphere—

t's 18 stories high! Read Ernie Pyle's Column on the New York Werld's Fair, Page 19.

That time for 3-year-old Richard Jump, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Jump, 912 N. Warman Ave, came

that |

t Let Col. Turner Q

of a Lick and a Promise

DDN PARK << V WORKERS Keep JR “RECORD CLEAN

Board Members to ‘Crack Down’ on Those Who Draw Criticism.

POLICE RULE TIGHTENED

. . |

Nine Put Under Morrissey Two Are Penalized for ‘Irregular Conduct.’

(Editorial, Page 20) Park Board members prepared | today to ‘crack down” on em|plovees whose conduct draws public criticism, | The Board's decision to get “tough” follows action yesterday in transferring control of nine park |§ policemen to the Safety Board after | & park officials admitted having little | § control over the policemen Brewing for several months, the personnel situation in the Park Department began to steam several weeks ago when a group of omplavees weve called in by the hoard and lectured on discipline It boiled over vesterdayv after two park policemen were penalized for ‘irregulal conduct” and Board members reviewed recent complaints against emplovees at community honses,

Board “Tired of Complaints”

The Board spent a lot of time discussing a series of complaints brought against one matron. Board President Jackiel W. Joseph said he didn’t know the merits of the complaints, but added that the Board is “sick and tired of getting complaints against this individual.” A. H. Gisler, vice president, sufgested a “firm attitude” in dealing was pound for breakfast with emplovees who fail to create good-will m the neighborhoods in which thev are stationed “We're going to clean this situation up.” Mr. Joseph said rom now on, if we get a person Who does not have the good-will of the neighborhood, were going to transfer him If he continues to (draw criticism, we'll fire him.”

One Policeman Punished

One park policeman served more than four vesrs was penalized his two-week vacation for being off duty three days with- | [out informing the Board where he | | was | During the testimony, a 2Qepart‘ment secretary said the policeman had delayed taking a letter from | the Board to the Democratic County | Committee and that she had to give (Continwed on Page Three)

HEARINGS ON NEW TAX BILL TO OPEN

Morgenthau Still Silent on Details of Program.

Times Photo

Col. Roscoe Turner , , . streamlines his face,

Can’t Let Down Nation’s Boys, Speed King Says

There's Plenty of Room at Top for Hard Workers, America’s Premier Pilot Declares.

By JOE COLLIER

You Roscoe Turner ax he pulled on his blue uniform coat,

and this business because the kids have gotten to expect it of me.”

know.” said Col

Times Photo of every young fellow when a big lick of a piece of ice is the thing to Three persons who knew him well enough to call him Roscoe stopped and chatted with him en route

He finally was seated, and said: MORE DRIVERS I “About the kids. IT don't think

enough of us older fellows give them the encouragement we should. I res member, when I was about 17 years May Wait Until Later On in Day Because of Excessive Heat.

It may be said that Richard hitch-hiked his cold lick since a car parked near his home.

te Says BUND LEADER | Joctor ates | “BOND IS $5000

Health Aid | Kuhn Pleads Not Guilty to

LOCAL TEMPERATURES he'd 11nd Dewey's Charges of Theft, Forgery.

old and had started out for myself An aviator landed at Memphis, in the Fair Grounds, on a barnstorming trip

who has slip through the ropes just could pat his ship. I never forgot that. His name was DeLoyd Thompon.

‘T lost track of him, but the other

86 86 88 90

a. am... ¥¥ 114awm am... 7 12 (Neon) a.m. 3 1pm (up after that and is now running la garage at Washington, Pa. One of these days I'm going to call on him."

Col

(Another Story, Page 2%)

“Don't complain about the heat—it tends to Keep you healthy,” Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City health officer, advised today. Meanwhile, the climbing mercury passed the 88 mark, and the Weather Bureau reported no immediate relief in sight. Thunderstorms were believed probable tonight or tomorrow, Soaring temperatures may cause discomfort, Dr. Morgan | said, but they create condi-

NEW YORK, Mav 26 Fritz Kuhn, "Fuehrer” of (he Qer-man-American Bund, was held in [$5000 bail today after pleading not! guilty to all 12 counts of an indictment charging him with grand larceny and forgery in connection with alleged shortages in the organization’s funds Kuhn was brought to the jammed [General Sessions Court room from (Police Headquarters where he had (heen paraded in the bright lights of [the routine lineup. He appeared tions best suited for mankind. nervous and lacked his usual bra“Chances for illness,” he | vado. said, are much less during | the long torrid summer days | when the sun's rays have a sterilizing and generally healthful effect.” He warmed against overs indulgence in eating and in consuming iced drinks

REPORT 2 ATTEMPTS 10 SLAY MUSSOLINI

tJ. PH-— Qualification trials are to be held this afternoon, tomorrow and Sun-| (day to fill up the 12 remaining places lin the field for the B500-mile race [| Tuesday Because of the high temperature drivers may do like vesterday's three successful qualifiers and wait to make their four-lap runs until just before the track cloxes at 7p. m Those qualifying yesterday were Rex Mays at 126413 m. p. h, Joe Thorne at 122.117 m. p. h. and Emil Andres at 121.212 m. p. h. All three gained positions in the seventh row, [the other rows forward having been | filled up by cars previously making WASHINGTON, May 26 (U. P).— the trial Public hearings begin tomorrow be-! Drivers who may go today include fore a House Wavs and Means Sub. Floyd Roberts, winner of last year's race, Merril (Doe) Williams, Bob committee on a compromise tax re-

Swanson, Lou Webb Petilly vision program designed to

are subjected to defeatism it's harmful “There's just asx much chance fo them now as there ever was, bes cause there's room at the top if they work hatd,” he said. ‘But they've got to work Every man who ever got any place had to work day and night some time in his life Col. Turner is America’s premier pilot, twice winner of the Harmon Trophy which so designates him, He won the Henderson Trophy last (Continued on Page Three)

Faces 50- Year Term

Judge Comelius FF. Cullins said that “$5000 is a very modest sum” and that he would have set bail higher had there been proposals rom District Attorney Thomas E Dewey's office He faced a maximum of 50 vears mprisonment os the indictment

sev ees CAPITAL MILK TRADE ap- Ty MacQuinn pease” business, HH Morgenthau will be the first witness handed up by the Grand Jury yes- Chairman Robert L. Doughton GAS LEASE PUT OFF nearly $15000 from the Bund. Committee, announced the hearings a . Kuhn was arrested by agents of After Secretary Morgenthau dis-| pypnal arguments in the Federal Pact Break First Barrier to at a gasoline station outside Krums- IN agreement on a restricted tax re- gag utility is bound by a 09-year] ville, Pa., about 80 miles from Allen. Vision proposal, [lease held by its predecessor, have|

Treasury Secretary - OPENED T0 INDIANA terday charging that he had stolen (D. N. C) of the Ways and Means —— District Attorney Thomas B, Dewey closed that Congressional leaders are, gourd suit to determine if the City's, : Products in East.

Communist Paris Paper town, vesterday. President Roosevelt today declined 4 i to discuss the tax situation but inDenies Flight

Tells of Plot. | [dicated that satisfactory | He denied that he was fleeing av- Was being made rest. Mr. Dewey's detectives, it was! Secretary Morgenthau said Conrevealed, have been trailing him for gressional leaders and he have more than a week Agreed on a tax program that “defi- | gopert ©. Baitzell early in March Kuhn, who fought in the German nitely” will contribute to recovery , . Army during the World War and He declined to discuss details of the! then participated in Faehrer Hit- | program. ler's 1928 “beer cellar” putsch, and! The program expected to get ap-

now is an American citizen, left proval, however, would elude wl

|New York abruptly yesterday. abandonment of the graduated tax| A AITS FCO 0 K [the second early in May before Mus- | Kuhn, 43, portly, usuailv somber on undistributed profits of COrpora- | ¥ ¥ |

| solini began his tour of Piedmont. |and little given to joking. greeted tions which earn more than $25,000 |

| “The dispatch said that the as [photographers and newspapermen a year, ‘Power Co. Sells Station to

(name or to indicate his supporters.” tions, he said: “It's a lot of nonI LA | | Sale of radio station

“I knew in advance that I would sense.” (die, but I decided to sacrifice my life to rid Italy of her oppressor,’ " : the newspaper quoted him as say NEW YORK, May 26 (U. P).— garry M. Bitner Sr, Pittsburgh, by| ling. “We are several hundred | RETIRED JUDGE. DIES The industrial average rose to a [the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. [strong, We all took the same oath.” ’ new high since March 30 as stocks was announced today by Harry T in ae advanced today for the seventh |pritehard, president. | ROME, May 26 (U. P) ~The| MIAMI, Fla, May 26 (U. P).— time in eight sessions in quiet| The sale. which is contingent up- | Propaganda Ministry today denied | William Filson Charters, 60, retired trading lon approval of the Federal Commus- | that any attempts had been made Federal judge and former resident; In the bond section, railroad and nications Commission, was consume | |Recently against the life of Premier of Indianapolis, died yesterday after utility issues were higher while U./mated at a meeting of the Indian | ussolini,

Paderewski Is Warned Playing Concert

~ Might Be Fatal and Tour Is Canceled

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ew oR rR es Pils XRE wis txtreme-) anceled the rest of hi . [paper executive, recently incorpo- " wenius oe Diane, Shuivele his| The doctor had een summoned attendants made plans for an carly EA WFBM. Inc, to operate the | Tony gulped, In she says nuttin De ri. (hn hy far» Shor ime before concer br, Theodore DuTRam derived hh sto sou incoppratos a Suan 11 mokier vou Tot at" ie attack, it was revealed today. Music lovers wondered if the post-| Mr. Paderewski's viate Wh wilco Nye Hutchinson Jr. Hugh J, Baker muttered aside when Tony muffed

The audi { 15.000, which had war Premier of Poland 1d b Jr. and Louis 8. Binkley, PE A a ae e audience of 15,000, which h ar Pr r of Poland ever wou e was attested to by the reaction of! 3 AR TOBY My vx | he might at the count of nine, Triawaited the pianist at Madison heard again on any concert f] Tt was reported that Mr. Bitner's 3

stage. [last night's audience. For several! ther Jr., will oper. | umphantly, he blurted out: Square Garden, was told that he | Eldon G. Joubert, Mr. Paderewski's minutes after the ABNOUNCOMENt, | sor teat ea tien oi Re “Alok, dere lies more peril in dine had suffered a slight heart attack, companion and piano tuner for 350 the people seemed stunned. No one | WEBM was organized by the old [eye dan 20 of dere swords.” (but Lawrence Fitzgerald, his press years, answered their questions moved. Then they filed out slowly, | Merchants Heat & Light Co. and | I VR ug today that this thusly: many in tears, was acquired by the Indianapolis night after program directors had was not the true story. | “I wonder. He is worn out.” | The master was nearing the end Power & Light Co. in the merger of [a tough time lining up the prin- | “Dr. Thomas Dunham, Mr. a The pianist was taken from his of his 18th tour of the United the two companies in January, 1927. | cipals,

{been postponed from June 26 10 [July 11, at the request of attorneys. | PrORIeSs | The case, brought by the Chase National Bank of New York, trustee for Indianapolis Gas Co. bondholders, was heard by Federal Judge

The first step in eliminating trade barriers of eastern diana milk products was taken today by the Indiana Commisison

on Inter-State Co-Operation William E. I'readway, Commission Secretary, reported that Indiana of ficials have sighed an agreement with the District of Columbia to permit the sale of Indiana cream products in the District. Previously District of Columbia requirements prohibited the shipments of milk products into Washington.

PARIS, | Communist in a dispatch today that made to assassinate Premier solini of Ttaly The dispatch said that (he first attempt was made on April 27 and |

May 26 (UU, P).-The newspaper Paris Soir, from Nice, claimed | two attempts had been Mus-

Mr. Treadway reported that [diana farmers were [than a mililon dollars worth of busi ness annually as a result of the WIBM to barriers. Barriers

WILLIAM CHARTERS,

against Indiana

sylvania and New York.

an illness of five weeks. IS. Government issues were mixed. apolis Power & Light Co. directors EE E : [yesterday at Chicago, Mr. Pritchard | said. He declined to reveal the sale price. No date for the actua ownership can be set until the FC approval is received and a contrac with |System is transferred to the new (Juliet) Carroll. And up popped

owners. : : ‘mer Hearst news. | Tony Galento, a two-ton Romeo. ing the night, his representatives Mr. Bither, a former H “She speaks. she speaks,”

1 transfer of | C| t| “Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou,

'rewski's personal physician, deliv-|dressing room to his private railroad States made over a period of 40 The station gave its first broadcast It was reported they first tried to ered the warning after finding that|car in Grand Ogntral terminal. Dur- years, { | election night, Nov, 10, 1924, get therine for the » 1

Indianapolis,

“r

| |

it would be pretty hard for me to get away from speed flying |

He had just finished shaving in his room at the Antlers Hotel and |

“IT drove him and Barmey Oldfield here early out to the grounds and he let me twa hit and run automobiles while

80 Tier other persons were hut in 14 [overnight

PO WORE

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PRICE THREE CENTS

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FINAL HOME

ne A es ce es i

AW MAY KEEP ‘GREENLEE FROM

REVENUE POST

Treasury Ruling Forbids Collectorship to

Anyone Engaged

in Beer, Liquor or

Tobacco Business,

APPOINTEE HEAD OF BEVERAGE FIRM

Declares He Doesn't |

Jelieve Ban Applies to

Him, but That He Can Resign and

Transfe

r Stock.

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Times Ntaff Writer

WASHINGTON, May 26.=President

find it impossible to appoint Internal Revenue Collector Treasury Department ruling, i

voosevelt may Pleas Greenlee to the post of Indianapolis a

t was learned todav.

because of

| The ruling forbids any Bureau of Internal Revenue posis tion being held by anyone engaged “either directly or ine

directly” in the beer, liquor or

tobacco business,

My. Greenlee ix president of the wmelby Beverage Co., Inc., beer wholesalers in his home town of Shelbyville.

Mr. Greenlee, informed of

"the gituation when he arrived

al Lebanon, Ind. this afternoon, denied that the law applied

KILLED BY TWO HIT-RUN AUTOS

West Newton Man Alights From Streetcar, Hurled 15 Feet, Struck Again.

(Photo, Page Three)

A West Newton man was killed

today when struck by

traffic accidents. Police

[arrested 41 motorists,

Turner was in dead earnest. 12:40 a He said he thinks that school pupils | rear of the car to cross the street! With and was struck by a west-bound auall the people out of work, ne says tomobile

The victim was Thomas F. Done

rN My | 8 day some one told me he cracked jue 35 employed in the Big Four

Railroad Shops at Beech Grove, When he alighted from a Wash-

ington St, car at Arsenal Ave. at m., he walked around the

then Wests

He was hurled 15 feet and WAR un over by a second hound automobile The body was taken to the City Hospital morgue Witnesses told police that the driver of the first car turned north into the first alley and disappeared, while the second car continued west on Washington St. Both were travs eling at about 40 miles an hour, police were told, Mr. Donahue was en route to the home of a relative on N. Summit St He was the father of three children. Robert Minnieh, 12, of 236 Iowa St. was taken to City Hospital after he was struck by a truck which fatled to stop near his home Police later arrested Herbert Cretsch, 36, of 116 E. Raymond St, at his home and charged him with being the driver. He was accused of failure to stop after an aceident, drunkenness and driving while un-

[der the influence of liquor

states against |

[tion was filed by At a hearing several weeks ago, (and Robert Carrico, attorneys as-| In signed losing more | Butsch,

products still are existing in Penn- | $6.85. cents higher, the top price at $10

the Columbia Broadcasting | Romeo?” pleaded red-haired Naney |

NEW BUTSCH SANITY HEARING 1S SOUGHT

A motion cAxNe of

rehearing in the William Ray Butsch charged with the murder of Mis Carrie Lelah Romig, was filed in Criminal Court today, The motion asks for a new sanity hearing for Butsch, now an inmate of the Colony for the Criminal In= sane at Michigan City. The petiEdward J. Ryan

for a

by the Jourt to defend

HOG PRICES STEADY Hog prices were steady at Indians

milk [apolis today with the top price at]

Vealers were strong to 50

‘Where Art Thou, Romeo?’ ‘Right Here, Says Galento

NEW YORK, May 26 (U, PP). Juliet number, but she refused)

somewhat abruptly. Tallulah Bankhead just hung up the telephone Even Tony balked at first but his manager, Joe Jacobs, persuaded him

[that it would be good build-up stuff

. oh (gulp) that I were a glove

for his forthcoming title fight with Joe Louis, Nancy Carroll thought it would be a swell gag Tony, crouching below a baleony, heaved his chest and blurted nis lines All went well until Miss Carroll handed him the line about he'd better be careful or the soldiers

[would get him

“I have a night's clock (he meant cloak) to hide me from dere eyes”

The skit was an NBC gag last he told her.

Tony brightened considerably after the broadcast and even fore got to call Miss Carroll a bum. However, he did crack: " s a bum!” |

to him, “The law,” he said, “refers only to the manufacture of beer or liquor. I'm not nected anything like that. president of the Shelby Beverage Co., but that 1% only a wholesale beer diss tributor, ANd besides

COs with I'm

I could resign and my stock, if did [Apply to distributors,” Mi had been

president of the beverage company since last Novembe:

transfer the law

Cieenlee sald he

Law Ix Quoted Senator Minten hat he had the Treasury lquor and not the beer Business I'he law covering the appoint: ment of an Internal Revenue cols lector reads “Any Internal Revenue officer wha or shall become interested or indirectly, in the manus facture of tobacco, snuff. or clgars, or In the production. rectification, or distillation of distilled apirits, shall be dismissed from office, and every officer who becomes interested mM any such manufacture or produc. tion, rectification, oi redistillation, or in the production of fermented liquors, shall be fined not less than $500 nor more than $3000" According to officials, the Treass ury has taken the broadest possible interpretation of the statute and an Internal Revenue job couldn't even be held by a waiter who served beer mn a restaurant let alone by the president of a company engaged in wholesale distribution

sald here impression

Applied

today that only to

the ban

x | ais

rectly

Tax Farming Abolished

Mr. Greenlee, who ix building large home for his family at Shelbyville, is reported to have been a silent partner in the importers permit of the Handy Beverage Co. which was headed by Russell Handy, Morristown, former Demos cratic State Senator Mr. Handy obtained the when Mr. Greenlee waa to Governor MeNutt, but this form of tax farming was abolished by the Indiana Legislature this vear Mr. Greenlee still holds hig $10,000 post ax a member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, but the Commission is being abolished by President Roosevelt's reorganis zation measure whieh becomes effective Julv 1 Its funetions will be transferred to Secretary of Ine terior Ickes He was appointed as the commiss stoner to represent the public upon recommendation of Senator Minton, Now Senator Minton has recoms mended him for the Indianapolis collectorship and Senator VanNuys (has Joined in the indorsement bes | cause he wants to oust Will Smith, {his own appointee,

permis secretary

Smith's Record Outstanding

According to Bureau of Internal Revenue officials, Mr. Smith has made an outstanding record for economy and efMelency in the Ins dianapolis office. When asked abous the complaints that he is too tough a taskmaster for his staf, they said? "He does make them work.” Mr. Smith has kept a $4600 post of assistant collector vacant and that too has caused some complaing among "deserving Democrats.” The collectorship pays $6000

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Books Broun Clapper Cormios Crossword f Curtong World Editorials 20 Fashions 23 Financial 35 Flynn 20 Scherrer | Forum 20 Serial Story . [Gallup ...... 14|Soetety ...... {Girin, Bear It 34 Sports. .28, 20, 30 2| Wik Deaths. 28

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Johnzon Moavies Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries Pegler Pyle Questions Radio Mrs. Roosevelt

Jane Jordan,, 22