Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1939 — Page 1
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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 83
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FORECAST: Fair and continued warm tonight, tomorrow and probably Sunday.
FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1939
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Roosevelt Favors Plan; House Gets Bill to End Profits Levy.
WASHINGTON, June 16 (U. P| —The House Ways and Means] Committee today sent to the House | a biil junking the undistributed | profits tax on corporations, while President Roosevelt suggested that) Congress consider slight revisions] in the personal income tax base and rate. Mr. Roosevelt said at a press) conference that he believed the | personal income tax base should be | broadened somewhat. He did not! specify to what levels he favored | lowering personal exemptions, now $2500 for married men and $1000 | for single men. He also suggested | that personal incomes in the mid- | dle bracket be taxed at a rate] slightly higher than at present.
Mr. Roosevelt said. however, th he doubted whether Congress wou
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BROADER TAY
Is Just Right, Gives Decree
An Indianapolis woman asked Superior Court for a divorce today charging that her husband had only three moods, none of them satisfactory. When they were at work in the same company. she said, he would spy on her and repeat conversations she had with other people during the day. When they were at home he would sulk about things, she added. And when they were out socially, she declared he would spend the evenings glaring at her.
| going than a foster mother hen who was having personnel trouble
| old ones, | cause they are. { their backs got wet in the down-
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She got the divorce.
HINT ARREST TODAY IN KILLING OF BABY
at Crying Child in Uniighted,
Car Is Only Clue.
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Times Photos. The foster-mamma hen (backgreund above) paces and scolds even when her ducks take short cruises en the tiny duck yard puddle. When they went far into Lake Sullivan she nearly lost her mind. One venturesome fellow (left) used a baking pan of water to romp.
Brood Rescued in Boat After Ven ture on Lake
They Might Have Died of Exposure, Says Andy Miller, Who Knows They’re Poor Navigators When Cold.
By JOE COLLIER
HE baby ducks at Riverside Park are beached for their own good. They were out in last week-end's rains and got waterlogged and had to be rescued in a boat. Now Andy Miller has them penned in the duck yard, where thev have only a puddle, and no one is happier over the way things are
with her little brood before Mr. Mille It isn't that ducks, even dayaren't seaworthy, beBut last week-end
r stepped in.
86 MORE LOSE HIGHWAY J0BS|
Dismissals Will Total 230 By July 1, Commission Chairman Says.
pours. When a baby duck’s back gets wet, he gets cold. And when he gets ccld he forgets all about swimming and navigation problems, and just simply huddles and
Andy said they might have died from exposure, so he rescued them in a boat. Their mothers wouldn't take any responsibility at all When baby ducks are on the high
Cluck in Town TIENTSIN ASKS
Ducks Grounded, Mamma Hen Happiest
FOR WARSHIPS T0BRING FOOD
Japanese Kill Two Vegetable
Men Trying to Run Blockade.
FAR EASTERN SITUATION
TIENTSIN — Japanese tighten blockade of British. TOKYO — Cabinet “big five” meets; protest rejected.
LONDON — Britain suggests U. S. as mtdiator.
WASHINGTON—U. S. to keep watch in Far’ East.
PARIS — French say blockade gives hope for Russian pact.
(Gallup Poll, Page Six)
TIENTSIN, June 16 (U. P).—Authorities of the blockaded British Concession have appealed to commanders of British warships to get food to them, the Japan€se Domei News Agency reported today. The appeal followed shooting of two Chinese farmers by Japanese sentries when the farmers sought to run the blockade of the British and French Concessions with vegetables. In asking British warships to move food into the Concession from Chingwangtao and Weihaiwei, authorities said the food would be regarded as military supplies and would be distributed throughout the Concession.
Volunteers Enrolled
The Japanese doubted that the British naval commanders would heed the appeal. Tientsin is about 20 miles from the sea and warships would have to run under the muzzles of Japanese land batteries lining the Hai River which is less than 75 yards wide at some points and is so shallow that only comparatively small craft can use it. Authorities said the British are preparing 1000 soldiers and volunteers for any emergency. Japanese sources reported that 59 British soldiers inspected the Concession’s defenses and strengthened the barricades. Most stores were closed.
Siege Tightened
Japanese restrictions tightened and the French Concession was completely isolated except on the side adjoining the British area. An acute food shortage threatened the concessions. Already, markets were almost denuded of foods except for cold storage meats. The British and French had large stores of flour and rice in riverside warehouses. but there were more than 100.000 people to feed in the concessions and there was no telling how long the blockade would last. Milkmen Go Through
Ironically, the presence of the rice and flour in the warehouses proved a boomerang for the Japanese, because prices in the city proper soared, due to the closure of the warehouses. For the present, Japanese still permitted Russian milkmen to bring milk into the British concession.
seas, their parents don't pay muci attention to them. “. | There's another situation that’s a ~ontinual menace to the ducks. The rcad on the other side of the lake is pretty well traveled, and there's no fence between it and the Jake. A fence would either keep people away from the ducks or ducks away from the people. Either would be a good thing.
| Department employees to be dis-| missed to meet a $700.000 cut in the personnel budget will total about! 230, effective July 1, T. A. Dicus,| Highway Commission chairman, said today. | A month ago Mr. Dicus an-| nounced that about 225 emplovees| | would have to be dismissed to con- | jform with the reduced budget. A: |that time 129 were laid off immedi-
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DELAWARE REPAIR STUDIED BY BOARD
East Side Group Requests
Confidential Army Files, Court Is Told.
NEW YORK, June 16 (U. P).— William P. Buckner Jr, ringleader of a million-dollar bond fraud, reported to his associates 'in February, 1938, that Paul V. McNutt, High Commissioner to the Philippine Commonwealth, had given him access to “confidential reports of the U. S. Army regarding certain Philippine officials and the general Philippine psychology,” it was testified today in Federal
Court. The testimony came from Leo S. Walden, a Canadian. broker and member of the bondholder commit-
feared that!
tee taken over by the Buckner lgroup when, the Government charged, they began to rig U market in defaulted Philippine railway bonds with heavy losses to investors. . Buckner, handsome playboy friend iof screen stars, showgirls and Congressmen, mentioned in his report, according to Walden, that he had gone to the Philippines to meet former Senator Hawes of Missouri, and «with him to effect a settlement” on the defaulted bonds.
Report Mentions McNuit
«parenthetically,” the report continued, “it should be said that the co-operation of Mr. McNutt was obtained through his- personal esteem for the committee counsel, George Schein.” Mr. Schein later resigned because “he didn’t know what was going on,” Mr. Walden testified. The report added that it developed Hawes could not be of much service and Buckner next contacted Capt. Thomas J. Dugan of the Department of Justice in the Philippines, “who is in a confidential position and enjoys the implicit trust of the leaders of the Philippine Government.” “Through him,” the report said, “your chairman was able to approach President Quezon and Felipe Buencamino, a leader of thé Assembly and acting Speaker. (Buencamino is a defendant with Buckner.) “Both of these men have been convinced of the merits of our contention and have agreed the bonds must be purchased by the Philippine Government.”
Girls Throng Court
Glamour girls and shop girls vied for admittance to court to hear | Government accusations against | Buckner. | William P. Maloney, Assistant] lu. S. Attorney, described Buckner as a swaggering gallant with a penchant for champagne, Scotch whisky, beautiful showgirls and other people’s money. Buckner, debonair, impeccably groomed, seemed as intrigued as the spectators. He grinned, occa|sionally chuckled at testimony. The Government charged that Buckner, William J. Gillespie, Charles W. Turner, both Wall Street brokers; John Stuart Hyde, movie producer, and Buencamino manipulated the fraud in the Philippine bonds. The alleged conspiracy, Mr. Maloney asserted, caused a $1,000,000 !1oss to investors. He said that Buckner and Gillespie obtained control of a bondholders’ protective committee, and communted by airplane {between New York and Washington, holding parties that became the talk of Hollywood movie stars,
McNutt Mentioned in Testimony of Witness On Buckner Bond Memo
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William P. Buckner Jr.
MERCURY ZIPS TOWARD 90'S
Hot Weather Will Continue,’ Probably Into Sunday, Weatherman Says.
LOCAL TEMPERATURE 6am... 5 19a m. .. Tam..." Nam... 8a. m... 82 12 (noon) 9a. m... 8 1p m...
86 88 88 20
Get ready for a scorching weekend! The Weatherman said the warm weather will continue tonight, tomorrow and probably Sunday.
GOES DOWN IN SEA OFF COAST OF INDO-CHINA
Hope Is Abandoned After Vessel’s 30-Hour Disappearance.
LACKS ESCAPE HATCHES
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Accident Cause Unknown;
Normal Complement Is Placed at 67.
PARIS, June 16 (U. P.).— The French Submarine Phenix, with 60 or more men aboard, has gone down off Saigon, French-Indo China, the Ministry of Marine ane nounced tonight. Authorities abandoned all hope of saving any of the crew, normally 67, the submarine having been under water for more than 30 hours. Relatives of the men
|aboard were notified of their
probable loss. The Ministry of Marine, issuing the official announcement shortly be= fore 12:30 p. m. (Indianapolis Time), asked the newspaper not to publish
the news before 3 p. m., so that all relatives of the crew could be notie fied first.
No Details Received
The Phenix was on detached serve ice, cruising off the Indo-Chinese Coast, \in shark-infested waters. No details had yet been received of the cause of the accident. : The submarine is one of the larger types of submersibles, of 1379 tons and 302 feet long.
It was not believed any escape equipment was aboard not even Davis or Momsen ‘lungs.” This was the third major sube marine disaster in less than a month, the others having been the United States Submarine Squalus off Portsmouth, N. H., on May 23 and the British Thetis in the Irish Sea near Liverpool on June 1. The Davis lung enabled four men to escape from the Thetis, bobbing to the surface from an escape
The mergury began its climb early today. Yesterday's high of 87] was passed before noon. { George Hodges, 39, of 440 Minerva | St., a WPA worker, was overcome by | the heat late yesterday while working along the White River north of 30th St. He was treated at City Hospital and sent home.
hatch. The Phenix, built in 1930, has no escape hatch. On the Thetis, 99 meng were lost and only four saved. By the use of a special diving bell, the United States Navy was ‘able to save 33 men from the Squalus, although 2 were lost. :
185 Lost in 3 Disasters The Phenix disaster brings the
PECK FREE ON BOND | AFTER INDICTMENT!
Embezzlement of Wayne
Township Funds Charged. |
Edward F. Peck, former Wayne Township justice of the peace, today was free on $1000 bond after his arrest yesterday on indictments | charging embezzlement of township | funds and railure to account for funds to his successor. The indictments, two of which
toll of life in the three disasters to approximately 135. Only 43 hours ago, Navy Mine ister Qesar Campinchi, informed the Navoal Committee of the Cham ber of Deputies that he.is seeking to buy four diving bells from the United States, to avert such dise asters. The exact number of men on the Phenix was not officially given. The number was placed at 60. althougi there was a report that it might be 63, comprising 59 men and four officers. The Toulon Maritime Prefecture informed Madame Boucharcour, wife of the commander of the Phenix, that there was little hope. The Phenix' is one of the first
charge embezzlement of $598 and class submarines of the French $398.50 in township funds, were ré- Navy, although not the largest. The turned by the Marion County Grand |gjsplacement of the Surcouf, built Jury in its final report yesterday. |in 1932, is 2880 tons The jury's action came after a : State Board of Accounts report of |
| i S Sleped iy shortage in My Despite the delay in publicationMr. Peck resigned a month ago. | of the news, word of the Phenix dis. Walter Bradford Jr., 1338 Sharon | 25teT spread rapidly through Paris Ave. was if {and caused profound consternation.
Peck named {o succeed MI.|"progiqent Albert Lebrun cancelled
on the assumption that broadening of the base would pay off the na- The thin voice of a baby crying in| tional debt. an unlighted automobile was the one The Ways and Means Committee clue which authorities expected to- | sent the House its 1940 business tax day to lead to the arrest of the per-' bill under a speed-up schedule ne- son who took Haldon Baker Fink] cessitated by imminent expiration of | from his crib, suffocated him, and! the 3-cent postal rate and so-called threw his body into a creek. nuisance taxes on June 30. The new Prosecuici Al Hyzer of Sandusky bill extends them. {County said he hoped to make an. The committee adopted at the last arrest before night. minute two important amendments:| Authorities said they would allow 1. A provision to permit individ- a private detective from Newark, uals and partnerships to carry over Oo, to conduct lie-detector tests on net losses for two years. The draft yp persons today. bill had extended this permission Mrs George Liedman, 58, and the
Washington politicians and New
HE most worried mother in | ;: {ately as result of abolition of the { York financiers.
Indianapolis is that foster- | a Ey mother hen who is raising a |Lianninz Division and the Traffic) brood of mallards. Andy's dry- |Seiet¥ Department. land ruling is a break for her. and |, The Commission today announced The resurfacing of Delaware St. she's taking full advantage of it. |that 86 more have been dismissed. from ‘South St. to Madison Ave. Heretofore, when she took her |I2ising the total io 215. Mr. Dicns was taken under advisement by the five-day-old ducks down to the {said about 15 more will have to go| Works Board today on the recom-! /in the next two weeks. In addition, mendation of City Engineer M. G.
edge of the lake for a drink of € {170 others have resigned their posts,| Johnson. who said the asphalt and
OPERATION SOUGHT water, she would caution them te : : | Mr. Dicus caid. brick paving was in bad condition. | i The Accounts Board report , p..ouet for the Sultan of Moroce
drink neatly and not get their | : : ‘ feet wet. | Mr. Dicus said the dismissals willl The Board referred to Mr. JohnThe babies, of course. promptly be in the iow-wage group working|son a petition sighed by 33 East Coal Merchants to Present was turned over to the Grand Jury| ., scheduled at the Elyse gut in the State districts rather Side residents for the permanent preceding yesterday's action. | tonight al e Elysee Palace
launched themselves and swam P out into the lake before the than at headquarters here. Dis- improvement of Martindale Ave. lea to Gover nor. The third indictment against Mr. | Relatives were reluct amazed and concerned hen. She |Missals here are mostly in the test- from 16th to 30th St. — § Were reluctant to aban-
Martindale Ave. Work,
News Is Delayed
Peck charges he had $1011.50 in his |
only to corporations. Hanes Is Pleased
2. An amendment to include notes. debentures and certificates of indebtedness, along with bonds, among obligations which corporations will be permitted to purchase at less than face value without taxation. Corporations taking advantage of this provision must show that they are in an unsound financial condition. Committee Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D. N. C) planned to call the bill up Monday and have the
{mother of eight children, had told {police she heard the cries—unmis{takably those of a baby—coming | from an automobile parked near her {home Tuesday night. That was the {night that Haldon, 10 weeks old, was {taken from his grandfather's home.
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would pace up and down the bank and audit | clucking frantically until the brood returned. Now she walks around the duck vard, clucking maternally, and the ducklings, who squeak as though they need oiling, follow obediently. The little ducks are bewildered at one place in the yard where an overflow produces a thin trickle of water through the gravel. When the ducks step in it they think they can swim and
TIPSY DRIVER FINED, | RIGHTS SUSPENDED
Fines and costs totaling $51 were assessed against a motorist charged yan Srunket and reckless driving y Municipal Court J i McNelis today. Wee. ohm) The motorist, Wilbur Giesseman, 34 of 642': S. Meridian St. also! lost his right to drive for six |
So they assume a sort of months.
crouching position (caused by the
A petition of Belmont Ave. resi- | {dents requesting the paving of that |
street from the White River to 10th St. was denied when Mr, John-
son reported that the cost of the] would be
(more than one-half the assessed | y [pending the outcome of a Marion
proposed improvement valuation of abutting property. The Board approved the appointment of Myran C. Northern. of 5117 Burgess Ave., as draftsman in the Engineering Department, at a monthly salary of $128.68. He will replace William B. Asher, who resigned to take a position with the County.
| Directors of the Indiana Coal | Merchants Association today were
accounts at the time of his resigna- | tion, May 24, and failed to make a
{to ask Governor Townsend to defer ‘enforcement of the truck weight-tire| tax law scheduled to begin Tuesday. | They want enforcement delayed
County Superior: Court suit con- |
| testing the law’s validity.
The directors, at their summer| meeting here yesterday, adopted al resolution to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission for reduced railroad freight rates on coal during the summer months.
report of that amount to Mr. Brad- | ford.
AUTO SHARES ACTIVE ON OUTPUT REPORT
NEW YORK, June 16 (U. P.).—Automcebile shares turned active on the stock exchange today on Ward's report of increased auto production this week. Most isstes on the Big] Board rose fractionally |
don hope. . “Don't alarm the public. All is not yet lost,” Mme. Boucharcour sobbed at Toulon. Authorities, however, had little hope. The French have several sube marine rescue ships, but none in China waters. There are British ships at Hongkong and Singapore, and the United States Navy has a diving bell in the Philippines, but apparently none could reach the’ scene of the disaster in time.
Fourth Disaster of Year
The Phenix is the fourth subs marine to meet disaster this year and the eighth since the sinking
surprising fact that their feet don’t get out of the way for their hulls) and scramble around in circles until they find out the water is not deep enough.
LMOST any piace you look in. the duck pen, theres a mamma duck followed by a wake of baby ducks who have to take such - little waddies that they sometimes get lost. Then they set up a hue and cry for help. When the mamma duck hears these SOS appeals she comes
of the U.S. submarine S-4 off Prove encetown, Mass, on Dec. 19, 1927, JUNE 1, 1939—H. M. S. Thetis Fini off Liverpool during trials; 99. ost. MAY 23, 1939—U. S. Navy Sube marine Spualus sank off Portsmouth, N. H., during practice dive; 26 lost; 33 saved. FEB. 2, 1939—Japanese Submarine 1-63 sank 400 miles southwest of Tokyo; 81 lost.
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Trout Hooked in White River—No, Don’t Quote Us
them got a trout. While he was taking it off the hook, the trout slipped from his hands. He quickly seeoped it out of the water onto the bank and pounced on it. He picked it up and put it in his basket, but he failed to lock the basket. He stooped down to wash his hands and the fish again fell into the water, this time swimming
away. grapevine—comes the story In a few ents his partner two partners who were wading a | cl the same fish. northern Ind ;
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SOUTH BEND, Ind, June {6 (U. P).—Mrs. \Ruth Rhodes, 25, was | killed early today and her husband. Books Sieieiie oon 8 Irving. 27, and two small sons were roun ........ 18'Mov 2 injured seriously when their auto17, Mrs. Ferguson 18 : ho ba ; oi os! Obituaries . ... 12 HOuie overturned just outside the ... 29 Pegler All were thrown from ti S bi , he car Curious World 28 Pyle t when Mr. Rhodes lost control on a, Editorials .... 33 Ques ons . gg SOft gravel shoulder and the ma-| Fashions 21 Ra oastvel { 17 Chine hurtled into the ditch. He told Financial .... BN rer 17 police he was blinded by the lights, about in a circle big enough to acFlynn 18 en Story .. 25 of an approaching automobile. | commodate the wake, makes her Forum 18 | Seria i § um Two-year-old Jerry Rhodes was in| way to the distressed youngster, Gallup Poll ... 6 Society 9. 9 5g Critical condition with a fractured comes about again with the lost In Indpls. ..., 3/8ports . 22.23, 2% gry) The father and Douglas, 5,| duck in its proper place, and the Jane Jordan. 20, State Deaths. 11 were reported in “fair” condition. | party moves of
As for the Conservation staff, the members were driving to a lake 125 miles distant, a big lake, and catch some fish. Reports today are the man in the puddle caught his limit of bass—one of them five pounds seven ounces. The three Conserva= tion Department fishermen got one among them, just long enough to keep. The story is true. By grapevine—but reliable
fact that no one ever before claimed to have caught a trout in White River, this did all right for a starter. The story is true. One man, who didn’t want to go far for boat fishing, called the Conservation Department and asked to be directed to a spot near the city. The Conservation Department, which should know something about it, told him there is no satisfactory place very close, but that he might try his luck on a small lake where there happened to be few boats.
One good way to be a noncoma batant in the fish story wars, that even now have started in a season not yet 24 hours old, is to buy a small quantity of ordinary cotton and stuff it carefully in your ears. Otherwise you may hear such things as these, all duly vouched for, and probably true: One man reported that he caught a 14-inch brook trout in White River. Owing to the fact that brook trout like brooks and not sl rivers, and to the
BOY'S ARM BROKEN IN FALL Ten-year-old Elvin Bryant, 1418° N. Tremont Ave. lost his bs while picking cherries in a near his home today, and fell to ground, breaking his arm ne elbow, He was taken to Ci
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