Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1939 — Page 1
The Indianapolis Times
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VOLUME 51—NUMBER &9
FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1939
Entered asx Second-Class at Postoffice, Indianapo
Plumber, Trapped 10 Hours, Cheats
Death
Arrow points to Howard Jackson,
entombed plumber,
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Times Photos.
Rescued after 10 hours, Jackson was taken to the hospital.
PENSIONS CERTAIN,
King Reports on Tour,
NYE TELLS PARLEY, 53735
Terrific Expense Would Be Involved Under Present Townsend Plan, Jackson Says, Visioning Million on Payroll.
Senator Nye (R. N. D.) this afternoon assured thousands of cheering Townsend delegates that “we are going
ONDON, June 23 (U. P).— King George, in a speech at a welcome-home luncheon for him and Queen Elizabeth. said today that his tour of Canada and the United States had convinced him that human feelings was still the most potent of all forces affecting
| world affairs.
Obviously moved at the warmth and affection of London's reception, the King said: “The detailed story travels is familiar to vou. “1 shall only try to tell you some of the impressions of my journey. “First and deepest is that even in this age of machines and mass production, the strength of human feeling is still the most potent of all forces affecting world affairs.
of our
” ” ”
* VER all nations, as a North
American historian has written—over all nationz—is hu-
| | manity.
“In no part of the world is that truth more evident than on the continent from which I have just returned. “Within its geographical limits live men of almost every race and creed and divers political faiths. “Yet first and foremost they are
humanity.”
PARLEY ARRANGED IN TRUCK STRIKE
1000 Walk Out Against 100 Building Firms.
to have a national old-age retirement plan in this country.” He warned opponents thati 2 9 they merely “are postponing 2 | the ultimate to their own dis-| : | advantage.” During the morning session of the National Townsend Plan Con- | vention, Clarence Jackson, Indianaj Gross Incom= Tax Division director, | EET cautioned that “a terrific administrative expense wouid be involved Delegates Concerned Only under the present Townsend pen-| : Lk sion plan.” ~~ With Showing Loyalty He indicated that it would: re- ; quire more than a million employees To Their Leader. to handle an estimated $456,000.000 a, —,sr a, tax returns that would he neces- ; " NE H :ary under the proposed pension | By LOWELL B. NUSSBAL M act. He advocated a mandatory, The average sorority chapter sales tax on the sources of supply. | meeting has more interorganization Attendance Soars politics than the gigantic national Today's attendance was estima - | convention of the Townsend Clubs | ed at even greater than yesterday's with its estimated 12000 delegates. 11.000. Convention leaders were! wpe usual convention BACKIOOM considering moving the sessions conferen itl th i inte d from Cadle Tabernacle to the Fair Ce WL 1enpnAy INI bUS MA Grounds if additional, delegates | planning of coups oh the convention arrive. floor are as little in evidence here as The official business of the con- patronage of downtown bars and vention will end tomorrow with an-|ijsnine of bellboys by the elderly other round of nationally known gelegates. > 2 speakers, adoption of resolutions) The chief reason is that something and the drafting of a program of jike 99 44-100th per cent of the delepolitical strategy. ‘gates attend the convention for the The latter will include plans for sole purpose of expressing their de“purging” haif a hundred Congress-|yotjon to their founder, Dr. Francis men who failed to support them Townsend. and their Townsend Plan Bill, although they | jigious seal for the Plan. Were committed in its favor, | Leaders in the pension plan moveA ceremony at the Fair Grounds pent point out that Dr. Townsend's at 1 p. m. Sunday will conclude the control of the organization is more CS ONTier spbakers this afternoon were he a 1658 x, RS A ere! Continved on Page Thre to include Rep. Martin F. Smith (D.| ¢ z ti 2) Wash), who declared that ex-| perience with gasoline, cigaret an sales taxes had disproven the claim | that the Townsend Plan proposed; tax would be inflationary. | Predicts Bill's Passage {
Also on the program was LIL. W.| Jeffery, Townsend national vice president, who called on the deiegates to work for the defeat of the Congressmen who voted against the] Townsend bill. {
| Preceding Mr. Jackson's speech | . ; this morning. Louis Silva, Town- County Cominissioners today
send plan chief statistician, also awarded a contract for a three cited the gasoline tax as an example I ee 32s itn i SUS O com(Continued on Page Four) pany which claimed its bid was low. | The grocery contract was one of Iseveral let for County supplies call[ing for expenditures of approxi{mately $85000 in the next three | months. The supplies, to be used by County institutions, include hardware, clothing, janitors’ supplies and (soap. The grocery supplies alone | total about $15,000. The grocery contract was let to
Another Firm Claims Bid On Supplies Is Low.
Flynn's Recovery Plan for U. S.
T. Flynn,
economist,
John the
famea to-
day tells just what steps Ave, ont a bid of 87207%. This amount represents the aggregate of] the per unit price of the grocety| ‘items. The low bid was submitted by J. P. Michael Co. 441 8. Illinois St. at $72.07. Conhimissioners said the O'Connor bid was “the best” because they said |
he would take to bring recovery back to the United Terse, frém-the-shoulder
States. authoritative, advice. «
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: BY the County were low While the ‘highew bids were on the lesser
XE»
used
almost re- of the strike of about
threatened by |
'M. OConnor & Co, 600 Kentucky
Negotiations seeking a settlement 1000 truck |drivers against about 100 member {firms of the General Contractors |Association of Marion County were to be started today. The strike was called yesterday by
{the Coal, Ice and Building Material
Drivers Union, Local 716, an affli-
Union,
GROCERY CONTRACT ate of the A. F. of L. Teamsters’ { | Strikers asked a closed shop
agreement and a 10 cents’ an hour
to Glen Helms, union business agent
LET AMID PROTEST vee increase to 75 eents, according |
land association officials. Mr. Helms and Albert Pyre, presi-|
dent of the local and aiso a business agent, were to represent the drivers at the parley. Gustave Hoppe, secretary, was in charge of negotiations for the association.
STOCKS TAKE FIRM
NEW YORK, June 23 (U. P). — Stock trading finished on a firmer tone here today after early irreguA and volume increased moderately. Following reports that auto production is to be stepped up, Chrysler touched 713%, up 7, and General Motors went up 3 for 44%. U. 8. Rubber preferred was up mote than 2 points. The favorable auto news had a fenstriesve influchee throughout the list.
HOG PRICES ADVANCE Hog prices went up 10 to 15 cents on the Indianapolis market today.
bids on the food items mostly used The advance was attributed to light
J
rk Stocks in, the Bast. Top for 310 vo 2 is was $7.10, Veal
\ $8.80 1
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human beings. Over them all is |
POSITION AT CLOSE !
IS REINFORCED
Planes May Drop Food| Chinese First Victim of Electric Wire.
FOREIGN SITUATION TIENTSIN — Japanese back down at Swatow. TOKYO—Emperor asked to declare war. LONDON—Insults Chamberlain says.
Frantic Wife and Weeping
easily at City Hospital today, but
of pneumonia or some other pulmonary disease because of shock and exhaustion from the cold and dampness in which Mr. Jackson was trapped. It was 3:45 p. m. yesterday when TIENTSIN, China, June 23 (uv (the young plumbing contractor P.). — British authorities strength- went down into the 22-foot shaft in GG ; Ly | Gent Ave. near 21st St. to relieve
‘ened their guards at entrances t0 his father, Sam, of 417 E. 17th St.
‘intolerable,’
[the blockaded British Concession to- | They were digging to reach a sewer
day as Japanese held anti-British{to tap it into a nearby home. mass meetings here and in Sher A few minutes later
| key Chinese cities. | : [5 | : y ‘th colA gigantic demonstration was holding hack ie sanpy Sanh =
(planned here, and Japanese reports | lapsed. Sethe timbe) > iy ig) <aid that demonstrations were held Doo Mh Sig Tm d ro ‘at Peiping, Tsingtao, Kaifeng, Nan-| Mo Sofie ot on bt bi | king, Hankow, Canton, Taiyuan and! apne oe or ih wn other cities extending throughout | M18 Rar, as " nh : [the vast Chinese territory occupied Only part of his face was left un|by the Japanese Army. covered by earth. First rescuers at | The British ordered the escort | the scene scooped the sand away | vessel Lowestoft from Tientsin to! from the rest of his face and head. |Paitaiho and Shanhaikwan, on the Police and Fire Department ‘coast, to assure safety of British rescue squads were summoned. News residents. i jof the accident spread quickly in Beams from Japanese searchlight the-neighborhood. | batteries crisscrossed the skies to-| The trapped man's wife, Velma. night, causing reports that British 27, knew he was working in that planes from the aircraft carrier | neighborhood and feared he might Hermes, off Weihaiwei, intended to have been in an automobile accidrop foodstuffs to help the setious | dent. She went to City Hospital to shortage of vegetables and meats. [make inquiry. Later she learned of Apparently the Japanese had suf-| the cave-in. She went to the scene fered a material setback in the (Continued on Page Eight) south, if only for the moment, bhe-| cause of the prompt and firm defiance by United States and British Navy authorities of a Japanese order to get their warships, mercinantmen and citizens out of Swatow. British naval authorities officially advised all British merchantmen in Chinese waters to resume trade with Swatow. The 48 Americans at Swatow had refused to leave, as had British residents. | The United States destroyers | Pillsbury and Pope and the British |destroyers Thanet and Scout re‘mained in Swatow harbor. Tension swung back to Tientsin as the Japanese suddenly hardened (their attitude in their blockade of the British and French concessions. Several British men and at least one British woman reported indig(Continned on Page Three)
TURKEY AND FRANCE “AGREE TO ALLIANCE
ANKARA, Turkey, June 23 (U. P.).—A French-Turkish defensive alliance wag signed here today. The agreement provides for the
annexation by Turkey of the Alexandretta Province of Syria.
HARTER SEEKS BAI SLASH
SOUTH BEND, Ind. June 23 (U. P.) —PFederal Judge Thomas
p. m. today on a request for a re= duction of the $25,000 bond of Donald Harter, former Peru banker who is under indictment on charges of embezzling $37,000.
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prawls, in which a correctly
blows today at La Conga.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. served ag a kind of silent second
were feeling each other aut.
ture with him.
the timbers |
Hoot Gibson Rides Between Night Club ‘Cowboys’ Swapping Dirty Looks at 3 A. M. Over Brenda Frazier
the bon mots his man offered in the early rounds when the boys
Humans All TIENTSIN LINE Only F ace Remains Above ports o Life-Sucking ) Sewer Sand
Father Watch Long Fight
After Cave-In at Gent Ave. and 21st St.
Howard Jackson. 38. of 1301 Van Buren St. rescued at 1:46 a. m. today after 10 heurs’ entombment in a West Side sewer cave=in, rested
attendants took precautions against
the possible development of pneumonia. : Dr. Charles BE. Myers, hospital superintendent, who was among the 5000 who witnesesd the dramatic rescue, said there was danger
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LENDING BONDS MAY BE TAXED
NATIONAL AFFAIRS
LENDING plan delay until next Congress, possible, New Dealers say. TAX BILL sent to White House. (Page Three.) (Page Seven) HOOSIERS divide on lending plan. HATCH indicates he will not agree to compromise. MEAD discounts testimony of bill's foes. NEUTRALITY bill need asked by Rep. Rogers. AGRICULTURE bill increases approved by House. ! NLRB-Wage-Hour investigation demanded.
WASHINGTON, June 23 (U.P) — | President Roosevelt today said he hoped that Congress would remove ithe tax exemption feature from se[eurities issued to finance his pro|posed new $3,860,000,000 extrabudgetary lending program. | Mr. Roosevelt discussed the pro- | poses program in detail at his regular Friday press conference in the {face of indications from Cengress |that action may not be forthcoming lat this session. | He said that he believed nations which have defaulted on private bonds owned by American citizens
lave nevertheless entitled to partici-
[pate in loans under the program. | He said he believed the new se-
| mendation that Congress [tax exemption of all future Gov | ernment bond issues. The President said it was (Contintied on Page Three)
pro=
EW YORK, June 23 (U. P.) -—One of those brutal cafe society
lifted eyebrow counts for ‘a point
on the score sheet and a deft sneer wins the round, almost ‘Came to
It was a dispute over a girl named Brenda Frazier, who wears this season's glamour medal among the stay-up-late set, and the principals, hitherto unmatched, were Peter Arno, who has been training at the Sterk Club, and Bruce Cabot, the Hollywood hope.
who knows how to throw a punch, to Mr. Cabot, grinning broadly at
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The gong—and if ever a fight needed a gong this one did—sounded about 3:30 a. m. and the ringside tables were well filled. Mario Tosatti, the club promoter, seemed pleased with the gate. Mr. Arno entered the avena first with Miss Frazier on his arm, They went directly to a prominently placed tabel and sat down to wait. About two hours later Mr. Cabot entered With the younger Roosevelt, Mr. Cabot revealed to a waiter that he wae looking for Miss Frasier, who has so far been very negative about talk of appeanng in a pic
“Brenda told us to come down,” Mt. Cabot said. Miss Fragier was by no means inconspicuous in a White ermine
Matter lis, Ind.
PRICE THREE CENTS
NEW
GOVERNOR ASKS LOW-COST HOSPITAL PLA!
Pleas Sent to 10 Leaders Seeking Aid in De: vising Inexpensive Insurance for Families With Modest Incomes.
| AIMS AT GOAL WITHOUT LEGISLATION
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Not-For-Profit Corporation Act Studied ag
One of Three Gatew
ays to Achievement;
Nominal Fees Proposed.
By NOBLE REED
Governor Townsend today acted to organize a hospitale ization insurance plan for Indiana's “middle and low ine
| sys come families.”
more a
The proposed plan to help thousands of families get dequate hospital care at low cost would be designed
as a substitute for the medical insurance setup provided
‘under the Hospital Enabling
lature, the Governor said.
Act passed by the 1939 Legis«
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The act was declared unconstitutional by Attorney Gene ‘eral Omer Stokes Jackson a few days after its passage and
‘Governor Townsend refused ‘become law through pocket v
hospital leaders, legislators,
to sign the bill. It failed to
‘eto. Letters were sent by the Governor to 10 medical and
businessmen and public offi=
cials asking them to serve on a committee to draft a pro‘gram that can be operated under existing laws.
The letters stated:
WNUTT AGAN ON 0. S. SOIL
Statement on 1940 Plans Await Official Report To President.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (U. P.) —Paul Vories McNutt, an Indiana favorite son and U. S. High Commissioner for the Philippines, arrived from Manila today officially to report on the commonwealth, but unofficially to test sentiment for a McNutt-for-President boom in 1940. Mr. McNutt and his wife and
daughter returned to the United States aboard the American liner President Coolidge which anchored (at quarantine in San Francisco Bay lat 6:15 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). “I eannot make a statement regarding my plans for 1940, until after I visit Washington and make my official report to the President on conditions in the Philippines.” Mr. MeNutt said. He indicated he will resign as Philippine High Commissioner after he submits his report. He had high praise for the Administration of Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, with which he has been associated for the past two years. He doubted that Filipinos want complete independence.
FAIR AND WARMER IS WEATHER FARE
Top of Mercury on First Day Of Summer Was 86.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES hoes G8 10 a. m.. .. 6" 11am. .. AR 12 (noon). 69 1pm...
kh! 73 2 78
| Fair and warmer was all the Weatherman had to say today. The | prediction was for tonight and to-
W. | curities should not he tax exempt morrow and he had nothing to say Slick will conduct a hearing at 3 and renewed his previous feces | aout the weather fare for Sunday. end the «| reach yesterday, the first day of | Evansville, secretary of the Hospital summer was 86 at 1 p. m. The aver- |
The highest the mercury could
|age for the day was 78 degrees, five | degrees above normal.
| Editorials
“I am interested in hos= pital insurance for middle and low income families to meet their hospital expenses. | “As you know, the Hospital Enabling Act was unconsti«
tutional and could not be signed by | me. I have talked with represene tatives of the Indiana Hospital Ase sociation and the Indiana Medical Association and I believe it may be possible to accomplish what the act sought to do without legislation,
Asks Committee Aid
“Therefore I am asking you te serve on a committee to work out a plan for hospital insurance which the State can approve.” Three insurance plans that might be made workable undar existing laws have been discussed by spons sors. One would involve the purch of an abandoned charter of an pt mutual life insurance company which is no longer in existences Under present Indiana laws no new charters can be issued. i - Under another plan, sponsors said an insurance organization could be formed under the Not-For-Profi$ Corporation Act. ; The third proposal! would involva organization of an agency to operate firectly under the Indiana insurance code,
Act Ruled Invalid
The recently enacted hospital ine surance act was declared unconstie [tutional on the ground that the title of the bill failed to embrace the substance of several important proe visions in the body of the act. Governor Townsend at that time said he was strongly in favor of the bill but that he couldn't “permit an unconstitutional measure to become law.” The Indiana Supreme Court twa weeks ago declared invalid one proe vision of the State School Aid Law fon the ground that its subject mate |ter was not embraced in the title of [the act. | Under any agency or nonprofi§ jcorporation formed for hospitaliza= [tion insurance, citizens would be permitted to become members and pay nominal fees like insurance pres miums. In the event of illness, an insured family would be entitled to {free medical treatment and hospie |talization. | Asks Martin to Serve
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| Those asked by Governor Towne send to serve on the committee ine {eluded : J. B. H. Martin, administrator of the Indiana University Medical Center and president of the Indiana Hospital Association; ‘Albert Hahn,
Association; Edgar Blake Jr., super< intendent of the Gary Methodisé Hospital and former president of the Hospital Association. Dr. Daniel Bower, Indianapalig State Representative; Dr. Verne XK, Harvey, State Health Director: Thurman Gottschalk, State Welfare Director; George Newbauer, Indians: Insurance Commissioner; H. Rows land Allen of L. S. Ayres & Co.: Thomas Hutson, Indiana Labo# Commissioner, and Rep. Winfield K, Denton (D. Evansville), author of the hospital insurance bill in the Legislature.
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