Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1939 — Page 2

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ENLARGED CITY ASPHALT PLANT HELD POSSIBLE

Action May Be Taken Unless Private Prices Drop,

City Hall Hints.

Possibility that the City Asphalt Plant may be expanded to increase its output for certain types of paving jobs was foreseen by officials

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today unless the local price on as-!

phalt is reduced.

The Works Board yesterday, re-|

Jecting two bids on asphalt for the Senate Ave. reconstruction, ordered City Engineer M. G. Johnson to use City asphalt for the job. Board members were unanimous in asserting the bids were “too high.” Although the main body of the reconstructed roadway on Senate Ave. is to be concrete, asphalt will be needed to bind the 12-foot cement strip with the old roadway. The strip is replacing car tracks from Indiana Ave. to 16th St.

Two Companies Bid

Bids received from the Union Asphalt Construction Co. and the Indiana Asphalt Paving Co. listed asphalt binder at $7.73 and $7.50 a ton, respectively, and sheet asphalt at $8.73 and $8.50 a ton, respectively. The Indiana Asphalt Paving Co.| was low bidder. Its bid, however, was 55 cents more on binder and 75 cents higher on sheet asphalt | than the City Engineer's estimate | of $6.95 a ton for binder and $7.95 for sheet asphalt. Leo F. Welch, Board vice president, cited asphalt prices on other City construction jobs which had been used as a basis for the engineer’s estimate. He said both bids were ‘entirely too high.”

“Questioned on Supply

Board members then asked Mr. Johnson whether the Municipal Asphalt Plant which supplies pav-

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A fresh battery of Democratic won by Republicans last year.

being picked mostly from the ranks In the Second District, which has turned out the heaviest Republican majorities of any area in the state for many years, State Senator Oliver Cannon (D. Knox) is being talked to oppose Rep. Charles Halleck, Republican, who has been re-elected for several terms. State Rep. George W. Wolf (D. Peru) is being groomed for the Congressional race in the Fifth District. Rep. Forrest Harness is the present Republican Congressman from the Fifth District. It is reported that State Rep. Howard Batman, (D. Terre Haute), champion of the City Manager cause

ing materials for patching and smail resurfacing jobs could be utilized | to supply the asphalt. | Mr. Johnson said the production | at the plant could be stepped up to| provide the asphalt. “Our plant, though small, is one| of the finest and best equipped in| the country,” he said. Considerable comment went] around City Hall yesterday on the] Board’s decision. It was indicated that although “certain dificulties! lay in the path of the City compet- | ing with private enterprise in pav-| ing materials, the City could com-| pete if it wanted to expand its plant.

OCEAN CLIPPER OFF ON FIRST NORTH TRIP

PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y, July 8 (U. P.).—Pan-American Air-/| ways’ Yankee Clipper took off at 7:22 a. m. (Indianapolis Time) today on the first scheduled passenger flight to Europe by the North At-! lantic route. There were 19 passengers, includ- | ing 10 publishers and editors, and one man, Guido Coen, speeding to! the bedside of a son who was be-| lieved dying of infantile paralysis at Florence, Italy. Roy W. Howard of the Scripps-, Howard newspapers, was a passenger. Mr. Coen said the condition of his son, Luciano, 6, was criti-| cal. The clipper is bound for Southhampton with stops scheduled at] Shediac, N. B,, Botwood, Newfoundland, and Foynes, Ireland. It is due at Southampton in 24% hours. Mr. Coen’s mission made a mercy | trip of the inaugural flight. He is a resident of the United States and | intends to become a citizen here, but has a wife and two children in Florence. He planned to proceed immediately from Southampton to Florence by airplane. The clipper ordinarily has room for 40 passengzrs but additional gasoline and oil were carried, re. quiring the space that would have accommodated 17 passengers.

DOUBLE RITES TODAY FOR CRASH VICTIMS

Double funeral services for Harry P. Wolfe, 69, and his grandson, Maurice Beurgelin, 18, both of 943 Udell St., who were killed in an auto crash near Lebanon early yesterday, will be held at 2 p. m. today at the Montgomery Funeral Home. Burial will be at Crown Hill. They were en route to Chicago for a load of road oil when their tank ruck, driven by Mr. Wolfe, collided with a truck. Mr. Wolfe was killed “instantly. His grandson died a short time later of burns received in the blaze which followed the crash. Mr. Wolfe was born at Richmond and lived here 40 years. He formerly was a partner in a South Meridian furniture store. He was a member of the Seventh Christian Church and the Masons. Survivors are his wife, Minnie; a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Beurgelin, mother of the dead youth, and a son, George, of Indianapolis. Mr. Beurgelin was born here. He attended School 41 and Shortridge High School. His father, Maurice, died in March at the Veterans’ Hospital. He is survived by his mother and a sister, Rose.

50 MORE HOOSIERS ARRIVE AT C.M.T.C.

Fifty more Indiana youths today had arrived at the Citizens’ Military Training Camp at Ft. Harrison as a result of the recent increase in the quota for the July camp to 2275. Trainees were to stand inspection | in ranks today. Quarters and tents) also were to be inspected for clean- | liness and orderliness. Reserve id ficers of the 332d Ohio Infantry, on duty with the C. M. T. C. regiment, | were to be in charge of the inspec- | tion. Church services tomorrow will be | hela In the open-air arena under | direction of Lieut. Col. John Hall,

camp chiplain,

in the last Legislature, will enter the Congressional race in the Sixth District where Virginia Jenckes (D. Terre Haute) lost to Rep. Noble Johnson, Republican, | last year. State Senator Charles Bedwell of Sullivan, home town of State Democratic Chairman Fred F. Bays, is| being groomed to run in the Sev-|

|enth District where Gerald Landis,

Republican and Townsend plan backer, won last year. Mrs. Emory B. Scholl, Connersville, former state Democratic vice chairman, is mentioned prominently for the Congressional candidacy in the Republican Tenth District where Raymond Springer (R. Connersville) won in 1938. The Fourth District, which also]

for its Congressional Judge Clarence McNabb Wayne). George Gillie Wayne) is the present Fourth District Congressman. State Senator Eugene Payton (D. South Bend) is regarded as the strongest Democratic candidate in the Third District where Robert | Grant, Republican, ‘won in 1938. | The Democratic Congressmen in| the other five districts are expected | to seek renomination. = ” ” ! State Republican leaders next! week will begin plans for a series |

candidate | (D. Fi. | (R. Ft.|

of forum meetings over Indiana as ©f the New York Hospital, Dr. Car- abandom the projects

a testing barometer for the trend of |

| state issues in 1940. |

State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt | has organized a committee to work | with him on the forum idea, which had its inception in a State Com-|

| mittee meeting in Brown County 2 |

week ago.

” EJ 5 State Democratic leaders this week expressed elation over what they described as “nation-wide recognition” for Paul V. McNutt as Indiana’s “favorite son” for the 1940 Presidential nomination. State Chairman Bays said he

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Oliver Cannon

Most of Recruits for 1940 Congressional Campaign Are State Legislators; G. 0. P. Plans

Forums.

By NOBLE REED

Congressional talent has been as-

sembled for the 1940 race in a party effort to recapture seven districts

The Democratic candidates who must battle G. O. P. strongholds are

of state legislators.

estimated that about 20 million movie-goers would see motion pictures of the McNutt homecoming last week. “But I talked with Will Hays, movie tsar, and he said 100 million people will see the newsreels of McNutt’s fete here,” he said. McNutt-for-President headquarters reported today that they had clippings of newspaper comments on Mr. MecNutt's return to the United States “from nearly every state in the Union.”

GARREL PRAISES LINDBERGH'S AID

Declares That New Artificial Heart Keeps Glands Alive Outside Body.

NEW YORK, July 8 (U. P.). — Dr. Alexis Carrel, famous French scientist until recently affiliated with the Rockefeller Institute for

| went Republican last year, may get | Medical Research, has been able

to keep human glands alive out-

side the body for long periods of | (time with the aid of the “Lind- | 1 . : ; o 'bergh Heart,” according to an ar- Sult of what officials said was “in-

ticle in the current issue of the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Dr. Carrel, in an article written jointly with Dr. Lillian E. Baker of the Institute, said that his experiments with the artificial heart developed by Col. Charles A. Lind-

Democrats Assemble New Talent; Hope to Recapture 7 Districts

+ Mrs. Emory B. Scholl

200 ON STATE PROJECT QUIT

Threats Blamed in Walkout Of Vermillion County Road Workers.

Striking carpenters on a WPA school gymnasium project at Bicknell, Ind, are to return to work Monday, Stanton T. Bryan, WPA deputy state administrator said today. At the same time a new WPA dispute was reported in Vermillion County.

Workmen on the Bicknell project, agreed to return to work Monday after the school board decided to provide the difference between the |48 cents per hour paid by the WPA and the 75 cents per hour the workers demanded.

Protest to Washington

Approximately 200 other workers, however, agreed upon a resolution protesting the increased working hours and the resultant pay slash and said it would be taken to Washington and laid before Senators Minton and VanNuys. Previous to the strike, the carpenters were paid $63 a month for 63 working hours, while under the new regulations they would work 130

hours per month for the same {monthly wage. In Vermillion County approximately 200 workers on road con{struction projects were idle as a re-

{timidation” and threats of violence {from strike organizers who toured {the county in a motorcade of more than 100 cars. Threats Are Blamed Workers were reported

to have

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PARLEY CALLED BY HARRINGTON ON WPA HOURS

State Administrators Get Summons to Chicago; Walkouts Spread.

WASHINGTON, July 8 (U P.).— Work Projects Commissioner F. C. Harrington today ordered state WPA administrators to confer with him in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday on new relief regulations including bitterly controversial wage-hour provisions. The WPA officials will review all new provisions of the $1,755,600,000

¥ relief bill, including termination of

the policy of paying prevailing wages which has resulted in a na-tion-wide series of strikes affecting

at least 150,000 workers.

WPA officials emphasized, however, that the meeting was planned prior to the strikes in protest against a requirement that all project employees work 130 hours monthly for security wages. Concerned Over Walkouts They explained that the meeting, which will also be attended by WPA regional directors, is designed to clarify and discuss changes written into the new relief act. But they admitted that the problem of work stoppage will be considered also if the situation has not yet cleared up. Mr. Harrington said the protest movement was spreading slowly. I naddition to Mr. Harrington, Deputy Work Projects Commissioner Howard O. Hunter and other officials wil attend. It is similar to a meeting called in Chicago last February after Congress wrote new restrctions in the $500,000,000 WPA deficiency bill. Pressure by the A.F.of L.—C. 1.0. —and the Workers Alliance against 130-hour month for relief workers today may result in Congressional

only last week. At least one Senator was ready to introduce amendments eliminating the new security wage. More Stoppages Scheduled

It was substitution of the security wage for the former prevailing wage that precipitated strikes in major cities throughout the country. WPA construction projects employing an estimated 150,000 workers have been affected by the protests. More strikes—ranging from one to three-day protests—were scheduled for next week when the WPA resumes normal work. Most WPA workers are idle on Saturday.

Threat to Arrest

Strikers Resented

NEW YORK, July § (U. P.).—The threat of local WPA officials to arrest WPA strikers who interfere with projects—a statement interpreted by labor officials to include pickets—was described today by Thomas B. Murray, president of the A. F. of L. building trades council, as “the most unspeakable, shameful and vicious attack ever made on American workers in the entire history of our country.” Lieut. Col. Brehon B. Somervell, district WPA administrator, who originally threatened criminal action

bergh made possible for the first said projects were halted because! against fomenters of WPA strikes,

time the study of live organs outside the body under conditions similar to those within. From Dr. Nathan Chandler Foot

rel obtained human thyroid and parathyroid glands, taken from patients suffering from Graves’ Disease, nodular goiter and other glandular maladies, and kept them alive in synthetic media circulated by the Lindbergh Heart. Human thyroids were kept alive from two to three weeks, the article said,”with parts of the organs remaining “viable” for five to eight weeks in media “entirely devoid of human serum.” Glands taken from cats were kept alive for periods ranging from three to 62 days.

jof threats receivged and not because |

|the majority favored a strike. Fore- |

men were advised by officials to if physical violence was threatened.

Under instructions issued by Col. F. C. Harrington and relayed to all | Indiana projects by Mr. Bryan, all workers who remain on strike for five days will be dropped from the WPA rolls.

BUTLER FACES OPERATION

PHILADELPHIA, July 8 (U. P.) — Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U. S. Marine Corps., retired, will undergo a hernia operation at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital Monday afternoon, officials disclosed today.

HOOSIERS IN WASHINGTON-By Daniel Kidney

ASHINGTON, July 8.—Paul V. McNutt’s itinerary here reads like an installment of “My Day” by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. For he is the most energetic of all Washington callers, darting hither and yon and running the legs off reperters and photographers. In fact, at the fag end of the handsome Hoosier’s first day here the photographers seemed glad that Jim Farley's office refused to let them take any pictures and they left for their own offices without any sign of regret. Whether it was Mr. Farley, Charles Michelson, the $25,000-a-vear Democratic press agent, or Mr. Farley's secretary, William Bray, who refused to permit the pictures, the incident is viewed as being very picayune. Although it is well known that Mr. Farley is a deadly political enemy of Mr. McNutt, the #High Commissioner of the Philippines never has failed to pay the National Democratic Chairman a courtesy call, even back in the days when Mr. McNutt was Governor of Indiana.

In fact, it was Governor MecNutt who delivered to Mr. Farley a fat check from the Hoosier Democrats when the National Committee was sorely in need of money. And there was no questioning of whether the funds came from the Two Per Cent Club, either. Fear of Mr. McNutt’s chances for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1940 is said here to be one of the reasons why the Postmaster General continues to carry on his feud with Indiana's favorite son. Should President Roosevelt support the Hoosier's nomination, Mr. Farley might have to take it on the chin, it has been pointed out. 2 » ”

Although he had little to offer at his press conference upon his arrival here Thursday morning, the former Indiana Governor seemed to make a good impression upon the Washington reporters. His press was far more favorable than the time he came here for the 20,000 gallon cocktail party given in the name of Senator Minton (D. Ind.).

Even the all-wise columnists ak taking him seriously now and

Ben Stern . . . reporters skipping his office.

with the exception of Joseph Alsop, who considers the McNutt organization very sinister, they are viewing him with fairness and in some instances with considerable favor. Mr. Alsop, however, has conjured up a personal devil in Mr. McNutt’s political manager, Frank McHale, and he is out to hang him with his typewriter ribbon. The beer business and the Two Per Cent Club will be the ammunition used in launching the attack. When Mr. McNutt called at the White House he ran smack into an old Indiana University Law School student of his, Rep. Gerald W. Landis (R. Ind.), who was on the way out after a conference with President Roosevelt As a member of the Mines and Mining Committee of the House, Rep. Landis went with two Democratic Congressmen as a subcommittee to learn the Chief Executive’s attitude on establishing an experiment station to find new uses for anthracite coal. Mr. Landis was greatly impressed by the President's intimate knowledge of the coal problem, he said. But although he is a member of the House Steering Committee for the Townsend Plan, he didn’t ask the President if he saw

Dr. Francis Townsend's statement that the Townsendites would support a third term if F. D. R. “got right” with them. ® f 2 HATEVER President Roosevelt and Mr. McNutt talked about at that two-hour luncheon, it was not the gross income tax which was passed under the MecNutt regime in Indiana. Otherwise Mr. McNutt would not have emerged smiling. For the President is against that kind of taxes and frankly said so at his press conference recently. He pointed out that such a levy works a terrible hardship on the small income group, particularly the small businessman who must pay on a gross income of $5000 to $6000 while his net income may not be more than $1000. » ® ”

Senator Danaher (R. Conn.) seems to be one of Senator Minton’s pet peeves. About every time the Connecticut solon arises to speak up pops the junior Senator from Indiana with some sassy questions, Here is a sample taken from the Congressional Record: Senator Danaher — “Just what is the point the Senator is endeavoring to make?” Senator Minton—*“I can only state the point. I cannot be responsible for the Senator’s inability to grasp it.”

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ENATOR VANNUYS (D. Ind.) broke his anti-Administra-record in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week. He voted approval of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain for exchange of American cotton for rubber. This is one of the few times the Senator has supported anything the Administration has done this session.

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Ben Stern, VanNuys’ secretary, who at one time was so articulate that he used to be mistaken for the Senator, hever peeps any more. His silence is such that many Washington reporters do not stop at his office, which once was considered a very fertile news source.

declined meanwhile to state directly whether he considers that picketing ‘constituted “interference” with

projects.

FAIR OFFERS 200,000 HALF-PRIGE TICKETS

The sale of 200,000 half-priced tickets to the State Fair opening Sept. 1 will begin Monday, Harry G. Templeton, manager, announced today. The number of 25-cent tickets to be offered in the advance sale is 25,000 more than were sold last year within three weeks. The full price will be charged for tickets after 6 p. m. the day before the fair opens regardless of whether the supply of half-priced tickets is exhausted. The advance sale is conducted as a form of rain insurance. The tickets may be obtained through county agents, farm bureau secretaries, Hooks’ and Haags’ drug stores, banks and by direct application to the Fairgrounds office.

EDDIE DOWLING’S KIN DIES UPPER DARBY, Pa. July 8 (U. P.).—Funeral services were planned today for Mrs. Mary Dooley, 78, mother of a family of dancers and comedians and mother-in-law of Eddie Dowling, widely-known actor and producer.

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Finish of the world’s shortest airmail route—six-mile flight from roof of Philadelphia postoffice to airport at Camden, N. J. Helpers take the mail sacks from autogiro, piloted by Capt. John Miller in first flight of regular service designed to speed delivery. Five daily round trips by air are expected to require but 10 minutes each—35 minutes

faster than round trip by truck.

moves to revise the relief bill passed |

Refugee Shop Assists 175 in Building Terror-Free Lives

Noodles, Corsages, Pastels and Heirlooms Mingle In E. 14th St. Show Window.

By JAMES THRASHER HE story of Indianapolis’ 175 refugees from Germany, Austria and Italy—the only story that most of them would dare make public—may be found in the windows and showcases of the Refugees’ Handicraft Exchange, 22 E. 14th St. There are jars of home-made noodles prepared by a woman who,

in Germany, was the wife of a retired banker.

ficial flowers were made by a young matron whose husband was forced to flee Vienna when their baby was but 6 days old. The family is now reunited here, and the husband, a former textile executive, is employed in a South Side bakery. In the window are pastels and etchings by Miss Clare Epstein, whose work was well known in European art centers. A pewter tureen, casserole and eight plates bear the manufacturer’s crest and the date 1791. Other family neirlooms, snatched up in a hurried flight to America, include a Sheffield silver teapot, handwrought brass candlesticks, crystal wine glasses, an antique brass mortar and pestle, used in preparing for the Passover, and pieces of Dresden china.

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HERE is perfume and orange blossom honey and marmalade from Palestine. The aprons on display are fruits of a oncegenteel pastime of needlework which now helps support a family. The shop was opened Feb. 21 by a local committee working under the Indiana Co-ordinating Committee for Refugees. Though not all the refugees are Jewish, the exchange is operated by Jewish volunteer workers. Its scope, however, is nonsectarian, and many of the contributions are from other than Jewish sources. All equipment, including the room in the St. Regis Apartment building, has been donated, and all the staff except a refugee assistant serves without pay.

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T= shop is managed by Mrs. Sara Messing Stern, whose father, Mayer Messing, was rabbi of the Hebrew Congregation here for 63 years. Volunteers are eager to assist in serving customers or picking up and delivering the baked goods which are a major source of income, Mrs. Stern says. The refugee assistant is the only paid worker and light and telephone bills constitute almost the only other items of expense. To meet these expenses, about $1.50 a day is needed, according to Mrs. Stern. The state refugee committee provided the money to

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19 HOOSIERS PLEAD GUILTY TO GAMBLING

MITCHELL, Ind. July 8 (U. P.) .— Nineteen Mitchell men today had pleaded guilty to charges of gambling and one other had pleaded not

guilty after their arrest by State Police in four raids here. Guilty pleas were entered by Noble Smith, James Deputy, John W. Cooper, Lee Leckhart, Lynn Swartz, Paul Houchin, Bruce Ramey, Frank Bareford, Willard, Maillard and Marshall Tillett, Cecil Roberts, Robert Hines, N. E. Wigginton, Harry Clements, Shelby Kines, Edwin Childers, Leo Taflinger and William Clemmons. Bradley Eincher pleaded not guilty and will be tried at Bedford.

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MNUTT PLEADS FOR U. S. WATCH ON PHILIPPINES

He Favors Giving Islands Status Like That of British Dominions.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., July 8 (U. P.).—The Philippine Islands should be given the status akin to those of the British Dominions, High Commissioner Paul V. McNutt, an advocate of a “realistic re-examina-tion” of the question of Philippine independence, told the Institute of Public Affairs last night. “We should feel free in case of any crisis to help preserve the democratic basis of the Philippine Gov= ernment,” he said. Mr. McNutt told the institute that the Philippine Islands are surrounded by nations, whose “teeming millions are spilling over their na= tional boundaries,” and that the islands are threatened with racial ‘extinction and economic disaster if the protecting hand of the United States is withdrawn.

Bright Spot of Orient

The Islands, he added, “are the only bright, prosperous spot in the Orient. Their people enjoy the highest wages and best standard of living in the Far East. The deadly tropical diseases—smallpox, cholera, bubonic plague—which long decimated the population, have been wiped out . . . the budget is bale anced. Taxes are the lowest in the world.” Conditions have changed since the Hare-Hawes-Cutting independence hill was enacted in 1932, he stated. Says Treaties Violated

“Treaties concerning the Orient

'have been violated,” he seid. “Over

the major area of the Orient famine and pestilence and blood shed are raging. Our open door policy has been more than seriously challenged. Our policy of freedom of the seas and freedom of the air is in the balance.” If the United States withdraws completely from the islands, he said, ‘our monument will be destroyed. The things we counted on, our aspirations to point the way to a new benign colonialism, our handicraft will perish. Our grandchildren will read a history which will apply to us the word ‘quitter’'— a word which is just about the worst insult in the lexicon of ® true American.”

M'CORMICK TRIAL S SET FOR AUG. 30

Trial of Emmett J. McCormick, former police patrolman. on charges of assault and battery, has- been continued at the request of police detectives until Aug. 30. Fred Simon, chief of detectives, said that the State had to have time to assemble its witnesses. McCormick was arrested Thursday night on a warrant filed by a waitress, Miss Flora Jane Reichle, 928 E. Market St. The former patrolman was dis=missed last month from the De= partment by the Safety Board, following a trial in which the girl testified he had attempted to assault her after ordering her to get into his car. She said he was in uniform at the time. McCormick is free on $1000 bond. He denied the charges before

the Safety Board, and has appealed from its ruling to Superior Court.

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