Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 July 1939 — Page 1
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SELF-POLICING
4-Point Program Drafted Here to Avoid Bom Of Prohibition.” |
INSTITUTE IS SOUGHT
‘We Want to Clean Up This ‘Whole Business,” Says Retail President.
Leaders of the Indiana liquor industry today planned a drastic selfregulation program designed to volice the industry and stave off a trend they say will lead to prochibition again. They met at the Claypool Hotel and the program, as drawn by E. W. Arens of Indianapolis, Indiana Retail Alcoholic Beverage Association president, appeared cartain of passage. -Its four major points were: 1. Creation of the United Indiana Beverage Institute as the agency of the entire liquor in- ~ dustry to check unethical practices within “the industry and to restore the liquor business to “public favor.”
Law on Minors Sought
2. Sponsorship of a law that would make anyone found carrying an open package of liquor. on his person or in his car subject to a fine of $50 and costs ‘and the suspension of his driver’s license, if he was driving at the time. 3. Sponsorship of a law that would make minors who misrepresent their age to buy liquor subject to a fine of $25 and costs. 4, Sponsorship of legislation that would force all restaurants, soft drink stands and other “night spots” not selling liquor to close at the same hour that liquor-selling establishments are forced to close. ° “We sincerely want to clean. up . this whole business,” Mr. Arens said. “We want drinking to be done at home. and moderately. We don't want children to drink and we think the places where they can drink after hours should be closed.”
Local Option Visioned
Another leader, who did not want to be identified with the statement, said the existence and future of the liquor business in the next two years would depend on the strength of the industry’s organization and that “unless something is done to remedy conditions we will have local option or a dry state.” The proposed institute would be composed of a board of ‘directors . consisting of two members each from the Indiana Retail Alcoholic Beverage Association, the Indiana Retail Liquor Package Store Association, the Indiarra Pharmaceutical Association, the Indiana Hotel Association, the Indiana Retail Grocers ‘and Meat Dealers Association, the Indiana Licensed Wholesalers Association, the Indiana Brewers Association, the Indiana Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association and the Indiana Distillers Association. It would be governed by a presi(Continued on Page Three)
LIGHTNING KILLS GOLFER AND CADDY
JACKSON, Miss., July 24 (U. P.). —A score of golfers were recovering today from shock and burns re-
ceived when lightning struck the|-
Jackson Country Club course and killed two persons. Tom B. Burkitt, 36, Jackson businessman, and Henry Robinson, caddy, were killed. Mr. Burkitt's foursome included John Overton, - nephew of Mayor Watkins Overton of Memphis, Tenn.; Jack Harding, Jackson druggist, and Wendell Black, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Overton and Mr. Harding were injured seriously.
NO NEED TOL WORRY, COOLNESS TO STAY
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...72 10a. m.... 81 7am ...74 11 a.m... 83 8a. m. ...7 12 (noon).. 83 9a m.-...78 pm ...85
“Resort temperatures” made Indi- ‘ anapolis comfortable today as the Weather Bureau predicted more of the same tonight and tomorrow. There will be thundershowers this afternoon or tonight, the Bureau) said, and continued cloudy skies.
= ERNIE PYLE WRITES FROM NEW MEXICO
Our Roving Reporter has been on vacation, but now he's back to what he calls work, ‘and-his first story in a new series appears today on Page 9. Ernie is starting a trip that will take him far off the beaten paths, into the “Indian country of New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Few of us will ever make that trip, but through Ernie's observant eyes we can see " Wonders of the West that most tourists never see,
VOLUME 51—NUMBER 115
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PHILADELPHIA, July 24 (U. P.).—Governor Arthur H. James today appeared as a new possibility for the 1940 Republican Presidential nomination. Senator Davis (R. Pa.) virtually assured that the Pennsylvania delegates to the 1940 convention would back the Governor when he said yesterday: “I feel sure the Pennsylvania delegation will give its vote to James.” Last week Governor James offered his State Administration as| an example of a workable “middle - of - the - road” program for [Republicans nation-
SENATE OPENS LENDING FIGHT
Only Projects Bill and Social Security| Changes Hold Up Adjournment.
WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P.).— Congress entered the adjournment stretch today ‘and spurted- toward the finish line with liftle but Social Security Act amendments and the
new lending bill to slow its stride. Democratic Leader Barkley (D. Ky.) placed the lending bill before the Senate for debate today. He described it as designed to bring
and unused savings.” Senator Barkley hoped to get the bill through the Senate by Wednesday night. The House .has still to act on the bill. In a report which he filed in behalf of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee — which trimmed the bill 310 niillion dollars to a total of $2,490,000,000—Senator Barkley hailed the program as an “important approach to a: balance between Federal - expenditures and revenue” because of its self-liquidat-ing features. “The principle embodied in this program helps bring about a higher national income and lessens the need for expenditures on relief and work projects,” the report said, citing Labor Department estimates it would create at least 500,000 jobs. Social security is in a tangle be- | (Continued on Page Three)
GORN HITS LOWEST LEVEL IN SIX YEARS
Drop Laid to ‘Good News’; * Wheat Off to 3.
CHICAGO, July 24 (U. P.).—Corn again slumped into its lowest levels since ‘1933 under the influence of good crop and weather news. The
September future was off 1 to 1% cents at 387% cents a bushel. . A late flood of selling orders sent wheat prices skidding as much as 3 cents to new seasonal lows. Prices were lower in all North American markets.
' NEW YORK, July 24 (U. P.).— Profit-taking forced stocks fractions to more than a peint lower today as trading contracted. News continued favorable, but there was a tendency to use this as an opportunity to realize profits.
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together “idle men, idle equipment
STATE SURVEY 70 SHOW CITY HOUSING NEEDS
Tax Board Plans for ‘Most Complete’ Investigation Of Conditions.
WPA AID WILL BE SOUGHT
Data Will Be Made Available ‘For Use in Slum Clearance Study.
Tentative plans for the most complete survey of housing conditions ever undertaken here were being considered “by the State Tax Board today. : Board members were to confer
- |lwith WPA officiais this afternoon
on the possibility of enlisting their help in determining both the “physical” and “human” aspects of Indianapolis living conditions. Data from the survey would be used principally by the Tax Board in determining property valuations but it would be available for any group interested in slum-clearance work. : Citizens Organize A citizens’ subcommittee was formed here last week to make a
slum survey and present it to the City Council with the plea that a low-cost housing program be instituted. The Board’s last property valuation survey for assessment purposes was made in 1932 but only the physical side of the problem was considered. The proposed survey would cover
sizes of buildings, the number of’
families housed, the general condition of the property, the nature of the plumbing, number of bathrooms and improvements or lack of them, Board members said.
WPA Aid Requested
WPA officials will be asked to fur. nish “white-collar workers’ for the project. A similar survey is being conducted by the City of Huntington and Tax Board members said they may use the questionnaire as the basis for the local survey, The citizens’ subcommittee was formed at a meeting of representatives of 15 civie, church and labor organizations who unanimously
adopted a resolution to promote a
slum clearance program here.
STATE LETS ROAD, BRIDGE CONTRACTS
Contracts for highway paving and bridge building at, a total cost of $636,000 had been awarded by the State Highway Commission today. The largest single project was for paving five miles on Road 67 at Martinsville on a low bid of $231,000 submitted by the Calumet Paving Co., Indianapolis. One grade separation project on Road 30 at the south edge of Valparaiso was included. The contract was awarded to J. C. OConnor & Sons, Ft. Wayne. - Another project includes a new bridge on Road 44 over Flat Rock River east of Rushvile.
SEA SCOUTS RESCUED OFF PERILOUS SHOALS
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. July 24 (U. P.) —Eleven seasick Sea Scouts from Springfield, Mass., were towed ashore early today in their 30-foot cabin cruiser which went dead off the dangerous Brigantine Shoals. The Scouts, under Capt. Ralph Warner, had sailed from Essex,
Conn., to the point where they were|
found. Coast Guard lookouts at Brigantine saw the cruiser’s distress Signals and sent : a picket boat to tow in Except for seasickness, the Scouts suffered no ill effects. =
CLIPPER 1S DAMAGED
HORTA, Azores, July 24 (U. P). —The Atlantic Clipper, on a regular flight across the Atlantic to New York, was slightly damaged in making a landing here today. The ‘Clipper will postpone its takeoff pending inspection. None was inJured.
: United Press §taff Correspondent EW YORK, July 24.—In all probability Europe will scrape through 1939 without a general war. But in September or October, when this year’s big showdown comes, Europe will work up to a dangerous crisis that will make almost as much news as the out-
Fuehrer Hitler must have a victory. If he is balked at Danzig it is likely that he will snatch a cheap victory in Southeastern Europe at the expense of Slovakia, Hungary After bringing his people up to their present pitch he can scarcely mark time indefinitely. Those are the net conclusions arrived at after a personal off-the-record cable canvass of leading United Press diplomatic reporters in England and on the Continent. Only a month ago men in Washington with access to secret reports from all over Europe told me that the chances of war in 1939 were BEY Atty. : :
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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1939
Held as Golf Course Slayer
Thomas Boyce
300 Become Ill During
Wedding of 108 Couples
It Was Excitement, Not Poisoning, Hospitals Decide;
Mass Marriage Climaxes Convention.
MONTREAL, July 24 (U. P) ~The last of the wedding guests were
dismissed from- the hospital:
today. - The celebration had been=so- strenuous that 300 of them got nerv-
ous indigestion.
And no wonder for 108 couples were married and the
guests had numbered no less than 25,000.
For almost an hour last night, a line of men and women with stomach cramps, some maneuvering under their own power, some hobbling along on the arms of friends, their faces distorted in agony, some. being carried, passed through the gates of the baseball stadium to waiting ambulances and police cars.
Call for Ambulances
Within ‘the stadium, thousands were whooping it up for 108 French Canadian girls, winsomely beautiful with their black hair contrasted by
their white attire, and their 108 just acquired husbands. It was the closing event of a wedding celebration which had started 12 hours earlier —the joint reception of 108 newlyweds. Suddenly, an elderly woman fainted. Then another, then another. In an instant men and women, many of them elderly, were fainting or doubling up all over the stadium and there was a hurry call for ambulances, doctors and policemen. Rumors of a plot to poison the wedding guests passed through the throng, angering it, and at first the doctors, who' had arrived by the dozens, suspected food poisoning. But ‘at Notre Dame and St. Luke Hospitals ‘it was determined that the victims had too much excitemerit, had been too many hours under a very hot sun, and had consumed, some. of ‘them, too many bottles of very cold soda pop.
Priest for Each Couple
"The mass wedding was sponsored by Jeunesse Ouvriers Catholique (Young Catholic 'Workers) as the climax of. its annual congress. waited them at the altar, together with 108 priests—one for each couple. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Gauthier delivered the wedding exhortation and the Rev. Fr. Henri Roy, who originated the idea of a mass wedding, said the nuptial mass in vestments of green and gold. "An evening reception was the closing rally of the Jocists’ congress. All was joyous festivity until the guests beam ill
FARLEY-F. D. R. TALK CALLED ‘EFFECTIVE’
Postmaster General to Sail For European Vacation.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., July 24 (U. P.) —President Roosevelt said today that his conference with Postmaster General Farley was fairly effective but gave no hint as to whether their overnight meeting would have any bearing on possibilities of a third term or Presidential politics in 1940. But the President said that he believes his conferences in the future
with the Democratic National Committee chairman will continue to be fairly effective. Mr. Farley, who sails Wednesday for a European vacation, came here late yesterday for an overnight conference with the President. His arrival coincided with reports that there is a growing breach between him and the President. Mr. Roosevelt, with Mr, Farley standing at the side of his car in a hay field at his estate here, met newspapermen to discuss the conference. He said that if he were writing. the story about the visit, he would not make it very exciting.
THROWN OFF CLIFF, INJURED BOY SAYS
Kenneth Dow, 8, of 118 Windsor Ave. was taken to City Hospital today after he was injured when two older boys threw him .over a cliff near the playground at Dearborn and 16th Sts., he told ot ce. Hospital attendants said he was cut on the forehead and had an injured knee. Police are looking for the two boys he blamed.
there are definite reasons to believe that the British are urging Poland to be as unprovocative as possible toward
Germany on the Danzig question.
And, as at the
time of Munich, Britain's attitude is a ‘controlling factor. After Parliament adjourns on Aug. 4 those in the British Government who want to “satisfy Germany on the Danzig
question will have more elbow room for their efforts.
Already there are signs that Britain's ‘advice to Poland to go easy with Germany is having its effect.
- Cables from the three most interested capitals--Lons
don, Berlin and Warsaw—agree. that the chances for some
sort of transactional deal on Danzi ‘rent private negotiations are for | which wo Danzig and not be holly unaccept:
‘some basis for a deal
are fairly good. Curhe purpose of finding satisfy Germany on ble to the Poles.
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POLICE CLAM CONFESSION IN
Attica Golf Greenskeeper, Father of Three, Brought Here for Safety.
SLEW VICTIM IN FRIGHT
Fingerprints on Basket, Investigators Say.
Thomas Boyce. 27-year-old father of three children, today had confessed that he attacked and killed Elizabeth DeBruicker, Attica High Schoo! girl, State' Police reported. Arrested shortly after the girl's mutilated body was found in a shallow grave Saturday near the Harrison Hills Country Club at Attica, Boyce denied any connection with the crime until early today. At 2:30 a. m., in the presence of Fountain Céunty officials and State Police, he confessed the crime as he was being questioned in the Laflyette State Police barracks, the officers said. He was brought to the Marion County jail where he will be
kept until police believe .it safe to return him to Attica.
Choked Her With Belt
Prosecutor R. C. Fenters, Sheriff William Henry Ramsey and Deputy Sheriff George Keller of Fountain County and State Police Paul Rule and Robert Bowman were present when the alleged confession was made. Prosecutor Fenters said that Boyce broke down and cried when he told how he met the girl at the
- {edge of the golf course Friday after-
noon and took her to a secluded place near the gravel pit in which the body was found. He said he attacked her and
‘then became frightened. He choked
her with the belt of her dress and at the same time held her head under water, the confession said.’ One of her shoes came: off. in the struggle, he was quoted as saying, and he took the other off and threw them in the water. They have not been recovered by: police. :
Carried Body to Gravel Pit
He then carried the body a few feet to the gravel pit, police quoted him as saying, and scooped out the grave with his hands. He said he did not use a shovel as police at first believed but that the shovel marks were made by him earlier in the week, according to the officers. Before he buried the girl’s body,
police quoted him as saying, he re-
moved her underclothing and placed them and her handkerchief in a sewing basket she was carrying. Police said they found his fingerprints on the basket, “a telling factor” in obtaining the alleged confession. Boyce was arrested a few hours after the crime was discovered and taken by Sheriff Ramsey and State Police to Attica, then to Lafayette. Early yesterday he was brought here for a lie detector test and then was returned to Lafayette when the confession was made. After his confession and before he was brought here Boyce was permitted to talk to his wife and three small children. He was a greenskeeper at the golf course near where
record includes a suspended sentence for contributing to the delinquency of a 9-year-old girl, authorities said. Although he denied any connection with the crime until he made (Continued on Page Three)
LA GUARDIA ADDS OWN HINT TO COURT RACE
NEW YORK, July 24 (U. P)— Mayor F. H. LaGuardia gave “virtual confirmation” today to reports that he would be a candidate for
chief judge of the New York Court| =
of Appeals this fall. A vacancy on the court will be created at the end of this year. “The people will not always stand for hand-picked judges. It would not be difficult to find a candidate in whom the people would have confindence,” the Mayor said. Persons close to Mayor LaGuardia, however, believed that he would not run for the judgeship, but would be a candidate for a third term as
Mayor
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HULL INDICATES CONCERN OF U S.
Navy Investigates Slugging Of Anderson Man by Japanese Sentry.
BULLETIN WASHINGTON, July 24 (U. P.).—Secretary' of State Hull today = expressed increasing concern of this Government " over the growing number of: incidents in China in which Japanese soldiers and police have assaulted American nationals,
SHANGHAI, July 24 (U. P)— American Embassy and naval authorities investigated today the se-
vere beating of a U. S. Navy pay clerk from Indiana by Japanese
Army men at Hankow. In previous incidents this month,
complaints had been made of the destruction by Japanese soldiers of tan American flag at Chenglingki and the slapping of Miss Hannah Stocks of Bristol, Conn., and Winston Haskell, 13-year-old American boy, by a Japanese Army sentry at
Wu. Landing Party Called
R. A. Baker of Anderson, Ind, acting pay clerk of the American gunboat Guam, was walking from the French Concession - waterfront at Hankow Saturday afternoon when a Japanese staff car swerved onto the
sidewalk at the entrance to Japa-
nese-occupied territory. The car A Japanese| sentry at the entrance way struck
brushed Mr. Baker. him in the body with his rifle.
Mr. Baker grasped the rifle and was beaten, suffering abrasions of the arms and face. The sentry called. a landing party guard which
took Mr. Baker to Japanese headquarters. hours later after strong representations by American naval officers,
Sentry Blamed “It was understood that the Japa-
nese sentry was enraged because the American walked on the sidewalk
instead of the opposite side of the street, where there is no sidewalk, and to which Japanese restrict pedestrians leaving the French Concession. The same sentry was reported to have tapped foreigners on the heads previously, demanding that they remove their hats. The report to the Navy Department by the Guam’s commanding officer charged that “the incident was entirely the fault of the Japanese sentry.”
Baker in Anderson
On Furlough in April
Robert A. Baker, U. S. Navy pay clerk at Hankow, China, who was reported beaten by Japanese soldiers, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Baker of Anderson, Ind. He graduated from. Anderson High School ‘in 1229 and eulisted in the Navy two years later. He is married and was home last April on a furlough.
STEAL 1000-POUND SAFE AT GROCERY
A 1000-pound safe containing $453 was stolen from ‘the Samuel Dobrowitz Kosher Food Market, 2031 Central Ave., early today. « Mr. Dobrowitz said the yeggs broke the rear screen door and broke
locks on two doors including one of |
iron ‘bars. He said the store had been closed from only about 12:30 a. m. until 5:30'a. m.
No War in 1939 Unless Someone Blunders, Experts Predict
By WEBB MILLER
The prediction that Herr Hitler might look to southeastern Europe for a relatively cheap victory is based on - the assumption, in one of my cabled replies, that if he encounters firm British and Polish stands at Danzig he would decide that the risks of a ‘war on two fronts—
Poland on one side and Britain on the other—are too great.
He would then retreat from Danzig and turn on some less formidable spot like Hungary or J ugoslavia. In any “war of nerves” against J ugoslavia he might count on halp hom Premier Mussolini across the Adriatic. In the present confusion of events before a’ crisis in “Europe it appears to make little difference whether “the
~ Soviets sign or refuse to sign a treaty with Great Britain and France. All the parties know in their hearts that : nowadays nations can usually find ways to escape honoring
If, when the time comes, Russia considers it in ts to fight o she will id 80, with or without a a
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CHANBERLAN
DENIES IDEA OF BRIBING HITLER
Disclaims Any’ Appeasement Goal, but Backs Aid Who Hinted Loan to Nazis.
I. R. A. LINKED TO BERLIN
|Japanese Claim Victory as Recognized State of Conflict in China.
.. ‘By JOE ALEX MORRIS : United Press Foreign News Editor ‘Great Britain sought today ‘to escape from the shadow of any new |appeasement move that might une dermine the sternness of Europe’s security front against aggression. The resurgence of appeasement: debate developed as a result of an informal conference between R. S.
Hudson, Overseas Trade Secretary, and the skilled Nazi economics ex=pert, Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, who went to London ostensibly to talk about whaling, but stayed to discuss whether Fuehrer Hitler would turn German industry from war. prepa= rations to peacetime activities in re= turn for an international loan. Mr. Hudson's talk with Dr. Wohle that was discussed by Prime Minis- - ter Chamberlain in the House of Commons, where the Cabinet leader denounced suggestions that Britain was attempting to make a huge loan to Herr Hitler as the price of European peace. He said the HudsonWohlthat talk was “not unusual,” that it concerned-#financial steps” to aid international recovery only in a vague way and that it did not in any way constitute an offer of a loan to Germany.
"_ Denies Any ‘Bribe’
He assured Commons that the Government was not considering any discussions designed. ‘to buy Herr Hitler off. His statement indicated that Mr. “Hudson would keep his job. Far Eastern negotiations, however,
berlain Government’s reputation for firmness. the House of Commons that Britaih has agreed to recognize the state of hostilities existing in China and Japan’s rights to protect its interests” under such conditions, : He read a statement agr upon by Sir Robert Craigie, British Am= bassador to Tokyo, and Hachirg Arita, Japanese foreign Minister, in negotiations regarding the Tientsin blockade. That recognition was wanted by Japan to facilitate her operations, to require Britain to avoid aiding the Chinese and pose sibly to co-operate in Japan's economic and financial program. It was one ‘of the chief demands made in the Tientsin blockade.
Halifax Defends Hudson
Mr. Chamberlain insisted that Great Britain was in no way backing down. He said Britain is not taking the side of Japan against China, does not recognize Japan's sovereignty of Chinese territory occupied by its armies and will not accede to devaluation of Chinese currency. or refuse to grant British credits to China. But Japan was claiming a victory. This agreement made the Oppo= sition more certain that a new appeasement trend was under way and the Hudson-Wohlthat revelations
pus of the first order. “1 still have the feelin Prime Minister could o
that if the n his um-
would be only too glad to do so,” (Continued on Page Three)
HEINZ HEIR DIES ‘OF TRAFFIC INJURIES
PITTSBURGH, July 24 (U. P.).— Rust Heinz, 25, son of Howard Heinz, head of the H. J. Heinz Co., food packers, died today from injuries suffered in a two-car automobile crash. Mr. Heinz, who recently came to Pittsburgh from Pasadena, Cal. suffered a fractured skull and broken collar bone. The accident occurred early yesterday at Mr. Heinz and two companions were ISiurning from. 3 a dance at Greensburg, Pa. Since his graduation from Yale, young Heinz dabbled in motor boat racing: and automobile d helping’ design the automobil of Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, movie stars.
PRESIDENT REVISES PLAN FOR FOR VACATION
HYDE PARK, N. Y.. N. Y., July 24 (, P.) —President Roosevelt said today that he plans to make a quick trip to San Francisco and Seattle late in September. : Earlier he will cruise along the
| North Atlantic Coast starting short-
ly after Congress adjourns. He will nat go to Alaska as he had planned.
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