Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1939 — Page 1

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VOLUME 51 NUMBER 125

FORECAST: Fair wonight’ and tomorrow; litte change in temperature; fair Sunday:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 19%9

- en Gains in Gallup Poll of

PRINCETON, N. 1, Aug. 4.—Paul V. McNutt's appointment to the post of Federal. Security: ‘Administrator, - with its attendant publicity, has. caused a sharp rise in his

Garner . . . still leading, McNutt . L . now second.

JAPAN ANGERS CHAMBERLAIN

‘German Army Near Peak; French-British Mission * bea for Moscow.

FOREIGN SITUATION

DO. Cretan hints | sending fleet to Far East.

LAKE COMO, Italy—Japanese Po diplomats discuss ‘pact with [ axis.

’ CHUNGKING — German Em- | bassy, American's home dam- . | aged by bombs,

8 HANKOW-—U. S. demands pro- - tection for Americans at | Kaifeng.

BURGOS—Franco takes lead- ' | ership of Fascist barty.

By UNITED PRESS

Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that circumstances might arise which would make it necessary to send Great Britain's European fleet - to the Far East to protect British subjects. However, he refrained from implying any threat to do so. Mr. Chamberlain spoke at the closing session of Commons, Prios to adjournment until Oct. Adjournment leaves political id concentrated in Mr. Chamberlain's hands during the “crisis months” @& August and September. His Blood ‘Boils’ The Prime Minister assured Commons that “the country is ready for any emergency” and promi to reconvene Parliament if the Government changes it policy or “if it is necessary in the public interest.” Mr. Chamberlain admitted that the present British Asiatic Fleet is no match for the Japanese and also

that British forces in China are in-|

adequate to protect Britons there. He asserted it made his ‘blood boil” to read of some of the things that are happening in the Far East. But he warned Parliament that Britain must exercise “patience” in the Far East because of obligations in Europe that made it impossible to bring the full force of Britain's influence to bear now.

Japanese Envoys Meet

He was apparently referring to the increased military activity around Danzig. Germany's Army neared peak strength as tens of thousands of reservists were called up for training in the last tnree days. Military activity was reported throughout East Prussia and Pomerania, adjacent to Poland. By Sept. 9, Germany will have close to 2,250,000 men under arms. Mr. Chamberlain warned Parlia"ment that the Government was op(Continued on Page Three)

: PLEASANT WEEK-END ~ PROMISED FOR CITY

. LOCAL TEMPERATURES

6am... 68 10a m... 7a m.., 71 11 a. m.. g a.m... 75 12 (noon), gam... 17

A pleasant week-end was prom{sed Indianapolis residents by the . Weather Bureau today. ‘Today's blue skies and moderately warm temperatures are to continue tomorrow, with more fair weather in sight for Sunday, She Bureau said.

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“TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

16 State Deaths. |

Game-- Well

Fire | at the Hospital! Anyway, It Was a | Good Test!

8 ‘clanged in the city’s fire ions. Motors burst. ‘into sound. at five different firemen leaped on moving

|Administration Building , City Hospital had been

|Headquarters, from Sta5 and 24 went the trucks, screaming. From Police arters roared an emergen=

3 | squealed at City HosTy sirens moaned low.

‘They They [found only a chagrined Giamewed Department firebox ine was checking the City 1's equipment. - And he'd forgotten to signal headquarters that he was testing.

NOVARA, Italy, Aug. 4 (U. P.). id hitting a dog crossing Alessio Scotti swerved e killed three cows, injured a man leading them, then upset a cart, injuring the driver. Neither Scotti nor the dog was injured. |

.grocery at 1801 S. East police that a burglar les in an outside door, an opening and entered. re

did it set off the burglar alarm. He fled without

ITY, Mich., Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Gavernor Luren D. Dickinson prefers the Virginia Reel to modern | dancing, which he described as “hugging stuff.” The 80-year-old executive said that the reel, which was danced by members of the Bay County Medical | Society, reminded him of the days of his youth when “folks danced the reel in cowhide boots, without any of this hugging stuff we see today.”

TRAFFIC INJURIES FATAL 10 YO YOUTH, 18

3 i

ire In in Accidents: Drivers Charged.

Seven 114

Dawson Richey, 18, Elkhart, died today in Methodist Hospital of injuries received Wednesday night in an auto crash at High School Road and Road 36. His mother, Mrs. Helen Richey, was) in critical condition. Delbert Rick ey, father and husband, was severely bruised. he Richey car, driven by Dawson,| collided with a car driven by Mis Lold M. Tucker, 2020 Central Ave) who was uninjured. Seven perscns were injured in 13 overnight to police

were a against 114 drivers.

Mrs. ie Stonebraker, 902 Goodlet Ave. received a broken-leg when two | cars| collided at ‘Noble and Washington Sts. Jane Nelson; 17, of 1608 Carrollton Ave., received an injure 3. arm and two other persons

Mother Wakes;

traffic accidents reported |. Traffic law violations

popularity among Democrats

as a Presidential ‘candidate

for 1940, judging by a national American Institute of

Public Opinion survey.

The suave Indiana statesman, whom some observers think the Roosevelt Administration is grooming for 1940, now ranks second in popularity ‘to John N. Garner as a’ 1940 candidate in case President Roosevelt does not run for a third term. While Mr. Garner is still far out in front, Mr. McNutt’s popularity has increased four-fold in the ‘six weeks since the Institute’s last survey on the candidate preferences of Democratic voters. His rapid rise is an illustration of the effect which _ publicity and appointment to a prominent post with the

blessing of the President can

have on the popularity of a

man in public life. It also indicates that public sentiment

is by no means so fixed or

crystallized regarding 1940

candidates that it is not highly sensitive to new develop

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IN the Institute survey of Democrats six weeks ago, Mr. McNutt finished in fifth place. The situation today, as compared to that time is shown below. The question asked:

“If President Roosevelt

is not a candidate in 1940,

who would you like to see elected President?”

The survey was conducted only among persons who voted for Mr. Roosevelt in 1936.

in the last six weeks.

rise will be sustained in the » » »

Joseph P. Kennedy, Burton Senator Harry Byrd, Robert

Franklin D. Roosevelt.

last month:

June 1. Garner ........ 47% 2. Farley ......... 18 Hall ........... 2 4, Hopkins ........ 5 5. McNutt ........ 6. Wallace ........ Murphy ........ Clark .......... Barkley ........ Kennedy ....... All Others ...... 7°

3 3 3 2 1 1

The following vote shows the trend to McNutt

The comparison indicates that Mr. McNutt is the ‘only man in the list whose position has changed sharply

It remains a question whether Mr. McNutt’s rapid

coming months, or whether

it is’ merely a temporary fillip resulting from a great -amount of publicity. Future monthly surveys on candidate preferences will show the trend.

ESIDES the 10 leading choices in today’s survey, the following Democrats received prominent mention by Democratic voters: Harold L. Ickes, Herbert H. Lehman,

Wheeler, Alfred E. Smith, Jackson, George Earle, Car-

ter Glass, Jesse Jones, Claude Pepper, Owen D. Young, Senator Pat Harrison, Senator James Byrnes, Senator Millard Tydings, Senator Joseph P. Guffey, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, John L. Lewis and Mrs.

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Today Garner ........ 469% McNutt ........ 13 Hull ........... 12 Farley ......... 12 Hopkins ........ Murphy ........ Barkley ........ Clark.” .: ..... Wallace 10. Stark .......... All Others ......

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‘Mixup Baby’ Dead at Side

EATH today wrote the final : chapter of the brief but eventful life of 31-day-old Franklin Westall. Mrs. Irene Westall, 19-year-old mother, told Deputy Coroner Norman Booher that she awakened at 3 a. m. today and found the child, who was sleeping with her, dead. Dr. Booher said the infant elied of suffocation. On July 15 Mrs. Westall left City Hospital, where she bore her sfirst child, and was given a baby she thought was her own. Shortly thereafter, a nurse discovered that Mrs. Westall had been given the wrong baby. The Westall baby was bundled up by the nurse and Miss Dorothy McKinney, ° superintendent of nurses, and the three took an ambulance, found Mrs. Westall and corrected the error. The mother of the other child never knew of the mixup. Walter Westall, the child’s father, is at Ft. Knox, Ky., taking part in military training.

STOCKS LOSE POINT IN PROFIT-TAKING

NEW YORK, Aug. 4 (U. P.).— Heavy profit-taking in the stock market today pushed prices in the main list as much as a point lower. Declines in special issues ranged to 3 points. The selling was based on technical factors, notably inability of the industrial average to break through the 145 level in recent trading. Only slight attention was paid to the Chamberlain statement that under certain circumstances Great Britain might send a fleet to the Far East.

500 FIREMEN FIGHT CHICAGO MALT FIRE

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (U. P.)—Fire Grain Co. today and virtually before firemen brought the flames

under control. More than 500 firemen battled

swept the Northwestern Malt & | destroyed the huge five-story plant| |

the fire for two hours in an attempt :

UNDERWRITERS ASK WATER GUARANTEE

Oppose Sale Unless Present Standards Prevail.

The Indianapolis Insurance Agents Association was on record today as opposing the acquisition of the Indianapolis Water Co. by the City unless efficient: service can be maintained.

The text of the resolution: “Resolved, that . the Indianapolis Insurance Agents ‘= Association is opposed: to the acquisition of the Indianapolis Water Co. by, the City of Indianapolis unléss proper guarantees can be given that the same effi-

tion and pressure be guaranteed that has secured the present :low fire insurance rates for the City.”

to save 2300000 bushels. of; “stored

cient and high standard of opera-

CHIEF MAY END |

MARATHONS IF PARENTS DONT

Dozen ‘Bike Grinds Now in|

Progress Violate Law, He Believes.

CITES MANY COMPLAINTS

Appeals to Fathers and

Mothers to Co-operate With Police.

The Police Department “may have

to” stop the City’s dozen or more bicycle marathons if the parents of

the contestants refuse to do so, Chief Morrissey said today.

At the same time the Safety Board said police will stop any of the marathon races that constitute safety or traffic hazards and the Chief said he is investigating them to determine whether such conditions exist.

“The police have orders to take]

whatever steps they deem neces-

. | sary to prevent these contests from

becoming hazardous to participants and communities,” Leroy J. Keach, Safety Board President said.

“It is the policy of the Depart- |: ment to step in when the rights

of the community appear to be: abridged by activities of this sort.” The chief made his announcement after a survey yesterday of the |races. He reached the conclusion that the bike marathons are in violation of the City’s anti-endurance contest ordinance, he said.

200 Take Part in Grinds

He made a public appeal to the parents to co-operate with the department and end the races which he said have caused many complaints to be made to him. “We believe these races are strictly in violation of the. ordinance which bans dance and walking marathons, and they will have io stop,” the chief said.

Ente: ‘od as. Tesong Class

<= ji0[( SLICES RATE, ; ‘ON 850,000 LOANS,

Per rsec uted’

Mrs, Adela Langer .

« + sought better life. .

“We hope the parents will break) ™& them. up before we have to take|:

action.” More than 200 vacationing, school. pupils have taken up the bicycle

marathon as a means of passing the

time, Most of the teams have. set up

| headquarters at some. points in ihe] i.

course and the riders keep going

fday and night in relays. The slogans

of most of the: teams was “When school starts, we stop.” City Sets Record, Anyway All teams, apparently, had a vague idea that the present record for such contests was 360 hours, and yesterday there was a moticn afoot among the various teams to

|set up some sort of an arbiter ier

all races. Indianapolis is believed to have sprouted more marathon races .of

this type than any other city, al-'

‘though some have been reported in progress in surrounding towns. ‘Chief Morrissey sent patrolmen around to all. known marathon laces yesterday, and had them check on the number of participants and the routes of the marathons. The chief said that among other

. complaints he has received is that

“you won't allow boys to play three basketball games in one day, so why let them pedal bicycles for days on

SEEK IDENTITY OF 2 KILLED IN CRASH

SOUTH BEND, Ind. Aug. 4 (U, P.).—Authorities are seeking‘ fhe identity of a man and woman killed, and a man critically injured, in a collision 11 miles west of here early this morning. A light sedan driven by Wiliam Mazur, 27, of Chicago, crashed into the rear of a truck-trailer unit driven by Ernest Shank, Mishawaka, Ind. A women about 26 years old in the front seat with Mazur was killed instantly. A man of

about” 60 riding in the rear seat]

died a few moments later, and ‘a second man in the rear seat also was not expected to live. He has been unconscious since the accident. Magn whose condition is only fair any of his three passengers.

told police he did not know|

Karel Langer . Hitler's name

“RIVEN bd

Jury Hears Refugee Father

Relate Events Leading to ~~ 183-Story Plunge.

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 (U. P)—A coroner’s jury .found today that a refugee mother from Czechoslovakia who leaped to death with her two smal ‘sons was a victim of temporary insanity due to “persecution.” :

The verdict was returned after the distraught father and husband, Karel Langer, a prosperous textile manufacturer until Adelf Hitler's German legions overran his home-~ (land, repeatedly .had broken down as he tried to supply motive for his wife's: act.: Mrs. Adela Langer, 43, made the leap late last night with Rarel Tommy, 6, and Jan Mischa, 4 “She was very depressed, ever since we left Praha,” Mr. ‘Langer testified between sobs. They were Jews, he said, and when the German troops swept over their homeland they sold their textile mill to their employees and sought “a better life here.” With only. a. remnant of their fortune—it' had dwindled to less than $8000 today—-they began their search for a new homeland. = They ‘were admitted to the United States on six-month visitors’ permits. “We had no relatives here,” Mr.

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, | final appropriation bill.

Matter.

42, 000 1

SENATE PUTS

FARM AID FUND BACK INTO BILL

Hurries Last ‘Must’ Measure To Passage, Seeking Quick Adjournment.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P).— Congress moved up to the last adjournment barrier today when the Senate, working at high speed, undertook consideration of the year’s Most of the funds cut out by the House were re-

| stored by the Senate Committee

that considered the bill in record time. Another hurdle was cleared when House and Senate conferees broke a long deadlock and ‘agreed on amendments to the Social Security Act freezing payroll taxes at present rates for a three-year savings to taxpayers estimated at $905,000,000. Some Senators still were dissatisfied with the final version of the amendments. Riders Stand in Way

The Third Deficiency Appropriation Bill reached the Senate floor with a speed which surprised even the leadership. An SrpropHations subcommittee completed a draft of the Bill—restoring $119,000,000 in Sommodity Credit Corp. funds elim=

: inated by the House—at mid-morn-

ing. , The full. Committee then approved the measure with perfunc-

{tory discussion and rushed it to the

Senate floor for debate. It was doubted that addition of the farm fund, which Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace said. was

Ineeded to keep farm ‘prices from

tumbling to 1932 levels, would cause any great dispute with House econ-

| omy advocates.

‘Chief danger to adjournment, probes tomorrow, remained the possi ty “that Senate advocates ‘of relaxing restrictions of the present

‘relief act would load thé supply down with riders to which the House ‘would object.

Only One Copy of Bill

Senator James PF. Byrnes - (D.

how. much. money was now provided by the deficiency bill because of the haste’ with which the Committee acted. He’ estimated that it was

lover 200 million: ‘dollars.

‘As passed by the House the bill

{contained $54,252,056, as compared I with budget estimates of $215,891,168.

Senate waived formality and

fore copies of it could be ‘obtained (Continued on Page Three)

START PROMISED ON - BlG EAGLE BRIDGE

West oth b Shon Expected To Be: Ready This Fall.

Construction of a new concrete bridge over Big Eagle Creek on Ww. 10th St. will start at once, County Commissioners announced today. Its completion is expected by late fall. Funds to buy materials were raised by a $5400 bond issue. The bonds, to bear interest of 1%: per cent until Dec. 1940, have been sold to Kenneth S. Johnson, local investment broker. WPA labor is to be used. The center. tier of the old W. 10th St. bridge was swept away by a flood more than‘a year ago and the remainder of the structure has been ordered torn down by the CommisSioners-

1 Still Love Hii J udge. wr No Matter What He Did’

Declaring that “1 stil! love him,” Mrs. Rosemary Miller, 20, today began a campaign for:the release of her husband, who a month ago pleaded guilty to conspiracy in a

holdup: that cost her left arm.

Mrs. Miller appeared in Criminal Court with her attorney for an interview with Judge Dewey Myers

who, on July 5, sentenced Joseph H. _ Miller, 23, to serve two to 14 years

in the State Reformatory.

He pleaded guilty to having conspired with Harry Graves, 29, in a ‘holdup of Mr, and Mrs. Miller near Beech Grove ‘one night last June. A shotgun carried by Graves ex-

. ploded and injured her left hand.

An amputation was performed the

next day at City Hospital.

want is to get him back.

Her arm still bandaged, Mrs. Miller told Judge Myers, “All I I just can’t believe he had anything to do with my arm being shot off.”

"added ‘for emphasis:

“I still love him, no matter if he

‘did or did nes 46 t"

, Miller told Judge Myers of the a difficulties she and her

. husband had previous to the hold-

up. = She said she worked in a

bakery | and eA was on the State

ect: but that cven meame -edch had

agr d to take up the bill even be-|

INDIANA

|Saving of Half Million Dollars to Hoosiers: Expected.

FHA LEADS WAY,

Cut From 5 to 41%, Per Cent Is Not to Be Retroactive. i

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U.P). |The Home Owners Loan Corp. to day announced reduction of its: ind terest rate on outstanding loans from 5 per cent to 414 per cent. ° The HOLC reduction followed the

ministration, which this week res duced interest rate oh its loans for private: home construction from 3 per cent to 4% per cent. The HOLC estimated that the re= duction will save from five, million: to six million dollars annually for, its borrowers. Approximately 85,000 HOLC loans are outstanding. Their original face

billion . dollars. dollars: has been repaid. Federal Home Loan Bank Board Chairman John H, Fahey, an-

since the -HOLC had made .no: charges in connection with grant ing the original loans “the new rate will figure 41% per cent net to bor-

balances.”. x HOLC ateuches. said the rel tion will not be retroactive. They emphasized that many details of the reduction have yet to be. worked. out and said it was not yet definite’ as to how the reduction will apply in. the cases of the approximately 125,000 delinquent loans,

Local Man: Expects Private Cut Next ,

‘ou

000 a year because of the ‘interest rate reduction, Robert M. -Collier, HOLC state manager, said today. Mr. Collier said there were 42,060

|1oans made by the HOLC now: out-

standing in the state, although no new ones have been made since June, 1936. The total amount of these loans Mr. Collier estimated at 100 million dollars. * “This ‘reduction will be of ‘some help, to people having trouble not’ trying to meet their monthly pay~ ments,” Mr. Collier stated. “They will be able now to apply mare oft their principal and liquidate: the debt sooner than they had planned.” Mr. Collier ‘said the total saving to’ each individual holding a loan would be difficult to estimate now but predicted that the action tould

interest rate made by. private loaf ‘| agencies.”

1933, the effect of its, reduced ins terest rate has been to bring private interest rates down-to a lower level,” he said. “I am inclined “to believe this action will do the same thing. »

HARRISON PARK BILL SENT TO ROOSEVELT

A bill creating the Benjamin Har~ rison Memorial Commission to carry out plans for a permanent memorial

north of Indianapolis today awaited President Roosevelt's signature. The Senate yesterday passed the measure ‘without dissent. Indiana Congressmen notified ‘thie Junior Chamber of Commerce, which has been active-in establish~ ment of the memorial, of its passage. A’ junior chamber committee headed by Robert H. Orbison, local attorney, is completing recommen=

be submitted to the Commission bill is signed.

KOWAL IS 3 UP IN | ANDERSON MATCH

Batlier Story, Page 7).

Times Special ANDERSON, Ind. Aug. 4.—The State Amateur golf championship match at the Country Club ‘moved into the second 18 holes this aftérnoon with Henry Kowal, Indian-

Maurice Rogers, Frankfort, at the halfway mark. Kowal was 7 up at nine before

duce his opponent's: advantage four holes during the'windup of morning play.

FARMER, 75, KILLED}

PT. WAYNE, Ind. Aug. 4 (U.P; er, was killed this morning in

Harlan, near here. His son, Da driver of the car, and Leon I DOr

caped with minor injuries, dants at the Lutheran Hospite The two machines co! ] intersection , of two. gravel road Sheriff Walter Felger said. Mr.

\e [ger said the view of the corner

action of the Federal Housing Ad=.

value was slightly more than threes About 815 milliow

nouncing the reduction, said that. .

rowers on - their - declining Joan :

Indiana persons having HOLE® + loans will save approximately $500; =

“probably bring a reduction in the

“Since the HOLC was begun i

to: the 23d President with a park.

dations for the memorial. They will 4 when it visits Indianapolis, if thie. !

apolis, holding a “3-up lead: over

Rogers steadied and rallied to re-

IN AUTO COLLISION

‘She paused a moment and then | : —Robert Murphy, 75-year-old farms

ah automobile crash one mile west of

A HOA DAA TERS ro