Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1939 — Page 1
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. VOLUME! 51—NUMBER 129
“Red Lollypop Saves Life of Boy, .
AN ‘FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (U. “. Five bright red lollypops lay on a table beside .2-year-old: Donald Martin’s hospital
bed today. .
His mother, weary,
a million more like them. -
Donald Jr., poking in a cupboard, found He extracted a fist full of white “candies” and ate them. Quickly’ he became strangely drowsy,
a small glass jar.
. finally dropped into a
Alarmed, his mother discovered the empty" jar, which had contained a strong sedative. “We must keep him awake,” the ambulance surgeon said on his arrival.
red-eyed but happy, ‘told him he could have them and
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him, “tickle him, talk to him, do anything, do everything.” . But Donald's - physical senses were
paralyzed.
His father bought an armful of: toy S.
had a hunch,
pop in front of Donald’s nose. The lids .of the boy’'s-eyes slowly came up. He stared for a moment ‘vacantly, while the crowded room tensed and nobody could find air to breathe.
Then, like semi-stupor.
two loliypops “Slap
Donald was not interested. Then a doctor
He thrust a bright red lolly
a |
a shaft from a bow, hig, right
hand darted out. “Gimmy!” he cried. . : In the next four hours Donald: ‘made
vanish. Said the doctor:
“He'll have a hangover, but he'll live.”
ENGLAND ROARS DEFIANCE IN AIR
Record Maneuvers Staged; German-Polish Tension Reported Growing.
LONDON — King George inspects reserve fleet off Weymouth during giant prepared- | ness test.
TOKYO—Army faction opposed in demand for alliance with Germany and Italy.
! PARIS—German-FPolish tension is. Teporsed to be nearing the
“ SHANC HAT — Japanese protest . | landing of : British sailors from destroyer at Swatow.
BERLIN Nazis order registraition of all persons between the ages of 5 and 7
By UNITED PRESS Great Britain warned Europe of its ' preparedness against attack today by the greatest air maneuvers in. peace-time history, accompanied by a formidable fleet display off the south coast. | The British tests were followed with: the keenest interest by all of « Europe, tense over what may develop out of ‘the Danzig-Polish dispute. Five | hundred. war ‘birds roared over the Channel from. France in a mock raid and were met by 800 defending ‘planes and all of the country’s anti-aircraft defenses. Squadrons of fighting planes held mock fights over London, and bombers dropped mimic bombs. The five men of a bombing crew landed - safely by parachute near Thetford when their motors failed. At. Weymouth, King George reviewed the reserve. flee: of 133 warnips vavhich will join the regular *(Continyed on Page Three) -
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McNutt Dines With a Kink
ASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Maybe air-conditioning was not standard equipment for offices in the Philippines when Paul V. McsNutt was High Commissioner there for a couple” of years. .° Inthis mew office here, where he conducts his business as Social Security - Administrator, : air ‘cooling is in effect and today Naval Hospital physiciansehad to take a kink out of his shoulder. He said . it gras caused by the chill generated by the conditioning machine. Despite the kink, Mr. McNutt had breakfast with Governor Rivers of Georgia and lunch with Atty. Gen. Frank Murphy.
RESTAURANT DEATH INQUIRY CONTINUES
The homicide squad today continued to question Ed Allen, 45-year-old owner of a restaurant at 748 S. Emerson Ave. the death of Nunzio Girlando, 28, an employee, yesterday. Allen was held on a vagrancy charge under $25,000 bond. His case was continued in Municipal Court until Aug. 17. Allen was arrested when police, summoned by a customer, found Girlando dead with a butcher knife wound in the heart,
STOCKS SAG POINT NEW YORK, Aug. 9 (U. P.).— Uneasy over the current foreign situation, traders on the Stock Exchange today bid prices around a point lower. Favorable ~ domestic trade items were disregarded, Dealings were slow,
in connection with |
$150,000 SEWER PROJECT URGED
First Overhauling in 25 “Years Is Planned by Works Board.
' The Works Board today: exiAded its sewer renovation and cleaning program to include the entire storm and sanitary system at: a ‘cost of-be-tween $150,000 and $209,000. The City’s share of the cost, about 25 per cent, would be financed partly from 1940 tax revenues and part-
{ly through bonds, and WPA funds
would be asked for the remalrgier. ; . Louis. Brandt, Board presi said there ‘are more than 400 miles of sewers and that the system nas not been completely cleaned for more than 25 years. Most of the Mile Square drains have not been cleaned for 60 years, he said. The Board will conifer next week on the project with City’ Engineer M. G. Johnson and Ray Cassiday, sewer engineer, and later with Posey Denning, ‘Marion : County WPA Administrator, Mr. Brandt added. : ; :
M'NUTT GETS CHALLENGE CHICAGO, Aug. 9 (U. P.)—Dr. Francis E. Townsend, advocate of a $200-a-month pension for oldsters, today challenged Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt to'a series of public debates with U. S. Senator Sheridan Downey, California Townsendite, on sufficiency of
the Federal Social Security Act.
Attorney ‘Borrows’ Eye,
~ One Twitch
DENVER, Aug. 9. (U. P.) —Wilfla A. Lewis, 30, scarcely daring to twitch a muscle in his face, lay in|: a Denver hospital today with the chances for regaining the sight of
‘his blind left eye depending on four
delicate stitches of hair-fine silk thread. ‘The blind Denver attorney, who obtained a minute piece of the
{I'cornea from the injured eye.of a
husky relief worker, was ‘warne:
..11| that the slightest move might snap
the thread and ruin the: experiment. He. was cautioned by -doctors not to, speak a word, for fear the cornea would . be .displaced.
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“Ave in the
May Ruin It
experiment, joked with tiendants as he prepared to leave the hospital. The two men submitted to the op- | eration yesterday in which a section of ‘cornea three-eighths of an inch
thick was cut from Mr. Davis’ blind
left eye and ~trarisferred "to Mr. Lewis’ left eye. The unnamed Denver surgeon who’performed the delicate surgery likened the cornea to a “glass” in the small window opening of the eye of the. young" Denver attorney. : Physicians will change the dressing” on’ Mr. Lewis’ eye Sunday, but were - uncertain -whether- the result’ of the operation’ would be apparent; by that time..
E. Davis, 38, Sempiojer dpi : Colo.
"WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1939
HATCHACTFOR INDIANA GAINS
Join County Legislators - In Approval.
MERIT PLAN AID SEEN
; Government Efficiency and
Economy Would Improve, Is Consensus.
Public sentiment was growing today in favor of a State law similar to the Federal Hatch Law, as civic, club and even political leaders praised the idea of barring State employees from political activity and protecting them from political exploitation. Several of those commenting on the plan of a State Hatch law pri-|
| marily favored a merit system for
all State employees, but felt that an Indiana law patterned after the
Federal Act would be a. big step in the right. direction and eventually would break down resistance to adoption of a merit system. It was suggested that by prevent-: ing State employees from active participation in politics and relieving them from the threat of losing their jobs unless they campaigned for the party in power, greater efficiency and economy in government could be achieved.
Women Leaders Approve
Yesterday, 15 of Marion County's 17 Democratic State Senators and Representatives were interviewed, a majority of them expressing themselves as willing to vote for an Indiana “Hatch” law if it were properly drawn, Among those commenting on the idea today were the heads of several women’s organizations with combined membership’ of many thousands. Among the comments were: MRS. LOWELL FISHER, Indianapolis Council of Women president: “Although it is not a substitute for a merit system, it seems to me that a State ‘Hatch’ law should be quite desirable. Such a law would relieve
‘|'state employees of political pressure
and enforced. iE contribuTe Council always has worked. for anything for the betterment of the public and always has. been definitely in favor of
ciency of our government in Indiana. Seen as Step Toward Goal’
“1 do not think taking appointive State employees out of political activity would work any real hardship on the political parties. The more political meetings I attend, the less influence it seems they have. At Democratic meetings, you find only active Democrats who have their minds made up, while the same situation prevails at Republican meetings.” MRS. LESTER A. SMITH, state chairman for government and its operations of the League of Women Voters: “The . League of Women Voters believes in and has worked for a merit system for all Federal employees in purely administrative jobs, Passage of the Hatch Bill seems to be a step toward this goal. When such ‘employees are barred from ‘pernicious political activity, there would be less resistance in Congress to the principle of selecting and retaining them on a true merit basis.
Mrs. Clark Approves
-“It has been pointed out that the provisions of this bill do not apply to employees of the various states. Logically, this provision should be extended by enactment of state
+ {laws wherever—state employees are
not subject to state merit system regulation.” MRS. GEORGE CLARK, Indianapolis Parent-Teacher Council president: “I don’t know all the ram-
Cust on Page Three) AUTO HITS SISTERS STEPPING OFF CURB: °
Both Tossed in Air, One’s
Skull Fractured.
Thirteen-year-old June Smith was in a critical condition in City Hospital today with a fractured skull and other injuries received when she and her sister Clyola, 17, were struck by a car yesterday. "The girls, who live at 827% E. Washington St., were hit as they stepped from a curb to cross East St. at New York St. They were tossed into the air."
Blvd., drove the car, police said. He reported that he swerved in an effort to miss the girls. T. R. Roberts, 36, of 814 Greer St.,
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at Lockerbie and Noble Sts. yesterday, but was not seriously injured. Six-year-old Johnnie Mae Rhyne was injured when she ran into the street near her home, 927 N. Senate Ave.,'and was struck by a taxicab,
RESUME SQUALUS TASK "PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Aug. 9 U. P.)—Preparations for raising the sunken submarine - Squalus and 26 dead were speeded today ‘after a 50-mile gale ‘forced suspension of
Z { work - late yesieraay.: Two more re er was blinded in both! Pe
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MORE SUPPORT
| Leaders of Women’s Groups
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anything that would raise the effi- |
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Bert F. Deery, 5110 Pleasant Run |:
on a motorcycle, collided with a car}
Many Homes - Flattened, Crops. Destroyed; Red Cross Directs Rescue. ee
. DETROIT, .Aug. .9 (U. P). Emergency work crews and Red Cross disaster-organizers were rushed today into tornado-riddled lower Michigan where twisters in five different areas injured hundreds of persons, flattened buildings and devastated crops. ‘The tornadoes. swept out of local-
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ized low pressure areas that had drifted eastward from Iowa and Minnesota and struck late yesterday throughout the lower half of the state. Texas township of Kalamazoc County was hardest hit. There the only fatality was recorded.
Emergency Tent Set Up
The black, funnel-shaped cloud ripped through the southern edge of
stock three miles away. In South Comstock 25 homes were blown down. An emergency tent to supply food and medical aid to hundreds of ‘homeless and injured South Comstock residents was opened at daybreak by the American Red Cross. Tornadoes also dipped into’ regions near Midland, Jackson, Grand Rapids and Lapeer, leaving many injured. Livestock ' loss was reported high. Early estimates of damage to crops and buildings were more than one million dollars.
Home Falls on Family
Lester Baker, 32, of Scotts, died three hours: after the roof and chimney of the Van Bachqve greenhouse at Kalamazoo topples on him, fracturing.his skull. A family. consisting of the mother and four children was taken to a Grand Rapids hospital when their house near Solon caved in under pressure of the tornadic winds. Leonard Elliott, a farmer living southwest of Jackson, was taken to a Jackson hospital after a tornado struck his farmhouse, ‘burying him under a pile of bricks.
CUNMANINMASK HOLDS UP SHOP
Robs N. Meridian Store as °
Seven Look On; Three ~ Get'Prison Terms.
A gunmen wearing a white halloween half-mask entered the Be2tsy Ross Candy Shop, 1611 N. Meridian St., last night and took between $200 and $300. Six employees and a customer were in the place. Meanwhile, three men: pleaded guilty in Criminal Court to crimes they committed in Irvington yesterday morning and were sentenced to terms in the Reformatory. The candy store gunman confronted Miss Betty Neff, 1200 N. Illinois St., and ordered . her to get the money. She hesitated, thinking the affair a prank, and Hattie’ Rowe, nigh? manager, standing near her, said: “Let him have the money, Betty.” Miss Neff gave the man the money from one register and he demanded the contents of two others. Then he backed to the door and walked out. James Esters, 25, of 2536 N. Rural St.,, and George Pat Williams, 21. of 2461 Sheldon St., pleaded guilty to robbery charges and were sentenced by Judge Dewey Myers tc serve 10 years. They admitted abducting Howard Sullivan, 1633 Kelly St., from a Monon Railroad watchtower at 25th St., and tying him to a tree in a vacant lot, then stealing his car. Richard Coffee, 21, of 2151 N. Arsenal Ave., pleaded guilty to conspiring with the other two to rob a grocery store in the 7900 block E. Washington St. shortly after the Sullivan abduction’ and was sentenced to serve from 2 to 14 years in the Reformatory and was fined
$25. Police said Esters also admitted holding up the Haag Drug Store, E. Washington St. and Audubon Road, before the Sullivan abduction.
FIND NEW GAS VEIN .
WASHINGTON, Ind, Aug. 9 (U.
struck at a depth of 400 feet yesterday on the Edith White farm in Veale Township. The gas will be cased off and drilling will continue to the McCloskey sand. Several small oil producers already are in the field.
Kalamazoo and advanced to Com-| *
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ON INDIANA FARM
P).—An estimated half-million} pe cubic - feet production of gas was
BURBANK, Cal, Aug. 9 (U. P.)— A million-dollar cargo of movie stars flew East today bearing - the threat of a strike which might ultimately ‘darken every movie ‘theater in America. . They demand a settlement, on their. terms; of one of the most complicated’ battles in union labor annals, “If we don’t win the ar gument,”
said” President h Morgan of": {Screen tor's leader Eo = flying * delegation; “I -wouldn't strike in
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* the ‘movie studios.”
to New York ahd thence!
ROGINE
were, besides Mr. . Morgan, such other executives of the highest paid labor union in the world #5 Edward Arnold, Binnie . Barnes, Jean Muir; | Lucille Gleason, Wayne
The plane, which sat down briefly
12.noon (Indianapolis Time), was to. arrive in New York at 3:30. : The party ‘will to Atlantic City tomorrow; to: tell President Wil-| liam Green: of ‘the A. F. of L. that they consider: the transfer of an allied organization to the jurisdic-|
case of kidnaping.” “A plain case,” Mr. Morgan said as he climbed aboard the plane here late last night. “And- if we
‘don’t win the argument in Atlantic|”
City I wouldn't be surprised if there was a strike in the movie siudios. We are pledged to fight. with every means at our command ind while ‘strike’ is- an ugly word, it sometimes is an effective plan of action.” The fight has more angles and plots and. counter-plots than a detective story. “It’s so fosgome mixed up that
Advance Orders Reported Heaviest in . History. .
DETROIT, Aug. 9 (U. ®).—Packard Motor Car Co. will reduce prices of its 1940: models and slready has the greatest volume of advance orders in its history, M. M. Gilman, president; ‘disclosed in a preview of the new line today. Pointing out that Packard is “first in the field with 1840 models,” Mr.
be supported ‘by the largest news-
paper advertising campaign the
company has ever placed.”. “The reductions, as compared with | pe a year ago,” he said, “total $120 on the’ lowest priced line, the 110; $150 on the 120, and as much as $400 on
the super eight, using the touring sedan as a basis of comparison.
KINGSTON, Ont., Aug. 9 (U, P). —After perching on top of a 128foot chimney at Kingston Penitentiary for more than 12 hours,. a Prench-Canadian convict serving a 20-year term climbed down early today and surrendered to prison guards. The. convict, homesick for his for‘mer. home, St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary, Montreal, from which he was recently transferred here, went on a strike in an effort to force prison officials to send” him back. While working in the prison yard late yesterday ‘afternoon: ‘he serampbled Snnoticed
Hunger Drives Convict From Perch on Chimney
&
ticed for a few minutes. Finally, he was located sitting on the smokestack, high above the prison yard. Threats, promises anc the blinding rays of powerful searchlights trained on him failed $a budge the convict. : He warned Warden I. W. Allen he would jump to his death if guards attempted to take him, Several times as guards approached the bottom of the chimney the convict moved toward the oul ‘side of the narrow ledge, ready to jump. { Officials finally decided to let him sit there “as long as he wants $0.”
the powernouse Early today.
“his food and water ‘and, ex!
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Gilman said that the new cars ‘‘will|
‘Matter Ind,
PRICE THREE CENTS |
Rush Aid to Michigan T ornado Zones; One Dead, Hu un ndreds Reported Injured
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Another aveting rene to. kindling by siorm’s fury. Movie Actors Threaten Strike in Union Qua
the public probably will never understand,” said John Garfield, who wanted to make the trip but had to stay home and make. movies. Stripped of all the side issues, the battle boils down t{o the fact that the American Federation of Actors
Stage Employees. A Previously the : ion “was apart of the As“sociated Actors- and Artistes - America—and the Sereen Guild demands thiit it be returned to that
Thr Morgan put it: What does
pms of an actor? ‘Barnes, beauteous in a yellow
nat. light-colored suit, dishat ang. there were 13 men and
omen aboard the ship, counting
ials settled that by as-
press agent to go along ik the jinx.
Morris, | the Henry Hull, Mischa Auer and Larry |T | Steers.
'2 ARMY FLIERS DIE IN5000- FOOT CRASH
Second Plane Collision Lands Safely.
ROUND LAKE, N. Y., Aug. 9 (U. P)).—One of four airplanes en route’
northern New York sideswiped another 5000-feet up today and crashed
fliers. The victims were Lieut. Morris E. Thomas and Private Anthony R.
Gerrity of the 97th Observation Squadron, ‘based at Mitchel Field,
+X Ne sideswiped plane, piloted by Lieut. Marshall Prince, was. forced down at Saratoga Springs airport. One of its wings was cracked, the propellor's three blades were bent, ‘and the -motor was loose in the|
* The death plane narrowly missed
|a crew of workers on a highway
bridge project. Jesse Pitts, a worker, was knocked unconscious when he was felled to the ground apparently by a fragment of the plane.
OFFICIALS CONFER ON NEW LIGHT CONTRACT
Mayor ‘Reginald H. maid. 5. Sullivan conferred with other City officials today on specifications for a new City street lighting contract expected to submitted soon to the IndianNh Power & Light Co. The present contract expired in 1935, but it has been extended for six month periods since then. Last spring the City notified the light company. it would seek a new contract at a lower rate and ordered City M. G. Johnson to prepare the specifications. After negotiations were deadlocked {for several weeks an agreement with the light company was reported reached. The City has been paying an average of about $300, 000 annually for street lighting.
DEMANDS PAY CUT:
LANSING, Mich.,‘Aug. 9 (U.P) — Auditor General Vernon Brown couldn’t believe it the first time so he asked E. J. Parr, Dirsctor of Drugs and Drug Stores of the Pharmacy Board, to say it again. “I want,” repeated Mr. Parr, “to have ‘my salary ‘cut from $5000 to $4000. I.used to -hold this job at $4000 and that's all it's worth,”
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STOPF.D.R - DRIVE STARTS NN HINTERLAND
lel Seizes Challenge And Assails ‘Gamblers’ In Congress.
HANDS TIED, HE CLAIMS
Raps Blocs Which Teamed To Defeat Neutrality and" Lending Bills.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WAHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The “Stop-Rooseve]t-in-1940”" campaign, designed to block the nominatien either of the President or of a New Dealer, begins now back in the hinterlands with the return of anti-New Deal Democrats to their home baliwicks. Leaders of the conservative Fevolt went away feeling their oats over the defeat of the President’s spend-ing-lending bill in the. closing days of Congress, believing that the President’s prestige suffered thereby. Mr. Roosevelt himself has seizéd the challenge, as he revealed from Hyde Park yesterday, and the fight within the party anticipatory to 1940 ‘will revolve about this issue for the next few months. In sharp criticism of the Republics an minority in Congress and the 25 per cent of the Democratic majority that teamed up to defeat the neutrality, spending and housing bills, Mr. Roosevelt said this bloc had ‘made two bets with American people—that war will not come before Congress meets again and that private enterprise can take up the slack caused by dropping one million persons from relief rolls, as well as the virtual suspension of the PWA program: which gave employment to two million.
Hopes Bettors Win
‘Mr. Roosevelt said he hoped that Congress wins those hazardous bets, but that if it loses, the Congres= sional group that opposed him must assume full responsibility before the people. Mrs. Roosevelt was present at the Hyde Park conference, leaning against a bookcase. Once, when the President was discussing the cur= tailment- of relief, she commented - that relief expenditures had if=creased ‘genera purchasing power. Mr. Roosevelt seized upon the sug gestion and said that the dropping of 3,000,000 workers and their families from relief and PWA projects would greatly diminish purchasing power. Again, Mrs. Roosevelt suggested an analogy about the killing of the lending and housing bills -haviig forced American business to te brink of a precipice. She said that when they wefe ‘children they often had visited the home of “Uncle Ted”—former President Theodore Roosevelt—at Oyster Bay, N. ¥., and he had lined them: up a sand bluff, raced them to tk# brink and had them leap over the precipice. Thus they learned, as . children, how hard it was to climb back up to the brink again, “sliding back two steps for every one taken forward.” - When the President ughed, she amended the remark to say that they slid back one step for every two taken forward, ;
Hands Tied, He Says
. Then Mr. Roosevelt said he had hoped to provide a graded adjust ment period in which private enterprise could employ displaced relief workers but that his opponents had created a precipice. He said it is hard to get down a precipice withe out danger to life and limb and the descent usually entails a slowing up. The lending bill, he said, had been intended to provide a graduated de . scent from the level of high une employment. The situation h been that 3,000,000 persons have hdd relief jobs and 2,000,000 have worked on PWA projects, he said, and thess 5,000,000 persons, together with their families and dependents, rep- . resent 20,000,000 Americans. The Congressmen’s “gamble” with thes neutrality bill, he said, might affect 1,500,000,000 humans in ‘the world. His plan had been to elimi nate mandatory arms embargoes ¢ on belligerents. and he said the Cune gressmen who bet he was wrong had tied his hands so that he: was virtually powerless make . an (Continued on Page Three)
F. D. R. CALLS FOR "EFFECTIVE ECONOMY
‘WASHINGTON, Aug Aug. 9 (U P).< President Roosevelt today directed heads of Government departments and agencies to survey their operations to find what savings could be effected under improved administration. In a letter to heads of departe ments, independent establishments and other Government agencies, Mr. Roosevelt said he believed ‘that “substantial savings can be effected in the cost of Government.” =. He added that he wished to ses such savings “reflected in the ap« portionment of appropriations.” 2
COOL WEATHER DUE TO LAST OVERNIGHT,
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6.a m. 63 10a. m... 7am... 65 11a m.. gam... 67 12 (noon) : 9am... 69 1p m...
Cool breezes “from the West duced the temperature in Indianape. olis to slightly below normal ‘today, and more of the same was: predicted by the Weather Bureau: for on Slightly - warmer weather 1 tinued fair skies were. fo
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