Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1939 — Page 1

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‘Flee Smoke in

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"Hotel

—Times’ Photo. .

John: ¥. ‘Baase (left) holding - his dog, Sparkplug, and: James Madfox. « + + Rescuer and rescued. :

2 Awakened, Rescued

As Tavern

Burns Below

Man and Wife Carried Down Ladder; Horse Trader, 89, Saved in W. Washington St. Fire.

o, ®sther Co. thelr own way vy to safety as he Yooms. sand)’ isle “filled with ‘smoké so dense that’ ever: the electric lights wire

not visible, - ‘Quick work of Notville Campbell, 28, a hotel ‘guest, and .John F.

Base, 64, , of 2318 E. 45th St.,,a’ Big] Four ‘was

watchman, credited with probably saving the lives of the. three rescued.

Loses Way in Smoke

Eighty-nine-year-old James Mad-|

dox, after being awakened by the

hotel proprietor, Mrs. Nettie Frey, made his way to the hallway but

could not find his way downstairs.

He said he would have smothered if Mr. Baase, who already had called the Fire Department, had not made |: his way through the stpioke and led

him to safety.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Nesbitt, “also awakened by Mrs. Frey, but unable to find . their way ‘through the smoke,. were carried down ladders

by firemen. Mrs. Frey, Mr. Campbell and Mrs.

Mary Brown, another. guest, made their way through the smoke to the

outside without assistance.

Fire Confined to Tavern The fire. was discovered by Mr.

Campbell who had awakened early

‘to .go to:.work. He called to Mr.

Baase.: Mr. Campbell then awakened Mrs. Frey who in turn awakened the

guests.”

The fire was confined toy Crawford’s’ Tavern, downstairs.. Hayden Crawford, 60 N. Mount St., propri-

etor, set, the loss at. $5000.

Mr. Maddox, who remarked that,

He is” a close friend of Sep Palin,

, noted horseman, said he had “followed horses” all his life and. had been in Ireland, Scotland, Australia and all: over the United States.. He said. he: was born in Ireland and

came to “the ‘United States in 1880.

WEATHER OUTLOOK:

FAIR AND COOLER

———— LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am... 52 10am... 7am... 52. 11a'm.... 8 a. Merny 55 , 12 (noon). 9 a. m.. 5" . 1p.m.

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Light’ rains “yesterday took the heat off Indianapolis and dropped temperatures ‘from thé unseasonal

highs: that lasted several days.

Even cooler weather was predicted for tonight and tomorrow by the The skies will be |: fair. The precipitation in the City

Weather Bureau.

yesterday was 2 of an inch.

CRASH INJURIES FATAL|.

William Boltz, 30, R. R. 4, Box 392, died today in Methodist Hospital of head injuries received when his car and a truck collided yesterday morning at Eppler Ave. and Harding St. :

FLYING SCHOOL 0.K WITHHELD

Negotiations ns by T Yurrier Are!" Completed; Hangar Is Planned.

Announcement of the purchase of the Central: Aeronautical Corp.. by. Col. Roscoe Turner asthe first step toward: establishment of his $200,000 “gir college” at the Municipal Air-’ port was withheld at a Works Board meeting today. The - announcement ‘was delayed because ‘the Board refused final approval of the school and assurance of an extension of Central’s contract until the Colonel shows “adequate financial backing.” “ His .representative, Carl Wilde, said “there is- sufficient capital and there will be no. stock selling cam= | paign in Indianapolis.” Negotiations: between Col. Turner, |’ nationally ‘known * speed pilot and} the three-time winner ‘of thé]. Thompson trophy race, and representatives of the aircraft firms were completed ‘yesterday. The purchase price of the contract was Teported to be. approximately $14, 000.) ° . Plans’ "call for construction of a $125,000 hangar to house an :approved: flying school with instruction in navigation, meteorology and other advanced technical aviation subjects. A repair and service station unit are to be; included. Col. Turner .is expected to begii operating the school in offices of the Central Core: ‘pending the construcnew hangar. Lieut.

elly ¥ of the flying instruction. Funds. are ¥eported to have been

bank and'a Hollywood motion picture actor.

{at earlier conferences,

supplied by Col. Turner, a Chicago|

SHUTDOWN OF

ALL CHRYSLER PLANTS LOOMS

Ric. 1 0. Union Files 5-Day

Notiee as Production Dispute. Grows.

DETROIT, Oct. 11 (U. P.).—The

(C. I. 0.) today threatend a strik against Chryslr Corp. ‘which has about 55,000 employess: in 13 auto plants. As. a dispute “over . production schedules became increasingly bitter, Richard T. Frankensteen, regional VU. A. -C. I. O. director, announced that the union had filed with “the State Labor Mediation Board in behalf of. all Michigan Chrysler employees a required five-

® |day notice of intention to strike.

At the ‘same time ‘it was announced that company and union

officials will meet this afternoon in

an effort to settle the dispute which |. yesterday made 22,000 men-idle and so far today had thrown 11,000 out of work, with more expected as afternoon and night shifts report for duty. : Wider Rights Sought

The strike notice was filed shortly

after the U. A. W.-C. I. O. had re-

quested the Natio opal - Labor Relations Board to fix a new basis for Chrysler negotiations. It asked that

“bt be designated Chrysler employees’

bargain gone under a corpora-tion-widé plan although the Board, in pi elections conducted recently, specified that: each plant was to be considered a separate unit. The U. A. W.-C. I. O. won 11 plants, the *U. ‘A. W.-A. F. of L. one, and neither union one. «Because of the arbitrary position s | of the company as evidenced by its refusal to arbitrate old grievances and its refusal to confer on production standards, we are compelled

to Ale a strike notice,” Mr. Franken

ichigan, such strike ne Piya Taw engcted “4 om legislature. New Proposals Waited

He said’ union spokesmen would

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‘|day with new proposals for & new contract to. replace one allowed to expire Sept. 30 and “insist that any agreement . . .. must also include satisfactory adjustment of all complaints on grievances. and Produc. tion standards.” The corporation, in answer to a similar demand of the union, made announced its willingness. to, negotiate a. “fair”

“| contract, but made ¢lear if would

refuse to submit to “union control of production.” “Mr. Frankensteen warmed the company for the current dispute, in which the management charged the union with a slowdown strike, principally at the Dodge main plant, and the union countered with accusations of “speedup.” . Continuation of the strike might ‘make 70,000 workers idle by forcing shutdowns of all Chrysler and Briggs Manufacturing Co. plants.

GEHRIG NAMED T0 'N:Y; PAROLE BOARD

Through With Baseball; Salary $5700 Per Year.

NEW YORK, Oct. 11 (U. P).— Lou Gehrig, the retired “iron horse” of the New York Yankees, today was appointed. by Mayor F. H. La Guardia to the Municipal Parole Commission. for 10 years. “I'm proud of the job,” Gehrig said. “It means 1 won’t have any more connection with baseball.” Gehrig will take office as one of three members of the parole board handling New York City cases on -| Jan, 1. “I understand that I'll be sworn into office at the Mayor's office next Monday,” Gehrig said. His salary will be $5700 a year—

ing baseball.

BULLEEIN Subscriptions totaling $105, 240.55, or 15.3 per cent of the goal, were reported at the luncheon,

Rented First. Bay—- :

The Army of 3500 Comfy Fund workers began the second day of their drive toward a $683,710 goal today, preparatory to the first re-

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mm. 1port at a luncheon in the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Today's luncheon was designated as “Special . Gifts Division Day.” Members of this division, under the leadership of Charles P. Chase, began active solicitation for larger contributions before the formal start of the campaign.

held Friday noon in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. Early reports this year cannot ‘be compared with sarly reports jn previous years, General Chairman Per:

The second report meeting will be|

Community Fund ‘Army’ - Makes Ist Report Today

different method of ‘soliciting and reporting being used. / } In the past, reports of subscriptions by firms, officials of the firms and their employees were reported separately: ‘This year, 210 subscriptions for any of the three groups in any firm will be reported until the entire unit has been canvassed. Thus, under this system, known as the unit account plan, reports probably will be delayed a day or two in some instances. DeWitt 'S. Morgan, schools superintendent, was to be the principal speaker at today’s luncheon. Mr. Morgan has been interested active: ly in the Community Fund and its Various agencies for 15 years. e “

United ‘Automobile Workers Union |

present Chrysler representatives to-|..

in 1938 he received $39,000 for play=|"

formally -was| opened Monday night at a meeting |} | at the Murat Theater, when Charles,’ P. Taft, Cincinnati, son of former |} President William Howard Taft and |

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1939

Tl T ighten Down,’ Says Center Trustee;

‘T've Been Too Easy’

Concedes Favoritism

Shown to Politicians

And Family in the Distribution of

$1, 000, 000 Relief Business.

By LOWELL B. NUSSBAUM Thomas’ M. Quinn, Center Township Trustee, today SI mitted that poMtical and family favoritism has played a heavy part in the distribution of the township's $1,000,000-

a-year relief business.

“I guess I've been too easy,” said Mr. Quinh. “but I'm

not going to be in the future. I'm going to tighten down.”

Asked specifically about detail$ of relief during. his ad-

ministration, Mr. Quinn told The Times today that:

1. Dan R. Anderson, who managed his election cam-

receive 17 per cent of the

total relief grocery business in Center Township.

2. His son, Thomas M. Quinn Jr., has been listed ih

paign last year, operates two groceries which, combined, now

legal records as a partner in

the Martindale Market, one of the two groceries operated by Mr. Anderson. Both Quinns, however,

gaged actively in , operation of or received ‘money from the store. The junior Quinn

denied that young Quinn ever en- .

Mr. Quinn

said the papers listing him as a partner were filed without his or his father’s knowledge. 3. John Barton Griffin, a son-in-law of Mr. Quinn, operates two routes for the Model Creamery, which receives more than a third of the Township's milk business each month, and that Mr. Griffin likewise operates three routes for the {Mutual Milk Co., which receives a. lesser but, substantial

share of the business. - cal “party considerations’ role in selecting the firms receiving ‘relief order's.

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have" played an me

7500 Relief Clients on Rolls

Center, the most populous township in Indiana, is caring for about 7500 relief cases at present.

It spends in the

neighborhood of $800,000 a “year for groceries, and more than $100,000 a year each for milk and bread. - Rent, fuel, clothing and medical care for relief clients and salaries of the large staff of township employees ran the

budget in the last 12 months the Trustee's records.

the administration of relief

to $1,568, 960.47, according to

At the recent County Tax Adjustment’ Board session,

in Center and certain other

townships was criticized severely. In its formal report, the Board asserted that the growing relief problem threatens immediately “to exhaust taxing abilities of three townships,” ;

one of which is Center. :

“There May Have Been Favoritism”

The report also referred to charges of laxity in Center Township’s relief administration, and condemned the prac-

Itice of trustees’ ‘purchasing supplies from a restricted number of vendors” as “conducive to abuses.” “There may have been favoritism shown,”

said Mr.

Quinn, “but the prices we have paid always have been right. (Continued on Page Four)

Sori to Save Boy's Eyesight

PHYSICIANS AT RILEY Hospital attempted today to save the right eye ‘of Eugene Basten, 17-year-old Bloomington farm youth injured yesterday in a hunting accident. Young Bastin and a companion, Van Roberts, 17, of Martinsville, were looking for groundhogs on a farm near Bloomington when they were wounded by an unidentified hunter who fired apparently in the belief that the boys were animals, authorities said, Young Bastin was struck in the eye by a pellet, while his companion: was wounded in the right shoulder and head. The Roberts youth was taken to a Bloomington .hospital, where his condition was reported fair.

MARKET IS CAUTIOUS; “ WAITS BRITISH REPLY

By UNITED PRESS Traders in the New York stock

market continued cautious - today

pending Britain's answer to Adolf Hitler's peace bid. Most stocks were slightly higher in quiet dealings. ‘ Both wheat and corn were lower at Chicago. 8S. Government bonds scored a brisk ‘advance while other sections of the list rose fractionally.. The stock market at London closed higher. Cotton futures in the U. S. were steady with gains

ranging to 5 points. “JOAN of ARKANSAS,” ; ‘The Times: new daily

{APPLICANT FOR BEER

PERMIT SUES STATE

Six Points Grocer Charges Coercion by A. B. C.

The Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission, today was accused - of “coercing and intimidating” a beer license applicant /in a. mandamus suit filed against the Commission by Koehler Brothers Grocery 5 Six Points. Filed in Circuit Court the complaint alleges the Commission “refused to renew a beer license of the

Koehler store ' without cause. Partners in the grocery, Fred W. and

‘ {Charles Koehler, charged they com-

plied with each and every State Pat in applying for the license. The suit: alleges that the commission . purposely withheld the license renewal “to intimidate and

| coerce the plaintiffs to use the part-

ner’s influence in gaining approval of Warren Township advisory board of two. other beer ‘applicants in Warren Township.” Six points is in Warren Township. According to the suit, the Commission granted the plaintiff company a temporary 7-day malt bev-

‘erage permit and “advised the plain-|ca

tif that the Koehler Brothers had not put the heat on strong enough, and that -the commission would grant another y that it would be applications of Charles E. Vansickle and Frank L. Buckley were indorsed ahd approved by the members of the Warren Township Advisory Board to operate two taverns the he perland, Warren na - The suit court to

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FINAL HOME

PRICE THREE CENTS

CLARK CLAIMS

Cabinet Officer's Speech ‘Idiotic and Unpatriotic,’ Senator Declares.

' WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P). —Senator Bennett C. Clark (D. Mo.) today accused Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson of making an “idiotic, moronic and

unpatriotic”, attempt to inflame the|

public with a war spirit.

Senator Clark, opposing the Ad- i

ministration neutrality bill on the Senate floor referred to a speech Jesieraay at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., in which ‘Mr. Johnson declared that the American Army is inadequate at present and that we should draw a defense lesson from the German conquest of Poland. “In my judgment,” Senator Clark said, “no more idiotic, moronic, unpatriotic remark has ever been made by a man in a high public position.

Says Comparison Ridiculous

“To compare the situation of the Unfed States, located between} Canada and Mexico, with 3000 miles

{of ocean between us and any possible

adversary on one side and 7000 miles

| of sea between us and any possible

adversary on the other, with a superb Navy and magnificent air force, with the situation of Poland

| caught in a nutcracker, surrounded

on three sides by Germany and the other side by Russia, is an attempt to alarm and excite our people which, to my mind, is beneath contempt.” Senator Clark said Mr. Johnson “has been flying around the country in an army airplane for several years preaching the inevitability of war and the certainty of our being drawn in and drawing horrific pictures with grisly prophecies of our own shores being invaded and our own land being laid waste.” The Missourian asserted that there is no such thing as the “limited eniergency” which President Roosevelt has proclaim

Warns Against ont

“Under it,” Senator Clark contended, “the President can exercise all the powers of a national emergency which he can exercise without specific authority of Congress. Some of the exercises of those powers have not been precisely reassuring.” Senator Clark urged the Senate to reject the suggested changes in the Neutrality Law and to avoid involvement in old world strife. “I not only do not believe. it is our duty, but I think that it would be suicidal for us to undertake to protect the world-flung-colonial empires of France and Great Britain,” he said, ‘He demanded enactment of a neutrality law with “fool-proof . and hole-proof” provisions for embargo on arnmis, munitions and imp:ements of war and a strict cash-and-carry trade in other commodities. ~ Two more Senators definitely announced their position on. arms embargo repeal today. - One, Senator Vic Donahey (D. O.), said that he would vote against repeal while Senator Chan Gurney (R. S. D.) said he would support the Administration’s stand on the issue. “It is an open secret in the Senate that there are many in and out of the Senate who believe that we should choose sides in the war,” Senator Clark said. “It is no extraordinary = coincidence that these men will be voting for repeal of the arms: embargo.” This was the first time thal the angle of embargo repeal as an aid to the Allies had been mentioned during Senate debate on neutrality law revision. Two Senators, Georgz (Continued on Page Three)

FIRST LADY IS 55; ‘JUST ANOTHER DAY’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U. P)). —Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is 55 years old today but it’s “just another day” to the First Lady. ; One exception will be made in her regular daily routine of teas, luncheons and lectures—a family celebration with a birthday cake in accordance with the Roosevelt family’s custom.

Times-Acme Photo. Field Marshal Gustaf Mannherheim of Finland .. « big hero in a little nation.

FINNS MOBILIZE TO HALT RUSSIA

Machine Guns Are Mounted In Streets as Envoy Reaches ,Moscow.

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HELSINGFORS, Finland, Oct. 11 (u, PJ. massed off the southwest coast today, troops mounted machine guns in streets and on public buildings, and scores of thousands of noncombatants Svasuated: principal cities. A Finnish envoy arrived at Moscow to receive Russian “friendship” demands. ‘At the same time it was reported by Waclaw Grayhowsg} for mer B ‘Polish ‘Ambassador to

division. of Soviet Loi Hon a large

‘number of tanks and heavy artils lery, is massed on the-border in the vicinity of Beloostrov.

Holds Air Raid Alarm

It was realized that a fight by Finland, with ' 3,800,000 people, against the Soviet Union with 160 million would be suicidal. But leaders, as they prepared to resist any threat to the nation’s independence, said “they and thejr countrymen would rather die free men than live as Russia’s : slaves. The country held the first air raid alarm test of its history during the night. Naval units mobilized at Abo, on the southwest coast, ready to take troops and war materials to the Aaland Islands, 75 miles out at the juncture of the gulfs of Bothnia and: Finland.

Little Neighbors Bowed

Trucks were mobilized for troops. Soldiers mounted machine guns on roof-tops. The post office’ and telegraph buildings were heavily guarded. Anti-aircraft searchlight batteries were installed. Scores of thousands of women and children,’ ill and aged, fled into the country from: the . big cities—Hel(Continued on Page Three)

nT R Vv. SHELBY PHYSICIAN :: i REPORTS RED ARMY | DIES AT CONCLAVE

ADDITIONS IN SOUTH

Moscow Radio Says Troops Are Sent to Turk Border.

MOSCOW, Oct. 11. (U. P.).—The Governinent Radio announced today that Red Army. units in the Caueasus ‘Mountains—on the southern frontie “facing Persia and Turkey—had been reinforced. The reinforcements were described as chiefly infantry, including picked mountain troops. The ‘numbers: of troops involved were not given. The Caucasian frontier of Soviet Russia lies between the Black and (Continued on Page Three)

Krivitsky Claims Stalin

Purged 35,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (U, P)— Walter G. Krivitsky, who said he formerly headed the Soviet Union’s| central European military. intelligence service, told the Dies Committee today that Josef Stalin “destroyed” 35,000 Red Army officers in

1937 and sent “millions” of the Russian population to _concentration

mps. ‘M. Krivitsky said he “broke” with the Russian Government in December, 1937, because he was unwilling to join in Stalin’s purge of “all the eleme which would have been the basis for.the democratization. of the country.” Dictator Stalin tightened ‘his dictatorship, M. Krivitsky said, a very. time that “all of us” wes

000 ‘Officers

porting to to tell the “inside” of the Soviet. purge, Russian activities in the Spanish war, and relations between Mr.. Stalin and Herr Hitler. Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex.) said before the hearing began that he was the best witness the Committe¢ yet had obtained. M. Krivitsky sa a sharp-featured, slender man of 40 “Since Lenin’s death, Stalin has been fighting every form of opposition in the country in laying the ground work for his totalitarian dic= || tatorship,” he He said that this campaign of Stalin's “reached its climax” in 1936 and 1937. No one, he said, could reHe prc ac-

ing forward to “more fr M. Krivitsky has: a t sere attention in In

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[Ales Set for Big- Stale

Wariares Give Gamelin |

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor’

today with preparations for big-scale warfare on “the Western Front in anticipation of final failure of Adolf Hite ler’s peace offensive. A total of 158,000 British

terials and mechanized forces including 15-ton tanks are now in France, under a uni< fied command headed by Gen. Maurice Gamelin, the British Government disclosed.

- Although Nazis insisted that they had no quarrel with the Allied dee mand for security, the. Nazi-Soviet conquests in Europe appeared to be facing sterner opposition from both the Allies and Finland. | From Moscow there also came a hint of possible trouble in the Near East with announcement that Red Army forces on the Persian frontier —facing toward the warm water ports which Russia has long envied —had been reinforced.

Esthonian Cabinet Resigns

In Berlin the Esthonian legation announced today that the Cahinet of Premier Kaarel Eenpalu had re sighed and that a new Government was formed by Prof. Yueri Uluots, Prof. Ants Piip' was named Foreign Minister.

the Saar Valley, the two main tests in the - diplomatic-military | field emerged as: 1. A declaration in the House of | contmons tomorrow by British Prime Minister: Neville Chaniberlain, {who was under to be prepared. to join France in rejecting Adolf Hitler's peace terms but in a mane ner leaving the way open for ane

Germany. Finnish Delegation in Moscow ~

to avoid being drawn into the “iron belt” of Baltic defenses being set up by Soviet Russia on the basis of : treaties now concluded with Es< thonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The. Finnish fleet was mobilized, 370, troops and minute men were reat for duty, civilians were evacuated in large numbers from possible Sanger. points and guns were mounted ‘in

elt ingion. the basis of European develope ments in the last two years it ree mained to be seen whether would oppose Russia’s vast armed

showdown comes, but for the timebeing there was every’ indication’ ° that the Helsingfors Government: (Continued on Page Three) :

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FT. WAYNE, Ind,, Oc Ind., Oct. 11. —Dr. B. G. Keeney, physician, died here today stroke as he ‘attended the ‘Indiana Medical Association = convention meetings. Almost at the time of death his

‘wife and his son, Dr. Edmund L, *

Keeney, Johns Hopkins University, - arrived to attend the session. The

sided. tomorrow as chairman of the: meeting when his son, eminently. successful, was to have been prine cipal speaker. Last week, Dr. Walter McFadden, .« also of Shelbyville and a life-long .

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FORMER POLICEMAN,

BLOOMINGTON, Ind Ind., Oct. 11 w,’ P.).—The bodies of Ule Clark, 62, former policeman and fireman here,

Clark’s home. Officials said they believed Clark shot Mrs. Skidd and then fired on himself. They had been about 12 hours. = Mrs. gone to Clark’s home. cooking for him, authoriy les said.

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friend of Dr. Keeney, died at Shele : e. :

and his divorced wife, Mrs. Lorraine Skidd, 54, wer: found today in

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