Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 October 1939 — Page 1
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VOLUME 51—NUMBER 194
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TUESDAY; OCTOBER 24,1939
"LIE DETECTOR
/ Financial ..., 13
USED T0 QUIZ RELIEF STAFF
Lewis Checks on Stories Told by Trustee's Aids in Inquiry.
Use of lie detector tests to check stories told by several employees of the Center Township Trustee's office was revealed today as Prosecutor David M. Lewis intensified his relief probe. One of those given a lie detector test last night, it was learned, was a
key employee of the Trustee's office,| &=
who has been held by the Prosecutor “under cover,” and without charge being filed, for about a week. The : employee, whose name was not revealed, is reported to have undergone intensive questioning by Mr. Lewis and his deputies in an
effort to learn whether there has]
been collusion on the part of any of the Trustee's employees in the filing of alleged false relief claims.
Plans Other Tests
This employee is the only member of the trustee's staff who is being detained, it was said. The Prosecutor indicated he intends to make frequent use of lie detector tests during the progress of his investigation in order to check statements made by witnesses and to run down new clues and| tips. He declined to verify reports that several more arrests might be made within the next few days, asserting that none was contemplated for the present. The Grand Jury, which yesterday heard testimony relating to the filing of alleged false claims for relief milk in Center Township, heard nine other witnesses today, several of them relief clients.
Revision Is Discussed
Mr. Lewis denied reports that he had been given evidence of allegedly inferior milk being delivered to relief clients in some instances. He declined to say whether his own iavestigators had obtained samples of relief milk for testing. Plans for revising the entire Center Township relief system were to be taken up this afternoon at a conference between Trustee Thomas M. Quinn and the Township Advisory Board. Mr. Quinn announced earlier that he would ask the Board to approve a plan, advocated by The Indianapolis Times, for the appointment of a committee of disinterested businessmen to work ‘out a new graftproof system on’ a business-like basis to eliminate the waste of the taxpayers’ funds. Witnesses heard by .the Grand Jury yesterday included two officials of one of the two milk companies with which Mr. Quinn's son-in-law, John Barton Griffin, is connected. They and a bookkeeper for the firm remained in the Grand Jury room more than two hours. O=ders Pour In Mr. Griffin was arrested Thursday on a charge of filing false milk claims.. His arrest was followed two days later by the arrest of Dan R. Anderson, operator of two “faJyorite” relief groceries and cam‘paign manager for Mr. Quinn last year. One-of the groceries, the Martindale Market, was opened last January a few days after Mr. Quinn took office and immediately began receiving a large share of the township’s grocery order business. The grand jurors will recess again tomorrow afternoon, following their practice of meeting only the first three days of each week. No indication was given by the Prosecutor as to when the jurors would be ready to make; a report, but it was believed that a partial report probably would be ready by next week.
TRAFFIC VIOLATORS’ FINES AVERAGE $9
Eight persons arrested by police and deputy sheriffs in the week-end drive on speeders and reckless drivers were fined an average of $9 today’ by Municipal ‘Judge John J. McNelis. Deputy sheriffs arrested 31 persons Sunday and yesterday on charges of speeding and failing to stop at stop signs on County highways. Two crews of deputies were unable to find any violators last night, they reported.
STOCKS MAKE GAINS RANGING UP TO $3
_By UNITED PRESS ‘ Gains ranging from fractions to more than $1 were made in the stock market at New York today with aviations, tobaccos, amusements and’ building issues strong.
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VIEWS BOOM AS WPA LIQUIDATOR
Jennings Says Continued Recovery Offers Hope of Ending Relief Projects.
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Indiana now is in the midst of an industrial boom which, if sustained. offers the first hope of almost complete liquidation of WPA, John K. Jennings, Indiana WPA head, reported here today. He attributed the boom, aside from seasonal increase, almost 90
pean war on oir markets, But the
sides in the Neutrality Law changes now being debated in Congress. Classify Workers ‘The WPA in Indiana offers the only labor pool now. available, Mr. Jennings declared. “So I am planning to take advantage of that fact to give every person possible an opportunity to return to a job in private industry, for I never have considered WPA anything but an emergency agency. Mr. Jennings explained tlat he has appointed liasion men ir each industrial center in Indiata to work in co-operation with the United States Employment Service. “Whenever any factory wants to add to its employees, we have complete index files regarding the skills of WPA workers, and such men are selected to match, the jobs scheduled,” Mr. Jennings said. “Of course they .get better pay than on WPA and we have ruled that if they do not accept this private work they will be dropped from our Tolls. Recertified if in Need “Under the Wage-Hour Law the minimum pay in industry must be 30 cents an hous commencing today. From July“ to Sept. 1, 30,000 WPA workers who had served for 18 months or more were forced off the Indiana WPA rolls under the law.” “These persons were to be recertified if in need and less than seven out of 10 have applied for such recertification. I am convinced that the November WPA quota of 62,000 in Indiana will be more than ample, for men are leaving every day to take private jobs-and we have only 50,000 on the rolls now when our present quota is 59,500. Mr. Jennings called on both Senators VanNuys and Minton and Rep. John W. Boehne Jr.
PURSE SNATCHER, 22, ‘GETS FINE AND TERM
Nathaniel Shriver St., purse. snatching by Municipal Judge Charles J. Karabell today. Clark was fined $300 and costs and given 180 days on the Indiana. State.Farm. He- is alleged to. have. snatched Pustes of two women during the last wee
Clark, 22, of 2133
Fire Chief Fred C. Kennedy today urged the Safety Board to buy fire hose in separate lots 'of 1000 feet each so that the purchases would not necessitate the approval of City Council. Acting on the Chief's recommendation, the Board awarded a ntract for $1300 worth of firstgkade hose to the U. S. Rubber Co. whose bid was identical with two other bids. The City Council cannot scrutinize the award because it is less
| than $2000. : Asked by Frank B. Ross, Board
member, why only 1000 feet was being purchased if 10,000 feet were eeded, Chief Kennedy said:
“If I buy more than 1000 feet of hose I'll have to go before the Doun. cil. It’s harder dg convince nin
per: cent ta: the effect of the.Euro-
Hoosier WPA chief refused to take}
Two Killed in Ft. Wayne Rail Wreck
Switch engine right) leaves coach crumpled.
12 Injured as Switch Engine Hits Express - At Depot.
FT. WAYNE, Ind., Oct. 24 (U. P..
|—Two persons were killed and 12
were injured, two seriously, today when a switch engine backed into the side of a Chicago-New York Express of the Pennsylvania Railroad at a downtown depot. Those. killed: were Robert Brydon, 50, Windsor, Canada, and Erven B. Salkeld, 46, Birmingham, Mich. Seriously injured were A. R. Deihl, Crescent, Pa. and an unidentified man. They were given little chance to survive. The passenger train, the Mid-City Express, left Chicago last night: at 11:40 p. m. and would have arrived at New York City at 6: 50 p. m. (Indi Time). _ Strikes. Third Car
When the accident occurred, ‘it was pulling into the Wabash Depot, preparatory to switching over a section of its. cars to.the Wabash Road for rerouting to Detroit. Police said the switch engine backed into the passenger train at a switch. The tender of the switch engine, police said, struck the third car of the train. The side of the passenger car, a coach, was crumpled: by the collision, but the car remained on the tracks. The tender was derailed. Injured Listed
The others injured were William Schlink, 63, a Pennsylvania conductor, Ft. Wayne; Mrs. Anna Deihl], 77, believed to be the wife of A. R. Deihl, one of the seriously injured; Stanley Moy, 35, Detroit, and his son, Sun, both Chinese; Mrs. Mary Valerio, 60, Chisholm, Minn.; James Alford, 58, Ft. Wayne; Lewis Jones, 55, Valparaiso, Ind.; Kathryn Giovanini, 64, Chisholm, Minn.; Paul H. Strong, Chicago, ani Mrs. John Bear, 63, Washington, D. C.
75-UNIT APARTMENT
STRUCTURE PLANNED
was found guilty of|
Permit Asked for Building at E. 34th-Washington Blvd.
A $300,000 apartment building of 75 units is planned at the northeast corner of E. 34th St. and Washington Blvd., according to a variance request on file with the City Zoning Board. The Board will meet Monday to consider the request which was filed by John H. Max of 452 Sutherland Ave. Plans call for a three-story, colonial structure. with 25 units to each floor. Units would range in size from efficiencies to five-rqom suites. ® - Also planned is the construction of 25 garages as a part of the building and 20 single garages in the rear. The building would be erected on a lot with a 280-foot frontage and -a 284-foot depth. Lloyd Allen and John R. Kelly, Architects and Builders _Bldg., are the, architects.
Avoid Couircil’s 0. K. in Buying City Fire Hose
men than it is to convince three men.” ) Mr. Ross, -who.said he. knew nothing about fire hose and did not helieve himself qualified to vote in awarding the bids, moved that ‘he bids be referred to a special committee of experts for analysis. LeRoy J. Keach, Board president, objected. He said it would delay the purchase and that a committee of experts, probably could not be found. The motion- was forgotten. Mr. Keach said he agreed with Chief Kennedy’s recommendation. Other bidders were W. H. Glazebrook, 519 Circle Tower Bldg. and the Bi-Lateral Fire Hose Co., Chicago. Chief Kennedy ' said he recommended the U. S. Rubber Co. product because it had rn ‘‘superiorto other brands” in actual |
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ASK INCREASED GIFTS TO FUND
sia, 486 “Neetled to Reach Drive’s Goal Before Deadline Thursday. $683,710.00
502,223.25 181,486.75
Amorvnt raised to date . Amount needed Campaign ends Thursday.
With $181,486.75 still needed, the army of 3500 volunteer Community Fund - workers today concentrated their ‘drive on individuals, seeking
increased gifts as well as pledges;
| from those Ng. did, not -ysubsctibe Nagis-had.
last. year. Fund officials. said they felt confident they would reach their goal of $633,710 by the close of the annual campaign Thursday night. An ‘additional = $108,315.49 was turned in at yesterday's report meeting, bringing the total raised to date to $502,223.25, or 73 per cent of the goal. Another Report Tomororw”
The seventh report meeting will be held tomorrow noon at the Claypool Hotel, with the final meeting scheduled for Thursday night.
Highlighting yesterday’s ' report meeting was-the announcement of a gift of $53,374.20, a 100 per cent report, from Eli Lilly & Co.. the executives and the employees, and a contribution of $15,500 from employees of the Indianapolis Public Schools. The $15,500 was from teachers, principals, business office and building and grounds department employees, and. represented an increase of 33 per cent or $4000 over last year.
. 28 Reach Quotas
Twenty-eight business firms were reported as reaching or exceeding their quotas. They are: Home Owners Loan Corp., $240.25 for 100.1 per cent; Griffith Distributing Corp., $2607 for 100.3 per cent; L. Strauss & Co, (Continued on Page Three)
OLDEST INMATE OF PRISON DIES AT 72
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. Oct. 24 (U. P.).—Alonzo Powers, 72, the oldest inmate of the Indiana State Prison from the standpoint of years served, died today of heart disease. Powers came to: the prison Dee.
the murder of: a; blacksmith at Chesterton. On April-11, 1912, he was. transferred to the prison’s insane hospital where he died. Powers’ prison - number was 263. The most recent prison ‘number assigned is 20,314. ¢
HEARING ON $600,000 “JORDAN SUIT OPENS
SHELBYVILLE, Ind. Oct. 24 (U. P.) .—Judge James A. Emmert heard evidence in Shelby Circuit Court today regarding a $600,000 claim filed against the estate of the late Arthur Jordan, Indianapolis philanthropist. The claim was filed by Willis. G. Howard, a Chicago apartment house operator. He ‘asked for $498,407.54 in back salary and for services but additions have ‘brought the claim to approximately $600,000.
ASKS REVOCATION OF |
CAB FIRM’S LICENSE
The Safety Board today recommended that Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan revoke the license of Red]
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NTRABAN AMERICA \N CREW MISSING:
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SEA CONTROL 1S STILL CHIEF GERMAN GOAL
Berlin and London Disagree On Effectiveness of © Ocean Attacks.
By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor
Adolf Hitler gave the world a .{spectacular demonstration today of
his promise to redouble the Nazi sea offensive pending decision on a major thrust against France's Maginot Line. The German cruiser Emden is roving the Atlantic Oeean shipping: lanes in line with Herr Hitler's orders to intensify operations “in all oceans,” it was desclosed after the warship had captured the United States freighter City of Flint, put a prize crew aboard and sent her captive to the Russian port of Murmansk. Two Aims Cited
The American freighter, which played an heroic role in the rescue of survivors of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, presumably will -be released because it was taken by the Germans to a neutral port after halting at Tromsoe, Norway, te put ashore 37 British sailors taken from
an unidentified merchant ship sunk .
off Bermuda. But: for the moment: at least: the}
emphasis to their .sea offensive which has two main objectives: 1. To convince neutral ships that they are not ‘safe in carrying contraband to. thé Allied countries or in joining the convoys arranged by London with British warship protection.
How About’ Other Raiders
2. To break the backbone of British naval power by submarine and aerial attacks, thus ending- the blockade. That goal if achieved would mean triumph for Germany in the European war. So far, the British insist, the Ger- | man ‘successes at sea have been more spectacular than damaging to the Allies but, much mystery still surrounds the’ marine war and the (Continued on Page Three)
RAIN IS FORECAST AS FIRES RAGE ON
3000 Acres in Southern "Indiana Burned Over.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a.m....45 1lla m..... 62 7a m.... 46 12 (noon) .. 64 . 49 52
2p m..... 58
67 10a. m..... 2
The Weather Bureau forecast showers for the entire state tonight and tomorrow and forest men, who have battled fires for several days, looked forward to some relief. More fires in grass and. timber régions in southérn Indiana are reported daily and forest rangers considered the possibility of closing some of the worst sections to traffic. By “last night more than 3000 acres were burned over, almost entirely in southern counties, and the damage to timber and wild life alone
Adolf Hitler.
is estimated at $45,000.
Defends War
Joac nim von Ribbentrop Rips * “This war was forced upon Germany.”
PUTS DANZIG IN REICH FOREVER
Von Ribbentrop Declares Belief French People Oppose Conflict.
“DanzIG; ‘Oct. 24 (U. py ia
HAR “Foreign Mister” Joachim von
Ribbentrop, addressing a meeting of
the Nazi Party “old guard” here, as-
serted tonight that “this war was forced upon Germany in the truest sense of the word” and added that “Danzig never: again will ‘be separated from the Reich.” - Baron Von Ribbentrop began his address with a long survey of: the diplomatic events leading up to the start of the German-Polish conflict, remarking that ‘Germany never left Poland in doubt that sooner or later the question of Danzig and the Corridor must be solved.” Baron von Ribbéntrop, presented by Regional Leader Albert Forster, said that he did not “have a single doubt” that the French people were opposed to the war.. “The German people are now determined to fight this war and to continue until security of the German Reich in Europe is guaranteed and until the danger of attack on the German people is removed for all time,” he said. Nazi party provincial leaders have returned to their posts from Berlin after a series of conferences with Usually well-informed sources expressed belief that they reported to Herr Hitler on the feeling of peoplé in their districts,
BULLETIN
(Earlier Story, Page Three)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U. P.). —The Senate wrote into the Ad; ministration’s neutrality bill today a broad shipving amendment permitting American merchant vessels: to . visit belligerent ports in the Pacific and in the Atlantic from Bermuda south.
STAR SUES FOR DIVORCE SALEM, Mass., Oct. 24 (U: P.).— Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan of Cambridge, the nation’s second-ranking woman tennis player, filed suit today for divorce - from Marshall Fabyan Jr., Boston socialite.
Daddy and Penny Take Pain From Boy" S Burns
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“Penny, daddy. Penny.” For the sum of one cent, Frank Arnold Dailey, - 3, today grinned about burns on his right leg and made a successful effort to be a
great big boy.
Because he is deeply ‘attached to his * father, Lawrence Dailey, a veteran who wa: wounded in- the
- World War, Frank is at his home,
Cab, Inc., the city’s largest fleet of | &
cabs, unless it renews its public}! Jjabiitty insurance, which expired]:
Oct Thomas Kackley, company secretary, said the company was nagoti-
ating a new insurance policy but}?
had not yet sighed. He saigl a new
one would be signed within a few|
Frank Araold Dailey... penny.
1222 S: Sheffield Ave, instead of at City Hospital. Yesterday he was playing across the street anfl a neighbor boy was lighting and throwing matches. One ignated Frank's clothing. Willis Fry, 620 E. 13th St., a food truck driver, beat out the "flames and Frank’s sister, Thelma, 16, carried him home. At City Hospital the doctors at first: said Frank should stay there. Frank grabbed his father’s hand and
“indicated firmly that if he stayed
his father stayed. “Better take him home,” the doctor said. “He'll do:better there.” . So Frank was carried home by his father and he’s there today. They're great pals and they're soins to spend sometime s
City of Flint Was on
velopments:
now before Congress.
Britain,
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out of the war zone.
had interned her prize crew
pocket battleship Deutschland revealed that the City of Flint
marine or the’ Deutschland.
at the Foreign Office, asking had to the cargo and seeking
In Washingion:
Voyage Legal Under
American. Law When Seized by German / Raider, White House Says.
By UNITED PRESS
Europe's war involved the United States today with the | seizure by the German cruiser-raider Emden of the freighter City of Flint, owned by the United States Government. De-
1. The ‘White House asserted that the ship, which is leased by the United States Lines, was intercepted while on a “legal and lawful” voyage under United States law, but one that would not have been possible under the Neutrality Bill
: 2. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the United States {Maritime Commission, which the freighter carried “conditional contraband” bound for
owns the vessel, agreed that
° 8. American Senators declared that the incident demonstrated the necessity for legislation to keep American ships
4. The Russian official news agency announced that the City of Flint had been taken to the Bay*of Kola on the Arctic Ocean near Murmansk, Russia, and that Soviet officials there
of 18. What had happeneil
to the American crew remained a mystery.
5. Norwegian officials, who identified the raider as “the 5000-ton crack German cruiser the Emden and said that the
was also roving the Atlantic, had stopped off Tromsoe, Nor-
way, Saturday and sent ashore 37 British members of the crew of the freighter Stonegate, rescued by the City of Flint Qct. 13 after their ship was sunk by a German sub
voile
=r The-United States riba 5t Beli made 1 about the City of Flint at the war and navy departments he
what objections the Germans the whereabouts of the crew.
The Germans replied they had no information. 4 1 The United States Embassy in Moscow was promised : a report as soon as possible on whether Russia would release the ship, as most precedents of international law require. 8. In London, the Admiralty studied the case carefully, but admitted there seemed to be no violation of international law involved in the seizure.
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Where Is Crew? Hull Inquires.
age when it. was intercepted. Mr. Early noted] however, that the interception anc reported seizure- of the vessel would have been impossible under the Administration neu-
| trality bill now being considered by
Congress. The neutrality bill in present form would bar the transport, of any cargoes by U. S. vessels to belligerent nations, The City of Flint was en route to British ports with a cargo of various metals which have been placed on the German contraband list. Mr. Early said that the State Department had ‘cabled = American diplomatic representatives abroad to begin an immediate investigation of
circumstances surrounding the cap-|
WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U..P.).—Secretary of State Cordell Hull said today no word had been received from the crew of the American freighter City of Flint, seized by a German warship, and added that probably more than half the Flint’s cargo was conditional contraband. Mr. Hull's statement followed a notation by White House Secretaiy Stephen T. Early that the City of Flint was on a “lawful and legal” voy-
ture of the American freighter. ~The White House Secretary made clear that his statement that the City of Flint's voyage was “legal and lawful” related only to its ace tivities under American statutes, He made no analysis of international legal comp'ications involved in. is seizure, explaining that all international phases are being explored by the State Department and the White House has nothing to add at this time. The United States traditionaHy has fought the search-and-seizure methods which damaged: our commerce in past wars. Whether ‘the
‘United States can take vigorous ac-
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In Copenhagen:
Three Nazi Raiders : Reported on Ocean.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Oct. a Russian Arctic port as a prize.
to Kola Bay, north of Murmansk. The United States made inquiries. in Germany and Soviet Russia as’ to the capture and the fate of the American crew of 41 under Capt. Josepn A. Gainard. .In Moscow, the Foreign Office promised American Ambassador, Laurence A. Steinhardt, that he would be given all details as soon as possible, In addition to the Emden, the Oslo newspaper Aftenposten reported’ that the German ' pocket hin Deutschland of 10,000 tons was in the Atlantic and that it had sunk the British steamer Stonegate, whose crew of 38 had been picked up by the City of Flint before the capture of the American ship. "The Britons were landed at ‘Tromsoe Saturday and it was said there the Stonegate was torpedoed by a U-boat. Bremen There Too
The Nazi pocket. battleship Admiral Scheer previously had been reported in the South Atlantic, where the British liner Clement was sunk. The story of survivors that they had been attacked by the Ad-
miral Scheer was never, confirmed
‘officially, however,
‘|terned the Ge.
24 (U. P).—Three German ware
— |ships were reported roving the Atlantic today as Nazi sea raiders, one of which. captured the American freighter City of Fim and sent her to
The City of Flint, Norwegian officials said, was capfured by the | Nazi: cruiser Emden, which put a prize crew aboard and sent the freighter
Except for announcement that the City of Flint, which rescued more
than 200 survivors of the torpedoed British liner Athenia, had been sent to Kola Bay—not far from the reported place of refuge of the Ger= man liner Bremen—there was little information ‘about thé capture, A United Press Oslo dispatch said today that the City of Flint had been halted by the Emden in the North Atlantic after the American ship had picked up the. crew of the Stonegate, which was. Nike on Oct. 13 near Bérmuda.
Raider in British Zone
The Emden declared the City"of Flint’s cargo contraband, the dis patch said, put a prize crew ahoard, and ordered it first to Tromsoe, Norway, where it landed the Britons, and then to Kola Bay where the Russians detained it and. ins prize crew. . -. The' eircumstances in which the Emden captured the City of “Flint | remained to be determined: But it was apparent that the 5400-ton, 28knot cruiser, naval namesake of a famous raider of ihe” World wer was at'large on the seas regar : e Three)