Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1939 — Page 1
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“Use Is Urged to Force
Prices Down in Center Twp.
Use of the food-stamp plan as a means of forcing down prices paid ‘by Center Township relief clients was advocated today by William H. Book, Chamber of Commerce executive vice president. Mr. Book disclosed that he reguested the Federal Government several months ago to extend the experiment, now being tried in a number ‘of other cities, to’ Marion County, and that “consideration of the proposal was promised: In a . conference with Edward P. Brennan, State Board of Accounts chief accountant, he -asked Mr.:
Brennan to lend the Board's support for the plan. ;
U. S. Aid Indicated
The conference was in connection with Mr. Brennan's recent promise to assist Center Trustee Thomas M. Quinn in reorganizing the Township's relef system to eliminate the evils which brought on the present Grand Jury investigation. -Mr. Book's disclosure that he had
. asked the Government to try out
the experiment here followed the first of a series\of articles on the plan by Thomas | L. Stokes, The Times’ special iter, yesterday. The Chamber executive recently conferred. in Milwaukee, Wis., with Paul Jordan, regional manager for the Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. and was assured that the Government would like to-try the plan here, "providing the relief setup is improved. .
Suggestions Presented ’
In his conference with Mr. Brennan, Mr. Book said the primary criticism of Center Township's relief system is that it is “administered for the benefit of the vendor rather than the relief client.” Among the suggestions he presented were: 1. Improving the quality and increasing the size of the trustee’s investigating staff to make certain that only those qualified for relief | receive it. 2. Removing the purchase of supplies from the influence of nny sort of favoritism, either by adopting the Government's food-stamp plan, or by revising the. present system to permit relief clients to trade at any store they choose. Among points stressed by Mr. Book were the need for more continuous contac® with those: on re-
" lief rolls, the merit system. for se-
lection of relief investigators, and “samp'ing” checks on the need of gelief clients by such an organiza(Continued on Page Three)
FAIR AND WARMER WORD STILL GOES
LOCAL TEMPERATURES a.m. ....38 10a.m. .... a.m. ....38 1lla.m. ....56 S§a.m. .... 40 12 (noon) .. 60 9am. .... 46 Ipm.....
Fair skies and warmer temperatures were Indianapolis bound for tonight and tomorrow the Weather Bureau prédicted today. The lowest temperature fonight will be about 35, ‘the Bureau said.,
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FORECAST: Fair and Tot & so cool tonight; lowest temperature about 5; tomorrow fair. and warmer.
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FIN ; AL 1 HOME
PRICE THREE CENTS
AR, 70 SAFE WHEN BRITISH
DESTROY R HITS MINE; ALLIES STILL CONFIDEN 7
‘Indecision’ of Nazis||
Undersea Raiders
Nazi submarines plow out to sea for the “war in earnest” on Great Britain and France.
F 00D-STAMP PLAN ADVOCATED HERE
Thousands Now: Shop With Federal Orange ‘And Blue Stickers.
By THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer Thousands of housewives from WPA and direct-relief families are shopping in grocery stores in a number of cities with a new type of
‘money—orange and blue stamps.
This is the currency of the foodstamp plan of the. Agriculture Department’s Federal Surplus Commodities. Corp.” A survey discloses that these stamps are disposing of much more of ‘the farmer's surplus dairy and: ry: products; - fruits) and vegetables than ‘the old: plafi of] direct ‘distribution to relief families through public ‘welfare commissaries.
NOTE—This is the second of a series of articles on the foodstamp experiment.
The relief client is getting a larger food budget and more variety of choice. The business of grocers and the general business of the communities involved is being helped. "Started only last May in Rochester, N. Y., the plan has expanded to 16 other cities. New cities will be added at the rate of one or two a week. Agriculture Secretary Henry A. Wallace and Milo Perkins, president of the Surplus Commodities Corp., conferred today in Washington with President Roosevelt on plans to extend the. program. “We have had several hundred requests from cities to be designated for operation of the plan,” Mr. Wallace said. “I think we will extend the stamp: program-to various cities thraugh the country.” The current volume of surpluscommodity distribution is indicated by a total expenditure of 68 million dollars for that purpose. by the FSCC in the last fiscal year. This] (Continued on Page Three)
INQUIRY INTO RELIEF REPORTED NEAR END
Analysis of Evidence May Delay Jury Report.
* An indication that the Grand
Jury's . long inquiry into Center Township relief practices may be near its end was seen today. Deputy
Prosecutor Samuel E. Garrison next}
week will begin analyzing the evidence received thus far. So much information has been given the jurors there appeared little hope they would make their report before early December. In order to speed the proceedings, however, they will conduct night sessions tonight and tomorrow, and an all-day session Thursday. They expect to hear 683 witnesses this week, including all coal dealers receiving Censer Township business. ‘Coal dealers testifying today included: James Jackson ‘and Walter S. Ballinger, both of the Domestic Coal Co.; John Iverson and Chris-
tian. Iverson, of the Danish Fuel &| .
Feed Co.; Harry Neo 'leisen, of the Mohawk Coal Co.; <Jlarence McPherson, Edward H. Moorman and Clifford S. Meier.
LAKE OF OIL BURNS; 800 REPORTED DEAD
" CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 14 (U, P.).—Eight hundred persons ‘were reported dead or missing today in a fire which yesterday swept through the oil town of La Gunillas on Lake Maracaibo. The town was built on piles over water coated an inch thick with oil. No a were believed killed. Eye witnesses said that; rose to great heights and
flames spread Victims, trapped by ‘the
rapidly. flam
es, jumped screaming nto
SEEKS ADVICE ON JUVENILES
Bradshaw Charges Lack of Central Control Over Detention Home.
By SAM TYNDALL
Juvenile Court Judge Wilfred Bradshaw today charged “there 'is complete lack of any centralized control over the ‘policies of operation of the Juvenile Detention Home.” He asked the advice of two agencies to aid him in solving the Detention Home “problem.” In a letter to Fred Hoke, State Welfare Board chairman, Judge Bradshaw asked the Welfare Board for a declaration of its policies in regard to operation of child-caring agencies. - en Seeks: Legal Ruling i
At the: same time Judge Bradshaw said he was to confer this afternoon with Miss Mildred Arnold, head of the State. ‘Welfare Department, Children’s Division. Miss Arnold announced last week her Division was to begin a study of conditions in the Home with a view to licensing and approving the ‘agency as required by the Welfare Act. In a second letter to County Attorney: John Linder, the Judge asked for a declaration of the legal rights of the Juvenile Court and the Court's “status” in determining the policy in the home. The decision by Judge Bradshaw to ask for the opinions came after a legal study by him which he said revealed only iwo- statutes bearing on: the Detention Home.
Cites Tw tatutes
for in 1903 by the statutory phrase, “g “suitable place provided by the County.” This statute, the Judge said, apparently sets out the purpose of the Home as a place for the custody of children = awaiting trial.
Act of 1937, provides for the. inspection, approval and licensing of child-caring agencies by the Welfare Department. Neither law, Judge Bradshaw said, apparently provides for any: control over the policy of operation of the institution. Judge Bradshaw said the matters of policy whicl: should. be decided upon include the determination -of what class of children should. be
) | detained in the home, the period of
detention and whether the Home should provide educational training similar to institutions for training juveniles.
Case Is Investigated
‘the ‘Welfare Act, apparently is restricted from investigating any but the physical facilities of the Home. “It is because of the inadequacy of the laws bearing on the Juvenile]. Home that I have asked for these opinions and why I am seeking a solution to the problem of control over the institution,” Judge Bradshaw said. ‘The judge's charges that there was no control and his request for opinions is believed to be the outgrowth of the disclosure last week that a 15-year-old boy is serving a 12-month “sentence” imposed by another - court because the youth failed to pay a court judgment. An investigation into the case of this
Juvenile Court probation worker. Renewed Present Lease
The judge's actions also were prompted, it is believed, by -the action of County Commissioners who last week revealed they had renewed for one year the lease on the present Detention Home, 538 W. New York, St. against recommendations of ‘Judge Bradshaw and County
working out a plan to move the Detention Home to smaller and more economical quarters.
BENDIX AGENCY CERTIFIED WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (U, P.) — The National Labor Relations Board today certified the unaffiliated Bendix Industrial Police Association as exclusive bargaining agency for 21} company policemen employed by: the
the if Products Corp, South Bend,
Repercussion In Percussion
THINGS WERE unusually quiet in the percussion section this morning as the Symphony Orchestra rehearsed on the Murat stage.
snared a drum and a large, valuable Turkish cymbal over the week-end. Everything was in order on Friday when the orchestra finished its practice for the week. The following morning Cloyd Duff came ‘in to practice his kettledrumming and noticed the drum and cymbal weren't there. They weren't there again yesterday, so Pranklin Miner, the _orchestra’s manager, notified police. The cymbal ‘belongs to the orchestra, but the snare drum is
. the property of Ralph Lillard.
Today . Mr. Lillard stood around, feeling rather unnecessary, while Fabien Sevitzky rehearsed the ;orchestra in music of a quiet and ‘drumless nagire.
The Home, he said, was provided
The other law, the State Welfare
The - Welfare Department, under’
boy . is now being conducted by. a|
Council members, who had been
LETTER CLUE TO | O'HARE KILLERS
Second Missive Found at Chicago Puts Finger On Al .Capone.
CHICAGO, Nov. 14 w. P.) —Two letters, one uncovered at Los Angeles, - -the other at Chicago, gave police their first definite leads today in the. gangland assassination | of Edward J. O'Hare, millionaire race track impresario. One gave clues to the actual killers; the other said Scdrface Al Capone had sworn to kill O'Hare and indicated he still is overlord of the Chicago underworld. -Both letters were unsubstantiated. Police at Los Angeles and Chicago began immediate investigations to ascertain. their authenticity.
Judge to Be Quizzed
First step in the investigation was the questioning of John Patton, partner of O'Hare and former Capone associate, Edward O'Hare Jr., Miss Antoinette (Toni) .Cavaretta,
‘O'Hare’s secretary, and Henry Ben-
nett, Sportsman's Park auditor. Later Municipal Judge Eugene J. Holland, associate with O'Hare in a real estate firm and who dismissed 700 gambling cases last year, arrived for questioning. at the State’s Attorney's office. Police* found one letter on the persorr of Russell Stoddard, 21, who was attacked and stabbed six. times on a Los. Angeles street late last night by two unidentified men. He said ‘he was a former jockey at Tia
Indianapolis |. SE on Spinster Tells U. S. Jury She
For some base villian had |
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LOST $15,000, THREE TESTIFY
Gave Cash, Bonds to Mrs..Ethel Donnell.
Three witnesses testified today in Federal Court that they lost a total of $15,150 which they invested in companies belonging ‘to Ms. Ethel Pitt Donnell, 3707 'N. -Meridian St. Mrs. Donnell and two other defendants, Edward J. Hartenfeld, of Henderson, Ky., and Chicago, and John K. Knapp, 2703 Washington Blvd.,, are on frial charged with using the mails to defraud in connection with an alleged $640,000 swindle. Another defendant, Robert D.' Beckett, 5520 Sallege Ave., has Digaded sult y and is awaitin Linughed 46 Phresh; ry Told Miss Eva M. Ball, 64-year-old
Lebanon, Ind., spinster, told the jury|
that she lost $6200 in cash, stocks and -Government bonds which she said she turned over to Mrs. Donnell. . Mrs. Donnell told : her, . Miss Ball said, that “we can use that stock,- cash and bonds and make it very profitable for you.” She never again received “one cent” of those investments, Miss Ball testified. Mrs. Doris. Wilson, 59, of. 2720 N. Illinois St., said she had invested $6550 in cash and building ‘and loan stocks at the “insistence” of. Mrs. Donnell. After receiving no money for ‘her investment, Mrs. Wilson testified, she threatened to sue-Mrs. Donnell, but Mrs. Donnell told her (Continued on Page Three) i
GRIFFIN 1S NAMED
INDIANS’ MANAGER,
No. 1 Candidate From First, Says. Tribe President.
(Additional Details, Page 16)
Wes . Griffin, acting ‘pilot of the Indisgepolis Indians baseball club from last July. until” the end of the season, will manage ‘the team in
1940, Tribe’ president Leo Miller announced today.’ In making ithe announcement, Miller said Griffin has been the No. 1 candidate: from the outset. “Wes turned in a highly satisfactory assignment after taking ‘over the reins as acting: pilot in mid-season, and his handling of the team indicated he knows the secret of getting the most out of ball Players, 2 Miller said. ¢
Is Regarded as a Favorable Sign. T
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor
on size of the job Herr
Hitler has undertaken becomes. more apparent as each “T|day passes without a decisive
blow being struck. * The Allies, confident of eventful tvictory, are beginning to talk about his “indecision.” They express the belief, or at least hope, that he is up against it no mater which way he turns. ’ Herr Hitler has several choices.
Among them are: 1. A mass attdck to break through. the Maginot Line.. That would be a desperate gamble.
‘|Even if he drove a wedge through
at .a terrible sacrifice of men and faigrial it would only be a crack in the wall. His spearhead would be exposed on both flanks and would run up against rank after rank of French rear lines. 2. A flanking attack through Holland and Belgium.
Holland and Belgium Firm
The chance of such an attack, thought probable last week, was discounted today. Holland and Belgium have stood firmly by ° their neutrality: and ‘Germany - has renewed ‘her pledge to respect it. In addition, Helland and Belgium are not defenseless and are not ready to
| submit as the Czechs and Poles did.
The armed might of Britain” drei
|Prance would be ‘available to. ¢
“8. A combined attack on Brita and British shipping by sea and Air. Britain is confident she is equipped to beat off either.. Ship sinkings and aerial attacks of the last day or two have not been. on a large enough scale to tell one way or the other, although. an unusual number of ship sinkings were reported todays by miné or. submarine. 4, A move into the Balkans to grab most of Rumania, drive to the Black Sea and line up Balkan resources to, offset the British blockade. :
-Two’ Loopholes Remain.
The cards are not stacked for Herr Hitler in the Balkans, however. Turkey, Italy and thé Balkan states themselves are busy fostering a union to balk Herr Hitler, busy as he is in the west. There is also ‘Russia, which cut in on the Polish and Baltic deal must be reckoned with in the Balkans. A move through ‘Belgium and Holland looked like Herr Hitler's most likely. bet. The scare over it last week, heightened by German troop concentrations near the Dutch border, indicated that the attempt was expected. The possibility is still not ruled out, if the worst comes to the worst for Herr Hitler. A German spokesman in reiterating Germany’s intention of respecting the neutrality of the lowlands, left two loopholes. He specified that Germany would do so as long as Britain and France did, and provided Belgium and Holland |: show themselves capable of. preserving their own strict neutrality. The latter provision hooks up: with Germany's pressure on the Lowlands to resist the British sea blockade against Germany. Herr Hitler knows, however, that invasion of Holland, no matter what the excuse, would bring instant indignation from other neutrals, especially the United States, and would |g
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Wife of Captured Dahl Returns to U.S.; She un Lecture to Win Mate’s Freedom
BOSTON, Nov. 1 (u, P) Mrs. Harold (Whitéy) Dahl arrived héke from Europe today and announced she is going on a lecture tour to raise money to help her “husband, an American flier who has been a prisoner of the Spanish Nationalists for more than two years. When seized’ by the Nationalists, Mr. Dahl was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment after his pretty, blond wife had mailed her photo-
graph to Generalissimo Francisco
Franco.
year, but that was probably from
confinement.”
It was Mrs. Dahl's first. visite to
the United States since she left
“business honeymoon. ”
with her husband in 1936 on a They separated in Paris; she said, he to go with the Spanish Loyalists and she to continue her career as a night
club violinist and singer.
“We had expected that Harold would be released this past Septem-
: ber,” said Mrs. Dahl, “but he didn’t
‘His wife was among 17 of the 139
passengers of the American export liner Exochorda who “disembarked at Boston. She said she would fly
to New York, where she will make |
a radio broadcast before proceed= ing to Chicago. She was traveling under her maiden name, Rogers, and was accompanied by Countess Elinor de Pourtalis of Cannes, France. “Harold has been taken from jail and put in ‘a hospital at. Salamanca,” said ‘Mrs. Dahl, & 31-year-old f - resident of * Seattle, ‘Wash. $he sat on the edge of her state bed and smoked a cigaret
as she discussed ‘her husband's plight.
4
Edith
: frequent intervals through. my lecture tour to be able
Mes. Harold ld Dahl. rs Harold
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Mrs. Dahl id she Tat heard from her husband early last month.
“him,” she “the
come. His October Jetter failed to
explain why he hadn't been released.
“I wrote three letters to Franco but he only answered the first one—~
the one in which I enclosed a pic-|
ture of myself in an evening gown. “I am sending Harold money at and I hopsz|.
to help him more. The principal
® purpose of my tour, however, will be|be
to keep America out of the. Buro-it peon war.” . On the voyage from Marseilles, she had been ill. with
Mateellts and_she kept a silver fox tape tight |r:
around her. Shoulders. that
Eps len requested that his be-| “I a shipped to
released I
1 Suita Year
Nazis Start Clothing. Ratiohs Tomorrow; Use Point System.
BERLIN, Nov. .14 (U. P.).—. Clothing will be strictly rationed, beginning tomorrow. A German ‘may buy. no more than one suit a year. If he buys one suit, ‘he can buy ‘only two shirts. If he buys one: suit and two shirts, he can .buy nothing else in the way of haberdashery. A German woman. may have one tailored suit, one wool dress, and a corset in one year. But if she buys these, she can buy nothing else. The system is based on points. Each German will be permitted to buy clothing worth 100 points in one year. The values are: Men—=Suit, 60 points; SOckE. 5: sweater, 30; tie, 3; bathing suit,
: 20, shirt, 20; handkerchief, 2
Women—Tailored suit, 45; wool dress, 40; other dresses, 30; corset, 15; silk “stockings, 4 Women may buy only six pairs of silk stockings a year. ’
HITLER I$ COOL TO PEACE OFFER
Mysterious Gunfire Heard In Berlin; Raids on Armed ~ Merch chantmen Hinted. ~
Seemrmbipite.
By JOE: ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Edifor Adolf Hitler today indirectly turned down the Belgian-Dutch peace mediation offer. ‘ While his reply to the Belgian and Netherlands - Ministers who called at the Foreign Office was carefully phrased,’ it ‘ was regardéd by observers as negative. Formal ‘messages’ probahly will be
| sent later to Queen Wilhelmina and
King Leopold. Well-informed sources: said Herr Hitler :advised the two monarchs
and France made peace diséussion impossible at the present.
Gunfire Heard in Berlin
The Fuehrer’s position has been that he is willing to discuss peace if German gains in Eastern Europe are recognized. The contents of the reply was given to the two ministers as a courtesy. At the same time, dispatches from Berlin today said that gunfire was| audible for 15 minutes in, the west end of the German capital, but no (Continued on Page Three)
METHODIST PASTORS PUSH CAGE PROTEST
Five ~ Appointed to Make Report Monday.
A committee of five Methodist ministers was appointed today to profes against the holding of the Schoo! Basketball Tournals on the Saturday of amen: Week. - Dr. Ezra Huichens, Irvington | Methodist Church pastor; Dr. W. C. Hartinger, Indianapolis district superintendent; Dr. Guy O. Carpenter, Central Avenue Church; Dr. C. A. McPheeters, North Church and the Rev. Wallace C. Calvert, Grace Church, were appointed to the committee by the Rev. G. S. Henninger, Methodist Ministers Association president. The committee is to: report, on its action at a called session of the association at 8 p. m. Monday at the Roberts Park Church. Similar protests have been filed with the State High School Athletic Association by the Public Relations Department of thé Church Pederation of Indianapolis, Metho-~ dist Bishop Titus Lowe of Indianapolis, and church groups in Neri. ern Indiana.
BELIEVE WRECKAGE IS OF GERMAN SHIP
. DAYTONA BEACH, BEACH, Pi, Nov.. 14 ooo i. P.) ~The ses y cast . a wieckage ot what aterfront men
The. | shelled” the Oressw TepOr
that the position of Great Britain’
Rescuers Tell Heroic Actions of Men In Ocean. LONDON, Nov. 14 (U. P.). —Renewal of intensive war-
fare on the high seas sent 11 vessels including one British
|warship to the bottom this
week, reports showed today. A destroyer, the sixth British Naval vessel to go down since the start of the war, struck a German mine and foundered with one dead,
six missing and 15 injured. Seventy survivors were landed. The name
Lof the destroyer and the location of
its sinking was withheld. Rescuers told of heroic actions, in« cluding one victim of the explosion who refused rescue until men -in worse plight had been saved and swam away singing, “even Hitler had a motheér.” At least 33 lives were lost in sinking last night and early today and
1 some of the survivors were injured
so seriously that it was feareq they would die.
Other Sea Casualties Listed
In addition to the : destroyer, which went down just before dawn today, these casualties of the sea were listed: A British cargo boat which was seen to explode a mile from the scene of the destroyer sinking. It was believed that all mer mbers of its crew were saved. : The trawler Cresswell, : 25 tons, which was sunk by a German submarine off the north Goast of Scotland.: Only seven of 1e crew of 13 ‘were saved, at wk
without warning put the seven survivers aboard ttAwler Phyllisia, which k thém to Fleetwood. The British freighter Matra, 8003 ‘tons, which went down in the North Sea Monday. night after an explosion. Two crew meinbers were killed . and 22 injured. One of the injured died after reaching shore. Fiftytwo of the crew were rescued, including the captain and all other Europeans aboard.
Norwegian Ship Sunk
A Norwegian vessel, which lost at least 17 members of its crew early Monday. Twenty-three survivors were landed at a North British port after ‘having been afloat in open boats for 30 hours. One boat carrying 17 men never was found although a British trawler searched five hours for it. Two German ships, the Mecklen= burg, 7892 tons, and the Parana, 6038 tons, which were scuttled by their Nazi crews rather than permit them to fall into ‘British hands Monday. The members of their crews were picked up by . British warships which were patrolling the seas in search of raiding German pocket battleships. Three British steamers reported to have struck the same submerged wreck off the east coast of England, including the’ Leith steamer Dryburgh, 1289 tons, whose crew was rescued by a coastal iifeboat.
Vessel Drifts for Hour,
The British freighter Ponzano of Liverpool, 1346 tons, which was sunk by a German submarine in the Bay of Biscay. Seventeen Indians from the crew were landed at Gibraltar from Norwegian trawlers. Others were believed to have been taken to the Canary Islands in trawlers. The loss of the British cargo boat which went down a mile from the British destroyer was described by Jack Pocock, a fisherman who res cued many of the destroyer survie vors in his motorboat. “En route to shore with our sure vivors we saw an -explosion- under (Continued on Page Three) }
STOCK TRADE DULL; EARLY GAINS PARED
By UNFTED*PRESS New York stocks retained part of their early gains today after settling from a rally. Volume was light, al= though above yesterday.
London Exchange and the Paris Bourse was firm. Wheat was steady ‘on the Chicago Board of as cotton. futures declined in New York commodity’ markets. © Sica. i
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Small advances were made on the