Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1940 — Page 1
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FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness and not s0 cold tonight and
VOLUME 51—NUMBER 260
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“As Sun Shines From Cloudless Sky.
By JOE COLLIER
The Indiana Medical Association Publicity Bureau today called for a concerted and effective community action against the smoke menace in Indianapolis and other industrial Indiana cities. The Bureau's appeal came during one of the worst and lorigest smoke baths the City ever has.experienced, and the second such intense smog in four days. \- For more than three hours—from 7a. m. to 10. a. m.—downtown Indianapolis was: dark and ghoked with smoke while outlying districts were drenched with sun shining from cloudless skies. In the business area, it was impossible to see ‘a block. Cars and streetcars used their Nghts, . : . Three.on Bureau ‘The: bureau, composed of three ‘prom=2ient Indianapplis physicians, declared that it is just as important now to the public health and eco.nomics of the community to clear up air pollution as it was a century ago to purify the water supply. Bureau members are Dr. William N. Wishard Sr., Dr. Frank Gastineau and ‘Dr. C. F. Thompson. It suggested that a working cominittee be recruited in each plagued community to make a thorough study of the problem and advance recommendations. The committee, ‘it suggested, could be composed of
representatives of the legal, medical’
and engineering professions along with business and real estate men, perhaps more. ‘On New Frontier’ “Much discussion has taken place phout ‘the smoke huisance, and it always seems to end in talk, with black smoke clouds still pouring from innumerable chimneys,” the bureau said. “We are on a new public health frontier. Just as we had to battle jd a pure water supply a century ago, when there was no smoke prob- _ lems, so we must battle now for a pure air supply. “It is entirely possible that, un(Continued on Page Three)
‘A Bit Thick’ At City Hall
Smoke filled City Hall today and everyone complained about tthe density of the smog. It was pretty dense, at that, but it wasn’t all smog. Finally George Rooker, of the Plan Commission, discovered City Hall was afire and called the Fire Department. - Fifteen firemen, brandishing axes and portable extinguishers, rushed to .the third floor and ex- . tinguished the fire in three minutes. The fire was. in a mop that had been left on the radiator and ‘was ignited. .
the worst of the smog.
F.D. R-GARNER
It’s the Little Stories That Mirror Joys And Sorrows. Worst ahead, Chamberlain warns England. . ..F, D. R.-Garner
back-slapping just mirage. . Smog blacks-out morning sun. . , .
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big headlines at the top of the page. But the little stories which mirror
deserve mention, too. Here are some of them, as gathered by the United Press: ’ :
Bronx Kit Carson
i In New York, Bronx Borough President James J. Lyons read that Frank Hoyt had been arrested for {trapping mink and weasel in one of the world’s most thickly populated communities. He asked for a survey of wild life in the Bronx and proposed formation of a Bronx Bay Co.
Another Generation
They buried Mrs, Mary Anna Jenkins, 96, in Philadelphia, today. In her youth she ran an ‘“underground railway” for fugitive slaves at Upper Dublin Township, Pa. (Continued on Page Three)
I'S WARMER HERE BUT NOT IN STATE
There’s No Hope of Melting Temperature in City.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6a m ... 7 ‘11 a.m. -..23 7a m ... 8 12 (noon) ...25 8a m i.. 7 1pm... 27 9a 'm ...% 2pm... 27 10 a. m. ...15
Temperatures rose here sharply at noon today, but there was no promise they would get above freezing and melt some of the glaze off untreated streets. Thus, the-traffic hazard in most parts of Indianapolis remained critical and police, complimenting drivers on eight deathless days of 1940 traffic, urged continued caution. A phenomenal strip of sub-zero temperatures—surrounded by areas of moderately warm readings— stretched through the northern and eastern extremities of Indiana. Ft. Wayne, in the heart of the frigid zone, recorded 8 degrees below zero. Logansport reported a 4 below reading at mid-morning. ‘At Crawfgrdsville the mercury dropped to 11 below and at Huntington, 10 below. Meanwhile, areas just .outside of the narrow cold strip recorded marks well above zero and the Weather Bureau estimated that the average temperature for the state was approximately 20 degrees. Unmelted snow and variatioas in cloudiness were responsible for the Ireak readings, the Weather Bureau said. Mrs. Edna Swann, 19, ‘of 606 Beecher St., received a broken leg when her car was struck this morn-
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Brings. Total to 80 Per ~ Cent of Deposits.
American National Bank,
trustees. :
This brings to 80 per cent the
PAY $262,000 557
Fletcher American Dividend
Payment of $262,000 to depositors and creditors of the ‘old Fletcher representing a 5 per cent dividend, was announced today by the liquidating
total payments thus far on deposits. $ The trustees, Otto J. Feucht, John P. Collett and William N. Fleming Jr., have deposited the dividend funds with the American National Bank, which will handle the payments. When the bank closed its doors in ‘February, 1933, depositors were paid 5 per cent of their deposits. The following August they received 50 per cent of the remainder, bringing them a total of 522 per cent of the amount due them. : Certificates of beneficial interest were issued by the trustees to cover the remaining 47'2 per cent, each of the 20 coupons representing 5 per cent of the amount due. The payment just ordered calls) for cashing Coupon 11. This represents payment of 55 per cent of the certificates. The liquidating trustees declined to estimate the-possible future payments. Including repayment of a $1,200000 loan by the Reconstruction Finance Corp. the trustees have distributed a total thus far of $5,526,323.94. . Indianapolis certificate holders may present their 11th coupon anytime at the American National Bank here: for payment. Out-of-town holders of certificates may present their coupons to their local banks for collection. : :
These gains must not be chipped
TESTIFY PROMISES
Women Describe Dealings in
filed in Federal Court today that Shideler & Co.
checks, they received none of their profits. ° 2
TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940
BACK-SLAPPING JUST A MIRAGE
Conservatives, New Dealers at Jackson Dinners.
(Local Stories, Page Two)
By THOMAS L. STOKES 7 Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, = Jan. 9.—You could almost see the dove of peace fluttering above the heads of the two chief figures at the Jackson Day dinner here last night. A beautiful amiability enwrapped itself about President Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner. The Texan’s grin never was broader. His eyes never twinkled more merrily under those mountainous white eyebrows as he chatted with the Chief Executive at the head table. You might have been looking upon Damon: and Pythias, or David and Jonathan. Except you-weren't. It was all a mirage. To diners conscious of the political realities, of the under-surface currents, the dove changed, upon close observation, into the dagger immortalized by Shakespeare.
1940 Lines Drawn
For, in the developments here and in other parts of {he country incident to the Jackson Day dinners, the battle was joined in real earnest between: the New Dealers and the Garner conservatives, and the political pattern of 1940 :was outlined most clearly. Its cardinal principle. is that President Roosevelt and his New Dealers are determined to keep the Democratic Party New Deal and to nominate a New Deal candidate, and are prepared fo take no compromise, and certainly no conservative candidate. “Mr. Roosevelt had promised a non-partisan speech and made good with little or no partisanship in his remarks before a glittering $100-a-plate audience which included some big social and money names as well as those of politics. National committee headquarters said they hoped the Jackson Day dinners would raise $600,000 to $700,000 to be set against the party deficit and provide close to $500,000 for the 1940 campaign. He defended the achievements of his Administration and told his : at other Jackson Day dil ’ 3 Democratic Party had created “out of the funk—the pure unadulerated funk—of the early thirties . .. a new spirit with which we can now face the forties.”
Gains at Home Claimed
“The people of this country of ours,” he said, “recognize two facts today: ; “The first is that the world outside our hemisphere is in really bad shape. . .. If is a fact so big in its effect on the future of the world that all our little partisan squabbles are a bit drab in the light of it. “The second is that we have made great gains at home in our own economic prosperity and in the security of our individual citizens.
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OF PROFITS FADED
Shideler Trial.
BULLETIN Superior Court Judge Henry O.
Goett today testified that as deputy prosecutor in 1938 he discovered Shideler & Co. had only $1000 in cash in its bank account and some stocks and bonds “of questionable value.”
Second
Three Indianapolis women testi-
they were mailed statements from showing several thousand dollars in profits due them but that, except for one or-two $100
. They also testified that ‘they re-
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The March of Mars
War of Surprises, With Moreand Bigger ~ Ones Around Corner
tomorrow; light snow probable by tomorrow afternoon; lowest temperature tonight about 10,
Enfered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
WORST OF WAR LL TO COME
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(This is the first of three dispatches tracing the march of Mars
across Europe in terms of what
it has meant to the people and
governments involved in the conflict.)
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Forelgn News Editor
This war has brought many surprises.
It has shat-
tered many predictions. Perhaps most significant of all, it has dwarfed the towering personalities who dominated
the pre-fighting period of today’s struggle. The men who. enacted a day-by-day story as bizarre as any disaster that ever changed the course of world history, have been pushed aside by more powerful forces. | A year ago the people of many lands read their future in the decisions of a
Chamberlain and Hitler . . . voices drowned by Mars’ thunder.
few men whose hands fumbled papers of state across a conference table at Munich, Geneva, Godesberg. Today the Nazi U-boat—not the voice of Adolf Hitler —makes the blackest headlines. Today the guns of the
Chamberlain.
. British fleet speak in tones more commanding than Neville
For the present and probably for as long as there are
There have been no all-ouf, bombardments—yet.
battle fronts, the thunder of marching men and moving machines drowns out the words from chancelleries and thrones; men in the mass become the power that eventually—regardless of the “slow motion” war on the Western Front—must decide the outcome. The future of nations
men again take command.
- may depend less on diplomatic skill than on fighting power re |™and that power will dectae wher ang whether tie states
A paramount result, then, of this first phase of war has been to open the way for fulfillment of Neville Chamberlain’s eve-of-war prophecy—that the conflict would result in a world unlike anything we had ever seen before. For above all, while this is a war of surprises, it is not
a phony war.
.. The surprises are easiest to see. Let's look at some
of them:
1. Contrary to general prediction, there has been no all-out bombardment of civilian populations.
German food rationing . .
’ sign of ‘the “total war.”
2. Economic conflict in its most severe form has overshadowed aggressive armed combat. 3. Instead of lining up immediately with her German ally, Italy, which.offers the most feasible route for an Allied attack on the Reich, has remained neutral. 4. Germany has chosen
to strike hardest at sea, where the Nazi power is least
and the British power. greatest, 5. Finland, for the moment at least, has given a fighting answer to Europe’s greatest military mystery—the
power of the Red Army.
Of these surprises, perhaps the greatest popular mis(Continued on Page Three)
Dog Tips Off Finn Patrol, \
Permits Rail Dynamiting
By HUBERT UEXKUELL United Press Staff Correspondent
WITH THE FINNISH ARMY,|
ceived neither the blocks of
CHURCHMEN ADVISED
OF U. S: PEACE HOPE
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt indicated to a group of Protestant churchmen today that he hoped his efforts for peace would find some practical en-
couragement by spring.
The churchmen—spokesmen for Lutheran, Baptist and Seventh Day Adventist groups which criticized
or cash which they turned over. to William A. Shideler to invest. Mr. Shideler is being tried on charges of using the mails to defraud in violation of the Federal Securities Act. Mrs. Iva Wright of 4056 Broadway, a widow, testified she gave Mr. Shideler $600 on his promise that he could “double her investment within six months.” She testified Mr. Shideler told her that he would guarantee her against any loss and that he would give her the profits any time she asked for them. She said she had® re-
ROVANIEMI, Jan. 9.—The first detailed . story of the operations of
Pinland’s intrepid ski patrols which
are railroad was told to me here at Mid-Finland general headquarters last night, 2% Arctic Circle, by 2a |shouldered 40-year-old sub-lieuten-ant who leads one of them.
raiding Russia's Murmansk
miles below the tall, broad-
It was a story of merciless war
in a merciless country where the sound of a voice may carry for a
ing by a truck bearing 17,000 pounds of freight. vig :
Mr. Roosevelt's decision to send a personal emisary to the Vatican—reported after a 30-minute conference that the President indicated the appointment of such an envoy was based on a distinct hope for some real developments toward peace.
ceived a statement from the firm listing $2869 in profits due her from stock sales. Except for two. $100 checks, she never received the $600, the certificates for the stock supposedly bought for her, nor the
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VICTORIA, British Columbia, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Victoria’s sea serpent has aged 20 years in the last four. - He has even grown whiskers. Cecil Burgess and Norman Ingram said today that they had seen ‘the serpent off’ Rocky Point near here. ; “He was. only 40 feet away,” Mr. Burgess said. “His head re- ~ sembled a crbss between that of
Now Sep Serpent Has Whiskers
a walrus and a camel. He had long—very long—whiskers.” There didn't seem to be much
"general description--the walrus-
doubt that it was the same serpent reported by fishermen sev- - eral years ago. At least, except: for the aged appearance and the whiskers, it answered the same
camel head and a body two feet thick and
length.
Russia’s communication entire Arctic area.
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of undetermined |
mile, where: signals are exchanged by a touch of the hand and any man may start from a troubled sleep beside a camp fire to find death a split second away. A part of the stofy, too, was the disclosure that the Finns are getting: valuable service from the keen ears and eyes of the shaggy Lapland reindeer gs which go with them on patrol. The 12-day, 220-mile raid of which the lieutenant told me, without elaboration and in the quiet voice of the man of the woods, was one of many that are endangering with the
“We had been ordered to go in the Kola Peninsula 1 our whole. equipment packed 2 sledges, A i the lieuhad been under 1d nights. We were
signs that she knew strangers were not far away. : “Strange persons in this wilderness could not mean friends. So we put ourselves in readiness. We sent out a patrol. It had not got very far before its men signaled that Russians were near. “I gave my men orders to be on the alert and then went out on skis to find out what was the matter. One man of our patrol showed ie from cover about 30 Russians gathered around a fire just to our right. They were busy cuttipg branches from fir frees to cover the ground where they intended to sleep. | “They were just going to rest. We thought we would let them start to rest and then see that their rest was no peaceful. We could permit none of those Russians to go back to report to the nearest of their patrols. “I left our advance patrol and went back to my men; I told them what I had seen and told them what to do. We were in a silence, in a snowy wilderness, which was broken only by the almost inaudible swish of our skis as we approached the Russians’ camp. We could hear only the crackling of the Russians’ camp-
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| “The Russians were lying on the ground around the fire. I was so near I could hear the water boiling in a kettle over the fire when one of my men touched my hand and pointed to our lett. There
was ‘a
.. several months ;
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NAZIS ATTACK 5 BRITISH CRAFT
32 Wounded When Decks of Lightship Are Sprayed With ‘Bullets.
8 LONDON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Renewed German air activity over British waters under protection of a heavy mist resulted in five attacks on British ships and the wounding of at least 32 men aboard a lightship. In addition to the attacks on the ships, the Air Ministry .said German planes flew over the Firth of Tay and later over the Firth of Forth. + Greatest damage was done when the planes attacked the lightship. It was feared that one of the men aboard the lightship was fatally wounded. Y guns and bombs on the attacked ships and in the case of the lightship, which was en route to the relief of another lightship, the Germans sprayed the decks with machine gun bullets for half an. hour. . Sixteen of the wounded were taken to hospitals. Eight, with their faces’ and hands bandaged, were released after first aid treatment. The lightship normally carried a crew of 40. In addition to the five larger vessels attacked by the planes, it was learned, five fishing smacks 'were attacked off the East Coast of Scotland. None aboard the smacks was wounded.
EX-RESIDENTS HERE FOR HONOR DINNER
Kauffman, Gibbs Return; . Awards Tonight.
Two of Indianapolis’ most prominent former residents and industrial leaders, Alfred Kauffman, Chicago, president of the Link-Belt Co., and Carl C. Gibbs, Cleveland, president of the National Malleable & Steel Castings Co., came here today for the second annual Staff of Honor dinner tonight. The dinner, which is to honor seven suisianding Indianapolis citize d by a amber of ComOn with other civic organizations, is to be held in the Riley Room of the Claypool Hotel. The principal speaker is to be ‘Howard Coonley, New York, chairman of the board of directors of the National Association of Manufacturers. Mr. Coonley is a director of both the Link-Belt and National Malleable companies. . The men to he honored are Henry C. Atkins, Stanley Coulter, Henry L. Dithmer Sr., Edgar H. Evans, Fred Hoke, Hugh McK Landon and Franklin Vonnegut. Mr. Kauffman was vice president in charge - of the Indianapolis plants of the Link-Belt Co. before going to Chicago. He also was a director of the Fletcher Trust Co. Before going to Cleveland in 1929, Mr. Gibbs was manager of the Indianapolis plant of the National Malleable and Steel Castings Co.
HOGS OFF 10T0 25 AND STOCKS BREAK
By UNITED PRESS Lightweight hogs sold 25 cents lower at Indianapolis today and heavier weights were down 10 cents. Receipts increased to 13,500, New York stocks broke on increased turnover: and losses ex-| tended from $1 in the main list to $4 in a few special issues. Curb stocks were easier and bonds drifted
aimlessly. Wheat prices dipped fractionally at Chicago.
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KENTUCKY: EX-OFFICIAL DIES
- LOUISVILLE, Ky,, Jan, 9 (U. P.). —John Crepps Wickcliffe Beckham, who was Governor of Kentucky at the age of 30, died at his Louisville home today after an mess of
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Forecasts Some Future Form of European
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n of Peace; Lauds
Roosevelt Stand.
LONDON, Jan. 9 (U. P.).—Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rallied the British Empire to more vigorous prosecution of the war today in a speech warning that
applauding the attitude of
President Roosevelt toward international relations, and fore. casting some future form of. European collaboration or
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ion, he said, has been “so
valuable that when the war is over neither of us will want
Then he echoed a prediction by French Premier Edouard Daladier that some kind of Federal union in Europe may
result from the war. He said the Anglo-French economic and financial collaboration could be extended to other
haps to the whole world.
“The powers of wickedness will fight in vain,” he said, against the strength of Allied arms, the unity of the Allied resolution and the moral approval of “all who realize that the fate of civilization i bound up” with the conflict. ! He warned that the present apparent lull in hostilities “is the quiet. of the calm before the storm.” Mr. Chamberlain's speech marked the beginning of a general campaign by Government leaders to offset the slow pace of fighting at present in order to step up armament production and-to “shorten the war” by intensifying its prosecution. : Attacks Nazi Methods
The Prime Minister bitterly ate tacked methods of the rulers of Gere many and. declared: “Nowhere have they aroused greater detestation than throughout the continents of North and South America. ; -“In Nis recent message to the Pope, the President ee he States declared that only by friendly association by the seekers of light and the seekers of peace eyery= where could the forces of evil ba overcome. “I profoundly agree but I woul add that if the forces of right ir to prevail, we must not hesitate to risk our blood and our treasure for So great an end.”
Defénds Cabinet Shakeup In the course of his spe h, : Chamberlain: peech, MB 1. Indirectly defended his dis missal of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, by saying that “to win the war” he would do “what I feel to be right, no matter how diffie cult or even disagreeable.” 2. Told labor not to expect wage increases to meet the rising cost of living because that would merely, cause a vicious spiral of rising prices and wages. 3. Declared war profiteering was being: prevented but that all classes must make sacrifices. 4. Promised that Britain aid to Finland in opposing “the forces of unscrupulous = violenée” would be “more than a mere formality.” 5. Warned of further rationing of goods, but said that there was no reason to fear shortage of essential materials or food because the Brite ish Navy had again proved its domi« nation of the seas.
Prepare to Fight on Land
Mr. Chamberlain said that “we have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet.” - “We've got to do without a lot of things we shall miss very much.” he said. “We are making preparae tions (to fight on land) when the moment comes.” Mr. Chamberlain began by thank= ing the people for their considera tion in view of the “exhausting bure (Continued on Page Three) |
STEPHENSON GETS = HEARING MARCH 5
5
P.) —Judge Cassius M. Gentry in the Hamilton Circuit Court today set March 5 as the date for the hearing on D. C. Stephenson’s plea. for a writ of error coram nobis which - if granted would permit a new trial for the former Ku-Klux Klan grand dragon now serving a life sentence. for the murder of Madge Obere holtzer in 1925. ' The court, arranging its docket for the January term, also set Feb. 18 as the date on which attorneys will appear in court to join the issues for the March 5 hearing. Stephens. son probably will appear in person.
{at the March 5 hearing.
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