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CO-OPERATION OF
ALL FAITHS SPURS
CHURCH ONWARD
Spiritual, Physical and Economic Ailments
Serve to Bring People Back to Find
Cures for Problems, Say Leaders.
DEEPER NOTE OF SINCERITY SOUNDED
Intensive Evangelistic Campaigns Outlined
for Year to Meet Renewed Interest
in Religious Life.
BY WALTER D. HICKMAN
A spiritual sickness. A physical sickness. An economic
illness.
These are three reasons for the increase in the great
marching: cavalcade into the church.
Protestant ami Catholic leaders agree that there has
been a sickness, whether moral, physical or economic, and
the church has met the de
mands of that “sickness.”
"We And when they come bark
to the church they are sick—
whether morallv nr physically. Or
even in an economic way.”
That is the opinion of Rt. Rev.
Mnnsignor .toseph Hamill of the
Roman Catholic church.
This is the third of a series
of stories portraying the advance
ment of churches in Indianap
olis. The fourth appears Mondav.
During prosperity thought* of
people are upon "the goods of the
world.'*
An "illness." call It depression or
not. has caused a "healthier tone"
in church life of Indianapolis.
Deeper Note of Sinceritv
It is the curing of this "illness"
and the way the churches of all
faiths have administered a healthier
tone In Indianapolis church life
which has resulted in Indianapolis
enjoying right now the biggest
church attendance in Its history.
liOok at. the figures: Estimated
40 000 membership in the Catholic
churches of the city; estimated
120.000 Protestant membership in
Indianapolis and Marion county.
That is the great, intelligent, pa
triotic and sincere cavalcade march
ing into Indianapolis churches.
"There are two signs.” Dr. Ernest
N. Evans, executive secretary of the
Church Federation of Indianapolis,
told me. "The church attendance,
as a general average, is better.
There is a deeper note of sincerity,
not a trifling attitude toward seri
ous things."
Healthier Tone Is Shown
Sincerity and the personnel view
point of the members of this gi
gantic cavalcade has brought anew
dav to the churches of Indianapolis.
A serious minded mass of march
ers—thinking. praying and confess
ing. The healthier tone has come
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RESIDENTS WIN FIGHT
3-Year Battle Against Rubbish
Ends in Health Board Order.
Residents in the vicinity of Gale
and Tenth streets today had won
a three-year fight, when Frank
Pfister. health board inspector, or
dered removal of horses and rub
bish from ground owned by Henry
Pot hast, 3524 Faist Tenth street.
The horses are owned by H. Cat
terlln A' Sons Ice Company. Neigh
bors charged that failure to keep
the premises clean caused a con
tinuous obnoxious odor to permeate
the neighborhood.
•SLAP STICK’ PATENTED
Invention of Chief Mike Morrissey
Is Registered in Capital.
The rubber "slap stick" invented
by Chips Mike F Morrissey and
used bv Indianapolis policemen for
several months, has been patented
in the United States patent office,
according to notification recened
here Friday.
The slap stick was invented by
Morrissey to take the place of the
old-style club. It is made of com
position rubber and has a hand
grip at one end.
PLAN STREET FESTIVAL
August Mardi iras to Celebrate
South Meridian Paving.
The reopening of Sovrh Meri
dian street will be celebrated with
a Mardi Gras festival in about
three weeks, according *c plaits
made Friday night by members of
the South Meridian street Civic
Club. The meeting was held in
Druids hall.
Times Index
Book a Day 7
Bridge 7
Broun Column 4
Canning—A Series 6
Church Calendar 7
City Briefs 9
City NR A Leaders 3
Classified 10
Conservation Column 7
Comics 11
Crossword Puzzle 9
Curious World 11
Dietz on Science 7
Editorial 4
Financial 9
Hickman Theater Reviews 5
NRA Cartoon 4
Obituaries 2
Onward With Church—A Series. 1
Radio 9
Berial •tory 11
Sports 12
State NRA Leaders 3
Vital Statistics 9
: Woman s Page 6
The Indianapolis Times
VOLUME 45—NUMBER 74
HOPE SEEN FOR
SEWAGE PLANT
$400,000 U. S. Loan to
Complete City System
Is Sought.
For eighteen years the city of In
dianapolis has been building a
sewage disposal plant without com
pletion. •
Today a public works loan of
S4OOOOO is sought bv Maurice Ten
nant, president of the sanitary
board, to complete the project.
Eighteen years ago. a group of
farmers at the southern edge of the
city, filed suit against. Indianapolis
because of sewage being poured into
White river. They charged the odor
could be detected for miles.
Damages were granted hv the
courts, but the payment of damages
was held in abeyance, pending the
erection by the eitv of a sewage dis
posal plant. Laws were set up to
provide for the disposal plant. Th"
laws provided the salary of $3 600 a
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GOVERNOR COMES TO
AID OF EX-NEWS BOY
Arranges for Fortner Statehouse
Carrier to Earn Way at I. U.
A former Statehouse newspaper
earner will be able to attend In
diana university this fall due to ar
rangements made by Governor Paul
V. MrNutt. The boy is Joe Res
nick. 820 Church street.
Arrangements provide for Res
nirk to carry the Daily Student for
$3 a week. A room in a private
home has been secured *n return
for firing the furnace, and a job in
a case will defray part of the cost
of fius meals.
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Monday. Aug. 7,
in The Times
G. A. R. SPURNS
PART IN FETE
FOR ROBINSON
Invitation to Join Parade
Flatly Refused by
Veteran Leader.
M'NUTT GROUP GIVES IN
Democrat Legionnaires to
March. With C. A. Jack
son as Chairman.
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY
Time* Staff Writer
Thp parade and ceremonial Sun
day afternoon for Senator Arthur
R. Robinson will have the support
of McNutt’s Democratic legionnaires,
but the requested presence of the
Indiana G. A. R. will be lacking.
Today Colonel David N. Foster.
Ft. Wayne, prominent G. A. R.
member, in a letter to Albert L.
Pauley, past department, command
er of the Sons of Union Veterans,
refused flatly the invitation to join
the parade, which will be climaxed
by Robinson's talk at the War mem
orial.
Previously, however. Clarence A.
•Jackson, past department chief of
the American legion and state in
come tax collector, had accepted the
chairmanship for all allied veterans
who will take part in the celebra
tion.
Can t Whip ’Em? Join 'Em
His entry into the affair was said
to be based on the old Hoosier po
litical slogan:
If you .can't w hip 'em. join 'em.”
Pauley sent, the Invitation to
Colonel Foster. He outlined the
great services that Robinson had
performed in getting pensions for
veterans of all wars and urged at
tendance at the reception as being
nonpolitical and purely a matter of
appreciation. He even asked Foster
to have the G. A. R. head the
parade.
Pauley's answer came in an open
letter from Foster received at
G. A. R. headquarters at the state
house today. It reads:
"Asa Civil war veteran, a past
department commander of the
Grand Armv of the Republic, and
at present chairman of the council
of administration of the Indiana
department. I have been asked to
join the Robinson parade.
Writes Open Letter
I declined most emphatically.
This so-called nonpartisan recep
tion of the senator does not camou
flage successfully this opening gun
of Robinson's in his campaign for
ro-e!ection to the United States
senate next year.
“The occasion is a political one.
aiming to give strength to the sen
ator over any competitors he may
have for that high office. The rules
and regulations of the Grand Army
of the Republic emphatically for
bid its participation in partisan
politics. That is reason enough for
my action.
•Furthermore. I do not call to
mind any senator of the United
States whose action on bonus and
pension questions during recent
years I condemn more severely than
that of Robinson. It has seemed to
me for the last two or three years
that his speeches and votes in the
senate have been in his personal in
terests. rather than in the interests
of his country.
Condemns Robinson Stand
"Should the Republican state
convention next year nominate the
senator to succeed himself, the sen
atorial campaign will be fought on
the issues of an immediate payment
of the bonus to World war veterans
—not due until 1945—and a con
tinuation of the policy of paying
pensions for the next fifty years to
four and a quarter million of men
enlisted in the World war—more
than half of whom never fired a gun
at the enemy or even left the coun
try.
"In such a campaign Robinson
will receive most of that element in
the American Legion that now con
trols that organization, without re
gard to their politics. To offset the
votes of that great body of men. the
more thoughtful and conservative
element of the enlisted men in the
World war must join with inde
pendent Republicans in accom
plishing his defeat.”
Colonel Foster is a life-long Re
publican.
KICK Is DEATH CAUSE
Benjamin Coleman. 76, Injured Fa
tally While Standing by Horse.
Injuries incurred Tuesday when he
was kicked by a horse caused the
death Friday of Benjamin Cole
man. 76. R R 10. Box 151. south
east of the city, at his home.
Mr. Coleman had taken the horse
to have it shod, and was standing
nearby when the horse kicked him
mthe abdomen, causing internal in
juries. Dr. E. R. Wilson, deputy
coroner, investigated.
City’s ‘No. 1’ and ‘No. 2’ Sticker I 7 ixers Are Fined
THE Indianapolis police depart
ment's "Blacklisted Sticker
Fixer No. 2” was "stuck" for SlO
and costs today by Judge Dewry
Meyers in municipal court three.
• Blacklusted Sticker F'lxer No.
I” was tagged for $25 and costs
earlier this week by Judge W'illiam
H. Sheaffer.
It seems the traffic department
keeps a record bureau nt police
headquarters, listing the outcome
of every sticker issued by police.
For every individual who has a
traffic sticker "fixed” by a pol
itician friend, a lawyer on the
"in,” or just a friendly cop, a
Clear tonight and Sunday; slightly warmer Sunday.
INDIANAPOLIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933
PROCLAIM ‘STRIKE MORATORIUM’;
U. S. ARBITRATION BOARD NAMED
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The gondola and colllapsed balloon of Lietenant-Commander I. G.
W. Settle is shown in a Chicago railroad yard where it came down, sup
posedly because of a faulty valve, less than ten minutes after it had
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STRATOSPHERE
FLIGHT FAILS
Faulty Hydrogen Valve Is
Cause of Crash Shortly
After Takeoff.
BY HARRISON SALISBURY
United Press Staff Correspondent
CHICAGO, Aug. s—The biggest
balloon man pver built made a spec
tacular takeoff from Soldier Field
for a flight into the stratosphere to
day, but the daring enterprise ended
before it was well begun when the
big gas bag crashed in a welter of
ropes and rubber fabric in the midst
of a railroad yards.
A faulty hydrogen valve brought
the projected voyage into the blue
void of the stratosphere to a sudden
end, and only the
expert maneuvering
of the scientist, Lieu
tenant Commander
T. W. G. Settle,
saved the craft from
destruction.
When he became
certain that he must
land. Settle peered
beneath him and saw
stretching away to
the south the Chi
cago river. On one
Settle
side were the dark outlines of
buildings that offered every hazard,
but on the opposite bank was the
comparatively open space of the
network of tracks in the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad yards.
Settle maneuvered his craft to a
safe landing, and managpd to re
lease the highly inflammable hy
drogen in the envelope without in
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CLEAR SKIES FORECAST
Fair Weather to Continue Over
Week-End, Says Bureau.
Fair weather will prevail over the
week-end for Indianapolis, the
weather bureau forecast today.
Weather will remain clear tonight
and Sunday, the forecast said, with
slightly higher temperatures on
Sunday.
The mercury climbed rapidly to
day toward August levels, following
the cool spell of the last two days.
At 6. the mercury reading was 61,
and at 9 it was 74, thirteen degrees
higher.
STRUCK WITH BALL BAT
Boy, 10. Receives Broken Arm in
Argument With Playmate.
A baseball bat was used to settle
an argument between two 10-year
old boys today, with the result that
one. Richard West, 10. of 2946 South
East street, was taken to city hos
pital by police, with a broken arm.
Phffip Mills. 2942 Beech street
the other youth, told police he
struck the other boy. but was sorry.
The West boy s mother refused to
prosecute.
black mark goes by the name of
that person.
a a a
THE traffic department keeps
a running list of the twenty
four leading “blacklisters.”
Before Myers today came
Charles O. Fleming. 3506 North
Pennsylvania street, labeled by
police as "Traffic department
enemy No. 2.” After having
seven stickers fixed, Fleming
climbed to the No. 2 post, said
Captain Lout* Johnson.
But on July 21, a traffic officer
spotted Fleming's car parked in
front of Christ church on the
Luesse Faces
Farm Return
Labor Agitator's Parole
May Be Revoked: Held
at Marion.
Theodore Luesse, labor agitator,
will be returned to the Indiana
state penal farm for parole viola
tion, if state police have their way.
Captain Matt Leach, head of the
state police, said today that Luesse,
now under arrest charged with in
citing to riot at Marion, would be
brought to Indianapolis Monday.
"I want to talk to him,” Leach
said.
"What is the purpose of the talk?
Is it to revoke Luesse s parole, and
send him back to the farm?" he was
asked.
"Yes, you can say that. He's a
nuisance. I know’ quite a bit about
these fellows. We want to revoke his
parole and send him back to the
farm,'’ Leach said.
Luesse was one of the former pris
oners of the state farm who signed
affidavits charging brutality and in
efficiency in the handling of pris
oners at the state farm in a series
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GENERAL FREIGHT
RATE GUT DENIED
Petition Is Turned Down by
Commerce Commission.
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WASHINGTON. Aug. s.—The in
terstate commerce commission de
nied a petition tociry for a general
reduction in freight rates.
POORFARM BRUTALITY
IS CHARGED BY INMATE
Aged Man Accuses ‘Bos*’ of Beating
'Without Provocation.’
A 68-year-old inmate of the
Marion county infirmary was
knocked down Friday night by a
36-year-old. 190 - pound "inmate
dormitory boss." the elderly man, P.
J. Scanlon, charged today.
The "dormitory boss." Dan Wil
kerk, struck him without provoca
tion, Scanlon said.
Charles Seholtz. superintendent of
the poor farm, admitted today to
The Times that some trouble had
occurred in the dormitory snd that
he had investigated.
He said he was disciplining Wil
kerk.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
6 a. m.,., 61 10 a. m.... 75
7 a. m.... 63 11 a. m.... 76
8 a. m.... 69 12 n00n.... 77
9 a. m,„. 74 1 p. m,,.. 78
Circle in a restricted space. He ,
checked the license number with
his list and then sat down to
wait. He started waiting at 2:05
p. m. and at 5. Fleming appeared.
He was given an arrest slip. but.
in the meantime, it seems. Flem
ing picked up a ninth sticker
some place.
• • •
EVERYONE in my office uses
my car. Judge.” said Flem
ing. 'and I think the man respon
sible for most of those stickers
was fired by me a few days ago." j
"Hm-m," said Myers. "On this
particular case, the officer waited 1
taken off on an attempted flight to the stratosphere. Settle Is on the
left of the group of four men standing in front of the gondola. He was
not injured.
RESTAURANTS
AGREEON CODE
$6,600,000 Annual Wage
Increase in State to
Be Made.
Francis Wells, Indiana recovery
director, announced today that an
agreement reached with the federal
recovery administrator at Washing
ton and the Indiana Restaurant As
sociation today would put 8.000
people to work in Indiana and in
crease restaurant pay roll in the
state $6,600,000 annually.
The estimate of increased pay roll
and employes was given Wells bv
Will S. Aiken of the restaurant
group who. with W. o. Wheeler
president of the restaurant associa
tion announced, according to Wells,
that they had received sanction
from Washington to operate under
the blanket code pending approval
of the code for the industry, i
The new program for restaurants
in Indianapolis and throughout the
state will go into effect Monday. It
will carry a $14.50 minimum weekly
pay rate for men and $12.50 a week,
for women. In the state the wages
for both men and women will be
scaled down, according to popula
tion as provided in the NRA plan.
Under the new state program,
men will work fifty-six hours a
week and women forty-eight. Part
time workers are entitled to 30 cents
an hour. School children working
in restaurants may not work more
than three hours daily. The chil
dren so employed tnust be between
14 and 16
Wells stated that under the pro
gram adopted by the Indiana
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Attorney-General Ready
to Rule Draugh t Beer Legal
Attorney-General Philip Lutz Jr.
declared today that he stands ready
to issue an opinion making draught
beer possible any time he is asked
for it by Governor Paul V. Mc-
Nutt.
Thus the way was paved for the
Governor to take a stand in the
matter and he is expected to do so
in a speech 4o the Democratic Ed
itorial Association Tuesday night at
Lake Wawasee.
What that stand will be nobody
at the statehouse was sure today.
But ail agreed that to authorize
draught beer would "turn off the
heat” on the present beer adminis
tration.
Lutz was scheduled to confer to
day w-ith Ora Wildermuth, promi
nent Lake county attorney, regard
ing draught beer sales there.
three hours, and you are the one
who came and got in the car. I'm
going to show you it costs more to
park improperly than to go an
other block and get a legal park
ing space. Ten dollars and costs.”
mam
|7>ARLIER this week. Claude
1-/ Ennis, 46. of 633 Massachu
setts avenue, came before Sheaffer
on an improper parking charge.
Ennis had "fixed a whole flock”
of stickers, police told the judge.
He was "Blacklisted Sticker Fixer
No. 1.”
"Twenty-five dollars and costs."
said Sheaffer, "next case."
Entered t* Second -Class Matter
• t rostolTiro. Indianapolis
Fliers Start
Bagdad Hop
Two French Pilots Off on
Most Ambitious Distance
Flight in History.
BY MARION F. COLLINS
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FLOYD BENNET AIRPORT.
N. Y., Aug. s,—Two French pilots
began one of the most ambitious
flights in aviation history at 3:41
a. m. (Indianapolis timei today
when they took off for Bagdad,
Irak, in an attempt to set anew
non-stop distance record.
Paul Codos, World war flier, was
at the controls. Rossi, was
navigator and radio operator.
Their Bleriot monoplane, carrying
1.770 gallons of gasoline, was the
heaviest laden ship ever to leave
this airport. The
plane with its fuel
load and other
equipment weighed
more than nine
tons.
They planned to
head up the Atlan
tic coast as far as
Newfoundland then
steer a course
across the Atlantic
that would take
them over the
southern tip of Ire
land.
They hoped to fly over Paris, but
said they would not pause for any
welcoming ceremony in the air.
Continuing eastward, they hoped
to follow a route down the Balkan
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That it is being sold openly in
Lake and Allen counties was ad
mitted freely today by Captain
Matt Leach of the state police, who
returned from an inspection tour.
In many instances, it was re
ported draught beer is sold in places
having permits to sell bottled beer
and, so far. Paul ?Yy. state excise
director, has not revoked any
licenses.
A1 Feeney, state safety director
announced that the state police
would halt trucks hauling keg beer,
but no arrests were made.
Pleas Greenlee, secretary to the
Governor, said the whole program
of enforcement awaited McNutt's
return from the Governors’ confer
ence in California, where he has
been the last fortnight.
McNutt is due in Chicago Sunday
and will go from there to the Wa
wasee meeting.
While no discussion of the mat
ter has been held with him, the Lutz
announcement today is expected
to swing the Governor over to tnc
draught beer side.
Lutz said he saw nothing in 'he
beer control law to prevent sales on
draught.
GRAND JURY ADJOURNED
County Probe Body Wlill Resume
Session on Sept. 1.
The Marion county grand jury to
day adjourned until Sept. 1 for sum
mer vacation. Before adjourning,
the jury handed down ten indict
ments naming fourteen persons.
The Indictments included charges
of second-degree burglary, grand
larceny, criminal attack, and issu
ance of fraudulent checks.
HOME
EDITION
PRICE TWO CENTS
Outside Marion County, 3 Cents
Roosevelt ’Commends to
Public Conscience’ Plea
to Capital and Labor.
MINERS REACH TRUCE
Pennsylvania Walkout to
Be Dropped Pending
Code Hearing.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM
United l*re. Staff ('nrrr*pnrient
HYDE PARK. Aujr. 10.
President Roosevelt today
commended to the “public
conscience" an appeal of in
dustrial and labor leaders
for an industrial peace dur
ing: the recovery propram.
Characterizing the document as
(comparable to Samuel Oompers’
memorable wartime demand to pre
serve the status quo in labor dis
putes. Mr. Roosevelt explained that
in addition to asking for co-opera
, tion in the interest of the nation, it
proposed creation of a tribunal to
pass promptly on all cases arising
through interpretation of the re
employment agreement.
“Os importance to the recovery
program is the appeal to manage
ment and labor for industrial
j which just has been sent, to me for
I approval. With rompelling logic, it
| calls upon every individual in both
groups to avoid strikes, lockouts or
any aggressive action during the re
covery’ program.
Tribunal Is Approved
‘‘lt is a document on a par with
. Samuel Gompors’ memorable war
time demand to preserve the status
I Quo in labor disputes In addition
to the signature of the president of
the American Federation of Labor
it carries the signature of every
great labor leader and every great
industrial leader on the two ad
visory boards of the recovery ad
ministration. it is an act of eco
nomic statesmanship I earnestly
commend it to the public conscience.
'This joint appeal proposes the
| creation of a distinguished tribunal
I to P®** promptly on any case of
| hardship or dispute that may arise
' from interpretation or application
J *he President s re-employment
I agreement.
"The advantages of thLs recom
mendation are plain and I accept,
it and hereby appoint the men it
proposes whose names will carry
their own commendation to the
country: Senator Robert F. Wagner,
chairman; William Green. Dr Leo
i VVolman. John L. Lewis. Walter C.
Tcagle. Gerard Swope. Louis E. Kir
stcin.”
Confident of Support
Friends of the administration
looked for the pledge to furnish the
final necessary thrust to insure
complete success of the administra
tion program.
They were confident that with
the united support of both capital
and labor strikes now in progress
in various sections of the country
would be terminated speedily in the
interest of the nation nt large
General Hugh S. Johnson, nation
al recovery administrator, backed
by the President, ended the strike
in the Pennsylvania coal fields
earlier today.
Mine Truce Is Announced
The President himself announced
the "absolute truce” between miners
and mine owners which will send
50.000 me n back to work on Mon
day and prevent 200.000 others from
going on strike.
''erms of the truce substantially
was preservation of the status quo,
pending hearings on the coal lndus
trvs code under the national recov
ery act.
The chief executive's announce
ment, made at the summer Whit*
House under highly dramatic cir
cumstances, came at the end of a
hectic and frantic twelve hours for
Johnson, Mr. Roosevelt, and leaders
of miners and coal operators
; After a long conference in Wash
ington at which Johnson presided,
labor and capital agreed to the
truce.
Johnson came here bv airplane,
and obtained approval of the Pres
ident. who had been keeping in
touch with the conference by tel
ephone
Two New Codes Signed
The truce had two chief points:
1 The miners will return to work
without prejudice ann their disputa
with operators will be aired at the
coal code hearings beginning Aug. 9.
2. Until the industry's code ts
adopted, ail disagreement* will be
settled by a board of three chosen
by the President
"Never in our country has a strike
of *uch threatened proportions been
settled so quickly and so generous
ly.” Mr. Roosevelt declared.
Immediately after announcing the
end of the coal strike the President
signed the code of the electrical and
thf cloak and suit industries.
DOG OWNERS WARNED
Delinquent Tax Blanks Mailed to ~00
in Washington Towmship.
Three hundred dog owners in
Washington township today wera
mailed delinquent tax notices m
strucing them to pay the township
assessor their dog license taxes im
mediately.
The taxes call for tl on malo
dogs. $3 for female*, and $5 for each
additional dog. Delinquent tax
payers in other township* will be
i mailed notices next week.
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