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LEGION DEMANDS END OF WASTE BY FEDERAL MACHINE Extravagance Must Be Curbed if Deserving Veteran Is to Be Treated Fairly, Commander Contends. BITTER AGAINST ECONOMY LEAGUE ‘Thrift Drive’ Merely an Attack on Ex-Service Man, Says Johnson; Cites Many Costly ‘Experiments.’ l thr wronil of Ihm tlnrln on the now imllflM which Commander Coni* a. Johnson will brine before the American convention in Chicaeo next month. BY TAI.COTT POWEI.L Editor Indianapolis Time* The American Legion, after fifteen years of framing expensive pension legislation, suddenly has realized that there is a bottom to the treasury’s money barrel. Outstanding officials of the organization, the national headquarters of which are here, admit that if the really disabled veterans and the dependents of the war are to receive just treatment in pension matters, unnecessary extravagances of the federal government must be curbed.

They understand that able-' lx>died veterans earning adequate incomes can not-re-ceive subsidies from the government if the soldier who really was handicapped for life in the Argonne is to be supported decently. The present legion administration. which will give an accounting of its stewardship to the national convention in Chicago on Oct 2. . proposes that the legion pick up the study of government economy where the National Economy League dropped it. Bitter Against League Louis A. Johnson, commander of the legion, is bitter in his condemnation of the National Economy League, because, in his opinion, it posed as favoring all government economy and actually was interested only in cutting down payments to veterans. "This organization once was pretty vocal." he said. "Today the mask has been torn from its face. It is exposed as a body of the richest men in the country who had no purpose, but to raid the veteran and then run to cover. It abandoned its great spring membership drive. Its national chairman has resigned. It has taken its objective. "The legion. I believe, should go into this whole question of income tax exemptions, so that we shall not have the spectacle we have had this year of the Morgans and the Otto Kahns escaping taxation through legal holes so big that you could drive an oxcart through them. "How about the $65,000,000 that has been spent on the prohibition bureau alone, with fully twice that much thrown into the coast guard and immigration service to enforce an unenforceable law which a majority of the people obviously do not want? Cites Money Wastes "How about the terrific subsidies to steamships for earning ocean mail? Why. I know of one case in which the government is paying $117,000 a pound for hauling mail across the j ocean. Another steamship company j was permitted to borrow $6,500,000 for twenty years at 2 per cent interest. • The department of agriculture spent last year $7,000,000 on a study ; of the habits and home life of practically every known variety of insect and reptile. It even got out a booklet on the love life of the frog. Who in the world is interested in the domestic affairs of a bullfrog, except another frog. Department of commerce experts also put out thousands of dollars to find out what part of a bedsheet wears out first, and reached the astounding conclusion that the part of the sheet which wears out first is that point of which the heaviest part of the body rests. Our national government today is publishing far more pamphlets and books than either of the two largest private publishing concerns in the country. t ost Huge Sums "All these activities are costing the taxpayer plenty of cash. It seems to me that the veterans can perform a real service by keeping a check on these governmental activities. "The enlightened and patriotic citizen who once wore the uniform of his country now realizes that the treasury is not a money-making machine of infinite production capacity; if his wounded and disabled comrades who bore the brunt o! the most awful fighting the world ever has seen and their dependents are to make sacrifices, the ablebodied veterans should make sure that such sacrifices are not unnecessary." Th# next story will tell of the results of an investigating committee which the Legion appointed for the purpose of evaluating the present pension laws. FALL INJURIES FATAL Mrs. Pearl Schwart* Succumbs Folowing Arm Fracture. Complications following fracture of an arm caused the death Friday night n St. Vincent's hospital of Mrs. Pearl Schwarts, who lived at the Jewish Old Folks Home. 852 South Pennsylvania street. She was injured at the home Aug. 30 when she fell from the edge of a bed on ( which she was seated.

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COURT UPHOLDS POOR AID LEVY Township Must Impose Tax Regardless of $1 and $1.50 Limit Law. Defending poor relief as an emergency, the state supreme court today ruled that townships are bound to levy taxes for poor relief, regardless of the $1 and $1.50 tax limitation law. At the same time the court held constitutional the law providing for the commissary system of administering poor relief. The ruling came on a test case brought by Clarence M. Brown, trustee for creditors of Wayne township, Wayne county, who sued to obtain judgment for claims totaling $107,000. Moct of the creditors were wholesalers who had sold poor relief supplies. The court held that the township would have to pay its obligations. The tax limit law was passed' by a special legislature in 1932. It provided that the total tax rate could not exceed $1.50 except in cases of emergency. Provision was made in the law. however, to meet poor relief obligations incurred before it went into effect, Aug. 8. 1932. The court ruled that, counties were bound to levy for poor relief obligations incurred after Aug. 8. as well as before, because poor relief is an emergency.

INTENT TO KILL IS CHARGED IN BEATING Hugh Earll Under $5,000 Bond for Jury. Hugh Earll. 31. of 631 North Gladstone avenue, postal employe, was held to the grand jury under $5,000 bond today on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill, as a result of a beating he is said to have given his bride of two months. Mrs. Maxine Earll. While Earll was waiving preliminary examination in the court of Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. detectives on recommendation of Dr. William E. Arbuckle. coroner, reopened investigation of the death of Earll's first wife. Mrs. Mollie Earll. on April 21. 1931. Returning from his work as a postal clerk. Earll said he found his first wife dying, her head having been bartered. Earll was able to prove an alibi satisfactory to police.

Father Ruined by Son Man of 50 Led Into Crime by Youth; Each Given Sentence of 10 Years in Prison.

SON led father into a life of crime, but in payment to the piper—Justice —each received ten years in the penitentiary in the court of Criminal Judge Frank Baker. Friday. The son. Richard Turner. 19. will go to the Indiana reformatory; the father. James M. Turner. 2039 Ludlow street, to Indiana state prison.

Facing charges of robbery and grand larceny growing out of numerous robberies of pharmacies, in addition to the alleged holdup of Hugh McK Landon, vice-president of the Fletcher Trust Company, and attempted robbery of the Leslie Colvin Construction Company, 8400 Spring Mill road, the younger Turner took the blame for leading his father astray. *'l knew he had been out of a job and needed money, so I invited Dad to go along." said the youth, explaining the robberies to the court Paul Parker, who accompanied the Turners and two other men in the robberies, also received ten years in the reformatory. Itt-sentencmg tha trio. Baker ex-

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Woodrow E. Pitzer and his dog. Billy. Swimming in an unguarded spot in White river at Municipal Gardens Friday afternoon, 14-year-old Woodrow E. Pitzer, 1125 North Pershing avenue, was drowned when stricken either by cramps or by

fatigue in the middle of the river. Companions of the lad fled the scene in terror, and the body was recovered by Sergeant Timothy McMahon of the police accident preveniton bureau and radio patrolman Thomas Carter. The body was identified by the lad's mother, Mrs. Harvey Pitzer, who became hysterical as she recognized her son. Grief-stricken, the Pitzer family huddled in the home today, striving to comfort Woodrow’s twin sister Catherine, who had been her brother's closest companion. The survivors the parents, Catherine, one other sister Velma, 23, and three brothers Cecil, 26; Nelson, 21. and Ralph, 18. Another knew of the tragedy, too. It was Billy, Woodrow’s pet bull terrier, which had been the lad's constant companion for ten years. The dog had been brought home when a pup by Cecil Pitzer as a gift for his “baby brother.” With nose turned upward, Billy mourned today with long-drawn, harrowing howls. With several companions, Woodrow left to caddy at the Riverside golf course Friday and they'stopped for a swim at the Municipal Gardens. The Pitzer lad had learned to swim this summer. After swimming from the west bank of the river to the east bank, with Leo Beers, 14, of Eleventh street and Pershing avenue, Woodrow started back. About twenty feet from the west bank, in four-teen-foot deep water, Woodrow cried out. “Can you make it?" called the Beers boy. “I think so.” gasped Woodrow. A moment later he cried for help and went down. Paul J4oe, 16. of 1816 Winfield avenue, and Carl Hancock, 1154 North Belle Vieu place, who were passing by, leaped into the water in an effort to save Woodrow, but he had gone down for the last time before they could reach him. SURPLUS PIGS SOUGHT FOR POOR FAMILIES Civic Clubs Wire Wallace Request for Distribution. Suggestion that meats of thousands of pigs being slaughtered by packing houses and stockyards in compliance with the NRA surplus plan, be distributed to poor families, was made to Henry' A. Wallace, secretary’ of ariculture. Friday night by the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs. Telegrams were sent to Wallace, Senators Frederick Van Nuys and Arthur R. Robinson and Representative Louis Ludlow by the federation members. The messages set out that the pigs, weighing between twenty-five and eighty pounds, should be turned over to authorized charitable groups for butchering and distribution of meats. Takes First Plane Ride By United Press FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. 9.—J. H. Petty. 83. Liberal, Mo., enjoyed his first airplane ride here today. He was accompanied by his son Leonard, 57. who lives here, and a grandson Gene. 20. who piloted the plane.

pressed the opinion that the father "was just dumb." "He had reached the age of 50 without making a- misstep. He has worked hard all his life. Then he goes out with his own son to embark on a career of crime. Usually it is the father who takes the son," Baker said. "I am going to be fair in this case. Probably if the parole board were sitting here, it would give you a couple of years and it probably will turn you out in a couple of years, anyhow." Others sentenced Friday were Clyde O'Pheara. fiteen years in the state reformatory', for burglary and petit larceny, and Mrs. Virginia Harding, one to five years in xndiana woman's prison, for petit larceny.

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Such Crust! Girl Submissive Victim Until Bandit Tries Kiss —Zowie! By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 9. Miss Gladys Raymond, 19, was alarmed but submissive when a young and “personable” bandit pointed a revolver at her as she was walking home alone from a bridge party. She was displeased, but made no outcry, when the bandit took her purse. It w'as even more alarming when he took a $250 diamond ring from her finger, but still she made no forceful protest. When he ordered that she take e.ff her stockings so he could make sure she did not have any money in them, she grumbled a bit, but complied. Then the bandit informed her he was ; going to kiss her. “That made me angry, so I slapped his face and ran,” she told police, in reporting the incident.

BAN OF POPE IS PUT ON GERMAN TREATY Hitler’s Policies Fail to Meet Approval. By United Pre/m VATICAN CITY, Sept. 9.—The pope's refusal to ratify the Ger-man-Vatican treaty until Chancellor Adolf Hitler modifies his policies was confirmed semi-officially today. A Vatican spokesman said that on account of the imminent departure on a visit of Cardinal Pacelli, papal secretary of state, confidential conversations would be suspended and ratification oj the treaty would be delayed. Pacelli will be absent for about a month, and it is hoped by the t Vatican that meantime Hitler may have modified his general policies and particularly his attitude toward the treaty. It had been reported that the ! pope was displeased with Hitler's general religious policy and with his policy toward Catholics. •LITTLE NAPOLEON’"OF GANGLAND IS SLAIN Goes for “Last Ride" on Anniversary of His Lieutenant's Killing. By United Pre/ts CHICAGO. Sept. 9.—Gang vengeance struck today at Nicholas Muscato, the “Little Napoleon” of the "42’’ gang, three years to the day and to the hour from the slaying of his once trusted lieutenant, Pete Nicastro. With bullet wounds in the back of the head and left arm, the little gangster's body was hurled from an automobile at the emergency entrance of the county, hospital. A taxi driver saw the body crumple on the sidewalk. Muscato was far past medical aid. Muscato, police said, killed Nicastro. Friends of the latter, apparently, ironically selected the anniversary of his slaying to deal a similar typical gangster death to the "42” gang chieftain. Times Index Page. ABC of NRA 10 Book a Day 7 Bridge 9 Broun Column 4 Classified 10-11-12 Comics 13 Crossword Puzzle 10 Curious World 13 Dietz on Science 9 Editorial 4 Financial 10 Hickman Theater Reviews 6 Kirby Cartoon 4 Mae West—a Series 2 Obituaries 2 Radio 7 Serial Story 13 Sports ...; 8-9 Vital Statistics 10 Womans Page . 5

HEAT RECORD OF SEPTEMBER IS THREATENED Mercury Is Expected to Pass 96; Prostrations, Deaths Reported. REDUCE SCHOOL HOURS Crops Are Periled by Late Torrid Wave; City Lawns Scorched. Temperatures threatening all-time September heat records held Indiana in a tight grip today and it is possible that the mercury will pass 96 in Indianapolis this afternoon, the alltime record for the month here. Despite a prediction of slightly cooler weather for Sunday, there were no indications this afternoon that the heat wave would be broken. Starting at 72 at 6 this morning, the had risene to 93 at 1 p. m. At 12:30, it was estimated that sidewalk temperatures were near 100. Two Indianapolis men were prostrated by the heat and were treated at city hosiptal. Three deaths and several prostrations were reported in the state. Dies in Evansville The latest victim was Henry Brackett, 50, who fell dead after working all day on a railroad bridge at Evansville. Official government thermometers registered 100 degrees in Columbus and Vincennes Friday. South Bend. Wheatfield, and Lafayette sweltered under 99 degrees, Rochester reported 98, Angola 97, Cambridge City, Paoli, and Terre Haute 96 and Indianapolis 94. At Warsaw, the schools were dismissed an hour early Friday after one pupil was overcome in a classroom. May Cut School Hours Paul C. Stetson, superintendent of Indianapolis schools, declared that if the above-normal temperatures continued next week, school would be curtailed to half days. One city man was found in nearcollapse at Capitol avenue and Washington street and removed to his home by a city fireman. The victim, Jacob Wyttenbach, 58, of 123 North Traub avenue, later was removed to rity Hospital. Friday, the oilier city man was prostrated. - He was Joseph Branson, 71, of 233 North Cable street, who collapsed while walking at Pearl and Blackford streets. He was treated at city hospital. If rain does not fall soon, crops all over Indiana will be endangered, farm leaders predicted. Two horses and thirty hogs succumbed to the intense heat in Kosciusko county on Friday and the crop loss will be heavy, said farmers, unless rain falls soon. Corn Helped by Heat Horace E. Abbott, Marion county agricultural agent, said today that late corn has been aided by the heat following last Saturday’s rain, but added that much more rain is needed in the county. Many lawns and gardens in the city have been scorched by the heat. The thermometers registered 95 Friday, equalling the all-time Sept. 8 record for Indianapolis. The record was equalled at 3 p. m. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. m 72 10 a. m 88 7 a. m 73 11 a. m 91 8 a. m 79 12 (noon).. 92 9 a. m.... 85 1 p. m 93

Trotcky Voices Protest Against Gas Price Hikes Charging price-fixing in the gasoline industry in Indianapolis. Samuel L. Trotcky, president of the Indianap Motor Service Corporation, 1121 North Meridian street, sent a protest to Washington today against the 1-cent gasoline rise, effecitve today.

The protest embodied in a telegram to Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, read: ' “As an independent gasoline j dealer, I protest these raises in gas- ! oline prices. Five cents in less than ninety days is unreasonable and unwarranted. Wages barely are inj creasing and conditions here have not shown any improvement.” | “You are making it impossible for the mall dealer to exist. Stopping premiums is only playing into the hands of the big oil companies. The major companies spent thousands of dollars to draft this code. We lit- ! tie merchants were unorganized and unrecognized. "Show us the justification for these price raises. Show us any ' reason for retail price regulation. Show us any reason why premiums should be discontinued. Have we j little fellows, who are in the NRA 100 per cent, any right to exist? If so—stop these unfair regulations, j “The major companies have been i running tihngs so far. Now give i the little fellows a chance to exist." GENERAL AGENT RETIRES New England Mutual Insurance Official Given Watch. William H. Meub, general agent for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company, and president of the G eneral Agents Association of his company for the last years, retired from office at the recent convention at Swampscott, Mass., and was presented with a platinum watch and chain for his services during his term of office. Meub was complimented by George Willard Smith, president of the company, for the manner in which he had performed his duties.,

ROOSEVELT CANCELS TRIP TO WATCH RISING CUBAN PERIL; CRISIS AT HAND IN ISLAND

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By United Press SEBASCO, Me., Sept. 9 Former Senator William S. Kenyon, 64, of Ft. Dodge, la., judge of the United States district court of the Eighth district, died of heart disease at his home here today after several weeks’ illness.

WAR RENEWED ON COAL CODE Johnson Faces New Battle; Wrath Is Aroused by Operators’ Letter. By United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—Mine operators precipitated anew crisis over a code for the soft coal industry today. “The situation is very delicate,” said Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson, emerging from a conference with spokesmen for the operators. The code drafted by the government satisfied labor. It was praised by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, who said any complaints against it would come from operators. They were not long in coming. Walter Jones, liaison man for the so-called Appalachian group of operators, whose mines have been nonunion, gave Johnson a letter which the administrator read and hurled to the floor. Then he summoned the operators. It was understood the operators told Johnson they considered the code so “bad” that they would not bother to .submit written suggestions of changes before the deadline at 6 tonight. Johnson said he had postponed a public hearing which he had set for Monday afternoon. The postponement was suggested by Deputy Administrator K. M. Simpson, in charge of the coal mine code.

TITUS APPOINTED TO U. S. ENGINEER POST Former State Official Will Be in Charge of Highway Work, Announcement of the appointment of William J. Titus, former chief engineer of the state highway commission, asNsenior highway design engineer for the federal bureau of roads, by Thomas H. McDonald, was received here Friday. Titus will assume his duties at once. He will work under J. T. Voshell, Chicago, district engineer. He will have charge of all municipal projects undertaken by the Indiana state highway commission, and will be placed in direct charge of all bridge and railroad grade separation construction for Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Kentucky.

‘Wild Party’ Suit Called Spite by Realty Chief

Suit for $5,000 damages, charging that property owned by Mrs. Mary McMahan, 5694 North Meridian street, has depreciated in value as result of an alleged “wild party” held at the home of J. Harry Miles. 5690 North Meridian street, was filed today in superior court two.

The suit is the outgrowth of a suit charging a public nuisance which was filed by Miles against Mrs. McMahan and the operators of a chicken dinner farm at 5694 North Meridian street, several months ago in circuit court. Miles today said he had received several mysterious telephone calls requesting that the public nuisance action be dropped, or he would be embarrassed in his. position as presi-

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CITY QUALIFIES IN DRIVE TO BANISH SLUMS Plan for $4,460,000 Loan to Build New Houses Is Detailed. Tentative approval of the federal government for a $4,460,000 loan to Indianapolis for elimination of slums and erection of low-cost housing units, as revealed in The Times Friday, today was confirmed here by Robert D. kohn of Washington, director of the housing division of the NRA. Kohn revealed that plans have been under way for some time and that thus only three cities in the nation have qualified for the federal loans. They are Indianapolis, Cleveland and St. Louis. The plan awaits only the approval and signature of President Roosevelt and a campaign to raise a 15 per cent share by the city. Negro Section Selected Kohn refused to admit that a definite district had been surveyed for the city, but it was understood that the Negro section in the northwest section of Indianapolis had been selected. Developments have been kept secret for some time and were learned by The Times Friday at Washington. Harmon E. Snoke, of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, has been aiding in compilation of statistics. According to the plan, described by Kohn, the federal government will loan to the city $4,460.000, and the city will provide as its share 15 per cent of $669,000, a total of $5,129,000. The entire program will be placed in the hands of a local committee, and title of the property will be placed with this committee. Rentals will be made by the committee for the low-cost model units and semiannual payments on the loan made to Washington. Rent to Be $17.50 According to Kohn, the lowest cost house will rent for approximately $17.50 a month. The highest cost, it was learned, will be $37.50 for four rooms, heated. Heading the local committee at the present stage are Joe Rand Beckett, local attorney, who has made several trips to Washington, and Professor R. Clyde White, director of the social research dedivision. It was understood that the development here will add $1,000,000 to the city's taxable property valuation. It also was learned that 26 per cent of the city’s relief funds are spent in the district to be aided. % Slum clearance for districts not inhabited by Negroes will be considered later, it was said.

REALTY BOARD TO PUT ‘GANDHI’ ON STREET Sheet-Attired Figure to Be Protest Against Tax Rate. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board will put its own Mahatma I Gandhi on the streets of the city next week, in an effort to build up public support for its war on the j city and county tax levies. The board's Gandhi, attired in 1 what the Mahatma's cohorts insist I is a sheet, will be a public display ! as the alleged result of exorbitant tax rates in Marion county. The board will use its model Gandhi as the opening gun in a drive to get citizens to start a passive resistance campaign against high taxes, and will advocate that citizens pay no more than $1.50. DEATH DRIVER ESCAPES Hitch Hiker Killed; Motorist Speeds From Scene. | By United Press GARY. Ind.. Sept. 9.—John FinI ley, 48, 541 Eastern avenue. Grand Rapids, Mich., was killed instantly ! today while hitch-hiking on the ‘Dunes highway, east of here. He was struck by a driver who speeded away after the crash. According to John Guroski. Grand Rapids, a companion, both had been ■ to Gary, hunting work, and were reI turning home. Finley leaves a I widow and two daughters.

dent of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. Mr. and Mrs. Miles were vacationing in Georgia when the alleged “wild party" took place in their home, Miles said. Harry Miles, their son, according to the realty board president, dad have a party of friends in his home, but they deny the allegations of the suit filed today that the party was [ "wild,” v

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Week-End Events to Decide Whether U. S. Will Intervene. WARSHIPS ARE READY, Fate of New Government Rests on Ability to Protect Foreigners. BY JOSEPH If. BAIRD Vnited Prrss Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. This | week-end will determine whether the United States is to intervene in Cuba, officials believed today. President Roosevelt canceled his holiday fishing trip that he might stay in personal command. His course depended entirely on | the ability of the ruling revolutionary junta in Havana to form a j government strong enough to main- | tain order and protect foreigners. A fleet of warships and bombing planes and a regiment of marines j awaited only the presidential com- | mand. In the balance was not only Cuba’s future, but the entire Amer;ican diplomatic policy in Latin America. Officials fear a display of American military strength w'ould arouse the old fear of the “Colossus of the North” and jeopardize all efforts at \ economic unity for the countries of the western hemisphere. Appeal to Three Nations The appeal by Mexico to Argenj tine, Brazil and Chile to use their influence with the Cuban regime : to assure safety of life and property, was regarded as a safeguard against excessive anti-Americanism, should intervention become necesj sary. j Wa r vessels and planes were in I vantage points near Cuba, prepared | for instant action. A number of vessls were in Cuban harbors. A record non-stop mass flight from Hampton Roads. Va., to Coco Solo, C. Z., put naval seaplanes within striking distance. Flying through a fifty-mile squall, and for j the most part over water, the planes made the 2,056 miles in twenty-five hour§ and twenty-five minutes. The American destroyer Overton I proceeded to Cienfuegos after a call at the Isle of Pines, where 750 Americans had asked protection when the release of 2,000 inmates of a penal colony was threatened. The Overton found everything quiet. A coast guard destroyer moved into position to protect Americans at Antilia, Cuba. Will Protect Americans The cruiser Indianapolis, carrying Secretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson, proceeded toward the west coast, after a two-hour stop in Havana harbor. The secretary did not leave the ship. It, was emphasized by state department officials that this govern- | Dient's sole interest in intervention ! would be protection of American lives, and no responsibility would be given the naval and military forces to protect American property. It was stressed that this government was neutral toward Cuban fac- | tions. This was regarded as an implied denial of reports that it was seeking to re-establish Carlos Man- | uel De Cespedes as president. The desire of President Roosevelt j to avoid any warlike gesture led to I cancellation of his fishing trip, which was scheduled to start from Quantico, Va., where 1,250 marines are held in readiness. He feared his visit would be regarded as a review of the marines prior to sailing. BY LAWRENCE S. HAAS I nited Press Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Sept. 9.—Cuban opposition to American intervention solidified today. The executive committee government sought to pre- | vent any excuse for it, but used the j possibility of intervention as an argument to win the support of political leaders and army officers. Havana was completely normal. It was perhaps even more calm I than in the days when the secret I service men of Gerardo Machado ruthlessly maintained order. Yet the situation was one of utmost delicacy. It was typified by two isolated incidents Friday night. While the cruiser Indianapolis was steaming into the harbor, an unknown Cuban on the water front, in an ineffectual symbol of protest, fired a small caliber pistol at it. The Indianapolis stayed only two hours, proceeding on to Panama. An official statement from the presidential palace informed the , public that if a party of officers landed, it would be a friendly visit, such as was customary whenever a foreign warship visited a port.

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