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600 POSSEMEN SEARCH WOODS FOR2KILLERS Deputy Sheriff Slain and Patrolmen Wounded by Indiana Bandits. PAIR BELIEVED TRAPPED State Police, Legionnaires Join Hunt for Outlaws Near Scottsburg. By United Press SCOTTSBURG, Ind., June 5 Advancing slowly in a foot-by-foo search for two murderous bandits, approximately six hundred possemen closed in through a dense forest about five miles south of here today. The bandits were believed surrounded in the woods after seriously wounding patrolman John Pfaffenberger. 30. Seymour, and killing Deputy Sheriff Amick, 24, Scottsburg. State police under the direction of Captain Matt Leach, sheriffs of surrounding counties and American Legion members and vigilantes in the area were included in the posse. The search concentrated on the | foi’est, at the edge of Underwood, j after the bandits had wrecked their j ca.r in flight and mortally wounded j Amick. Closely followed by Cleve Red- j man, night marshal at Scottsburg,! and Lee Gladstein, a resident of j Scottsburg, the bandits sped into | Underwood. Bandits Slay Deputy They attempted to make a sharp I turn into a private driveway and j their car crashed into a garage. Sheriff Wilbur Amick, Scottsburg, and his half-brother, Harold a j deputy, were hiding beh: i the ga- } rage waiting for chicken thieves | that have been active in the neigh- i borhood. Unaware of what xvas happening, young Amick stepped from his hiding place to investigate the crash and was shot down by revolver fire from the bandits. The outlaws fled into the woods. Patrolman Wounded Earlier Redman and Gladstein arrived immediately afterward. The wounded deputy was nxshed to St. Edward’s hospital at New Albany and died shortly afterward. Meanwhile the sheriff marshalled additional forces and the search ofj the forest was begun. Redman and Gladstein had taken up the chase of the bandit car | upon information from Seymour, | where a short time earlier patrol- j man Pfaffenberger had been wounded seriously in an attempt to capture the men single-handed. Road Intersections Blocked First report of the bandit activities came from a filling station at- j tendant on U. S. Road 50. He noti-j fled Seymour police that four men in a sedan had failed to pay him for gasoline. Pfaffenberger blocked the intersections of highways 50 and 31, in the heart of Seymour, with his police car and stationed himself be- j hind the machine. Upon reaching the * trap, the bandits opened fire. Pfaffenberger fell with four bullet wounds, emptying his gun as the bandit car sped eastward. . Two Men in Car Next word of the bandits came when they swept into Scottsburg, di’iving south on Road 31. Only two men were in the car at that time. Redman reported. Redman and Gladstein took up the chase in Scottsburg and followed the bandit car south. A few miles north of Underwood they caught sight of their quarry and engaged in a brief exchange of shots. A few seconds later the bandit car crashed into the garage at Underwood. Arfiick was shot and the two occupants fled on foot. Seek Bandit Here One of the escaped Scottsburg bandits, believed to be the actual killer of Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick, is reported by police to be en route to Indianapolis. He is believed to have kidnaped an unidentified youth and driven off with him in the youth's automobile. The couple last was reported in Salem where they secured gas and inquired the way to Indianapolis. A1 Feeney, state safety director, said it ia believed that the kidnaped youth is the son of Ralph Shields, to whom license No. 289-066, which the stolen car bears, was issued. Mr .Shields lives at R. R. 1, Scottsburg. The car is a 1929 Model A Ford with .green wire wheels. The alleged killer is about five feet six inches tall; weighs 155 pounds, has curly brown hair, and is wearing a threepiece suit with a torn back. LINK IviAZI PROPAGANDA TO GERMAN EMBASSY Letters Indicating Tieup Received by House Probers. By United Press WASHINGTON, June s.—Correspondence designed to show a direct connection between the German embassy and distribution of Nazi propaganda in the United States was placed today before a special house investigating committee. Hourly Temperatures 6*. m 73 10 a. m 83 7a. m 74 11 a. m 86 Ba. m 77 12 (noon).. 86 8 a. m 81 1 p. m 81

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Army Engineers Reject Wabash Power Project Report Submitted to Senate Committee Discounts Greenwood Proposal as Unnecessary. BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON. June 5. —Chance for any consideration of Congressman Arthur H. Greenwood's $60,000,000 Wabash and White river valley development project went aglimmenng today when President Roosevelt’s program for the country was presented to congress.

Data on all such projects, gathered by army engineers and studied by a technical sub-committee, has been submitted to the senate commerce committee. It was delivered following the President's message for consideration. The recommendations of the subcommittee urge no action now" on the entire Wabash valley. Only river basins west of the Mississippi and in the Rio Grande valley are urged for emergency consideration as part of the drought solution problem in the west. Mr. Greenwood's plan for wide-

NEW DEALERS CLAIM TRIUMPH IN lOWA Democrats Gain Strength; G. 0. P. Vote Light. By United Press DES MOINES, la., June s.—lowa Democrats saw today in results of the quiet primary election yesterday a strong approval of the “new deal” as mounting returns showed the Democrats had exceeded their strength of two years ago by at least 25,000 '’Otes. Republican voting, on the other hand, was reported unusually light. The six Democratic congressmen, faithful supporters of the Rooseveltian “new deal,” apparently stood renominated on the basis of incomplete returns. Three were unopposed.

Britain Will Default on War Debt Payment

Ry United Pres* WASHINGTON. June 5. Great Britain, first of the debtor nations to undertake payment of vast funds borrowed in time of war, joined the defaulters’ bloc today with notification to this government that on June 15 it will not pay millions due the treasury. The British debt note reiterated the view expressed eighteen months ago that debt payment agreements "can not be revived without disaster.” With British debt default on Jwy 15, a problem which has

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spread power development, flood control and navigation of the Wabash all are discounted in the army engineers’ findings. Their major recommendation is that some 200.000 acres of uncultivated land throughout the valley, particularly in the northern part, be made part of the public domain and reforested. Here is what they found: There is no need in the valley for irrigation development projects. Navigation was tried from 1872 to 1902 and failed and there is no river commerce to revive it now. Flood control needs no large scale action nor early construction. Local projects may be feasible, but no general development would be justified for many years. Water power does offer opportunity for hydroelectric development on the Wabash and several tributaries and these are set out with estimates. They include possible plants at Delphi on the Wabash: Hog plant on the Tippecanoe; High bridge on Sugar creek; Shoals on the east fork of White river; Mill creek on the Eel river and Cagles Mill on the west fork of White river. It is estimated that these power developments would produce 240,700 k. w. h. with an investment of $52,202.500. Average cost for each k. w. h. was estimated as 8.3 cents for domestic use. But the engineers’ report comments: “It is apparent that the general development of the water power sites is not now justified, nor is it likely to become so in the near future.”

plagued the world since the war goes into deadlock which may long prevail. The debtor objective appears to be a general conference to adjust the $12,000,000,000 obligations advanced by the United States when our allies had their backs to the wall. This government rejects the general conference idea. There is no intention in Washington of permitting the United States to be “ganged” by its debtors. Finland alone of all the wartime borrowers will pay the semi-annual installment due next week. -i

INDIANAPOLIS, TUESDAY, JUNE 5,1934

Dark Skies and Thunder Hint Early Relief for Torrid Heat. Darkened skies and the rumble and flash of thunder and lightning early this afternoon presaged a rainstorm expected to bring further slight relief from the torrid temperatures gripping the city the last several days. The shower already had begun in the vicinity of municipal airpoi’t, and was expected to reach the city soon after. Temperatures up to 1 this afternoon had remained in the eighties, several degrees lower than yesterday's high. J. H. Armington, local meteorologist, predicted showers this afternoon and possibly tomorrow would result in somewhat lowered temperatures and some slight relief for the state's drought-stricken crops. Public schools will continue to close at noon for the rest of the week, except for Friday, when they will close at 10 a. m.. Superintendent Paul C. Stetson announced today. Friday is the last, day of the school term. Highest temperature yesterday was 91.3 degrees and lowest mark was 72 degrees at 5:40 a. m. There is slight chance for the sun to conquer another heat record c-day for the hottest June 5 was 98 degrees in 1925. At noon today the mercury stood at 86. The heat was blamed, at least in part, for death of Isaac Bray. 32, of 1102 East Ohio street, late yesterday. Mr. Bray complained of the heat, arose from his chair to start and electric fan. and collapsed. Grain Prices Boom By United Press CHICAGO, June s.—Showers were a possibility, but heat was a bitter reality in the farm belt today and as a result grain markets boomed higher again. Some rain already has fallen in many sections of the drought area and forecasts for the central states showed more precipitation probably tonight. Perspiring grain brokers bid up the price of all grains. This was in the face of a report that rainfall in the corn and wheat states had averaged .14 of an ’inch in the past twenty-four hours, the best rain since May 14. On the Chicago Board of Trade wheat closed 3% to 4!4 higher than yesterday and again was over the dollar mark. July futures sold at sl.oo*l, September at 1.01% and December at $1.03.

TENNESSEE PRISON MUTINEERS GIVE UP Convict Trio Surrenders and Releases Guard Hostage. By United Press NASHVILLE. Tenn., June 5. Convicts who seized a prison guard and barricaded themselves in a cellblock in the state prison here shortly after midnight, surrendered today when authorities threatened to use tear gas. W. C. Smith, the guard who was held hostage, was released unharmed, prison authorities announced. The mutiny, officials said, was engineered by three desperate life term convicts. The mutineers, led by Lonnie Taylor, Carl Pentecost and J. Raines, as 100 guards and Nashville police officers deployed around the cell block, preparatory to an attack. Ex-Dry Chief Released By United Press WASHINGTON, June- s.—Major A. V. Dalrymple, former head of the px-ohibition unit, has been relieved as special assistant to AttorneyGeneral Homer S. Cummings, it was announced today.

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SENATOR ROBINSON RENOMINATED; ROOSEVELT, M’NETT ‘DICTATORS,’ STATE G. 0. P. DELEGATES TOLD

NEW NATIONAL G. 0. P. HEAD TOBENAMED Republican ‘Trainers’ Will Revamp Elephant for Voters’ Eyes. THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer CHICAGO, June s.—The Republican national committee, which opened its meeting here today, is seeking to camouflage the old G. O. P. elephant of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover so it will look a little different to the voters, but will be the same old elephant to its trainers. Which is to say that conservatives are dominated in the committee—as always—but that a few clever phrase-makers are drafting a declaration of party principles which, though it will excoriate the Roosevelt policies, will at the same time deny that there is to be a reversing to the old order. The few here of mildly liberal instincts, and they get fewer by the hour, realized today as the party prepared to declare itself through the committee that any really progressive statement of party policy is impossible. Wheelhorse Is Sought The toying with words for this declaration of policy m numerous hotel rooms has shoved into the j background the original purpose for which the committee was called together; that is, elect anew chairman to succeed Everett Sanders, resigned. This was because it has become evident that a compromise candidate must be selected who will, of himself, not be of sufficient influence or standing to direct party policy, but will be largely a wheelhorse. The committee proceeded to this job today as the first order of business, leaving the declaration of policy to a group which probably will not get a chance to present it until tomorrow. For selection of a chairman is proving to be quite a difficult task. Kohler Declines Job Former Governor Walter J. Kohler of Wisconsin, the bathtub manufacturer, was agreed upon at one point by the insiders, but his boom collapsed when he sent word that he would under no circumstances accept the job. It is understood he wants to run on the Republican ticket in his state against Senator Robert M. LaFollette, the Progressive, and the Democratic selection. Walter S. Hallanan, West Virginia national committeeman and oil producer, now has cornered the most votes, but he is being shot at on all sides by sponsors of other candidates. It has been decreed that he will be given a “run” by Charles D. Hilles, New York national committeeman —who is virtually directing the show here—to see how he takes. The meeting, in this way as in others, is a miniature national convention—ev;n including the conferences in the well-known “smokefilled” rooms If Hallanan fails to make the grade, then the numerous “Dark Horses” will get a chance. Hamilton Boom On Quite a boom has developed for the trim, 42-year-old, red-headed John D. M. Hamilton, Kansas national committeeman, who is sponsored by Senator Arthur Capper and a group in congress. There is some support still for Henry P. Fletcher, former ambassador to various foreign countries, who comes from Pennsylvania. Other “dark horses” include Governor Harrison E. Spangler of lowa, Hanford McNider of lowa, former secretary of war, and Albert Gallatin Simms of New Mexico, former member of congress and husband of Ruth Hanna McCormick. Even such eastern leaders as David A. Reed of Pennsylvania now concede that the new chairman must come from west of the Alleghenies, and thus have dropped the original hope of the Hooverites that former Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey might be selected. Senator Reed, still recuperating from an attack of pneumonia, arrived here to become a sort of lounging-robe Warwick. To the apartment of the Pennsylvanian, who carries a charm because he recently was renominated, flocked the leaders —Ogden L. Mills, former treasury secretary; former postmas-ter-general and National Chairman Walter F. Brown of the air mail episode, Charles D. Hilles, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Reed, who will help draft the declaration of policy, went back to Theodore Roosevelt to suggest the “square deal” as a substitute for the “new deal” in a statement outlining his ideas. “Sack Slayer” Guilty By United Press SAN DIEGO. June s.—Death on the gallows Aug. 10 was the fate awaiting Tully McQuate, 41, former Ohio convict, today for tfce brutal “sack murder” of Mrs. Ellfen Laura Straw, wealthy widow, who befriended him.

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‘Bossie’ Goes Berserk

Park Worker and Child Hurt Before Officer’s Bullet Ends Rampage of Once Gentle Cow.

BELLOWING loudly as she ran wild through four miles of city streets today, a red Jersey cow trampled a 2-year-old child, injured a park employe, and caused wide consternation before being shot.

Several hundred spectators j watched in Rhodius park while ! the cow, held at bay by policemen and park employes, staged an impromtu rodeo, tossing amateur “cowboys” around at will. The metamorphosis of the gentle “bossy” into a four-footed menace astdounded her owner, Claude Chasturn. Franklin farmer. Mr. Chasturn told police that the cow jerked loose suddenly from her halter as she was being led to the stockyards by Ray Miller, a farm hand. Belligerently shaking her head, adorned by one horn, the cow pursued a devious route northwest. She was next sighted at Raymond and Harding streets, where she chased pedestrians into stores and houses. n n a RUNNING through an alley in the rear of 1436 Shepherd street the cow trampled Rosemary Reckley, 2, Negro, who was playing in the backyard of her home. The child suffered severe bruises and shock and was sent to city hospital. Aroused by the plight of the child, more than a 100 shouting men and women followed the insurgent cow on her wild foray. Chester Showeker. 38, of 929 Chadwick street, municipal park employe, was setting out shrubs in Rhodius park when the cow butted him. Two other park workmen were tossed fc bout by the furious animal before Sergeant , Noel Jones and his squad came to the rescue. While Mr. Showecker was treated for severe bruises, Sergeant Jones and his men tried all the tricks they knew to induce the cow to be “nice,” but she stood her ground, pawing the grass. As the police attempted to close in. the cow dashed out of the park and ran south on Kappas street, scaring all in sight. At Minnesota and Kappas street, patrolman Charles Bu.kett, tiring of the chase, killed the cow with a single shot. ICKES ACCUSES 2 IN DISBARMENT HEARING Charges Pair Tried to Blackmail Him Into Appointments. By United Press CHICAGO. June s.—lnterior Secretary Harold L. Ickes took the witness stand in disbarment proceedings against two Chicago lawyers today and told in startling detail of alleged attempts to blackmail him into obtaining political appointments. Mr. Ickes flatly accused Lucius J. Malmin, former federal judge of the Virgin islands, and C. W. Larsen, former assistant corporation council of Chicago, of attempting to intimidate him into arranging Mr. Malmin’s appointment as governor of the islands.

$500,000,000 Drough t Aid Sponsored by Roosevelt

By United Press WASHINGTON, June 5. —President Roosevelt sent assurance to drought-stricken farmers today that more than a half billion government dollars will be poured into sun-scorched areas for relief. The President mobilized the farflung relief machinery of the new deal and the experts emerged with a comprehensive seven-point program to bring cheer, food and work into the areas oi the west and midwest where for weeks the sun and wind have curled crops and whipped off the fertile top soil. Here’s what the harried farmers may expect from the government: 1— $100,000,000 for additional purchase of beef and dairy cattle now lean from lack of feed. 2 for processing the beef and other products for food to families on relief. 3 $100,000,000 for livestock feed.

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‘Lil Arthur,’ Only Candidate to Contribute to Campaign Fund, Is Unopposed; Gets Great Ovation. STATE SLATES ALSO APPROVED Indiana Beer Law Target of Attack by; Major Imrie; Federal Relief Failure, He Charges. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer Without opposition, Senator Arthur R, Robinson this afternoon was renominated for the United States senate, as the more than 1,600 delegates to the Republican state convention in Cadle tabernacle cleared the decks for selection of nominees.

OXNAMSMARTS UNDERREBUKE De Pauw Head Terms Report Similar to ‘Labor Agitation.’ Smarting under the most severe indictment ever aimed at a college head by the American Association of College Professors, Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, De Pauw university president, today termed the investigation as similar to “labor agitation.” The A. A. U. P. yesterday released its report in which Dr. Oxnam was scored as being “unfit” to hold his position. The probe was called to investigate the summary dismissal of Ralph Hufferd, chemistry professor, last June. Once a friend of organized labor, Dr. Oxnam today sneered at it indirectly by comparing it to the report, which he claimed misrepresented his position.

FAIR CO-ED, TRAPPED IN TREE TOP, FREED BY FIRE DEPARTMENT

The daughter of a famous mountain climber, Miss Martha Haworth, needed the fire department to aid her in descending from a tree in the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority front yard yesterday. Amid the cheers and jeers of some 300 students who had been attracted to the scene Miss Haworth climbed down the fire ladder shyly, because she had only a sun suit to protect her from the public gaze. She is the daughter of Professor Paul L. Haworth, Butler university history professor, experienced as a mountain climber. Professor Haworth discovered Mt. Lloyd George in the Canadian Rockies in 1916. Times Index Page Berg Cartoon 1' Bridge ‘ Broun 1< Classified 1! Comics • IS Crossword Puzzle 1’ Curious World IS Editorial 1Financial Five Years Behind IS Hickman—Theaters 1 ; Lippmann L Pegler Radio Serial Story IS Sports 16, 17

4 $100,000,000 for work programs to circulate ready cash in the stricken regions. 5 $50,000,000 for retirement of submarginal lands in areas where rainfall is chronically deficient, 6 $50,000,000 for work camps for young men, similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps. 7 $25,000,000 for seed. The remaining money was not definitely allotted, but probably would be spent for unforeseen contingencies. It was emphasized at the White House that the relief program would be speeded through congress before adjournment, but that a details would be worked out before the legislation is submitted. It appeared a week or more may elapse before the President's message goes to the capitol. Leaders said the legislation could be pushed tnrough in a few hours.

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Senator Robinson was the, only senate candidate to make the necessary campaign contribution. Following' the vitriolic harangue against President Roosevelt, the new deal and Governor Paul V. McNutt, by Major Norman A. Imrie, Culver, the principal speaker, and adoption of the planks submitted by the platform committee, a motion to declare nominated all unopposed candidates was made and carried. Besides Robinson, others nominated without opposition were Ben F. Watt, Noblesville, superintendent of public instruction; Elmer Sherwood, Bloomfield, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts; David F. Myers, Greensburg. supreme court; Dan B. Flanagan. Ft. Wayne, and Oliver Starr, Gary, both for appellate judges, northern Indiana circuit. Cooper Makes Motion Robinson was placed in nomination by Bruce Cooper, Stewartsville, in a short address. Even before the senior senator’s name was mentioned, the crowd sensed the nomination and broke into wild cheering. Robinson came to the platform and gave his speech of acceptance. He shook hands with State Chairman Don Irwin, praising him, and said: “I am filled with gratitude and am profoundly moved at the evidence of friendship and good will of my people. I have humbly tried in the last nine years in the senate to uphold the best interests of the Republican party and ever to stand and fight if necessary for the welfare of Indiana and the American people. “There is a grave condition now fronting the nation and on such will my campaign be based. I propose to collaborate with the Republican state committee and party workers.” Ex-Governor Leslie Barred Former Governor Harry G. Leslie, the only candidate who had announced for the senate race, failed to pay the campaign assessment, and thus was barred from being placed in nomination. Six of the eight announced candidates for seci’etary of state, the next order of business, w T ere placed in nomination. They were Roswell O. Johnson, Gary mayor; J. Reed McCain, Delphi; Fred Woodward, South Bend; James Slane, West Lafayette; E. E. Neal, Noblesville, former internal revenue collector, and Bert C. Morgan, Indianapolis, the nominee two years ago. A battle between members of the Marion county delegates over Morgan and Woodward slowed the balloting. The first vote was announced as 170 for Woodward and 61 for Morgan. Telford B. Orbison, a leader in the Irvington Rebublican Club, arose and demanded a canvass of the delegation vote by ward and precinct. He charged eight votes in his row for Morgan were not counted. The dispute brought on pandemonium, the din making it necessary to call each delegate by name for his vote. Federal Relief “Failure” The convention was half an hour late in getting started, due to delay in getting radio and telephone wires installed. Asa last-minute harmony move, Ihe platform committee, which last night drafted its report to the convention, shortly before start of the session added two more planks. In his address, Major Imrie charged that the NRA and other “alphabetical” federal relief agencies have failed, that President Roosevelt’s campaign promises stand unfilled, and that the Indiana State administration has juggled its bookkeeping. He also attacked the state beer law and penal system. “Some evening when you can’t get to the movies to laugh at Durante, and you need some hilarious entertainment,” he said at one point, “get out the 1932 Democratic platform and Roosevelt’s campaign speeches. Put in column one the (Turn to Page Eight) PULL WINS PROMOTION Police Post Filled When Eligibles Draw Straws. Patrolman Roy Kennedy, Negro, became a detective sergeant today by pulling the right straw, Chief Mike Morrissey told the safety board today. Three men were eligible for the post, so Chief Morrissey decided the appointment by drawing lots. The safety board confirmed the appointment.