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FLETCHER 1$ SELECTED AS G. (LP. CHIEF Pennsylvanian Is Elected National Chairman at Chicago Parley. RAIL AT DEMOCRATS Relief Spending Is Bitterly Attacked in Statement by Committee. By United Press C HICAGO, June 6. Marion Margery, national committeewoman from Scranton, Pa., today sent a telegram to Henry P. Fletcher at Greencastle, Pa., advising him of his choice as national chairman of the Republican party. The balloting was not yet finished, however, and although Fletcher’s choice seemed certain it was not official. By United Press CHICAGO, June 6.—Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania today was elected Republican national chairman after an east-west factional feud had been quelled by the creation of a campaign steering committee, it was authoritatively reported. Selection of Fletcher came within an hour after the committee had made public a statement of policy akin to a platform on which it will seek to regain lost strength in congress next year. The election of Mr. Fletcher was on the first ballot, it was said. “The people must decide,” the statement said in attacking the Democrats, “whether we are,to remain a democracy or to substitute the domination of an all powerful central government.” The statement was a bitter denunciation of the present administration and its methods of restoring prosperity. Action is Justified Justifying the action of the committee in drawing such a statement the group said: “While it is not within the authority of the Republican national committee to write a detailed party program, under existing circumstances we deem it our duty to set forth the spirit and attitude in which our party should approach the problems of the day, and restate our principles of government.” The attack upon the administration was then launched with: "In the name of national recovery the present administration has committed the country to a program which unless checked will lead to the chaos of unlimited inflation.” “The slowly accumulated savings and present earnings of the people are being consumed recklessly by the government,” the statement continued. “At the very threshhold of life the youth of the nation is being saddled with unbearable burdens. “A small group in Washington vested with temporary authority is seeking covertly to alter the framework of American institutions. They seek to expand to the utmost limit the powers of the central government. In place of individual initiative they seek to substitute complete government control of all agricultural products, of all business activity.” Spending Is Assailed Contrasting their attacks upon the Democrats with a statement of Republican virtue the committee went on: “We believe in freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of the radio for discussion of national questions. “We are opposed to revolutionary change without popular mandate — and all ‘change by usurpation’—the customary weapon by W'hich free governments are destroyed. “We believe we can not spend our way to prosperity.” The statement concluded with this plea: “We call upon all who believe in the maintenance of these principles to unite in election of senators and representatives w ! ho will support them.” ADVERSE BONUS REPORT SUBMITTED TO SENATE Committee Recommendation Presages Bitter Floor Fight. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 6.—An adverse report on the soldiers’ bonus bill passed by the house was presented to the senate today by Chairman Pat Harrison of the senate finance committee. The $2,400,000,000 bonus bill has been before the committtee since March 26. Its presentation in the senate presaged a floor fight and vote on the controvelsial issue before the end of the session. BRAZIL YOUTH KILLED Victim Thrown Against Truck In Fight, Police Say. By United Press BRAZIL, Ind., June 6.—Marion Brackney, 21, was killed instantly today when he was knocked into the side of a truck during a fight on the National road west of here. Police are seeking three companions who left the roadside tavern with Brackney shortly before the accident and hurriedly departed when the youth was run over by the truck. Two Offered Scholarships Residence scholarships for advance study in French at Columbia university next year have been offered two Indiana university seniors, Mary Jane Railsback, Newtonville, Mass., and Martha Llewelyn, Newcastle.

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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 22

Two Youths Admit Parts in Slaying of Deputy Sheriff, Pin Shooting on Fugitive Pal

60,000 STEEL MILL WORKERS IN STATE THREATEN WALKOUT

By United Press EAST CHICAGO, Ind., June 6. —A strike of 60,000 steel mill workers in northern Indiana loomed closer today as subsidiaries of the United States Steel Corporation, flatly refused to recognize the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin workers. Employes’ bulletin boards of the Inland Steel Corporation carried notices to its 8.000 workers that a demand for union recognition would not be considered. Other United States steel companies in Gary and South Chicago were expected to take similar action. Union officials recently delivered an ultimatum to employers, threatening a strike June 16 if demands were net met by June 10. PRESIDENT PENS DROUGHT NOTE Relief Will Be Asked for 500,000; Danger of Famine Denied. By United Press WASHINGTON. June 6.—More than 125,000 or approximately 500,000* persons, are victims of the searing drought now burning up crops and fortunes in the middle west, the White House revealed today. At the same time President Roosevelt said that his message calling for immediate legislation to provide more than $500,000,000 for the sufferers probably would be sent to congress within the next twentyfour hours. To the nation, however, Mr. Roosevelt sent assurances that there is no danger of a famine. He pointed out that surpluses were generous and that there should be no cause for alarm. He said, however, that the drought has reached disaster proportions. The President pointed out that the question of relief in the stricken zones is largely that of providing work for those directly affected. A great many thousands of families, he said, will be unable to sustain themselves until the 1935 harvest. As to money, he explained that of course it was up to the government to take care of the situation. STEEL UNION CHIEFS VISIT WHITE HOUSE Leaders Hope to Gain Help of President. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—While Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson and Chief Counsel Donald Richberg flew to New York to meet with the iron and steel institute, steel union leaders converged on Washington today determined to force a White House conference on the threatened steel strike. They represented workers in Ohio, Indiana, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, who are dissatisfied with the way their international president, Mike Tighe, Pittsburgh, is representing them. They want President Roosevelt to call a joint conference which they hope would force steel operators to recognize the union, oust company unions, .raise wages and shorten hours. LILY PONS IS ENGAGED TO WED SHIP DOCTOR Opera Star Recently Divorced Hus-' band in London. By United Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 6. The engagement of Lily Pons, New York Metropolitan opera star, to Fritz von der Becke, German ship's doctor on the liner Cap Arcona, was confirmed by members of Miss Pons’ staff today. Dr. von der Becke was a former romantic friend of Miss Pons before she obtained her recent London divorce from August Mesritz, a Dutchman. TRAMMELL~TAKES LEAD Senator Has Narrow Margin in Florida Primary. By United Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla., June 6. United States Senator Park Trammell today took the lead in his close race with Claude Pepper of Tallahassee, for the nomination to the United States senate. Tabulation of yesterday’s Florida Democratic primary vote showed that from 952 of the state’s 1,284 precincts, Senator Trammell had polled 54,587 votes and Mr. Pepper 51,304.

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JUDGE BAKER THREATENS TO JAIL DEPUTY Breach Reported as Aid of Wilson Is Flayed in Court Outbreak. A veiled threat to throw a deputy prosecutor into jail for contempt of court today widened the breach, according to observers, between Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker and Prosecutor Herbert Wilson. The open outbreak in court w r as precipitated when John J. Kelly, deputy prosecutor, stepped before the bench and requested information regarding the actual trial date of Joseph B. Weintrout, alleged love racketeer, who is charged with the embezzlement of SB,OOO. Informed by Judge Baker that the trial date had been changed from June 11 to June 18, the deputy prosecutor turned to a court clerk, saying, "That trial date is June 18.” “Can I depend on this date for the trial?” queried Mr. Kelly. Judge Opens Attach Judge Baker’s face flushed and rising slightly in his chair to lean farther over the bench, he said, loudly, “I don't want to hear any more words like those you have used on occasions in the past in my court, Mr. Kelly. If I do you won’t be here to try this case.” The deputy prosecutor tried to stop the judge’s scoring words by interposing a question, but it continued with: “There’s a reason for this case being continued and a good one. I don’t want to hear another word out of you,” he concluded. Mr. Kelly sat down. The continuance in the Weintrout trial was granted upon the request of Clyde Karrer, his attorney. Mr. Karrer was charged by Mr. Kelly with delaying the trial originally in seeking to quash one count in the Weintrout indictment several days ago. Irked by Robbery Case At that time, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Karrer went into a verbal bout with the deputy prosecutor accusing the defendant’s attorney with merely “having one of those Karrer delay days’ in court. Mr. Karrer has acted as special judge and judge pro tern, for Judge Baker on several occasions. Questioned following the heated bench conversation, Judge Baker told an Indianapolis Times reporter that in saying, “you won’t be here to try this case,” he mean’t that he would send Mr. Kelly to jail if he continued to annoy the court. Judge Baker charged that Mr. Kelly was irked because in a recent robbery trial, in which he was deputy prosecutor, the judge had granted anew trial. Judge Baker declared that the Weintrout case, under an old indictment, orginally had been set for June 11. He said that in setting the trial for June 18 he was doing it under anew indictment which he alleged had taken the place of the faulty indictment which first placed Weintrout in jeopardy.MOTHER CONVICTEDOF LOCKING GIRL IN COOP Mental Test Is Ordered for California Women. By United Press SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Cal., June 6.—Mrs. Josephine Abargarry, 36, accused of imprisoning her daughter, Mary, 7, in a chicken pen for weeks as a cure for “an evil eye,” was sent to the county hospital for observation today after conviction o* charges of unjustifiable punishment. Mary, recovered from her experience, sat through the proceedings without looking at her mother. FINAL RITES HELD FOR NOTRE DAME LEADER The Rev. Charles O’Donnell Laid to Rest on Campus. By United Press SOUTH BEND, June 6.—Church and lay leaders of many religious denominations crowded into South Bend today to pay last respect to the Rev. Charles L. O’Donnell, late president of Notre Dame university. Funeral rites, beginning at 10 a. m., were as simple as the rites of the church would permit. Solemn requiem mass was to be chanted by the very Rev. James W. Donohue, superior general of the congregation of the Holy Cross. Burial was in the community cemetery, beside St. Mary’s lake on the university campus. Pallbearers were classmates of the famous educator in his Notre Dame class of 1906. PHILADELPHIA G. 0. P. OUSTS WILLIAM VARE Veteran Republican Loses Control; New Leader Named. By United Press PHILADELPHIA, June 6.—Control of the Philadelphia Republican organization by William S. Vare collapsed today. Harry J. Trainer, a councilman, became the temporary leader. Vare’s post as honorary chairman of the Republican city committee was abolished. Edwin R. Cox, council president and anti-Vare man, was unanimously elected chairman of the city committee,

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1934

Two Girls Also Quizzed, Tell Same Story of State Murder. By United Press NASHVILLE, Ind., June 6.—Lacell (Toots) Long, 22, Helmsburg, sought in connection with the killing of a deputy sheriff and the wounding of a policeman Monday night, was captured today in an orchard six miles east of here. He pretended he was working in the orchard when Sheriff M. K. Stewart of Brownstown, Deputy Sheriff William Barkham of Jackson county and Sergeant John Wier of the state police apprehended him. Long offered no resistance. Long was the second of three youths who figured in the killing to be captured. Robert Neal, 20, Bloomington, was taken into custody at Underwood, late yesterday, where police found him hiding in a strawberry patch. Wedding Date Broken Neal named Long and Ed Coffin, 21, Greenfield, as his accomplices. Coffin’s sweetheart, Pauline Meadows, 18, and Neal’s bride of three weeks, Mrs. Marie Marshall Neal, 16, were arrested today at Bloomington. They confirmed Neal’s confession, saying they had talked with Coffin yesterday at the Neal home in Bloomington. The girls said Coffin admitted firing the shots which killed Deputy Sheriff Harold Amick of Scott county and wounded Patrolman John Pfaffenberger of Seymour. Tearfully, the attractive Miss Meadows related how she and Coffin were to have been married yesterday and spend a brief honeymoon at the home of his parents in Greenfield. “Won’t Be Taken Alive” “He came to see Mrs. Neal and me at 11 a. m. yesterday,” she told Bloomington police. “He was nervous and scared, and said he wouldn’t be taken alive. “He said he was in the back seat of the car and had two guns.” Neal and Long were in the front; seat, with Neal driving. “Ed told us that he fired all the shots and that after they had run one police barricade he knocked out the rear window of the car and fired at their pursuers. “After their car crashed at Underwood, Ed said he killed the deputy sheriff and that the three of them separated. Admits Kidnaping Youth “Ed told us that he kidnaped Ralph Shields, 18, Underwood, and made him drive to Bedford. “From Bedford he came to Bloomington and met us at Mrs. Neal’s house. “He arrived about 11 a. m. and left at 2:30, not telling us where he was going. He didn’t have any good clothes, money or a car, but he said he wouldn’t be captured alive—that he or someone else would be killed.” Neal’s 16-year-old bride, a pretty brunet weighing slightly more than 100 pounds, blamed Coffin for leading her husband astray. “He persuaded Bob to give up his job in the creamery at Bloomington,” she told police. Left Town on Monday “Monday night, they left Bloomington about 6:30 to take Bob’s mother to Helmsburg. They must have picked up Long there. That was the last we heard from them until yesterday, when Bob was arrested and Ed came to my house.” Neal’s story was almost identical with that which Coffin told the girls. The young bridegroom said the trouble started after he, Coffin and Long obtained gasoline at Seymour and drove away without paying for it. They encountered Pfaffenberger. and Coffin shot him down, Neal said. Neal told police that he and Long were not armed and that Coffin fired all the shots. Long was taken to the Lawrence county jail at Bedford, the same place where Neal is confined. INSULL ARRESTUPHELD Magnate Must Stand Trial in U. S. Court, Judge Rules. By United Press CHICAGO, June 6 Samuel Insull must stand trial in federal court on mail fraud charges, Judge Philip L. Sullivan ruled today in sustaining a government demurrer to the charge that Insull was “shanghaied” from Istanbul, Turkey. • Judge Sullivan said that if Insull had been “kidnaped,” the court was without power to investigate and any violation of his rights or those of Turkey was a matter to be settled by the diplomatic corps. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 69 10 a. m 83 7a. m 71 11 a. m 85 Ba. m 78 12 (noon).. 89 9a. m 80 Ip. m 91

Dillinger Squad Marksman Slays Dog Facing Slow Death on Quarry Ledge

By United Press CHICAGO, June 6—A nameless yellow mongrel was shot and killed today to save it from the torture of starvation and imprisonment on an inaccessible ledge in a stone quarry. While police, firemen, humane society officials and hundreds of spectators looked on, a patrolman raised a rifle and fired at the ledge 200 feet below. The marksman was patrolman Edward Bezarek, attached to the detail hunting John Dillinger. The

MAYOR SULLIVAN ENTERS LISTS AS U. S. SENATOR CANDIDATE; MOVE CUTS LUDLOW’S STRENGTH

G. 0. P. SLATE EASY WINNER IH CONVENTION Ballots Taken in Only Three Races; Senator Robinson Triumphs Again. BY JAMES DOSS Times Staff Writer Senator Arthur R. Robinson has met the enemy and they are his, for the Indiana senior senator was nominated by acclamation yesterday at the Republican state convention at Cadle tabernacle. Only three places were contested on the Republican 1934 ticket and in these races, the slated candidates won with ease. Ballots were necessary for the offices of secretary of state, state treasurer and state auditor. Fred Woodward, South Bend, was the only second ballot candidate and his victory provided the only color of the convention. Woodward led a field of six on the first ballot in the secretary of state race, but did not obtain a majority. The fireworks came on the first ballot when the Marion county delegation was called. The vote showed a big block for Woodward with a surprisingly small vote for Bert Morgan, Indianapolis. Orbison Demands Poll Telford B. Orbison of the Irvington Republican Club and a Morgan adherent, jumped to his feet and demanded the delegation be polled. Orbison told newspaper men there were eight votes for Morgan in his row alone that had not been voted. The aisles filled and the Marion county delegation milled about like a disturbed cattle herd. Fred S. Purnell, Attica, temporary chairman, wielded a vigorous gavel in attempting to get a recount, but the big Marion delegation paid him little heed. “It looks like the 244 delegates from M>rion county are delaying about 1,400 others,” Mr. Purnell finally observed with some acerbity. Finally, the delegation voted again and Woodward gained six votes to Morgan’s one. George V. (Cap) Coffin, Marion county’s Republican boss, again had repulsed a challenge to his leadership. Two Races No-Contest The other two races were nocontest from the start and the unsuccessful candidates could have speeded up the convention’s program if they had withdrawn after the first dozen counties had been called. Lawrence F. Orr, former state accounts board head, piled up a heavy vote over Vergil Brown. Shelbyville, (Turn to Page Three) ROOSEVELT SIGNS STOCK MARKET BILL Securities Are Placed Under Federal Control. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—President Roosevelt signed the stock exchange control bill today, placing for the first time in history the nation’s securities markets snder strict federal supervision. Signature of the bitterly contested and much rewritten bill followed by five days final congressional action. The law’s Genesis was in the protracted stock market investigations of the senate banking and currency investigations in which figured many big bankers, inclding J. P. Morgan, Otto Kahn and Charles Mitchell. Practice unearthed by the committee formed the basis for most of the stringent provisions of the act. TRIO LOOTS OHIO BANK Bandits, Clad in Overalls, Escape With $1,500. By United Press NAPOLEON, 0., June 6.—Three armed bandits, in overalls, looted the Commercial Savings bank here today and escaped with $1,500 at the point a gun. Two of the men entered the bank while the other remained in a getaway car. Sheriff George Bowerman and deputies pursued them west.

first shot, fired from a block away, hit the dog and three others caused it to topple off its perch into a stagnant pool forty feet below. The water is more than one hundred feet deep. All morning the dog had watched the crowd above it, wagging its tail in apparent confidence that it would be rescued. However, an attempt to lower a man to the ledge was impractical because it was set back about twenty feet into the wall of the quarry.

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Father Comes to Aid of Young Ax Slayer Killer of Mother and Brother to Plead Insanity, Is Hint as Youth Prepares to Go Before Officials. By United Press LOS ANGELES, June 6—Louis Rude Payne who in a fevered moment of rage mortally slashed his mother and younger brother with a hatchet, will plead insanity, it has hinted today as the 21-year-old youth prepared

to go before a coroner’s jury. His'attorney, Charles V. Rude, intimated he would not testify at the inquest. Mr. Rude is a cousin of Mrs. Carrie Payne, 46, who, with her son Robert, 14, was slain as they slept last week. “Louis has been suffering from a high, unexplainable fever,” said Mr. Rude. “He hasn’t been able to eat for several days.” The boy’s father, Lucius F. Payne, wealthy St. Louis utilities executive, was to sit beside him when the horrors of the tragedy were described to the coroner’s jury. Torn between grief over his loss and his son’s tragic plight, the father pledged Louis his support in a touching interview in the West Los Angeles jail yesterday, immediately after his arrival from St. Louis. Louis clung to his father when the elder man embraced him. “Tell me it can’t be true,” he pleaded. His father, inarticulate, patted a trembling shoulder. “Don’t leave me, Dad,” his voice was choked. “I won’t leave you, son,” the father soothed. “I’ll stay with you as much as I can.” Hardened detectives w'ere moved to tears by the scene. They cleared the corridors so the two could be alone. The elder Payne, haggard from suffering and sleepless hours, was puzzled when he left the cell. “Something has happened to him,” he said. “I don’t know what it is. But he’s ill—so sick he doesn’t seem to realize everything that has happened. I’ll do everything I can do for him.” The 50-year-old man brushed away a tear. “He’s all I have left,” he added.

‘BANDITS,’ CRIES MAN AS AUTO BACKFIRES, HURLS SMALL ROCK

By United Press NEW ALBANY, Ind., June 6. Backfiring and hurling a small rock from beneath its tire simultaneously, a motor truck threw panic into patrons of a restaurant here while they discussed shooting of two southern Indiana peace officers by bandits. “They’re shooting at us,” yelled Perry C. Rhoades, struck on the army by the pebble. He leaped up, knocking over Mrs. Kenneth Robertson, who in turn upset the coffee urn. Other patrons dropped to the floor or ran outside. Quiet was restored after police found the pebble. NAVY PLANS APPROVED Swanson Acts to Bring Ships to Treaty Strength. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 6. —Navy Secretary Claude A. Swanson today took the first official step toward bringing the United States to full treaty strength by 1939 by approving plans for a $90,000,000 ship construction program this year.

Only the dog knew how it reached the perch far below the surface of the earth and perilously close to the deep water at the bottom of the quarry pit. Bits of meat were tied to string and swung into the captive mongrel for days while rescue workers sought every possible means to bring the dog to the top of the cliff without endangering human life. A plan to end the strange dogma by feeding the dog poisoned meat was considered but abandoned.

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Announcement of City’s Chief Executive Augurs Swing of County Support From Side of Congressman. TENTH CANDIDATE TO ENTER FIELD Formal Action Comes Three Weeks After First Report of Democratic Pressure on Head of Indianapolis. Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan today stirred the state political waters wtih the announcement that he will be a candidate for the United tSate ssenatorship at the Democratic state convention Tuesday at Cadle tabernacle. The mayor’s announcement of candidacy came three weeks after The Times announced that he was seriously considering the post. A conference last night resulted in Sullivan’s friends and advisors convincing him that he should

BANKERS FACE TRIAUDLY 9 Four Meyer-Kiser Officials to Answer Larceny Charges. Four Meyer-Kiser bank officials, indicted for grand larceny and embezzlement, will go on trial July 9 following agreement reached this , morning by attorneys for the defendants and the prosecutor’s office before Judge Frank Baker. The tentative date of June 20 was changed because of conflict with other legal business of attorneys in the case. Frank C. Dailey, attorney for one of the defendants, asked that the date be changed, since he could not appear June 20. While it is possible that the cases may be tried separately, all are set now for July 9. Petition for transfer to federal court of the suit filed several months ago by Thomas E. Garvin, as receiver of the bank, against the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York, in Marion circuit court, was filed today. In the suit, the receiver seeks judgment of $311,112 on bonds the company carried on the bank’s officers. MERCURY ON CLIMB; SHOWERS PREDICTED Cooler Temperature Seen by Armington. In spite of cool temperatures early today, the mercury jumped up to 91 degrees at 1 p. m. today, 4 degrees above yesterday’s highest mark. However, thunderstorms and a descent in temperature were predicted for tonight. A low temperature of 68 degrees was recorded at 3 and 4 this morning. Yesterday’s high mark was 87 degrees at 12:30 p. m. Cooler temperatures and thundershowers are predicted for tonight and tomorrow. Although rainfall in the city was only .04 inches yesterday the airport weather bureau reported 1.70 inches, indicating some of the farms near the city were aided materially by the showers. REPUDIATED FORD BOOK IS QUOTED BY NAZIS Germans Defy Motor Magnate in Anti-Jewish Drive. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—Antisemitic propaganda, attributed to Henry Ford, is being distributed in the United States despite the automobile manufacturer’s protest, a special house committee investigating Nazi activities, was told today. Representaive Carl Weidman (Dem., Mich.) testified that a collection of articles, which once appeared in Ford’s periodical, the Dearborn Independent, was being broadcast to Germans in this country although Mr. Ford had repudiated them. $200,000,000 Road Bill Up By United Press WASHINGTON, June 6.—Action by the house today was expected to complete congressional action on a bill to embark the government on a $200,000,000 road building program for the next fiscal year.

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seek the post. Mayor Sullivan is the tenth candidate to enter the field. It is believed that his announcement will damage the condidacy of Congressman Louis Ludlow because it is understood that a majority of the county support now will go to the mayor. In a brief announcement, characteristic of the mayor, Sullivan said that he was entering the race because he would "be highly honored to be nominated and elected to represent the people of Indiana” in the senate and “because my friends believe that my candidacy will be acceptable to the great mass of Indiana Democrats.” Mayor for Five Years “In announcing my candidacy I wish it understood that I want the votes of as many delegates as possible, but to obtain support I do not intend to cause an ill-feeling among the candidates who already have announced, for each of whom I have the kindliest feelings,” he said. Sullivan has been mayor for almost five years and is well known throughout the state. He was elected for the regular four-year term, but the skip election law caused him to serve another year, the term to expire Dec. 31. Mayor Sullivan is 58 and is a bachelor, living with his family at 503 North Capitol avenue. Since his graduation from Wabash college in 1897, Mayor Sullivan has practiced law in Indianapolis. He is a lifelong resident of the city. Would Face Robinson If nominated in the convention, Mayor Sullivan will fight it out this fall with Senator Arthur R. Robins son who was nominated in the G. O. P. convention yesterday. In addition to Sullivan and Ludlow’, others seeking the nomination are: R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, former state Democratic chairman; Sherman Minton, public counsel before the public service commission; Clarence Manion, professor at Notre Dame university; Robert Procter, Elkhart, former national president of the Fratenal Order of Eagles; Nelson whire, Rockville; George Rauch, Marion, former congressman; Harvey Cole, Peru, and D. Frank Culbertson, Vincennes. Platform Group Meets The Democratic platform advisory committee met today at the Claypool to consider planks for the platform in the convention next Tuesday at Cadle tabernacle. Perry McCart, chairman, presided over the session of seven of the twelve members on the committee. CITY REPRESENTED AT IRON STRIKE PARLEY; Recognition of Union Sought in Washington. Local officers of the International Iron Workers said today that they were being represented in Washington labor negotiations by Dan Gastron, Washington, third vice-presi-dent of the order. Delegations from Indianapolis and the Calumet region are in Washington to join with union workers in eastern plants in getting government aid in forcing union recognition to prevent a general strike. $265 JEWELRY STOLEN Thieves Cut Showcase Glass, Flee With Gems. Thieves using a glass cutter opened a hole in the outside showcase of the Charles Mayer & Cos., 29 West Washington street, early today and fled with jewelry valued at moer than $265. Times Index Page Auto News 6 Bridge 5 Broun 11 Classified 18 Comics 19 Curious World 19 Crossword Puzzle 13 Editorial 12 Financial 13 Five Years Behind li Hickman—Theaters 3 Lippmann n Pegler ll Radio io Serial Story 19 Sports 16,17 State News 8 Vital Statistics 15