Indianapolis Times, Volume 48, Number 51, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1936 — Page 1

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MATERNAL AID DRIVE TO MARK MOTHER'S DAY Reduction of High Annual Death Toll Goal of Local Groups. 15,000 DIE EACH YEAR Assistance of Doctors’ and Women’s Organizations Are Enlisted. With the observance of Mother's Day tomorrow, city, county and state groups have launched a drive to bring to the attention of the public the national maternal death rate now responsible for 15,000 deaths yearly. Co-operating locally with the educational campaign of the Maternity Center Association of New York are the Indianapolis Medical Society maternal welfare committee, Indianapolis Council of Women publice health committee, city and county Parent-Teacher Associations, American Legion Auxiliary welfare division and city and county health departments. Legion Auxiliary to Aid "Only a co-operating intelligent Public and a diligent and competent medical profession can reduce pres-ent-day maternal loss to comparative rarity.” Dr. C. O. McCormick of the Indianapolis Medical Society s maternal welfare committee said. Mrs. Marion Hinkle, welfare chairman of the Legion Auxiliary, said her committee plans to hold monthly meeting to discuss maternal welfare problems. Prominent obstetricians are to address the group. "The committee can best further the work by having a membership that is well informed and alert for any chance to enlighten the general public on the necessity of adequate maternal care,” Mrs. Hinkle said. Campaign of Education A part of the proceeds of Memorial Day sale of poppies is to go towards financing the task of “making motherhood safe,” she said. Dr. Foster Hudson, maternal welfare chairman of the Indianapolis Medical Society, said his organization would continue to sponsor addresses of medical authorities before P.-T. A. groups, mothers’ clubs and groups of practicing physiciaps. The program may include a series of talks to high school seniors, he said. Mrs. Daniel T. Weir, public health chairman of the Indianapolis Council of Women, said her committee was to launch an educational campaign in an attempt to reach “every mother and prospective mother in the city.” Traces Cause of High Rate "So many women feel that childbirth is merely a natural event requiring very little medical care and advice. This is the cause of the large maternity mortality,” she said. She indorsed the sixfold program suggested by the Maternity Center Association to prevent avoidable deaths. The program suggests complete medical examination early in pregnancy, regular and frequent medical supervision for prospective mothers, an aseptic delivery under the supervision of an obstetrician, supervision, care and instruction until the mother is able to resume her work, examination of the mother at six weeks, three months, six months and one year after birth; and arrangements for continuous supervision of the baby. “Although Indianapolis his six maternal clinics, including those at the Coleman and City Hesp ta's, the general public has little information about them,” Mrs. Weir said. Should Not Forget Life Dr. McCormick said. “Every normal woman has an inborn desire to be a mother, and if she chooses to bear a child she should not be obliged to forfeit her life or assume permanent disability. It is un to society to minimize the frequency of maternal deaths. Community progress is retarded each maternal death. Most of me 500,000 delinquent children in this country are motherless. Sev-enty-five per cent of maternal deaths are preventable, and this loss can be met only by education. “Motherhood can only be made quite safe when these a.ds are ap-plied-public recognition of every female child as a potential mother; competent prenatal supervision throughout pregnancy; hospital delivery: prolonged adequate followup care to both mother and infant and the elimination of abortions.” DISASTER BABY WINS FIGHT OVER PNEUMONIA 7-Week-Old Infant Lives Through Flood, Fire and Disease. By United Press CLEVELAND. May 9.—Baby William Dudy Jr. babbled joyously in his crib today, fully recovered from pneumonia through the efforts of firemen who had administered 1000 gallons of oxygen since Monday. Doctors said Baby Dudy must have been born under a lucky star. Only 7 weeks old. the infant has successfully battled his way through flood, fire, famine and disease. He was born in Dubois, Pa., when the recent Ohio Valley flood was at its crest and while the family was cut off from food and water. After the flood passed, the Dudy home caught Are and Baby William was rescued as a roof caved in. The family moved to Cleveland, where the child developed pneumonia.

The Indianapolis Times FORECAST. Partly cloudy tonight; possibly becoming unsettled tomorrow afternoon; continued warm.

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 51

For Norris Kcrtpps-lt award \ctcspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 9. Friends of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, for years leader of the progressive Republican vanguard in Congress and now a staunch supporter of President Roosevelt, forecast today that he would run for re-election as an independent in November. The Nebraskans entry into a three-cornered race now is virtually certain, they said, because of his indorsement by the Democratic state convention in Nebraska. The convention turned its back on Terry McGovern Carpenter. Democratic nominee in the recent primary and candidate of the Townsend and Father Coughlin forces. This demand that the 74-yea:--old veteran run with Democratic support comes on top of numerous appeals from both Democrats and Republicans that the Senator forgo his expressed intention to retire.

SKILLED LABOR NEEDED, REPORT State Shortage of Trained Machinists Revealed by Job Office. BY JOHN JOHNSON A shortage of tool die makers, machinists, machine repair men and trained workers for similar jobs in Indianapolis and Indiana was disclosed today by the Indiana Employment Service, which now has requests for 79 persons qualified for such work. The shortage was confirmed by a personnel official of the Diamond Chain and Manufacturing Cos., who said that his firm had noticed i shortage of trained machinists during the last two years. He attributed part of it to Detroit factories farming out their tool and machine work to places where enough skilled workmen are not available. An employment officer of the J. D. Adams Manufacturing Cos. said that, although his concern had no need of such workers now, he was not sure he could find them if needed. He ascribed the shortage in part to increased business activity in the durable goods industries. The P. R. Mallory Cos., Inc., has started an apprentice school for machinists and tool die workers to (Turn to Page Three) 11 ARE ARRESTED IN MAIL RORBERV FLO! Alleged Conspiracy Bared by Denver Official. By United Pres* DENVER, Colo., May 9.—United States District Attorney Thomas J. Morriss'y today related details cf a far-reaching conspiracy to rob the United States mail and dispose of the loot obtained in the robberies. Eleven men were under arrest, accused of having a part in the alleged conspiracy. Oliver P. Arnold, assistant vice president of the Denver National Bank, was freed last night under SSOOO bond. Others under arrest were; Charles Roberts. Denver attorney: Ralph A. Clifton, salesman; HarOld P. Kennedy. John M. McBride. Othello G. McClellan, automobile salesman; Elmer F. Trower, John Edwards, arrested March 8 in Crookston. Minn.; Jack Segar, ex-convict, in jail in St. Paul, and Winston W. Clement, alias Walker, in jail in St. Paul, and Harold Bailey. “Back in 1931,” Morrissey related. “Jack Segar of St. Paul came to Denver and in some manner procured a set of railroad ‘switch keys’ and keys to fit postoffice mail bags. “The Segar gang would ‘spot’ a small town. In the night they would enter the mailroom. using Segar’s switch keys. They would open mail sacks, also using keys which Segar obtained in Denver. They would take out all the registered mail, lock up the mail sack again, and then, leaving the building, lock it also.” WARM WEEK-END IS PREDICTED FOR CITY Temperature Already at 80, to Go Higher. It will be warm here tonight and tomorrow afternoon, the weather bureau predicted today. According to J. H. Armington. i United States meteorologist, a low pressure trough over the lower Missouri River valley was responsible j for the unseasonable heat. Most j eastern cities were having southerly; winds. Bureau records showed that yesterday's top reading of 87 degrees was the hotest for May 8 here since 1896, when the mercury climbed to 90. This morning the mercury jumped from 69 degrees at 6 a. m. to 80 degrees at 9. Mr. Armington ex- j pected it to go into the high eighties ; late this afternoon.

ZEP ARRIVES, CUTS RECORD SY 33 HOURS Regular Passenger, Mail, Freight Service to Europe Started. REACHES N. Y. AT DAWN U. S. Customs Officers Meet Passengers at Hangar in Lakehurst. fCopymht. 1936. bv United Press! LAKEHURST NAVAL AIR STATION, N. J., May 9.—The German dirigible Hindenburg, 803 feet of majestic beauty, arrived today on the first commercial airship flight between Europe and the United States. Its arrival marked the inauguration of regular passenger, mail and freight airship service between Europe and the United States, and established a dace in the history of air transport. In a velvet smooth, almost noiseless flight of 3600 miles from Friedrichshafen, Germany, the Hindenburg lopped nearly a day and a half from the westward airship record set by its veteran sister ship, Graf Zeppelin. First of 10 Flights The flight was one of 10 round trips to be made this summer. It means that within a month, when the American Clipper planes start regular passenger service across the Pacific, it will be possible, as an ordinary paying passenger, to travel around the globe in a matter of days by air. The Hindenberg, leaving Friedrichshafen at 4:30 p. m. Wednesday passed up the Rhine, across Holland, down the English Channel, along the English coast, across the Atlantic—breasting, without disturbing the flower vases in its cabins, a torrential rain storm and tossing air currents—and into its American port. It was sighted over Long Island just before dawn today, in a setting of surprising beauty, and flew up needle-shaped Manhattan Island, level with and almost touching the Empire State building tower, turned down the length of the Island again as crowds on Broadway cheered, and the gathering day arrived at Lakehurst as the sun was warming up. Sighted at 3:43 a. m. It was sighted at Lakehurst at 3:43 a. m. (Indianapolis time) and two minutes later was over the field. The ground crew of trained Navy seamen and Army regulars grabbed the landing lines and drew the ship to The mast. The Hindenburg made the flight in 61 hours 50 minutes, and had taken 33 hours 32 minutes from 35 hours 22 minutes record set by the old Graf. Customs, health, immigration and agricultural quarantine men met the ship as they would have met an ocean liner and passed its passengers and mails and freight. There was a bus waiting to take the passengers into their new waiting room in the hangar. Shouts to Crowd Dr Hugo Eckener, Zeppelin chief, stood at a window in the fore control cabin. “Howdy! Howdy!” he shouted to the cheering crowd. An indication that this was a business flight was seen when Webb Miller, United Press staff correspondent on the Hindenburg, dropped a story of the complete flight, written up to the moment the ship approached the mast, from a window. A customs man seized it and would not release it until it had been inspected. Escorted by Sailors Through a wildly cheering crowd, an escort of sailors led Dr. Eckener, and Capt. Ernst Lehmann, Hindenburg commander, to a room in the hangar. There they stood side by side on a dais while cameras ground and a hundred reporters fired questions. To Lehmann, a reporter said: “There has been some question as to who was in command of the Hindenburg.” Lehmann, short, ruddy-faced, immaculate in a navy blue, gold braided uniform, replied without the slightest hesitation: Eckener Was Adviser “I was. Dr. Eckener was aboard in the capacity of advise. But.” he added, smiling. “There was never any conflict over authority. There always was close co-oper-ation.” Eckener said nothing. All through the interview he looked old and tired. Lehmann beamed constantly. Steamer Saves 8 Plane Passengers By United Press MARSEILLES, France. May 9. Eight occupants of an Algiers-Mar-seilles passenger plane, afloat in the Mediterranean after a forced landing last night, were rescued after a wirelessed SOS by the steamship El Biar today. Times Index Automobiles ..16 j Grin, Bear It 9 Births 121 Merry-Go-R'd 9 Books 9 Movies 14 Bridge 4 Mrs. Ferguson 10 Broun 9 Mrs. Roosevelt 4 Churches 2 Music 8 Clapper 9 Pyle 10 Comics 15 ; Radio 8 Crossword ... 1C Scherrer 10 Curious World 9 J Science 10 Editorials 10 j Serial Story .. 5 Fashions 4 Short Story ..15 Financial 11 j Simms 9 Fishbein 10 j Society 5 Flynn 11 j Sports 6 Forum 10 [ State Deaths . 3

SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1936

PLAYFUL LITTLE FELLOW, ISN’T HE? AT LEAST WHILE POSING

CHILD, STRUCK BYTAXI, DIES Girl, 5, Runs Into Street in Path oi Cab, Police Say. Marion County’s auto death toll since Jan. 1 stood at 51 today with the death in City Hospital last night of Betty S. Bishop, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bishop, 322 Sanders-st. Betty ran into the street in front of her home yesterday afternoon, according to police, and was struck by a taxicab driven by Orville Reeves. 53, of 728 N. Mount-st. He was not held. Mrs. Elsie Holleman. 45, of 5139 N. Capitol-av, suffered a severed artery in the right ankle yesterday when a fire department truck collided with a car in which she was riding at Illinois and Washingtonsts. Her husband, Audley Holleman, 45, driver of the car, was arrested on charges of failing to have a driver’s license. Wallace Cravens, 25, of 3457 N. Hawthome-ln, and his sister-in-law, Ruth Cravens, 22, same address, were injured seriously yesterday when the motorcycle on which they were riding collid' . with a truck in the 1700 h’c of E. 25th-st. Both received bre’ n arms and cuts and bruises. The truck was driven by Justice Collins, 32, of 2702 Colum-bia-av. Elmore Meyers, 5, of 1021 1 i Vir-ginia-av, was injured slightly yesterday when she was knocked down by a truck at Woodlawn and Vir-ginia-avs. Miss Fannie Carnes, 23, Maywood, was injured slightly early today when she was struck by a hit-run driver on the Holt-rd. POLICE CHECK REPORT OF ATTACK, KIDNAPING Pedestrian Tells Officers He Saw Man Slugged. Carried Away. Police today were checking reports that a man was slugged and kidnaped early today on 13th-st near Meridian-st. L. J. Ryan, Detroit, told police he was walking along 13th-st about 1:30 a. m. when he saw a car drive alongside a man walking some distance from him. The driver of the car, Mr. Ryan told police, slugged the man on the head, dragged him into the automobile and drove north on Meridi-an-st. The car had no license plates, Mr. Ryan said. 12 DIE IN GREEK RIOT 30 Injured in Fight Between Police, Tobacco Strikers. By United Press SALONICA. Greece. May 9 Twelve persons were killed and 30 injured today in rioting here between tobacco workers on strike and police attempting to end the disorders. The strikers, who had barricaded themselves in a tobacco factory yesterday. occupied several churches tyxlay and alarmed lesidents of Salonica by ringing the bells in long and continued peals. Bloomington Has SIO,OOO Fire By United Press BLOOMINGTON, Ind., May 9 Fire of undetermined origin destroyed the Charles B. Townsend sawmill early today, causing damage estimated at SIO,OOO.

Beatty and One of His ‘Babies’

FALL CREEK DRAGGED FOR BODY OF BOY, 14 Lad Believed to Have Been Seized - With Cramps While Swimming. Police today still were dragging Fall Creek for the body of 14-year-old Harvey Streeter, Negro. 1829 N. Capitol-av, who drowned late yesterday afternoon at the rear of 234 C N. Capitol-av. His death was the first swimming fatality in the city this year. The youth took off his clothing on the east bank of the creek, swam to the opposite side and Started to return when he sank. It was believed he was seized with cramps.

STOCKS IRREGULAR IN NARROW RANGE Market Turns Dull After Active Opening. By United Press NEW YORK, May 9.—-The stock market opened moderately active today with prices mixed in a narrow range and then turned dull. Bonds were firm and small gains were noted in commodities. The dollar was mixed, higher in sterling and franc terms and easier in terms of Dutch guilders. (By Thomson & McKinnon! 11:15 A. M. Prev. .. . . N Y. Close. Atchison • 70 >,i 70 Gn Northern 35% 35,k N Y C-Ait 33% 33 Pennoylvama 29% 29% Gen. Elec 36V* 36 Westinghouse Elec 107% 106 Chrysler 94% 94 Gen Motors 64V* 63V* Studebaker ip, n Borg Warner I 70 69% Motor Wheel 191, 18% Timken Roller 61 59% Bendix 27% 27 V* Douglas Air 55V* 55 United Air 22 3 * 21% Am Smelt 76% 75 Anaconda 33m 33% Int Nickel 45 s * 45'* Kennecott 36% 35% U S Smelt 90 90 Du Pont 141 139 Un Carbide 79’3 79Vi Cons Oil 12V* 12V* Phillips 42% 42 SO of Ind 35 Vi 35% SOof N J 59% 59 Beth Steel 49% 48% Rep Iron & Steel 18% 18V* U S Steel 56% 55% AT & T 55% 55% Cons Edison 281* 28% Man Beaten, Robbed of $3 Beaten so severely he later was unable to describe his assailant. John Donahue, 1410 W. Court-st, was attacked and robbed of $3 early today while sitting in a truck parked at Missouri and Washington-sts.

9 Millions Expected From U. S . for State Highways

Indiana should receive approximately $9,600,000 in Federal funds for highway projects in 1938 and 1939 if President Roosevelc signs the $488,000,000 roads appropriation bill recently passed by Congress. J. T. Hallett, assistant chief engineer of the State Highway Commission, said today. Approximately $3,000,000 would be used for highway construction, $600,000 for farm-to-market roads and $1,200,000 for grade separations in this state in those years, he said. The Senate passed the bill yesterday without a record vole, and the measure was passed in the House a month ago, the United Press reported. “A multitude of highway transportation services now have been

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SEASON’S FIRST CIRCUSARRIVES Youngsters Crowd Old Ball Park to Watch Show Pitch Tents. BY TOM OCHILTREE Cole Brothers-Clyde Beatty Circus, with its mumbo-jumbo calliope music and spangled ladies, is in town for a two-day stand, but many young citizens think the best part of the show is over. Hundreds, all of whom had a lingering touch of childhood about them, arrived at the old baseball park at 4 this morning and waited for three hours while the circus “made its pitch.” Elephants probably are the most patient animals in the world. They never have time to relax. When (Turn to Page Three) FRENCH BANKS TOLD TO LIMIT GOLD SALE Action Designed to Stem Flow of Capital From Country. By United Press PARIS, May 9 The syndicatae of Paris bankers today circularized all French banks to limit the sale of gold coins and foreign currencies to “legitimate business purposes.” It was the third in a series of measures to stem the outflow of capital that is accompanying the unsttled financial situation. The first was a rise a few days ago of the Bank of France discount rate from 5 to 6 per cent. The second, made yesterday, was elimination of futures trading in foreign exchange. FOUR KILLED IN WRECK Pupils’ Car Locks Fenders With Another, Careens Into Ditch. By United Press lONIA, Mich., May 9.—Four high school pupils were killed and two others injured, one critically, when two speeding automobiles locked fenders and careened off the highway near Fowler late yesterday. The dead were: Charles Jason, 18. Carson City; Wayne Wilson, 17, Sheridan; Wilson Bell, 16, Carson City, and Coral North, 15, Butternut.

built into the daily living of the American people,” the Senate committee on post offices and post roads said in urging passage of the measure. “Since 1916 the states and the Federal government have been working in excellent co-operation on this gigantic task. The imperative need for this measure is in the fact that the states should have knowledge of congressional action in order to arrange to continue their participation. “The bill provides for forest highways, national park roads and trails, national parkways, elimination of grade crossings and farm-to-market roads, for which $25,000,000 is earmarked for each of the two years.”

COUNTY PARTIES ORGANIZE TODAY; WPA PROBE LAGS

VanNuys May Confer With Hopkins’ Aid Today or Monday. WAYNE COY IS PRAISED Only Mild Censure, if Any, Is Expected for State, Regional Chief. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 9. Senator Frederick VanNuys announced today that he expects to hold a final conference with Col. Lawrence Westbrook, assistant to Director Harry L. Hopkins of WPA, regarding the Indiana WPA investigation. “Col. Westbrook has been out of the city, but should return today, and we will confer either upon his return or on Monday,” Senator VanNuys said “With the primary election over in Indiana interest in the matter seems to be lagging here. WPA headquarters has said nothing about the report, but are again praising the administration of Wayne Coy, both as state and regional WPA director.” Mr. Coy has charge of the states from which most of the complaints of “politics” have come—lndiana, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. But he remains in high favor with Mr. Hopkins, his accomplishments having brought him a special invitation to the White House, where he presided at a showing of Indiana WPA in pictures some weeks ago. It is considered unlikely that the report will censure him further than stating he may be guilty of mild indiscretions on the political side in Indiana. Senator VanNuys is said to credit his insistent plea for a probe with the political success of his faction in the St. Joseph County Democratic primary. That was the spot to which he directed special attention in making his charges of WPA political coercion. REBEL DEMOCRATS FIGHT PROFIT LEVY Insurgents Work on Compromise for Proposed Tax. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 9. - nsurgent Democrats of the Senate Finance Committee labored today on a compromise designed to change drastically the Administration’s proposed tax on undistributed corporate earnings without entirely abandoning the fundamental philosophy of the $803,000,000 revenue bill. The committee uprising against the steeply graduated levy intended to force corporations to divide earnings in taxable dividends appeared to be gathering strength steadily, encouraged from Republican sources by Senator James Couzens’ strong denouncement of the measure. Admittedly certain modifications will be made and informal conferences this week-end of Democratic committee members opposing the corporate surplus tax probably will disclose the accuracy of Couzens’ assertion that “a large number” are in favor of rewriting that proposal. LABOR BACKERS HAIL RELIEF BILL CHANGE Amendment Provides for Prevailing Wages. By United Press WASHINGTON, May 9.—Congressional supporters of organized labor hailed the prevailing wage amendment to the $2,364,000,000 work-relief deficiency bill today as a forerunner of a Federal short-work-week-law. The amendment ordering WPA Administration Harry Hopkins to pay prevailing wage rates to approximately 3,000,000 persons cleared the way in the House for final roll calls and passage of the record peace time appropriation Monday. The only other amendment to the Administration measure would prohibit aliens illegally in the United States from going on relief rolls. House leaders beat down Insurgent attempts to otherwise alter the bill and predicted it would go to the Senate in a form acceptable to President Roosevelt.

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Schortemeier May Head G. 0. P.; Bookwalter Promises Fight. EMMELMAN TO RETIRE Democrats Expecting Quiet Parley: Boetcher Slated for Re-election. BY ARCH STEINEL Two slates of officers for the Marion County Republican Central Committee are to be presented to party workers when they meet at 1 this afternoon in the K. of P. Building to organize for the November election. One slate is headed by Frederick E. Schortemeier, former secretary of state. The other by John H. Bookwaiter, anti-Coffin candidate. At the same time the Democratie County Central Committee is expected to go down the line for reelection of Walter C. Boetcher as county chairman in a county convention in the Claypool. Rumors that Mr. Boetcher might not be re-elected were discredited today by prominent party leaders who seemed to be virtually unanimous in sanctioning a second term for Mr. Boetcher. Goett Shift Indicated The major change in the Democratic Party’s roster may be a shift of Henry O. Goett, county committee treasurer, to Twelfth District chairman. The move is seen as a possible grooming of Mr. Goett for the party chairmanship at the next county convention. Albert H. Losche may succeed Mr. Goett. Other probable selections in the Democratic convention are; Mrs. Edna Bingham, for re-election to vice chairman; Jim Noonan to succeed Joseph McNamara as secretary; Mrs. Nannette Dowd to succeed Mrs. Albert H. Losche as Twelfth District vice chairman; Thomas Haefling and Thelma Koesters, Eleventh District delegates. Bookwalter Slate Listed The Bookwalter slate for Republican county committee includes Mrs. Samuel Lewis Shank, vice chairman; Thaddeus R. Baker, treasurer; Herman Hiles. secretary; Harry O. Chamberlin, Twelfth District chairman, and Mrs. Michael Caton, district vice chairman. Opposed to the Republican reorganization slate are the present county committee officers, exclusive of Chairman Wayne Emmelman, who is reported ready to step aside in favor of Mr. Schortemeier. They are Mrs. Bloomfield H. Moore, vice chairman; Edwin McClure, secretary; Samuel L. Montgomery, treasurer. Gavin Payne Slated Gavin L. Payne is scheduled to be Twelfth District chairman with Mrs. Paul Wetter, vice chairman. William E. Edwards and Mrs. Aileen Kidd are to be Eleventh District delegates. In some quarters the belief is strong that a “bandwagon” movement will attempt to thwart the success of the reorganization group in naming its slate. But Mr. Bookwaiter and his associates claim that they have not quit their fight against "Coffinism.” A petition of candidates named at the primary was presented to Mr. Schortemeier urging him to accept the chairmanship at the convention, it was learned. Meyer Quits Group Howard M. Meyer. Republican Reorganization Committee chairman, quit the group yesterday with a statement declaring he had advised Mr. Bookwalter to retire from the contest. He pointed to Mr. Bookwalter* close business relations with Keith L. Johns, secretary of the Democratic state committee. Mr. Bookwalter today laughed at Mr. Meyer’s comment that Mr. Johns had prevailed on him to continue the battle and said, “That's funny. Mr. Johns is just an employe of ours, i have friends, it is true, in both parties.” District Meetings Next Week Following the county conventions each party is to hold a Twelfth District convention to name officers. The county Democrats are also to meet in a Eleventh District convention. All G. O. P. district conventions, except the First and Twelfth, are to be held Tuesday with state committee reorganization scheduled for next Saturday. Ten Democratic district conventions are to be held Wednesday with state committee reorganization also scheduled for next Saturday. GIRLS’ DEATHS SOLVED Maine Man Confesses Killing Two Children, Police Say. By United Press PORTLAND, Me., May 9.—James H. Folsom. 39, a former state reformatory Inmate, was held today as the self-confessed murderer of two young girls whom he attacked. He confessed the murders of 7-year-old Mary Proul of Waterviilo and 12-year-old Annie E. Knights of Fairfield, according to police.