Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1936 — Page 1
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GRIM EVEREST ASCENT BEGUN ‘BY BRITISHERS
Daring ‘Pair Launches Final Assault on Peak Never Reached by Man.
FIGHT GALES AND SNOW
Start Slow, Painful Climb in Race Against Time and Death.
By United Press LONDON, June 2.—A tiny group of men struggled upward today in Arctic cold, through howling winds
and driving snow in g race to reach y
the top of the world—Mt. Everest,
the majestic peak that dominates |! the Himalayas on the Tibetan- 7
Indian frontier.
It was a race against time and 1 death, against the demons who, the
natives believe, are waiting on the summit to destroy any man who dares to violate this last sanctuary of nature. Dispatches from‘India reported in fragmentary form the final assault for this year of the Sixth British Everest Expedition, led by the veteran Hugh Ruttledge—who, because of his age, 51, must step aside at the last moment to let two younger men try to climb the final slopes.
Months of Preparation
For months the expedition has been preparing for the final assault, and. for weeks the members have been establishing camp.after camp on the steep, dangerous wind-swept sides of the mountain. It is humanly possible to climb Everest only for a period of a few weeks at this time of year. It is a delicate matter of choice of the right day, between the subsidence of the northwest gales and the arrival of «the southwest "monsoon winds from the sea which will melt the snow and start avalanches of terrific size. The monsoon arrived dishearteningly this year. But dispatches today said there had been a lull and that a strong northwest wind was blowing the snow from the upper levels in great sheets, to provide a surface sufficiently good for climbing. Monsoon Lull Is Signal As soon as the monsoon lull was
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TUESDAY, JUNE
Screaming Whistles Greet Queen Mary
DAIRYMEN SEE BRIGHT FUTURE
Cattle Industry Outlook Also Is Optimistic, Convention Told.
Sounding an optimistic note for the cattle and dairy business as a whole and for Holstein breeders in particular, A. J. Glover, HolsteinFriesian Association of America president, opened the second session of a three-day convention in the Claypool today. Replying to the welcome delivered by Gov. McNutt, Mr, Glover
Only 42 minutes short of equaling the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing, Great Britain’s new challenge for shipping supremacy, the 80,000-ton liner Queen Mary, is pictured from the air as she steamed past Manhattan’s skyscrapers toward her pier in the Hudson River amid a bedlam raised by welcoming cheers, horns and whistles.
Rain Expected to Halt County Drought Effect
With the Weather Bureau today forecasting local thunderstorms, Horace Abbott, Marion County agricultural agent, said the rain predicted would come nane too soon for farmers in the county.
said:
noted, leaders. ordered -an immedi | 5 x i de
ate advance up the. East Ronghuckfy, Valley glacier for the final assault
on the peak.
It is a matter of six days or so of {
getting from the lowest camp, established at 18,000 feet, to the highest at about 27,800 feet. Only two men are expected to go to the highest camp—No. 7. From there they will try to work their way up the remairing heights to the summit, now calculated by some trigonometrical calculations at 28141 feet as against the old figure of 29.001—which, however, remains the official one. : Carry Oxygen Equipment tory will have oxygen equipment to permit them to breathe, but the experience of past expeditions: left no doubt that, though all their
clothing and equipment is: the Best sit
obtainable, they will face atest: of courage and fortitude such, as is
provided by no Other ‘formal ad=|' 4
venture in the world.
Latest reports from India are that §
Eric Shipton, 28, and F. S: Smythe, 35, will make the attempt this year.
“WASH! This is their fourth Everest expedi- |:
tion. They reached 28,000 feet in 1933 and could go no higher., . . °
If they reach the summit they can | Hef
stay no longer than 20 minutes or so if they hope to get down again. Whoever makes the attempt will have to crawl painfully up the last
1000 feet, the wind seeking 10 blow}
them aside, the snow: threatening to plunge down on them, the cold bit-] ing at their vitals, the dryness of
the air parching their throats, the}
altitude, as previous climbers have reported, lessening their resolution and almost their nity with ‘every exhaustive step; and they may reach
the summit and find they can not |
force themselves to try to get down, again.
MAYOR REQUESTS NEW FIRE ALARM SYSTEM
Present Gamewell Set: up Obsolete He Tells Safcty Beard.
Mayor Kern today called attention to the city's need for a new Gamewell alarm system, and asked the Safety Board to study methods of financing its installation. : The mayor and representatives of the Electric Control Corp. Chicago, met with the board ina closed: session today. It was explained that a new system would cost more than I ctpitit iis pes presen alarm equi t is obsolete, Mayor Kern said.
COURT RELEASES FUNDS
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Williaza Webster Tell Sate ‘mf
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of 1 and; some pairs ‘have begun to
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DETROIT KILLING SCENE PICTURED
Officer Testifies Against 14 Black Legion Defendants.
By United Press DETROIT, June 2.—Charles A. Poole, 32-year-old victim of the. hooded and robed Black Legion, was shot down as he started to protest his innocence »of wife beating charges and did not have a chance
to defend his eonRie. a detective testified today at the examination of as men charged with the slaying. : Detective Jack Harvill, ‘homicide ace e Who “crackt » the 3
pole was: taken on a one-way
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IW CORMICK, 77 INDUSTRIALIST DIES AT HOME
International Han Harvester Co. Official Had Heart Attack Saturday.
FATHER DEVISED REAPER
Resigned From Active Part in Company Work Last Fall.
By United Press LAKE FOREST, Ill, June 2— Cyrus Hall McCormick, retired chairman of the International Harvester Co., died at his home today. He suffered a heart attack Saturday. He was 77 years old. Mr. McCormick was the son of the inventor of the reaping machine, from which he accumulated a fortune estimated at times during his life as high as $50,000,000. He was born in Washington, D. C.,, on May 16, 1859, and graduated from Princeton University in the class of 1879. He resigned from active participation in the company last September. His widow and Cyrus H. McCormick Jr., of Santa Fe, N. M., were at the bedside when he died. a second son, Gordon, is ig Honou. . On leaving college Mr. McCormick joined his father’s McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., and became president of the concern after his father’s death in 1884, continuing in that position until 1902. With several other properties the McCormick Company merged into the International Harvester Co. that year. ‘Mr. McCormick was chosen president and served until 1919 when he became chairman of the board. He retired from this last position in September, 1935, but continued to hold his“position as director. Noted Art Collector He had. other business iterests, serving at various times on the boards of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad; ' the. old Illinois Merchants: Trust Co., and the National City Bank of New York. His private and public :philanthropies were almost innumerable. He was a great supporter of the Y. M. C. A. and contributed millions to its efforts. He gave $1,000,000 for" a Y. W. C. A. building in Chicago as a memorial to his first wife. He St) ie Th $3,000,000 for the MeCor-.
the night fo May 12. 5 A His testimony was based, the des
of the Black Legion, who fired two revolvers at Poole while the victim stood :a foot cr two away. Dean’s story “.implicated “Col.” Harvey. Davis,: head of the Detroit Black
ings. tin. a monotone, Harvill re-
, Harvill testified Dean
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pong on the property of: his uncle, C. J. Kimmel, yesterday.
‘Divers no longer need phinge into
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“government said’
poner stirred, ‘the Black Les jignnaires: demanded that Poole be
Some screamed for his}
oe and two companions victim ‘at ‘2 saloon, took him back to the mi gting place. ‘There, the detective he was told, a motor cavalcade drove: Poole to ‘the death rendezvous. *® -On - a country. road, Col. Davis told his lieutenant: “Get Poole out of the car, Dean.” Déan, according to Harvill, | pulled two revolvers from his pock=: ets.
beaten your wife for the last time” Dean told the officer.
continued. “He told me he
tective said, on the alleged confes~{ sion ‘of Dayton Dean, “trigger man’)
“Then Davis said ‘Poole, you ve came
# saws degree upon sp ¥
He was a noted art collestor, pur-
trips abroad and frequently loaning {his prized paintings for exhibitions. “He was: a member of a special diplomatic mission to Russia in ‘1917. “He belonged to numerous socal Slubs in New York and Chicago.
BERTHE MELLETT . DIES IN FAR WEST
Water, Wife of E of Editor, Vicam of Heart Trouble.
ppé-Howard. Fapwsparer Alliance TLAND, ‘Ore, June 2— Berthe K. Mellett, writer and wife of Lowell Mellett, editor of The Washington News, died of heart trouble at 1: 45 ih. m. yesterday in a hospital here. Her husband and “her son-in-law
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he Bas been selling magasing.”
Development of S$ ynthetic Products Aided by Depression, Chemist Claims
‘before had allowed,” Mr. Ross said. _. “Norbide, a substance second in
said.
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Delegation’ Is Working on Bid fo * Attract Firm to Move.
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P. LEADERS CONFER
PRICE THREE CENTS
ON CHAIRMANSHIP FIGHT; LINK LANDON,VANDENBER
Backers of Kansan Seek Senator as Running Mate, Is Hint.
HILLES FOR WADSWORTH
Old . Guard Leader Wants Place on Ticket for East, Is Claim.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WASHINGTON, June 2.— A Landon-Vandenberg ticket is gaining favor on the eve of the Republican national convention, which opens at Cleveland a week from today. Nomination of Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan as running mate for Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas would be pleasing to the Landon forces, and feelers now being put out are part of the pre-
convention strategy to clear the way for the Kansan’s nomination. The Senator’s popular appeal is attested by the fact that he has been for months the leading “dark horse” candidate for the nomination, though he has not lifted a finger in his own behalf. There are two possible handicaps to his nomination as Vice President. One is his own reported reluctance to take second place. But close friends believe he would accept the vice presidential nomination if offered. They feel that no ambitious man, with an eye to 1940, could turn sdown such a demand from his party.
Wadsworth Hilles Choice
The other, and more important possible handicap, is the desire of the Eastern G. O.P. oligarchy headCommitteeman Charles D. Hilles of New York to name an Easterner for the No. 2 post. J _ Mr. Hilles’ choice is said to be Rep. Jamies W. Wadsworth of New York, former Senator, wealthy, conservative gentleman farmer of Geneseo, N. Y, The argument publicly advanced for Mr. Wadsworth’s nomination is that it would aid in the attempt to wrest New York state and its 47 ‘electoral votes from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Privately, however, it represents the desire of Eastern business interests, exemplified in Mr. Hilles, to keep a hand on the party machinery.
ZIONCHECK IS RESTING;
- BRIDE VISITS HOSPITAL
Congressman Under Observation “After Capital Antics. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 2.—Rep. Marion A. Zioncheck, reported as “resting comfortably” at Gallinger Hospital, got back his vanished bride today. His wife ald a secret visit to her husband’s bedside, then returned to the hiding place which she sought when Zioncheck’s pace finally became too: much for her. Zioncheck was committed to Gallinger Hospital for observation yesDoctors today said he was
rd suffering from “overwork.”
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LEM TROTTER POSES PUZZLE ING. 0.P. RACE
City ‘Realtor’s Last-Minute , Entry Laid to Coffin by Observers.
Reports of “deals” and “hoss tradin’,” were rife at the Claypool today as hundreds of Republican state convention delegates entered earnestly into the preliminaries to their big show at the State. Fairground tomorrow. While ‘three candidates for the nomination for Governor—Glenn R. Hillis, H. H. Evans and Raymond S. Springer—appeared to have almost, equal strength, a last-minute entry excited comment among many observers. Opening his headquarters only last night, Lem Trotter, Indianapolis realtor, would make no statement today. Most = observers seemed agreed that Mr. Trotter did not consider himself a serious contender for the nomination, and a few said that he was entered by Charles (Cap) Coffin, Marion County G. O. P. boss, merely to “slow down” some of the other aspirants. Mr. Coffin is reported to control 150 of the 195 delegates in the Marion County unit, a sizable bloc that would materially facilitate, if not clinch, a victory for one of the leading contestants, it was pointed out. While no candidate or campaign manager. was prepared to claim a
the first ballot tomorrow, eaeh. of
enough strength to win before the voting has progressed far.
INDUSTRYA 3K |
Labor Uses 5-4 Ring in
Its Fight for Arigndment. +
By United Press WASHINGTON, June 2—Organizzd labor seized the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 denial of states’ rights to fix minimum wages and hours for women and children today as an added Weapon in demands for a Constitutional amendment giving Congress powers over industry. Leaders of the prod Federation of Labor, headed by William Green, saw the minority opinion as basis for their demands. The majority opinion was the fourth severe blow to labor from the court in‘ a little more than a year. The court knocked out the NRA, railway retirement act, the Guffey coal control act and, yesterday, the New York minimum wage law. Al were strongly suported by organized labor. The court in a split decision two weeks ago held the Federal government in the Guffey law could not regulate working conditions of min-
-lers and in the New York case held
states did not have the power either. Seventeen other states have similar laws. These, however, were not directly involved in the New York case.
The decision brought the controversy over the Supreme Court to. a new high point. Whether the fight for a constitutional amendment would He carried into the coming political campaign remained uncertain. President Roosevelt has given no direct indication he will raise the issue. The minority opinion. written by
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Dickinson Is Victor in Iowa Primary
By United Press
Apparent
Sess ersesans ets ssay
specific number of delegate votes of the three apparent leaders claimed
Irwin, Gates and Morgan: Reported Seeking Way Out of Difficulty.
DELEGATES JAM HOTELS
District Meetings Tonight to: Set Stage for Parley Tomorrow.
BY ARCH STEINEL © = The State Republican Come
mittee this afternoon was in, caucus temporarily while three claimants to the post of chairthan went into confers ence in an effort to iron out
differences. The three conferees were Don B, Irwin, reported ready to resign the chairmanship; Ralph Gates, Columbia City, whose militancy over the chairmanship brought about the sit«' uation, and Ivan C. Morgan, Austin, reported to be the compromise can= didate for the office. Meanwhile, other committees and groups were reported discussing: other state committee differences, minor but apparently stubborn of solution. : The committee meeting was called for 10, prefaced the arrival of hune dreds of delegates for the congress sional district sessions tonight. Meanwhile, Hoosier Republicans, Inc, an organization supporting Mr, Gates, this afternoon passed resos lutions on party platform that are to be submitted to the platform committee of the convention 8s recommendations. : Prominent in the resolutions were denunciations of President Roose= velt and Senator Sherman Minton; allegations that relief and politics are connected: pleas for a balanced budget, and assertions that the Cone stitution should not be changed. The convention opens at 10: 30 a. m. tomorrow in the Coliseum % : the State Fairground. = Two Eighth District
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Others May Be Retained Whether Burrell’ Wright, state G. O. P. trpasurer, would be succeeded by Some one else, in" the state committee reorganization had not been d ed.” Harry Fenton, secretary, is sls to: continue, observers said. Many believed Mr. Wright also would ‘be retained. The “Big Four” délegates at large, whose names may be presented to the state convention, are James E. Watson, former United: States Senator; George A. Ball, Muncie, national committeeman from Indiana; Mr. Irwin, and Mr. Gates. : Mr. Gates, upon being informed of the possibility of the naming of the “Big Four” as delegates-at-lapge
[to the national convention, said:
“I want it understood that no agreement has been made on the ‘Big Four’ delegates. That is not & matter for the state committee, but plainly is up to the duly elected delegates of the convention.”
District Offices Opened
Congressional district headquare ters were opened today in the Clays pool as delegates arrived hourly and petifioned county chairmen for dele« gate badges and credentials. . Tonight’s - congressional district meetings start at 7:30 as follows: . First District, Florentine Room,
Claypool; Second District, House of
Representatives, Statehouse; Third District, Indusirial Board chamber, 402 Statehouse; Fourth Clerk of Courts, 215 Statehouse; Fifth District, Supreme Court chame
| ber, 317 Statehouse; Sixth District,
Supreme Court room, 319 States house; Seventh . District, Senate chamber Statehouse; Eighth District, Appellate Court, 413 State=