Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 June 1936 — Page 1
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SCRIPPS = HOWARD] VOLUME 5 NUMBER 81
NEW CHIEF OF 6. 0.P. OFF TO FLYING START
Youthful . John Hamilton Plunges Into Task of Electing Landon.
OLD GUARD STEPS ASIDE
1003 Delegates Impressed by His Ability to Get Things Done.
Forrest Davis’ story on Gov. Landon, Page 3. Senator Borah’s reaction to platform, Page 3.
BY THOMAS 1 L. STOKES Times Special Writer CLEVELAND, June 13.—A redheaded gentleman with a square jaw was the dominant force in the Republican convention here and emerged today as a man to be reckoned with henceforth, by Democrats as well as Republicans. A thousand and three delegates are taking word back home about John Hamilton, the dynamic young fellow with the patch on his chin who was everywhere at once in the convention hall and who placed Gov. Landon in nomination. « John Hamilton, christened 44 years ago at Fort Madison, Ia. as John Daniel Miller Hamilton, took charge of the Landon camipaign today as chairman of the Republican National Committee. In recent weeks, since he became manager of the Landon “home folks” campaign for the nomination, the young:lawyer has dropped the two additional names in the®middle and has become, for the world at large and Republican voters in particular, plain “John Hamilton.”
“Let John Do It, Is,” Slogan
“Let John do it,” quickly became the slogan of the gray-beards who hitherto have run the Republican National Convention Committee and who discovered today that henceforth they will ‘take their orders from this young man who has, very distinctly, the air of knowing what he wants and intending to go get it. Though comparatively young, John Hamilton is old in practical politics in the Kansas school, which is as good a laboratory as you'll find in the country, for Kansas is a fac-
tion«ridden “state “where: the poli- |"
tician learns to weave and bob and employ ‘other useful gestures and;
in the end, to join up on the other |’
side, if necesary—which is just what John Hamilton has done. He spent a long time fighting the man he is now frying dent. The fighting was hard and close, and the count stood two to one in favor of Alf Landon when the two decided to make common cause. The combination should work well. It is a servative-progresive alliance uniting two Kansas Republican factions which have battled for years.
He’s Still Conservative
Mr. Landon, who bolted the Republican Party in 1925, along with William Allen White, to becomé a Teddy Roosevelt Bull Mooser, has trained with the Progressive faction which bucked the late David PF.
Mulvane, long national committee-
man and Old Guard leader, occasionally with success. Mr. Hamilton was allied with Mr. Mulvane, The, latter died the day after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected. John Hamilton has not changed his economic views. They are still shaded a deep conservative hue. Primarily, his new task in trying to elect Mr. Landon is a job of work. It will be interesting to see whether he tends solely to that and let his candidate develop policy, as does Jim Farley in the case of Mr. Roosevelt, or whether he will seek to influence the Governor's economic views and steer him away from the Progressive trend indicated (Turn to Page Three)
SUIT FILED TO STOP BUILDING OF SCHOOL
Dispute Raised Over Proposed Location in Posey County. Times Special MOUNT "VERNON, Ind. June 1a. ~A suit enjoining Black Township School from selling $46,200 in bonds to build a consolidated schoolhouse ‘has been filed in Posey Circuit
Petition for tem train on for paragy, 1 res ing order is to be The bond issue was to Be been made Monday. * Location of the school is causing the disagreement. rt ———————————————_——— i ——i.
INJURY, CASE
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George Rogers Clark Memorial.
GIRL, 14, AWAITS
STABBING PROBE
Sheriff Says Child Claims Her Uncle’s Death Was Accidental.
Fourteen-year-old Betty Maye Cole was back home today to await the coroner's investigation of the killing of her uncle, Andrew ‘J. Farran, yesterday afternoon. After the
inquest, which probably: will = be
Monday, according to Mark Mercer, deputy coroner, she is to ‘be taken before the grand jury. ; Sheriff Ray said he has Betty Maye’s signed statement that the slaying of her-uncle- with a paring knife in a scuffle at their home, 3901 Camplin-st, yesterday afternoon was accidental, and that she had no knowledge that she had stabbed him until she saw blood on the knife. Prosecutor Herbert M.
Spencer late yesterday advised Sheriff Ray |
to return Betty Maye to her home to (Turn to Page Three)
Times “Index
Autos Books sesense Bridge sassase Broun assesses Churches .... Comics
Movies ase n Mis.
Pyle dssvarans 101 Questions ... 10 Radio sssasss Scherrer shee 10 Science ssssen 10 Serial Story.. 6 Short Story.. 16
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AE ENE 2) 12 State Deaths. 5
W. C. FIELDS SUFFERS PNEUMONIA ATTACK
Screen Comedian Reported to Be in ~~ Serious Condition. By United Press RIVERSIDE, Cal. June 13.—W. C. Fields, screen comedian, today was reported seriously . ill . from pneumonia at Riverside Community Hospital.” The actor had: been spending
a ‘brief: vacation at Soboba Hot |
Springs near here when he became ill and was brought to the hospital for observation. Fields went to the hot springs to rest ‘after completing his first picture in more than two years. His screen work was interrupted : two ears ago by a back ailment which t him in bed most of the time. While making his current film, Fields frequently was attended by a physician and was forced to walk with canes when Mot SppSaring before the camera. z
STUDENT MOB FIGHTS - POLICE IN PEIPING
Rioters Frotest Again Against Japanese © - Imperialism and War Threat. By United Press
‘Statue of George Rogers ¢ Clark.
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Former Indiana Appelate Judge to Be Buried. at Salem. Fi
Milton B. Hottel, former rl
died yesterasy in St. Vincent's Hos: | pital after an. illness of several months, is to be buried in Salem
Monday. Funeral services at 9:30 in the Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary} here and at the home of Lee IL. Perise in Salem at 3. He lived at 3335 N. Meridian-st. Mr. Hottel, who was 76, was born: on arfarm in Harrison County. He graduated in 1882 from Indiana
of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity: He began the practice of law in Salem. : ‘He ‘was elected to the Appellate Court in 1912 and served until 1920. During his tenure, Mr. Hottel wrote many leading - and comprehensive opinions on the Indiana Workman’s Compensation Act when that legis~ lation was in its infancy. The orig-. inal act was written in 1915 and the. Appellate Cour was designated as the court of last resort in matters pertaining to the act: Mr. Hottel was Democratic nomi= nee for attorney general of Indiana
PEIPING, China, June ‘13—Stu- | <
dents fought police today in a gi-
gantic ‘demonstration held. in pro- |
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the Indiana Appellate Court, who:
University, where he was a member |
in 1908 but withdrew because of. 1ll- ;
bench Mr. Hottel became a\member | 18 of the law firm of Shea & Hottel. | t¥ Later, Mr. Hottel was a partner |. * 12 the Seep of Hoticl Motors: ponte, hock
[IDEAL WEATHER FOR
are fo find ideal vacation conditions
ay and. tomorrow 88, United] es weather “observers “forecast
| fair weather with, rising temper~
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atures. * Drought: regions of the state, however, were not‘expected to be benefitted by. rains a8 J. H. ArmijngHon, city -meseorologist. said ‘today i no rains Are ine sight. to help 1 Hoosier crops. © : Tomorrow's temperatures are expected to reach 85 degrees
SEEKS ‘BIG NAMES’ IN - BLACK LEGION PROBE
Prosecutor Believes Selieves “Only Surface Has Been Seratehed.”
By United Press DETROIT; “Mich; le 13. —Black n investigators drove toward the’ “real higher-ups” of’ the night riders today on the theory that “only the surface has been scratched to date” and that the arson, murder and kidnaping at present. ascribed to the Black Legion, presents only a partial picture of its activities. : Duncan C. McCrea, Wayne County utor Jeading the ing big names” of state ee be connected to She Black
‘Heves — Legion, ]
| Putnam’ County Hospital,
PICNICS IS PREDICTED)
dents re 1 Nie tian
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19 Cars Are Derailed .' Near Putnamville.
Times Special PUINAM
, Ind., Charles
| Exer, Monon fréight train engineer,
burned when his locomotive and 19 cars were derailed north of here yesterday, died early today at the Gresncastle. Six other persons, five of them fi the Greencastlé hospital, also were injured when the train left the track. « Mr. Eker, of Lafayette, died at 1:30'a. m. from burns received when he was pinned in the engine as it toppled over on its side.
List of Injured
- The injured were: Eugene Thomas, 16, Greencastle,
| mangled leg, condition critical.
Conductor Nathaniel S. Goforth, Lafayette, arm and head injuries. Fireman Lawrente A, Gray, Louisville, Ky. scalds ahd burns. Clellan Ash, 16, Greencastle, cuts and bruises. William: ASh, 19, Clellan’s brother, cuts and bruises. Amos Skimmerhorn, 19, Greencastle. cuts and bruises. He was not taken to the hospital. . The north-bound Moron frieght No. 56 plunged from’ the track just north -of the Putnamville railroad station as it gained momentum on a rising grade: The engine rolled over on its side into a corn field and 19 cars crashed into a jumbled mass
Sha 3 es > 5 3 id: eh hile crews sought to hid the right-of-way. Today. train. officials sald that a ‘pony truck om the engine ‘left’ the ‘rails a milé south of the scene of the accident and -it-was believed ‘that when the pony truck hit the switch the dergilment was caused. The freight cars were carrying stone, lumber,- and coal. The .Ash brothers, Thomas and Skimmerhorn: were riding a few cars back of the engine. Thomas was caught under a stone and rescue workers had difficulty in extri. cating - him from she block which crushed his ed his leg. -
PRICES IRREGULAR
Rails Advance -on Strength of Loading Reports,
NEW YC June, 13. — Stocks and bonds‘openéd light ti Cotton futures - clined a 50 cents ‘a bale and rubber was steady. Gold currencies advanced against the dollar. : (By Thomson & McKinnon)
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President to Leave for Indiana at 12:30 This Afterngon.
|PLEASED BY RECEPTION IA | Strikes Blow at Monopoly;
_. Patches Up Feud With Huey’s Faction.
BY FREDERICK A. STORM United Press White House Correspondent
FORT WORTH, Tex., June 13. — President Roosevelt turned back toward the national capital today, gratified by his reception in the South and confident that sector will roll up a tremendous New Deal margin in November.
The presidential party leaves- at 12:30 p.'m. for Vincennes, Ind, where the President will deliver the
[inal address of his tour, and Wash-
ington.. The chief executive and Mrs. Roosevelt spent last night at the home of: their son, Elliott. Mr. Roosevelt took action along three fronts yesterday. : 1. He pledged the United States was “not going to get tangled up” in old old-world enbroilments. 2. He smote: monopoly and promised a continuation of reforms designed to aid labor and small business. 3. He buried the hatchet with the Louisiana Huey Long machine. Speaking at a luncheon in Dallas, the chief executive decisively stated his position on European difficulties. He expressed hope the United States could be of help in restoring harmony among nations of: the world by providing an example of unity, co-operation and friendship. “But that help is going to be confined to moral help,” he said. “We are not going to get tangled up in their troubles in the days to come." Louisiana - Feud. Patched Up GOV Richard-Leche of Louisiana,
ant Ee §Gered his support
in an unscheduled Bets —_ | Democrats to unite behind the President to obtain “four more years of progress and prosperity.” It was obvious that the conflict which raged between the New Deal and ' the: Louisiana state asdministration during the regime of the late Senator Long had been adjasted. « The Louisiana NoBiiatine. holding a unique extraordinary session earlier in the ‘centennial exposition’s ; cotton bowl stadium, had passed a resolution indorsing the New Deal and pledging support to Mr. Roosevelt. At the banquet table with the President and Gov. Leche were Lieut. Gov. Earl K. Long of Louisiana, Huey Long’s brother, and Senator Alle nEllender, a high lieutenant of the “Kingfish’s” army. The President, addressing . mor: than 40,000 at the Texas Centennial at Dallas earlier in the day, sounded a vigorous wadning that “monopoly has meant the ownership of labor as a commodity.” He said the Administration is “restoring Democracy in government nd Democracy in Opportun I nceremonies at the Centennial stadium, 35 men and women of the Tigua Indian tribe of Ysleta, Tex, near El Paso, made Mr. Roosevelt a member of the tdibe, gave him the title of chief, and presented him
with moccasins and peacock feather . | headress.
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— : 100,000 Are Expected at Fete Honoring Hero of Northwest.
ADDED EMPIRE TO U. S.
His Only Reward a Sword From Virginia Which
He Spurned.
Times Special VINCENNES, Ind. June - 13.—The memory of a 26+ year-old Virginian, who bluffed the British out of an empire, will be honored here tomorrow when President Roosevelt dedicates the $2,000,000 George Rogers : Clark Memorial. :
* Historians will find a touch irony in the situation. Recognition of this hero, who added the vast stretch of country northwest of the Ohio River to the United States, has come more than 100 years too late. The only reward Clark received during his life was a sword given him by the State of Virginia when he was spending his last days in rude Ohio River hut in obscurity and poverty.
Received Compliments in Silence
He received the compliments of the presentation committee his« torians say, in gloomy silence and then shouted: “When Virginia needed a — I gave her one. She’ sends me now a toy. I want bread!” a With this exclamation he thrust the sword ‘into the ground and broke the blade. He died a few years afterwards, in Louisville in 1 ee As if to atone for the ingratituds of their forefathers, 100,000 citizens from: all. the states in the union are expected to throng to the
‘| acre memorial Sroubds, located
the heart of this city Program Starts. ot 9
The ceremonies are to begin at | tomorrow morning and continue until ‘noon. The President, Mrs Roosevelt, . Cabinet officers, Mes Federal officials and scores of Con= gressmen and Senators are expected to attend. The President's talk, to be delive ered between 9:30 and 10, is to broadcast over the principal | tional and Midwestern radio chains, Gov, McNutt is to be host for the day. : Heading the’ list of 2500 : to whom. special invitations were#® issued, are the names of the Govers nors.of five states formed from old Northwest Territory won Clark. In addition to Gov. McNutt
Martin L. Davey of Ohio, La Follette of Wisconsin and 1 Fitzgerald of Michigan. Other Ceremonies Arranged
President Roosevelt is to dedicate only the memorial building. Sta of Francis Vigo and Father Gibault, Clark’s aides, are to be a Be a ye ta Daughters of the American Revolus tion and 9 digailaries of the Cetholig
bash River, the memorial plot Was graces an area where dingy wares
¥as surrendered to Clark Peb. 28,
Statue In Building’s Center
It is a circular Doric temple st rounded by 17 fluted columns,
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