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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936
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STORM DELAYS LOUIS’ BATTLE WITH GERMAN
Heavyweight Ring Event to Be Held in New York Tomorrow Night.
BOTH IN FINE CONDITION
Bomber Holds Weight Edge of Six Pounds; 20,000 Fans Disappointed.
By Uniled Press NEW YORK, June 18.—The Joe Louis-Max Schmeling heavyweight fight, scheduled for tonight, was postponed this afternoon until to-! morrow because of rain, * The postponement came a few minutes after both fighters had weighed in. Louis weighed 198 and Schmeling 192. The forecast for tomorrow is clear and warm. The postponement disappointed 20,000 out-of-towners who arrived last night and this morning. Jacobs delayed postponement until the last minute. The sun shone brightly early this morning, but by 8:40 a. m. (Indianapolis time) it was raining heavily with no better weather in prospect. A few minutes after the weigh-in, the clouds: began to break and it was
hoped that the fight would go on. |
But it darkened again, so Jacobs decided to call it off.
Both in Perfect Condition
Both fighters were pronounced in perfect physical condition by three physicians who examined them. “There is little to choose between them,” Dr. Willidm H. Walker, New York ‘State Athletic Commission physician, said. Both ‘were calm as they stepped on the scales. Neither spoke. They will not weigh in again. They met in the hall of the huge Hippodrome, where the weighing-in was ‘held, Schmeling came out of one door and Louis another,
Gen. John J. Phelan, New York State Commission chairman, said to Joe:
: “1 believe you fellows know each other.”
Schmeling Appears Unworried -
Louis looked at Schmeling and said in a very low voice: “How are you, Max?” Schmeling mumbled an unintelligible reply. Then they went to the auditorium for the weigh-in. Louis arrived around noon, but Schmeling was more than a halfhour late. Joe spent the time sitting in a dressing room reading a newspaper and chatting with reporters about the Detroit Tigers. Schmeling said he was not worried and was far cooler at the examination than any of Louis’ past victims—Paulino, Levinsky, Carnera or Baer.
- THIRD SON BORN TO MRS. GENE TUNNEY
First Child Is Four Years Old and Second Is Two.
By United Press NEW. YORK, June 18.—Mr. and Mrs. James Joseph Tunney today announced the birth of a third son. Mr. Tunney, who is former heavyweight boxing champion, had hoped for a girl, but shortly after the baby’s arrival last night, he announced that he had changed his mind. “Our wish,” he said, “has been gratified.” Their first child, Gene Lauder Turiney, was born Nov. 18, 1931. The second, James Joseph Jr., was born June 25, 1934.
BOULEVARD TRUCK BAN TO BE PUSHED
“Park Board Orders Drive After Receiving Complaint.
Enforcement of laws barring trucks from the 57 miles of ety
Glen Dragoo, "1317 N. Rural-st, of the Brookside Civic League, complained that trucks were operating on Brookside-pkwy, South-dr, near Spades Park. The board called a meeting for Monday night of empioyes of the _ six municipal golf courses to establish standard opening and closing hours.
‘Permission was granted Ford auto dealers to hold a 10-day show at
38th and Meridian-sts from June 22
to July 2. “CLARK GABLE FILES
SUIT IN SEPARATION |;
oafe and Sane DRIMING|
THE COST IS TOO HIGH MORE persons were killed in motor vehicle accidents in our country last year than ever before—36,400 lost their lives. More than 1,250,000 others were injured. One out of every 100 Americans, this means, was injured. And at the same rate, one out of every 20 who are alive today will either be killed or injured in an automobile accident within five years. What a price to pay for carelessness, thoughtlessness and indifference! Yet the future is brighter than cold figures seem to indicate. More and more states are passing effective drivers’ license laws, More cities and towns are béeginning to organize their police and court- facilities to battle with accident causes. More citizen groups and private individuals are awake to the fact that traffic accidents vitally concern them and the lives of their families. -Traffic accidents can be controlled. Individual cities and towns are making enviable records in accident reduction. And every driver can help’ in bringing this annual toll of human waste and human misery down.
GORKI, SOVIET AUTHOR, DEAD
Master of Short. Story and Drama Likely to Have State - Funeral.
By United Press MOSCOW, June 18.—Maxim Gorki, Russian master of the short story and drama, and literary champion of the Soviet. died today after a lengt He was 68. He was the idol of the people, revered not only for his literary talent, but also for his championship of the common man and his fearless criticism of injustice. A, state funeral, with a million or more people massed in Red
illness
Square, and burial in the Kremlin; |
was believed likely. Gorki was famous not only in Russia, but all over the world. The delineation of Russian characters in his faction and dramas had universa] appeal. Few people have failed to know, at least by hearsay, of his dramas, “The Lower Depths” and “The Night Lodgings.” Gorki was one of the people, of humble birth and upbringing. He had to go to work at the age of 9. He worked as a scullery boy, baker's apprentice, watchman, gardener and painter of ikons. ' He nevertheless managed to educate himself and began to write for newspapers. He has traveled widely and spent much of his later life outside of Russia. He visited the United States in. 1906.
FAIR WEATHER DUE FOLLOWING STORMS
Farmer Killed by Bolt of Lightning Here.
A return to fair and warmer weather was predicted for tomorrow by J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, ‘today following brief storms that broke over the state late yesterday. Yesterday's rainfall was comparatively light and did not benefit the drought areas, Mr. Armington said. Bluffton, with .80 inch, had the heaviest precipitation. Indianapolis and vicinity received only .062 inch of rainfall. Fred J. ‘McMillan, 34, was killed by a bolt of lightning during the storm last night as he alighted from a truck at 34th-st and ArlingtonTwo companions who were in
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HOLDS LANDON WILL WIN ALL BUT 6 STATES
in New York, Organizes East for Election Drive.
NAMES WOMAN LEADER
G. 0. P. Ticket Carries a Strong Appeal in West, He Claims. By United Press NEW YORK, June 18.—National
Republican Chairman John D. M. Hamilton began organizing the
G. O. P. eastern campaign today
with a prediction that President Roosevelt will carry only six states in November. Five minutes after the red-headed Kansan arrived by air from Topeka he named Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Massachusetts, to manage the Eastern campaign. “Miss Natalie Couch of Nyack, N. Y., will direct the women’s organization. Surrounded by New York; New Jersey and New England Republican leaders and waving a bouquet of New York-grown sunflowers, Mr. Hamilton said it was a “sure thing” that Gov. Landon would carry most of the East, as well as “Kansas and the states west of it.” : “You folks of the East have no idea how the West has warmed fo Gov. Landon and Frank Knox,” he said. “President Roosevelt ought to
carry six states, but I'll let Post-|
master General Farley try to name them.” A meeting of the party finance committee was first on Mr. Hamilton’s schedule today. He was the guest over night of Robert H. Thayer, regional finance committee chairman. All questions about the state of party finances = Mr. Hamilton referred to C. B. Goodspeed, national treasurer. Tonight Mr. Hamilton will attend! the Louis-Schmeling fight, then spend * the week-end “out in the country” before delivering, Monday
night, the first nationally broadcast
Republican campaign speech since the convention.
rey NEW DEAL ON oP AS PARLEY NEARS
Critics Either Si Silenced or Ready. for Stroll.
(Democratic platform story, Page 13)
PHILADELPHIA, June 18.—New Dealers head into their national convention next week in full control of the party, with dissatisfied Democrats either suppressed or busy taking walks, Sa All signs point to a brief, hard fight on whether the two-thirds rule shall be abolished, some wrangling in committee over a platform and then harmony and good will among the delegates. Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia took his walk today, but in a tentative sort of way. A telegram cancelled the reservation he had made for an entire hotel floor during the convention. He indicated, however, he would support the party's nominee and its platform.
TAGGART TO TO DEPART FOR CONVENTION CITY
National Committeeman to Arrange for Indiana Delegation. Thomas D. Taggart, French Lick, Democratic national committeeman, is to leave tomorrow for -Philadelphia to arrange quarters for the Indiana delegation at the national convention, which opens Monday. Mr. Taggart is to be accompanied by Bowman Elder, Indianapolis, and Miss Gertrude McHugh, Indianapolis, delegation secretary. Indiana delegates are to meet Monday night in Franklin Hotel, Philadelphia, name the state's platform committee members. A special train is scheduled to leave here at 4:23 p. m. Saturday for Philadelphia.
NIECE OF ENGINEER KILLED BY HIS TRAIN
STATE BOARD HEARS TESTIMONY IN_STREAN POLLUTION CASE
First session of the pollution hearing board of the State Department of Commerce and Industry was held today to study an appeal of Hartford City officials charged with polluting Lick Creek. Grouped around the table in the picture above
MINTON TAKES FARLEY'S PART
Rep. Halleck ‘Went Off
Half- Cocked,’ Senator Says of Charge.
(Editorial, cartoon on Page 20)
BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, June .18.—Senator Sherman Minton (D., Ind.) today challenged the accuracy of statements being made by Rep. Charles H. Halleck, only Republican member of Congress from Indiana, regarding solicitation of funds from
postmasters over the signature of |:
Postmaster General James A. Farley. The Senator cited his own home town of New Albany, Ind. as a case yore “Halleck went off half-
atement to the press, Rep. aan said New a was one of
Elaborating on his statement, Mr. Halleck explained that the story was brought to him by Walter Montgomery, publisher of New Albany.
When Senator Minton saw the|' | statement he immediately phoned | (Pat). Darneal, post-|
William 8S. master at New Albany and a long-
time personal and political friend, |,
he said. “It turned out just as I expected,” Senator = Minton declared. “Mr. Montgomery is on the Republican pay roll. His job, apparently, is to spread such reports. “Pat Darneal absolutely denies that he ever talked to Mr. Farley by phone or otherwise about this matter.”
HALLECK “GATHERS MORE AMMUNITION
Predicts. Farley Won't. Be Able to Deny Responsibility.
Ry United Press WASHINGTON, June 18—Rep. Charles A. Halleck (R., Ind.) said today he isicollecting new ammunition for his/ charge that civil service postmasters have -been solicited by Postmaster General James A. Farley to contribute to the Democratic National Committee. “I think before we are through with this thing,” Rep. Halleck said, “that Mr. Farley will find it pretty hard to deny he didn’t know anything about these letters.” GLASS IS MENTIONED FOR FLETCHER POST Peppery Virginian to Accept Banking Chairmanship, Is Belief. By United Press : WASHINGTON, June 18. — The capital buzzed with speculation today as to whether Senator Carter Glass (D., Va.) will accept chairmanship of the powerful Banking and Qusfency Committee vacated by the death of Senator Duncan U. Fletcher (D., Fla.). The consensus was that the peppery Virginian, vigofous foe of New Deal banking policies, would take the post and give up his Appropriations: Committee chairmanship Senator Kenneth D. i
1 (D., Tenn),
City; Fred Eely
‘Hartford City Is Blamed by Farmers for Condition of Lick Creek.
Five Blackford County farmers testified today that Lick Creek was so polluted by Hartford City that it was impossible to water stock at the stream. : They appeared at the first session of the state pollution hearing board authorized by the 1935 General Assembly. Today's meeting was set last month, after Hartford City had been accused by W. H. Frazier, state engineer, with polluting. the stream.
either affirm, deny or amend the Frazier order. If it affirms, the Department of Commerce and Industries can make a final order for the city to comply with the law. The city then has 15 days in which
Court.
SOLAREOL
Visible Tomorrow Only in ‘Old Country.’
BY WATSON DAVIS Director, Science Service ~ (Copyright. 1936. by Science Service): : WASHINGTON, June 18. = Conact!”
Hundreds of scientists of 50 expeditions eagerly are awaiting that
a medley of languages as a longawaited total eclipse of the sun begins. Sweeping over a narrow path from northern Africa across Asia to northern Japan, the shadow of the moon will allow scientist and layman alike to see the beauty of the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. It will allow special telescopes and cameras to record facts about the sun that are at other times drowned in its flood of light. More than a score of American astronomers have traveled half way around the earth for the slightly more than two minutes that the| moon totally will obscure the sun. American expeditions are based at Ak-Bulak and Kustanai in the Russian republics. : At sunrise tomorrow inhabitants (Turn to Page Three)
SECRET JOURNEY OF
Mother of Quins Believed lo Have Left Home.
By United Press CALLENDAR, Ont, June 18.~—Rumors persisted among neighbors of Oliva Dionne and his family today | that the mother of the famous quintuplets: had gone secretly to Haileybury, a backwoods village, 115 miles north of here, to await the birth of a child. Dionne, his sister and at least two unexviained
He refused to answer
yof the trip.
Girl Returns
Lost in Holdup i in
Because her conscience worried
her for two years, a comely young
woman today had returned a $750
; Samond found in frank of a Jewslty
$750
The stream pollution board can|
to appeal to the Blackford Cireult
SCIENCE AWAITS |
bonus bonds,
Ri, to Study Spectacle
veteran Republican |
signal to be shouted tomorrow in
MRS. DIONNE HINTED |
are (left to right) Ralph Hanna, assistant attorney general; Robert Bonham; city attorney of Hartford
of the State Conservation Depart-
ment, and Paul Kleiser, engineer of the State Board of Sanitary Engineers.
VETERANS TURN “PAY INTO CASH
3000 Certify Bonds. During
First Day; Delivery Starts Today.
Checks to cover $1,500,000 in bonus money for World War veterans of
Man on County were being prepared ay. Postoffice clerks and United States Treasury Department officials worked throughout the night and today to speed delivery of checks to 3000 veterans ‘who yesterday turned in their bonus. bonds for cashing. Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker said that at least 1000 veterans re-
ceived ‘checks in early mails today.
eanwhile, banks and business s Y¢ported a pickup in the num-
as veterans ‘signed checks for odd amounts whith accompanied the
Flow of Money Expected. Today Flow of the bonus money in trade expected to begin
slowly: his
Both = Postmaster - Seidensticker |
and Charles Mazey, head of the Secret Service here, warned veterans to. keep a close watch for their checks arriving by mail. ‘If checks do not arrive within 48 ‘hours after presentation of the bonds for certification, veterans are urged by Postmaster Seidensticker to notify postal authorities. : Eight postal substations, open from 6:30 p. m. to as late as 11 last night, aided between 100) and 1500 “veterans in certifying their bonds, the postmaster said. Two certification offices in the Federal Buliding, Rooms 309 and 421, bore the brunt of the first day's rush. The eight postal substations are to remain open evenings through Saturday to facilitate handling of the bonds, while the main certifica‘tion rooms at the Federal Building are to stay open indefinitely, the postmaster said.
EDEN SAYS BRITAIN ACTING FOR PEACE
Not Going to War Over Malian Issue, He Says.
By United Press LONDON, June 18.—Italy has conquered Ethiopia and: Great Britain. does not intend to go to war in the Mediterranean to change the situation, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the House of Commons today in a general debate on foreign affairs. Great Britain favors the lifting of
League of Nations Italy and an effort to come to terms
in Europe. “The government is not prepared
| to take military action,” he declared
4geut. Mss. Disase’ ax, She pu pase} spent
"| CHINESE WAR PERIL SHIFTS TO NORTH
3 Concessions Demanded by Japanese :
By United Press ge’ _TIENTSIN,
ber of “government warrants cashed
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SYSTEM APPROVED FOR STATE UNI
Plan Shortly to Be Established in New Publi¢ Welfare and Job Insurance Depart- = ments, Officials Announce.
UNIFORM RULES ARE TO BE DRAFTED,
Committees Named by Fred Hoke and J acks son to Meet Soon for Discussion of .
Necessary Regulations. §
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The merit system is to be established in two ‘shaits dee partments under their jurisdiction, Wayhé Coy, public wele
fare director, and Clarence A.
Jackson, unemployment come
pensation insurance director, announced today. : Mr. Coy said a joint committee from both departments would meet soon to draft a uniform system. The merit plan i is to apply only to state employes of the two departments, Mr. Coy said. The public welfare department committee, named Fred Hoke, president of the welfare board, includes Virgil
DOCTORS FIND GIRL’S HEART ON RIGHT SIDE
Other Vital Organs Correspondingly ;
Reversed, Operation Reveals.
By United Press . VINCENNES, Ind, June 18— Martha Davis, 17, Bicknell, today was recovering from an operation performed after ‘surgeons—removing her appendix—found her vital organs in the reverse of the normal position. Her heart was on the right side, her appendix on the left and other organs correspondingly reversed.
LOGAN OFFERS PWA PROGRAM
4 1ndiana Projects to Cost
$8,000,000 Submitted for Approval,
Times Special WASHINGTON, June 18.—Forest M. Logan, Indiana: PWA director, today presented a new $8,000,000 program of public works projects to Secretary of Interior Ickes for approval. He said the projects represent the first of a $20,000,000 total program being prepared for the state. Mr. Logan said the general shift in PWA is to be from a program of
school building to sewers and water |
supply systems. This change, he said, has been necessitated because “there is an acute shortage of skilled labor in Indiana.” “Our new projects are purposely selected to employ as much common labor as possible,” he said. Projects presented today are nearly all on a grant basis to be paid from the $300,000,000 voted PWA for that purpose in the deficiency bill. Mr. Logan explained that the local governmental units which sponsor such projects are now in such stable financial condition that they can float their bonds on the regular market at less cost than the 4 per cent charged for PWA loans. “I understand that this new money -is to be allocated in parcels of about $50,000,000 at a time, which would mean about $1,000,000 for each state,” Mr. Logan said. “So the first million for Indiana will be granted to smaller projects which will do the most in employing common laber.”
CONGRESS FINISHES ‘RELIEF BILL ACTION
$2,376,597,000 Measure Is Sent to Roosevelt.
Sheppard and Mrs. A. K. Zink; welfare department officials, and Mrs. Richard Edwards,
Peru, welfare board member. Mr. Jackson recently named & committee to study a merit system, The committee was composed of Df R. Clyde White, Indiana University Bureau of Social Research; Martin F. Carpenter, state employment service director, and Mrs. Walter Greenotigh, Indiana League | Of Women Voters. The welfare and unemployment compensation insurance departs ments were created in social secur: ity laws passed at the special ses= sion of the 1936 General Assembly, During the session, efforts we o made to write a merit system int the social security laws. The diana League of Women Voters st ported the proposél and succeeds ed in adding a paragraph to public lee measure, but quick to point out that the concess sion fell short of their hopes,
Praised by Mrs. Campbell Informed of the action taken
president of
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“AP campbell, di ana League of Women. Voters;
dianapolis, = said,
‘League of ‘Women Voters is
that the state public welfare. : ment is laying plans to set. up & merit system of appointments in ad ministrative positions. The: safes guards around the selection 2s personnel in a department wi scope so farreaching are a of paramount importance. | “The citizens of Indiang will
section of the Social Security Act”
NAMED DIRECTOR OF
John H. Klinger to Study Methods Used in U. S. Prisons.
John H. Klinger, Newcastle, been named director of the divi of institutional management
Welfare, Wayne Coy, acting departs dministrator, announced
a member ‘of the State Clemency Board and under-secretary to Gov, McNutt. Mrs, Margaret Buch Headdy of Indianapolis, a me of the Governor's staff, is to suc him in these two positions.-
polis, head of crippled ¢l
, At the invitation of the Unit States Bureau of Prisons,
Klinger is to study methods used |
various types of Federal penal i tutions.
BRITISH TO BUILD