Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 June 1936 — Page 3

iN; LEMKE COUGHLIN PARTY: STATE DELEGATES AT ODDS

* “Not Disturbed,” Says Farley on Eve of Convention in Philadelphia.

BY LYLE C. WILSON ° United Press Staff Correspondent

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.

~—Left wing leaders rallied radicals today to bolt the New Deal on the eve of the Democratic national convention which already is boycotted by

a group of prominent con-

servative Democrats.

Chairman James A. Farley of the Pemocratic National Committee was calm.

“We are not disturbed,” he told’

questioners, “by third party movements.” Rep. Wiliam Lemke, a NonPartisan League Republican from North Dakota, and Father Charles E. Coughlin emerged last night as the leaders of a long-promised third “party movement. It is designed to wean a fringe of radical voters from President Roosevelt. Father Coughlin, whose National Union for Social Justice, has had

varied success in congresional pri-.

maries, broadcast last night his indorsement of Rep. Lemke, who announced his presidential candidacy as head of the Union Party of the United States ticket. Thomas Charles O'Brien of Boston is the Union Party vice presidential candidate.

Aimed at G. O. P. Also

Father Coughlin did not hesitate. Speaking last night in New York City, he indorsed Mr. Lemke and said the Union Party would file in each of the 48 states. His challenge was aimed equally at the Repub- . lican and Democratic Parties. He denounced the Republican platform adopted in Cleveland last week and said the Democratic platform was discredited before publication. Practical politicians inclined today to consider the Lemke-Coughlin combination of some importance if the 1936 presidential campaign develops into a close race. Although still lacking the indorsement of the Townsend pension followers and thel eaders of what is left of Huey Long's “share-our-wealth” brigade, the Union Party might be able in somes tates to shave from Roosevelt totals the few thousands of votes necessary to deliver vital electoral votes to the Republican ticket headed by Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas.

Hope for La Follette Aid

There was general agreement that the New Deal would be more likely than the G. O. P. to .provide recruits for Rep. Lemke and Father Coughlin. New Dealers will not be upset about third party movements, however, unless there is a coalition of minority groups in opposition to Mr. Roosevelt. New Dealers are confident now that they will have election day support of the La Follette Progressive Party, which is dominant in Wisconsin, and of Gov. Floyd B. Olson’s Minnesota FarmerLaborites. Any movement in Wisconsin or Minnesota to organize against Mr. Roosevelt in the presidential campaign would be disturbing to Mr. Farley and other New Deal strate-

gists Conservative Bolt Discounted

The conservative bolt has been discounted and is no more alarming the New Deal command today than some months ago. Such past-potent Democrats as Alfred E. Smith, John J. Raskob, James A. Reed and Joseph B. Ely will not support Mr. Roosevelt, but. they were counted out long ago. New Dealers are in control of the convention which will convene here Tuesday. Party bigwigs are arriving on every train. Hotels are filling and streets are gay with red, white and blue signs of welcome. There may be a skirmish over abrogation of the rule requiring a two-thirds nominating majority and dispute over the platform is not unlikely.

But the big business of the con-.

vention will be renomination of Mr. Roosevelt and Vice President John N. Garner. Mr. Farley is betting there will not be a dissenting vote on that.

RAINBOW VETERANS OF STATE CONVENE

Luncheon Opens Eighth Annual Parley Here Today.

Indiana Rainbow Division veterans were registering at tHe Washington today for their eighth annual state convention. A luncheon , at noon was to be the first of a series of gatherings, with informal reunions of units of the One hundred fiftieth Field Artillery scheduled for this afternoon. : Election of state officers and appointment of delegates to the national convention in Kansas City, July 13 to 15, are to be held at a business meeting at 4 this afternoon. Col. Ruby D. Garrett, Kansas City. national president of the Rainbow Division, is to be principal speaker at the convention dinner at 6:30 tonight. Maj. Sidney S. Miller, Indianapolis, is to be toastmaster.

JOINS LANDON STAFF

E. Ross Bartley Is Native Hoosier and IL U. Graduate. By United Press . : CHICAGO, Ill, June 20.—E. Ross

Attempt to Put Coy on Platform Committee Causes Dispute.

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BY DANIEL M. KIDNEY. Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, June’ 20. —Although Gov. McNutt already has been chosen delegation chairman, the possibility of a contest over Indiana’s representative on the platform committee at the national Democratic convention

‘was reported here today.

An attempt to give Wayne Coy, state WPA director and an administration state convention manager, the post- failed at the delegation

' meeting in Indianapolis.

His nomination by Mrs. Emery Scholl, state vice chairman, was considered an affront to both Senators Frederick VanNuys and Sherman Minton, according to reports here. So the matter was put off until the delegation meets at Philadelphia. Although he issued the customary statement regarding “party loyalty” upon his return here, Senator VanNuys is said to resent bitterly the state convention tactics which caused the Marion County delegation to hold up the convention 45 minutes.

VanNuys May Face Fight

Having fought the McNutt leadership three times and been defeated each time, it is reported that Senator VanNuys may face opposition for his own seat two years from now, : Most prominently mentioned at this time as a candidate with possible McNutt organzation backing is Samuel Jackson, Fort Wayne attorney and state convention chairman. Another report here is that the McNutt organization may try to oust R. Earl Peters from his post as Federal Housing Administrator in Indiana. How Mr. Peters failed to be considered by the Allen County delegation as a national convention delegate is cited as the “horrible example” of how the organzation handles its foes. ©

McNutt Believed ‘Forgiven’

Mr. Peters is credited here as still having friendly support of Postmaster General James A. Farley, who in his role of national chairman, credits Mr. Peters with being “for F. D. R. before Chicago.” The Governor, however, is said to have been fully forgiven for the Chicago convention by President Roosevelt himself. How he fares at Philadelphia may be indicative, it is predicted. Effort is expected to be made to give -the Hoosier chief executive some chance to place himself before the delegates with an eye to 1940. Still in the offing is the plan to

put Senator Minton on the Fed-!

eral bench and give the Governor the Senate seat in the interim.

INDIANA AAA CHECKS ALL UNDER $10,000

Report Made to Senate ‘by Secretary Wallace.

Times Special \ WASHINGTON, June 20.—There were no , payments of $10,000 or more in Indiana under any of the AAA programs, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace's report to the Senate disclosed today. The same was true in Illinois. In Kentucky, there was one payment of $14970 to R." R. Tipton, Fulton, for the 1935 cotton program. ! Included in the multiple land owners who reported 150 or more farms under AAA contracts in 19341935 were the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., Fort Wayne; and the State Life Insurance Co., Indianapolis. Their total payments may have ' exceeded $10,000, Mr. Wallace reported. The Fort Wayne tompany had corn-hog contracts on 194 farms and cotton contracts on 207 farms in 1934, the report showed. In 1935, they had 175 corn-hog contracts and one other. In 1934, the Indianapolis company had 156 corn-hog, 272 cotton and one tobacco contract. In 1935, they had five corn-hog contracts and five others.

GIVEN 1-5 YEARS ON SYNDICALISM CHARGE

Chicago Man Convicted of Urging Seizure of Government. By United Press : "ANGOLA, Ind, June 20.—Paul Butasch, 48, Chicago, was under sentence of 1 to 5 years in the Indiana State Prison today after his conviction in Steuben Circuit Court on charges of criminal syndicalism. A jury of four women and eight men found the defendant guilty of advocating seizure of the government and industry by workers, by forceful methods if necessary. . Butasch was accused by students of Tri-State College of advocating communistic doctrine and of urging

overthrow of the government at a}:

meeting attended by students and several business men.’

| SAFETY LEADERS NAMED

Lazy river , . . slow river .

- flowing over the dam.

. . waiting for rain—that was White River today as the excessive dry weather made the basin below the Emrichsville bridge just a good hog wallow. A few ponds, as shown above, dotted the river bed, with little water

LOUIS CAN TAKE T, JOE LEARNS

Schmeling Experience Was Too Much for Negro, Williams Says.

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cord sounded. Strangely the rasping notes were uttered by two of Louis’ own color. Jack Johnson argued he wasn’t beating anybody; that the other fellows were beating themselves. Harry Wills warned he carried his left guard too low, a dangerous thing to do against a right-hand puncher. But why pay any attention to men like Johnson and Wills! They were envious Negroes. One had been a discredited champion. The other never had made the

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Max Figured to Win

And so, day by day, Louis the superman took on added stature, and finally when he was matched to meet Schmeling, whose best fighting days were known to be behind him and who was not a great heavyweight even at his peak, the general sense was that another public slaughter would take place. Now how can men who are supposed to know prize fighting be so wrong? And remembef, not only the sports writers, but men who have been identified with the ring professionally for years. carried the Louis torch high with eager hands. But how wrong everybody was! Schmeling’s victory was no upset in sctualily, He really figured to

in. is so very, very easy to look back on a fight and see things that didn’t seem to be there before, or, at the most, didn’t seem to be important. Johnson was as right as rain; Louis’s opponents had been beating themselves. Wills never said a truer thing—“Louis is wide open for a right hand.” In substance, this explains “the greatest upset, etc.” Schmeling Wasn't Afraid

For the first time since he has been a top flight performer, the young Detroit Negro met a man who was unafraid; for the first time he met a man who. was not only brave enough, but quite willing to exchange punches with him; for the first time he met a man "who stood in front of him and actually Jaughed at his supposed invincibily All of this was very disconcerting to a young man who had grown accustomed to seeing his opponents quake in their boots and go sprawling in the resin at the firsteblast of powder from his gloves. He didn’t know what to make of it. He hadn’t been fighting long enough to develop resourcefulness. In the crisis, he didn’t have what Schmeling had; he didn’t have experience. And so there wasn’t much he could do but stand up and take it. To his praise it must be said that he tock it gallantly. He took one of the worst beatings any heavyweight ever suffered. He was knocked down in the fourth round. Two other times the bell saved him. When he finally collapsed in the twelfth, his strength and endurance completely spent, the left side of his face was as big as a melon. If nothing else, he demonstrated beyond any further doubt that he can take it as well as any fighter that ever pulled on the gloves. It Was a Real Fight Schmeling, his jowls bedded down in blue-black bristles, was composed as he sat in the corner waiting for the bell. Louis, as usual, was in-

over-confident. But he had always been like this. There was no hint in the zephyrlike start of the fierce tornado that was soon to break over the green

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MEETING, NEAR END |

Business Sessions Concluded; Camp Services Close Tomorrow. Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 20.—Business sessions of the ministerial assembly of the Church of God ended here yesterday when a committee was named to study church finances. A budget of $165,000 for the year

| was approved. The sessions - were

held in connection with the international camp meeting which is to close tomorrow. x Young people attending the meeting circulated anti-war petitions pledging support in a move for world peace. Their convention is to be held in Los Angeles in August.

M. E. MINISTERS TO BE ASSIGNED

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Closing Sessions of Northwestern Conference Due Tomorrow.

Times Special BATTLE GROUND, Ind. June 20.—Pastors are to be assigned for the coming year at the Northwestern Methodist Episcopal Conference in closing sessions here tomorrow. Scoring Democratic state administration claims that the control of liquor has been satisfactory, L. E. York, Indian®& Anti-Saloon League superintendent, spoke yesterday. The Rev. Claude Young was reelected president of the Battle Ground assembly and Robert Wise, Valparaiso, was named head of the layman’s conference. Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, former De Pauw University president and new ‘Methodist bishop at Omaha, Neb., addressed the meeting yesterday. Other officers elected included the Rev. H. P. Ivey of Crawfordsville, first vice president; Mr. Wise, second vice president; the Rev. H. E. Moore of Crawfordsville, secretary, and the Rev. V. V. Hackley of South Bend, treasurer.

COURT TO SENTENCE HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER

Shelby Spencer, 38, Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter.

Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., June 20.—Shelby Spencer, 38, Indianapolis, was to be sentenced in Hendrick Circuit Court here today upon his guilty plea to charges of involuntary manslaughter. terday.

Spencer was arrested near Mt. |

Meridian after Harve B. Chinn, state highway surveyor, was killed by a hit-run driver Thursday. Mr. Chinn, who was 36, is survived by the widow and two children. He had been a faculty mem-

ber at Rose Polytechnical Institute,

Terre Haute, and was working on the highway job during summer vacation.

DRAGGED IN ALLEY BY RUNAWAY HORSES

City Employe Caught in Harness as Team, Breaks Loose A runaway team of city-owned horses dragged a sanitary department employe half a block and then raced eight blocks down New Yorkst before being caught today. Frightened when a singletre hit hem o nthe legs, the horses jerked away. Charles Bradford, 52, of 1514 E-18th-st, city employe, was caught dragged

‘He was arraigned yes-|

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(CITY ADVANCING.

SURVEY SHOKS

Lowly Potato Is Leading in

Rise; Cost Triples ~~ Last Years.

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$215 a Damper today against $1 In é

> NS ntost and cabbage lovers are to taper off on their

beginning Ja favorite dish. The lowly. cabbage | Xi

. | has soared from 65 cents a bushel

. No relief for river conditions or Marion Coin Crops was seen today by United States Meteorologist J. H. Armington as he forecast “fair

and cooler” for tomorrow.

State streams and farms also were reported as suffering from the dry spell. No rains were reported Yesterday in the state as the

drought Strengiiened its grip.

SUMMER OPENS

Sun to Reach Farthest Northern Point at That Time.

Summer, the season of sunburn,|

moonlight canoe rides and poison ivy, officially arrives in Indianapolis at 8:22 tomorrow morning, just in time to greet early church-goers. At that time, scientists say, the sun will be at the summer solstice. It has been moving northward in the sky since last December, and will reach its farthest northern point tomorrow, The day will be the longest and the sun will be highest at noon tomorrow - for northern countries. Within the Arctic Circle it will not | set’at all. Because of the sun’s height, its rays fall more directly, and are more concentrated. This, coupled with the fact that it shines for a longer time, gives the northern hemisphere warm weather in the summer. For the “down under” countries, like Australia and South Africa, the sun is at its lowest point fér the year. It is the shortest day for peo-

ple in the southern hemisphere, and!

they are busy putting in coal for the winter. 3

MRS. DIONNE MAY NOT CALL DOCTOR Friends - Believe She Will Follow Old Custom.

By United Press

CALLANDER, Ontario, June 20.—,

Women who have been close friends of Mrs. Elzire Dionne in ‘this back-

wqods community expressed the conviction today that she intends to undergo a momentarily expected childbirth without a physician. The © French-Canadian who know the mother of the quintuplets best, consider rumors that Mrs. Dionne has gone. secretly to a hospital ridiculous. ‘Belief that the young mother intends to call only a midwife persisted in the face of the expressed fear of her father, M. Legros, that another multiple birth would endanger her life.

Three of Mrs. Dionne’s’ first six

children were born without aid of a physician, and Dr. Allen Roy Dafoe was not called to deliver the quintuplets until it became apparent to Oliva Dionne that his wife was in danger.

DR. OLIVER W. GREER | RESIGNS HEALTH JOB

Physician Quits City Office to Take

Up Public Welfare Duties.

Dr. Oliver W. Greer, recently appointed state director of the crippled children’s service under the Public Welfare Act, today had resigned as a physician in the nutrition division, City Health Department. Mrs. Rachel Hesslinger, of the dental division, was transferred as

a nurse to the child hygiene division |

v resigned. ; succeeded by Mrs. J. E. Stewart. James Funkhauser was appointed

‘night clerk in the health office.

A LEGAL RESERVE MUTUAL COMPANY ORGANIZED IN 1905.

8:22 TOMORROW!

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j= OFFICERS ARE NAMED

BY INDIANA MILLERS

Hadley G. Clark of Cambridge City Is Elected President.

Hadley G. Clark, Cambridge City, today was president of the Indiana Millers’ Association, succeeding No-

land C. Wright, Anderson. Officers were elected yesterday at the annual meeting in the Severin. Mr. Wright was named chairman of the advisory -council. Other officers are R. S. Robertson, Brownstown, vice president, and W. C. Thomas, Marion, re-elected secretary-treasurer. Directors are Soren Jacobson, Young America; F. J. Snider, Connersville; George Rinkel, Howe, and Charles Nunn, Evansville S. R. Harrell, Indianapolis, vice president of the Acme-Evans Milling Co, and J. L. Blish, Seymour, were named members of the advisory council, to serve with Mr. Wright.

TEMPORARY INSANITY BLAMED IN SLAYINGS

Professor's Wife Became Momentarily Unbalanced, Is Theory.

By United Press PITTSBURGH, June 20. — From the complete lack of clews or motives in the {triple slaying of Mrs. Eleanor Feely, 30, wife of a University of Pittsburgh physical education professor; and her two children, emerged one theory, of the many, today, almost a stranger to criminal records. ‘Opinion was strengthening that Mrs. Peely, who devoted her time to her husand’ and two small children, and “dabbled” in the study of law, became momentarily insane, killed her children and herself. There wa sno evidence that an outsider entered the apartment. Prof. Martin J. Feely, who returned late yesterday from the summer camp he conducts near Pottersville, N. J., and théir friends, revealed a home-life approximating the ideal.

HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT

- Bicyclist Badly Hurt; Door Handle Is Only Clew.

A broken, auto door handle was the only clew today to the hit-run driver who critically injured Glen Wadsworth, 19, Castleton, as the youth was riding a bicycle on Alli-sonville-rd near 72d-st last night.

a year ago to $1.60 a bushei today. Now is the time to develop an appetite for onions, it seem the Texas Bermudas. can be had for around $138 a4 bag against $2 to $325 in 1935. Caulifiower, rhubarb, spinach, radishes and cucumbers also are cheaper. Broccoli, however, is up 50 cents for a one-half bushel basket over last year. Bananas, peaches and strawberries. practicaily are unchanged compared to last year.

String Beans Move Up The mint julep mixers may find joy in the fact that a dozen bunches

bring only 50 cents today against 75 |

cents after last year's Kentucky Derby. Tomatoes are at even keel this June with former prices, while string beans, $135 a hamper in 1935, now sell for $1.75. Raspberries and gooseberries are up $1 a crate. Lettuce is lower, but peas that sold for $1.25 a bushel, have climbed to $2.25.

Butter Prices Advances

A slice of bread is spread today with 32:=cent butter that last year

sold for 25 cents a pound. Limbyrger cheese has advanced 2 to 3 cents a pound. But there’s one dish the housewife can bank on to stay steady on the grocery budget even if it does a lot of squirming on a fork. That’s_spaghetti. The same 20-pound box that sold for $1.65 in June, 1935, brings a $1.65 today. As for the sprig that completes a dish of spaghetti, garlic, it is listed at 15 cents a pound, the same as last year.

$348,500 IN JOB INSURANCE FUND

Reports of 4651 Employers Show Job Gain of 2.06 Per Cent.

" With deadline for filing state unemployment compensation reports for May ending today, Clarence A. Jackson, unemployment compensation director, announced that April reports showed 4651 employers had contributed: a total of $548,500 to a fund for vwhemployed workers. "Indiana conéerns employing eight or more persons during 20 weeks of 1935 or 1936 must file reports. “Employers filing reports showed a gain in employes of 2.06 per cent during April,” Mr. Jackson said. Pay rolls subject to unemployment contributions, as shown on 4651 returns, amounted to $45,707,077. This represented an average earnings of $104.50 for each employe covered by the law, Mr. Jackson said. Benefits from the compensation fund are to be paid qualified unemployed persons after April 1, 1938. Employers who have not filed previous reports may obtain contribution blanks at local auto license branches, Mr. Jackson said. Delinquent contributions are subject to interest charges of one per cent a month from the date due.

He was sent to Methodist Hospital.

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CRACK XK GENTRAL TRAIN HITS 100 ON TRIAL TRIP

Coaches of: Streamliner Constructed in Shops at Beech Grove.

Everything in streamlined on the New York Central's new Mercury train except the drinking cups, and an inspection of the new luxurious $1,500,000 train—a triumph in mods ern design—will prove it. : Designed by Henry Dreyfuss, : known as one of the five most prome inent industrial designers in the world, the new seven-car streamse liner, coupled for the first time Thursday, pleased its engineers and builders yesterday by hitting the 100-mile-an-hour clip in a test run from Indiapapolis to Sheff, Ind, and back. The seven coaches, each complete« ly different in decoration, were built in the Big Four shops in Beech Grove. The locomotive, which are rived here Thursday, was construct= ed at the New York Central engine

shops in Albany, /N. Y.

Seventy persons, including newss paper men, photographers and many who played an important part in the construction, were on board for the first official trip.

Comfort, Utility Combined

Built with the idea that a train can be as luxurious as a private club and as comfortable as any one's live ing room without having any of its utility impaired, the Mercury is to be put in service July 15 from Detroit to Cleveland. It will cut the present time on that schedule by one hour, officials said. Without any advance publicity, crowds of interested spectators, hearing that the streamlinér would return through their towns, turned out to view it. 3 In addition to Mr. Dreyfuss, who is only 32, officials aboard d yesterday’s test included W. H. Mus= sey, New York, Pullman Car Co. re« search engines; T. V. Bukwalter, Canton, O., Timkin Roller Co. vice nr i} S. Henry, New York, Safety Car Heating and Lighting Co. vice president. Others on First Trip = Also Peter. Clark, Chicago, Pulls man Car Co. chief mechanical ene gineer; H. H. Helmbright, Cleveland, al Electric Co. railroad light ing manager;.C. F. Smith, passenger transportation superintendent, New York Central System; W. L. Lentz, New York Central motive power ens gineer; W. S. H. Hamilton, New York Central electrical engineer, and R. N. Janeway, research engis= neer. of. the Chrysler Automobile Corp.

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