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FORECAST:

VOLUME 48—NUMBER 94

MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936

Unsettled with probably showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow; Warmer tonight; cooler tomorrow.

‘Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.

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PRICE THREE CENTS

RY DEMANDS

RAY EVIDENCE

ON GAMBLING

_ Coroner: Serves Summonses

on Sheriff's Office This Afternoon.

ASKS FOR UNDERWOOD

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Prosecutor Spencer Speeds Action in Mysterious | ‘Vagrancy’ Case.

Deputy County Coroner Mark Mercer this afternoon served two summonses on Sheriff Otto Ray to appear tomorrow morning before the Marion County Grand Jury to present evidence of alleged gambling rackets in Indianapolis. The summonses were the outgrowth of a statement purported to have been made to the sheriff by Harry V, Underwood, realty operator, whé charged he lost $60,000 to gamblers, Grand Jury Foreman William Peacock issued the summonses. The sheriff was not in his office when Mercer arrived to serve him, but his office accepted service for him. One summons ordered Sheriff Ray to appear with Underwood's purported statement at 10 a. m. tomorrow and the other ordered Ray to bring Underwood, personally, before the Grand Jury at 11 a. m. The Grand Jury! action resulted with Prosecutor Herbert Spencer, who took up the cha with the jurors. 5 t week the prosecutor had said that he would present any evidence brought to him to the grand jury but that he felt it might be better to wait for the naming of a new grand jury ox July 6.

Detained on June 15

Sheriff] Ray earlier said he intended to present the statement of Underwood to the new grand jury. Underwood was detained on vagrancy charges on June 15. He was placed in the Marion County Jail default of a $25,000 bond. Parts of Underwood’s statement, in which he charged that he had gambled in various resorts and that officers { the places t made no arrests, was released for E Fubiyasion on Jung 25 Sheriff Ray said Underwood's detention was kept secret in an effort 40 obtain reimbursement of money lost by Underwood and which the sheriff said belonged to “innocent victims.” Police Chief Morrissey, who said he was unaware of Underwood's arrest until June 25, promised to aid eriff Ray in the investigation if vited” to do so. The invitation was not extended, policé officials said. Meanwhile the United States in-

~ ternal revenue office here has been

watching the case for possible violations of the Federal income tax laws on the part of alleged gamblers.

COUNTY. GRAND JURY LIST IS ANNOUNCED |

Commissioners,

Grand jurors selected today by.

the County Jury Commissioners for the new term are Carl E. Baas, 1830

- New-st; Lyle Michael, 4127 Otter-

bein-av; Ada Lesley, R. R. 5, Box 634; Viola Raasch, 4720 E. Wash- . ington-st; Roy Babcock, 5012 Uni-_versity-pl, and Roy L. Neville, 4251 Otterbein-av. Petit: jurors are Edwin S. Knox,

R. R. 6, Box 475; Albert Reeder,

29268 College-av; Hattie C. Quack, = 1712 E. Minnesota-st; Celia Keen, 1448 Epler-av; Charles T. Agan, 1205 : “W. 36th-st; ‘Maggie Ramsey, 1256 W.

- Morris-st; ‘Samuel. E. Reeves, 709 N.

3 Drexel-av; Samuel E. Long, 1305 Ed-

wards-av; Harriet A. Acker, 3116

~ Ruckle.st; Irene M. Rassmussen,

1 N. Jefferson-av; Granville Mcey, 1223 Perry-st, and Lillian Abel, 430 S. Rural-st.

- WORKERS TO DRAFT

NEW MERIT SYSTEM

t Welfare, Unemployment Compensa-

tion Groups to Meet.

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Farley Rumors Are Loose Again, But No One Knows Just Which Job He Will Quit—If Any

BY RUTH FINNEY Times Special Writer ASHINGTON, June 29.—The thirteenth rash of tumors about James A. Farley's resignation from one office or another was running its course today. The rumors. started even before Mr. Farley took office in the Cabinet. The rate at which they have continyéd ‘makes him the most ‘“resigned” man in public life. In 1933 rumors were concerned with Farley’s resignation as New York state Democratic chairman. In 1934 they had him leaving the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. In 1935 and 1936 they have. insisted that he is re-

—| signing as Postmaster General.

Occasionally - Mr. Farley has hinted that he was going to quit as something or other. More often he has denied it. On Feb. 9, 1933, almost a month before the Roosevelt Administration office, New York papers said Mr. Farley would resign as state chairman. successor picked out. A few days later Parley made it clear he would not resign. On June 11, 1933, upstate New York Democrats raised the issue of Mr. Farley’s three jobs for the first time, but, no one took it seriously.

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Y November, Mr. Farley’s first big controversy was raging over his support of Joseph V. McKee for Mayor of New York. On Nov. 7 D. F. Cohalan, now:a member of the Al Smith walking club, said Mr. Farley had forfeited his right to the state and national leadership by supporting McKee. Early in January, 1934, stories were printed that Mr. Farley would resign his national and state polit-

ernor of New York in 1936. . On March 16, 1934, Farley himself indicated he would retire as national chairman as soon as. a successor was found, and that he would relinquish his state post in September.

They even had his!

ical offices and would run for Gov-_

James A. Farley

Y June 6, 1934, Farley S saying he intended to renin as national chairman ‘until thé primaries were over. Two weeks later he had chéinged it to read “remaining indefinitely,” and on Sept. 27 he was re-elected state chairman. On Nov. 16, Senator Arthur Vandenberg (R., Mich.) opened the Republican fire on him that has continued most of the {ime since, with a statement demanding that he resign from the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Vandenberg carried on the attack during the winter. By Feb. 12 he was proposing that Congress, by law, bar the Postmaster General from party politics. : Huey Long took up the. fight with Mr. Vandenberg, spent days reading:

charges of alleged misconduct - to the Senate, and on Feb. 22 predicted that - Mr. Farley would be ousted {rom the Cabinet. Mr. Farley was “amused.” = s t 4

N April 5 newspapers predicted that Mr. Farley would resign

"| after adjournment of Congress. 3 Huey Long renewed his demand

for an investigation of Farley a month later and on May 11 the Senate voted it down. Mr. Farley himself began talking resignation on May--25, but there was nothing definite about it, and the whole thing lapsed until Sept. 11, Wi ley would leave the Cabinet in Janu-

ceed him. These stories ‘were denied by Mr. Farley. On Oct. 21 Senator George Norris (R., Neb.) joined the outcry against the Postmaster General and called him a Mability to Roosevell. On Feb. 7, 1936, Norris had come to the conclusion that Mr. Farley ought to be ousted. But Farley announced on Feb. 28

*- | that he would direct the presidential

campaign of 1936. On March 3 inet. Rep. Lehlbach (R., N. J.) introduced a resolution last April 3 demanding that Farley resign either from the Cabinet or the nationai committee. Farley replied with | a statement, his last word on the subject to date “The only people who are concerned about my two jobs are those who would rather I didn’t hold any,” he said. “None of my friends in the Pemocratic Party nor any one interested in the success of the Roosevelt Administration is terribly exercised about how many positions I hold.” Mr. Roosevelt's last word on the subject, spoken at his press conference Friday, was a refusal to say anything until after the conventions, at least.

Bitter Campaign Over Can-Cut Issue Is Seen by Stokes.

BY THOMAS L. STOKES. Times Special Writer

PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-<The presidential campaign of 1936, which opened officially with President Roosevelt's acceptances peech and declaration of “a war for the

survival of democracy,” promises to be one of the bitterest and one of the most decisive, as far as the ‘future economy of the country is concerned, since the country was rent asunder in the sixties. This campaign involves fundamentally a conflict over states rights, a conflict between a new | Democratic Party which would broaden the powers of the Federal government — by constitutional amendment, if necessary~—to legislate directly on economic and social matters without regard to state lines, and a Republican Party which would preserve the powers of the states in such matters—also by constitutional amendment, if necessary. The issue is sharply defined despite attempts which will be made to becloud it. .

Cite Economic Slavery

Democrats, in their convention here, sought very carefully to draw another analogy with the war of the sixties in claiming that the issue today is over economic slavery to great monopolies which own the lives of workers just as the Civil War was fought over human slavery of body and soul. President Roosevelt is seeking to enlist the average individual in a crusade to finish the work of.the New Deal, in itself a mild sort of revolution, peaceful in nature, that been checked on numerous

who sit on the United States Supreme Court. Republicans will get the upper class almost to a man, the captains of finance and industry on large as

| well as small scale. Democrats seem

sssured of 4 1aTge PAT: of the mas (Turn te Page Three

fronts by the nine elderly gentlemen.

Roosevelt’s Mastery of Politics Shown in Speech

New - Dignity Seemed to Settle Over Party, Clapper Says.

(Editorial on Page 10) BY RAYMOND CLAPPER Sun Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 29.—Untii Gov. Landon comes down out of his mountain retreat and delivers his acceptance speech at Topeka, July 23, it will be impossible to’ judge the effectiveness of his appeal as against the force of President Roosevelt.

But as the Philadelphia conven- |

tion recedes into memory, no one who was ‘there will forget easily the night at Franklin Field, which revealed Roosevelt, not merely the good political showman, but a master ripened into the fullness of his powers. : It is not probable that many of us who were there shall experience anything like it again. After a week of cheap, tin-horn ballyhoo which never rose above

the level of a shoddy political war.

dance, a new spirit of dignity seemed to settle over the convention scene as it moved from the turbulent hall out into the evening calmness under the open sky. Probably 100,000 persons were there, undoubtedly the largest political audience. ever assembled in this country. In nearly 20 years of political reporiing, I have never Turn to Page Nine)

M’NUTT ‘MAY LEAD CAMPAIGN IN WEST

Governor Reveals Offer to Manage \

« Drive if Post Is Created.

Gov. McNutt revealed today that he had been offered the position of Western campaign manager for the

Democratic Party, if such a post is

created. The campaign, he said, may be conducted by a committee.

Engineer Beaten to Death By United Press NEW YORK, June 29.—Sluggers

By United Press : WASHINGTON, June 29.—An attack on spending activities of

ganized to combat depréssion as oosely-and extravagantly set 10" Sad 3¢ Max consuming 8 the ex-

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McCarl’s Term Expires; F. D. R. Action Watched

LOGAL MAN, 80, WRECK VICTIM

Injuries Received May 23 Fatal; Eight Killed

in State. i m= £2 William Qoaslapd. 80, Berwick-st, died at the City H late last night of injuries received when he ‘was. struck by a street car

Chris .Trennepohl, 59, of 1337 Barth-av, street. car motorman, told police that Geasland apparently did not see the ftreet car and stepped in front of it.. At least eight persons were killed and nearly a score were injured in traffic accidents on Hoosier highways - last week end, a survey showed today. le Funeral rites are to be held at 2 p. m. here tomorrow for Clarence Woodall, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Woodall, 313 Waisconsin-st, who was drowned in a boat-accident at London, Ky. Burial is to be in New Crown Cemetery. Young Woodall, who was suffer(Turn to Page Three)

en LIAL

“A COUPLE OF HIGHBALLS” ITY and state reports now show that liquor is a factor in from 6 to 8 per cent of all fatal motor vehicle accidents. = This does not mean necessarily

are really unk; but

involved to

when the dispatches out of | ashington asserted that Mr. Fare

ary and Frank Walker would suc-|

he denied he was leaving the Cab-.

disgruntl 4 {half they. have of 16 Nu

at Chester-av and Washington-st. 1 May 23. .

Warp the/|

Tomorrow’s Meeting Likely to Be Most Important in: Its History.

DECISIVE VERDICT SEEN

Inability to Protect Smaller Members May Bring Drastic Change.

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 29.—This week’s meeting of the League of Nations at Geneva likely will be the most important in its history. Its life is at stake. It may witness the definite abandonment of the whole post-war system of collective security, as now organized, and the birth of Pty plan based on regional pacts and graduated world responsibility. It also may pave the way for an American League of Nations, composed of the 21 republics of the Western Hemisphere and, possibly, eventually Canada. This group would safeguard its own peace but co-operate, to a. certain agreed

. minimum, with the reconstructed

Geneva, league. Assembly to Take Stock

Tomorrow the assembly is to take stock of the failure to halt the ItaloEthiopian war, the collapse of sanctions against Italy and to consider

the status of Haile Selassie, now de- / I personally to plead his nation’s

prived of his country, The verdict can only be one thing: The League has failed to prevent the swallowing of a small member by a larger one and there is nothing it can do about it—unless the League, as such, is willing to go to war with Italy; which it isn’t. “Such a verdict can not be other

than decisive, insofar as the present

League is concerned. Only sweeping reform in line with world conditions can save its life. And that is exactly what Britain, France and other members propose to bring up this week. ‘

Small Nations Alarmed

The small nations are particulatly |’

ed. For a decade and a ope of security on. Geneva. - nable to defend themselves against far mightier aggressors, they have hailed the League as their savior. Today they stand disillusioned

and alarmed. First they saw Japan,

one of the most potent members of

the League, invade helpless China, |

also. a member, and annex Manchuria and Jehol. Nothing was done about it. Next, powerful Italy swallowed Ethiopia without any effective opposition from the League. ‘So today the small nations are saying that if that is the best the League can do for them, one of two things will have to be done: Either the Geneva body must undergo a reorganization which will make it work, or they will return perforce to the old-fashioned system of allies and coalitions. Latin American republics, for the most part, belong to the category of the small and weak. Already, therefore, ‘Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Argentine, Mexico, Chile, Brazil and others either have quit the

. League Or are ihreatening to. do so.

ITALY ASKS TO HAVE

VERDICT CT RESCINDED |

Ready to Return to Lea to League if Blame Is Removed, Sanctions Lifted. By United Press ROME, June 29.—Italy today was ready to return to active participation in European affairs if the League of Nations’ Assembly, scheduled to meet in Geneva tomorrow, lifts sanctions and rescinds its verdict branding Italy the aggressor in the war with Ethiopia. A foreign office. memorandum, slated for publication today, was reported to argue that the Ethiopian government is non-existent and that the Ethiopian AB people have repudiated Emperor Haile Selassie.

Fall Off Porch Fatal. FORT WAYNE, Ind. June 29.— Mrs. Hannah Shearer, 77, Fort Wayne, died heer last night of a fractured skull suffered when she fell “iy the back porch of her:

home.

FIGHTS FOR CROWN.

By United Press GENEVA, June 29 —Prospects -for.a tame, routine League of Nations assembly tomorrow vanished today when Emperor Haile Selassie (above) indicated he would appear

cause.

JOHNS RESIGNS

PARTY POSITION

Suggests That Di Dick Heller Be Named Secretary of Committee. Relih L Johns today resigned as

secretary - of - the. Democratic State Central Committee. The resigna- |:

tion was accepted by Omer 8. Jack-

son, committee chairman. _ Mr. Jackson refused to comment.

on the suggestion in Mr. Johns’ letter that Dick Heller, campaign manager for Lieut. Gov. Clifford Townsend, Democratic gubernatorial nominee, be named to succeed him. The chairman also declined to say when the state committee would be called into session to name a SUCCESSOr. Mr. Johns’ letter follows: “With a most important campaign about to begin-in the state, I believe that its direction should be in the hands of the man best fitted tb carry it forward to a suc(Turn to Page Three)

BLACK LEGION ANGLE STUDIED IN SLAYING

Name of Cult Written With

Lipstick on Mirror. By United Press CHICAGO, June 29.—A sleepy boy ran into a hotel lobby early today and sobbed out a story of a Negro or man who beat his mother A death and then scrawled “Black Legion” in lipstick on a mirror. The victim was Mrs. Florence Castle, pretty 25-year-old divorcee and night club hostess. : Her son, James, 7, awoke in the ted hotel room to see the intruder “hitting mother about the ears” with a brick, questioned the man, and then lapsed back to sleep partly from weariness and partly from paralyzing fear. Capt. William O’Brien of the East Chicago police district said he was convinced that neither the Black

Legion nor a Negro was involved, |

but that some one jealous of Mrs. |’ Castle had killed her and left de-

ceptive ‘clews. Police are seeking her

former ‘husband.

Veterans Pay. old Debts

$100,000,

000 IN

CROPS RAVAGED; STATE RAIN DU

Showers Tonight, Tomorrow * Expected to End 26Day Drought.

WHEAT CROP IS ‘GOOD’

Threshing Started 10 Days Early in State; Two Overcome.

Rain that may end the drought and save some of the parched crops over the state was forecast today by J. H. Armington, U. S.. weather observer, as probable tonight

or tomorrow.

Showers and thunderstorms were headed toward Indiana today from the northeast where precipitation was reported during the week-end, Mr. Armington said. The rainfall deficiency in Marion County since Jan. 1 was recorded as 5.85 inches as Indianapolis faced its twenty-sixth day of drought today. Mere traces of rain were reported several days last week but no precipitation was enough..for official recording, Mr. Armington said. Wheat Crop Fine

Working under a blazing sun, Indiana wheat farmers today were threshing what is considered an exceptionally fine wheat crop. Wheat prices are ranging higher than last year. Meanwhile, the long June droit is withering the oats crop and endangering corn and pasture land. “In summing up the wheat crop condition in Indiana,” M. D. Guild, Farmers National Grain Corp. assistant manager, said, “there is every reason to expect an average (Turn to Page Three)

STEEL SALES SEND

PRICES DOWA DOWNWARD

| hoppers—~was most serious in

Market regularly Lower; «Chrysler Up 2%.

By United Press NEW YORK, June ,29.—Resumption of selling in steel shares that sent prices down fractions to more than a point turned the stock market irregularly lower early this afternoon. : Automobile issues, early strong spots, declined from their highs but retained portions of their gain. Chrysler, which- made a new high since 1929 just under 113, declined to 111%, still 25% over Saturday's close... General Motors held at 67%, up %. Some of the motor accessory issues also were higher. Coppers registered small gains. Mercantiles also were firm. Trading in the steels’ as well as in other sections. of the market was. dull.

HOGS GAIN 10 CEATS AT STOCKYARDS HERE

Price of $11.10 for Choice Weights , Highest Since April 18.

Swine prices at the Indianapolis Union Stockyards today continued the upward swing which marked trading last: week. Values were mostly 10 cents higher than Saturday’s best quotations. The moderate rise today carried the top price for good 2d choice weights up to $11.10, the highest paid for any classes of hogs since April 18 when top was $11.15. The highest price established this year was $11.30 on Feb. 18.

INCREASE FORECAST IN PIG CROP OF U. S.

29 Per Cent Rise in Spring Sea- | soon ‘ sons Predicted. By United Press WASHINGTON, June 29.—The

Sun, Insects Blamed for

Big Loss Felt in 18 States.

MOISTURE IS PROMISED

Menace Spreads Across Farm Section in Triangle Shape.

(Drought Relief lief Plans, Page 3) ht. 1936. by United Pre

ICAGO, June 29.— ria million dollars’ worth of crops lay ravaged by ine sects and withered by & scorching sun today in the nation’s agricultural Northe west.’ A survey disclosed plague and drought damage in 18 states.

Rain fell in scattered sections over the week-end, and more was proms ised this.week. But the results of the rains were problematical. In most, sections it was feared they came too late, or were too light save dried-up crops, or kill hordes of insects which ha stripped leaves from stalks and lefe fields of barren stubble. The double-edged menace spread across the agricultural section the shape of a triangle bordered by the Ohio and Missouri Rivers the Canadian border, the su showed. It. reached south into Oklahoma, Kentucky, Arkansas and Mjssissippl, and West to the Rocke

“Heavy losses resulted from drought in the southeast. However, recen#

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drought greatly reduced the insect pest menace. The central part: Canada’s wheat belt likewise sufs= feted” from ® drought which has beén: alleviated recently. . 7 Most Serious in Iowa It remained to the Northwest fight off grasshoppers and scourges and literally pray for rain, The insect menace—mostly

Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Oklahoma. Drought sections ‘spotted the region ‘from Ohio to the Rockies. re For nearly two months, the Dakotas have ‘had only a few light showers insufficient for crops. Ine diana has been dry almost a month. Rainfall in eastern ‘Wyoming and north and eastern Colorado has been one-third of normal for the last three months. Wheat on the Montana plains grew a food high and withered. Farmers reported there was nob enough of it left “to hide a jack rabbit.” Places where wheat ordis rarily is waist hight at this time © year are barren. Stockmen shipped their ca outside the stricken areas at spee cially reduced rates to provide feed. Farmers in other sections had provide feed for livestock when puss ture land burned out. 2 The major grasshopper invasion

tory pers flew hundreds of miles Kansas to 50 western Iowa counties, where they destroyed most of the small grain, alfdlfa and corn. ‘Hoppers Hard to Kin Grasshoppers are harder to . than most pests. Only the heaviest rains: will drown them. When heat becomes too intense, they rise into the air to cool off. 2 A state-by-state survey of t stricken sections: ov Missouri Grasshoppers haye | vaded 110 counties. ; Iowa — G stroyed | a

50 counties. : Dako Wheat crop burned in si t southeast South D orth, Dakota critically burned. bagging ge fui “Ran ‘in both states ship livestock to other sections or

at a : Unless good rains co , Some crops may not even

potatoes berry fruits crops may be ¢ 50 per cent. Pasture ‘condi