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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1936. -

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LANDON ASKS STATE ACTION ON SECURITY

Amendment to Constitution of Kansas Necessary, Legislature Told.

GOVERNOR'S TALK BRIEF

Candidate Does Not Discuss Merits of Present Act, G. 0. P. Proposals.

(Text on Page 22)

By United Press ’ TOPEKA, Kan. July 7.—Gov. Alf M. Landon today asked a special session of the Kansas Legislature to draft a social security constitutional amendment that would ‘enable the state to participate in Federal aid plans of either a Democratic or Republican Administration. The Governor suggested the Assembly confine itself to drawing up “merely a grant of power.” Under provisions of the Kansas Constitution the care of aged indigent or other handicapped persons now rests upon the counties. The Republican presidential nominee called the attention of the lawmakers to “the fact that the platform of the Republican Party adopted at its national convention provides for a plan of social security different from the social security act adopted by Congress.”

Asks Amendment

“I do not deem this a fitting time,” he added, “to enter into a discussion of the relative merits of the present act and the proposals set out in the Republican platform.” Landon asked, indirectly in an amendment which virtually would divide state and local responsibility in the care of the unfortunate. The session was called so that machinery for submitting the amendment to the people could be started. “Proposed amendments will be presented to you,” Gov. Landon said in opening the session, “which, if submitted by you and adopted By the people of this state will enable the Legislature to pass laws providfoi for: the necessary social: secur- | 0 y ” “Such amendment should not, in my judgment, contain the details of a plan which may finally be adopted in this state. It should merely be a grant of power. The methods of administration have no part in the Constitution of the state and should be left to the wisdom and the sound judgment of the Legislature.”

Should Be ‘Grant of Power’

The amendment, the Governor - said, should grant the power to the state legislature to join in “any final act (of Congress) for this’ purpose as may ultimately become the settled law upon this question.” The division of power to administrate in the program should place “the burden either locally or in the state, or both, as it (the Legislature) should deem best or may be necessary in order to co-operate.” The Governor's address was brief. He turned from consideration of the social security problem to question of public building, outlining briefly several places it was needed in the state. &

Plans to Be Submitted

Plans for those: buildings, he said, would be submitted at the regular session of the legislature in January. If the lawmakers decide then to make the appropriations, “the Funds will be immediately avail- | able,” he said. | “...]I shall endeavor to see that the tax levy for. the current year is | broad enough to include this confstruction,” he added. The session apparently was ready

|to make short work of the necessary

‘proposal, then adjourn ostensibly to ‘permit the Governor's early start on his presidential campaign.

LITTLE HOPE HELD | FOR DR. CADMAN

Noted Radio 5 Clergyinan Given 1 Chance in 500 to Recover. (Picture on Page 2)

By United Press | PLATTSBURG, N. Y., July 7.—Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, the radio clergyman, has less than one chance out oy 500 to recover from an operation appendicitis, one of his physipen today.

The ald way pastor of Central Congregational Church at Brooklyn was" operated on last night for a Suptured appendix. The operation was performed by

to a hospital here from Wi

miles distant. Dr. Cadman was on a

speaking tour when stricken. Times Index

Not Bossed

By United Press CHICAGO,. July 7.—Howard Vincent O’Brien, columnist on the Chicago Daily News, published by the Republican candidate for Vice President, Frank Knox, announced Monday that he is “for” the Democratic candidate, President Roosevelt. His stand, he said, “is an emotional reaction, pure and simple.” “After all, the fellow still packs a wallop!’ And a philosophy of government is more important than a program.” O’Brien, whose column was titled “All Things Considered,” said, however, that he is “by no means ‘for’ Roosevelt’s policies assuming that he has any.” He said he believes Mr. Roosevelt “has his finger on the one basic element in government” and that he understands “the great underlying issue of our time—that mankind is struggling for establishment of an economic democ--racy.”

TALK HELD AID IN STEEL DRIVE

Lewis’ Radio Speech Adds Impetus to Organization Campaign, Claim.

(Picture, Page 3; Editorial, Cartoon, Page 14)

By United Press WASHINGTON, July 7.—Labor’s field marshals today reported fresh impetus in: their “relentless but peaceful” campaign to unionize the steel and other industries as a re-

sult of John L. Lewis’ radio appeal 'to America’s 30,000,000 unorganized

workers, Telegrams and telephone calls UnitedsMine Workers president were described by Lewis’ aids as confirming the success of his challenge to the steel industry and as paving the way for wide use of the most modern communication channels to reach workers, industrial captains and the general public. On the heels of Lewis’ explanation of the unionization plans of his committee for) industrial organization and his warning that any industrial leaders fomenting ‘ithe ruthlessness of former years” would be “brought to justice,” the center of the labor picture shifted to internal conflict within the ranks of the American: Federation of Labor. William Green, president of the A. F. of L. studied reports from union chieftains all over the country as he prepared a statement concerning the rebellion of the C. I. O.

leaders, who would organize one big

union in each industry, against the A. F. of L. policy of craft unions. Green sought a common ground for conciliation of the , dispute which threatens to split labor at the beginning of the vital drive to organize the steel, automobile, textile and rubber industries. ; The preliminary test will come this week when the A. F. of L. executive council meets Wednesday to consider proposals for suspension of the 12 unions, with 1,000,000 membership, which compromise the C. I. 0. and which pay one-third of the A. F. of L. dues. Green had intended to make his statement public this afternoon, but so voluminous was the work of preparation that he anndunced it would be delayed until tomorrow morning.

Custodian Is Selected William E. Gibson is the new City Hall head custodian, filling the vacancy created by the death of Bernard J. Kelly.

reaching the desk ‘of the powerful.

BANKS REPORT

RISE IN LOANS

AND DISCOUNTS

Increase of Nearly $3,000 000 Shown in Statements of Ten Institutions.

RESOURCES ALSO GIVEN

Situation Reflects Better Demand for Credit, Officials Say.

Ten Indianapolis Clearing House Association banks have increased their loans and discounts since last June by nearly three million dollars, a comparison of statement as of June 30 this year and June 29 last year revealed today. That increase indicates a slightly increased commercial demand for bank credit and constitutes the banking barometer on business conditions, indicating they are better, Indianapolis bankers said. Last year the 10 banks had a total of $37,413,000 in léans and discounts; this year $40,393,000.

Resources Show Rise

Total resources of the 10 banks jumped from $225,222,000 last year to $258,980,000; total deposits from $200,241,000 to $232,639,000; total United States government securities holdings from $74,100,000 to $94,821,000. These increases, bankers said, were in line with genera] banking conditions throughout the country and result from three principal fac-

tors. . They are, the inability of holders of funds to invest them satisfactorily, gold imports, and the increased purchase of Federal securities. Clearing House Association banks

are American National Bank, Bank- |

ers Trust Co. Fidelity Trust Co. Fletcher Trust Co., Tae Indiana National Bank, The Indiana Trust Co., The Merchants National Bank, The Peoples State Bank, Security Trust Co., and The Union Trust Co.

INCREASE IS SHOWN _ IN HOOSIER PHONES

6600 Gain Reported by Bell Co. for First Half of Year.

"A gain of 6600 telephones during the first six months of this year was reported today by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. A steady increase in telephones since 1933 has resulted in regaining 30 per cent of the loss suffered from 1930 to 1933, officials reported. Long-distance business also continues to show steady improvement, they said.

RUTH OWEN TO MARRY

Wedding to Bodyguard of Danish King Set for Friday, Report, By United Press LONDON, July 7. — Ruth Bryan Owen, United States Minister to Denmark, will be married Friday to Capt. Boerge Rohde, of the bodyguard of King Christian of Denmark, it was reported today by the Exchange Telegraph in a dispatch from Copenhagen. The dispatch said the ceremony would take place at the home of the bride's daughter, Mrs. Robert Leh-

mann, on Long Island.

do and Il ask to take suspects in the case back to Carroll County. Deputy Bakes told Capt. Matt Leach of the state police that he had evidence tending to show that Miller was killed six miles northeast of Carrollton, Ky. “I have several witnesses,” he said, “who reported that they heard shots at 10:30 o'clock on the night of June 11, the night before Miller was reported missing from his home.”

‘Leach to Appear in Court

Deputy Claims Fireman Was Slain in Ken tucky

State Police Informed That New Evidence Indicates Killing Took Place in Carroll County.

Carroll County (Ky.) authorities notified Indiana State Police today they had additional evidence in connection with the slaying of Harry A. Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain. D. C. Bakes, chief deputy sheriff of Carroll County, working in Indianapolis today on the case, said, “If Indiana doesn’t have enough evidence to make a murder case, we |

Miss Miller and Hicks, held by

police since last Thursday night, have not been formally charged with anything but are being held for investigation, Capt. Leach said yesterday. : Capt. Miller, Miss Miller’s brother, last was seen at his home near New Trenton, Ind., June 10. His severed head and hands were discovered in a lake near Carrollton, Ky.. June 28

IF IT AIN'T ONE THING IT’S ANOTHER!

WHAT'S THE

USE?

YER JEST KEEPIN

IT ALIVE

Yo BE NIPPED

BY TRAT

NOVEMBER ,

FROST!

CHARGES PLOT

Peats,” Williams’ Attorney, Says They Are Victims of Conspiracy.

Charges

“frame”. Harty # Peats and. En ett Joseph -Williams,. on trial for:

grocery truck driver, were made by Fae W. Patrick, their attorney, as their case opened in Criminal Court

today. . “The plot was fomented by Gerald Haygood and Frank Klize in order that they might escape jail in Hendricks County,” Mr. Patrick claimed in his opening statement. Mr. Patrick said Haygood, also under indictment in the Penny murder, was in the Marion County jail early in 1936. He was “cell boss,” the attorney claimed, and Klize, a convicted kidnaper, was his assistant. “They conspired,” Mr. Patrick charged, “to confess in the Penny case so they might be taken from Marion County Jail to Hendricks County, where the alleged ‘stoning took place. They agreed to implicate Peats and Williams on a first-degree murder charge so they would be unable to give d and would be forced to stay in jail.” They consp to ask $1000 each from Local 135," Teamster’s and Chauffeurs Union, of which Peats was business manager and Williams recording secretary, Mr. . Patrick charged. He also alleged that Mrs.

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HOOSIER BREWERY OFFIGER DIES AT 37

Oscar -Baur Jr. Dead After Short lliness.

Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind, July T— Oscar Baur Jr., vice president of the Terre Haute Brewing Co., died tocay after a short illness. He was 37. A former resident of Indianapolis where he was associated with the Liquid Carbonic Co., Mr. Baur came here in October,” 1934, father in establishment and promotion of the brewery. In addition to his father, he is survived by a stepmother, Mrs. Lillith Baur, and a halfbrother, Edward Baur, and an uncle, Jacob

Baur, all of Terre Haute.

T0 ‘FRAME 2

of a conspiracy to

5 2 AR

the fatal stoning of John M. Penny,

Anna Haygood, Gerald Haygood’s.

to aid his}

NATIONALS HOLD LEAD

All-Stars From Senior Loop Take ~ Four-Run Edge.

(Detail Play, Page 18)

By United Press The National League All-Stars

held a 4-to-0 lead over the American League stars at the end of the sixth inning of their game at Boston today.

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CHICAGO GRAIN

MARKET ERRATIC

Wheat Off 11, Cents After Sharp Rally Opens Day’s Trading. By United Press

~ CHICAGO, July 7—After a sharp in wheat prices. in the open- |

{ing “minutes, ‘trading becamé mixed.

and futures fluctuated erratically on the Chicago Board of Trade today in a nervous market. : At the end wheat was off % to 1% cents, July $1.05%; corn was up

: | 25% to 3% cents, July 783 cent; oats

were off % to up J cent, July 35%. Responding {to a report that there was little hope for a spring wheat crop in the American northwest, traders bought heavily in the operiing minutes and wheat futures rocketed in the pit. However, profit

© | taking and reports of good rains in

NIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY EARLY two-thirds of the V fatal motor car accidents take place between 6 p. m. and 6 a.m. Yet traffic for that 12-hour period is only about one-third of the 24-hour total. Cool nerves are demanded for night driving. The four-lane roadway very likely means that double the usual number of flashing headlamps must be. gauged and passed safely. ‘The speed with which some of these rushing demons ap -

Marion County Traffic Deaths

Year to Date—

proach is terrifying. Keep well to the right side of the road, and be continually on the lookout for the slow car ahead. There may be a stalled car on the pavement, and you may not have even the warning of a single small tail-light. Crashes occur from this cause all too frequently. Look carefully also for the thoughtless rural walker, who may be ping ahead of you down your own (which is his wrong)’ side of the road. You may be able to discern oniy the dimmest outline before you have to swerve suddenly to avoid him. And if you have to stop for a puncture, or for any other Rouble,

possible. ‘There is the only safety.

pull entirely off the roadway if

parts of the dry Canadian spring wheat territory brought a decline in the latter part of the sessicn. The situation in the stricken northwest spring wheat area was reported worse than in 1934 and caused. considerable interest in the market. Minneapolis wheat market opened the 5-cent limit higher but reacted later as did the Kansas City market. Weakness shown at Winnipeg in the closing minutes of trade had a depressing effect on trade here. Corn prices bounded the full 4cent limit in the opening minutes of trade as a result of reports of hot dry weather over the corn belt in general. Trading came to a close as all futures reached new high levels for the season. Oats followed the trend of corn in a fairly active market. Rye futures firmed under scattered buying. Lard eased.

DANZIG BREAKS OFF LEAGUE SUPERVISION

Nazi Movement for Reunion With Germany Is Emphasized. By United Press - DANZIG, July 7—Danzig- announced officially today its severance of relations with the League of Nations, which has been nominal guardian of the free city after it was ted from Germany at the end of the World War. It was announced that the senate of the free city and pubhe officials henceforth would Sean is League high commissioner here, and would have no official dealings with him.

The Nazi movement for reunion|

with Germany thus was emphasized. :

MILK PRICE HIKE 1S SOUGHT HER DROUGHT HORS

THE SITUATION ay A GLANCE

surpassed crop failure.

degrees.

and save crops and livestock.

“worse than 1934.”

Disaster in Sight as Sun Continues to Burn Up Grain Fields.

By United Press CHICAGO, July 7.—Searing heat spread disaster over an ever-widening area of the drought-ravaged Midwest today. With no rain in sight and thousands of acres of once-fertile farm land already blackened in the Dakotas, Montana. Wyoming and parts of Minnesota, grain prices soared on American exchanges. “No relief” was the discouraging weather forecast in most. sections. For the fourth consecutive day temperatures soared above 100 in

the great plains area. It was “ideal” 5 Sed weather and destruc-

‘Chicago swarms of sand flies impeded traffic. . . Gaunt, thirsty cattle ate dry stubble. Farm wells. went dry and even some towns were threatened with water shortages.

Dakota Corn Turns White

In the worst area of (the Dakotas, where farmers two weeks ago saw their wheat and small grains burned out, corn turned white and was beyond salvation. In other sections the corn crop may be saved. The burning menace spread to some of the green pastures in Wisconsin’s dairyland. “The country’s burning up,” reported John Gurwell, United Press manager at Shenandoah, Ia., after returning from an inspection trip along the Missouri River. “It was bad last week,” Gurwell said, “but now the pastures are black. Small grain, with the exception of wheat is burned out. Even the corn which can withstand a little hot weather is seared white.”

Appeal to Government

The Minnesota Farm Holiday Association appealed to the government to abandon its crop reduction program immediately. “Full production should be encouraged and the farm made a storage place if production ever exceeds consumption,” the association said. At McIntosh, S. D., the mercury soared again toward the 114.5 mark it reached yesterday—a 173-degree increase over the all-time low of 58.8 degrees below zero recorded last winter. “ Townspeople in the Dakoias rationed available water to save trees, remembering that thousands burned up in the 1934 drought. Some of the hottest places today: Bismarck, N. D.; 114. Moorhead, Minn, 114. Devil's Lake, N. D, 112. Huron, S. D., 106. Scattered local rains and a barrage of damaging hail stones fell in Indiana, but that state too feared for its corn crop: with temperatures well above 100. i’ Three forest fires raged in the

Charlie Makes No Bones About Leaving This Attic

BY JOE COLLIER IP IN a W. Roach-st attic, 11-

| Sallis, in the dead of yesterday"

afternoon, met a skeleton per-

. On the eve of moving, Charles Milton Sallia, father of the discoverer, tried to crawl into the attic through a ceiling hole and ~ found that either he was too large or the hole tao small He coulgn'y

“But what's this, father?” asked |

Charles Edward after he had Bejpen his sisters. He passed it

That” said the Sather; “looks

sects added tothe havoc. In

By United Press Milk price increase asked by Indianapolis Gives drought tightens grip; temperature reads 100 at 1 p. m. Northwest agricultural regions appear doomed to un=

Burning sun shrivels crops; insect plagues complete the. havoc; winter wheat crop almost entirely destroyed In : Northwest; part of corn crop may be saved. More than 100,000 farm families left destitute. Cattle and other livestock dying by thousands of hungep and thirst; pastures are shriveled, water holes dried up, Temperatures soar to record highs of 118 and 119

Grain prices soar on commodity markets; wheat, corn. and oats become almost priceless. | Administration leaders in Washington prepare pum millions of dollars into stricken regions to relieve distr

Department of Agriculture officials report drought

Increase, if Granted, Woul Mean One Cent More to Consumers.

HOURLY TEMPERATURES Midnight 83 7a m.. 7 a. m... 81 $a m.. 8 a. m.. 79 9 a m.. a. m.. 78 10am, ... a. m... 76 lam. ... 97 a. m., 75 12noon .. 98 ; a, m... 76 1p.m. «.. 1000

The drought threatened In dianapolis’ family purse ‘this afternoon, when the Sti Milk Control Board was : by farmers for a price be that will mean—if granted— retail prices for milk of IL and 12 cents a quart. This. would be. 1._cent more

current prices. ‘Brought by th dianapolis Dairymen’s Co-0p Inc., largest co-operative in Indianapolis milk shed, the petit blamed the drought; asked $2, Lundredweight instead of $2.20, ¢ rent price. The petition said pastures. r ruined by the drought and tha the hay supply was curtailed, mak ing it impossible “to ‘produce for the Indianapolis market out a severe loss.” Meanwhile the tempera ascended steadily toward r marks of the year, and the Weather Bureau promised no relief eithe from heat or drought. The mercury reached ‘the mark at 1 p. m. and there was distinct possibility it would go or four degrees higher. Yesterday: it reached 984; Sunday, 99.1. fi The lowest temperature the sleeping hours was 75 at 5 th morning. At 9 it had climbed to Whereas yesterday at 9 it was only Street-leve! temperatures, 15 degrees hotter than official rea ings, burned the feet of pedestrian and drove them to shelter in ‘the shade of downtown buildings. = Some other parts of Ind however, were more fortunate ti Marion County ahd from them | day poured unofficial reports rains and even hail. In those parts where no rain the seriousness of the droug farmers was intensified by one day, and the salvage value of m: crops was reduced with deadly. tainty. : ' 1115 at Bloomfield Bloomfield, according to Unite Press reports, showed a temperat: ofJ115 degrees ,the highest in

106 degrees. Lafayette’s rade 104 and at Rushville it was In Crawfordsville

Legansport supply with the Eel River ge lower with each day of drou