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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 102
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1936
Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice, Indianapolis, Ind.
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I. PROBERS SEEK DATA ON STEEL BIDDING
G-Men Investigating Charge of Collusion for Federal Awards.
LABOR CHIEFS MEET
A. F. of L. Board Considers Action Against C. LO. Unions Today.
By United Press WASHINGTON, July 8—Atty. Gen. Homer 'S. Cummings said today the Department of Justice is collecting information relative to alleged collusive bidding by steel companies on government contracts “as fast as we can.” The disclosure followed charges of collusion among steel companies made by John L. Lewis, who is leading an attempt to organize the industry's | workers, and a request for an investigation made earlier - by President Roosevelt. Cummings said no decision will be made regarding possible action by the department against the steel companies until all information is collected and analyzed. Confers With Dickinson He said he conferred today with John Dickinson, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the anti-trust division, relative to the alleged * monopolistic practices. The Attorney General said he would make a “full statement” concerning difficultes facing the department in . taking any action against the steel companies, but indicated it would be at least a week before it will be prepared, : He said,that he had asked all government purchasing agencies, through the White House, to fo back into their files and gather all possible information concerning identical bids for all materials. “A good deal of analysis and fact finding is required before any action is taken,” Mr. Cummings said. ‘Nevertheless, we are anxious for a speedy conclusion and are going ‘ahead as rapidly as possible.” William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor, which has a meeting of its executive council scheduled late today, called on President Roosevelt at 12:45 p. m. presumably to discuss the critical. labor situation. Drastic Action Possible The A. F. of L. council is expected to consider drastic action to end the split in the ranks of organized workers. “Regardless of the council's decisions, our campaign in the steel and other unions will go ahead as planned,” one leader of the committee for industrial organization— which the council opposes—declared. The A. F. of L. council members, led by President Green, conferred privately before going into secret session this afternoon to weigh proposals for suspension of the 12 rebel C. I. O. unions through which Chairman Lewis has united a million workers in his campaign for one big union in each industry. The A. F. of L. structure at present is based on craft unions which are fighting Lewis. : . Despite strongly worded declarations by leaders of both factions, developments preceding the eouncil meeting indicated a determined effort to avoid decisions which fou widen the breach beyond reir.
STOCKS FIRMER AS STEEL SHARES GAIN
General Motors Record Sales Report Boosts Issues.
By United Press " NEW YORK, July 8.—Shorts covered in steel shares, sending them up to net gains of fractions to 2 points. Other issues were aided by the steel rise and the whole stock list took on a firmer tone in the, early afternoon trading following an iregular. morning session. General Motors Corp. firmed 3% to 67% on its June sales report which broke all records for that month. Standard of New Jersey led a rise in the oils. Farm issues, recovered. :
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At 2 this morning, police got a series of frantic calls that a mule was loose at Vir-ginia-av and McCarty-st. Patroimen Roy Conway and Maury Johnston went down to see what could be done. They attempted to catch the animal, were foiled, and called back to headquarters that they believed the animal was a horse and not a mule. They were told to catch it no matter what it was, and “for 30 minutes gave chase. Finally they succeeded and Ved it in a barn at 15 Wright-
ts. still there, mumbling to itself.
HAYGOOD TERMS CONFESSION’ LIE
Former Union - Collector Takes Stand for State in Penny Case.
Asserting that the “confession” he made on Jan. 13,6 was false, George Haygood, discharged labor union collector, today testified for the state against two union officials in the John M. Penny- murder case. Harry F. Peats and Emmett Joseph Williams, business agent and secretary, respectively, of Local 135, Teamsters and Chauffeurs Union, are on trial for the alleged fatal stoning of Penny, a grocery truck driver. ; After admitting on direct examination that he had lied in his statement to Sheriff Ray in the Marion County Jail, Haygood: said he met Frank Klize, whom he implicated in his “confession,” for the first time in the jail. He made the “confession,” he testified, on cross-examination, ‘so that he and Klize would be transferred to the jail in Hendricks County, scene of the crime. They expected to escape from the smaller jail, he said. . Haygood also testified that he had made arrangements to send letters to authorities after the escape, exonerating Peats and Williams in the murder. He said that he lied when he told Sheriff Ray that Peats and Williams had thrown rocks at the truck. . Haygood denied he had made a deal with authorities to turn state’s evidence to gain release from three county indictments and take a ‘1 to
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1939-40 WORLD FAIR MAY BE HELD HERE
Cross Roads of America Exposition Incorporated by Local Men.
A Cross Roads of America Fair and Exposition is to Indianapolis in 1939-40, according to articles of incorporgtion filed yesterday with August GG. Mueller, secretary of state. Incorporato re Herman J. Kennelly, William H. Sheaffer, former municipal court judge, and Warner A. McMurry. : Mr. McMurry is to go to Chicago today te discuss plans for financing the exposition with Charles G. Dawes, former Vice President and head of the Chicago World's Fair.
EMPLOYER REFUSES TO MEET WITH UNION
Rand Also Will Not Recognize National: Labor Board.
By United Press : MIDDLETOWN, Conn. .July 8.— James H. Rand Jr. president of Remington-Rand, Inc. said today he would refuse to meet with union organizers at any of his plants to discuss strike settlement and that he would “absolutely refuse to recognize the authority” of the regional National Labor Board at Buffalo, N. Y, to hear charges against his company.
COTTON CULTIVATION REPORT ANNOUNCED
Acreage for July 1 Set at 30,621,000 by Board.
| By United Press
WASHINGTON, July 8—The Department of Agriculture's Crop Report Board announced today that 30,621,000 acres were cultivated to cotton on July 1. This was 109.8 per cent of the land in cotton cultivation the same date last year.
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POLICE DETAIN EXCONVICT IN SLAYING PLOT
Confession Clears Sister of Torso Murder Victim, Leach Declares.
OTHERS BEING SOUGHT
Prisoner in Brookville Jail}
to Face Charges in Killing.
By United Press
BROOKVILLE; Ind, July 8-—
| Heber L. Hicks, Cincinnati, 38-year-
old former convict, was brought here
frora Seymour today to face charges
in connection with the slaying of Harry Miller, retired Cincinnati fire captain. Hicks reportedly made a confession to Capt.-Matt Leach of the Indiana State Police at Seymour last night, exonerating Miss Flora Millef, 66-year-old sisfer of the vietim, who had been held for several days with Hicks, her chauffeur-secre-tary. > : According to Capt. Leach, Hicks was involved in’the murder plot, but not directly. .:in the slaying. Three men are being hunted in an effort to complete the case, it was reported. Eight
state police detectives,
Capt. Leach said, have been as-
signed to hunt for the three men described by Leach as “tough babies.”
Robbery Was Motive, Claim Because other persons yet urap-
prehénded are involved in the case!
Capt. Leach declined to.make a detailed report of the alleged contession.
The slaying occurred near Mil-}
ler’s summer cottage at New Trenton, Franklin County, June 11. Robbery was the motive, Leach’ said. : State police said 100 shares ‘of Bethlehem Steel Corp. stock, valued at about $55 a share, and between $100 and $200 in cash were stolen from Miller. Other securities and valuables were in a safe at the Miller home but whether anything was missing from there had not been established definitely. | Hicks was turned over to Franklin County authorities by. Capt. Leach
8 eth Copes said ‘an aff be filed today against be. summoned to investigate the case, Fn lids Disappeared June 11
Miller, considered financially well to-do when he retired, disappeared from his-summer cottage on June 11. His, sister had seen him last on June 17. ; 3 ~ _A head and hands of a man were found embedded in a box of cement in Wiebe Lake in Butler State Park near Carrollton, Ky., June 28. Prior to that a torso had been found by swimmers, stuffed into a culvert near Eminence, Ky. about 30 miles away.
Friends of Miller identified the|
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CLIMAX IS NEAR IN
NAZI-POLE DISPUTE|
High Commissioner to Danzig May Quit Post.
(Copyright, 1936. by United Press) DANZIG, July 8—The first serious rift in German-Polish relations since Chancellor Adolf Hitler assumed power in Berlin surged toward a climax today.
It was predicted freely that Sean
Lester; Irish high commissioner to the Free City of Danzig, would resign his post. He and his staff were expected to quit in the face of official assertions that Danzig has severed its connections ‘with : the League of Nations. Forecasts that as a :solution of the problem a Pole would be appointed high commissioner to suc ceed Lester revived threats of a Nazi coup d'etat to join Danzig to Germany. 3
Such a coup, it was believed, would not be opposed by force of arms. Nazi exponents of the JoinDanzig - to - Germany movement doubtéd that Poland would be able to go to war with Germany even in
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It isn’t “the heat, it's the occupation. The ‘gentlemen (top phcio) are dipping molten glass from a furnace at the Marietta Manufactur-
ing Corp.; 3800 ‘E. 16th-st. The temperature: is about 130 degrees in the room. The men work all day over the furnaces and rollers and go into the outside cool of 100 and spend a pleasant evening while others suffer. Then there are the lads at the bottom. They manufacture dry ice at Dry Ice, Inc., 221 W. Georgia-st. The box they are working at contains
all the elements of winter blizzard. It is 10 degrees below zero. When . : men (left to right) John Nowling, Jess Doyle
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CRITICAL CONDITION
Clergyman Regains. Consciousness
in Eastern Hospital. By United Press | ; PLATTSBURG, NN.’ Y., July 8.— Physicians reported no improvement today in: the condition of Dr. S. ‘Parkes Cadman, prominent New York ' City. minister, who is near
‘death of peritonitis following an.
‘appendicitis operation. Dr. L. ‘G. Barton Jr., of Cham-
plain Valley Hospital, said that unless ‘there was a marked improve-
ment immediately there was little than a few days. = . Dr.: Cadman is conscious, ° physician - said; “but there 1s abso-
defense of her treaty rights in the
lutely no. improvement in his condition. ~ ; ;
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Showers Near for Parched “Northwest; Roosevelt to Visit Area.
'HOPPERS ADD DISASTER
160 Dead as Direct Result of Terrific Heat, Reports Say.
By United Press
CHICAGO, July 8.—Show-
| ers were promised for tomor-
row for the worst drought area of the parched Middlewest in the official forecast today of the United States
Weather Bureau.
“Light showers will fall in the Dakotas, northwestern Minnesota and northwestern Nebraska tomorrow and in western and northern North Dakota tonight,” Forecasted J. R. Lloyd predicted. : But the blazing sun continued to burn destruction over half the United States and Canada today, increasing the havoc of what may become the worst drought in history. The predicted showers wiil bring only temporary relief. Drenching rains are needed to save surviving crops in the central states.
Roosevelt to Tour Area ‘WPA and Resettlement officials rushed programs and loans to care for 200,000 farm families that need immediate relief. Conservative estimates of the loss to farmers ranged from $180,000,000
-| to a potential loss of $350,000,000 if
the drought continues. President Roosevelt in Washington announced that he would personally survey drought conditions
: | in the Midwest next month.
Aberdeen, S. D. was worried
about a ,water shortage. The Elm
% | River, nine miles away, where wa-
ter was impounded this year for the city’s mains, was drying up.- Officials were working on a new plan fo Dring water into the parched
Heat pragtrations and drownings
than 160 fives: is ; SD Heat prostrations were réportéd
:| in several sections. Mrs. Nellie Mil- ‘| holland, 26, farm. wife living near
Muncie, was found dead in her
| home, where she apparently col-
lapsed from the heat. Hoppers Plague Minnesota
An _ unprecedented scourge of grasshoppers spread through southeastern and south central Minnesota. ~The grasshopper “hatch” was s0 thick that farmers dropped all other tasks today to cut small grains in the hope of saving them for feed. : The pests invaded 48 counties in the southern area that even in drought years have produced abundant crops. “The whole state is being drawn
| into the drought belt like a giant
web,” R. A. Trotavatten, state commissioner of agriculture, reported. State Highway 43 near Lafayette, Ind., burst under the intense heat.
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AT, A GLANCE
"By United Press The devastating drought entered its second month of recordhigh temperatures with no relief in sight for thousands of farmers facing crop failure in the spring
~ wheat belt.’
Indianapolis recorded a reading of 102 at 1 p. m, “ Corn crops were failing, but there was hope for some sections. President Roosevelt, confident that Federal relief machinery is geared for speedy action, announced he would visit stricken areas next month. The Agriculture Department designated 97 counties in the Northwest as “emergency counties” in which relief work will be concentrated. Cattle raisers rushed thousands of head of hungry and thirsty animals into the Chicago market. Fire ravaged dry forests in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.
DROUGHT RELIEF WORK SPEEDED
WPA Arranges to Provide Work for 55,000 in 10 Days.
By United Press WASHINGTON, July 8.— The Works Progress Administration set out today to place 25,000 droughtstricken Western farmers on Federal pay rolls within 24 hours, and to employ a total of 55,000 within the next 10 days. . Announcement of the emergency works program was made by Deputy WPA ‘Administrator Aubrey W. Williams shortly after the weather bureau announced some hope of scattered rains. : Employment will be concentrated in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and Minnesota. _Filty-five thousand
sid, “ifi ‘the five states where dam-
calls for completion of the employ‘ment program within a week or 10 days at the most. “Nearly half that number will be employed within 24 hours.” : The: work will be digging wells, bulding dams, creating artificial lakes and building secondary roads.
WHEAT MARKET AT GHIGAGO 1S ERRATIC
Prices React After Canadian Report Brings Rise.
By United Press : : CHICAGO, July 8—Wheat prices moved erratically today on the Chicago Board of Trade in response to weather reports from the American and Canadian Northwest wheat territory and fluctuating prices at outside markets. Reports that light, scattered showers in the Canadian spring wheat territory yesterday were of little value brought on a heavy buying movement in the wheat pit soon after. the opening and prices bounded up, Forecasts for unsettled weather in sections of the droughtstricken spring wheat area, however, resulted in scattered selling and
prices reacted.
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Mr. O’Brien Refuses, Much to Disgust of Mr. Donnelly, Defending Mr. Cohen, Song Man.
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GRAIN BELT GIVEN HOPE OF RAIN
Clouds May Prevent Setting ~ of All-Time - Record for Indianapolis.
MANY SLEEP IN CARS
No Relief in Sight for City, Is Report From Weather Man.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
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Clouds spread like a parae sol over the sky today and sheltered Indianapolis from the hottest sun of the year that at 10:50 drove temperatures to 102, highest this year and highest in history for a July 8. ;
Highest yesterday was 101 and the previous high for July 8 was 97 in 1871 and again in 1890. E In 10 minutes from the time the clouds first covered the sky this morning, the temperatures fell three degrees to 99 at 11. There after the temperature record backed and forthed as the clouds alternate
{ly hid and then revealed the sun,
Possibility of an all-time heat rece ord for the city, breaking 1068 the existing record, was diminished with the appearance of the ica ; 1000 temperature at 1 p. m. was
400 Sleep at Airport Between 400 and. 500
slépt in cars parked at M al waifport wet “sight nd po pleasant Dhréege, according 0 lice. Al Dee parks were nied with sleepers, and police watched over them, sph LO EEE Police will continue to watch all heat 1elief seekers, and Sergt Jack - O'Neal, who has made this phase of police work his specialty, gave this suggestion for safest park sleeps
JNng: . .- 2 Leave valuables in a safe place; keep your shoes securely: tied on, Rowdies would rather steal shoes, he said, than any other article of wearing apparel.
Beach to Open Tonight
Many persons tlirned their back yards into “parks” to escape the heat last night, and many others moved cots and cushions onto front and back porches for the night. The 26th-st bathing beach is to be opened tonight,’ Wally Middlesworth, city recreation director, said today. He said it has been. closed thus far this year because of pollil= tion, but that four tests of the water yesterday showed it to be pure. Four life guards are to be there. Today three boys were injured in swimming accidents. Frank Roberts, 9. of 4250 W. Michigan-st, dived into shallow water in the Eagle Creek pool at 10th-st and suffered a ‘cug on his head. ity Henry Underwood, 10, of 213 8S, Summit-st, and Frederick Hopper, 8, of 948 English-av, collided in the (Turn to Page Three)
‘TEA PARTY’ CLAIMS . ITS SECOND VICTIM
11-Year-0Old Child Dies at Evanse ville of Mysterious Poison. By United Press EVANSVILLE, Ind. July 8.-—A mysterious poisoning suffered by five children of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Stepro, Yankeetown, after a “tea day with the death of 'fPorothy 4 e dea of | P Louise, 11, g The children were stricken two weeks ago, apparently from a poison they had accidentally mixed into their tea party luncheon. , =
in critical condition in a hospital
here. Physicians planned to perform an
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