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LScripps —HowARPE VOLUME 48—NUMBER 108
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15,1986
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PRICE THREE CENT!
FIRMS ACCUSED IN FRAUD CASE LINKED TOCITY
Indicted Illinois Companies Kept Offices Here, Is Charge of SEC.
10 MILLION LOSS CITED
Indianapolis Among Chief Headquarters Is Claim of ~ U. S. Agency.
Times Special WASHINGTON, July 15.—<Indianapolis was one 6f the principal headquarters from which indicted Illinois corporations are alleged to have engaged in “bucket shop” operations and mulcted investors of $10,000,000 or more, the Securities and Exchange «Commission disclosed today. Operations were conducted at the | Hoosier capita] under the titles of C. McCormick & Co., and D. Robert Barr & Co. Both are Illinois corporations named among the five against which indictments were returned yesterday by a Federal grand Jury at Gainesville, Ga. They were named in 15 counts and 24 officers and employes of the corporations arg charged with seven counts of Federal Security Act violations, seven counts of mail fraud and one count of conspiracy. Other corporations named were Kopald3Quinn & Co.; Frank Munch & Co, and E. Gould & Co. - . The Barr Company also had an Indiana branch at Fort Wayne, secret investigators learned. Indianapolis was used for telephone stock orders and high-pres-sure salesmanship not only for Indiana, but also for Ohio and Kéntucky, they said. : The SEC report reads: “Joseph Mendelson, Leonard Sutterman, Joseph Sherman and their (Turn to Page Three)
MORRISSEY NAMES 12 NEW POLICEMEN
Safety Board Approves List Merit School Graduates.
Twelve applicants for police jobs, selected after a training course in the police school, were approved today by the Safety Board on recommendations made by the Merit Board. ; Those selected, Chief Morrissey announced, were Louis Mikesell Jr., Orville H. Gleich, Paul J. Whitesides, George W. McAllister, Edward H. Arzman, Howard Oens, Charles W. McCutcheon, Cecil London, ‘Michael J. Burns, Allan Steger, Marion O. Ostermeyer and Michael J. Smiley. : All Democrats, the group brings the Police Department to approximately the bipartisan balance required by statute, officials said. ~ Examination papers were returned from Bloomington yesterday, where they were graded by Prof. J. J. Robinson of the Indiana University law school. The Merit Board compiled data from records of the training school, examinations and general aptitude yesterday.
BANK BOARD ORDERS RESERVE FUND HIKE
Move Made to Forestall Credit Boom, Eccles Announces.
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By United Press WASHINGTON, July 15.—Striking against a “possible injurious” credit boom that would retard “full recovery,” the Federal Reserve Board today jumped by 50 per cent reserve deposit requirmeents for member banks effective Aug. 15. The action was taken under the 1935 banking act empowering the board to boost requirements as much as 100 per cent on deposits of member banks in Federal Reserve banks. \ » Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles said the increase was necessitated by the inflow of gold trom abroad which has increased reserve deposits of member banks to $5,000,000,000, about $3,000,000,000 abov legal stipulation. : .
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FRAZIER HUNT, author-journalist-editor, is on the move again, this time
Ford Forecasts
Times Special ~~ DEARBORN, Mich., July 15. —Eventual decline of the farm animal population as a sourse of food and the substitution of grains and other crops for human sustenance was visioned today by Henry Ford, billionaire motor car manufacturer. He talked to newspaper men assembled to view the starting of a new $4,600,000 turbine generator at his mammoth plant. “The horse is dying out through the increased use of machines; the cow is losing its economic importance to the great advances in chemistry,” he said. .
VOTE TODAY ON LABOR REVOLT
A. F. of L. Council Members to Act in ‘Rebel’ Case by Night, Green Says.
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By United Press WASHINGTON, July © 15.—William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, predicted at the conelusion of the morning session of the federation’s executive council today that a definite decision will be reached before nightfall on the dispute of the A. F. of L; with the Committee for Industrial Organization. The council met this morning without woting for any definite action on possible suspension of 12 “rebel” unions forming John. L. Lewis’ C. I. O. Mr. Green announced that no vote had been taken on the question of suspending the C. I. O. unions or on proposals for delay in punitive actions. “The possibility of further conferences with the C. I. O. leaders was exploded,” Mr. Green said. “Our discussion concerned the relationships of various unions to the A. F. of L., both as to their legal relationship and their voluntory relationship. There are still no formal charges against the C. I. O. unions.” It was understood that most of the discussion centered on the possibility of postponing a suspension vote and permitting the conciliation committee, headed by George Har#mon, to negotiate with the Lewis faction.
AMENDMENT URGED IV OARP CONVENTION
Congress Control Sought;
Lemke Link Opposed.
By United Press CLEVELAND, July 15.—Townsend pension planners in the first session of their second annual convention today pointed the nation-wide $200-a-month movement toward amend-
ment of the Constitution and gaining immediate control of Congress. They expressed informal opposition to coalition with William Lemke’s third party campaign. : The first session adjourned on call to hear Dr. Francis E. Townsend deliver later today “a message which will startle the world.”
ROOSEVELT STEERS YACHT FROM HARBOR
President Departs on Cruise Near Penobscot Bay.
By United Press BUCK HARBOR, Me. July 15.— Favored with a. strong wind and clear weather, President Roosevelt weighed anchor here today and pointed the bow of his schooner yacht Sewanna toward the northeast for a cruise in the vicinity of Penobscot Bay. The trim Sewanna, with the chief executive at the wheel, headed for a little cove about 20 miles away, where Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd has a summer camp.
Star’s Husband Arrested By United Press HOLLYWOOD, July 15.—Martin Malone, 32, husband of Polly Moran, the screen comedienne, was taken into custody at his home today after allegedly threatening his wife and sheriff's deputies with a revolver.
Peats Denies
Letter for Dues to Penny
A letter asking John M. Penny,
14 SUBSTATIONS RECOMMENDED |
“LISTENING TO THE INDUSTRIAL EAST"
In a series of that title, he makes a report of his non-partisan survey of ‘popular political ‘opin. ion in the hotly. contested states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. . » ..
THE ARTICLES START”, TODAY ON PAGE 11.
grocery truck driver alleged victim of a fatal stoning, to pay his union dues was introduced in evidence at the trial of Harry F. Peats and Emmett Joseph Williams, union offi-
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BY MORRISSEY
Idea Submitted to Safety Board as Part of Budget Report.
TELETYPE USE ADVISED
Lock-Up, Patrol Wagon at
Each. Branch Suggested by Police Chief.
Four police substations, each with a lock-up and combined ambulance and patrol wagon, may be establisheg here providing recommendations submitted to the Safety
Board by Chief Morrissey are ap- )
proved. Chief Morrissey made the recommendation as’ part of his budget communication submitted today to Controller Walter C. Boetcher. The Safety Board cut his request for increased personnel from 195 secondgrade patrolmen to 95 before passing the budget to the controller. e personel increase would add approximately $195,000 to the police budget in addition to an’ increase
Thomas Paul (above) is looking over the ruins of what once was a garage, owned by Henry L.. | tened by high wind last night. ; NT
in the general budget, the chief | iss:
said. Chief Morrissey suggested that a committee be appointed to select locations and set boundaries for substalions.
- Teletype System Planned
Police captains would be in charge of the substations, with one lieutenant and enough men to operate full 24-hour shifts. Garage facilities for a! least six cars were recommended. A teletype system would keep communications open. between headquarters and the four substations. : Chief Morrissey asked approval of | the board to add 10 cars as an accident investigation squad. Equipped with cameras, tapelines and firstaid kits, the cars would reduce ambulance runs and bring law evaders to justice, he said. Twenty men would be needed to operate the cars in two day shifts of four each and a night shift of two cars. In his request for additional men, Chief Morrissey originally sought 195, but reduced the number when
he found the board would not}.
approve such an increase.
Last year he asked an increase of 200. Five were added. The police budget for 1937 calls for 105 policemen, second grade; 6¢ detective sergeants, an increase of 10 men, to be promoted through merit board action; an increase of $500 for repairs to Headquarters building; $2000 increase for contractual debts, chiefly feeding: prisoners; $4000 increase for ga- | rage and motor supplies. © Many of the increases in the po‘lice budget, Chief Morrissey said, are due to increased equipment built with government funds. Additional demands created by the Department of Justice have increased Bertillon personnel here from one to six men. Chief Morrissey also asked .that the city garage be enlarged. He also asked $500 to fight gambling and vice in Indianapolis. In many cases, the chief said, charges have been dismissed for lack of evidence. A separate fund is needed to operate a campaign against vice and gambling, he said.
MARKETS AT A GLANCE
By United Press
Stocks advance to new highs in active trading. eBonds—U. S. governments weaken in heavy turnover; domestic corporation issues higher. Curb stocks higher. Chicago stocks irregularly higher. Call money 1 per cent. Foreign exchange narrowly mixed; sterling steady, francs easier. Cotton futures 2 to 4 points lower, after rally from early break. Grains advance; gains range to more than 3 cents. Rubber futures quiet and steady. Silver bars in New York 443 cents, unchanged.
Planes Collide; Three Killed By United Press RIO DE JANEIRO, July 15—Two aviation school planes crashed in midair today and fell in flames, killing three persons.
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* Wind that reached tornado intensity : last ‘night: wrecked the: greenhouse: (above) ‘owned:
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Terrific Heat Def ats Kentucky E amily in i
"Race to Save
ife of Ailing
Young Mother
ESTERDAY afternoon Edna Copely became much worse. She rolled and tossed on an iron-posted bed in a second-floor rear bedroom in a small downtown hotel. : Gathered around her were her husband, Sam, and her four chil-
Safe and. Sane
HORSES AND HORSE-POWER
RANDFATHER was an expert at driving with one With his arm curved about “his best girl, he could let old Dobbin jog along with a. minimum. of attention and a maximum of safety. x But those were the good old
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dren. Three of .the children were kneeling in prayer for their mother. On a blanket, on the flor as close to the single window as possikle lay Robert, 2, the youngest. He fretted with ‘the heat. = Then Mrs. Copely, who was 31, died. That ended one episode in the history of a bewildered Kentucky
family that set out several weeks.
ago to find:a climate that might
| save the life of the mother.
{RACKET IN PENSIONS
REPORTED BY BAKER Flophouses Urging Indigent to Quit Farm, Charge.
"In an attempt to block alleged racketeering by flophouses and to
| keep “moochers” off the streets, no
old-age pensions will be given county -poor' farm inmates unless -they can prove they are moving to a decent environment, Joel Baker, Marion County Welfare Director, announced today. “ih ‘Each case will be considered individually, howéver, Mr. Baker said, pointing out that it was not a blanket. order. 3 It has been reported that flophouses have been urging poor farm inmates to obtain pensions and move into their places, the Rev. Lynn’ Tripp, welfare board vice president, said. ap ee Thirty-five requests for pensions have been received from poor farm inmates, according to Mr. Baker."
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By United Press
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| WOMAN IS BURNED | IN STOVE EXPLOSION
|| Neighbor Finds Her. With || ‘Hair, "Clothing ‘Affame.
QAM then was employed as a J brick moulder in Ashland, Ky. ‘and was’ making enough money to keep the family and save a little. But Mrs. Copely had a bad cough and every one said she would have to go to Colorado. ‘Mr. and Mrs. Copely and 12-year-old Edna, the oldest, talked it over and decided to out before it was too late. The family hitchhiked as far as St. Loéuis, Mo., and were overtaken by the heat wave. Mrs. Copely got worse and they decided to turn back. She couldn't make it, they decided. When they got to Indianapolis five days ago, Mrs. Copely could not go on. Some of the $20 they had in St. Louis was left and they did the thing they thought best in a city where they had no living soul on whom to call—rented the hotel room. : Beset by the sun, and at least as hot as .street temperatures, it was no place for a sick person, but Sam and Edna, who constituted the family council, thought it was the best they could do. ; ” » »
DAY Sam and Charles, 10, and Catherine, 8, .were plodding about Indianapolis streets, seeing officials about funeral services and burial for Mrs..Copely. They have no money, and sometimes you have to see a lot of people to get funds for such things. : : ; Edna was in the hotel room with 2-year-old Robert, mothering him. Edna doesn’t know when they are going. home, or how. She said her father has a job there when he can get back—in the same brick yard. Edna was pretty brave today. She cried only a little when she saw how ‘was in the heat. - He looked sick, she thought. : He was lying on the only bed in
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| TEMPERATURES ON RISE
By United Press
4{ Ohio Valley.
Seiler,
Crop. Seems. fo Have Come|
Midwest Drought Not Yet Broken, Forecaster at Chicago Reports.
Scattered Showers Fail to Hold Up Promises of Relief.
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"CHICAGO, July 15.— Chilled air from the Hudson Bay area and widely scattered showers Brought temporary relief from an unprecedented heat wave in the Great Lakes area today but the prairie states suffered
‘again under a blazing sun.
Deaths * attributed to the heat mounted to more than 3000 with property damage past the $500,000,000 mark. ' Showers over Wisconsin, Minnesota, northern Iowa, and: Missouri “didn’t do much good except in local areas,” Forecaster J. R. Lloyd of the Chicago Wealher Bureau reported. : “The heat wave and the drought are not definitely broken,” Lloyd said. “A hqgt south wind again is
- The cool frant bogged dcwn at North Platte, Neb., where tle temperature early today was 70 degrees and rising. Cheyenne, Wyo. with a reading of 66 degrees, marked the eastern edge of the cool area. Lloyd said the cool air irom a Hudson Bay high pressure area overspread the Great Lakes region and today was moving south to the
INDIANA WHEAT
Through Despite Drought, Purdue * Claims.
By United Press LAFAYETTE, Ind. July 15.—Improvement in the Indiana wheat crop, despite a long drought which’ has seriously damaged both oats and corn, was reported today by the agricultural statistics bureau of Pur-_ due University in its regular monthly crop survey. se
The report was issued on the basis of . conditions July 1 and did: not cover extensive losses resulting from the continued drought and extreme heat of the last 12 days. A wheat yield of 27,600,000 bushels, only 2,000,000 less than last year’s production, was estimated on July 1. .
Little Change Anticipated
Little change in this estimate because of the later extreme weather was anticipated by agricultural ex-
wheat crop was matured before the drought became serious. Corn and oats both were reported below normal on July 1 and the continued drought and heat was expected to decrease further crop anticipations. Production of 152,184,000 bushels of corn from approximately 4,000,000 acres was anticipated in the July 1 report. Extreme heat of the last two weeks was expected, however, to reduce the estimate by more than five bushels an acre. The state produced 160,474 bushels of corn last year, but the 1934 drought dropped production to approximately 130,000,000 bushels. “Heat and lack of rain also hit the oat crop extremely hard,” the report said.
“So Much for Love” NARD JONES
CHAPTER ONE was 5 in the morning and Helena Derrik, attired in a white swim suit, was poised for a dive. another moment, using her lithe.
ONE-CENT MILK PRICE INCREASE ORDERED HE
Freak Storm Sweeps D on Beech Grove, Does Heavy Damage.
LOCAL DEATHS NOW 39
cast for Tonight, Tomor= row by Bureau.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
Yesterday. Today. oe 89 87 85 84
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Although the heat wave was scheduled to be broken tonight, the drought cor tinued unabated today im Marion County and was the direct cause of a State Milk Control Board emergency or= der raising retail prices of milk 1 cent on both quarts and pints, effective tomorro morning. : The board raised the price p to the farmers from $2.20 a h dredweight on Class 1 Milk to and ordered a 10 per cent to the farmers for all Class 2 1
used in flavored products, cot! cheese and buttermilk, also effe tive tomorrow morning. The boa: acted on the request of Leon Coller, Marion County milk adn
| istrator,
prices of ice cres Pie and rill ~ will rise shortly. Another of drought’s knocl blows to agriculture was n known today when Purdue Unive sity’s monthly crop report for state estimated that the average sustained by the corn crop was five bushels an acre.
Thunder Showers Promised :
The prediction for Indianapolis and vicinity was thundershowers tonight or tomorrow accompa:
by lower temperatures. Last ni
a wind of near-tornado intensity rain hit Beech Grove; south of Ir dianapolis, and did a great deal © property damage. 2 Today Indiana was trapped in" heat pocket that stretches f£ its eastern border as far as the M souri River, and temperatures ¥ past. 100 for the ninth consecu day. The Great Lakes states, Rocky Mountain West and the all were enjoying reasonable peratures today. Ea Yesterday the heat established ¢ all-time record temperature of 1 degrees af 2:10 p. m. Previous ord was ‘106 degrees, set July 23,
perts, who pointed out most of the 1901
In its last hours last night 8 today, the heat took a toll of 16 in Indianapolis, bringing the ¢ total to 40. Eight more deaths, si pected of having been induced the heat, were reported this morn: ing but had not been investigate by the rushed force of Coroner W liam E. Arbuckle. There have been a record nu of violent deaths in the last 14 days Dr. Arbuckle said today. Of the 10 cases investigated by his office; 8 per cent were due to the heat,
longer the heat wave lasts,
higher the death rate climbs,
elderly persons lose resistance (Turn te Page Three)
MYERS SELECTED BY . SENATE COMMITT
Named Chief Counsel for Ele Investigation Body. Times Special 3 WASHINGTON, July 15—Wal Myers, who was defeated by Frederick’ VanNuys nomination for 8