Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 July 1936 — Page 1
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VOLUME 48—NUMBER 115
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LANDON TO ACCEPT G. 0. P. NOMINATION IN TOPEKA TONIGHT
Governor Indorses Roosevelt Order on Postal Merit System.
PARRIES OTHER QUERIES
His Office Is Jammed With Singing Crowd, Hoping to Shake Hands.
By United Press
TOPEKA, July 23.—Gov. Alf M. Landon, who in a few hours will accept the Republican nomination for President of the United States, today indorsed President Roosevelt’s order placing all postmasters under a modified merit system and expressed the opinion that the New Deal had been driven to that action
by his own civil service stand. Receiving newspaper men in his office, the Governor parried all other questions including this one: “Giovernor, will you name any Democrats to your Cabinet?” . “See my accepiance speech,” he replied. “You will find a pretty ood idea there.” E His office was jammed today and the outer offices contained a surging ho of hopeful handshakers.
“Glad to See It”
«&Told of Mr. Roosevelt's order hich newspapers out this way ption as “a new postal deal,” Gov. ndon smiled and said he had read oo glad to see the President do he said. “The fact that he has one it shows the advantages of tition. me now that he has made guch a good start, he will extend the merit system. to the Works Progress: Administration. Landon’s failure to utter a direct “fio” to the question about Democrats in the Cabinet gave rise to speculation regarding ‘his campaign tactics, especially whether his speeches would give such conservative Democratic leaders as -Alfred E£. Smith of New York cause to believe they might be represented in ' & Republican Administration headthe Kansan. Ba bY. Landon went to a nrovie last hight and appeared on time at his ioffice today, wearing a glistening sWhite linen suit, freshly creased. It ‘was in contrast to his usual ex‘ecutive office uniform, white pants and shirt sléeves. Bi the lobbies of the Capitol the crowd jostled for points of vantage, and Daisy Maud Underwood, a redhaired part Indian girl, sang to help the visitors pass the time. Willard Mayberry, Landon’s secretary, introduced Miss Underwood to the crowd as a Jormer. soprano of the era C CIicagy One are "Alling and crowd §s roiling on. Soda pop sales and sunstroke should establish Kansas FocOnds ta Ry iin his acceptance speech at approximately 8 20 p. m.
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RAIN MAY CONTINUE, WEATHER MAN SAYS
Mercury Probably Will Not Top 95, Armington Declares.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES
6am ...7 10am.."7 7am... lam... 18 8am. ...7 12 Noon... 82 9am. ... 78 ip.m. ... 87
Showers that soaked into Marion County fields this morning may continue this afternoon or tonight, J. H. Armington, Federal meteorologist, predicted. Although the temperatures started up after the sun came out, Mr. rich said he did not believe the mercury wouid rise above 95 de today. EO a, of cool air from the Northwest should reach Indianapolis early tomorrow and hold the temperatures within the 60s tomorrow morning, the meteorologist said.
SPENCER IS TO ASK DEATH FOR BRADY
Kansans Descend on C:cpital for Biggest Frolic in City’s History.
HAPPY IN SPITE OF HEAT
State Has Much for Which to Be Thankful, Stokes Says.
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
TOPEKA, July 23.—Pa and Ma Kansas and all the little Kansans descended on Topeka today for the biggest frolic in the city’s history and to pay tribute to the first Republican presidential candi-
date from John Brown’s state. The big day is here. They are a beaming, happy lot despite the insufferable heat. Kansas has lots of things to be thankful for beyond the bumper wheat crop, which would be enough. Pas pockets jingle with cash; Ma can look more than longingly at the new styles in the stores along Kan-sas-av and the little Kansans ‘can stuff themselves with ice cream cones.
Many of these same people came
on a pilgrimage to Topeka four years ago, but their heads were chock full of worries and their spirits were low. Wheat was 53 cents a bushel and corn 30. On this side and that neighbors were losing their homes.
Looked for Déliverer
They came looking for a deliverer, and they went home with hope in their hearts. + For it was little léss than four years ago, on Sept. 14, 1932, that Franklin D. Roosevelt opened his Western campaign in this city. Speaking from the he le jSapital steps. where-Mr. Lan will accept | - the nomination ar, he pledged the crowd of 10,000 who stood before him, and through them farmers up and down the land, that he would give them the relief for which they had long prayed. 1 Today “wheat is $104 and corn 94 cents. The_ following Noveiniber. Kansas Joiled the parade of states which swept Mr.: ‘Ruvsevelt into the White House. Among those who heard Mr. Roosevelt that day was a fellow named Alf M:. Landon, fairly well known in Kansas but very little beyond. the boundaries of the state, a candidate for Governor.
Destiny Plucked at Sleeve
Destiny plucked that day at Mr. Landon’s sleeve, but he could not know it. He would have smiled and taken the joke if some one had suggested that four years from then he would be standing there on th2 Capitol steps as Republican candidate for President. He was not at all sure he would be elected Governor—and when it happened it was only by a hair, Alf Landon, when he became Governor, was conscious of the dire emergency. He offered his cooperation. He said publicly that the country should clothe the President at such times with dictatorial powers. He accepted for his state the
ers, feed the unemployed. Without the farm checks his citizens could not have paid their taxes and helped
"| balance his state budget.
Many Things in Conflict
Somewhere between four years ago and now, a segment of the American populace—how large yet no one knows—began to question the method of their deliverance, and for their champion they have selected the Kansan who will throw the [ante across his shoulders to-
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Books ........17 Broun .......17 Comics ......27 Crossword ....23 Curious World 5 Editorials ....18 Fashions .....14
pledged
Federal largesse to help the farm- |
PEACE MESSENGER |
BERLIN AIRMEN HEAR LINDBERGH
Flier - Pleads for Security Based on Intelligence; Warns: of Peril.
Py United Press BERLIN, July 23.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, visiting Germany, pleaded for peace today in an address at an Aero Club luncheon in his honor. Peace is needed, he said, “because of the situation which confronts us in Europe.” Security is needed, Col. Lindbergh said—“one which rests in intelligence and not. force.” “It is no longer possible to shield the heart of a country. with its army, because aviation has created the most fundamental change ever made in warfare. “In my travels in Europe, I am more than ever impressed with the seriousness of the situation which confronts: us,” he continued. “When I see that within a day or two, damage can be done which nothing can replace, I begin to realize that we must. -eolok for a new type of seTauris which is dynamic, not static; security which rests in intelligence, not in forts. “It requires more intelligence to operate ‘an airplane than to dig a trench or shoot a rifle: ‘The educa-
tion which is necessary -in civilized avigtion must also:
of civilized institutions.
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gence and education and that we have moved power farther away frem ignorance. “I find some cause for hove in the belief that power which must be -bound to knowledge is less dangerous than that which is barbaric. It is the responsibility of aviation to Justify the combination of strength and intelligence.”
Afterward the colonel inspected ,
Tempelhof Airdrome and went up in a 52-passenger Junkers plane built on the same as. a bomber.
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GIVE EYES A CHANCE
T= famous detective,” Sherlock Holmes, . wduld assert that you ean tell a man’s character by observing his automobile. ~ If it is habitually spotted with mud and grime, look for a sloven-. ly person. If engine and
teach the value |
ON TARA
Resolutions Before Group Reported as Opposing “Higher Budgets.
’37 LEVIES CONSIDERED
Highest Impost in History of Community Possible, Book Declares.
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce directors were to meet this
afternoon ‘to act on ° resolutions adopted by the chamber’s civic affairs committee yesterday relative to 1937 budgets and tax rates. The resolutions were not made public, but: it was understood they opposed proposed increases in budgets of local ‘governmental tax units. A tax levy of $3.38 in Center Township of Marion County is possible under the proposed budget increases, William H. Book, executive vice president of the chamber, told the committee yesterday. Mr. Book said if the requests were granted "it would mean the highest tax rate in the history of the community, “Such a rate would be the second successive large increase in local
taxes,” he said, explaining that the rate. paid in Center Township in-
creased from $2.58 in 1935 to $2.78 in 1936.
4 TRAINMEN KILLED IN SOUTHERN CRASH
10 Passengers Hurt in Rail Collision in Georgia.
By United Press DOVER, Ga., July 23. trainmen were killed and between 10 and :15 passengers injured when two trains of the Central Railway of Seotiia. ‘collided near here today,
The. dead were Enginéers H. H.|
Hooks dnd 7. P Sum, and wo
- Officials of ‘the rail company had no. immediate pond tion for |’ the wreck.
BURNS ARE FATAL TO BLAST ViCTIM| Prest-0- Lite Plant Worker Dies in
Hospital ‘Here,
Elmer Downs, 30, Pittsboro, burned Tuesday in an explosion at
| the Speedway City plant of the | Prest-O-DLite. Co., died early this
morning in Methodist Hospital. The explosion, fireman said; was caused by gas fumes which had escaped from a boiler valve and were ignited by an acetylene torch. Mr. Downs was: burried in the blaze which followed. Three other mer suffered minor injuries in the ac-
] cident.
|COUGHLIN APOLOGY
TO BE BE PUBLISHED
Retraction of of Rosetdt Attack Scheduled in Priest's Paper.
By United Press DETROIT, July 23.=An open letter of apology by Father Charles E. Coughlin for a recent statement that President Roosevelt was =a “double-crosser and a.liar” will be published tomorrow in the press paper Social Justice.
MNutt Leaves Today
Gov. McNutt was to leave this}!
afternoon for the Dunes State Park for & short vacation, it was announced at the Statehouse. He is to give his weekly radio a Suiay Bight, oves sation | WIND,
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Satisfied
By United Press CHICAGO, July AB Marble Mildred” Bolton, con‘demned to the electric chair for the murder of her husband, Joseph, told the court today she did not want a sec--ond trial and was “perfectly content With ‘things as ‘ghey
are.” Surprised, Judge Robert O'Connell asked if she had considered the question care-
fully. “Yes,” she answered. “A second trial would be only a repetition of the first. I am satisfied.” .Judge O©O’Connell overrode her objection and set Aug. 3 as the date for hearing on a new trial motion. :
00-ED MURDER ~ HUNT PRESSED
Violinist, Plays Classical Music as Officials Continue Probe.
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By United Press . ASHEVILLE, N. C, July 23— Strains of classical music drifted from Mark Wollner’s cell in Buncombe County Courthouse today, as police turned their Helen Clevenger
murder inquiry once more to the |:
resort hotel in. which the blond, 19-year-old New York University student was attacked and shot a week ago. : Sheriff Laurence Brown, who promised arrest of the suspected murderer “within a day or two,” went to the hotel to question additional employes. . Wollner, 35-year-old concert violinist, held here since Saturday for questioning, was reported in cheerful mood ‘as he won. permission to have his violin brought to him. Jailers said he played softly. No charges have been placed against him. Brown: and Detective Chief Fred Jones have said they do not believe he had any connection with the slaying. But ke probably will be kept in custody until : the state chemist at Raleigh completes an analysis of stains on his cloth-
g. : ’ The sheriff, confident that a solution to the crime “lies inside the
hotel,” wag anxious to obtain writ- |
ten statements, from employes. Attention was directed
again {0 # | rebel a pass key fours ithe door of the |i
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hi 5. WARSHIP. OFF T0. GUARD AMERICANS
The VU. S. battleship Oklahoma, shown above. was ordered from Cherbourg, France, to Spanish waters along with the U. S. S. Quincy, en route to Europe. Secretary of State Cordell Hull decided that safety
measures were necessary to protect bloody Spanish FeBellion area.
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Sail to Aid Americans; British Fire at Re Rebels
Destroyer Sends Warning Shots Atter Bombs Drop Near Steamer.
Dy United: Press = LONDON, July - 23.—The ' British
destroyer Wildswan. yesterday. fired.
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®l2 2 FUND TRANSFERS | - APPROVED BY BOARD|
Salary Payments to ents to Statistics Clerk, ‘Police Instructors Involved.
Two transfers in Indianapolis funds were approved today by the State Tax Board. "A shift of $600 from the general health department fund to “the salary fund to pay the wages of a statistics: clerk was granted. Transfer of $1800 from the permanent to the temporary police: salary fund was approved to pay salaries of three police school commissioners. ‘An additional appropriation of
$60,860 for Wayne County also was |.
approved by the tax board. Of this sum, -$50,000 is to be used for oldage assistance and $11,400 for care of Ee domendent children. Grant County received approval ‘of a. $46,089 addition, $40,770 of which is to be used for public welfare work. :
SUSPECT IN POLICE .
STABBING. ARRESTED [sr
Cecil Skillerin Is. Charged With .. Assault and Battery.
Cecil Skillerin, 23; was under arrest today, charged with assault and battery with intent to kill in con-
nection with the ‘alleged “Sune 1.
‘Detective Paul. Th Found by . Detectives Taylor Don Brun i 48s %. Meret,
F D.R Puts Postma
le ler Strict Civil Service
By United Press.
ment Wis advised toda today. The State «I Départment requested the aid. of|.
2 high : ‘a Tebel plane niGhY as 10 Tay. 10 the straits. bombs f&! close
and spitatera struck Bilbas be evacuated immediately
4 foreign “office said the British ‘émbassy in Madrid had been instructed to act in concert with the French embassy to draw attention of the Spanish government to the difficulties which might arise if the inepational; port * of - Tangier is. used as a base of operations by .the Spariish fleet There has been no word’ from the ambassador for two days. It was ‘believed he might be trying to reach Madrid from San Sebastian.
ISSUES WARNING TO LOYALISTS, REBELS
Britain Ready to Unie to Unleash Guns at + Gibraltar.’ (Copyright. 1936. by United Press) GIBRALTAR, July 23.—British authorities have warned Spanish warships and airplanes, government
persons five days.: if they | the building and a roof storage tan = water for use 5 event the city supply is interrupted. < Rebels have killed or routed |:
of shrapnel. which flew into 2 Gibraltar yesterday and last nigh.
The Revolt
: Breter Is going to. the rescue of ‘| Americans beleaguered in Barce-
out . Spain. The cruiser Quincy is
2 {oa of siege.
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more than 1500 Americans in the
Export Line Ste: Steamer and Gunboats Answer Plea ~ for Aid in Spain.
BY HOBART C. MONTEE United Press Staff Correspondent
NGTON, ‘July 23—The port. line steamer:
lona and will reach that port at 9 a. m, tomorrow, the State Depart-
n “ &vacuating Amer Ani “tirgent ‘appeal that: American.
State Department Sends Ships to Evacuate
Uu. S. Citizens. DECISIVE BATTLE NEAR
Rebel, Government Troops on March for Conflict North of Madrid.
pyright. 1936, by United Press) The Spanish rebellion, no
approaching a national state of chaos, seemed near its climax today. A rebel army marched southward and a government army marched northward for what was expected on both sides to be the decisive battle. A British cruiser fired warning shots at a rebel airplane and British officials at Gibraltar issued a statement that they stood ready to open fire against any untoward ; event. Americans and other fora eigners were feared in great danger in some coastal por | The United States battleship Oklahoma was refueled and left Cherbourg, France, f the western coast to take off refugees if necessary.
An. urgent appeal ths
American women and chi ‘dren in the Port of Bilbao
evacuated :immediately - cabled to the ‘State Deb: ment today by Consul liam E. Chapingh. at. Eilba
Po | women aod ohn bg pn ot {rn
‘was cabled to the State Department today by Consul William E. Chapman at Bilbao. Mr, Chapman said the city is'in virtually a state of siege and that the food shortage is acute. He said the food situation may result in extensive’ looting and pillaging, since authorities are in ‘no position to enforce law and order. ‘The battleship Oklahoma was ex--pected to reach Bilboa, Spain, within 24 hours to rescue others of 1600 United States citizens in the path of belligerent columns through-
due at Gibraltar Sunday and the State Department may ask more merchant ships to make rescue trips to Spanish ports. One American, a woman, has been wounded, the embassy reported. Others have’ been under fire in two Madrid hotels for two days. No others have been injured, but the embassy was arranging to escort them to safety under armed guards.
Food Shortage Threatens
The embassy it If is in a virtual - C. Wendelin, d secretary, invited all Ameria we, but shortages of food and water threatened to create a crisis. The embassy had only food enough to last i30 ery vessel: rs
guards over the capitals aqueduct : reservoirs, the em-
bombed it, and at Pasajes, port halfway between Irun and Sébastiar, loyalist artillery o
‘shattering fire on rebels.
the big Pasajes oil depot have been hit. Refugees from Barcelona arti at French frontier points. repo wild disorder and some of
‘high 4s
Appointment. by the governm of an emergency committee uni Diego Martinez Barrio, president Parliament, te rule the seven F
turn all power over to the co tee in case the government. Premier Giral Pereira becam lated by a rebel siege at M or the capital fell. ; : Opinion at border points was the fate of the rebellion might be known for days, but. that ; rebels’ present successes. “were sensational.
235 ARE KILLED IN CLASH AT BARCELO
Melilla, Morgeco, Is Without