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4 Vacation City City Orders Its Es Relief Agencies to . ‘Stand By.’

gn ACROSS OCEAN

y ru Reported About A Miles From Coast by. U. S. Bureau. By United Press

MIAMI, Fla, July 28.—This vaca- ~ tion city “boarded up” today and

’ ordered its relief agencies to “stand |’

by” for possible damage from a . tropical tsorm sweeping across the Atlantic on a direct line toward southeastern, Florida. ~ Ajthough this is not the hurricane - season and weather reports indicted ‘ the storm probably will not reach . Wrvidarie intensity, county -disaster committees, organized after the devastating Florida Keys storm last “Year, were prepared to start relief werk immediately. ~ Latest advisory warnings said the storm was about 110 miles east- ~ southeast of Miami, moving more rapidly west-northwestward. ~~ "Indications are that the storm * will reach extreme southeast Florida . coast near Miami latter part of afternoon attended by gales over small

. . area near center and tides above * anormal with increasing winds be-

ginning near noon,” a weather re- ~ _ port said. = Red Cross - emergency organiza- © tions in the region of Lake Okee-

> + chobee also were asked to prepare

for action. Miami citizens were tak- : ie precautionary steps to protect * stores, houses and other property. - © At noon the Hurricane Warning ‘System reported the storm still was of “moderate character.”

~~ TORNADO, LIGHTNING, RAIN KILL 3 IN EAST

: ©. $300,000 Damage Reported in Tri- . x State Area,

By United Press "PITTSBURGH, Pa, July 28— Tornados, ‘Rghtning #md rain killed three persons, injured 20 or mote "and did $300,000 or more damage

~ last night in the area where Penn-’

| an Ohio and West Virginia join ~~ The dead are John McCann, 17, + EE a collapsing grand stand ~~ at k, Pa.: Russell Smith, 36, -~ electrocuted at Sherrard, W. Va, and Margaret’ Renner, 15, drowned. __ Storm winds struck first near “Wheeling and Follansbee, W. Va., swept through a corner of Ohio and - at Brownsville, Pa., at their great- , est force, caused nearly $200,000 ,. damage. Wheeling, = Follansbee Brownsville, Uniontown, Smock, and Connellsville, Pa., were isolated tem- ~ porarily when power and communiSa lines blew away. _

~ WESTERN RAIN ENDS ; 21- DAY DRY SPELL

Sonning Heat Flees Before Gale; “Minor Damage ‘Reported. By United Press ..- KANSAS CITY, Mo. July 28. — , Searing heat in much of the Kansas jan and Missouri areas fled today bea rn gale that f rought signt damage in scattered Twenty: days here without came to an end with the storm pe. night. The, wind at times : Teached hurricane’ proportions, and airport dispatches said a five-min- . ute period of 61-mile-an-hour wind * was recorded. * Parts of drought-stricken Kansas rejoiced in rains that brought down

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“I've been sitting on seats in Pennsy Cabs for 33 years,” H. M. Randolph (above) reminisced today, “and I think they could be a lot cooler.”

Mr. Randolph, who lives at 5345 E.

Washington-st, is a switch train

engineer on the Pennsylvania Railroad. He was asked what he thought

BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent ASHINGTON, July 28.—The mighty men who send this nation’s trains hurtling through the night filed formal charges against every last railroad in the United States today—alleging that

the seats in locomotives are too hard. These husky, hefty he-men demanded foot-warmers to keep their toes toasted. They insisted upon arm-rests, softly padded, to keep their elbows comfortable, and spring . cushions

“Cab. Seats Could Be ee er, Engineer Here Agrees

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about his co-workers, members of the Brotherhood of Americafi Trainmen, who today filed protest with the Interstate Commerce Commission

asking for softer engine cab seats.

Mr. Randolph said, “I don’t think

they're too hari, but they are too darned hot.”

on their seats, spines. : They weren't joking, either. The railrodds had better quit worrying so much about the ease of the passengers. and devote a little thought to the comfort of the trainmen, or there’ll be trouble.

to . sooth their

COUNTY BUDGET RISE FORESEEN

Rising Cost t of L Living May Bring Increase, Says Council Head.

The rising cost of living nrobably; will necessitate an increase in the county budget; William. ‘A. Brown, Marion’ County Council president, said today. | The council is to convene for its annual study of budget requests the latter part of August, he said. « Meanwhile, the County Commis sioners are working over their budget with ‘the possibility that some. revisions will be made before the budget is published, John Newhouse, president, said. “Our budget would have been the lowest in the history of the county it we had not n ordered by the courts to appropriate $157,000 for increased salaries and highway bills contracted in 1933,” Mr. Newhouse

said. ‘

Highway Levy io Be Asked

The commissioners are to ask again for a 1-cent levy for highway construction, Mr. Newhouse said. The Hay probably will meet of August to consider 2 $30,000 county surveyor’s request for materials, $2500 for new cars for the sheriff’s office and $225 for new windows at the" county infirmary, Mr. Brown said.

The Indiana statutes provide that estimates of unty officers shall be filed with the county auditor on or before Aug. 5. First publication of county budgets shall be not later than Aug. 29, and second pubiica‘tion not later than Sept.5. =» Annual meeting of the County | Council. to adopt formally a budget is set for Sept. 8.. An appeal to the State Tax Board must be made not later than Sept. 28. First . publication .of township budget shall be not later than Aug. 22, and second publication not later

than Aug. 29. The Tax Adjustment meets 21 and has until Oct. 1 to make the final levies. :

Yawn of Death By United Press KANKAKEE, ik 28.— ‘Mrs. Eva Mat 29, of

Terre Haute, Ind, Vis dead “today of : 8 wide o | yawn.. En route from Dul Minn, to Terre Haute by gy she

yawned. # becatiie CHtically ill and died here last aif

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Prof. Liddell Dies in East at Age of’ 70

By United Press ORLEANS, Mass., July 28.—Mark Harvey Liddell, professor-emeritus of Purdue University Fos internationally. known as an authority his Cape kd. hos home: here. early today. “He was Prof. Liddell had lived here since his retirement seven years ago as professor of English and English literature at Purdue. Early last spring he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and had been ill since then. The noted educator and author was born at Cimarfield, Pa., April 1, 1866, son of Thomas and Sophronia (Swan) Liddell. He took his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University in 1889 and did graduate work at both Oxford University in England and at Univesity of Berlin. From 1897 to 1900 Prof. Liddel was English professor at the University of Texas, and held a similar post at the University of Louisville from 1908 to 1911. In 1912 and 1913 he was acting professor of English at Butler University, Indianapolis. Later in 1913 he joined the Purdue faculty as English instructor, becoming professor eight Years later.

BUILDING ACTIVFY "HERE SHOWS GAIN

Increase of $208,933 in|

Week Reported.

‘ Valuation of puilding activities in Indianapolis for the week. ending July 25 was more than. triple the figures for the same period last year, George Popp Jr., building commissioner, said. today. | A total of 170 permits for $302,327 in construction and repair work was issued last week, he told the Works Board today, as compared with 160 permits for $93,394 last year, a gain of $208,933. | Fees ected were | $1137.90, as compared with $444.45. Total valuation of work in 1936 up to July 25 was $3,770,009,

STOCK MARKET PACE ‘SLOWED BY SELLING ——d

Move By United Press

‘Shares. Resist” Profit: Taking and Irregularly | Higher.

excellen er rcs revue i he ster

Ernest | Tait Flees From > Brivon; State | Police Told

BURNED TRYING T0 SAVE INVALID

Local Man, 80, Injured: Cripple, 82, Rescued by 2 Others.

(Picture on n Page. Twenty)

‘Righty-year-old Franklin Babbitt today was in City Hospital, suffering with second-degree burns, but happy with the knowledge that an invalid he tried unsuccessfully to rescue from fire was saved by others. When he was preparing to light a stove at his home, 1145 W. New York-st, yesterday afternoon, a can of liquid at his feet ignited, set his clothing afire,- and quickly swept the house. Mr. Babbitt ran outside, but remembered Mrs. Julia Baker, 82, who can't walk, was in a side room to the house and in danger. Elijah Jacobs, a neighbor, tried to keep him from dashing into the burning ‘ building, but Mr. Babbitt jerked away and disappeared in the fire and smoke. By the time he reached the opening to Mrs. Baker's room, smoke and flames kept: him out. He shoved through a side door, and into the yard, where he was told that other neighbors had rescued her.

“OUR newspaper often reports: “After the accident, the driver put on speed.and disappeared.” His guilty conscience flogged him as he tried to run and hide.' But

he nearly alway: leaves a clew, and the law enforcement officers usually run him down. It is a criminal offense to leave

A. F. Whitney, the big, twofisted president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, filed the hard - seat - in - locomotive charges with the Interstate Commerce Commission in a formal, printed: complaint against each and every railroad, jointly, singly and collectively. #2 » ”

E started in with the Aberdeenn & Rockfish Co. and went right down the list to the Yreka Western Railroad Co., naming nearly 1000 other carriers in between. He said the Brotherhood had 128,000 members and that they're all sick and tired of being bounced around, sans shock absorbers to absorb the jolts. :America’s\locomotives, he added: : “Endanger the health,” comfort and general welfare of the train-. “men -by unduly. them to extreme. weather conditions,” > Further more, he said, there hardly ever are enough seats in an engine for the help to sit on, and what seats there are, are too doggone hard to give a’ man any pleasure. He demanded enough seats to give each member a place to rest himself, and to assure this rest, specified: “Said seats (are) to be equipped with spring cushions and spring cushion back rests.” ” = ”

[ITNEY said’ his memebrs were fed up’ with riding in biizards cloudbursts and . dust - storms, without benefit of windshields. He demanded windows in locomotives. He indicated that the Brotherhood also was suffering from a collective case of cold feet, aggravated in the winter time, The: brothers also’ seem to be skinning up their elbows “all the time on the unyielding iron "innards of .their . steeds. Whitney asked, in any event: “A padded arm rest so connected as to fold over the window groove, when the window is open.” : =n =» INALLY, {ft developed, the trainmeén have been casting

envious glances backward to the ;

coaches, where. the passengers

ride in cool, air-conditioned com- |

fort. Up in the engine, where the trainmen live and have their ‘being, there is soot and noise and clatter and steam hissing down their undershirts. . Okay, now, railroads!* How about some of the comfort of a day coach for the boys up front?

SUSPECT IDENTIFIED

~. BY AUTO SALESMAN

Accused of Having Seized Local Man, Tied Him to Tree.

Pred Crouch, alias James Ander-

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ARRANGES FOR EVACUATION OF Ul. §. CITIZENS

Embassy Secretary Reports Americans Will Leave Madrid Thursday.

(Copyright. 1936, by United Press) Developments today in the Spanish rebellion: WASHINGTON — Exodus of foreign refugees from Madrid is arranged for Thursday morning. MADRID—Rebels and Loyalists continue inconclusive fighting in Guadarrama Mountains; : government

forces hold initiative.

WITH REBEL NORTHERN ARMY —Rebels throw cavalry into action in effort to retake lost mountain passes. SAN SEBASTIAN—Loyal' troops capture rebels besieged in barracks nd start drive against rebel general in Navarre.

BY HOBART C. MONTEE WASHINGTON, July 28-—Plans have been completed to evacuate Americans and other foreigners beleaguered in Madrid from that city to the Mediterranean coast at Valencia Thursday morning, the State Department was officially advised today by Eric C. Wendelin, embassy secretary. Mr. Wendelin did not say what means. of transportation would be used to evacuate the Americans and

LIST PLANS FOR SPRINGER RALLY

County G. 0. P. Leaders to Attend; Mendenhall to Head Delegation.

Arrangements for Marion County participation in the '-Republican meeting honoring Raymond S.

Springer, nominee for. Governor, and: Col. Frank Knox, nominee for Vice President, Aug. 8, in Connersville, Ind., were announced today. Frederick E. Schortemeier, Republican county chairman, announced that Maurice L. Mendenhall, preconvention Indiana ‘manager for Col. Knox, would head the commit- |

other foreigners, but it was pre-|tee.

sumed that he had: obtained assurances that the Spa sgevernment |'g nish a speci in. and armed to make the un to the Mediterranean coast. . The U. 8. 8. Quincy arrived today at Alicante on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, prepared to receive the Americans’ when they arrive | from Madrid.

TROOPS WORN OUT BY FIERCE FIGHTING

Stalemate ' Likely in Mountains North of Spanish Capit-"

(Copyright, 1936. by United Press) MADRID, July: 23—Rebel and government armies, nearing exhaustion after days of constant fighting, attacked and counter-attacked in the mountains north of the capital today. A slowing pace on both sides indicated the possibility, even the likelihood, of a stalemate in which

{for some days neither ‘side might

gain a decisive advantage in the Madrid area. The rebels, hurled back by the Loyalists in a series of fierce mountain clashes, have succeed apparently, in reforming ‘their lines.

TROOPS OF CAVALRY: STORM MOUNTAINS

Screams of Horses Add to Horror of Fighting. By United Press FIELD HEADQUARTERS, NORTHERN SPANISH REBEL ARMY, July 28.—Gen. Emilio Mola, rebel commander in .chief in the north, threw a picked cavalry regiment into action today in a drive fo retake the vitally important

Somosierra mbuntain pass on the .

road to Madrid. - Screams of horses added to. the horror of the fighting. Government airplanes continued to take the]

| greatest toll.

by | GOVERNMENT FORCES

- CAPTURE BARRACKS Storm Begin, New

Other ‘committéemen ‘are Donald . Mote, Herman B. Gray, James

Ta. 1. Rust, Carl Carey, J. ji Will H. Adams and Samuel Campbell.

-A ' special train carrying the Marion County delegation is to leave Indianapolis at 2 the afternoon of Aug. 8 and return that night. All of the 656 precinct committeemen . and vice’ committeewomen are to be given free transportation.

STATE REPUBLICANS MAP. FINANCE DRIVE

Indiana Committee Being Organized 7 by Burrell Wright. ‘Formation of state and. national Republican finance committees has been announced by Ivan C. Morgan, G. O. P. state chairman. The state finance committee now is being formed by Burrell Wright,

‘state committee treasurer, and the

national committee is to be formed after:a conference with John D. M. Hamilton, national chairman, during his visit to Indianapalis today. Mr. Morgan charged that the New Deal “expects to carry the election by the use of relief funds.”

SHOWERS. PREDICTED * TODAY OR TONIGHT

Tomorrow to Be Fair and Somewhat Cooler.

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HERE F OF PARTY PARLEYS

ower I Take Every. State North of Ohio River,’ He Declares.

LAYS CLAIM TO N. Y.

Faces Full Schedule of Conferences With Hoosier: Chieftains.

John D. M. Hamilton, Res publican national ‘chairman, can’t say at this time by how “many hundred thousand we will carry Indiana.” - He was sure, however, that the Republicans would carry not only Indiana, but every state north of the Ohio River

and east of the Mississippi.

Warmly dressed in a dark bine suit, 8 wintry tie, black shoes and hose and & white shirt, the 42-year-old G. O. P. leader sat if a room at the Claypool today and received visitors. This is his first political visit: to Indiana, and he faccd a full scheds ule of conferences with state leads ers. Then he is to take a night train back to Chicago headquarters.’ “I know we'll take Indiana,” he said, “but until I have talked to your leaders I am not prepared io say by how large a vote.”

“Their Last Chance,” He Says.

He hoisted a foot up on to the ; chair ‘seat, and hooked an arm around his doubled knee. “What do you think of the: six Democrgtic Governors and their ane nounced” broadside against the Res publicans?”’ he was asked. ’ “Well, we've never needed any more than one person at a time to answer, Mr. Roosesvelt. Of course, it’s the last’ chance many of them: will have to speak as Governors, There's one angle!” He laughed. “What did you think of Gov, Nuft’s | attack on r. 0 | Hearst {backing?”, 2 “Well, 1 heard he spoke, but don’t know what he said.” Lahor Vote “Undeliverable’

“If Mr. Landon wins, will you become {Postmaster General?” “No. I'm not interested. Anyway,” and he smiled broadly, “we're going to put the office under civil service and 1 oulan’ pass the examina. tion.” “Do vou anticipate any trouble with the organized labor vote?” ; “I have never looked upon the labor vote as deliverable. There will be a great many men who will have a natural resentment when they see their incomes taxed and penalized in order to see some one else go into office.” , : He paused’ a moment, “And ‘° I'm referring to John Lewis,” he said emphatically. gs “We'll Carry Oklahoma” “How about Gov. Lehman (New York Demdecrat who is running again and is regarded by politicians as a threat to Republican chances)?” “Upstate Néw York is in a pers fect upheaval against Roosevelt, We’ll come into the New York City with 750,000 and up and before we get through we'll carry the state by 500,000 or 600,000. i “We'll carry every state north of the Ohio River line and east of the Mississippi River. We're going to carry Oklahoma. (New Deal can= didates ran away with the Democratic primaries there about a week ago.) We'll carry Nebraska. If Nore ris runs he won’t run asa Repubs lican. ” “What answer have you to Demos 2 cratic charges that Gov. Landon’ acceptance speech was vague?” . “1 don’t know what they mean n by vague, except that anything cone nected with good, decent gover ment is vague to the New Deal.” He smoked a cigarel in short, quick puffs. “What have you to say to charges that the Old Guard is back in cons trol of the Republican Party?” “I can’t understand what they mean by that. We're taking advan=

‘| tage of all the leadership in the Re=

publican ' Party. Who are the

boys, anyway?” Mr.

the first time in daylight. % He arose, peeled off his -¢o George A. Ball, Muncie, nat commitieeman, came :

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