Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1936 — Page 1
Is=restiowans] VOLUME 48— NUMBER 137
LOUIS HAS SLIGHT WEIGHT EDGE OVER
SHARKEY FOR BOUT
Dusky Fighter Sca Scales 199% to 197V4 for Former World’s - Champion.
GREAT CROWD EXPECTED
Negro Favored in Betting but Odds Will Narrow, Is Forecast.
By United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—~Joe Louis held a slight weight advantage over Jack Sharkey when they were examined today for their 10-round heavyweight bout tonight at Yankee Stadium, Louis scaled 199%; against 197 for Sharkey, the former heavyweight titleholder.
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BY WALTER STEWART Times Special Writer
NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Two su- |:
perbly muscled animals will be pit-
ted at Yankee Stadium tonight, and |
for one of them it is the last cast at fortune—the last night of savage ecstasy in the glare of the big time. Joe Louis: has come a long way in a short time. Jack Sharkey’s trail reaches 12 years back into the past, but they have climbed the same ladder of battered men and one can climb no farther.
If Joe Louis misses the glory try |
tonight he must move back to the
shabby misery of the tank-town cir- |?
cuit or quit the ring. He says he never will fight again if he loses, and he means it,- He has earned almost $500,000 in 13 months and he is not a man of expensive tastes. * Even if he were, a beating at the Sharkey hands would stamp him as & morning glory and morning glories are not profitable when they are being blown downhill, Sharkey is too old a man to drag ~ himself up the rocks again, and ne is - financially independent. If he loses he will bind up the bitter wounds and carry them back to the tranquil shades - of Chestnut Hill. Ancient Mariner was once Betviweigh champion. of the world. weil dill groates: Sladiatopial
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3 tha 8 Janie wii see the passing of a Teme which will live while the men themselves are dust. rs Are Puzzled The man in the street can dope this one as well as the ink-stamped expert with charts and wecords slip‘ping from his desk. The answer is psychological rather than physical. No one knows what Jack Sharkey is thinking—what Joe Louis will do the first time he is smashed solidly just below the pouting lips. Newsrapermen and trainers alike are frankly puzzled and the outcome is resting quietly in the laps of the gods. . Interest in. this weird spectacle is reflected in the ticket sales, which have been excellent. The smile on the face of Promoter Mike Jacobs attains alarming proportions as the fight for choice locations goes grimly on. Early today Mike announced that $125,000 had been plumped into the coffers of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, and he believes the sale will boom over $200,000 before Louis: and Sharkey hide their hands in leather. There is something tremendously fascinating about this clash.of arms and wills. Joe Louis is a 22-year-old Negro attacking a 33-year-old Lith, who was making his first professional fight when Joe was picking cotton down in Alabama and going on 10, Sharkey knows a hundred wiles and strategems to one for the young Negro, but Joe carries the difference in knuckles of his brusque right and that’s why they are betting on him,
UNION PARTY VICTOR AT POLLS IN QUEBEC
By United Press QUEBEC, Quebec, Aug. 18.—Leaders of the National Union Party, overwhelming victors in yesterday's provincial elections, promised today to effect a revolution in Quebec administrative affairs. o Having routed the Liberal Party from a 39-year tenure of office, the National Unionites are bent on completely overhauling the provincial administration and on a social and industrial reform in which several United States firms may be cast in the role of villain. During their campaign some leaders of the National Union, an alliance of the Conservative Party with & group of dissident Liberals, even advocated secession from the British
Empire. FARLEY TO ATTEND EDITORIAL MEETING
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Jack Sharkey
JESSE UNMOVED BY SUSPENSION THREAT
Olympic Star to Sail for Home} Wife ‘Tomorrow.
Mary for. home tomorrow :
Queen and he doesn't care “a couple of hoots” about his imminent suspension by the American A. A. U. “I guess I might as well consider
myself suspended,” the Negro star of the Olympics said, “because I'm not going to participate in the track meet scheduled in Sweden starting Wednesday.” “I'm going thome,” Jesse said, “because I'm tired and I want to see my wife. It's been: exactly two months and three weeks since I saw. her.”
Cantor Interested in Owens’ Career
By United Press HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 18.—Eddie Cantor hoped he could settle today
the details of launching a career as a professional showman for Jesse Owens, the world’s fastest runner. The film comedian has this plan for Jesse: The Negro runner will appear under the stewardship of the comedian in vaudeville, as a lecturer and at playgrounds.
EXTINGUISH APOLLO FIRE Answering a downtown fire alarm, four pumpers, two ladder wagons and two salvage corps raced to the Apollo Theater today. A two and one-half gallon extinguisher put out a fire in a canopy outside the theater.
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Coe, Broadcaster of F light { , Tonight, to Write His Own.
Version for Times Readers
THE Jack Sharkey-Joe Louis fight. tonight will be broadcast by The Indianapolis - Times .and other Seripps-Howard newspapers over the Columbia]
casting System. The contest is expected to start about 8 p. m. (Indianapolis time). The local outlet for the broadcast will .be WFBM (1230 kiloeycles). The blow-by-blow description ‘will be handled : by Charles Francis Coe, famous magazine writer and himself former Navy boxing champion. The in-between - rounds information will be given by Ted Husing.
Mr. Coe, following the broadcast, will write for The Times his ver-
sion of the battle between Louis and Sharkey. It will be published in all editions of The Times tomorrow. -
Charles Francis Coe
RURAL MAILMEN GIVEN WELCOME
5000 in Convention Here Are ‘Addressed by Townsend.
With registration completed, more than 5000 members of the National
and auxiliary today heard an address of welcome by M. Cliffoyd
who spoke for Gov. McNutt, and then settled down to four days of business sessions.
The thirty-third national assembly, which opened yesterday in the |
tional meeting of the junior organization, auxiliary meetings, and’ a program of business: and. enterfain-
Wiley M. Riedel, state ‘association president. - Others who were introduced at the morning session were Raymond H. Combs, national president, and Mrs. J. Ed Cooper, national auxiljary president. Reports of national officers were to be read this afternoon. State dinners, a secretaries’ banquet and theater parties are on tonight's proaa . The principal address at tomorrow morning's session is to be delivered by Rep. Louis Ludlow.
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
‘Merry-Go-R'd 13 Movies 8 Mrs. Ferguson 14 Mrs. Roosevelt 13 Music ...... ..19 Obituaties *
Bridge Broun Comics Crossword ! Curious World 9 Editorials ....14 Fashions Financial .... Fishbein Flynn Forum Grin, Bear It. 13 Ind. History ..14 In Indpls. .... 3 Jane Jordan ..10
Questions Radio Scherrer Serial Story .. Short Story ..
Sports State Deaths. 20
Johnson Wiggam 13
Rural Letter. Carriers’ Association.
Townsend, Lieutenant Governor,
Claypool, is to include the first na-
$70,000 Added to Indiana Fund for Drought Aid
The: drought relief fund for Indiana ‘was boosted to $150,000 ‘today with an additional °allottment of $70,000 bythe Department of: Agriculture, R. C. Smith, ‘Resettlement
Administration regional director, announced. Last week $80,000 was listed. as Indiana’s share of a $975,000 allocation for five states in this region. Of the $150,000 for Indiana, $105, 000 has been designated for loans to {farmers whose crops were destroyed by: the drought, to buy feed for livestock and seed for next year’s crops. The remaining $45,000 is for direct ‘grants to farm families that are in| desperate cirrcumstances as 8 result of crop losses. Mr. Smith said preliminary surFveys over the state by county re-
’ ‘habilitation Subervigors indicated
Grants Made for
Indigent, Blind Times Special WASHINGTON, Aug: 18.~Indiana, today was granted $624,467.49 for indigent . elderly persons and. $53,683 | was for ‘the needy blind, by ‘the Social | Security Board. hg grants are for July 1 to Sept. 30.
INCOME INCREASING, | TREASURY REPORTS
Big ' Drop in Expenditures. Also Revealed.
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. creasing Federal revenue and decreasing expenditures were reported by the Treasury today, in its first
important financial statement since] i
the White House announcement that no new taxes would be required because of the improved. fiscal outlook.
The Treasury mid-August Sstate- : 6 | ment showe? = receipts for the first |
‘#ix weeks of the present fiscal year of $516,738,807, or $41,355,000 ‘more than for the same ‘period a ago. . $ P
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UPRISERS” SEE VICTORY | |
[Select Man for President; | Bomb’ San Sebastian; Plan |
Attack - on “Madrid.
‘By sited. Press TODAY'S - developments. in the. Spanish civil war: : BURGOS—Rebel leaders agree on national plan of military action; confirm Gen. Cabanellas as next Prien Charge Loyalists using |
'HENDAYE-—Many killed * in new warship - bombardment of - San} Sebastian; maternity hospital struck; Irmn bombarded; typhoid breaks out in San Sebastian, LISBON—Five hundred .loyalists killed, hundreds wounded and 1500 "made ‘prisoners when rebels cap. ture Almendralejo.
MADRID Goveriuneni sends
“strong force of best men to Bada- |
joz Province to stop rebel. advance; fierce fight for Oviedo continues.
By United Press ‘GENERAL HE ADQUARTERS,
SPANISH NORTHERN - REBEL |
ARMY, BURGOS, ‘Aug. 18.~Loyalist’ forces, fighting desperately to save the Red Madrid Popular Front government, have resorted to -the use of ‘gas on the northern front, Gen. Emilio. ‘Mola, commander of northern’ rebel armies, charged loday. Gen. Mola, said the Madrid forces used’ gas Monday ee hey were . “A(T
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| ctly pring af 1943. _ Surviving him ie tigers, Mrs. Elroy. Lyons and Mrs. Leo G.
, brother, Michael Hett, all of ae y. His wife, Mrs, Winifred Heft’ died four months ago tomorrow. Services ‘are to. pe held Friday morning at the home and at Lady of Lourdes<Church, with burial in Holy Cross Cemetery. - Friends may: call at the home tomorrow.
thau Jr. secreATE I favors Spnsolidat tion of half a : es into a
Washington. said today. Mr. Morgenthau favors consoli= dation’ for: “economy and efficiency.” Congress will be asked at its next session to’ provide for merger of the Coast Guard, Secret . Service, Customs Bureau Alcohol "Tax unit, Narcotics Bureau and Internal: - Revenue Intelligence ‘Service under a unified command.
RAINS IN STATE BRING RESPITE
Unsettled Weather Here to Continue, Says’ Local Bureau.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am. ...73 10a.m. .., 76 7am ...9 1llam.. 84 8§a.m ... 7 Noon . 86 9 a mi. 3.0
Heavy rains in the northern section.of the state last night drenched parched fields from Marion to Fort
| Wayne and brought a respite from
the mid-August heat waye. Overcast skies in Indianapolis
| sent the. temperature tumbling from
90 degrees yesterday afternoon to 71 at 9 p. m. today. The local forecast is for unsettled weather tonight with continued high temperatures. While ‘Indianapolis. may. have an occasional shower today, the Weath-
er ‘Bureau predicted fair, weather
> They told Safety Board members
-| ‘There are no private hose facili- - | ttes clase enough to use.on the gar- :
“DRIED- oT GARDENS J
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Fire. Department Hose to Transport Water.
- About. 30 residents of Trvingion today - appealed to the fire department to save their gardens from the | ravages of. drought.
that they had replanted scveral times the. vegetabe plants they had expected to produce their winter's food supplies. ‘Bui each new set of plants they -| put out shriveled up and died from lack of rain and too much sun; ac- { cording to Frank Viehman, 10 N.
I th LW HQ : a and see that the gardens] “i were sprinkled enough to save them.
Recommendations of Committee, Chairman Cable Explains.
13-Cent Rise in Tax Rate Forecast on Besa of Estimates; Mayor Cites Salary
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Items, Valuation Drop.
While organized taxpayers mapped plans to fight 1937 city budget which calls for a 13 ‘cent levy increase, : civic club leaders prepared to push their fight for action
the trackless trolley agreement, City Council members
arranged to hold their first meeting Thursday afternoon to study the budget submitted last night. A tax rate of $1.243 would be needed to raise the $6,1 760 asked in the budget, as compared with the $1.11 rate last
year.
Harry Mies8e, Indiana Taxpayers’ "Association secre tary predicied an increase in tax delinquencies if the $1.243
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Dollar Down
By United Press NEW. YORK, Aug. 18 —Mrs. Samuel Cline - asked Supreme: Court Justice George E. Brower . to compel her divorced husband to pay $3382 in arrears on alimony or send him to jail. Justice Brower informed: Mr. Cline that he could purge himself of contempt if’ he would pay Mrs. . Cline $1 a week for the next 85 ‘years. ‘His last $1 payment would be due Aug. 31, 2001.
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rate is allowed, and said hi organization was ready fight every item in the budg in an effort to bring r tions. Mayor Kern attributed - the ine crease to salary restorations, a cent levy Tor track elevation ‘wol the new Flower Mission Hi requirements for facilities; ‘and decrease inthe: assessed valuat “Mayor Predicts Accord ‘Despite protests of the civic el leaders last night, the Cou committee on- public works failed report its recommendations on agreement with Indianapolis -F ways,” Inc. Dr. Theedore : ©
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wished to give the Works. the “courtesy of considering recommendations.” . “+ Mayor BR erntnid ods this 40- be
would be sufficient. The people 0 continue, to pay these. taxes ) go ‘higher. 1 wonder if they looked at every item: in the
: io see if there is nothing absolu
unnecessary.” 3 Included in the departmental quests were salary increases ic total approximately’ $230,000 for: th city general fund. This does not clude the" health, park and air increases.
Mayor Cites Reasons
Mayor Kern also pointed ‘to’ the necessity for purchases where equ ment had worn out and the creased price of commodities contributing. factors in the highe budget estimate. = He cited improved receipts’ in and license income, and restora of wages in private business as tional basis for the increase. :