Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1936 — Page 1
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HEAT DAMAGES | CruRcH BELFRY SERVES As SNIPERS POST cowry caoes; [BQ L§ NO RAN NEAR
Five Overcome as Mercury Soars to 100.4 in Abnormal Wave.
80-YEAR-OLD MAN DIES
PRICE THREE CENTS
INDISTRIAL VOTE IN A
Thousands to Greet Kan: at His Birthplace in West Middlesex.
TALKS ON GOLF COURSE:
6. 0. P. Candidate Pledges: to Back Moves That Aid Recovery.
Jig Government Informs Britain Vessels Won’t Be Halted |Westerner Who Has Rural on High Seas. Background Invades
Iv Bin o Steel Section. NEUTRALITY PACT SEEN en ..|FACES TEST IN SPEECH
Farmers, Grimy Miners and Monopolists Await His - Answer to Problems.
U. S. Faces Possibility It Must Try to Prevent Arms Shipments.
Late Gardens Ruined by High Temperatures, Abbott Says.
HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6am. ... 81 9a. m.... 7a.m ... 8% 10am... 93
Sam... 87
Record-breaking heat that was 17 degrees above normal yesterday and was blamed for the death of one person in Indianapolis, continued unabated today and there was no promise of relief from the Weather Bureau. It reached 100.4 degrees at 2:30 | p. m. yesterday, and the bureau said there was no reason to suppose it will not again break 100 today. Five persons were overcome by heat here yesterday. 3 The heat was damaging especially | ; eo 2
jo the vo ounty tomato rer The belfry of a church on the hard-fought road to Zaragossa, where drou 5 Eres of inferior quality Spanish loyalist have been attempting to oust rebels, serves as a’snipers’ ght, : nest for three loyalist militiamen’s harassing fire on insurgent troops.
Stocks Steady | INFIRMARY HEAD at Opening of | DEFIES OUSTER
county's: growers, according to Market Toda | y James M. Twineham Denies
Horace Abbott, county agricultural By United Press Charge Inmates Are Not
. °° . By United Press : LONDON—Spain takes important step to placate Europe by pledging herself not to molest British ships on the high seas, and, inferentially, ships of any other power. BERLIN — German wrath rises against Russia and alarmist stories are ecirculated in Berlin of a Russian
BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent ; WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa., Aug. 22.—<Gov. Alfred M. Landon is coming today to his village birthplace to open” his campaign for President of * the United States. 3 Républicans by ‘tens of thousands are moving on th cropped fairways of the Tam’ O'Shanter Golf Course to hear him open the political. contest for control of the rich' and populous East. be
Pennsylvania and New York, the:
two states Gov. Landon will invade with formal addresses on this jour=: ney, are vital in the November plans of both Republicans and Democrats, The candidate who wins them is likely to stand next January in the White House, ' listening to street crowds acclaim him. ; Gov. Landon is due here at a
Rocky
BY THOMAS L. STOKES Times Special Writer
WEST MIDDLESEX, Pa., Aug. 22.—Alfred M. Landon, symbol of average Americanism with a. background of rural civilization, comes face to face today with another civilization, . the . industrial civilization’ of iron and steel d and coal which embodies some fleet concentration in. the |of the nation’s most pregnant Baltic. Reports denied in |problems. : Moscow. | The West meets the East, and MADRID—Loyalist offensive | {ic 2s Prepares fo assess the
? . Westerner who opens his campaign In progress on eight of 11 | for the presidency today in this fronts.
little town where he was born 49 : years ago. The speech is schedWASHINGTON — United | uled to start about 1-p. m. (IndianStates may be compelled to | 2PoLS Time). A] take action to prevent shipment of arms to Spain.
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-All roads lead to the village of West Middlesex, Pa., today as Gov. Alfred M.’ Landon returns to his birthplace for the opening speech of his’ first Eastern invasion. This map shows principal highways to ‘West Middlesex. :
Rescued Missouri Miner Tells of Fight for Life
Last Four Men. in Shaft Cut Off From Safety by Flames; Followed by Deadly Damp; One of Survivors Sees
agent. Late Gardens Harmed
Late gardens, planted at the suggestion of Mr. Abbott as substitutes for early gardens ruined by the drought, have in turn been ruined. Sudam grass, planted as a late forage crop to take the place of pastures parched for nearly the entire summer by the heat and
This is an average small town, surrounided by farms. It does not grow, but just exists quietly from year to year. It might have been lifted bodily from. Gov. Landon’s adopted Kansas. Today, for the moment, it is transformed into a
(Copyright, 1936, by United Press) LONDON, Aug. 22.—The Spanish
drought and worthless as feed, has been hindered seriously by the continued drought, he said. United States agricultural officials, who have toured the nation's drought areas and held a conference in Indianapolis with central Indiana agricultural agents, suggested that all corn that has no chance for a reasonable harvest, be cut green and put in silos. # Cattle May Board in State
Indiana—not ‘Marion County but | others where the dairy herds are less concentrated—may be called upon to “board” cattle from the Western states, Mr. Abbott said, to avoid mass sales and a demoralization of the national market, with . consequent heavy financial losses to
NEW, YORK, Aug. 22.—Stocks were steadier at the opening today after suffering their ‘widest break since April 27 in yesterday’s session. Bonds made an irregular decline. Cotton eased a few points. Trading was moderately active in the outset hut it quieted later and prices were ‘firm in most sections. The better market condition was attributed to the statement by Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan & "Co. that no: European war:was-ims minent at this tme., Lamont who just returned from Europe, said 95 per cent-of the peoples: of Europe do not want to fight. His statement came at a time when Wall Street was harrassed by war fears, induced
‘Fed Properly.
"Although the County Commissioners have asked for his resignation, James. M. Twineham, Infirmary superintendent, today indicated he did not consider ‘himself fired and said he “hoped the misunderstanding. could be worked out.” He admitted the commissioners told him they planned to make
some” changes: Several. meoks AfQumms “I-haven’t anything to say for publication,” he said, “but I can promise you plenty when the proper time comes. I have put in six months of the hardest work I ever did in my life during my term here. “I have succeeded in that time in
government, hard pressed by rebels at home and Nazi-Fascists powers
-| abroad, made a gesture of major
importance today by renouncing any right it" may have to search British ships on the high seas. ° It was believed that by its action Spain renounced any claim to justification ‘for halting ships of any nation, and thus moved a long way to calm the rage, carefully nurtured by ‘government press bureaus of Germany and Italy. % :
once to all ships of all nations, and would remove perhaps the chief cause for fear of an international blow up. SH
renunciation Would be extended at |
gloom,
teeming metropolis. But, hedging. it about at a few miles’ distance, is a wall of steel— the smokened ranks of steel mills in this salient of Pennsylvania and Ohio where grimy men move about, their shadows: lit up by the fires from the furnaces, their faces glow- | ing from the molten gold ‘which spits its fiery particles into. the
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Farmers in Crowds
Some of them are here today: In the crowds; “tod; Are : on the golf course where the candidate speaks.. Small town merchants are here, with their families, and politicians—and," too, the masters of iron and steel and coal.
cars last night
coal mine for 72 hours.
buried alive.
Two Companions Die.
Jack W. McCann, 50, and Demmer Sexton, 37, were recovering at Moberly, Mo., today from the effects of having been imprisoned in a The men were rescued yesterday afternoon. . Their two companions, Edward Stoner Jr. and George. Dameron, 27, Negro mule driver; died from the effects of gas a short time after the four were cut off from the main shaft by fire. : : . ~ In the following dispatch McCann tells his own story of being
BY JACK W. M'CANN '» (Conyright, 1936, by United Press)
___ MOBERLY, Mo., Aug. 22.—1I'll teil this just as straight as 1 can, buddy, starting right at the beginniug.~ ~~ - It was Tuesday afternoon. The other fellows had gone up, but Demmer Sexton and young Ed Stoner and the mule driver, George Dameron, and I, stayed behind to set off some
and a handshaking, speaking spin through the Prairie States which Republicans. are confident will ? back to their party in November.
Confers With Leaders
In Nebraska, Illinois and Ohio, the man who relishes the descrip= tion, “typical Governor of a typical, Prairie State,” has been making brief talks to the electorate and ex= changing friendly handpumps wi all within reach. There have conferences with state leaders. | Next week. he will speak in Ch tauqua and Buffalo (N. ¥),
depend on the prosperity of the nation’s, farm region,
by reports of other travelers who just returned. ‘
blasts. : The other three were back in fhe tunnel fixing the blasts to loosen coal for the next day's work, and I was walking toward the shaft. Just about the time I got there and saw
U. S. Considers Embargo on Arms
By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.—State
growers. breaking up drinking among -the Mr. Abbott said he had specifica Prev. | employes and inmates and in cut- ? ol 11a. m, Close | 1; the tions for the co Atchi bad tr v ting down on waste. I told t) mstrucuion of chedp, rt Northern revasibusiriavise 387s 9 cooks to give these old people plenty (Turn to Page Three)
Alfred M. Landon can not escape the significance and meaning of his appearance in this empire of industrialism. How does he propose to meet its problems? = Many in the crowd today would
appearance at Crestline as his spe-' cial train moved acroks Ohio. = “What we want in this country is. one of the freest possible systems of
emergency silos that are efficient, | O™% production of goods and services.”
and that he will urge their use by 2
farmers having none.
“Our Indiana farmers should con- | Goody serve every bit of feed,” he said, “so | Ge
that any surplus of hay may be
shipped to states that have no feed | Bore
at all. “Marion County has been one of the hardest hit in the state. We
have no pactures and haven't had | Jnited
all summer. Even with good soak-
ing rains now, it is doubtful wheth- | Sennecott
er they would revive soon enough to be of much use this fall.”
Hay Trucked Here Mr. Abbott said the roads now
are full of trucks moving hay from v
"Illinois and other states not so seriously affected by drought, into Indiana and Kentucky. ‘The hay is bought for prices that: start ‘at $18 a to
n. Mr. Abbott said that county agents and ‘Purdue University 'experts were informed by the Federal observer that the drought situation was worse, and would directly affect Indiana more, than they probably realized.’ He also said, Mr. Abbott reported, that Indiana farmers probably do not realize yet the full seriousness of the feed problem for the winter. William McBeath, 80, died yesterday of a heart attack induced by the excessive heat at his home, 8400 College-av, ;
July Heat Toll 55; August, to Date, 2
In contrast to the 55 Marion County heat deaths in. July, Dr. William E. Arbuckle, coroner, announced today that only two weather fatalities have been reported this month.
~ “There doesn't seem to be any complete, scientific explanation for these figures,” he said. “Tempera-
Timken R B 3 Bendix ....... i.iiieiiienienes 27% Douglas Aircraft ........... w-. 13% nited Aircraft
BY ine ener anes Caine rn r eae 12% “Phillips Petrol 42% Std Oil of Indiana ........... 3 Oil of New Jerse, 4 Bethlehem Steel
ENTER GOLF FINAL
State Amateur Crown at Stake in Play Today.
Times Special TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Aug. 22— Fritz Cox, 24-year-old local player, and Bob Hamilton, Evansville youth, were to meet here today in a scheduled 36-hole match for the state amateur golf championship. A new champion is assured, since Hamilton advanced .to the finals by eliminating Leon (Bud) Pettigrew, Pendleton, winner last year in the semi-finals yesterday, 3 and 2, Cox advanced with a two-up victory over Bill ‘Reed ‘Jr, Indianapolis public links champion. Cox was state junior title holder in 1932 and was once runner-up to
Johnny McGuire, Indianapolis, in the amateur. Hamilton captured the state high school title in 1934.,
| U, S. MAIL CARRIERS
CLOSE CONVENTION
15d Raymond H. Combs Named
Association Chief.
Raymond H. Combs, Churchville, N. Y,, today began a new term as president of the "National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association. He was elected last night as the thirty-third annyal convention closed in the Indiana Roof ballroom. He had been serving the unexpired term of a former president. Louisiana was chosen as the convention state for next year, and New Orleans virtually ‘was assured of the convention. L. M. Walker, McAlester, Okla., was elected vice president; Clifton J. Brown, Franklin, Tenn. was re-elected secretary, and William L. Fletcher, Hamlin, Tex., named treasurer. Mrs. Ross E. Immell, New Paris, Ind, was elected national auxiliary president and Miss Margaret May, Kuna, Idaho, was elected Junior Rural Letter Carriers’ Association president. :
13 HELD IN ASSERTED BLACK LEGION PLOT
By United Press © > DETROIT, Aug. 22.—Thirteen al leged leaders of an asserted Black
Department officials today faced the strong probability that the Administration ' will. be compelled shortly to take some definite action toward preventing the shipment of American arms and ammunition to Spain. ‘Increasing indications that the European nations may get together at an early date on a joint pact pledging neutrality and non-inter-vention in the Spanish civil war placed before State Department officials the question of what they or President Roosevelt can do to stop arms shipments from here to the Spanish warring factions. Reports from Rome that Italy had accepted the French proposals for & non-intervention pact was con- ¢ (Turn to Page Three)
Fender-Bender :
BY NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL
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oly.
for steel
tacles into
like ‘to know. He, himself, is in the crucible in this valley of steel. Gathered here are steel workers who are tempted by the appeal of John L. Lewis to join his drive to unionize America’s key industry. Here also are the bosses who keep Mr. Lewis at bay.
Monopoly Builders Present
And here, provided with places of honor on the platform, are the directors of Pennsylvania’s great industries, men who are integral parts of Pennsylvania’s Rebublican machine,’ who furnish the financial sinews of war, who. play politics, state and national, because they can get what they want that way, They are the builders of monop-+
They and their predecessors have created a Frankenstein monster since Alf Landon was born here in 1887 and returned here from time to time before the turn of the century to visit his relatives. Ld Coal and steel were here then. Andrew Carnegie had built a busi‘I ness from the need of the Civil War engines of destruction. But 1it was not until 1901 that J. Pierpont Morgan created the first billion dollar corporation, the United States Steel Corp.
Roosevelt Opened War ‘Then began that process, carried on by Mr. Morgan and others, of
linking industry. with industry into great combines and
tying them to- , steel and coal and railroads and banks. They reached their tengovernment. They spoke | of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio - and with authority in the careless twen- problems.
wits [NATURAL GAS CHANGE.
it full of flames, cutting us off, I heard four -blasts be-
ROOSEVELT STUDIES POLITICAL REPORTS
Won’t Begin. Campaign Talks Before October.
By United Press ‘HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 22.— Reports on the national political situation compiled by the Democratic ‘high command was studied today by President Roosevelt as h planned the details of six-week campaign offensive. A board of strategy headed by National Chairman James A. Farley weighed, it was understood, the advisability of a nationwide tour by the ent during which he would make three or four major ad-
dresses. No decision however, was
reached, it was reported.. Mr. Roosevelt announced he would not speak on political subjects until October, explaining that at present he was too busy with government business.
The President will confer Sept. 4 at Indianapolis with the Governors Kentucky on drought.
NOW BEFORE UTILITY
hind. I started to run back, but the other three came running out to me, getting away from the dust and the fumes,. so I just stopped and waited for them.
The mule that we had been working was up close to the shaft. There was one thing
to do and that was to brad-
dish (barricade) ourselves in a section of the tunnel, closing off the powder fumes, dust, smoke from the fire, and the damps. (Black and white - damp—deadly mine gases.) That mine was more full of damps and bad air than most of the many
have been in. / Air Became Stale ¢ After a couple of hours of being
dobbed up; the air started to get stale and we knew that the oxygen wouldn't last for long. Stoner and Dameron-and I cut through to look for a place with good air. Then we got into the damps. Before we had got far, Stoner fell. I had told him to bend his back and
never got up.: I said to Dameron, “We've got to get out of these
knees caved. He tried to hold on to
The Kansas Governor’s pledge to back every helpful move toward promotion of recovery and his em i declaration that politics should b kept out of drought eelief measures’ were heard by crowds at farmland railroad stations across the ro i agricultural region. wd Gov. Landon will meet with President Roosevelt and Governors of Midwestern states in Des. Sept. 1 for a drought conference,
TERRORIST PLOTTERS FACE DEATH PENALTY, By United Press = MOSCOW, Aug, 22.—The prose=.. cution bitterly denounced today the 16 defendants accused of a terrorist plot, indicating that the penalty is in sight for some if -all of them. ; All have freely confessed : guilt. Prosecutor. Andrew Vi sky, beg his summing lashed out at “the contemptible, base, rotten, vile, murderous, despic~ able band of mad Fascist dogs, dregs of humanity, scum of the une derworld, bandits and traitors.” “It has been proven beyond all doubt,” he said, “that Leon Trotsky
was . the leading instigator in their plots and activities.”
ENDS HIS LIFE WITH 16-GAUGE SHOTGU Leaving a note to his wife say.
ing, “I love you, Ellen," Manuel Pope, 29, . e muzsle